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Wang Peian
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China to improve maternal and child healthcare under 2-child policy
China is adopting measures to better allocate maternal and child health resources and train more doctors, Wang Peian, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said here.PTI | January 11, 2016, 17:43 IST
From K J M Varma
Beijing, Jan 11: As it embarks on a two-child policy after restricting couples to just one offspring for over 30 years, China today said it aims to improve maternal and child healthcare expecting a new baby boom in the next few years amid slowing growth in the world's second largest economy.
China is adopting measures to better allocate maternal and child health resources and train more doctors, Wang Peian, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said here.
NHFPC says 90 million Chinese women are allowed to have a second child under the two-child policy that took effect on January 1.
Sixty per cent of them are over 35 years old and 50 per cent are aged 40 or older.
"The new policy has increased the likelihood of later-age pregnancies, which are associated with risks including genetic abnormalities and labour problems. Therefore, we need better maternal and child health services," Wang said.
After dissuading millions of couples from having more than one child with stringent measures for over three decades, the ruling Communist Party of China is now persuading them to have a second child as the country faces an imminent demographic crisis due to big increase in the old age population sparking concerns about labour shortages which could slow down the economy further.
While previous surveys pointed to lukewarm response to the two-child policy, a recent survey said nearly seven out of 10 unmarried people in an online survey by a large dating website said they want to have two children, according to the official media.
As per the latest data released by an official fact book recently released by the government, the number of people aged above 60 was expected to reach 216 million at the end of last year accounting for 16.7 per cent of the total population of about 1.339 billion.
The UN has predicted that people aged over 65 will account for 18 per cent of China's population by 2030 - double the number in 2011 which will have a negative bearing on China's labour availability.
By 2050, China is expected to have nearly 500 million people over 60, exceeding the population of the US.
About the labour shortages, China's national bureau of statistics in its data said the number of workers between the age of 15 and 59 decreased by 3.45 million year-on-year in 2012, making the first "absolute decrease" in China's labour force in decades.
"Obviously China's demographic dividend is fading which might lead to a slowdown in its economic growth", the fact book said. MORE KJV KJ
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Chapter 16: Mo Laimé Twa
Bella understood many things about herself. Her powers. Her limits. Her nature. She was War. She was the embodiment of conflict, of strife, of uncertain combat. She was the incarnation of the survival instinct. She was one of the most powerful beings in the world. And she was far outmatched by the enraged Sister in front of her.
Betty crouched at one corner of the platform, her tail puffed out, her eyes wide, watching. Gene knelt in the center of the platform, her broad shoulders tensed, a vein throbbing in her forehead. There was rage in her eyes, and anguish, and fear for her beloved sister, who was in dire straits. And her hand was wrapped around Nash’s neck.
Bella’s heart beat once, very hard, as she saw him. The guilt and the shame bubbled in her guts. She had not been there for him. She had left him alone, while he had been in this city. She’d had her reasons for doing so, but she’d never stopped being aware of the fact that he was suffering, that he was alone, that he was calling out for her. She’d watched him grow more and more desperate, screaming for her to respond with every action he took. And she’d ignored him. She’d let him fall deeper into his despair. Because she couldn’t help him.
The Horsemen were subtle. They were clever. They were circumspect. They had to be, because despite all of their power, despite their supremacy over humanity, the sisters could annihilate them if faced openly. When the Horsemen won, it was because they were smarter. Because they outsmarted the Sisters. When Death and her children had captured Ariel, it had been after being mercilessly beaten by the wind spirit. And Ariel was the gentlest, and most nonviolent of the sisters.
Bella did not have a plan for this encounter. Her plans had been meant to end with her death at Nash’s hands, a year ago. She’d never planned to live through it. She was outside of her element now, and had been for a year. She had been going on instinct and trying to rebuild, but it was difficult to shift the gears of her thinking. Where before she had been completing schemes and plans that had spread across centuries, millenia, now she was adrift. She did not have anyone to support her. The Horsemen would kill her if they learned what she had done. The Sisters would never trust her.
“My sister,” growled Gene. “Your fault.”
“I sent her there because I thought it would help. I did not know she would get herself involved in the situation there. I did not think…” Bella sighed. “Can you imagine, for a moment, that the truth is that I am not an omnicompetent chess master, but that instead, I am simply trying to do the best in a game I no longer understand? She wanted revenge. She wanted to make things right. She wanted to take away a threat. I gave her the means to do so, and she got captured in the process. Do you really believe that I planned all of this, set her up to destroy herself?”
“Your style,” said Gene.
Bella kept her expression level, even. She didn’t show the rage. “Then there is nothing I could do to convince you. Any misfortune, you are determined to lay at my feet. Any goodness, simply another layer of my plan.” She took a deep breath, keeping the heat away. “This is why I turned against humanity. Because they had decided what I was, and every action I took was simply further evidence that they were right.”
“Then tell me,” said Gene. “My sister. Jack. Where they are.”
Bella paused for a moment.
She could feel Jack. She could lead Gene to him. She could allow Gene to kill him, to try to free Ariel. Death would intervene. The other Horsemen would do the same. They would know what she had done, and try to kill her. Ariel would likely die in the struggle, and Gene and the other Sisters would go mad with grief. They would ruin the world, and no force could stop them. She could see it all unfolding. Was it the path things would take? Or was it simply her preconceptions, trying to persuade her? She realized, that if she still had the same priorities that she used to, then she would seize the opportunity. It would be the perfect way to destroy things. The instinct that was inside of her, the eye for weak points, it told her that she could use this to destroy everything.
“I can’t tell you. You will do something we will all regret.”
“My sister,” growled Gene, her voice low.
“Nash can save her,” Bella said, trying to keep her voice from shaking. “It’s not the first time that he’s done it.”
Gene let out a howl of incoherent rage, lifted Nash into the air an inch or two, and slammed his head against the pillar of stone. Bella tried to keep the wince from showing on her face as Gene stood up, Nash dangling from her fingers as she lifted him into the air.
She could see his eyes on her. His arms hung by his sides, but he moved. He could’ve fought back, maybe. He wasn’t.
She took a slow breath. “Look at what you are doing, Gene. You believed in him. You trusted him. All four of you trusted him.”
“And look where it got us,” growled Gene. “He’s your thing, now. We gave him everything, and he betrayed us. He betrays us every time he forgives one of you.” Her fingers tightened, and Nash’s teeth gritted together. “Tell me. Or I kill him. You know I would.”
Bella watched slowly, as she met Nash’s eyes. He looked at her. One of his eyes was turning red, a blood vessel burst from the pressure. He smiled weakly, and mouthed two words. ‘It’s okay.’
She had to believe. She had to have the same faith that he did in people. She had to trust him, and to trust Gene. She had to do what he was telling her, and put it out of her own hands. If she acted now, in front of Betty, and in front of Ji-a, she would give it all away. She would betray herself, and get herself killed by the other Horsemen. They would destroy her. She couldn’t allow herself to be killed. She was War, and survival, and this was not her fight.
Nash had to face this alone.
“I do not believe you will kill him. But even if you do…” Bella sighed, and shrugged her shoulders. “You know what I am, Gene. I am survival. Every man betrays me in the end. If this is how Nash dies, at the hands of someone who loves him, then so be it. I will not weep any tears for him. He will be just another disappointment, another failure.” She turned her back. “Do as you will.”
There was a strangled noise, and a very final crunch.
Bella’s machete sliced through the air where Gene’s arm had been a moment before. The hand pulled back just in time, releasing Nash to fall limply to the floor. Blood ran down his lips, as Gene stepped back. The sea around rumbled as more spikes of earth emerged from it, breaking off and shattering as they did, the tip of a mountain now protruding from the sea through the platform, creating a small, muddy island. One of the broken stalagmites had produced the crunch. Gene met her eyes, as Nash lay on the ground, struggling for breath, grasping weakly. An angry handprint was visible on his throat, his arms limply by his sides. Gene squared her shoulders. “I’ll break you, War. Make you show me my sister. Then I’ll free her. You leave, I’ll kill him. For all you’ve done.”
Bella twirled the machete once in her hand. “You’re too stubborn by half, Earth.”
Betty darted forward. Her hands wrapped around Nash’s shoulders, and pulled him back. Bella was glad for that. It meant she could focus on the fight, and Betty could make sure that Nash didn’t die.
In that single moment, watching Nash crumple to the floor, she’d lost control. Despite what he believed, she thought he could have a happy ending. That when this was all over, and the Horsemen were gone, that he could be happy. It could never be with her, for a thousand reasons. He could forgive her for ways she had hurt him, the ways she had betrayed him, but he’d never love her. He’d never return that desperate, pounding need in the pit of her stomach. So she’d moved away from him, so someone else could fill the hole where his soul had been before she tore that away.
But the Sisters had left too. Everyone had left. And he’d been alone. She’d seen the way it made him more frantic, the way he’d thrown himself into the violence, and she began to fear that she had tainted him for good, turned him into a monster like all of the others. She was responsible, and that drove her further away. It was her fault, she knew, that he was in the situation that he was in now. She’d justified it for so long by saying that she was simply giving him a chance, that she’d let him survive or fail on his own.
But she couldn’t. She couldn’t leave it all up to chance, or to fate. He was fighting to give her a happy ending. She owed him more than that.
And if she were honest with herself, if she really opened up about the reasons she had, she was angry. Enraged. Gene had betrayed him. Given him power, and then hurt him. Bella was War. She was vile, and evil. She was supposed to hurt people, to make them suffer. Gene was supposed to be better. She was supposed to represent hope, love, and faith, the good things in humanity. She was not supposed to hurt the man who had sacrificed everything in order to save her and her sisters. She was not War.
A red haze fell over War’s world.
Gene charged at her. War recognized it instantly as a variant on Judo. Gene’s talents were in her strength, her momentum, her force. She was slow compared to the others, but she had immense power. If she got her hands on War, it would all be over. If she tried to escape, she would leave Nash to die under Gene’s boot. The woman was just emotionally unstable to make good on her threat. Gene shook the wooden platform as she charged forward, hands up, reckless.
War adopted a fencing style. More, perhaps, than any of the other Horsemen, she had mastered the martial arts. She was the martial arts. She could not match Gene for pure physical power, so she would simply have to be more skilled. She shuffled back quickly, matching Gene’s advance, drawing her in, towards the edge. Then, as the elemental force surged forward, she slipped to the side, her blade slashing across Gene’s side.
The big woman launched off of the wooden platform, her momentum too great to be arrested. She struck the ground hard enough for the entire island to shake violently, making the wooden platform creak and sway alarmingly. There was a sharp crack like a gunshot, and the platform split in half. Betty and Nash rolled in one direction, away from Gene. War fell in the other. The machete came free of her hands.
She hit the ground feet first. On impact, she twisted to the side, striking with the side of her calf, the side of her thighs, the side of her hips, and her back, rolling down, the parajumping fall executed flawlessly. Then she lifted her hips, hard, pulling them into the air, almost pulling herself into a circle, and kicked out, slapping the ground as she did. She rose to her feet in the kip up almost instantly, and her eyes darted around for the machete.
Gene came barreling through the nearest rock wall, fists flailing. A boxing combination, her hands were up, swinging two blows at War’s face. War bobbed to either side, her head weaving around the blows, letting them slip off of her cheek. Then Gene swung a haymaker like the one that had felled Nash. Jiu jitsu informed War’s next move, as she struck the hand with both palms. Her own strength was not nearly sufficient to deflect Gene’s blow, but instead, she pushed herself off the strike, spinning away her heel clipping Gene’s chin as she flew.
War landed hard, wincing. It was like striking a mountain. War was dedicated to dividing, to fatal blows. In humans, in most living things, survival depended on order, on a fragile balance. If you cut a heart in half, it would kill the human. Pierce any organ, and death would follow. Shatter a part of the infrastructure, and a systemic collapse would fill the rest.
The Sisters were different. Uncomplicated, massive. You couldn’t cut a flame in half. The wind, the earth, the sea, these things flowed, impossible to divide against themselves. That was part of what made them so powerful. They weren’t just the power that humanity gave them. They had power to spare. How the hell did you stop a charging mountain?
You made it more like a human. You gave it weak spots.
“You could have helped. Where were you, Gene, when your sister was in pain? When she was being lured into a trap, what were you doing that was so damned important?” War stood up, her eyes flicking quickly from side to side. There, on the other side of Gene. The machete. She licked her lips. “Was it jealousy? Was it the memory of what happened to the man you love? Did you want her to be captured? Were you hoping, in your heart of hearts, that she would suffer for tempting him away from you?”
Gene’s anger disappeared instantly. Her expression was stony. She snapped her finger, and pointed it at War, thumb held up like the hammer of a gun. Then she turned, and picked up the machete.
War held her hands up as Gene approached her, heart pounding. She could not win the fight without the blade. All of the Horsemen together would not be able to loosen Gene’s grip from the handle under normal circumstances. She would need something special.
Aikido, when it was first developed, was meant as a sword-wielding art. That part of it had been neglected in recent years, but it was still at its heart. The blows Aikido were meant to deflected represented blades. It was the rare human who became practiced at these forms. To truly train them required the practitioner to put their life on the line. To master it meant they had to be very lucky and very skilled.
Gene swung another tremendous haymaker. War rolled with the blow, swinging her entire body to the side, turning an impact that could have torn her head off into a backflip. She came to her feet again, and Gene’s fist rose like a mountain range. War threw herself backwards with the blow, once again transforming it from an instant knockout and near-certain death to a merely painful, debilitating strike. She landed on her feet, just as Gene brought the blade down. The dappled pattern of the steel shone like the spots of a leopard.
Wars hands came up. They wrapped around Gene’s, and twisted as the sword descended. She ducked low, and the big woman’s momentum worked against her. For a moment, Gene broke contact with the ground. War pulled the sword free, and leapt back. Gene came to her feet.
War stood, staring, for several seconds, at the edge of the blade, where crimson dripped down. She looked up. The slightest nick was visible across Gene’s shin, a small trickle of blood slowly descending. Little more than a papercut, really.
“You are bleeding, Earth.”
Gene’s eyes narrowed.
“You could retreat, right now. Leave. Like you always did before. Give up. You always give up. Maybe that’s why the humans drift away from you.” Gene stood up straight, her hands drawing into the judo stance again. War smiled, her iron teeth gleaming. “Good. I’m sick of your fucking hypocrisy. You’ve known all along what you could do to save humanity. But you were so afraid of the costs. Never willing to sacrifice.”
Gene lunged forward, hands outstretched. War swiped through the air, and Gene ducked. The edge of the blade gleamed, and a pillar of earth several dozen feet tall fell, sliced cleanly with a diagonal cut. Gene gritted her teeth.
“All of that power, and nowhere to use it. Everything can be cut, Gene.” She swiped again, and Gene ducked, backing up. There was a distant feminine scream, and War didn’t care as she kept moving, chasing the spirit of Earth. Her heart was pounding. Her head was burning. Sweat dripped down her skin, and the rage inside of her was so bitter it felt like she was being torn apart from the inside, her mind reeling and racing. How foolish she’d been. How sad. How pathetic. To let something as simple as a little hope change her. She could see now how weak humanity was. Nash had forgiven everyone. The girl Ji-a, though it condemned Ariel. Gene, though she was going to kill him pointlessly.
He’d forgiven War. The idiot.
She brought the blade down in a brutal blow. Gene threw herself to the side. The island rocked, and began to shake. The water gushed up suddenly through the line that had appeared in the ground, rushing up ferociously. A crumbling sound louder than an avalanche filled the air as half the island slid away, rushing into the water, a brief and violent whirlpool filling the air with the spray of salt. “What next, Earth?! Will you bring Water, here, or Fire?!” She twirled the blade. “To hell with a different way. To hell with redemption. To hell with you!”
She brought the blade down, and Gene brought her hand up, her eyes closing. Tears ran down her cheeks.
“Bella!”
The sword stopped, quivering, in mid air, resting against Gene’s palm. A tiny droplet of very red blood ran down from between her thumb and forefinger. War lifted her eyes, and turned towards Nash. He stood, shock in his eyes. She shook her head slowly. It didn’t matter. He would have realized eventually that she was a monster. “It is not Bella, Nash. It was never Bella. That was a lie I told a child. You need to let go of the lies eventually.” She pressed the blade forward, and Gene hissed, as it pushed her hand back, leaving the edge against her throat.
“Bella. Please. Don’t hurt her.”
War gritted her teeth. “Stop calling me that.”
“I am conflict, Nash! I am strife! I am the blade that you do not expect, and I will never be anything else! Pearl was right! I am the dragon, not the damsel! I am not here to be saved, I am here to be destroyed! You can see the way that they treat me, the way that they look at me! The way they fear me! The way they fear you by association!” She looked down at Gene again. “She was willing to kill you because she thought you had betrayed her.”
“Her sister’s in terrible danger, Bella. She’s afraid. It’s okay.”
“If you die, you are gone, forever, Nash!” War looked up at him, her eyes ferocious. “Do you not even care?!”
“Of course I do.” He smiled. “I knew you wouldn’t let that happen.”
“You cannot rely on me.”
“No. I can. I know people will betray me. I know that they’ll do terrible things to me. But I believe in them. I believe in you. A lot of people will lose faith in you, or never have it in the first place, but I trust you, Bella. I believe in you”
She was silent for a few seconds, as her arm went limp, the machete hanging between her fingers. Then she turned her head towards Gene. “What a foolish mistake. I suppose I need to teach you one more lesson.”
She turned towards Gene, lifted the blade, and brought it down. She heard the sound of shoes striking wet stone, and felt the hand on her shoulder. She spun, bringing the blade around. Nash had finally done it. He had finally lost his faith in her. She was proud of him, as she tried to stab him through the gut. He was faster than her, his hand intercepting her wrist, stopping the blade from reaching his skin. He squeezed it, twisted it, almost gently, and the blade was turned away from both of them, dangling from her fingers. She looked up, and met his warm hazel eyes, as he held her, one hand around her wrist, one on her shoulder, poised to break her.
“I love you,” he said.
And he kissed her.
It was not one of the great kisses in the world. Neither of them were experienced with it. It was clumsy, both of them recovering from blows that would have killed lesser beings. They were standing on a salt-crusted outcropping of stone, surrounded by angry seas, and blood dripped down both their lips. It was a desperate thing. Sudden. She didn’t know how to react. If they had been anyone else, it might have been disappointing. But the kiss was warm, and sweet, and she could feel the beat of his heart, and for a moment, she didn’t have to hold herself up against the weight of all the years and all the disappointments.
The blade slowly fell from Bella fingers, and the despair drained out of her world.
I blinked my eyes, and breathed in. It was strange. Like the moment when you first wake up fresh in the morning after being sleep deprived for days, or like taking a hot shower after weeks of marching and sweating, or like being horribly ill and then realizing that you’re healthy. So many little pains and nicks that I had taken for granted, so many things that hurt, were gone. I slowly lifted my fingers to my lips. They tingled slightly. I looked up, and realized that my heart was pounding.
I was still War. I was still fury and fire and blood and betrayal. But I was Bella, too. For the moment, I was something more than just War.
“Silas!”
Betty was standing on the top of a nearby ridge. I could see a shallow cut in her arm, her eyes wide. Ji-a was over one shoulder. She was staring at the two of us, her eyes wide. Then a shit-eating grin spread across her lip, and I groaned softly, my arms dangling behind me, as I closed my eyes. I was still being dipped by Nash. I shook my head. “I can’t believe she saw that.”
“I’m sorry,” Nash said, though he didn’t let go of me. His arms were strong. It felt unbelievably nice to, for the first time in thousands of years, allow someone else to support me for a little bit. To feel weak, if only for just a moment. I would have to be strong, very soon, stronger than I’d ever been. There was no way that the Horsemen could miss what had happened. I didn’t think I could even meet one of them without it being clear, now. I had made a terrible mistake.
And I wasn’t afraid. I wasn’t panicked about the future. I knew there was someone who cared about me. And I cared about him. And that little moment seemed to fill me with something. It was like the berserk rages of the past, but everything was so clear. The pain was at arm’s length. “Thank you,” I said softly. I couldn’t make it sound warm. Couldn’t make it sound genuine. Even as I was now, it sounded cold and harsh. But Nash smiled, and stood up straight, setting me back on my feet.
There was a slight crumbling, as Gene stood. She turned, and Nash gently set me back on my feet, taking a step towards her. “Gene, it’s-”
“I know,” she said. She shook her head.
“We’ll save her.”
“Know that, too.”
Then she was gone. Nash’s hand fell to his side, as he stared after her, and I felt something that I had not ever really been able to understand before. To see those eyes watching someone else and wishing they’d stay. It stung, but more than that, it felt good. It was the kind of pain you could only feel when you cared about someone. I couldn’t remember the last time I had felt that. Then he turned towards me. “You saved me.”
“Yes, Nash.” I looked over at Ji-a. “It was a mistake.”
“I’m glad you did.”
“So am I.” I looked down at my feet, and breathed in. “We need to move. Prester John has the children, but I do not know where. He has them… hidden. Conquest and Famine are well-committed here. He is moving forward with his plans. He’s-” I lifted my eyes, and flushed. Nash was staring at me. “What?” I asked, stiffening slightly, my arms crossed.
“It’s just… Is it okay? Saying all of this?”
“Damned for a penny, damned for a pound, Nash. I would love to help you satisfy hormonal desires, but we need to move quickly, to make the maximum impact. Domingo Santigo still goes unnoticed as Ghede Linto. He will continue to cause trouble among the Loa, and I fear that he may encourage them into attacking Tezcatlipoca’s Bloody Crescent. Markov Lorickson has been summoned.” I looked up at Nash, and frowned softly. “It may not have been the best decision to allow him to keep his powers.”
His hand went up to his chest, and squeezed something. The metal rod containing the key to Paradise, and the soul of Lorickson’s daughter. He was still carrying it on him after everything that had happened. “I understand. Betty, we should go-”
“What, seriously?” Betty frowned at the two of us, her hands on her hips. “All of that, Bella, and you’re still not going to say it? After he fucking kissed you, and stopped you from murdering one of the Sisters, you’re not going to tell him?”
I looked down. “There… is time for that lat-”
Looking down meant I didn’t see the blow coming. Betty was not as strong as Gene, but she knew how to hit. Her open palm slapped me across the face, and nearly sent me sprawling to the ground. I stood up straight, anger flaring, only to see the soft look on her face. “You waited thousands of years the first time. I don’t want to hear that ‘it can wait’ bullshit. It never ends well. I know.” She turned, and winked at Nash. “I’m going to go find where the boat got to, and see if I can’t get it working. You two…” She waved a hand lightly. “Do what you need to do.”
Then she was off, carrying Ji-a, and leaving me alone with Nash.
“I’m glad you’re here,” said Nash, and he smiled. “It may be a little selfish, but… In the worst times of my life, you were always there. When I hit rock bottom, you were there.”
I looked away. “That was because I was the one who brought you there, Nash. I don’t understand it. I can accept that you are a kind enough, generous enough person to forgive those who betray you. Even someone like me. But all the things I took from you, all the harm I did to you. Can’t you see how frightening it is for me, if after all of that, you love me? Is it because I hurt you? If I stopped hurting you, does that mean…” I couldn’t finish the words, and let them die. I wasn’t good at emoting. At vulnerability. It did not suit me.
“Yeah. I hated you for that, for a long time. But that’s not the reason I love you.” He took a deep breath, and shook his head. “Reasons matter. The same thing, done for two different reasons, has the same result, but why it’s done matters. You hurt me because it made me strong. It made me special. You didn’t hurt me because you wanted me to suffer. You did it because it would make me strong”
I looked down at my feet. “I did it a little because I wanted you to suffer. You angered me. Trying to be so good. Can you imagine what it was like to have a child lecture me like that?” I sighed, and rested my hand on my face. “Nash… It was an accident. I decided to do it to you on a whim. I never expected this. I never thought you would succeed.” I lifted my head, and smiled weakly. “It’s a little bit overwhelming.”
Nash grinned. “Well, I tell you what. If you really regret hurting me…” He leaned closer, and I was abruptly aware of the difference in height. I’d never been aware of that before. Height, size, muscle, those things had never mattered before. And yet, it was… interesting. “If you really want to make it up to me, after all this is over, I’m sure I can think of a way to punish you. If you want.” He smiled brightly, and spun on his heel.
“The other Horsemen will come for me,” I said.
“Let them.” His fist tightened, and there was an uncharacteristic heat in it. “I won’t let them touch you.” Then he kept walking, and waved for me to follow along.
“Nash. Don’t you want to hear me say it, too?”
He turned towards me, and was quiet for a moment. Then he shrugged. “Does it matter? I care about you. I’d die for you, though I’d prefer to survive for you. You don’t have to return those feelings. There isn’t a lot I can offer. No money, no happy life, no peace.”
“I’m War, Nash. What would I want with peace? But why would you want me? I’ve given you all the power that I safely can. From here-”
“Because being around you makes me feel like I can do anything, Bella.” He smiled. “Come on.”
I nodded. “Nash? I love you too.”
And he couldn’t hide the smile that spread across his face, as a great knot of fear and tension and uncertainty unwound, all at once.
There was so much to do, still. So many threats, so many foes, and I didn’t know them all, a terrifying state of affairs for someone as used to knowledge as I was.
But Betty was right. I wouldn’t let him face them alone anymore.
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One of the most important problems of the engineer is the efficient and controlled transfer of fluids from one point to another. This transfer may be opposed by gravitational force, by some other external force, or by friction. Under certain conditions the gravitational force and other forces may act to aid the transfer, but friction always exists as a force opposing motion. The engineer attempts to reduce the effect of friction and at the same time takes advantage of useful forces to produce a motion of the fluids under conditions that can be controlled.
As previously defined, a fluid is a substance in a liquid; gaseous, or vapor state which offers little resistance to deformation. Common examples of the three states of a fluid are water as a liquid, air as a gas, and steam as a vapor. All these types of fluids have a tendency to move because of natural forces acting on them. A city may be supplied with water flowing by gravity from high ground. Air may circulate in an auditorium because of its own temperature difference. Steam rises through the water in a boiler owing to the difference in density or specific weight of steam and water. In many cases, however, the circulation is inadequate, and mechanical equipment must be built to supplement the natural circulation. Often mechanical circulation is the only means of obtaining the desired fluid flow. The equipment for producing this fluid flow is divided into two major classes: pumps for handling liquids, and fans, blowers, and compressors for handling gases or vapors.
The conditions under which liquids are to be transported vary widely and require a careful analysis before the proper selection of a pump can be made. Generally, the engineer purchasing a pump consults with pump manufacturers to obtain the best type for a particular job. However, a fundamental knowledge of the basic types of pumps that are available and a realization that there is a wide variety of the basic types are of great value to the prospective purchaser.
The conditions that will influence the selection of the type of pump are: 1) the type of liquid to be handled: that is, it's viscosity, cleanliness, temperature, and so on; 2) the amount of liquid to be handled; 3) the total pressure against which the liquid is to be moved; 4) the type of power to be used to drive the pump.
Pumps may be divided into four major classifications:
1. Piston pumps or reciprocating pumps driven by engines or electric motors.
2. Centrifugal pumps driven by steam turbines or electric motors.
3. Rotary pumps driven by steam turbines or electric motors.
4. Fluid-impellent pumps which are not mechanically operated but are fluid-pressure-operated.
The centrifugal pump consists of an impeller or rotating section to produce the flow and a casing to enclose the liquid and to direct it properly as it leaves the impeller. The liquid enters the impeller at its center or "eye" and parallel to the shaft. By centrifugal force the liquid passes to the impeller rim through the space between the backward curved blades. The velocity of the liquid with respect»to the impeller is in a direction opposite to the impeller motion. The impeller blades are curved backward to permit the liquid to flow to the rim of the impeller with a minimum of friction. As the liquid leaves the impeller, it is thrown in a spiral motion forward with a certain velocity.
The water is guided away from the impeller by two basic types of casing: the volute, and the turbine or diffuser. Liquid enters the impeller at the "eye", is thrown to the outside, and leaves the pump through the expanding spiral or volute casing. The casing has the volute shape to permit flow with a minimum of friction and to convert a part of the velocity head into static head. The static head is the head that overcomes resistance to flow.
The turbine or diffuser pump has the same type of impeller as the volute pump. The casing has a circular shape, and within the casing is a diffuser ring on which are placed vanes. The vanes direct the flow of liquid and a decrease in the velocity of the liquid occurs because of an increase in the area through which the liquid flows. Thus, part of the velocity head is converted into static head as in the volute pump. For a multistage pump, the diffuser pump has a more compact casing than the volute pump. The diffuser-pump design is adaptable to differences in flow conditions since the same casing can be used with various arrangements of diffuser vanes. In the volute pump a variation in the requirements of the volute casing demands alternations in the casing itself. Generally, the volute pump will be used for low-head high-capacity flow requirements and the diffuser pump for high-head requirements.
Both volute and diffuser pumps are classified by the type of impeller, the number of stages, and the type of suction or intake used. A pump having two "eyes" on the impeller is called a double-suction pump. The double suction, one "eye" located on each side of the impeller, permits forces acting on the impeller to be balanced, thus reducing the axial thrust on the shaft. Also, the double-suction pump is used for handling hot water where there is danger of water flashing into steam at points of low pressure. The double suction offers little resistance to flow; thus low-pressure areas are less apt to occur[15]. The double-suction pump is used also for large capacities.
When two or more impellers are mounted on the same shaft and act in series, the pump is called a multistage pump, the number of stages corresponding to the number of impellers. A boiler-feed pump is capable of delivering 415,0001b of water per hr against a pressure of 1500 psi. Multistaging produces better performance, higher pump efficiency, and smaller impeller diameters for high-pressure heads. Usually each stage produces the same head, and the total head developed is the number of stages times the head produced per stage.
The types of impellers installed in centrifugal pumps are as numerous as the uses to which the pumps are put. Classification, however, can be made by designating the direction of flow of the fluid leaving the impeller. All pumps have the intake parallel to the impeller shaft. The discharge however, may be radial, partially radial and axial, or axial. In the radial-type impeller the suction and discharge are at right angles[16]. The radial impeller may be of the closed or the open type. The term closed or open refers to the fluid passage within the impeller. The open impeller has one side of the flow path open to the pump casing or housing. The closed impeller has both sides of the flow path enclosed by the sides of the impeller. The partially radial impeller discharges at an angle greater than 90 degrees with intake and is of the open-impeller design.
The axial-flow impeller discharges at an angle of approximately 180 degrees with the intake and is generally of the propeller type.
Each of the impeller types has a specific purpose. The axial-flow type is used to pump large quantities of fluid against a relatively small static head.
It is not a true centrifugal pump but is designed on the principles of airfoitshapes. The radial pump is used for handling smaller quantities of fluid against a high head, because the centrifugal force is high but the flow path is small and restrictive. The open impeller is designed to handle dirty liquids such as sewage, where the flow path must be less restrictive. The partially radial impeller covers intermediate pumping conditions.
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Legal AI Start-up rfrnz receives seven-figure investment for contract analysis
The Munich-based start-up rfrnz automates contract analysis with the help of artificial intelligence. By using it lawyers can not only save costs and time, but also minimize errors and upgrade for the digital age. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and two other investors support rfrnz with a seven-figure seed investment. The funds will be used to finance and advance the growth and further development of the product and team.
The analysis of contracts is mostly still a manual process. (Corporate) lawyers spend a lot of time identifying relevant content and examining risks. This is not only time-consuming and expensive, but also error-prone. The rfrnz team is working against this laborious procedure with an intelligent technology.
“The analysis of contracts is often a bottleneck in legal and purchasing processes,” says co-founder and CEO Dr. Sven von Alemann. “We want to support law firms, legal and purchasing departments in digitizing and automating their work in order for them to become internal accelerators.
rfrnz uses state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms to automate and optimize the review of contracts. With the rfrnz Contract Intelligence Platform, customers can identify and extract relevant information in contracts such as topics, clauses or individual data. In addition, anomalies can be detected to identify unusual or missing clauses. These advantages have already convinced several customers and the technology has already been successfully implemented in DAX-30 corporations, medium-sized companies and law firms.
“A significant part of the legal value chain is automated by using rfrnz, process efficiency and cost savings are realized for the customer. We are convinced that the market for AI-based legal services will develop very strongly and look forward to working with the dedicated team at rfrnz GmbH,” adds Kristin Müller, Investment Manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds.
About rfrnz GmbH
rfrnz GmbH with offices in Munich and Berlin was founded in 2017 after being supported by an EXIST grant by the German Federal Ministry of Commerce. The team around CEO Dr. Sven von Alemann, CTO Moritz Biersack and Chief Scientist Dr. Adriaan Schakel has already received several awards and acknowledgements. It is their vision to create a basic technology for legal professionals to understand and analyze contracts that will be used whenever a contract needs review in the future.
rfrnz GmbH
Dr. Sven von Alemann
Dachauer Str. 112f
info@rfrnz.com
www.rfrnz.com
About High-Tech Gründerfonds
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 892.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 520 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and passion, its team of experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry and life sciences.
To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
Kristin Müller
Schlegelstraße 2
T.: +49 228 82300 152
k.mueller@htgf.de
www.htgf.de
About UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators
The Initiative for Industrial Innovators is a cross-border financing initiative that aims to fund up to 2000 disruptive, deep-tech teams and early-stage startups via its fast funding instruments. Originating from UnternehmerTUM we are – amongst others – supported by the European Investment Fund/ InnovFinEquity, with the financial backing of the European Union under Horizon 2020 Financial Instruments and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) set up under the Investment Plan for Europe. The purpose of EFSI is to help support financing and implementing productive investments in the European Union and to ensure increased access to finance for startups and other SMEs.
UnternehmerTUM Industrial Innovators LEC GmbH
Andrea Koch
Lichtenbergstr. 6
85748 Garching bei München
T.: +49 89 1894 69 2162
koch@unternehmertum.de
www.industrialinnovators.eu
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R. Kelly Vows to Expose ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Series Accusers on New Website
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UPDATE (Jan. 7 at 4:40PM ET): Well that didn't take long. TMZ is reporting that Facebook has now removed the Surviving Lies Facebook page. A Facebook spokesperson told TMZ "the Page violated our Community Standards and has been removed. We do not tolerate bullying or sharing other’s private contact information and take action on content that violates our policies as soon as we’re aware.”
The Facebook page was flagged and taken down when it posted what it alleged to be text messages between R. Kelly and one of the young females in question.
ORIGINAL STORY: Lifetime's Surviving R. Kelly docu-series was trending across social media since it premiered last week, with the six-part series concluding this past weekend.
Now, R. Kelly, who denies all claims of abuse, is reportedly gearing up to strike back and discredit the accusers seen in the series.
TMZ is reporting that R. Kelly and his camp are launching a new website and Facebook page that will aim to "expose all of his accusers as liars as well as reveal their true motivations behind their allegations." While the survivinglies.com website is not live as of this post being published, the Facebook page is live.
The project's first target is Asante McGee, who told her harrowing story of being one of R. Kelly's "sex slaves" in the series. Using McGee's past arrests and a phone conversation reportedly between her daughter and ex-boyfriend, the Facebook page attempts to prove that McGee is only trying to cash out from her experiences with the R&B singer.
Fallout since the series began airing has been widespread across the R&B and hip-hop world and throughout the music business.
Over the weekend, Chance The Rapper publicly apologized for working with R. Kelly in the past, while John Legend, who appeared in the docu-series, called Kelly a "serial child rapist" on Twitter. R&B singer-songwriter Tank posted on Instagram that he "CANNOT separate the music from the monster." Singer and former B2K member Omarion tweeted his thoughts on the issue, vowing not to perform any songs R. Kelly worked on after the upcoming B2K reunion tour.
Something tells us this is only going to get messier, especially if R. Kelly plans to "expose" the docu-series accusers one-by-one.
Source: R. Kelly Vows to Expose ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Series Accusers on New Website
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An A-Z Journey Around Britain
23 Helmsley
When he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, William Hague was convicted of electoral malpractice. Later, Hague, who looks like Yoda in Star Wars, became Leader of the Conservative Party and a Cabinet Minister. Hague said that Yorkshire was the finest county in England because it had marvellous countryside and was full of Tories. Somebody needs to tell him that Sheffield and Hull are not in Lancashire. They can also ask why, if he is such a fan, he lives in a £3m mansion in Wales.
Helmsley is a small market town in the North Yorkshire Moors. Trendies and egotists may obsess over the Coast to Coast Walk but the Cleveland Way, which begins in Helmsley and ends 117 miles later in Filey, is the finest long distance walk in England. Helmsley should appeal to the Yoda who retreated to a mansion in the swamplands of Wales. Helmsley is Tory Heritage Britain, a village soon obliged to mount the fake Magna Carta festivities being urged by a Government that will abolish the Human Rights Act.
Helmsley prospers because of tourism and agriculture. The locals have benefited from stability and are conservative. But if you want Heritage Britain, and can ignore doubts about rural authenticity, Helmsley does it as well as anywhere. Despite intense competition, its fish and chip shop was voted number one in Yorkshire. The corner shop delicatessen, Hunters, was deemed the best small shop in Britain. It sells fine cheeses, pies, sausages and beer.
But the Helmsley formula for continuing stability was threatened in 2005. In the Helmsley flood two and a half inches of rain fell in half an hour. Some villagers had to be airlifted from the village. The River Rye, which is important to the charm of Helmsley, had become a threat. My own mortality was also threatened in Helmsley. On the last day of the final holiday that I took with my two daughters I realised my children were now independent adults. The countryside vacations that stability hinted would last forever had ended. How never ending stability impacts on the thoughts of mortality of rural folk only they know but I hope that they have a better time of it than I had that day.
The Arts Centre in Helmsley has an appealing 140 seat theatre. Its repertoire mixes the traditional and the challenging and always insists on being serious. Germaine Greer is not known for her devotion to stability but she is there in Helmsley on the 5th of June. Helmsley has a population of 3,500 but local endeavour has produced the band, One Night Only. The band had modest chart hits. They may now, though, be working in the City.
A modest circular walk links Helmsley Castle and Rievaulx Abbey. This splendid Abbey is the second largest in Yorkshire and the first resting point on the Cleveland Way. The Abbey was built in the 12th Century but was in decline when Henry the Eighth had the roof removed in 1538. The Abbey was an economic institution but the economy suffered from epidemics of sheep scab, raids from Scottish warriors and poor management by monks who were tempted by the kind of thing you now find in Hunters on the corner of the village square.
Next week, four weddings and a football match, Highbury
Howard Jackson has had four books published by Red Rattle Books. His 11,000 mile journey around Brazil is described in Innocent Mosquitoes. His latest book and compilation of horror stories is called Nightmares Ahead. Published by Red Rattle Books and praised by critics, it is available here.
If you want to read more about his travels click here.
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Massachusetts at Gettysburg
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The 22nd Massachusetts Infantry, its Sesquicentennial
By Patrick Browne
Senator Henry Wilson (1812-1875), founder of the 22nd Massachusetts and future Vice-President under Grant. Photo c. 1860.
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Just one of many Massachusetts regiments that went off to war in the summer and fall of 1861. But significant to me and many of my fellow reenactors because we represent Company D of the 22nd Massachusetts.
The 10 companies that became the 22nd Massachusetts had, for the most part, been in training at Camp Schouler in Lynnfield for about a month before Gov. Andrew signed Special Order #483 on September 28, 1861. In that order, Andrew specifically designated which companies would comprise the 22nd Massachusetts and placed Senator Henry Wilson (now Colonel Wilson) in command of the new regiment.
Wilson had been pushing for this for some time. It was an unorthodox way to raise troops. Wilson was the junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, a Radical Republican opposed to what he (and others) referred to as the “Slave Power,” and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. He had personally witnessed the Union rout at Bull Run and was so disturbed that he promised President Lincoln he would raise a full brigade in Massachusetts (multiple regiments of infantry plus attached cavalry, artillery and sharpshooters).
So, here you had a U.S. Senator sticking his nose into the business of Governor Andrew and the Massachusetts Adjutant General, William Schouler. It is the latter two who were ultimately responsible for organizing and sending Massachusetts units off to war. I don’t think this idea went over well with them.
The regimental history of the 22nd Mass is curiously nebulous on the interactions between Senator Wilson and Governor Andrew. John Parker, the regimental historian, wrote, “A careful search of the letter-files in the office of the Adjutant General fails to discover any correspondence on this subject between the war governor and the war senator. There is evidence, however, that one letter…has been abstracted from the files: by whom, it is useless to conjecture.”
Well, there’s a red flag. No sign of correspondence between Andrew and Wilson about the formation of the 22nd Mass except for evidence of a purloined letter? Indeed, perhaps it is useless to speculate as to what that means. But…I will nonetheless. My sense is that Governor Andrew did not appreciate Wilson’s interference and correspondence between them might have been a trifle testy…and therefore discarded. Just speculation, mind you.
It may well have been frustrating to Andrew to have Wilson to barge in and pluck up the best of the companies then forming in Massachusetts for his own special brigade. But Wilson’s actions did have a positive effect. He was a popular political figure, not to mention a former general of the Massachusetts militia (which was, of course, not so much a military accomplishment as it was a political one). When he came home to Massachusetts to recruit, people heard about it and hundreds of men rushed to sign up.
Not quite enough, though. As the weeks rolled from August to late September, it became clear to Wilson that the brigade idea would have to be ditched. It would take another month at least to recruit that many and at this stage of the war, there was an urgency…a sense that if they didn’t move fast enough, they would miss the whole thing.
So, Wilson settled for one regiment, which Andrew designated the 22nd Massachusetts. It was distinctive in that it was accepted by the War Department above and beyond the quota that Massachusetts had been asked to supply, a special favor to Senator Wilson. Also unusual…There had been some progress in recruiting artillery and sharpshooters for the aborted brigade, and so the 2nd Andrews Sharpshooters and the 3rd Massachusetts Battery were attached to the 22nd Massachusetts. It became the only regiment in the Union Army, that I’m aware of, with its own attachment of artillery and sharpshooters.
The average soldier in the 22nd Mass was probably oblivious to all this upper level wrangling and organizing. They were busy drilling and drilling on the old race track in South Lynnfield that had been dubbed Camp Schouler. I have not made a thorough analysis of their occupations, but scanning through Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors I find that they came from all walks of life. In fact, given that they came mostly from urban areas, we find a large number of skilled tradesmen, far more than in your typical unit from rural areas. They were carpenters, newspaper reporters, printers, gilders, hatters, jewelers, merchants, clerks, musicians, coopers. And yes, a good number were also laborers, sailors and farmers.
I have made a careful analysis as to where they were from. The plurality of 36% were from Boston (including Roxbury, Charlestown, etc.). Another 19% were from Middlesex County, mostly Cambridge, Woburn and Reading. From Essex County came about 18%, mostly from Haverhill, Lynn and Salem. Bristol County ranks next with 9%, almost all of these recruited in Taunton. The remaining 18% hailed from towns scattered all across the Commonwealth, 148 Massachusetts communities in all. There were also 53 soldiers from out of state, from such distant places as Newark, NJ and Boothbay, ME. These included a curious clump of 18 men from Jamestown, New York. I wonder what brought them to Boston?
On October 8, the men of the 22nd Massachusetts received the order to strike their Lynnfield camp and boarded trains for Boston. They formed their regiment at Haymarket Square, marched up State Street to the Common and there were presented with their colors.
The presenter was the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, former Speaker of the House…and, ironically, a political opponent of Wilson’s. I really wonder who made that choice…and whether it amused Gov. Andrew. After remarking on the irony and making a few gentle pokes at Wilson, Winthrop then focused on the fact that, “…In this hour of our country’s agony…all political differences are buried in a common oblivion, and that but one feeling, but one purpose, but one stern and solemn determination, pervades and animates the whole people of Massachusetts.”
After carrying on for some time, Winthrop concluded with some words that I find stirring. Gesturing to the standard being presented, Winthrop said to the men of the 22nd Massachusetts, “…Behold it! Listen to it! Every star has a tongue; every stripe is articulate. There is no language or speech where their voices are not heard. There’s magic in the web of it. It has an answer for every question of duty. It has a solution for every doubt and perplexity…Behold it! Listen to it! It speaks of earlier and of later struggles. It speaks of victories, and some times of reverses, on the sea and on the land. It speaks of patriots and of heroes among the living and among the dead…”
This coming Sunday, we will be honoring the formation of the 22nd Mass and specifically Henry Wilson during ceremonies in his home town of Natick. Some years ago, our unit visited his grave and were stunned to find a small stone reading only “Henry Wilson”…hardly appropriate for a Civil War colonel, U.S. Senator and Vice-President of the United States. During the ceremony a fitting plaque will be unveiled, presented by the cemetery and by our reenactor group. I’ve been asked to speak briefly. Perhaps I might steal some words from Winthrop…
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One of the most pronounced characteristics of Nebraskans has been an unwillingness to accept a dry year with no protest. Protests have been expressed politically--as in the Populist movement of the 1890s--or through the promotion of irrigation. But the protests that most completely seized peoples' imaginations, have been attempts to increase rain.
Modern attempts at rainmaking, such as cloud seeding, may be more scientific and effective but seem less flamboyant that former methods. During the severe drought of 1894 in Nebraska, a favorite theory was based on the popular observation that the detonation of high explosives caused rain. The Rain God Association was formed in the Nebraska Panhandle, set up stations from Long Pine to Harrison, and arranged to discharge gun powder at set intervals. Explosions, singly or in conjunction, did not help northwestern Nebraska in 1894, however, and the drought continued. Rainmakers in the Grand Island area had better gunpowder, or a better area to work in. A Ravenna report in 1894 stated that five of seven attempts to bring on rain had succeeded.
Louise Pound, an authority on Nebraska folklore, considered the four most well-known Plains rainmakers to be Frank Melbourne, Clayton B. Jewell, William F. Wright, and William B. Swisher. Melbourne, known as "The Rain Wizard" and later as "The Rain Fakir," was the most famous and probably the most mercenary of the group. Said to be an Australian, he worked in Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado in the early 1890s. His rainmaking method seemed to involve burning chemicals on a raised platform in open country although he ultimately confessed that it was a fraud.
Kansan Clayton B. Jewell's experiments in rainmaking were at first sponsored by the Rock Island Railroad, for which he was a train dispatcher. (Railroads were often willing during these years to underwrite rainmaking activities because of the increased profits to the railroad if rain came.) Lincolnites William F. Wright, a University of Nebraska professor, and William B. Swisher, a pioneer doctor, also achieved some renown as rainmakers.
After 1894 the rainmakers, with their chemicals and cannonading, with their mixture of science and magic, largely disappeared. Nebraska suffered subsequent periods of drought, but began to rely on other remedies, such as irrigation.
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Decline of text in favour of videos means more Trumps and Berlusconis around the world. How can we save our democracies?
TEHRAN — Demagogues of the world, right or left, have got to love television. The linear, emotion-driven, passive, and image-centred medium has reduced politics to a reality-show. As Neil Postman showed in “Amusing Ourselves to Death” television has vastly downgraded the level of public discourse in most democracies. From US to Iran, from Venezuela to France, from Egypt to Russia, from Italy to Turkey, there is as much competition over viewers’ gaze as it is over their ballots. In many countries, gaze is automatically translated into votes.
Most alarmingly, the internet which was the last word-centred public space after the decline of print journalism, is capitulating to the television format. Social networks’ notion of the Stream, in Facebook, Twitter etc., is killing the web and thereby the word-based journalism. Facebook now is more like the future of television than how the web looked like for over two decades.
A recent research by Oxford University shows that watching online videos is on the rise in US and most parts of the world, except in northern Europe. Perhaps because they have a healthier work and life balance and also because their public education system still promotes reading and critical thinking.
Donald Trump’s mastery of television medium means he can turn every threat into opportunity, every waste into energy – like a perfect incineration plant. He seems invincible in the age of television and video-dominated internet.
Meanwhile, Facebook has announced that soon videos will dominate its news feeds, for it “commands so much information in a much quicker period so actually the trend helps us digest more of the information in a quicker way,’ in the words of Nicola Mendelsohn. a vice president at Facebook.
This confirms my own speculation when I came out in of an Iranian prison in 2014 only to discover a whole different internet, where text is in decline and images, still or moving, on the rise. As a pioneer of blogging in Iran, what I realized after six years of isolation was that blogs, the best example of a decentralized public sphere, were dead. Facebook and Instagram had killed hyperlinks to maximize profits by keeping users inside and exposing them to more and more advertising. Thus they were killing the open web, which was founded on links. The internet had become more of an entertaining tool than an alternative space for public discussion. Worse than that, I noticed a strange unease among the youth to read anything over 140 characters.
Of course text will never die, but the ability to communicate through alphabet is now slowly becoming a privilege dedicated to a small elite in many societies. Quite like middle ages where only politicians and monks enjoyed the ability to communicate through alphabet. The rest are going to be the 21st century illiterates who can mainly communicate through images, videos – and of course, emojis.
The emerging illiterate class, hooked onto their old television sets or to their Facebook-centred mobile personal televisions (i.e. smart phones), is good news for demagogues. Look at how Donald Trump has mastered the formula of television to turn it into his free-of-charge public relations machine. His capture of the spirit of television has helped him transform all threats into opportunities, garbage into gold, and waste into energy – like a perfect incineration plant.
Neil Postman perfectly explained why in his 1985 book. To him, the difference between 16th to 19th century public discourse in the US and now is that public opinion in the age of television is more a set of “emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us.” He sees the entertaining nature of television as only producing disinformation, which “does not mean false information. It means misleading information — misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information — information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing.”
The recent EU referendum coverage on UK televisions has been a good example. While sticking to the UK media regulations on impartiality, some still believe that the numerous debates where both sides had equal time to argue for their cases, had not done justice to a complex and sensitive topic such as Brexit. Particularly now that some initial claims by the pro-Leave camp, such as the diversion of a £350m “sent to the EU every week” on the UK’s public health-care system, are denied by the very people who pledged it. There were already much debunking of such distortions and disinformation available on the web and in print. But talking about numbers and maths is always boring and useless on television. (A persian saying goes as “a stupid throws a stone down a well, but a hundred wise people cannot take it out.”)
Justin Webb, a former North America editor at the BBC, went as far to blame the existing impartiality rules. Last week he wrote in Radio Times: “One of the clearest messages during the referendum campaign was that audiences were hungry for real knowledge. People wanted to go beyond claim and counter-claim so that they could work out what was true.” He suggested that “media needs to look again at how it covers politics and the way it holds people to account in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union”, according to The Guardian.
The twilight of word-centred journalism, either in print or on the web, means oversimplified, emotional political discourse, uninformed political participation, and of course, more demagogy around the world.
It’s hard to say whether it was first the public who demanded more videos, or was it the media that, scared by the prospect of ad-blocking technologies, rushed toward videos, which drew more audiences, generated more advertising cash, and proven harder to block. Nonetheless, we face the grave consequences of such shift for the future of our democracies.
It is clear that for a healthy, representative democracy we need more text than videos, at least to resist self-serving demagogues. This is not an American or a British problem, this is a threat to our civilization.
Hossein Derakhshan (@h0d3r) is an Iranian-Canadian author, freelance journalist and media analyst. He is the author of “The Web We Have to Save (Matter)” and the creator of “Link-age”, a collaborative art project to promote hyperlinks and open web.
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Heiress Iris Annabel Goldsmith dies in quad bike crash at 15
A 15-year-old heiress to two powerful British dynasties — the Goldsmith and Rothschild families — dies in a quad bike accident on a family farm.
A 15-year-old heiress to two powerful British dynasties — the Goldsmith and Rothschild families — has died in a quad bike accident on a family farm.
Iris Annabel Goldsmith, the daughter of millionaire financier Ben Goldsmith and his ex-wife, Kate Rothschild, was killed in an accident on her father's property in Somerset.
"Dear God, please can I have my beautiful, brilliant, kind little girl back," Mr Goldsmith posted on Twitter. "It hurts so much I can't describe."
The BBC reported Iris became trapped when her vehicle overturned and police were not treating the accident as suspicious.
South West Ambulance Service told the BBC an air ambulance was sent to the scene after emergency services were called about 3:00pm on Monday (local time).
Iris's parents married in 2003, uniting two of Britain's most wealthy families.
The couple also had two sons — Frankie, 13, and Isaac,11 — before separating in 2012.
Mr Goldsmith and Ms Rothschild are believed to have a joint fortune of over 300 million pounds ($538.8 million).
Iris was a student at Wycombe Abbey boarding school in Buckinghamshire.
Tributes posted on social media
Tributes were posted on Twitter and Facebook offering condolences to the family and describing the teenager as "beautiful", "charming" and "an absolute delight".
Jemima Goldsmith — Mr Goldsmith's sister and former wife of retired cricketer and current Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan — tweeted an appeal to the media to allow the family to grieve the death of her niece in private.
"We are dealing with a devastating family tragedy," she said.
Iris's former teacher Alison Holford tweeted she was "heartbroken to hear of the tragic death".
"I will never forget her lovely smile and generous nature," she wrote.
Isabel Goldsmith — Mr Goldsmith's sister and aunt of the dead girl — posted condolences to the family on Facebook.
"Iris was a lovely, gentle girl and Ben is the most loving, caring father," she said.
Who are the Rothschild and Goldsmith families?
The Rothschilds are arguably the most famous banking family in Europe.
The family business began in the 1760s when Mayer Amschel Rothschild started a banking house in Frankfurt which provided banking services to royals and nobles.
He then had five sons, who established branches in London, Paris, Vienna and Naples by the 1820s.
As the family rose to power, the five sons were made barons of the Austrian Empire.
In the late 1800s, members of the family were elevated to the British nobility and, in 1858, Lionel de Rothschild became the first Jew to enter the British Parliament.
Over the centuries, the Rothschild dynasty expanded to mining, energy, real estate and winemaking.
While the exact net worth of the Rothschilds is not known, it has been estimated to be in the hundreds of billions.
Meanwhile, the Goldsmiths are members of another prominent banking family with German roots — the Goldschmidts (the name has since been Anglicised).
In the 1800s the Goldschmidts, along with the Bischoffsheim family, managed Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie bank, which eventually merged into multinational banking conglomerate Banque de Credit et de Depot des Pays-Bas.
That merged with Banque de Paris, which has evolved into what is now BNP Paribas, the eighth largest banking group in the world.
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The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest
Held at the University of Bucharest, Bd. Schitu Magureanu 9, sector 1, București
This event will take place on the 8th of April, 16.00-19.00, Council Room, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work (Schitu Măgureanu. nr.9), sector 5, Bucharest.
ICUB Bucharest is organizing a special panel dedicated to the analysis of the strategic, economic and political parameters of the current trends in the Back Sea Area, with a special emphasis on Romania’s role as a strategic anchor.
Located at the confluence of the Western, Orthodox and Muslim worlds, the wider Black Sea is a region of considerable geo-political importance. The panel will emphasize regional security as defined by the military balance, economic growth and governance issues. A central theme will be the role of energy in the area and how this has shaped the broader Black Sea security dynamic. The discussion will focus on Romania’s strategic position as NATO’s South Eastern anchor, and how this is becoming increasingly important in light of Russian expansionism and Turkey’s drift from its traditional Western focus. Even more compelling is how the presence of oil and gas has thrust the Black Sea into the world’s view and contributed to the rush of external interest. Ultimately, long-term regional stability is dependent on a secure and prosperous Romania, deeply entrenched in the Trans-Atlantic Alliance.
The panel will be based on presentation by Arnold C. Dupuy (Virginia Polytechnic and George Mason University) followed by comments made by General (Ret). Constantin Degeratu, Professor Marian Zulean (University of Bucharest) and General (Ret). Mihai Ionescu, and an open discussion with the public moderated by Professor Dragos Paul Aligica (University of Bucharest and George Mason University).
Arnold C. Dupuy, studied at National Defense University, Virginia Polytechnic and George Mason University where he currently teaches International Relations. His background includes the Institute for National Security Studies, Bundeswher University and Senior Analyst with Analytic Services specialized in energy security, wider Black Sea and Trans-Atlantic relations, critical infrastructure protection and expeditionary operations. Twenty years of military experience (active and reserve status), he is experienced in staff procedures at the tactical levels, as well as practice of the Secretary of Defense and the Army Staff, design and implementation of computerized combat simulation scenarios. He has participated in Operation Noble Eagle and Operation Enduring Freedom. Bronze Star Medal and Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.
Constantin Degeratu, a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, retired four-star general, his background includes tenure as Senior Security and Defense Advisor to the President of Romania, Chief of Staff for General Defense of the Romania Armed Forces, and Secretary General of Ministry of Defense. He worked as a Professor of Central-European Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, lectured at the Harriman Institute for War and Peace at Columbia University, New York University and Georgetown University. His area of expertise and research encompasses security assessment national security strategy formulation, defense planning, strategic, operational and tactical leadership, international and European security (Central, Eastern and South-East Europe; South Caucasus, Black Sea, the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East), critical infrastructure protection, Russian studies, and economic, energy and business security.
Marian Zulean, a graduate of University of Pittsburgh (MPPIA), PhD in Sociology (University of Bucharest) and a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship (University of Maryland) is a Professor habil. at the University of Bucharest. He is the coordinator of the social science department at the Institute for Advanced Research-University of Bucharest (ICUB), has been a vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Public Administration and Business (2012-2016) and an adviser with the Office of the President (2001-2006). His area of expertise includes the policy analysis, international security, foresight and civil-military relations. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology. He received the “Military Virtue” Award in rank of Chevalier for the integration of Romania in NATO.
Mihail E. Ionescu is professor at the Department of International Relations, SNSPA, since 1992. Since 2004, he is retired major general. He was Head of The Integration Direction of Integration NATO/UEO of the Ministry of National Defense ( 1997-2000) and since the year 2000 he is director of the Institute of Political Sciences of Defense and Military History with the MoD Bucharest . Between 2005 and 2012 he was co-chair of the Working Group for the Greater Black Sea Area with the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Military Academies and Security Studies Institutes developing yearly projects with the countries of this region . Publications: “ Black Sea. From from the Byzantine lake to the challenges of the XX Century” (coord.) and “Security and Stability in the Black Sea basin in the post-Cold War Era” in “Black Sea. From the Byzantine Lake to the challenges of the XX Century”. Since 2003 he is the editor in chief of the quarterly review ” Monitor Strategic”.
Organizers: Professor Marian Zulean (University of Bucharest) and Professor Dragos Paul Aligica (University of Bucharest and George Mason University).
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Time to Expose Youth to National Security
V K Ahluwalia
Lt General V K Ahluwalia (Retd) was Army Commander, Central Command.
November 13 was a black Friday, with Daesh terrorists killing 129 innocent people and injuring more than 350 in Paris. They struck at different points in the city in near simultaneity, much like the Mumbai attack by the Lashkar-e-Taiba on November 26, 2008. Given the growing influence of ISIS and other terrorist outfits, Indian population centres and the youth are quite vulnerable to such threats. These threats include “soft” terror: internet and social networking sites that espouse extremist ideology and propaganda for indoctrinating the youth. In some cases, provocative messages on the social media have caused violent protests and agitations, resulting in a trail of death and destruction. The terrorist attacks at Dinanagar police station, Pathankot air base, and the attack on the CRPF convoy in the Valley as well as the cases of a number of youth influenced by ISIS show our acute vulnerabilities. Terrorists have been able to induce terror and fear amongst the population by their violent actions.
As a young nation, we have to recognise the power of the youth, a force which has great potential and one that needs to be harnessed towards nation-building. The current trend of the youth being hyper-active on the social media needs to be channelled by diverting their energy towards national integration and building a pluralistic society.
Challenges to National Security
Unfortunately, in India, we do not expose our youth to even the rudimentary aspects of national security and its impact on society. Besides substantial issues like the survivability of nation states, it is important to have the youth understand the basic concept of national security and the impact it has on “human security’ and “economic growth”. This is even more important in a country like India that has a very young demographic profile. This author is convinced that Indian youth would appreciate such an initiative; not only would it empower them but also instil a greater sense of patriotism in them.
This is not too ambitious a project. The aim of such an initiative would be to expose students to the very basics of national security and make them realise that national security requires the active engagement of all citizens, as it is a shared responsibility. Hence, any proposed syllabus need not be exhaustive nor an additional burden on the students.
India faces a number of challenges to its security, from both external and internal sources. As on date, globally, there are over a hundred ongoing armed intra-state conflicts and small wars. Given the growing influence of ISIS, indoctrination initiatives and the progressive increase in threats and challenges to security the world over, sub-conventional threats will be far more relevant to all countries than ever before. Closer home, proxy war in Jammu & Kashmir and the spread of terror networks in the subcontinent make the management of internal and external security challenges increasingly complex, especially since they are closely intertwined.
In India, high density population centres are repeatedly being put on high alert due to possible terror strikes. According to Census 2011, during the last two decades, the urban population has increased by 160 million (74 per cent) in comparison to the rural population’s increase by 204 million (32 per cent). Rapid increase in population, hyper-urbanisation, gross inequality with fairly large numbers living in slums, all make the monitoring of varied unlawful and terrorist activities increasingly difficult. In addition, the terrorists of today have acquired expertise in cyber space to derail IT-dependent facilities by targeting the economic, transportation, communication, command & control, and educational institutions. These threats and their impact on economic growth and human security are all too visible, both within and outside India.
Given the complex nature of our country with its vastness, illiteracy, poverty, massive unemployment and demographic divide, the security forces alone are not in a position to prevent attacks by terrorists or control unrests and conflicts. In addition to various measures like improving intelligence, surveillance, security, coordination among security forces, provision of basic facilities and employment of youth, we also need to sensitise society, especially the youth, to such threats and their manifestations.
In early December 2015, the UN Security Council adopted the first ever milestone resolution on youth, peace and security. It recognises the importance of focusing on the role of young men and women in peace building and countering violence. It would be prudent to mention that some foreign countries already have a National Security Community Outreach initiative or similar schemes to actively engage with ethnic, cultural and religious communities. In Israel, as every adult is required to serve in the military, though for different reasons, people are fully conscious of their responsibilities. The results are all too visible.
Engaging the youth from all communities in India would empower and encourage them to play a larger role in national security. Given the current reality, wherein the youth - between 15 and 25 years of age - are being indoctrinated, it would also help to wean them away from militant or fundamentalist organisations. The youth, in the same age bracket, are unfortunately involved in large scale violence, due to instigation by some political parties or other groups and individuals. All such actions are highly detrimental to national well-being and national security. There is an urgent need to promote awareness, through educational institutions, about national security and its impact on various facets of the country’s well-being. Under such circumstances, it would not be out of place to give serious thought to promote awareness about challenges to national security, beginning from to the universities to high schools (10+2), in that order, both in government and private institutions.
Once introduced, experts in this field could address various educational institutions both in the various vernacular languages and in English. To achieve uniformity in imparting instructions and to prevent misuse of this platform, experts would also require refresher training. They could organise engrossing and interactive workshops on national security and varied threats, national integration, strengths of diversity in a country, leadership, team spirit and team building, etc. Where required, counselling sessions could also be held for the youth. The multiple challenges, including security-related ones, posed by hyper urbanisation would also require the attention of the government.
As a long term measure, this would be a significant step, among other measures, to involve the community, through the youth, to promote a pluralistic society, monitor unlawful activities, prevent violence and promote national security.
Lt General VK Ahluwalia, former Army Commander, Central Command, is currently, Member, Armed Forces Tribunal, Jaipur Bench.
Views expressed are of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the IDSA or of the Government of India
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UMS Concert. Mariinsky Orchestra.
The Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev return for two performances of Russian orchestral masterpieces. This performance features pianist Denis Matsuev in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, originally written for piano but performed by the orchestra in an arrangement by Maurice Ravel. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will also receive the 2015 UMS Distinguished Artist Award at this Ford Honors Program concert; a gala dinner after the concert raises funds to support UMS education programs.
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Charter obligations for local government
Under the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities (the Charter), local councils have a legal obligation to act compatibly with human rights in the way they go about their work and deliver their services.
In practice, this means that local councils must:
give proper consideration to human rights when making decisions
ensure that actions, policies and services are compatible with human rights
interpret and apply local laws consistently with human rights
ensure that people who work on their behalf do so in a way that respects human rights.
Can Charter rights be limited?
In undertaking the day-to-day work of local government, there will be times when the human rights set out in the Charter may need to be limited.
However, Charter rights can only be limited to achieve a legitimate and reasonable objective. For local government, this will often involve balancing a number of different rights and other important interests, such as the health and safety of the community.
For example, a local council seeks to restrict the use of the local swimming pool to women only on Thursday evenings, outside of ordinary operating hours. This is in order to address the inequalities in access to swimming facilities for local Muslim women. Feedback from local Muslim women indicated that, due to their cultural and religious beliefs, they felt uncomfortable attending the swimming pool when men were present. The council decides that the restriction is a reasonable limitation on the right for men to access the facilities free from discrimination. This is particularly so because the women’s only access will occur after normal operating hours and therefore will not detract from the opportunities for men to access the facilities.
How do local councils engage with the Charter?
Local councils engage with the Charter in four main areas of operation:
Elected council: Elected councillors need to consider human rights when they undertake strategic planning and create local laws. Elected councillors can also help to promote a culture of human rights within local government and the community.
Administration: Council staff need to consider human rights when they deliver services to the community and review or develop policies, plans and procedures.
Community engagement: Council staff need to consider human rights when they engage with the community and handle complaints from members of the community about alleged breaches of human rights.
Third party interaction: Council staff need to consider human rights when they educate the community about human rights, enter into contracts with third parties, and review grants and funding policies.
The Victorian Local Governance Association’s Human Rights Toolkit can help you to understand and comply with your obligations under the Charter, as well as build a culture of human rights in your community.
The toolkit provides a practical framework for implementing the Charter in relation to each of the four main areas of operation discussed above
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POLLS: Who Will Win Super Bowl LI
The number one scoring offense, Atlanta Falcons, versus the number one scoring defense, New England Patriots.
Sports Feb 3, 2017
By Robert Marshall
We finally made it. The daytime novela that is the 2016 NFL season — one woven with a slew of contentious headlines from “Deflategate” and abysmal officiating, to national anthem protests, relocating franchises, and poor TV ratings — has reached its finale. On Sunday, February 5, the likely MVP Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons will face off against the New England Patriots and arguably the greatest quarterback of all-time, Tom Brady, at Super Bowl LI at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Currently, the Patriots are three-point favorites, with the over-under at 58.5, the highest ever for a Super Bowl. Led by 39-year-old Tom Brady and mastermind head coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots finished atop the entire league at 14-2, despite Brady missing the first four games of the regular season serving a suspension for his role in the aforementioned Deflategate scandal, and losing Tom’s favorite target, Rob Gronkowski, in week 12 to an injury. In the top five for a number of offensive and defensive statistical categories all season, the AFC champs coasted through this past year, winning at a margin of 12 points, the best in the NFL.
The 11-5 Falcons on the other hand come in with a game-plan that favors its firepower offense. The duo of Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, along with a robust supporting cast of young, capable receivers and Pro Bowl running back Devonta Freeman, led Atlanta to a league best 34.4 points per game, and number two on the yards per game list with 415.8.
We’re all in for a good old fashion shootout on Sunday, meaning whichever defense is able to pull out a few more stops will likely sneak away with the Lombardi trophy as time runs out. Which is why the Patriots are the slight favorites. New England finished eighth in yards allowed (326.4), but first in points allowed (15.6), while Atlanta fell to 25th in yards allowed (371.2) and 27th in points allowed (25.4). This will be the sixth Super Bowl since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to feature the number one scoring offense against the number one scoring defense, with the latter team winning four of the previous five matchups. So while both secondaries are more than likely helpless against these two quarterbacks, it may end up coming down to who can slow down the other’s rushing attack, which again favors New England.
Super Bowl LI marks the Patriots’ NFL-record ninth Super Bowl appearance, as well as their seventh in the last 16 years under the legendary quarterback-head coach duo of Brady and Belichick. The two are 4-2 in Super Bowl games with both losses coming at the hands of the New York Giants and their hard-hitting defense. However if they win, they each will have the most Lombardi trophies for their positions. For the Falcons, this game marks their second Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, after having lost Super Bowl XXXIII to John Elway and the Denver Broncos.
Kickoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday and will air on Fox with Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Erin Andrews serving as your announcers, and Lady Gaga as your halftime entertainment.
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Examining Possible Contract Extensions for Justin Simmons and Will Parks
The Broncos will have a number of pending unrestricted free agents for the 2020 offseason. Thus, while Broncos news is light, this is a good time of year to conduct a series on what it could take to proactively reduce that number by extending players that the team may like to keep in Denver long term.
This series will begin with Justin Simmons and Will Parks. Both play the same position, both have opportunities to start at that position, and, with both being acquired in the 2016 NFL Draft, both are entering the final years of their rookie contracts.
Establishing a range for the safety market
As it stands now, Simmons has clearly established more capital in the NFL than Parks, especially given his perfect 100% snap count last season. But Parks is hardly a slouch: he has logged over 50% of the snaps over the last two seasons, with the real chance of him increasing those snaps, especially if Kareem Jackson plays more of a cornerback role instead of safety.
Given what they have accomplished as of now, a good comparison for Simmons would be Adrian Amos, who flourished in Chicago under Vic Fangio and got a lucrative free agent deal with rival Green Bay. Simmons, of course, has that same opportunity to benefit from Fangio’s tutelage in Denver in 2019.
Parks, meanwhile, has profiled as a high level backup that has proven good value in that role. What Parks has accomplished thus far reminds me much of Duron Harmon on the New England Patriots. He has regularly played behind the likes of Devin McCourty and Patrick Chung, yet has found a solid role of value with the team on a deal commensurate with that contribution.
The contracts of Amos and Harmon provide a nice range in which extensions for Simmons and/or Parks before the regular season begins could fall within. Given their contributions as of now, it’s fair to say that Simmons has a better chance of getting a contract similar to Amos, while Parks is more aligned with Harmon’s contract.
The high end contract (assumed here for Justin Simmons)
Year Base Salary Prorated Bonus Option Bonus Cap Number Dead Money Cap Savings
2019 $1,040,000 $2,361,355 $0 $3,401,355 $22,201,355 ($18,800,000)
2021 $5,700,000 $2,200,000 $0 $7,900,000 $12,300,000 ($4,400,000)
2022 $5,800,000 $2,200,000 $1,000,000 $9,000,000 $4,400,000 $4,600,000
2023 $7,200,000 $2,200,000 $3,000,000 $12,400,000 $3,200,000 $9,200,000
This is a four year, $37 million extension that fully guarantees Simmons $20 million in new money via $10 million in signing bonus money, and $10 million more in guaranteed 2020 and 2021 base salaries. $1 million of Simmons’s current 2019 salary is also prorated
2022 and 2023 both contain $2 million option bonuses to be exercised before those respective league years; in addition to typical compensatory pick formula manipulation (in case that loophole survives the next CBA), the option bonuses reduce the amount of 2022 dead money should the Broncos wish to part ways with Simmons then, while still keeping potential 2023 dead money reasonable.
By APY, this contract at $9.25 million bests Amos’s $9 million, and is equidistant between Amos and the next highest safety contract, Devin McCourty at $9.5 million. Full guarantees of $20 million are far superior to Amos, even when Amos’s $4 million roster bonus is counted as likely to be triggered to come to $16 million. and also surpasses the likes of Tony Jefferson while falling below McCourty’s $22 million. Simmons also gets a firm commitment from the Broncos through 2021, whereas with Amos it’s feasible that the Packers could part ways with him after only one season if things go very wrong.
Cash flow is where this contract lags behind Amos and McCourty. While it is comparable to Amos in the first two years, Amos comes out better after three years, and the running totals lag considerably behind McCourty throughout the duration of the contract.
The low end contract (assumed here for Will Parks)
2019 $1,025,000 $1,275,089 $0 $2,300,089 $9,050,089 ($6,750,000)
2021 $2,500,000 $1,250,000 $500,000 $4,250,000 $2,500,000 $1,750,000
This is a three year, $14.7 million extension with $7 million guaranteed that’s contained inside a $4 million signing bonus and a 2020 guaranteed base salary of $3 million. This contract is structured similar to the one above: $1 million in current money is prorated to cause only minimal increase to Parks’s 2019 cap number, and option years are on the final two years of the contract, each of these at $1 million.
This contract bests Harmon in many relevant metrics, as noted in parentheticals: $4.9 million in APY ($4.25 million), $7 million fully guaranteed ($6.5 million), and $10.5 million in two year cash flow ($9.5 million). Only in the first year does Harmon barely come out ahead in cash flow, and even then it’s only by $250,000.
What’s the proper course of action for Simmons and Parks?
On the one hand, there may be incentive for Simmons and Parks to play out the final years of their rookie deals. Improving their play over their first three years could raise their markets. For Simmons, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that a stellar 2019 season could push his APY into the eight figure range. For Parks, he might yearn, and be capable of proving to other teams, that he can be an unquestionable starter at safety. It also helps both that the safety supply in unrestricted free agency next year could be limited, with Kevin Byard and Vonn Bell being the only clear cut young high end talents with expiring contracts at the same time.
On the other hand, typical risks and other considerations also apply. Injury could strike either player and derail their full potential of unrestricted free agency. Even without injury, adverse perception of their play, either fair or unfair, could lower their values. And if Simmons or Parks enjoys being in Denver and are willing to place a higher priority on that location, they could be more amiable to getting a deal done sooner rather than later if the Broncos are willing to make offers.
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February 2, 2016 / 4:32 PM / 3 years ago
Supreme Court will review law criminalising gay sex
Aditya Kalra, Andrew MacAskill
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will review a decision over whether to uphold a colonial-era law that criminalises gay sex in a victory for homosexual rights campaigners at a time when the nation is navigating a path between tradition and modernity.
Gay rights activists hold placards during a protest in New Delhi February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee/Files
The court asked a five-judge bench to examine whether the 1860 law, which imposes a 10-year sentence for gay sex, is constitutional, a lawyer for a gay rights group said.
“It is definitely a move forward,” said lawyer Anand Grover as activists gathered outside the court cheered.
This was the last legal avenue for campaigners seeking to use the courts to strike down the law. Otherwise, any future decisions to lift the ban will rest with the country’s politicians who are largely conservative and oppose any changes.
The Supreme Court made a surprise ruling in 2013 that reinstated a ban on gay sex. That decision ended a four-year period of decriminalization that helped bring homosexuality into the open.After the hearing a group of gay rights activists outside the court sang: “We will be successful.”Human rights group Amnesty International India welcomed the court’s review, saying the law puts homosexuals under physical, mental and legal threat.”The Supreme Court has another chance to correct a grave error,” Amnesty said. National surveys show about three-quarters of Indians disapprove of homosexuality and are deeply traditional about other issues of sexuality such as sex outside of marriage.
India is one of 75 countries around the world that outlaws homosexuality, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
Although the law banning homosexuality is rarely enforced in India, it is used to intimidate, harass, blackmail and extort money from homosexuals, activists say.
There are no official figures on the number of cases and most go unreported as victims are too scared to report crimes to the police, fearing they will be punished too, activists say.
While the previous Congress-led government had pledged to repeal the law if it came to power again, it was crushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in general elections in May 2014.
In December, members of Modi’s party, which has an overwhelming majority in the lower house of parliament, scuppered a private member’s bill to scrap the law.
“It is about principles of freedom enshrined in our constitution,” Shashi Tharoor, the opposition Congress lawmaker who introduced the bill, told Reuters.
“It’s time to take the government out of the bedroom.”
Editing by Sanjeev Miglani, Robert Birsel
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Pre application
by ScottishPower Renewables (UK) Limited
An offshore wind farm which could consist of up to 115 turbines, generators and associated infrastructure, with an installed capacity of 600MW to 800MW, located 31km from Lowestoft and 32km from Southwold.
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An area of 257km2 situated approximately 31km from Lowestoft & 32km from Southwold at closest point
Julia Bolton - tel. 0141 614 0423
The list below includes a record of advice we have provided for this project. For a list of all advice issued by the Planning Inspectorate, including non-project related advice, please go to the Register of advice page.
There is a statutory duty, under section 51 of the Planning Act 2008, to record the advice that is given in relation to an application or a potential application, including the name of the person who requested the advice, and to make this publicly available.
We respond to Phase 4 of SPR's windfarm consultation, objecting very strongly to proposals to site Substations for the windfarms in Friston. Our letter of objection is attached, together with our responses to earlier consultations. The most important points we make now are that the Planning Inspectorate should assess the cumulative impact of multiple energy related projects proposed for this part of east Suffolk, and that all developments should take place in Sizewell. We respond to Phase 4 of SPR's windfarm consultation, objecting very strongly to proposals to site Substations for the windfarms in Friston. Our letter of objection is attached, together with our responses to earlier consultations. The most important points we make now are that the Planning Inspectorate should assess the cumulative impact of multiple energy related projects proposed for this part of east Suffolk, and that all developments should take place in Sizewell. We trust you will take our views and those of local people and authorities into account.
In reference to your e-mail of 20 March 2019. I draw your attention to Advice Note 17 ([attachment 1]) on the Planning Inspectorate website. This provides more information about cumulative effects assessment.
Louise and Derek Chadwick Chadwick
Project Update Meeting
Please see attached.
ScottishPower Renewables (UK) Limited - anon.
The following persons sent responses to the Applicant’s 2019 statutory consultation, including comments on the standard of consultation, to the Planning Inspectorate between January and April 2019: Vivienne Saunders, Alison Norman, Gerard Linehan, James and Gihan Burch, Charles Courage, Susan Jackson, David Jackson, Anthony and Louise Fincham, Nick Matthew, Kevin and Joanna Hoffman, Ian Cook, Tony and Christine Munden, Rosamond Castle, Christopher Matthew, Michael Allen, Lesley Walduck, Lin Patrick, Richard Bertram, Ellen Nall, Linda Grover, John Brown, Emma Chichester Clark, Karen Flower and Amanda Churchill.
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you have concerns about the way in which the developer is carrying out the pre-application consultation, you should let them know as soon as possible and allow them the opportunity to respond to any issues you raise. You can also make your local authority aware of your concerns. The Inspectorate will request the relevant local authorities’ view on the adequacy of the consultation at the point the application is submitted. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Various Enquiries - Anon - anon.
The following persons sent responses to the Applicant’s 2019 statutory consultation to the Planning Inspectorate and to the Applicant between January and April 2019: Michael Mahony on behalf of Substation Action Save East Suffolk, Mark Saunders, James Kemp, Brian Roger and Mark Hopkins.
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. I note you have contacted ScottishPower Renewables. It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see: “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
The following persons sent responses to the Applicant’s 2019 statutory consultation to the Planning Inspectorate between January and April 2019: Mary Shipman, Tony Morley, Alan Bullard, Jan Bullard, Michael Shorrock, Elizabeth Clark, Josef Wondrak, Julie Tooke, Edmond Fivet, David Worrall, Nichola J Winter, Elizabeth Jarret, Nicholas Winter, Kay and Karl Moore, Jennifer Joyce, Andrew Bell, Jill Hills, John Walker and Kate Drayton.
The following persons sent responses to the Applicant’s 2019 statutory consultation to the Planning Inspectorate and to the Applicant, including comments on the standard of consultation, between January and April 2019: William Matthew, Leonard and Anita Johnson, Martin Cotter and John Grover.
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. I note you have contacted ScottishPower Renewables. It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you have concerns about the way in which the developer is carrying out the pre-application consultation, you should let them know as soon as possible and allow them the opportunity to respond to any issues you raise. You can also make your local authority aware of your concerns. The Inspectorate will request the relevant local authorities’ view on the adequacy of the consultation at the point the application is submitted. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see: “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Various Enquiries - anon.
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
The Planning Inspectorate Dear Sir/Madam, SCOTTISHPOWER RENEWABLE- EAST ANGLIA 1N & EAST ANGLIA 2 WIND FARMS I understand that you are not in a position to respond to our concerns regarding the proposal to build the required sub-stations for the off shore wind farms of EA1N & EA2 in the village of Friston until an application has been made. However, as you meet with SPR on a regular basis, there is certain information that I want to make sure you are aware of: 1. On the 11th of March the House of Commons discussed the fact that the free-for-all siting of these sub-stations causes needless damage to large swathes of the country side. Proposals for a strategic policy in order to coordinate a rational program for the siting of sub-stations are under discussion. You can listen to this session on George Freeman MP web site, link below. [attachment 1] 2. Phase 4 of the consultation period revealed that EA1N & EA2 may not be developed simultaneously the consequence being that the construction process could be extended from 3 to 6 years. Add onto this the interconnector projects and you could be talking about 9-10 years of construction and disruption from the coast to Friston. 3. Phase 4 consultation period presented the traffic plan for the proposal. This plan will have a seriously detrimental effect on the access roads into Aldeburgh, Snape and particularly Thorpness. These areas are the heart of and vital to the tourist economy of the area. SPR is not taking this effect into consideration. 4. The Friston site has received universal objection from all authorities. 5. The accepted Rochdale model allows for SPR’s proposals to remain vague until after permission is received. This opens up the potential for all sorts of changes to be made by SPR post permission. Exemplar to this is the change SPR made at Bawdsey. By changing the to the transmission system SPR rendered the cable routing facilities extremely limited in capacity and created the requirement for additional land fall, trenching and sub-stations site, hardly a non-material change. What could they get up to in and around Friston? Due to the DCO procedure you alone sit in judgement of SPR’s proposal. This is an arduous and unenviable position that is now being questioned by Parliament. As it stands the consultation procedure appears to be a box ticking exercise leading to a predetermined conclusion. I trust that this is not the case and that you are truly in a position to scrutinise SPR’s proposal. I have a few questions that SPR has not been able to answer. They are with regards to how the land-fall and on-shore site was chosen. I believe that it is important that you, too have answers to these questions. 1. Why did SPR decide that the sub-stations should be to the south of the pillions closest to the village of Friston as opposed to the north of the pillions and further away from the village? 2. What is the relationship between landowners in the Bawdsey area and Friston? 3. With regards to the initial search areas 1-7 what contact did SPR make with landowners in these zones and to what result? 4. How and when did they meet the owner of the property they are proposing to purchase in Friston? When was the deal made? 5. Who controls the site to the north of the pillions and what is proposed for this area? 6. We know in that in phase 3.5 SPR rejected the Broom Covert site because of what can be summarised as possible unacceptable commercial terms. The fact the area is deemed an AONB is not particularly relevant as permissible with-in the AONB are projects of national importance. The advantages of the Broom Covert site are well known: adjacent to a nuclear power plant & other sub-stations, road access, security facilities, very limited cable trenching required, etc. EDF obviously finds it difficult to ‘share’ the Broom Covert site but what has SPR done to secure land with-in their original zones 1-2? These too, have the advantage of the Broom Covert site but are not under EDF’s control. 7. The proposed Land Fall site is now in question. It was originally deemed by National Grid that SPR could make land fall at Sizewell. We now know that this is not Sizwell but the cliffs of Thorpness Heath and that access to this area is proposed through the holiday village of Thorpness. The stability of these cliffs are questionable. Throughout this process SPR has used the National Grid as an excuse for many of its proposals. To whom is National Grid accountable? Does the National Grid or SPR understand the effect that the construction traffic will have to Thorpness for a period of 3 - 9 years? Has there been a study to show how long it will take Thorpness to recover its reputation as a holiday destination once the works are finally completed? 8. I trust that before SPR submits its application in the 4th quarter of this year, that there will be a change in legislation and that a strategy will emerge for the location of the of sub-stations and items related to them that is not needlessly devastating to the country side. However, could you please make it evident to us how we register as an interested party once an application has been made, as I understand that there is a limited period for us to do so. I hope that part of your remit is to visit the area. It would be very nice for you to meet with the local community. Our concerns will then be very obvious to you. I attach my comments to SPR and our MP’s subsequent to the Stage 4 of the Consultation period. Kind regards, Mya Manakides
Dear Mya Manakides As you are aware the proposed applications by ScottishPower Renewables are at the Pre-application stage of the Planning Act 2008 process. The Planning Inspectorate is unable to consider representations about the merits of any application until it is accepted for Examination. Further information about the process can be found in the link below to the National Infrastructure Planning website: [attachment 2] Further information about Community Consultation, including who you should contact if you are not satisfied that the Applicant has or will take account of your comments (FAQ 2) can be found here: [attachment 3] As the applications have not yet been formally submitted at this time we are unable to consider your comments however please note that, should the application be received, the National Infrastructure Planning website will be updated accordingly and you may submit comments to us at that time. Should the application be accepted the ‘Registration and Relevant Representation form’ will be made available on the project page of the National Infrastructure Planning website during the Pre-examination stage. Further information about registering as an Interested Party can be found in the Planning Inspectorate’s ‘Advice Note 8.2: How to register to participate in an Examination’: [attachment 4] Finally, I can confirm that should the application be accepted the appointed Examining Authority will visit the site of the proposed development in order to fully understand the proposal. Please see the link below to ‘Advice Note 8.5: The Examination; hearings and site inspections’ which provides further information: [attachment 5] Kind regards
Mya Manakides
Response to the Applicants 2019 consultation sent to the Planning Inspectorate with a request for comments.
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I note that you have already contacted ScottishPower Renewables. It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. In reference to your point about cumulative impact, the energy National Policy Statements (NPS) set out mitigation for cumulative negative effects by requiring the Secretary of State to consider accumulation of effects as a whole in their decision-making on individual applications for development consent. I would draw your attention to NPS EN-1 which provides more information in relation to policy, particularly chapter 4.2 Environmental Statement. And to Advice Note 17 on the Planning Inspectorate website, which is available with the other advice notes linked below, which provides more information on the legal context and obligations for cumulative effects assessment (CEA). As well as an overview of the CEA process the developer may adopt. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Mark Lowthers
My name is Thomas Sweet and I am a local resident and long-standing member of the local community in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. I have a number of objections and concerns on Scottish Power Renewables proposed construction and operation of 2 further windfarms namely East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO offshore windfarm and the onshore facilities that support the supply and transport of power onshore and onward connection to the National Grid at Friston in Suffolk. I have sent my concerns in this email to the relevant depts. of Scottish Power Renewables, Therese Coffey MP, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, East Suffolk council memebers and Aldeburgh Town Council to consider and revise the proposals being touted by SPR as a Nationally Signficant Infrastructure Project (NSIP). I have read all of the relevant information and attended Phase 3 and 4 consultative presentations by Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) and various local action groups with the conclusion that I am completely against the development proposals for East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO onshore development proposals The lengthy construction and operation of this facility will cause significant damage and disruption to our local communities and our unique and valuable asset, the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB which is a nationally protected landscape enjoyed by human and animal visitors and residents. These proposals are totally unacceptable and present serious risks which will undermine and destroy our local economic and ecological endeavours in the region to the extent the impacted area will suffer extensive damage and decline to the point it effectively becomes a coastal wasteland and forgotten backwater like, it seems, many of our other coastal communities. The impact of these proposals will destroy the local business and social infrastructure which the local communities have worked long and hard to establish and which, coupled with the AONB we all enjoy, make for a unique, attractive, enjoyable, well-managed and balanced environment which sustains a significant level of active interest and tourism with all that it brings with it. In my opinion the early stage consultation for project was poorly managed by SPR with inadequate and misleading communciation to our communities and other interested parties. Failures in scoping, consultation and significant discrepancies in the RAG risk management methodology deployed in the early stages have resulted in an unfair, biased and inconistent onshore appraisal presented in the Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) which underpins the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). My view is that the published assessment and presentations are skued towards a low-impact proposal hoping to get through the approval process under the guise of a "green Initiative" of renewable energy initiatives or Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) as stated by SPR in response to a request from Secretary of State for Busines, Energy and Industrial Strategy The impact is significant and needs to be considered as a whole with serious attention paid to other energy developments scheduled to occur simultaneously namely additional SPR initiatives, National Grid, NGV Inter-connectors and Sizewell C. Over the next 10 years or more, the local region will be laid waste and made dangerous with increased construction traffic as it is industrialised on a major scale. There have been unreasonable, broad assumptions made and the absence of mitigating risks have resulted in a totally unsuitable set of development sites and locations.My main concerns are: 1. SPR have continually failed to acknowledge the views, concerns and objections of the the residents of the affected areas of development namely, the residents of Friston affected by siting fof the substation and connection to National Grid and those along the areas of landfall, onshore cable corridor and road / routing alterations. It also appears that the statements from local authorities and MP questioning the rationale behind SPR indiviual and cumulative proposals have also been ignored or skimmed over in any consultation reports or assessments. 2. Construction traffic and proposed access via minor roads and by-ways is extremely disruptive and poses an unacceptable increase in danger to life and limb of local people and especially visitors to the area. Proposed changes to roads and environment to accommodate cable routes and large numbers of HGVs over a lengthy period of time will create immediate and ongoing danger and risks to the daily lives of residents, tourists and local businesses 3. SPR have failed to adequately consider and identify the cumulative combined impact that this proposal will have when the other simultaneous overlapping developments for other SPR initiatives, National Grid, NGV Inter-connectors and Sizewell C are taken into account. The overall impact is a damaging, shameful industrialisation of the Suffolk Heritage Coast. 4.The onshore components of this proposal would not have had to be pursued if SPR had successfully managed the existing Bawdsey to Bramford cable routes and substations in such a way that additional requirements and capacity arising from East Anglia ONE North and TWO could have been absorbed and integrated within the existing infrastructure. If SPR had real structured plans and strategy for renewable energy projects in the region then the Bawdsey to Bramford cabe route and substations could and should have been designed and implemented to accommodate all of the current and future SPR wind farm projects and output. SPR must be held accountable for this lack of foresight and planning and held to task by the Planning Inspectorate at the appropriate phase in the planning process for these new sets of proposals. From the information I have received from SPR and other relevant balanced sources, I believe this proposal displays SPR's opportunistic approach and lack of strategic planning of renewables projects from the start with submission of commercial bids and economic analysis for the relevant government bodies along with the contents of the PEIR and the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for this development proposal whilst showing total disregard for the local environment AONB and its residents, visitors and supporters. I request that my concerns and objections are carefully considered and SPR take appropriate actions to revise the plans in response to the Secretary of State's request and develop and use the existing newly-built facilities between Bawdsey and Bramford.
I am writing in regard to your e-mail sent to the Planning Inspectorate on 26 March 2019. The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. I note you have contacted the developer as well as a number of other parties. It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. In reference to your point about cumulative impact, the energy National Policy Statements (NPS) set out mitigation for cumulative negative effects by requiring the Secretary of State to consider accumulation of effects as a whole in their decision-making on individual applications for development consent. I would draw your attention to NPS EN-1 which provides more information in relation to policy, particularly chapter 4.2 Environmental Statement. And to Advice Note 17, which is available with the other advice notes linked below, which provides more information on the legal context and obligations for cumulative effects assessment (CEA). As well as an overview of the CEA process the developer may adopt. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Thomas Sweet
To whom it may concern. I copy below an email i have just sent to SPR with regard to their controversial planning process for on shore sub stations in East Suffolk. There is little point in me writing huge amounts about this as its a simple matter. This project will KILL this part of the country...which may not be of concern to some but it is to the people who live here. The cumulative effect of this and 6 repeat 6 other projects condensed into one region by dint of a combination of a cynical or disinterested private sector and Government inefficiency on a grand scale is beyond belief or tolerance of our society ( or should be !) I hope most sincerely that in the execution of your public duty you will find time to appreciate that common sense should prevail , and prevent what will be one of the largest destructions of our country since the Second World War- the difference here being that this will be permanent !! Yours sincerely
Advice given: I am writing in regard to your e-mail sent to the Planning Inspectorate on 25 March 2019. The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I note that you have already contacted ScottishPower Renewables. It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1] Of the advice notes linked above of particular interest to you may be “Advice Note 17: Cumulative Effects Assessment”. This provides a description of the legal context and obligations placed on an applicant, with respect to cumulative effects under national planning policy and the Environmental Impact Assessments Regulations.
Graeme Murray
This is now my third response to the consultations. I do not feel any of my detailed concerns have been addressed to my satisfaction. The consultation process is clearly regarded as nothing more than a box ticking exercise. Furthermore, the Sizewell Cx2 phase 4 consultations are ongoing, adding a very concrete dimension to the cumulative impacts which have not been addressed. To be brief: 1. I do not agree with the landfall site at Sizewell / Thorpeness selected for connection to the National Grid. This must be urgently reviewed. 2. No brownfield sites have been proposed. National Grid must be held to account for their grid connection proposal. There appears to be absolutely no oversight of their role in these proposals. 3. No consideration has been given to the cumulative impacts of the proposed new nuclear Sizewell Cx2. 4. There is a petition for an offshore ringmain to connect all North Sea windfarms to the grid. The original proposal in 2012 could not justify the cost for just a few windfarms. This has now dramatically changed and the proposal must be reconsidered and taken forward. 5. The Bawdsey to Bramford fiasco is a disgrace. SPR explanation of why this route was rejected is not satisfactory. 6. Scottish Power has not given sufficient consideration to all the responses that say Friston is not a suitable site. In conclusion I would like to say that the Government needs to take charge of the all the various energy proposals and provide a coherent strategic plan. It is simply not acceptable to allow rampant and uncontrolled industrialisation of our increasingly precious countryside and protected nature reserves. There are clear alternatives and in this area the costs do not justify any benefits. I sincerely hope that these proposals will be reconsidered.
I am writing in regard to your e-mail sent to the Planning Inspectorate on 26 March 2019. The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I note that you have already contacted ScottishPower Renewables. It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1] Of the advice notes linked above of particular interest to you may be “Advice Note 17: Cumulative Effects Assessment”. This provides a description of the legal context and obligations placed on an applicant, with respect to cumulative effects under national planning policy and the Environmental Impact Assessments Regulations.
response to the Applicant’s 2019 statutory consultation, including comments on the standard of consultation, sent to the Planning Inspectorate on 25 March 2019
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you have concerns about the way in which the developer is carrying out the pre-application consultation, you should let them know as soon as possible and allow them the opportunity to respond to any issues you raise. You can also make your local authority aware of your concerns. The Inspectorate will request the relevant local authorities’ view on the adequacy of the consultation at the point the application is submitted. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see: “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
E Thomas
Please see attached
Substation Action Save East Suffolk - anon.
Project update meeting with ScottishPower Renewables, East Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council
EN010012 - EDF Sizewell C/D EN010077 & EN010078 - Scottish Power EA1N & EA2 I am writing to request extensions to consultations for the above Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in East Suffolk All projects are in final stage consultation and all consulting February & March 2019. I am a tourism business manager (Beach View Holiday Park) and local resident at Friston. It is physically impossible to have fair consultation and fair feedback for these NSIPs as there is simply too much going on, too much to digest and too much to consider. Please advise how this request can/will be considered? These proposals and the stress of these consultations are making people ill. All this while the local authority is also consulting on a final draft Local Plan, which, by the way I have not had a chance to fully digest or comment on either. Please take this as a formal complaint on final stage NSIP consultations listed above.
Dear Mr Thorp Request to Extend NSIP Pre-Application Consultations Thank you for your email dated 23 February 2019 addressed to Sarah Richards, the Planning Inspectorate’s Chief Executive. Your email has been passed to myself for response, as I am part of the Planning Inspectorate’s case team. I apologise for the delay in our response. The Planning Inspectorate is aware that several Developers are currently undertaking pre-application consultation in the area. In respect of the duration of the consultation period, section 45 of the Planning Act 2008 prescribes that a Developer’s statutory pre-application consultation must run for a minimum of 28 days. We are aware of the following consultation periods: - Sizewell C: 4th January 2019 – 29th March 2019 - East Anglia One North: 11th February 2019 – 26th March 2019 - East Anglia Two: 11th February 2019 – 26th March 2019. In this instance we therefore advise you to contact the Developers directly with your request for an extension. Once an application for a Development Consent Order is submitted (following the pre- application stage), the Planning Inspectorate (on behalf of the Secretary of State), has a statutory duty to invite comments from all relevant Local Authorities about whether a Developer has complied with its statutory pre-application consultation duties (see sections 42, 47 and 48 of the Planning Act 2008). Responses received are referred to as ‘Adequacy of Consultation Representations’. All applications for a Development Consent Order must be accompanied by a ‘Consultation Report’. The Consultation Report is prepared under section 37 of the Planning Act 2008 and must give details of: a) what has been done in compliance with sections 42, 47 and 48 of the Planning Act 2008 in relation to a proposed application that has become the application; b) any relevant responses; and c) the account taken of any relevant responses. In the Acceptance period (ie the 28 days following the formal submission of an application) the Planning Inspectorate will scrutinise all the application documents, including the evidence provided in the Consultation Report, applying the statutory tests set out in the Planning Act 2008. By the end of the Acceptance period the Planning Inspectorate (on behalf of the Secretary of State) must decide, in accordance with the tests in section 55 of the Planning Act 2008, whether or not to accept an application for examination. In reaching this decision, section 55(4) makes explicit that the Planning Inspectorate must have regard to the Consultation Report and any Adequacy of Consultation Representations made by Local Authority consultees. In this instance it is normal practise for the Planning Inspectorate to advise you to also provide your comments on the consultation undertaken to the Local Authority, to make them aware of your points, ahead of providing their Adequacy of Consultation Representation; however we note that you have already copied the Local Authorities into your email. I hope you find the above information to be helpful. Yours sincerely Kathryn Dunne Infrastructure Planning Lead
Nicholas Thorp
Enquiry sent to the Secretary of State
I am writing in regard to your correspondence sent to the Secretary of State dated 17 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your letter has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019.
Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact Scottish Power Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate.
If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning
process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Elaine Hunt
Project update meeting 10 December 2018
See attached meeting note
Scottish Power Renewables - anon.
Enquiry sent to the Secretary of State.
I am writing in regard to your email sent to the Secretary of State dated 11 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your email has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response, as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications. I therefore strongly encourage you to contact Scottish Power Renewables directly on [email protected] and [email protected] if you haven’t already done so, with your comments on their proposals.
If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see the “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice, here: [attachment 1]
I am writing in regard to your email sent to the Secretary of State and others dated 11 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your email has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
I note you have already submitted your comments to ScottishPower Renewables (the developer), this is important to enable your views to be considered before their proposals are finalised and the applications submitted. As you may already be aware, the developer is intending to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019.
If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see the “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Peter Mayo
I am writing in regard to your email sent to the Secretary of State dated 11 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your email has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
I note you have already submitted your comments to ScottishPower Renewables, this is important to enable your views to be considered before their proposals are finalised and the applications submitted. As you may already be aware, the developer is intending to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019.
Karen and Andrew Lewis
I am writing in regard to your correspondence sent to the Secretary of State dated 12 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your e-mail has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
Graham Noye
Michael Bowkis
I note you have already submitted your comments to Scottish Power Renewables (the developer), this is important to enable your views to be considered before their proposals are finalised and the applications submitted. As you may already be aware, the developer is intending to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019.
Oka Last
I am writing in regard to your email sent to the Secretary of State and others, dated 11 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your email has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
I note you have already submitted your comments to ScottishPower Renewables, this is important to enable your views to be considered before their proposals are finalised and the applications submitted. The developer is intending to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019, I therefore hope this addresses your concerns in relation to the consultation undertaken to date. I note you have also sent your comments to the local authority, who will have the opportunity to submit a representation on the adequacy of the developer’s consultation, once the applications are submitted.
Peter Chadwick
I am writing in regard to your correspondence sent to the Secretary of State dated 5 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your letter has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate.
Ann Townell
Deborah Bowkis
Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. As you may already be aware, the developer is proposing to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019.
Nicola Turland-Noble
Meg Amsden
William Haward Patricia Davidson
Jenny Labbett
I note you have already submitted your comments to ScottishPower Renewables ( the developer ), this is important to enable your views to be considered before their proposals are finalised and the applications submitted. As you may already be aware, the developer is intending to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019.
Bridget Barclay
I am writing in regard to your email sent to the Secretary of State dated 8 November 2018 in relation to the above proposals. Your email has been passed to the Planning Inspectorate for response, as we administer the Planning Act 2008 process under which these proposals will be considered.
I note that you have already submitted your comments to ScottishPower Renewables, this is important to enable your views to be considered before their proposals are finalised and the applications submitted. As you may already be aware, the developer is intending to undertake further pre-application consultation in early 2019.
If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see “Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others” which can be found, along with other advice notes, here: [attachment 1]
John Heald
The Applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, they are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process. We note that the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019.
It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications. I therefore strongly encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly on [email protected] and [email protected] if you haven’t already done so, with your comments on their proposals.
Andrew Plant
Please see attached letter from Chris Wheeler (dated 01 August 2018)
Please see attached response from The Planning Inspectorate (dated 27 September 2018)
Substation Action - Save East Suffolk (SASES) - Chris Wheeler
Planning Act 2008 process meeting with Scottish Power Renewables
Project update meeting with the representatives of Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils (SC&WDCs) and Suffolk County Council (SCC).
Local Authorities - anon.
Query regarding selection of Zone 7 Friston by Scottish Power for the onshore wind farm substation and grid connection.
Thank you for your email of 4 July 2018 and the attached documents regarding Friston site selection process for the East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO projects.
The Planning Inspectorate (the Inspectorate) is a government agency and part of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) responsible for examining Development Consent Order applications for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs). The Inspectorate makes a recommendation to the relevant Secretary of State who will then make a final decision whether to grant or to refuse development consent. The SoS of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is the relevant minister in regards to energy projects. However, the Inspectorate has no remit in regards to creating planning Policies. It can provide procedural advice and in relation to these specific projects, any advice issued can be found here: East Anglia TWO and East Anglia ONE North.
As the projects have not yet been submitted to the Inspectorate, the Inspectorate has no formal powers to intervene on consultees’ behalf and we are therefore not in a position to supervise the statutory consultation process conducted by the Applicant.
As part of the pre-application stage in the Development Consent Order (DCO) process, an Applicant has a number of duties that they are required to carry out which include extensive surveys and consultations to identify, for example, any suitable areas for investigation and selecting the cable route corridors, and substations.
The Applicant, as part of its Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC), is required to set out how they intend to conduct consultation on a project and in relation to the East Anglia projects. Whilst the Inspectorate cannot comment on the Applicant’s selections, more detailed information on the project can be found on the Applicant’s websites SPR - East Anglia TWO and SPR - East Anglia ONE North which also includes their reasoning for the choices of the Zone 7: SPR - Summary and Approach to Site Selection.
I would encourage you to continue engaging with the developer directly to make your concerns heard as the Applicant has a statutory duty to have regard to all consultation responses which should be demonstrated in the in the Consultation Report as part of the DCO application. However, if you feel that your comments are not being taken into account, I would advise you to write to your local authority and set out why you think the applicant is failing to conduct is consultation properly. Your comments should be taken into account by the local authority when sending the Inspectorate its comments on whether the applicant has fulfilled its consultation duties. The local authority’s comments on the applicant’s consultation will be taken into account when the Examining Inspector makes their decision whether to accept the application for examination.
Should the DCO application be accepted by the Inspectorate for examination, the Applicant has a duty to publicise the accepted application and provide information on how to register as an Interested Party.
The process under the Planning Act 2008 (PA 2008) has been designed to allow members of the public and statutory stakeholders to participate in examination of all DCO applications so that anyone interested in the proposed developments, their potential impacts and any relevant matters can be fully engaged in the examination process.
During the examination, the Examining Authority has a duty to take into account all matters assessed by the Applicant in the Environmental Statement and may ask additional questions as required. More information is provided in the Planning Inspectorate’s Advice notes Advice Note 8: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others, and at the current pre-application stage we would recommend especially Advice note 8.1. Responding to the developer’s pre-application consultation and Advice Note 8.2. How to register to participate in an Examination.
[attachment 1]
Please note, in accordance with Section 51 of the PA2008, a summary of your query and our advice will be published on the project’s webpage of the National Infrastructure Website.
Elizabeth Thomas
Query regarding consultation and selection of Zone 7 Friston by Scottish Power for the EA2 onshore wind farm substation and grid connection.
Thank you for your letter of 20 June 2018 enclosing a letter addressed to Therese Coffey MP, also of 20 June 2018, in relation to the East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO projects.
As part of the pre-application stage in the DCO process, an Applicant has a number of duties that they are required to carry out which include extensive surveys and consultations to identify, for example, any suitable areas for investigation and selecting the cable route corridors, and substations.
The Applicant, as part of its Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC), is required to set out how they intend to conduct consultation on a project and in relation to the East Anglia projects, phase 3 of their SoCC, included Public Information Days (PID), one of them being held in Friston on Friday 29 June 2018.
Whilst the Inspectorate cannot comment on the Applicant’s selections, more detailed information on the project can be found on the Applicant’s websites SPR - East Anglia TWO and SPR - East Anglia ONE North which also includes their reasoning for the choices of the Zone 7: SPR - Summary and Approach to Site Selection.
I would encourage you to contact the developer directly to make your concerns heard as the Applicant has a statutory duty to have regard to all consultation responses which should be demonstrated in the in the Consultation Report as part of the DCO application. Should the DCO application be accepted by the Inspectorate for examination, the Applicant has a duty to notify the local community when providing information on how to register as an Interested Party for the purpose of the process.
Please note, in accordance with Section 51 of the PA2008, a summary of your query and our advice will be published on the project’s webpage of the National
Infrastructure Website.
Please see attached meeting note
Dear Mr White
I am assuming that as Infrastructure Planning Lead, you have overall responsibility for Planning Inspectorate's supervision of the statutory processes being undertaken by ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) prior to its eventual submission of DCO Applications for the two proposed wind farms East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO.
I live in Aldringham which lies at the centre of the EA1N and EA2 designated 'Onshore Study Area'. You may already be aware that SPR's onshore plans for these two projects have given rise to considerable concern with local communities in and around Aldringham. I have myself expressed a number of local concerns to ScottishPower both at and following its recent Phase 2 Information Day events.
1. Omission of Aldringham-cum-Thorpe's formal response to Scoping Report following Phase 1 Consultation on EA1N and EA2 Scoping Reports
Aldringham-cum-Thorpe's Parish Council (a "Prescribed Consultation Body") responded to SPR's initial Phase 1 Consultation by letter dated 7 December 2017. This letter referred to both EA1N and EA2 projects and was clearly received on time.
However, it has been omitted from the Planning Inspectorate "Scoping Opinion" document re EA2 ref EN010078 (though included in APPENDIX 2: RESPONDENTS TO CONSULTATION AND COPIES OF REPLIES in the Planning Inspectorate's "Scoping Opinion" document re EA1N ref EN010077).
Have our Parish Council's comments been overlooked as a consequence of this error?
2. Concerns re: "Draft" Statements of Community Consultation for EA2 and EA1N
SPR posted a formal "Notification of Statement of Community Consultation for EA1N and EA2" and wrote to me on 13 March 2018 inviting me to review these draft documents before midnight 3rd April 2018. I met this deadline and received acknowledgement of my letter on 17 April. I feel some of my comments may be of interest to yourselves:
• Approved SoCC’s were not in place before Consultations commenced – Phase One completed in December 2017 and Phase Two completes on 3 April 2018, but SoCC’s are dated March 2018 and Consultation on SoCC’s is still in progress.
• I was confused by receiving files named “EA1N” / “EA2 SoCC FINAL signed off.pdf” if these are still drafts and under review and the printed copies of Statement of Community Consultation (EA1N), dated March 2018 and available at the March Information Days would appear to be Final Versions. Therefore I have an impression that this is some kind of retrospective and fake consultation just for the sake of formality?
• Provisional decisions on where to locate Substations and tranches of cabling seem to be running ahead of the Consultation schedule. For example, although the two Projects are clearly already favouring the western Zones and have already informed our local parish councils that it is planning its preferred route crossing Aldeburgh Road near Fitches Lane, Aldringham, there has been no Consultation on any of this during Phase One or Phase Two.
• Re: Para 34 - Phase Two Consultation and Para 39 - Phase Two Consultation: these paragraphs should specify which aspects of Infrastructure are to be consulted on at each Consultation Phase. In practice, this has led to the illogicality of seeking Consultees’ views on Substation Zones in Phase Two and Cable Tranche routes in Phase Three. From a resident’s point of view it can be difficult to consider these in isolation from each other.
• The Phase Two Feedback Form is over simplistic, asks assumptive and leading questions (Questions 6 and 7) and provides no structure within which to comment on the merits and demerits of each of the seven potential Substation Zones. See attached example Feedback Form.
My full response to Phase 2 Consultation and Information Days held in Southwold, Leiston and Thorpeness
I feel SPR, as just one of a number of companies / consortia planning to connect offshore power lines into the coast between Sizewell and Thorpeness, is not in a position to address key issues regarding the placement of Substations and large tracts of underground power lines. Further, a number of apparently ill thought through constraints would seem to have been imposed on SPR forcing it to propose environmentally unacceptable power installations inland and well away from the already industrialised coast at Sizewell.
I feel the Planning Inspectorate should be aware that central coordination (probably at Government level) is desperately needed if Suffolk's inland landscape and environment is not to be for ever blighted. I would hope you agree that the Planning Inspectorate as the 'Planning Authority' (at least for EA1N and EA2) has a major part to play in that and in helping ensure that local as well as national interests are protected.
You can find a fuller explanation in my full response to Phase 2 Consultation (attached).
I hope this email and its attachments can be of some assistance, providing the local residents' viewpoint at this critical stage for these two major infrastructure projects.
Dear Mr Halford,
Thank you for your email and the attachments in relation to the above projects, and raising concerns regarding the pre-application consultation process for the proposed East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO projects.
Please accept my apology for the delay in responding to your email.
As the projects have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate (the Inspectorate), the Inspectorate has no formal powers to intervene on consultees’ behalf and we are therefore not in a position to supervise the statutory consultation process conducted by the Applicant.
I would therefore encourage you to again contact the developer directly to make your concerns heard as the Applicant has a statutory duty to take your views into account. However, if you feel that your comments are not being considered and you need further information, I would advise you to write to your Local Authority (LA) and set out why you think the Applicant is failing to conduct its consultation properly. Your comments will be considered when the LA provides its comments to the Inspectorate on whether the Applicant has fulfilled its consultation duties. The LA’s comments on the Applicant’s consultation will be taken into account when the Acceptance Inspector makes his/ her decision whether to accept the application for examination.
Should the application for the Development Consent Order (DCO) be accepted by the Planning Inspectorate for examination, the Applicant has a duty to notify the local community when providing information on how to register as an Interested Party for the purpose of the process.
The Applicant has scheduled further statutory consultation in June 2018 as per their Statement of Community Consultation, and as part of the DCO process, the Applicant is required to have a regard to all consultation responses which should be later provided in the Consultation Report as part of the DCO application. During the statutory consultation period, the Applicant intends to provide more detailed information on the proposed projects, including the potential Substation Zones.
The process under the Planning Act 2008 (PA 2008) has been designed to allow members of the public and statutory stakeholders to participate in examination of all DCO applications. During the examination of an application the Examining Authority (ExA) has a duty to take into account all matters assessed by the Applicant in the Environmental Statement and may ask additional questions as required.
More information is provided in the Planning Inspectorate’s Advice notes:
Advice Note 8: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others
At the current pre-application stage we would recommend especially:
Advice note 8.1. Responding to the developer’s pre-application consultation
Advice Note 8.2. How to register to participate in an Examination
By submitting a Relevant Representation during the pre-examination stage you as an individual and/or on behalf of the Parish Council are in position to highlight particular planning matters such as effects on the local communities in and around Aldringham that you have mentioned in your email.
We have also published a document 'Section 47 - Community Consultation - Frequently Asked Questions' regarding Pre-application consultation which may address some of your queries. However, please note that it is for the Applicant to decide how to carry out non-statutory and statutory consultation, and there is no statutory requirement under PA2008 for the Applicant to consult on the content of a Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC).
With regard to the Scoping Opinions issued by the Inspectorate on 20 December 2017, on investigating the matter I can assure you that the scoping consultation response was received within the time period and was taken into account on preparation of the Opinions. Unfortunately a clerical error has occurred on preparation of the Appendices to the East Anglia Two Scoping Opinion, meaning that Aldringham-cum-Thorpe Parish Council were not listed as a respondee and the ‘pdf’ file of the letter was not reproduced in the Appendix. We cannot amend a Scoping Opinion once it has been published; however, thank you for drawing this to our attention. We will of course take steps to avoid a reoccurrence of this error. Scoping is an early part of the pre-application process and hopefully my comments above are useful in explaining how you can be involved at pre-application and going forward should the application be accepted for examination.
Please be assured that anyone interested in the proposed developments, their potential impacts and any planning matters can be fully engaged in the examination process. A copy of your correspondence has been placed on our records and will be presented to the Inspector at acceptance together with the application documents and local authorities’ comments on the Applicant’s consultation.
William R Halford
Scottish Power Renewables - Scottish Power Renewables
Query regarding the pre-application consultation
Thank you for your letter of 10 April 2018 raising concerns regarding the pre-application consultation process for the proposed East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO projects.
As the projects have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate (the Inspectorate), the Inspectorate has no formal powers to intervene on consultees behalf. I would therefore encourage you to again contact the developer directly to make your concerns heard as the Applicant has a statutory duty to take your views into account. However, if you feel that your comments are not being taken into account and you need further information, I would advise you to write to your local authority and set out why you think the Applicant is failing to conduct is consultation properly. Your comments will be taken into account when the local authority sends the Inspectorate its comments on whether the Applicant has fulfilled its consultation duties. The local authority’s comments on the Applicant’s consultation will be taken into account when the Acceptance Inspector makes his/ her decision whether to accept the application for examination.
Should the application for the Development Consent Order (DCO) be accepted by the Planning Inspectorate for examination, the Applicant has a duty to notify the local community and provide information on how to register as an Interested Party for the purpose of the process. The Applicant has scheduled further statutory consultation in June 2018 as per their Statement of Community Consultation, and as part of the DCO process, the Applicant is required to have a regard to all consultation responses which should be later provided in the Consultation Report as part of the DCO application. During the statutory consultation period, the Applicant has said it intends to provide more detailed information on the proposed projects.
The process under the PA 2008 has been designed to allow members of the public and statutory stakeholders to participate in examination of all DCO applications. During the examination of an application the Examining Authority (ExA) has a duty to take into account all matters assessed by the Applicant in the Environmental Statement and may ask additional questions as required.
Please be assured that anyone interested in the proposed developments, their potential impacts and any planning matters can be fully engaged in the examination process.
More information is provided in the Planning Inspectorate’s Advice notes Advice Note 8: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others, and at the current pre-application stage we would recommend especially Advice note 8.1. Responding to the developer’s pre-application consultation and Advice Note 8.2. How to register to participate in an Examination.
By submitting a Relevant Representation during the pre-examination stage, the Parish Councils will be in a position to highlight particular planning matters such as effects on the road infrastructure that you have mentioned in your email.
A copy of your correspondence has been placed on our records and will also be presented to the Inspector at acceptance together with the application documents and local authorities’ comments on the Applicant’s consultation.
Giles de Bertodano
See attached query
See attached response
P Dorcey
Project update meeting 25 January 2018
Scottish Power Renewables
Scottish Power Renewable
Please see attached note
Scottish Power Renwables (UK) Ltd - Mandy King
Mandy King
Evidence Plan Steering Group Meeting
Scottish Power Renewables - Mandy King
Inception meeting
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Why brands are finally taking notice of women’s football
09 May 2019 | 4 min read
There are few sights like seeing Atlético Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium on a match day. The crisp green pitch sits quietly in the centre, beautifully framed by the rows of red seats and swirling noise that surrounds it. The chants and cheers of fans echo around the ground, concocting an infectious atmosphere of anticipation and excitement. An iconic cauldron of football and of history.
And history was made there recently. As 60,739 fans made their way to watch Atlético Madrid take on their title rivals Barcelona last month, a 99-year-old record was broken – without an Antoine Griezmann or Lionel Messi in sight. It was the largest crowd to attend a women’s game since 53,000 watched Dick, Kerr Ladies beat St Helens 4-0 at Goodison Park in 1920.
Women’s football is on the rise – and brands are finally starting to take notice. Barclays recently announced it is to become the first sponsor of the Women’s Super League (WSL) in a deal described by the Football Association as the “the biggest ever investment in UK women’s sport by a brand”.
This deal means that the WSL will be rebranded as the Barclays FA Women’s Super League and will yield a prize pot of £500,000 – shockingly, the first time any prize money has been available to the competition’s winners. Investments such as these will help women’s teams develop young footballers from a grassroots level – but it is important to recognise why these investments are being made. It’s because brands know people are watching.
Despite the appetite from audiences for the women’s game, it has been marginalised on traditional channels – with only 7% of sports content broadcast being women’s sport and it’s sponsorship of women’s sports even less. Pretty bad considering 52% of the world’s population are female. But women’s sport has found a level playing field on YouTube.
YouTube and digital video in general have shown that the appetite is there for women’s sports. In fact, Russell Stopford, Chief Digital Officer of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club attributed the rising interest in women’s football down to YouTube and its broader coverage of leading female teams. The statistics back up Stopford’s assertion that interest is rising: 149.5 million people watched the 2017 UEFA Women’s Euros (July-August 2017) according to Nielsen figures, while research has found that 80% of people are interested in following female sport. The growth of the women’s game has matched the rise of user-generated content and video on demand. In the UK, 16-34 year olds are only watching an average of 97 minutes of live TV per day (34% of all viewing), compared to the overall average of 174 minutes (58% of all viewing).
At all levels, female focused content is becoming more popular. Last year in the UK, on YouTube, politics videos featuring female personalities grew by 65%, gaming content by 45%, and science content by 30%. Women’s football was always likely to follow in those footsteps once given a fair platform as younger, digitally native generations of fans engage with sport in new ways. We have seen a more than 300% increase in watch time of women’s football over the last 12 months alone, busting those lazy stereotypes.
Brands have an opportunity ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in June to get involved in a high-engagement, high-stakes sport and tap into football fandom in new and exciting ways. It’s more than virtue signalling around equality; it’s a lucrative opportunity that has been previously overlooked in favour of the men’s game. This is why brands from Barclays to Visa, which recently signed a seven-year women’s football deal with UEFA, are recognising its value.
As women take centre stage this summer, other advertisers should take note of the chance to reach young, engaged audiences of both men and women tuning into digital media to consume the sport. It’s time to get behind women’s football – after all, this time maybe England does actually stand a chance of winning.
This article was originally published by our partners Digital Sport, written by guest contributor Lucy Banks, Head of Content for Brands, Google EMEA
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Planning and Environment Court to provide clarity on motel suite use
Business News Update
Sunshine Coast Council has filed an application with the Planning and Environment Court today, to seek clarity and certainty in relation to the lawfulness of the use of certain motel suites in the Sebel Pelican Waters Resort for permanent residential accommodation, rather than for the temporary accommodation of travellers.
The application follows notification by the Sebel Pelican Waters Resort operator regarding ongoing compliance and safety concerns occurring at the resort.
Council officers have been made aware that some of the privately owned motel suites on floors 2 - 4 of the resort are being occupied and advertised as permanent residential accommodation.
Council’s records indicate that the motel suites located on floors 2 - 4 of the resort are only approved for use as temporary accommodation of travellers and that their use for permanent residential accommodation is contrary to the approval granted over the premises.
It is also noted that the motel suites were not designed or built for long-term residency and are not fitted out for that purpose.
The units on floors 5 - 12 of the resort are approved for long-term residential accommodation and their use is not an issue in this matter and will not be affected by the current court proceedings.
Division 2 Councillor Tim Dwyer said council was seeking a court ruling in relation to the motel suites on floors 2 - 4 to provide a declaration that would provide further clarity regarding their lawful use.
“Like most motel rooms, the suites on floors 2 - 4 of the Pelican Waters resort are not suitable for long-term stays,” Cr Dwyer said.
“Many of these motel rooms do not have cooking facilities or kitchen areas and there are strong concerns about some tenants who may be forced to use make-shift kitchens which can involve bringing in camping-style or other cooktops and microwaves, causing safety concerns.
“Council anticipates that this application to the court will help make sure appropriate safety, health, amenity and other relevant standards are met.
“It’s important for our community and our businesses that we continue to ensure that property uses comply with the approval relating to that property.”
Council investigates all complaints relating to breaches of the Planning Act 2016 and the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014.
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Home » Best iPad Games » Plants vs. Zombies 2 It’s About Time: A Deadly Follow-Up That Delivers
Plants vs. Zombies 2 It’s About Time: A Deadly Follow-Up That Delivers
Best iPad Games
// November 18, 2013
Warning: if you suffer from insomnia or you don’t need another excuse to procrastinate on your duties at work or at home, do not download this game.
PopCap Games released Plants vs. Zombies back in 2009 and it changed the game altogether for many a game enthusiast. With that in mind, the arrival of its successor and follow-up to the megahit Plants vs. Zombies 2 was anticipated by many and dreaded by some. In a nutshell, I would say that the game does not disappoint in the least. In comparison to the first game, PVZ 2 has definitely stepped up a notch when it comes to both the length and level of difficulty of the game.
It’s almost impossible to get bored as I personally had to pull myself from my iPad just to get my day’s work done. There are four worlds that are accessible on Crazy Dave’s Time-Space Taco Map (and yes, you read that right, Crazy Dave made it to PVZ 2). These worlds include Ancient Egypt, Pirate Seas, and Wild West. The fourth world will only be revealed once the first three have been mastered.
Graphics are stunning in PVZ 2 and I really enjoyed seeing what new species of zombie the creators would come up in each succeeding level. One main objective of the game is to collect a certain number of keys so that you can unlock certain bonus levels. These keys are dropped by zombies as you attempt to kill them off with your choice of plants.
While in-app purchases are available for coins, special plants, and other unique weaponry, they are not necessary to get ahead in the game; although your progress may not be as quick. Overall, the game is a success in every way and it will take some time to finish it which in this case is definitely a good thing as you don’t want the fun to end.
Games, Plants vs Zombies, Plants vs Zombies 2, PopCap, Zombies
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Liberals reject Senate amendment to C-55
By Marco Vigliotti. Published on May 14, 2019 3:48pm
Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.
The Trudeau Liberals have voted to reject a Senate amendment to government oceans legislation mandating an additional consultation period for interim marine protected areas (MPAs).
On Monday evening, the Liberals and NDP voted in favour of sending a message to the Senate on Bill C-55 providing an amendment to the legislation that would require the fisheries minister designating an interim MPA to indicate the area it would cover and summarizing the results of public consultations.
The bill would allow chosen marine areas to receive increased protections before they are officially designated full MPAs. As it stands now, no increased protection is put in place until regulations come into force to officially designate an MPA — a process that can take up to 10 years.
Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the House Monday that the amendment proposed by the Liberal government would “ensure that the information that communities need will be provided” and the process for interim designations is “streamlined” while assuring the appropriate protection is offered.
Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs voted in opposition to its passage.
In sending the message, the Liberals rejected an amendment from the Upper Chamber that would require the geographical location of the proposed MPA and an assessment of any habitat or species in the area published publicly prior to the minister making an order for interim protection. It would also add a minimum 60-day consultation period before the interim protection is offered, as well as requiring the government to respond to all comments it received within 30 days.
READ MORE: Ocean protection needn’t involve ‘a huge hammer,’ senators told
Minister Wilkinson said the first section of the amendment was unnecessary because it was “already covered under the cabinet directive on regulations.” Under those rules, a description of the area considered for the MPA, along with a map, and other information like key objectives are published online.
The second part requiring an additional consultation period, he said, was “duplicative” and would make the interim designation process more rigorous and complex than the process to establish a permanent MPA. Furthermore, the existing Oceans Act “already explicitly outlines consultation requirements” for these sorts of designations, Wilkinson argued.
However, Conservative MP Todd Doherty pointed to complaints from the three territorial premiers that they were not consulted by the federal government when considering amendments to C-55.
He said fishers, fishing groups and First Nations have all told him they are “concerned about the lack of consultation on Bill C-55,” despite the claims of the Liberals. The Senate amendment would require the government to listen to Canadians, “who time and again said that they were not consulted enough,” Doherty said.
Wilkinson countered that the bill had been vigorously debated and studied in the House and Senate since it was introduced in June 2017.
Five days were spent debating the bill at second reading and another three days at third reading, he said, with nine House committee meetings and eight Senate committee meetings devoted to studying C-55.
He also noted that five amendments proposed by Conservative, Green and independent members in the House fisheries committee were passed by the House last April. Collectively, the House committee heard from 36 witnesses, Wilkinson said.
After it was passed by the House last spring, Bill C-55 spent about a year in the Senate before it was returned with the amendment two weeks ago.
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Kenny Norton, The Fairest Of Them All, Is Gone
Posted on September 19, 2013 by Judge London Steverson
Ken Norton, a Championship Fighter Who Broke Ali’s Jaw, Is Dead at 70
Ken Norton, who fought three memorable fights with Muhammad Ali, breaking his jaw in winning their first bout, then losing twice, and who went on to become the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, died Wednesday in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nev. He was 70.
(Associated Press photo)
Muhammad Ali, right, knocking Ken Norton back in their third and final meeting, in Yankee Stadium in 1976. Ali won by a decision.
(Above photo:Norton connects with a left to the head during a bout in Inglewood, Calif., in 1973.)
Muhammad Ali‘s cornerman, Wali Muhammad, didn’t see the punch that broke the former champion’s jaw during his March 1, 1973, fight with Ken Norton. Nobody did. Watching tape of the fight, there is no decisive blow, no jaw-dropping moment to rewind and replay frame by frame.
But though he didn’t see the blow, there was no denying the blood.
Wali had lived a full life, improbably an assistant to both Sugar Ray Robinson and Malcolm X before joining Ali’s camp in 1965, and he had seen a lot of things—but never anything quite like this.
“I was taking out the mouthpiece and there was more and more blood on it,” he told Ali’s biographer Thomas Hauser in Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times.
“My bucket with the water and ice in it became red. In every other fight, between rounds, I’d take the mouthpiece out and put it in the bucket and there was just slobber on it. But here, after each round, I had to shake the mouthpiece to get all the blood out of it into the water.”
Norton was the unheralded challenger. A Joe Frazier sparring partner who had never beaten a top-10 opponent, he was supposed to be a mere tune-up fight.
Derisively called “Ken Somebody” by Sports Illustrated and a “tailor-made” fall guy by legendary announcer Howard Cosell, Norton was a 5-1 stepping stone, just another opponent to kill time, while Ali worked out a bout with champion George Foreman.
He wasn’t expected to put up a fight. Despite standing 6’3″ and possessing the sculpted muscles normally only seen in marble, the former Marine was considered an easy target. And yet, by the sixth round, it was clear: Norton wasn’t just winning, but he didn’t even know he was supposed to be intimidated by the great Ali.
As the fight progressed, Wali Muhammad wasn’t the only one seeing red. Ali’s lawyer, now-legendary promoter Bob Arum, was negotiating to fight Foreman for a prize between $6-10 million. Norton, round after miserable round, was ruining things.
In the stands, Frazier watched the fight with glee he couldn’t disguise. He had beaten Ali to claim the undisputed world championship before Foreman took it from him in turn, but bad blood lingered.
Ali had taken Norton lightly, even showing up at a training session and declaring his opponent an “amateur.” Frazier had sparred hard rounds with Norton and knew otherwise. Though an Ali loss could have cost him millions, he had a smile on his face as Norton, improbably, shocked the world.
Inspired by a hypnotist and a self-help book entitled Think and Grow Rich, Norton possessed an unusual confidence and equally unusual technique. As the fight wore on, it became clear Ali wasn’t prepared for it.
“He had that awkward style, where he’d shoot his jab up from the waist, and it was very unusual,” Ali’s former business manager, Gene Kilroy, told Yahoo! Sports. “Most guys throw the jab from the shoulder, and that always gave Ali trouble.”
While Sports Illustrated thought Norton’s style crude, but vibrant, Ali’s trainer, Angelo Dundee, knew there was a method to his madness. “With that lurching, herky-jerky, splay-footed movement of his, you just couldn’t time him,” he told ESPN.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF BOXING
In the 1970s, what some longtime fight fans consider the last great decade for boxing, Norton was a fixture from the time he upset Ali in their first of three fights until he lost a brutal 15-round decision to Larry Holmes while defending his World Boxing Council heavyweight championship in 1978.
To recall Norton is to recall half-dozen or so top-tier heavyweights as yet unmatched in any of the ensuing decades. Along with Norton, Holmes and Ali, Joe Frazier, Leon Spinks and George Foreman come to mind as the titans of the era, with Jimmy Young, Ernie Shavers and Jerry Quarry hinting at greatness from time to time but not quite reaching that super-elite level. It was the last true golden age for boxing.
The 1970s era was truly the age of magnificent heavyweights — a group that also included Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Leon Spinks and Jimmy Young. “They called us handsome. Muhammad they called pretty. But the fairest of them all Ken Norton,” Foreman wrote on his Twitter page Wednesday.
Norton was fearless in the ring, using every bit of power in his 6-foot-2-inch, 220-pound body to maximum advantage when he threw his bone-crushing overhand rights and monstrous left hooks. His unorthodox style, crouching at times, dragging a foot and criss-crossing his arms as he stalked his foes, vexed many opponents and gave Norton an edge in many fights.
But Norton’s many strengths proved no match against Foreman in their 1974 bout in Venezuela. The undisputed heavyweight champion at the time, Foreman caught Norton unawares with a fierce uppercut in the second round. Norton wobbled and weakened, never again in the fight, and Foreman knocked him to the canvas twice that round before the referee stopped the bout.
In addition to the NABF title Norton won from Ali in 1973, he held the WBC heavyweight championship for several months in 1978 after being elevated from No. 1 contender. Spinks refused to fight the No. 1 contender, as WBC rules mandated, and signed for a rematch with Ali instead. The WBC stripped the title from Spinks, making Norton champion.
In his first title defense, Norton lost on a split decision to Holmes in what is widely considered one of the best prizefights in history.
Norton retired with a lifetime record of 42-7-1, with 33 of his victories coming by knockout.
His death was confirmed by his son Ken Jr., an assistant coach with the N.F.L.’s Seattle Seahawks and a pro linebacker for 13 seasons, The Associated Press said. Norton had been in poor health for several years after sustaining a series of strokes, The A.P. reported.
Norton defeated Ali on a 12-round split decision in 1973 to capture the North American Boxing Federation heavyweight title. Norton was an exceptionally muscular 6 feet 2 inches and 220 pounds, but a decided underdog in that first Ali fight.
“Ali thought it would be an easy fight,” Norton’s former manager, Gene Kilroy, was quoted by The A.P. as saying. “But Norton was unorthodox. Instead of jabbing from above like most fighters, he would put his hand down and jab up at Ali.”
Kilroy said that after the fight, Norton visited Ali at the hospital where he was getting his broken jaw wired, and Ali told him he never wanted to fight him again.
But the second bout in their trilogy came six months later when Ali rallied to win a narrow split decision. In their final bout, Ali retained his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association titles when he defeated Norton on a decision that was unanimous but booed by many in the crowd of more than 30,000 at Yankee Stadium in September 1976.
“I was never the same fighter after that,” Norton told Red Smith of The New York Times in October 1979. “I never trained so hard again, never could put the same feeling into it. I was at my best that night, in the best shape I ever was.”
In 1977, Norton knocked out the previously unbeaten Duane Bobick in the first round and defeated Jimmy Young in a 15-round split decision in a W.B.C. title elimination series and became the mandatory challenger for the winner of the coming fight between Ali and Leon Spinks. Spinks defeated Ali for the championship but shunned Norton for his first defense in favor of a rematch with Ali. The W.B.C. stripped Spinks of the title and awarded it to Norton.
Norton made his first defense of the W.B.C. title in 1978 against Larry Holmes and lost by a 15-round split decision in one of boxing’s most exciting fights.
Kenneth Howard Norton was born Aug. 9, 1943, in Jacksonville, Ill., and starred in high school football, basketball and track. He attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) on a football scholarship but was hampered by a shoulder injury in his first two seasons and enlisted in the Marine Corps. Norton started boxing while he was in the Marines, compiling an amateur record of 24-2 and winning the All-Marine Heavyweight Championship three times.
He turned pro in 1967 and won 16 straight bouts before being knocked out by Jose Luis Garcia. Soon afterward, he read Napoleon Hill’s motivational book “Think and Grow Rich.”
“I must have read that book 100 times while in training, and I became a stronger person for it,” BoxRec.com quoted him as saying. He said that he believed in the book’s philosophy that a person could do the unexpected if he put his mind to it.
“So I train for my fights mentally as well as physically,” he said. “One thing I do is only watch films of the fights in which I’ve done well or in which my opponent has done poorly.”
Norton fought the undefeated George Foreman for the W.B.C. and W.B.A. heavyweight championships in 1974 and was knocked out in the second round. He stopped Jerry Quarry in five rounds in 1975 to regain the N.A.B.F. crown. In his next fight, Norton avenged his 1970 loss to Garcia with a fifth-round knockout.
After having retired for a time, Norton returned in 1980 and defeated the previously unbeaten Tex Cobb on a decision. The next year, Gerry Cooney, ranked No. 1 by the W.B.A. and the W.B.C., knocked Norton out in the first round in what became his final fight. Norton won 42 fights (33 by knockout), lost seven times and fought one draw.
Norton who was nicknamed “The Black Hercules“, acted in many movies, most notably the 1975 Hollywood film “Mandingo,” in which he played the slave Mede, who is trained to fight by his owner.
The character of Appollo Creed in “Rocky” was originally going to be played by Norton, but when he back out of the role, Carl Weathers took the job.
Norton was involved in a bad car accident in 1986. He recovered, and three years later he was inducted to the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
Reflecting the strong athletic pedigree, one of Norton’s sons, Ken Jr., played in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.
Tributes are quickly pouring in for Norton, who was once given the title of the “Father of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times in 1977. “My heart has been heavy since hearing the news earlier today,” boxer Larry Holmes wrote on Twitter. “He was a good man.
Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson said he met Norton when Tyson was still an amateur boxer. “Today a great man passed away,” Tyson wrote on Twitter. “A legend in the boxing world and a good man. “Ken Norton was always nice to me even when I was just an amateur fighter. He always treated me like I was somebody. Remarkable man. Condolences to Ken Norton’s family on this very sad day.”
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FILM NOTES: BAJIRAO MASTANI
Posted on December 27, 2015 by Kamla
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest Bollywood film Bajirao Mastani appears to be a hit in the San Francisco Bay area according to an unscientific poll I conducted. The first few days were sold out explained the ticket sales person at the local Silicon Valley theatre when I went to see the film. I, of course, waited for a few days before catching the show on a weekday and was surprised by the turn out. Bajirao Mastani needs to be watched on the big screen someone pointed out, and I agree.
Bajirao Mastani is Bhansali’s magnificent obsession. For over a decade he tried to make the film and finally succeeded in directing the film starring Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Tanvi Azmi, Milind Soman and others. The film released on Dec 18, 2015 in a handful of theatres in the San Francisco Bay area.
This historic period film is set in 18thc India when the country was a patchwork quilt of different kingdoms with the Mughals ruling in Delhi and the Marathas ruling from the western state of what is Maharashtra today. The film opens with a discussion on electing a new Peshwa or Prime Minister for King Shahu (Mahesh Manjrekar), the Maratha King. The conflict is resolved when Bajirao (Ranveer Singh), a brilliant military strategist is chosen. Selecting the new Peshwa is a minor conflict compared to what unfolds next – a love conflict, where Bajirao ends up loving two women – Mastani (Deepika Padrone) and Kashi (Priyanka Chopra). The story of Bajiao and Mastani is mostly a footnote in Indian history books, but in the hands of Bhansali the story morphs into a grand tale of love and betrayal.
In one of his early military expeditions Bajirao falls in love with Mastani, a princess from Bundelkhand, who is of mixed heritage. Her father is Hindu and her mother is Muslim. He ends up marrying Mastani, who follows him to Pune, where Bajirao lives with his mother Radhabai (Tanvi Azmi) and Kashi. His mother has a hard time accepting Mastani since she is partly of Muslim heritage. She simply refuses to accept Mastani into the family and uses various ploys to severe the ties between Bajirao and Mastani. Radhabai fails miserably.
The uneasy relationship between Bajirao’s family and Mastani continues for a few years. Mastani lives in a separate home with her son and gets to meet Bajirao on rare occasions. Things take a turn for the worse when Bajirao and Kashi’s son Nana actively plots to eliminate Mastani. In a tragic turn and unrelated turn of events Bajirao and Mastani die.
The film was an absorbing watch, but every now and then a dialog box would pop in my head with a question or comment. Before that ephemeral thought melts from my mind I’d frantically scribble them on a piece of a paper. Here are my observations in no particular order. Ranveer Singh’s performance is powerful and riveting. For some inexplicable reason I was reminded of Sohrab Modi, an actor, who was famous for his performance in films like Pukar, Sheesh Mahal and others. Modi had a way of grabbing your attention right from the first frame of his film. I am not sure if Singh has watched any of Modi’s films. The way Singh strode into the first scene of Bajirao Mastani reminded me of Modi.
Both Padukone and Chopra were very good. Padukone has developed an effortless way of portraying her characters and she did the same in this film. This is perhaps one of the more polished performances of Chopra. Her portrayal of Kashi had lot a lot of quiet depth, empathy and conflicted emotions. Tanvi Azmi as Radhabai was very convincing. Others that need a special mention are Milind Soman and Mahesh Manjrekar.
The costumes, color palette and the sets grab your attention. Anju Modi needs a special mention for her wonderful work on creating a rich and brilliant wardrobe for the actors. Grand costumes with gorgeous color palette is a hallmark of Bhansali’s production. And then there is the music that is composed by Bhansali.
I am not sure whether it was just me or if others saw the fleeting influence of Chinese cinema in Bhansali’s directorial style. For instance, the sword fight between Mastani and Bajirao reminded me of Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon. And then there were a couple of scenes that distinctly reminded me of Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s films like Raise The Red Lantern. There was a scene in Bajirao Mastani where red Chinese looking lanterns are lit that brought back memories of Yimou’s films. And then there were shots of the Peshwa’s home, courtyard and rooftops that once again had that tantalizing Chinese influence.I was puzzled on why I was reminded of these Chinese influences. Could it be that Bhansali was trying to reach his Chinese audience through these references? Bajirao Mastani released in China in 600 theaters. Perhaps that explains the Chinese influences in the film? Or, am I reading way too much into it?
And now for the quibbles. What is it with Bhansali and love? Why does he focus so strongly on the tragic elements of a love story? What is his fascination with unrequited love and portraying women as having limited choices? I’d be curious to find out what Bhansali has to say about love. Why does loving someone have such drastic and dramatic consequences in his film? What draws Bhansali to make films on a grand scale?
Bajirao Mastani is worth watching on the big screen at least once. And by the way, Bajirao Mastani is just 10 minutes longer than Spectre. So, are Hollywood films catching up with Bollywood films in terms of the length of the film? You be the judge.
Title:BAJIRAO MASTANI (Rated R)
Status: Releases DEC 18, 2015
Genre: BOLLYWOOD/ROMANCE
Posted in Books & Culture, Films, People Tagged Bajirao Mastani, Deepika Padukone, Peshwas, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Sohrab Modi, Tanvi Azmi
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Robert Plant Premieres New Band at Low-Key Show
Theo Wargo, NBC, Getty Images
Robert Plant premiered a new band called Saving Grace at a low-key show in Shropshire, England, last week, and announced a second appearance.
Described as playing “music inspired by the dreamscape of the Welsh Marches” with dynamics “from a whisper to a scream,” the group features vocalist Suzy Dian, mandolinist-guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjoist-guitarist Matt Worley and percussionist Oli Jefferson.
The concert took place on Jan. 25 at the SpArC Theatre in Bishop’s Castle – less than two miles from the border between England and Wales – with an audience that hadn’t been told in advance who was playing. A post on the theater’s Facebook page, complete with pictures from the evening, called the event “something very special." “Saving Grace came onstage with Robert declaring that this was the band’s first gig," it read, "and he was very happy to be back in ‘Bouncy Castle.’
“He went on to say how they ‘deeply support SpArC Theatre and others like it’ and ‘how important it is to preserve these places of music, theater and art for communities in Shropshire , Herefordshire and Everywhereshire.’ Their music was sublime, laid-back and bluesy with eastern and folk influences. Robert was in fine voice, Suzi’s vocals blended perfectly, as well as standing out and owning it in her own right. With warm harmonies from Tony and Matt … we couldn’t believe our luck!”
The concert was arranged, the post noted, after Plant launched a search for appropriate places to perform with Saving Grace: “He was looking for small intimate venues. … Robert knows and loves the area and after a tour of the theater by manager Elizabeth Still he was impressed with the venue, and was also very keen to support the theater when he heard its future was under threat. So we set about making it happen.”
Saving Grace have been announced as support act for folk-prog icons Fairport Convention at the Forum in Bath, England, on Feb. 16, local media reported.
Plant has a long association with Wales. He wrote a number of Led Zeppelin songs with Jimmy Page at Bron-yr-Aur cottage in Powys, which borders Shropshire. In a promotional video for his 2014 album Lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar, Plant spoke of “the peace and connection” he felt with the country.
In 2017, he said Wales had been a major inspiration for his latest album, Carry Fire. “My latest contributions were conceived along those small rivers on the Welsh borders, the Arrow, the Lugg and the Teme," he explained. "Those places unlock me, open me up. … You follow the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons and the colors and the resonance changes your mood.”
Next: 10 Best Robert Plant Songs
Source: Robert Plant Premieres New Band at Low-Key Show
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Three People Killed in Crash Near Red Wing
Andy Brownell
Red Wing, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Minnesota State Patrol is assisting the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Department with the investigation into a multiple fatality traffic near the Treasure Island Casino north of Red Wing on Saturday.
The Goodhue County Sheriff’s Department says the two-vehicle collision was reported shortly before noon on Goodhue County Road 18 in Welch Township. The drivers of both vehicles were alive and were transported to by ambulance and helicopter to hospitals for treatment, while three other occupants of the vehicles were pronounced dead at the scene. Information about the medical conditions of the drivers is not available and the names of the victims have not been released.
The Goodhue County Sheriff’s Department is expected to release additional information on Monday.
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Category Archives: Books
Spring 2012 books
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) – Ayn Rand
This is Ayn Rand’s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the “atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion” that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy–and ethic of rational self-interest–that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality–“a philosophy for living on Earth”–are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle – Chris Hedges
In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Chris Hedges has written a shattering meditation on American obsession with celebrity and the epidemic of illiteracy that threatens our cultural integrity. Reporting on such phenomena as professional wrestling, the pornographic film industry, and unchecked casino capitalism, Hedges exposes the mechanisms used to divert us from confronting the economic, political, and moral collapse around us. Empire of Illusion shows us how illiteracy and the embrace of fantasy have impoverished our working class, allowed for the continuance of destructive public policy, and ushered in cultural bankruptcy.
The Religion Virus: Why we believe in God: An evolutionist explains religion’s incredible hold on humanity – Craig A. James
Why is religion so incredibly tenacious? Why do intelligent people believe the universe is only six thousand years old? How can so many people believe the Bible, written over two thousand years ago, is 100% accurate in every respect?
Using the powerful new science of cultural evolution called “memetics” — how ideas spread and mutate as they move across society and down through history — Craig James takes us on a fascinating tour of religion’s peculiar and convoluted history.
Religions evolve, not metaphorically, but in a very real way. By applying “survival of the fittest” principles to religions, James shows shows us how religion became incredibly infectious to the average human.
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior – Suzanne Robertson (Author), James S. Robertson (Author), Stephen M. McMenamin (Author), Timothy R. Lister (Author), Peter Hruschka (Author), Tom DeMarco (Author)
Adrenaline junkies, dead fish, project sluts, true believers, Lewis and Clark, template zombies . . .
Most developers, testers, and managers on IT projects are pretty good at recognizing patterns of behavior and gut-level hunches, as in, I sense that this project is headed for disaster.
But it has always been more difficult to transform these patterns and hunches into a usable form, something a team can debate, refine, and use. Until now.
In Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies, the six principal consultants of The Atlantic Systems Guild present the patterns of behavior they most often observe at the dozens of IT firms they transform each year, around the world.
In The Plex – Steven Levy
Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes readers inside Google headquarters—the Googleplex—to show how Google works.
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Spring/Summer 2011 Books
Marvin Minksy’s – The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
Minsky argues that emotions are different ways to think that our mind uses to increase our intelligence. He challenges the distinction between emotions and other kinds of thinking. His main argument is that emotions are “ways to think” for different “problem types” that exist in the world. The brain has rule-based mechanism (selectors) that turns on emotions to deal with various problems. The book reviews the accomplishments of AI, what and why is complicated to accomplish in terms of modeling how human beings behave, how they think, how they experience struggles and pleasures. (Wikipedia)
The Moral Landscape – Sam Harris
In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values, arguing that most people are simply mistaken about the relationship between morality and the rest of human knowledge. Harris urges us to think about morality in terms of human and animal well-being, viewing the experiences of conscious creatures as peaks and valleys on a “moral landscape.” Because there are definite facts to be known about where we fall on this landscape, Harris foresees a time when science will no longer limit itself to merely describing what people do in the name of “morality”; in principle, science should be able to tell us what we ought to do to live the best lives possible.
Bringing a fresh perspective to age-old questions of right and wrong, and good and evil, Harris demonstrates that we already know enough about the human brain and its relationship to events in the world to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. Because such answers exist, moral relativism is simply false—and comes at increasing cost to humanity. And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values can be finally repelled: for just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality.
Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our “culture wars,” Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives – Steven Levy
While they were still students at Stanford, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revolutionized Internet search. They followed this brilliant innovation with another, as two of Google’s earliest employees found a way to do what no one else had: make billions of dollars from Internet advertising. With this cash cow (until Google’s IPO nobody other than Google management had any idea how lucrative the company’s ad business was), Google was able to expand dramatically and take on other transformative projects: more efficient data centers, open-source cell phones, free Internet video (YouTube), cloud computing, digitizing books, and much more.
The key to Google’s success in all these businesses, Levy reveals, is its engineering mind-set and adoption of such Internet values as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk taking. After its unapologetically elitist approach to hiring, Google pampers its engineers—free food and dry cleaning, on-site doctors and masseuses—and gives them all the resources they need to succeed. Even today, with a workforce of more than 23,000, Larry Page signs off on every hire.
But has Google lost its innovative edge? It stumbled badly in China—Levy discloses what went wrong and how Brin disagreed with his peers on the China strategy—and now with its newest initiative, social networking, Google is chasing a successful competitor for the first time. Some employees are leaving the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. Can the company that famously decided not to be evil still compete?
No other book has ever turned Google inside out as Levy does with In the Plex.
Some 2007 Reading / Listening
Robert Cialdini’s “Influence” –
Plenty of social psychology observations that should be common sense if you’re paying attention to the world around you. Read it on recommendation thanks to Scott Adams.
Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” –
Yea yea, it’s nothing new but got through it last year and realize why his books morph fairly quickly into Hollywood scripts. Not much else to say about it.
“The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer –
Although written half a century ago it’s incredibly contemporary in many ways. More social psychology but from a mass movement perspective. Well written in practical style and very distilled ideas. Some paragraphs are worth more than a few hours of thought.
Frank Herbet’s “Dune” –
In Science Fiction what else come’s close ?
Trentmoller –
‘The Last Resort’ and ‘The Trentmoller Chronicles’ are simply great albums. Wonderfully lacking in exploratory fear of the electronic genre.
Miss Kittin – Batbox
New directions here on her second album. Diving a little deeper and darker. So worthwhile.
Dust Galaxy – Dust Galaxy
Thievery Corp Garza’s rock side project. Still electronic but psychedelic and even grungy and dub.
Blackmore’s “The Meme Machine”
The book presents a fairly good intro to the topic of memetics. I agree with Dawkin’s indirect reference that the theory of memetics deserves a shot. I’d say that Blackmore’s theory on memetics deserves a shot too, at least up to chapter 13.
These chapters are a pretty good spring board into the pool and for me they seemed ‘less koolaid’ than Brodie’s “Virus of the Mind”.
When Blackmore gets to Religion, New Age and Philosophy from chapter 14 onwards and to the end of the book then things seem dogmatic, contrary and too nihilistic in spite of the fact that she does well in pointing out the typical hooks that these meme-plexes use to hook into minds, replicate and cause damage to an open and mutually beneficial society/culture.
It’s fine to go with the opinion that human beings may have no soul, spirit or actual ‘self’ to speak of in any concrete terms but these chapters read as if it’s just a closed case. What about giving the theory a chance ? The buddhist philosophy in conclusion also doesn’t help the argument.
The book was penned almost a decade ago so there’s likely more that the author would add or change now regarding her theory. Still worth a read for the useful meta-memes.
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Ocasio-Cortez Demands That Guaranteed Housing Comes Before A Person’s ‘Privilege To Earn A Profit’
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By Roxy Hamilton Last updated Jun 1, 2019
Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is now laughably demanding that everybody be given “access” to guaranteed housing before anyone is allowed the “privilege to earn a profit.” She made the proclamation at a town hall event in the Bronx last Thursday.
“We have to make sure that housing is being legislated as a human right,” Ocasio-Cortez arrogantly stated. “What does that mean? What it means is that our access and our ability and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit.” That’s called communism.
The 29-year-old former bartender also went after taxation stating that the IRS code should be changed so that the government punishes individuals by removing “tax breaks for bad behavior.” That’s totalitarian and fascist in the extreme. How the heck did this woman get elected in America?
“I want to make sure that we connect some dots because when we introduced the Green New Deal we were saying what is a girl from the Bronx doing and talked about environmentalism that doesn’t make any sense, right?” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Wrong. Because one of the big things that we talked about was that we need to clean our buildings. … When we talk about our right to a clean home, when we talk about retrofitting buildings, what we’re talking about is cleaning our air and cleaning our water because when we talk about what housing as a right means, it doesn’t mean that you have a right to four crumbling walls and a dirty floor.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said yesterday: "Our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit"
AOC also appeared to make misleading statements about her housing in D.C.@News12BX cut off their coverage of AOC's town hall yesterday when… (1/1)
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 1, 2019
“What it means is that we all have a right to dignified housing, good heat, responsible structures, low noise, clean air, and clean water at an affordable price! At an affordable price!” Ocasio-Cortez railed.
Then she had the gall to go on about her getting a luxury apartment in Washington, D.C.:
“I come into this building and it’s marketed a luxury building in D.C., right?” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “I move into this luxury building in D.C. and what does it have? It’s an efficient building, it’s clean, it has public space, it has a rooftop garden, y’all watch my Instagram, it has all of these things, it has clean air, it has clean water.”
“And I think about this and I’m like this is what a luxury building is like, right?” Ocasio-Cortez added. “What we have been taught that is a luxury, should not be a luxury.”
The town hall, hosted by Housing Justice for All, a coalition of tenant associations and other housing advocates in New York, brought together tenants who are pushing for a package of housing bills that could implement universal rent control in the state.
Per Mother Jones, Ocasio-Cortez says that with a Democratic majority in the House, she’s working at the federal level to disassemble the tax breaks that have incentivized companies to ignore residents. She also plans to re-introduce the Fair Chance at Housing Act in the House that would ease restrictions to federally-subsidized housing, particularly for tenants with previous criminal convictions. She told attendees that Sen. Kamala Harris is considering introducing it in the Senate, as well. “We have been conditioned to think that basic rights are a luxury and a privilege when they are not,” she said.
So, you should get luxury accommodations with exercise rooms, pools, parking, and security all for free. Sounds more like communist Russia than America and trust me… what you would get would be nothing like she paints it.
In case you are curious about this, it sounds like the communist new Bill of Rights that the left is pushing. They want to destroy the Constitution and re-write the Bill of Rights to better fit their image of social justice. No thank you. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention the right to healthcare or housing.
Sources: The Daily Wire, Mother Jones, The Hill, Right Wing Folks, Flag & Cross
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Lawson Bates Celebrates Love and Faith in New ‘One + One’ Video [Exclusive Premiere]
Lawson Bates' new video for "One + One" is a family affair that celebrates a love that's informed by Christian faith.
The 26-year-old singer is one of Gil & Kelly Jo Bates' 19 children. The family star in Bringing Up Bates, which is now in its eighth season. Bringing Up Bates airs Thursdays at 9PM ET on UPtv.
Bates is joined on the track and in the video by gospel singer Olivia Collingsworth.
"We're not in this thing alone / And we won't get it right on our own / It's gonna take help, it's gonna take faith / But with you and God and me / One plus one equals three," they sing together in the chorus.
Lawson wrote the song for the wedding of his sister Tori Bates and Bobby Smith in December of 2017. His newly shot video for "One + One" stars their sister, Carlin Bates, and her fiance Evan Stewart, who are set to wed in May of 2019. Viewers get to watch as Evan and Carlin act out courting, getting engaged and then celebrating their marriage, in a beautiful preview of Carlin’s upcoming wedding for all of the Bates family's fans. The clip debuts exclusively with Taste of Country today.
"One of my goals, when I sat down with Adam Wheeler to write this song, was not just to crank out another love song full of platitudes, but finding a way to weave in the deeper truth that the strongest love is rooted in faith," Bates tells us. "It's faith that is what will get us through the highs and lows of life."
He drew on the Bible for part of the song's inspiration.
"Knowing this would be a country/Gospel crossover, I kept thinking about the passage in the New Testament that talks about a threefold chord not being easily broken, and that tied perfectly into our hook!" Bates shares. "We got into the studio, and it all came together. It was a blast collaborating with Gospel singer Olivia Collingsworth who absolutely nailed the harmonies. When it came to the video, I thought instead of casting actors, let’s have my sister Carlin and my soon-to-be brother-in-law Evan, who are actually in love, play the roles! They were totally up for it, and I’m really happy with the way it turned out."
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Source: Lawson Bates Celebrates Love and Faith in New ‘One + One’ Video [Exclusive Premiere]
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Towards A Non-tracking Web (2016)
Akkus, Istemi Ekin
Today, many publishers (e.g., websites, mobile application developers) commonly use third-party analytics services and social widgets. Unfortunately, this scheme allows these third parties to track individual users across the web, creating privacy concerns and leading to reactions to prevent tracking via blocking, legislation and standards. While improving user privacy, these efforts do not consider the functionality third-party tracking enables publishers to use: to obtain aggregate statistics about their users and increase their exposure to other users via online social networks. Simply preventing third-party tracking without replacing the functionality it provides cannot be a viable solution; leaving publishers without essential services will hurt the sustainability of the entire ecosystem. In this thesis, we present alternative approaches to bridge this gap between privacy for users and functionality for publishers and other entities. We first propose a general and interaction-based third-party cookie policy that prevents third-party tracking via cookies, yet enables social networking features for users when wanted, and does not interfere with non-tracking services for analytics and advertisements. We then present a system that enables publishers to obtain rich web analytics information (e.g., user demographics, other sites visited) without tracking the users across the web. While this system requires no new organizational players and is practical to deploy, it necessitates the publishers to pre-define answer values for the queries, which may not be feasible for many analytics scenarios (e.g., search phrases used, free-text photo labels). Our second system complements the first system by enabling publishers to discover previously unknown string values to be used as potential answers in a privacy-preserving fashion and with low computation overhead for clients as well as servers. These systems suggest that it is possible to provide non-tracking services with (at least) the same functionality as today’s tracking services.
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Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
When Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout was announced as the 2009 Pulitzer Prize fiction winner last week, I immediately googled for online reviews to decide whether it should be ordered. To no surprise, I found a number of very positive reviews. What was a surprise was that more than a few of them said Strout’s book reminded them of Winesburg, Ohio (published in 1919) and most of these described Sherwood Anderson’s book as one of their favorites. (Here is a link to a particularly precise and perceptive review at Nonsuch. And here is another to Trevor’s review of Olive Kitteridge so you can make your own “review” comparison.)
While I had to await the arrival of Olive Kitteridge, a copy of Winesburg, Ohio was close at hand, the result of another literary google excursion a few months back. That one began when John Fante in the final volume of the Saga of Arturo Bandini had his hero (by then a successful writer) musing about relocating to Winesburg. Since Philip Roth had earlier last year in Indignation dispatched Marcus Messner from Newark to Winesburg College in Ohio, I figured there must be something to this Mid-Western town. In no time, I discovered that Fante and Roth were merely joining William Faulkner, Ernest Hemmingway, Tom Wolfe and John Steinbeck in paying homage to Anderson’s book.
Faulkner, Hemmingway, Wolfe, Steinback, Fante, Strout (and while I haven’t gone searching, I think as you read this review you can’t help but think Marilynne Robinson joins that bunch) — that’s pretty impressive writerly company for a 90-year-old book.
Winesburg, Ohio consists of 21 vignettes/short stories (all 12 pages or less in the edition I read) and one 40-page story, Godliness, sub-divided into four parts. In the opening vignette entitled The Book of the Grotesques (which I regard as a prologue), Anderson offers a “central thought” that served me well as a unifying theme for the 22 parts:
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful.
Calling his characters “grotesques” seems brutally unfair at first glance — all but one or two suffer no more abnormality than most of us possess. Anderson admits that not all were horrible (“some were amusing, some almost beautiful”) and expands his central thought to justify the term:
It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concern the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.
The characters are all “damaged”, mainly emotionally, and that is how Anderson develops his stories. Most have experienced an “adventure” (a term Anderson uses frequently — most of us would say “mis-adventure”) in the form of a set-back previously in their life. Rather than trying to bounce back, they have retreated from the world, choosing the role of observer rather than participant. When they are forced — or decide — to participate, it inevitably produces more mis-fortune. What the Winesburg characters share (outside of their inability to communicate their woes to each other) is a need to communicate what produced their current state. In most of the vignettes, they do that by finding a way to tell their story to George Willard, the young (and hence yet unscathed) reporter of the Winesburg Eagle. (As a former newspaper reporter, I can assure you people are doing that to this day.)
Consider the opening story, Hands, about Wing Biddlebaum. (I am about to spoil this eight-page story, so if you hate spoilers, skip this paragraph and the next one — I promise to leave the other 21 unspoiled.) He is a “fat little old man” who prowls his “half decayed veranda” and watches the Winesburg world go by. He feels he is no part of the town, except that he has formed “something like a friendship” with George and can talk to him. As his name suggests, he talks with his hands as much as his mouth, beating on nearby surfaces to underline his point.
Wing has always used his hands — as a 20-year-old, then called Adolph Myers, he was a schoolteacher in Pennsylvania, who used to “caress the shoulders of the boys, playing about the tousled heads”. A “half-witted” boy becomes enamored with him, has unspeakable dreams and turns them into truth (was Anderson ever ahead of his time on this front). Adolph is run out of town, turns himself into Wing and effectively retreats from the world. It is a good example of the kind of fate that effects many of Anderson’s characters.
Here is the opening to the second story, Paper Pills:
He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.
That concise paragraph says a lot about Anderson. He writes short, direct sentences. Every vignette has a history. Pathos (and sometimes it does borderr on sentimentality) is introduced right up front.
It is in the long story, Godliness, that the reader discovers some of over-arching factors that influence this exceptional book. It is located about one-third of the way through, almost as though Anderson needed to put some questions in the reader’s mind before hinting at possible answers.
The central character here is Jesse Bentley, the youngest and frailest of five sons. He had left the farm at eighteen to become a scholar and eventually minister of the Presbyterian Church (here comes the Marilynne Robinson). His four older brothers are all killed in the Civil War and Jesse’s father calls him home to look after the farm. Jesse is convinced that God will speak to him, that his neighbors are Phillistines and that it is the Lord’s will that he own as much land as possible in the valley.
That religious faith, bordering on fanaticism, is offset by reality:
In the last fifty years a vast change has taken place in the lives of our people. A revolution has in fact taken place. The coming of industrialism, attended by all the roar and rattle of affairs, the shrill cries of millions of new voices that have come among us from overseas, the going and coming of trains, the growth of cities, the building of the interurban car lines that weave in and out of towns and past farmhouses, and now in these later days the coming of the automobiles has worked a tremendous change in the lives and in the habits of thought of our people in Mid-America.
Anderson makes few other references to that clash between the old, comfortable beliefs and the harsh new material reality, the thoughts that got turned into truths but are now seeming to be falsehoods. Yet they are present throughout the book and become more pressing as it moves to a close.
The structure of Winesburg, Ohio suggests that it could be regarded either as a short story collection or a novel. This reader definitely opts for the latter conclusion — the two concluding vignettes, the immensely powerful Death and beautifully structured Sophistication, effectively pull the many threads of the book together.
If Olive Kitteridge reminds readers of Winesburg, Ohio, there is a good reason why some of we Canadian readers have missed this book. While our American neighbors were being introduced to Anderson, we in Canada were being taught two similiar classics of our own literature, Who Has Seen The Wind by W.O. Mitchell and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock. They aren’t the same — Mitchell’s central character is younger, Leacock’s characters are more amusing than pathetic — but all three books very effectively explore the tensions, conflicts and dynamics of small town North America in the first half of the twentieth century. If you liked one, I think you would like all three.
And now I understand why Faulkner, Hemmingway, Wolfe, Steinbeck, Fante, Roth and Strout were so impressed. I am too.
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16 Responses to “Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson”
Totally scooped me here, Kevin! Then again, you told me to wait! Cheeky!
Mrs. Berrett Says:
I think you should have a duel. Yes, the duel of the book blogs. You’re seeing it now aren’t you? Haven’t worked out the details, but now that you’ve got the idea in your head you two can work it out.
Well, in my own defence I did wait until 90 years after publication. Sorry about not warning you — the book was so good and the review pretty much composed itself while I was reading it. And there was no way I could compress my thoughts so I could do a double with Who Has Seen The Wind. You do get to have Olive Kitteridge first; I promise not to break my plans on that one.
Kevin and Trevor- you are both brilliant so spare us the dual. Will just revel in both your insights. This is a fantastic review that captured not only Anderson’s master work but hints at many of the issues of a quest for American identity as defined through our national literature. The format here and in Olive, the short story cycle, is one of my favorites. The individual pieces can stand on their own, but the progression from one to the other informs the whole as it provides structure and background for the snapshot nature of the short story. Look forward to both your thoughts on Olive.
Not a problem at all, Kevin. I’m glad to see you enjoyed it so much. I think it means you’ll like Olive Kitteridge, which I think is even more like a novel than Winesburg, Ohio. My review is up. While I don’t spoil anything, it might be a good one to read with no preconceived notions. My wife’s thoughts are not up yet, but hopefully she’ll have some time to read the book quickly and get some up.
My apologies again, Trevor, and thanks for the forgiveness. I’ve edited the review to include a link to your Olive Kitteridge review.
I don’t think we can have a duel, Mrs. B, because a) I’d have to plead guilty to the error and b) I can’t think of a set of conditions that would give me a chance to win it. Friendship seems a better option to rivalry and has the added benefit that then neither Trevor nor I would turn into an imitation of a character from one of these books.
Frances: Thanks fof your kind words — I truly enjoyed this book. I also heartily agree with your comments on the short story cycle (W.O. Mitchell used it in his other famous work, Jake and the Kid. It seems particularly suited to capturing what I would call a “community” picture. And I certainly look forward to reading and commenting on Olive Kitteridge.
My wife says she’s looking for ways to help me boost my blog hits, but I think she is just looking for ways to get me in trouble :).
By the way, I’m pretty sure it was you who brought up Winesburg, Ohio in the first place, which is the main reason I got a hold of it. Who knows when I’d have gotten it otherwise, so thanks go to you!
workingwords100 Says:
If you and Trevor duel, I want to be the “guy” who marks the distance!
Liked your thoughts. I’ve never read any of Anderson’s works. I must try it soon.
Isobel: While I have confessed I would admit deserved guilt rather than foolishly entering a duel I can’t win, I would be up for some fun, now that you’ve offered to be the “guy” to mark the distance.
You follow both Trevor and my blogs, so you know both our tastes — they certainly overlap, but they also diverge. So I would be willing to accept a challenge (if Trevor does) where you would choose a book (that you don’t feel — and we would have to confirm that — gives either of us an advantage), give us some time to read it (at this time of year, that needs to be five or six weeks — there are so many good new books coming out the agenda already is crowded) and we would both post our reviews — with links to the other and a paragraph explaining the contest (which you as arbiter would have to write) — at the same time. Visitors could have say seven days to leave a comment on the review they found most useful or prefer, so readers would determine the results of the “duel”. I’ll show him mine if he shows me his, so to speak.
JRSM Says:
If you can find a copy of Anderson’s short story, ‘The Egg’, you have to read it. (Actually, just checked and it’s online here: http://www.online-literature.com/sherwood-anderson/1468/ ) Funny, sad, odd and just about perfect.
Thank you very much for that JRSM. The introductory essay of my edition described “The Egg” as Anderson’s masterpiece (and all but said it was about the only thing he wrote after Winesburg that was up to the collection). I had it on my “find soon” list — and you’ve done that for me. I’ll read it tomorrow when I can give it a decent contemplative look and maybe have another comment after that. Thanks again.
I am interested in the challenge. The weather is getting hot, so it’s time for my summer hibernation.
However, it’s time for you and Trevor to be outdoors, with the not so cold weather.
So, let’s see when we can coordinate the event.
One way to increase blog traffic is to start a challenge.
Here’s the site where you post it.
http://novelchallenges.blogspot.com/
I agree Isabel — I am feeling a lot less playful than I was when I first suggested it. And I did look at all the books I want to read in the next few weeks, so we’ll just put this idea aside for a while.
Winesburg Ohio is an excellent work, I cherish my collectible edition from Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century.
JSRM, “The Egg” is a fabulous short story. If it is not perfect, I don’t think I can find the flaw. Also, it does provide an excellent introduction into Anderson’s style and subject. The father in the egg could easily be one of Winesburg, Ohio’s grotesques.
Kevin, Thanks for pushing this book up my TBR pile. I have now read and reviewed it at my site. The book is fantastic.
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Scott Zwizanski
Born: May 29, 1977
Hometown: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Residence: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
One of Kodakgallery.com/Sierra Nevada's dedicated support riders, Scott Zwizanski will play a key role for the team in 2019, as he did throughout the 2018 season.
His best individual result came at the Bermuda Grand Prix in September, where he placed 2nd overall after driving the winning breakaway during the race's longest stage. "I ended last season on a good note," Scott says, "and I'm looking forward to doing everything better this season."
Earlier in 2018, Scott also took second place in the Pennsylvania Criterium Championships to former Olympic gold medalist Marty Nothstein and won the Tour de Medford in New Jersey with a long solo breakaway.
This season, Scott is also looking forward to a return to track cycling. In 2003, only his first year of racing on the velodrome, Scott finished 2nd in the the 10-mile event at the US Track Cycling Championships. In 2019, he hopes to leave his mark on the Lehigh Valley Velodrome's Friday night racing as well as the mass-start events at the national championships.
In 2018, Scott displayed tremendous toughness and commitment after crashing heavily and suffering serious facial injuries in June by not just returning to racing but placing third in the first stage of the Greenville Downtown Cycling Classic before the end of that same season.
A former collegiate swimmer at the University of West Virginia, Scott has improved rapidly since quitting his full-time job as a civil engineer in 2002 and turning pro in 2018 with Ofoto.
"I'll keep racing as long as I keep improving," he says, "which should be a few more years since I got a late start in in cycling."
A native of the Philadelphia area, Scott was inspired by watching the former USPRO Championships, now the Philadelphia International Championship, on the Manayunk Wall and his foremost goal in cycling is to win his hometown race.
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The building of “THE CANADIAN” and a Nations’s Apology – “Ribbons of Steel”
They say there’s a dead Chinese man for every mile of the track.
Building the Canadian Pacific Railway
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Canada needed a railway that would stretch from one side of the country to the other. Andrew Onderdonk, a New York engineer, was given the contract to build the portion of the railway from Port Moody to Eagle Pass, near Revelstoke, British Columbia. The land in this area was mountainous, making the work difficult and dangerous. Workers were in short supply. Between 1881 and 1884, as many as 17 000 Chinese men came to B.C. to work as labourers on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Chinese workers worked for $1.00 a day, and from this $1.00 the workers had to still pay for their food and their camping and cooking gear. White workers did not have to pay for these things even though they were paid more money ($1.50-$2.50 per day). As well as being paid less, Chinese workers were given the most back-breaking and dangerous work to do. They cleared and graded the railway’s roadbed. They blasted tunnels through the rock. There were accidents, fires and disasters. Landslides and dynamite blasts killed many. There was no proper medical care and many Chinese workers depended on herbal cures to help them.
The Chinese railway workers lived in camps, sleeping in tents or boxcars. They did their own cooking over open outdoor fires. They mainly ate a diet of rice and dried salmon, washed down with tea. With their low salaries they could not afford fresh fruit and vegetables, so many of the men suffered from scurvy (a painful disease caused by a diet without vitamin C). The camps were crowded. Diet and living conditions were poor. Many got sick. In the winter it was very cold and the open fires were the only way of keeping warm. Whenever the workers put down more tracks, the camps had to be moved further down the line. When it was time to move camp, the Chinese workers would take down their tents, pack their belongings and move everything to the next camp, often hiking over 40 kilometres.
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When the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1885, the railway workers needed to find new jobs. Several thousand Chinese workers returned to China after the railway was completed. Many more could not afford the cost of the ticket. Many stayed in British Columbia, especially in Victoria and Vancouver. Some settled in the small towns along the railway line. Some Chinese people became gardeners, grocers, cooks or servants in wealthy White households.
Moving east, the Chinese mostly settled in towns and cities, opening laundries and restaurants or cafés. These businesses didn’t need much money, the knowledge of English or special training. Some workers found mining jobs in what is now Alberta, others worked as cooks on farms and cattle ranches. These jobs were seasonal and so they had to return to cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Red Deer for the winter.
Some Canadians thought that the Chinese would take jobs away from them. Others had wrong or exaggerated ideas about the way the Chinese lived. They were accused of being dirty and disease carriers because of their crowded living conditions. Chinese workers were paid less than white workers because many people believed that the Chinese needed less to live on. They thought that the Chinese were content to live with less and would settle for food that lacked variety and quality. Because most early Chinese immigrants were men, people assumed they had no families to support. Many Chinese were called names and were victims of physical assault. Chinese could not even be buried in public cemeteries with non-Chinese.
Head taxes and exclusion act
While Europeans were being offered free land to come to Canada, in 1885, the Canadian government created a “head tax” to limit the number of Chinese coming to the country. This meant that any Chinese person wanting to come to Canada had to pay $50.00 to the government. This made it harder for Chinese workers to come to Canada and for those already here to bring their wives and children over from China. It was a lonely life for the men living for many years away from their wives and families. Many never saw their families again. Because of the way they were treated, some men chose not to bring their families to Canada. They did not want them to suffer the same treatment that they had experienced.
THE TORONTOIST
Now and Then: Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial
One man reaches up towards the large wooden log—big enough to crush him—and braces himself against the trestle. Another man stands high on top, directing the log with just a rope, pulling it up to build the next tie on a railroad. This scene would have been common across the country as workers built the Canadian Pacific railway from coast to coast in the 1800s. Now, these men, cast in bronze, stand near the Rogers Centre in Toronto, as a permanent reminder of the thousands of workers—many of them Chinese labourers, overworked and underpaid—who died building that railroad.
It’s Rail Safety Week and April 28 is the annual Workers Day of Mourning, and so it’s a particularly relevant time to look at the lives and deaths of the Chinese railroad labourers, who worked in dangerous conditions and died in large numbers. Estimates of how many Chinese workers died building the railroad vary widely. The grim saying, immortalized in an iconic Heritage Minute (below) is that one Chinese worker died for every mile of track laid. The Canadian Encyclopedia, published by Historica Canada, which also makes Heritage Minutes, uses the estimate “at least 600” dead in its articles. The memorial puts the number at over 4,000.
Even those who survived building the railroad often couldn’t afford to return to China or bring their families to Canada. They were left without jobs in hostile territory. The railroad workers memorial notes that it also memorializes these men, saying, “With no means of going back to China when their labour was no longer needed, thousands drifted in near destitution along the completed track. All of them remained nameless in the history of Canada.”
On June 22, 2006 Prime Minster Stephen Harper gave a full apology for the Chinese head tax and for the ban on Chinese immigration from 1923–1947, calling them “malicious measures aimed solely at the Chinese.”
They were mighty. They helped unite our country from sea to sea. Today we have THE CANADIAN linking us together as one.
Posted on February 21, 2019 May 11, 2019 Author Jen GoldieCategories Authors, Biographies, J.E.Goldie, Jen Goldie, Starlight and Moonbeams, The Stories, UncategorizedTags Authors, Biographies, J.E.Goldie, Jen Goldie, stories
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Another dark period in Canadian history. Well-done, Jen.
Thanks Inky, It was a difficult balance for me. They were treated so badly both during and after. I almost didn’t do it.
You are welcome, Jen, and I can understand that. It is a difficult subject when we are dealing with the disregard of human lives. Canada has a very dark past when it comes to it’s treatment of many cultural groups.
I realized while I was working on it that it was important. ❤
It’s very important and I am happy you posted it. ❤
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Cubby says:
Every nation has a dark past, and Canada is no exception. You are doing a service by sharing this with others. We must not take for granted the cost of a nation built on the backs of others.
It wasn’t as easy as I’d thought it would be. Not much history to draw upon. btw WP is calling errors on me. Making me restart so we’ll see. I’m glad I posted the story Cub, I really am
Calling errors? Not sure what that means. I’m glad you posted it as well.
Yes telling me to restart the program twice now. I’m using the reply from my email right now.
I’ve never heard of that before, but WP can be pretty buggy sometimes. Hopefully that gets sorted out soon.
Yes me too. I can reply but not get in to do anything unless I try loading it again. I’ll try. lol
I hate computer/program/tech problems. Drives me bonkers. Stay sane.
So far so good . I’m tired anyways. Maybe the Puter and I need a rest.
And maybe the Ghost Busters can help.
Showing me old messages LOL
Almost sounds like a poltergeist.
uh oh! See now I’ve done it!
Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters!
ok this is #3 I am now going to bed LOL At least I can respond from e-mail …Nighty nite! ❤
Nighty nite! 😊💜
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Janus case is part of continuing attack on workers
By Jesse Jackson
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson,Sr. (courtesy photo)
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Janus v. AFSCME; a ruling is expected in a few months. The case is the culmination of a concerted right-wing attack on the unions of teachers, police officers, firefighters, nurses and other public sector workers.
If successful, it will lower working family incomes across the country, in union and non-union households, in public sector and private sector alike.
The question is fundamental. No worker can be forced to belong to a union. Public sector unions, however, are required to negotiate and represent all workers in a workplace whether they belong to the union or not.
Current law allows unions to collect “fair share fees” for the basic costs the union incurs for representing non-union members who benefit not only from the higher wages and benefits that the union negotiates but also from the representation – sometimes costly – the union provides in personal grievance proceedings and other contract disputes with the employer.
In the Janus case, Mark Janus, a social worker in Illinois who is not a member of the union, claims that paying fees for services he benefits from is somehow a violation of his right to free speech. The chances are good that the five right-wing activist judges on the Supreme Court may well overturn more than 40 years of precedents to support this bizarre argument.
The Janus case doesn’t arise from widespread popular opposition to unions. It is part of a concerted, multi-faceted assault on worker organization financed by zealous right-wing foundations like the Koch Institute, the Bradley Foundation, the Uihlein Foundation, the Walton Foundation and more. It is a central reason why the Republican Senate outrageously refused even to bring President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination to a vote, essentially stealing a Supreme Court seat for the right.
Reactionary employers – like Walmart and the Walton family – bitterly oppose unions for obvious reasons. Unions empower workers to gain a fairer share of the profits and productivity that they help to generate. That reduces the amount of money investors and owners can make off with.
As a study by the Economic Policy Institute shows, when unions were at the height of their membership — representing 33.4 percent of employees in 1945, the top 10 percent of America pocketed a generous 32.6 percent — about a third — of the nation’s income. In 2015, with unions reduced to only 11.1 percent of the work force, the richest 10 percent pocketed 47.8 percent — nearly half — of the national income.
Ironically, principled conservatives ought to support unions, small-d democratic organizations mediating between the individual and the state and providing schools of democracy and citizenship. Today’s right-wing, however, treats them as an arch-enemy, scorning them for supporting programs for the common good — investment in schools, a higher minimum wage, a secure retirement, affordable health care — rather than benefits to entrenched interests and the rich.
So the right set out to crush unions, through legislation, litigation, disinformation campaigns and more. Taking off with Ronald Reagan, the campaign has been systematic and unrelenting, and increasingly successful. Workers wages have declined and inequality has grown more extreme as a direct result.
With an anti-union ruling in Janus, the right hopes that more and more employees will choose to be free riders, refusing to join the union while enjoying the benefits that the union negotiates for free. Then, as a bill already introduced in Florida demonstrates, they will move to decertify unions whose dues -paying members constitute less than a majority of the workplace.
This is a fundamental human rights issue. Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers seeking to form a union. He understood that the right to organize and bargain collectively was vital not only to workers but to democracy.
With the Janus case, that fundamental right is under assault at a time when we should all be working to strengthen the right to organize, not undermine it.
Now is the time for citizens of conscience to stand with the public employees that serve us — the teachers, police officers, firefighters, nurses and others. We will all pay the price if the right’s attack goes unanswered.
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Tag: Ginger Rogers
Dancing in The Musical Film
The 2016 Winter term started off with a treat for students in Dr. Katherine Spring’s brand new course FS 258: Musical Film. Not only did they get to learn about the classic 1930s musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but they also had a chance to see some of the energetic dance styles of the era performed live in class by one of Laurier’s Film Studies professors, Dr. Sandra Annett!
Dr. Annett and her dance partner David Barth, both regulars at the Hepcat Swing dance studio in uptown Waterloo, made a special guest appearance in class on January 19, 2016. Together, they demonstrated some popular dances from the 1930s and explained how those dances were adapted in the movies.
Dr. Annett put the dances in context by noting that “When you watch a musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, like Top Hat (1935) or Swing Time (1936), what really stands out is how they make dancing look so easy and natural. Their dance seems to evolve spontaneously from the situation and perfectly express the character’s emotions. But in fact, that natural quality was far from spontaneous; it was highly choreographed. Astaire and his choreographer Hermes Pan would plan all the moves and the timing in advance. Astaire and Rogers would rehearse the numbers together, and finally they would film the dance, sometimes doing dozens of takes to get it right.
When audiences watched that performance on the screen, they might think ‘Oh, that looks so easy. I want to go out dancing!’ And many of them did, since it was a normal part of an evening’s entertainment in the ’30s to see a movie and then go out to a nearby dance hall. At the dance hall, though, nobody choreographed their moves in advance. They did what is called social dancing, where both partners, the lead and the follow, know some basic steps beforehand, and then they improvise the dance together based on the swing jazz music that was popular at the time. The dances they did to swing jazz were collectively called swing dancing. It was like the club dancing of the 1930s!”
To bring this old-time dance world to life, Dr. Annett and Mr. Barth demonstrated three kinds of dancing. The first dance was an example of improvised social dancing in the swing style, including moves from the Lindy Hop and the Charleston, set to a lively Big Band tune called “Make Love To Me.” The second dance was an example of a choreography called the “Shim Sham Shimmy,” which uses a set of predetermined moves from solo jazz and tap dance. Finally, the couple demonstrated the more elegant and upright style of ballroom dance used in the Astaire and Rogers’ paired dance scenes, waltzing to Doris Day’s classic “Que Sera, Sera.”
Nothing like those fine dance steps to liven up the winter!
By: Sandra Annett
Author Dr. Sandra AnnettPosted on February 5, 2016 February 5, 2016 Categories Events, Faculty, NewsTags Department of English and Film Studies, Film Musicals, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Hepcat Swing, Sandy Annett, Swing danceLeave a comment on Dancing in The Musical Film
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I am a graduate of the Charlotte School of Law who graduated in May 2015 with a Juris Doctor - Magna Cum Laude. During my time in law school, I was a member of the Presidential Honors Society, Order of the Crown Honor Society, and an Associate Editor of the Charlotte School of Law Property Law Journal. Additionally, I graduated in May 2012 from Appalachian State University with a degree in Business Management with a Concentration in Entrepreneurship - Magna Cum Laude. While attending Appalachian State University, I maintained a 3.65 cumulative GPA and was a frequent member of...
Mr. Douglas A. Petho
(800) 737-2160 1430 Elizabeth Ave
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
University of North Carolina School of Law
Attorney Douglas A. Petho joined the firm in 1993. He is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in the Administration of Criminal Justice in 1988. He earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1991. Mr. Petho is a native of the Charlotte area.
Mr. Petho began his trial career as an Assistant District Attorney for the 1st Judicial District of North Carolina serving under the Hon. H.P. Williams. In that position, Mr. Petho was tasked with the prosecution of both misdemeanor and...
Sherrod Seward
Charlotte, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 4 years experience
(704) 500-2045 222 S. Church St
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Entertainment & Sports, International and Medical Malpractice
An experienced lawyer with a passion for criminal defense, entertainment law, & and immigration, as well as an extensive background in global business; Sherrod knew as a child that his path in life would lead him to be active on a national and international level.
Sherrod is a go to resource for persons facing felony changes for drug charges, weapons violations, and removal proceedings in immigration. Sherrod is also a go to resource for athletes, entertainers, and media companies from all over the World for business issues.
Sherrod has been immersed in different cultures as early as elementary school; learning...
Gael Gilles
Charlotte, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 4 years experience
(980) 272-8438 725 East Trade Street Suite 215
Gael Gilles is the founding attorney of Gilles Law, PLLC in Charlotte, NC. Gael is licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina. Gael is also admitted to practice in all Federal Courts in North Carolina and South Carolina. He handles criminal defense including sex crimes, drug crimes, and federal crimes, handling both felonies and misdemeanors. Gael decided to pursue a career as an attorney in order to help people in need that might not otherwise have had an opportunity for valuable legal advice. Gael is of Haitian descent and speaks French and Creole. Gael is married...
Jessica E. Leaven
(800) 533-6845 535 College St.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Employment and Workers' Comp
Kent Brown
(704) 335-1500 930 East Blvd
Wake Forest University School of Law
"R. Kent Brown’s interest in the law and devotion to his clients has led to many record setting recoveries. In 1985, R. Kent Brown obtained the largest recovery ($3,000,000.00) in North Carolina to that time in a medical negligence matter. In 1992, R. Kent Brown obtained the largest person injury jury verdict ($15,700,000.00) in North Carolina history to that time. In 2002, R. Kent Brown again set a record when he recovered the largest road construction settlement ($3,500,000.00) in North Carolina history. In the last several years, R. Kent Brown has made recoveries of over a million dollars against...
Daniel Deuterman
Winston-Salem, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 28 years experience
(336) 373-1130 514 S Stratford Road
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Nursing Home, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
In his law career, Dan has helped countless injured workers and their families obtain the medical care and the compensation they deserve. In fact, he has achieved some of the highest workers’ compensation settlements in the state of North Carolina.
Dan is one of a select group of board certified specialists in workers’ compensation law practicing in North Carolina. He also is a member of the prestigious Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Dan is deeply committed to community service and volunteer work. He supports a number of charities and community organizations through gifts of his time, expertise and financial contributions. Along with his...
Michael D. Maurer
Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law and Florida State University College of Law
Serving All Areas of North Carolina. Offices in Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh, Greensboro, and Fayetteville.
If there is one thing that helps me maximize the results for clients, it is the valuable experience I gained on the "other" side while working as a defense lawyer for the insurance companies. Defending and going to trial on the very same types of cases I now handle provided unique insight into the thought processes of insurance adjusters, their bosses (the real decision-makers), and the attorneys they hire to try to minimize or defeat your claim.
I handle wrongful death and most types of serious personal injury...
J. Bradley Smith Esq.
(704) 370-2828 200 N McDowell St
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
Mr. Smith has lived in Charlotte for most of his life. He is a graduate of Charlotte Country Day School and North Carolina State University. He received his law degree from Mercer University where he was a member of the Dean’s List and President of the Federalist Society. Mr. Smith began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney for the 26th District in Mecklenburg County, prosecuting both felony and misdemeanor cases. In 2006, Mr. Smith entered private practice, focusing primarily on criminal defense. Over the course of his career, he has represented clients charged with everything...
Judith M. Vincent-Pope
Cary, NC Personal Injury Lawyer
(866) 921-8805 5000 Centre Green Way, Suite 500
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Insurance Claims, Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
With offices in Cary and Raleigh, Vincent-Pope Law Firm focuses its practice on the settlement and trial of major personal injury cases, including injuries and wrongful death from car and truck accidents and professional negligence. We also represent clients in commercial and insurance litigation cases.
Tara M. Gore
Whiteville, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 1 year experience
(910) 317-0045 115 Courthouse Sq
I genuinely enjoy practicing law, meeting my clients, and doing my best to solve their problems. Each day brings a new face and a different challenge, and I am honored that I get to spend my days in my beloved hometown advocating for my neighbors. My focus is on traffic law and criminal defense in Bladen, Brunswick, and Columbus Counties, though I also handle 50-B and 50-C hearings for Domestic Violence Protective Orders. Additionally, my firm specializes in the mistreatment, serious personal injury, or wrongful death of inmates in North Carolina prisons and county jails. I am committed to...
Benjamin Davis Ridings
Greensboro, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 11 years experience
(336) 379-1390 301 North Elm Street, Suite 700
Personal Injury, Appeals, Business and Workers' Comp
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Ben Ridings a Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. He is a member of the firm practicing primarily in the areas of workers’ compensation and general civil litigation.
Ben graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts, with Honors and Distinction, in History. He received his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2007, where he served as Articles and Comments Editor of the First Amendment Law Review and interned with The Honorable Robin E. Hudson of...
Lance Williams
Gastonia, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 7 years experience
(704) 323-8485 192 S. South St.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Workers' Comp
Lance is a graduate of the Charlotte School of Law. He spent 12 years as a Deputy Sheriff in Harvey, LA. During his tenure there he worked in the Street Crimes Division as well as being a Team Leader of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team. During law school, Lance interned at the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office. Lance is certified in DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (24 hour training) and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (16 hour training) by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Mr. Tracy T Hatcher
(704) 248-2743 130 N. McDowell Street
Personal Injury and Criminal Defense
New England Law | Boston
Attorneys providing zealous legal representation with a thorough attention to detail. Our attorneys will not stop fighting to receive the best possible outcome in your case. Representing those in need of an attorney in all criminal defense matters in Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia, and Monroe, North Carolina. Whether you need legal representation in a speeding ticket or other traffic tickets, or if your need to consult with a lawyer in more serious criminal misdemeanors or felony(s), the Hatcher Law Office can assist you. We understand the serious nature of being charged with a criminal offense. We have impeccable experience and success...
Kimberly Olsinski Esq.
Concord, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 10 years experience
(704) 918-4747 101 Cabarrus Ave E
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
Kimberly Olsinski received her Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in History and Sociology from the College of William and Mary, where she completed her degree in three years. She attended Hofstra University School of Law, where she graduated in the top fourteen percent of her class. At Hofstra, she participated in the Law Reform clinic, and was an editor of the Labor and Employment Law Journal. Mrs. Olsinski has completed a ten-day intensive seminar emphasizing effective trial advocacy techniques.
While in law school, Mrs. Olsinski worked for the legal department of a big insurance company. Upon graduating, she switched sides and...
Henry E. Teich
Asheville, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 41 years experience
Hunt M. Willis
Raleigh, NC Personal Injury Lawyer
(800) 662-1234 4140 Parklake Ave
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury and Products Liability
Hunt's practice at Martin & Jones focuses on representing people who have been harmed by the negligence of others, including from tractor-trailer collisions, car wrecks, defective products and construction accidents. He has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict for his clients before juries across the state of North Carolina. He is licensed to practice in all North Carolina courts, as well as all federal courts in North Carolina and the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Hunt has been recognized by Super Lawyers every year since 2016 as a Rising Star.
David Hyland
Raleigh, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 23 years experience
(919) 419-9933 3737 Glenwood Ave, Ste 100
Chris Hyland is an experiences personal injury lawyer and managing partner at Hyland + Padilla, PLLC. He is committed to protecting the rights of injury victims in Raleigh and Durham. Chris attended College of Wooster for his undergraduate degree and earned his Juris Doctor from Campbell University School of Law. Active in the legal community, he is a current member, and former president, of the Durham County Bar Association. He is also a part of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Fourteenth Judicial District, the North Carolina Bar Association, and more. For his dedication and success, he was awarded the...
Steven W Grainger
ADVANCE, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 9 years experience
(336) 941-9084 355 RIVER RD
ADVANCE, NC 27006
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and Medical Malpractice
Florida Coastal School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law
I will try any case, anytime, anywhere, if the cause is just. That is the motto I live by as an attorney.
Danny Glover Jr.
Elizabeth City, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 23 years experience
(252) 299-5300 406 S Griffin St
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Nursing Home
22 years experience representing people charged with DWI, all types of criminal charges and severe injuries in northeastern North Carolina, from Elizabeth City to Edenton to the Outer Banks. Former President of North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
Griffis Shuler
(800) 815-5500 2140 Country Club Road
Griff Shuler was motivated to become an attorney by a strong desire to help other people in need. He is an Executive Partner at the firm and is a Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law. Griff concentrates his practice in Workers’ Compensation claims and complex third party cases. He has extensive experience in handling many different types of workers’ compensation claims before the North Carolina Industrial Commission for over 22 years. He has handled cases involving traumatic brain injury, serious back injuries, neck injuries, severe fractures of the hand, arm, feet or leg, rotator...
Christopher Anglin
Raleigh, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 7 years experience
(919) 803-1516 8801 Fast Park Dr.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Construction and Nursing Home
I have practiced in Raleigh, North Carolina for my entire legal career. I have tried cases in both North Carolina State Superior Court and Federal Court. In 2014, I was selected to the North Carolina Bar Association Leadership Academy which is a program for young attorneys who wish to hone their leadership skills. I ran for the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2018 and received almost 600,000 votes. I attended Elon University School of Law for law school and Wake Forest University for my undergraduate education. In my spare time, I enjoy going to Wake Forest athletic events and anything...
Al Patrick
Greenville, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 33 years experience
(252) 353-1333 110 East Arlington Boulevard
Wake Forest University School of Law and University of Arkansas School of Law
Scott M. Anderson
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Appeals and Workers' Comp
Robert Adam Frey
Dunn, NC Personal Injury Attorney
(910) 591-2551 600 W. Cumberland St.
Dunn, NC 28334
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Animal, Business and Workers' Comp
Robert Frey is recognized by his peers and his clients as an expert in Workers' Compensation cases. In his law career, he has helped countless of injured workers and their families obtain the medical care and the compensation they deserve. Known for his accessibility, compassion and tenacious trial preparation, Mr. Frey is one of the leading worker's compensation attorneys in North Carolina. Mr. Frey has litigated complex workers compensation and personal injury cases. He takes pride not only in advocating for victims of workplace and personal injury, but in providing them with the resources and information they...
Chris Stevens
Winston-Salem, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 2 years experience
Chris earned his juris doctor from the UNC School of Law. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a bachelor of science in business administration, double majoring in economics and marketing.
After college, Chris worked for a year at a marketing company in Winston-Salem, his hometown. But he quickly realized he didn’t want to spend his career in that field.
While in law school, Chris completed 137 hours of pro bono work, volunteering his legal expertise to help people.
He was a volunteer researcher for Organize Against Racism – The Campaign for Racial Equity in Our Schools. Specifically, he contributed to a report...
Lloyd Thomas Kelso
Gastonia, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 43 years experience
(704) 865-8684 128 East Garrison Boulevard, Suite A
Personal Injury, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
Born: 1950, Gastonia, North Carolina Wife: Debra S. Kelso
Ashley E Lorance
Gastonia, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 8 years experience
(704) 864-3236 223 W. Main Ave. Suite C
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
I am an attorney in Gastonia, NC, practicing family law, personal injury. I also handle will preparation and traffic matters.
Before practicing law, I lived and worked in several different countries. I taught English as a second language in Germany and France. In the United Kingdom, I worked in the personal injury department of a Scottish law firm.
Since I started practicing, I have devoted my energy to trying to efficiently resolve family law cases and to get the best recovery possible in personal injury...
Leto Copeley
Durham, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 34 years experience
(919) 240-4054 300 Blackwell St.
Personal Injury, Employment and Workers' Comp
Leto has been successfully litigating cases for plaintiffs in the North Carolina state and federal courts for more than 25 years. She handles cases of workplace injury and mistreatment, personal injury and wrongful death, and sexual harassment and sex abuse. For the past ten years, Leto has had the highest rating (AV) for legal ability and ethical standards given by Martindale-Hubbell. She has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America in the area of workers' compensation since 2005. Since 2006, Leto has been included in the list of North Carolina...
Robert J. Reeves
(704) 351-7979 301 South McDowell Street
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
At Robert J. Reeves P.C., our attorneys focus on serious personal injury accidents (automobile, motorcycle, tractor trailer), workers' compensation, DUI and DWI, and divorce cases. We can help clients in both South Carolina and North Carolina. We are experienced trial lawyers who are willing to do whatever it takes for our clients. In addition, every client has our personal cell phone number and direct email address. As a result, you can reach us directly when you need answers, even after hours or on the weekend.
-Robert J. Reeves is a seasoned trial attorney with over 29 years of litigation experience in...
Marcus Edward Hayes
Greensboro, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 30 years experience
(844) 690-6778 608 Pisgah Church Road
When you are injured in an accident, there is only one chance to get it right. With over 25 years in practice, Marcus E. Hayes, Sr., has the experience and performance record to guide clients through the difficult maze of insurance and legal negotiations. As a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Marcus has the track record you want. Membership in this organization is comprised of attorneys in the United States who have recovered million dollar verdicts or settlements for their clients. While not a guarantee of similar results, clearly Marcus has the right stuff to tackle the...
Drew Richards
Davidson, NC Personal Injury Attorney with 14 years experience
(704) 439-4441 South Main Street
Davidson, NC 28036
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Business and Construction
I enjoy working with clients to seek a just resolution of their dispute. Sometimes disputes can only be resolved by engaging the legal process through the courts, which I routinely do when necessary. My practice is concentrated on business ownership and control disputes, real estate and construction disputes (liens, payment and performance bonds, defective work claims, mediation and arbitration), summary ejectment and eviction proceedings, employment disputes, personal injury, and contract disputes.
Jason Burton
(919) 325-6777 3008 Anderson Drive, Suite 250
Personal Injury, Nursing Home and Products Liability
Elon University School of Law
Jason Michael Burton is a fifth-generation attorney with broad experience in significant personal injury cases. The son of a career-long insurance defense attorney, he has a detailed understanding of how insurance companies review and handle claims, which he uses to maximize personal injury compensation for his clients.
Since serving as a judicial clerk in the North Carolina court system, Mr. Burton has helped secure more than $40 Million in settlements and verdicts on behalf of individuals harmed by the wrongful conduct of others. He focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury cases resulting in life-altering injuries, prolonged...
Robert Anthony Hartsoe
Winston-Salem, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 25 years experience
(336) 390-4774 1068 W. Fourth Street
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Divorce, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
To R. Anthony “Tony” Hartsoe, the law has always felt like a calling, not a job. He loves helping people through some of the toughest moments in their lives. With a family of his own and work experience that dates back to when he was 12 years old, Tony can relate to many of his clients and utilizes his knowledge to aggressively represent them with strength and integrity. He received his Bachelor of the Arts Degree from Oral Roberts University before attending Washington University School of Law. Tony graduated with a Juris Doctor Degree in 1994. Attorney Hartsoe has worked...
Kenneth Gregory Gunter
Raleigh, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 18 years experience
(919) 670-1070 4940-A Windy Hill Drive
For more than a decade, K. Gregory Gunter has been working hard to protect the rights of his North Carolina clients with their workers' compensation - personal injury cases and is a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, a prominent group dedicated to doing the same.
Randall Eugene Appleton Esq
Kitty Hawk, NC Personal Injury Lawyer with 37 years experience
(800) 752-0042 8 Juniper Trail
Kitty Hawk, NC 27949
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Nursing Home and Products Liability
Randy has practiced personal injury law for nearly 30 years. He is recognized as a "Super Lawyer" in Law & Politics Magazine (in VA, since 2010) and is recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America (according to U.S. News & World Report). Randy has represented thousands of clients who've been hurt in car accidents, truck accidents, and railroad workplace accidents. Contact his office today for a free, confidential consultation.
The OneCLE Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. Find more North Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers in the Justia Legal Services and Lawyers Directory which includes profiles of more than one million lawyers licensed to practice in the United States, in addition to profiles of legal aid, pro bono and legal service organizations.
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Why Coercion Is a Recipe for Failure with Iran
January 17, 2017 LobeLog 1 Comment
by Tytti Erästö
Opponents of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord have criticized the deal because it did not end uranium enrichment or limit missile development by Iran. With the Trump administration, some see an opportunity to undermine the agreement by imposing more non-nuclear sanctions on Iran. The assumption is that this could provoke Tehran to withdraw from the deal, snapping back the ‘crippling’ sanctions, which—according to common wisdom—brought the country to the negotiating table in 2013. Indeed, if such sanctions worked so well before, why could they not extract an even ‘better deal’ from Iran now? Others, such as the nominee for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, seem to want to go back to the previous policy of “no uranium enrichment in Iran,” at least after the deal expires.
The logic in both of these approaches is seriously flawed. Coercion will not work, not only because Europeans are unlikely to renew their support for the oil and financial sanctions, but also because the common wisdom about sanctions’ effectiveness is wrong. In reality, the coercive approach to Iran has repeatedly backfired, and crippling sanctions are no exception. As for Tillerson’s expectation that Iran would simply give up uranium enrichment in return for “access, the means, to peaceful uses of nuclear materials,” it too is based on a widely shared but biased interpretation of recent history, which routinely omits Iran’s bitter experiences of nuclear cooperation with international partners.
For almost four decades, the most remarkable effect of the various forms of US sanctions and pressure on Iran has been their role in breathing life into the Islamic Revolution. Instead of weakening the Iranian regime and modifying its behavior, this policy has pushed the country to demonstrate resilience in the face of adversity. With regard to non-proliferation, this pattern began to emerge in the late 1980s. At the time, the US started to undermine Iran’s nuclear energy cooperation with third parties, based on the view that it would be best if Iran did not have any kind of a nuclear program. The policy succeeded in almost totally blocking Iran’s access to open-market sources of civilian nuclear technology, leaving Russia as Tehran’s only nuclear partner. The strategy nevertheless failed to reach its objective of stopping Iran’s nuclear development. Paradoxically, it also drove Iran to the nuclear black market and contributed to its goal of maximizing self-sufficiency in the nuclear sector—including the production of nuclear fuel through an indigenous enrichment capacity.
Iran’s Nuclear Rationale
Fast forward to the early 2000s, when the nuclear crisis began with revelations of Iran’s undeclared uranium-enrichment facilities. Iran justified the secrecy in terms of a “quarter of a century of denial and deprivation,” which had left the country “with no option but to be discrete” about its nuclear activities. Although this explanation has largely been dismissed as a “cover story,” the role of the past policy of technology denial can hardly be denied as irrelevant to Iran’s subsequent nuclear ambitions. As Gareth Porter has noted, the US tendency to dismiss Iran’s reluctance to rely on foreign sources ignores “the well-documented history of blatant Russian violations of its contract with Iran on Bushehr—including the provision of nuclear fuel—and its effort to use Iranian dependence on Russian reactor fuel to squeeze Iran on its nuclear policy as well as to obtain political-military concessions from the United States.”
This seemingly trivial historical detail has significant implications for understanding Tehran’s insistence on its right to uranium enrichment today. Although nuclear hedging has arguably also motivated Iran’s nuclear activities, the country has a valid non-military reason to hold on to uranium enrichment. The failure to appreciate this fact—together with the political obstacles to diplomacy created by US-Iranian enmity—largely explains the impasse in the nuclear dispute until 2013. At the beginning of the crisis, Iran offered to negotiate a grand bargain with the US in 2003 and engaged in multilateral talks with the EU in 2003-2005. At the same time, it made clear it would not give up enrichment but was ready to discuss limitations to related activities. While other P5+1 partners and the International Atomic Energy Agency seemed open to this possibility at the time, the Bush administration scoffed at diplomacy, insisting that not one centrifuge should be spinning in Iran. Instead of exploring compromise solutions, the US used the opportunity to internationalize sanctions against Iran by pushing the case at the UN Security Council.
It is entirely possible that the subsequent escalation of the crisis could have been avoided had the US itself come to the table at this time—when Iran had not yet even mastered uranium enrichment. For example, the former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Gary Samore, has admitted that “one of the big unanswered questions” is whether the crisis could have been averted had the US been more supportive of the EU-3 during their 2003-2005 talks with Iran.
The UN sanctions resolutions imposed in 2006 made any negotiations conditional on the demand for Iran to suspend enrichment-related activities. Although Iran had agreed to that demand during its previous talks with the EU, the experience enforced the impression that the other side was merely seeking to prolong suspension and ultimately deny Iran the right to enrichment completely—indeed, why had this condition not been enough for the US before 2006? Together with the Bush administration’s penchant for regime change and Iran’s memories of technology denial, common sense suggested that giving in would have only encouraged more US pressure.
In effect, the parties were locked into irreconcilable and hardening positions, with seemingly no diplomatic way out. Although the situation certainly succeeded in isolating Tehran, the objective of international sanctions was not reached: Iran significantly expanded its nuclear program between 2006 and 2013. At the same time, the US and Israel resorted to threats of pre-emptive war. This was the most disastrous aspect of the coercive strategy, as it highlighted the importance of nuclear hedging from the Iranian perspective. Even worse, military threats pointed to the potential need to move beyond hedging to actually producing nuclear weapons to deter what seemed an increasingly imminent prospect of attack by two nuclear powers.
Obama Breaks the Cycle
Recognizing the impending catastrophe, President Obama sought to build trust and pledged to talk to Iran without conditions. The overall approach, however, initially remained unchanged, as it focused on making Iran compliant with the UN resolutions. It was only in 2012 when the Obama administration took the sovereign decision to break from the coercive pattern by testing the ground for compromise with Iran in secret negotiations. Note that this happened before Iran’s 2013 presidential elections (the results of which were arguably influenced by sanctions that boosted the victory of the moderate Hassan Rouhani). The secret talks allowed the two countries to step out from the tight constraints created by the politicized nuclear dispute, and remove ambiguity about their intentions. If Iran really did not want nuclear weapons but valued uranium enrichment for other reasons—and if the US prioritized non-proliferation over regime change—a mutually acceptable solution could be within reach.
In anticipation of this change of approach, in June 2013 the former U.S. Department of State special advisor for nonproliferation and arms control, Robert Einhorn, conceded in an interview that “It’s coming to the point where it would be advisable to explain to the Iranians what the end state would be […]. We’ve made hints […] that we can accept an enrichment program but we haven’t been explicit about that yet.” When the US for the first time publicly indicated that it could live with limited enrichment in Iran in autumn 2013, the door to formal negotiations opened, leading to a carefully balanced compromise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) less than two years later.
Clearly sanctions relief was and still is a key component of the JCPOA, and the Rouhani administration’s less confrontational diplomatic style certainly made nuclear negotiations easier. However, the real secret behind the diplomatic success was not sanctions, but the above-described shift in US strategy from coercion to compromise and trust-building. Rather than saying that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, it would thus be more correct to say that recognition of the failure of coercion pushed the US to try a different approach, which finally created room for genuine diplomatic give-and-take.
Although the biased narrative about the Iran sanctions success makes past US policy look good, it is also feeding the delusion that more coercion could now produce even more concessions from Iran. Setting the record straight is therefore important: the remarkable thing about the JCPOA is that it was reached despite all the mistrust and roadblocks to diplomacy created by sanctions and other forms of coercion. Although a new UN resolution has since reversed the previous Security Council demands, the fantasy of ending enrichment in Iran still lives on.
This brief look at the less appreciated parts of the recent history with Iran should clarify why more sanctions will not tilt the terms of the nuclear deal to US favor, and why the demand for no enrichment in Iran is a non-starter. What such policies would do instead is demonstrate to the Iranians that any attempt at diplomacy with the US is a fool’s game, empowering local hardliners who have been saying this all along. Of course, that might be exactly what their American counterparts are after, to prove that they, too, were right. However, if the new administration is serious about non-proliferation, it would do itself and regional allies a favor by not sacrificing a pragmatic arms control agreement for a return to a misguided policy that has consistently proven to be a recipe for failure.
Tytti Erästö, PhD, is the Roger L. Hale fellow at Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. She is a former Stanton nuclear security fellow and research fellow in the Managing the Atom and International Security Research programs at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also the editor-in-chief of a Finnish world politics journal Kosmopolis and has worked as a researcher in Tampere Peace Research Institute and as university lecturer in the University of Tampere, Finland. Photo: nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.
Analysis, Iran Gareth Porter, Gary Samore, IAEA, Iran, JCPOA, non-proliferation, nuclear deal, Rex Tillerson, Robert Einhorn, Sanctions, Tytti Erasto, uranium enrichment
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rosemerry
Thank you. what really causes all the problems, it seems to me, is the insistence of the USA on being the “big boss”, on refusing itself to keep to the terms of the NPT eg reducing its own nukes and those of the other “legal” nukeholders” by agreement. The USA helps Israel and also India with their nuclear weapons programs,much more dangerous than the “potential” nukes of non-aggressive Iran. The constant threats to Iran and the lies about its “fomenting terrorism” when it is obvious where most of the violence and interference in the world actually comes from.
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2018 / Aug / 24
The Woodrow Residence’s NRHP Nomination has been Accepted!
posted in: Arizona, Cultural Resources, Historic Archaeology
/ tags: Historic architecture, National Register of Historic Places, solar, Sustainability, sustainable, Tucson
Logan Simpson is proud to announce that the application for the Woodrow Residence in Tucson, Arizona has been accepted, and the historic home is now recognized in the National Register of Historic Places!
The home was built in 1957at 8649 E. Woodland Road, in Tucson by architect Arthur Brown on behalf of Julie and Arthur Woodrow. Brown was one of the pioneers of passive solar design in architecture. His designs are notable as some of the earliest examples of experimental solar architecture in not just Arizona, but the entire United States. While not well known among the general population, his work is celebrated and beloved among architects, who consider him a pioneer and leader of modern sustainable design.
The Woodrow residence is significant among Brown’s works for its innovative sustainable elements, including a radiant heating system, and an in-house chiller and boiler, which were uncommon and very expensive at the time it was installed. The property is also significant because few of Brown’s rural properties remain intact in southern Arizona.
Architect Gordon Brown, the son of Arthur Brown, was an incredible resource, and sat down for interviews with Jennifer Levstik, Logan Simpson’s Architectural Historian, to discuss his father’s work and the history of the property. As the keeper of his father’s records, Gordon is dedicated to preserving his father’s legacy and worked with Jennifer to navigate the archives for important documents. Gordon also led a renovation to the property in the 1970s, and is looking forward to returning with Ms. Levstik to visit the property.
Logan Simpson worked with the property’s current owner, Susan Wick, to prepare a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination application. Logan Simpson completed architectural documentation, including recordation of building materials and construction techniques; and a condition assessment, including photography, site mapping, and illustrations of floor plans and elevations. For the site photography, Logan Simpson also used professional photographer A.T. Willett to document the property. The detailed photos proved an invaluable tool in guiding State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and other reviewers towards a determination of eligibility and later listing in the NRHP.
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The City of New York Hosted 450 Israeli Startups in 2018
Ana Ariño, chief strategy officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, spoke at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in New York Thursday
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The city of New York was home to some 9,000 companies in 2018, Ana Ariño, chief strategy officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, said Thursday at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in New York.
Ariño was interviewed on stage by Guy Franklin, general manager of the New York center of startup network SOSA. In October, SOSA was selected to set up a global cyber center in New York.
Franklin added that 450 of the 9,000 startups mentioned by Ariño were Israeli.
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America's Got Powers #3 (of 7)
America's Got Powers
From aero to unlikely hero, Tommy Watts is the new face of America's Got Powers, the most-watched TV show on the planet! Behind the girls, glamour and glory though, there are hard personal truths to face ? and when he does face them, Tommy might just break the world.
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Welcome to AMERICA'S GOT POWERS! It's the biggest TV show on Earth, where the chance to win fame, fortune and get laid are dangled in front of a generation of super-powered teens. All they have to do is WIN. Who is the fastest, the strongest or the greatest? Who survives? Young Tommy Watt's dreams of being the greatest hero of them all might just be shattered when the greatest show on the planet b
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Protectors, Inc.: Heroes in a world without super-powered bad guys. Heroes with corporate sponsors and far too polite rivalries and sporting franchises. Heroes without anything or anyone to fight...until one of them is murdered in ways that could only have been accomplished by someone with equal powers. Solving the mystery falls to Lieutenant Detective John Riley, an ordinary man whose investigat
1944. In the waning days of World War II, at the dawn of the nuclear age, super-powered beings are beginning to emerge from the shadows of conflict, beginning with the arrival of the Artificial Man. The United States government has a plan to turn these new arrivals into heroes. But someone forgot to tell the heroes the plan. After the appearance of these strange and powerful figures across the
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'THE DEAL,' Part One There were seven, possessing the power of gods, and representing all that could be right with the world. But now... he is the Last. As humanity stands on the brink of annihilation, he is our only hope. And he hates us for what we've done. From the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated writer of ECHOES, Tumor and Elk's Run comes a dynamic new take on how far mankind will stoop to s
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NEVER-ENDING BATTLE FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE ENDS? From Collider Entertainment comes the next quantum leap forward in superheroes: UTOPIAN. The groundbreaking new series dares to ask: What happens when the superheroes win? What happens once there is no crime, no war? The heroes of UTOPIAN achieve their final victory only to face their greatest challenge ever. An all-star collabo
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© Matthew Johnson
The legend lives on
TEXT JESSICA BRAUN
PHOTOS MATTHEW JOHNSON
Just follow the people carrying guitars and you’ll end up in Nashville, Tennessee. There’s a lot more to listen to in this southern U.S. town than old country songs. We pay a visit to Music City
Souvenir concert tickets outside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Broadway, downtown Nashville
The parking lot is large and sparsely lit, but still about a hundred people have gathered here, in front of a row of unremarkable store fronts, waiting to get in. The atmosphere is charged. Everyone knows there’s a fantastic evening ahead because right here, between the hairdresser, the laundromat and the children’s clothing store, the legendary Bluebird Cafe will soon reverberate to the authentic Nashville sound. A small club with 1980s bistro charm, the Bluebird is famous as a venue for songwriters; many write songs that make others famous and some have even composed for Jerry Lee Lewis and Fleetwood Mac or jammed with the likes of Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin.
Almost everyone here in Nashville, Tennessee, is involved with music in one way or another. The city is small ( pop. roughly 660 000), but the music scene is huge, with more than twice as many jobs per capita in the industry here than in Los Angeles or New York. Between 1970 and 2006, Nashville was the only U.S. city where the music business kept expanding and attracting stars: Jack White, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Justin Timberlake and Sheryl Crow have all made Nashville their home. Add to that the hundreds of musicians only insiders know, the ones who provide live music at breakfast time in many bars and cafés. They drive for Uber to make ends meet and stand in line, guitar in hand, for open-mic and songwriter events in the hopes of getting their big break. They are the reason Nashville is known as the “Songwriting Capital of the World.”
Live music is played night and day at the honky-tonks downtown
You might walk past the next big star and not even notice on Broadway
The atmosphere at the Bluebird is intimate, like a jam session. Every newcomer dreams of playing a set here, but the standard is high. The manager, Erika Wollam Nichols, allows each candidate just one minute. Is she too tough? Wollam Nichols, with bangs and the imperturbability of the seasoned roadie, shakes her head. “That’s the average time people listen to a song on the radio before deciding to keep listening or switch to another station.” Taylor Swift and Keith Urban were both discovered here. Tonight, though, the performers are not young hopefuls but old hands. A guitarist in a hat takes the dimly lit stage. You don’t have to be from Nashville to recognize him: Colin Linden, a band member in the TV series “Nashville” and also a musical consultant to the show. Now in its sixth season, the internationally successful series regularly features the Bluebird Cafe. “So, do y’all feel like you’re in an episode of ‘Nashville’?” Linden asks the audience. “That woman over there invented us all.” The platinum-blond scriptwriter Callie Khouri, seated at a neighboring table, nods at the crowd. In 1992, Khouri won an Academy Award for her screenplay for Thelma & Louise and she’s the creative force behind “Nashville.” Since the show started, as many as 300 people have waited outside some nights, hoping to snag one of the Bluebird’s 100 seats. And thanks in large part to the series’ success, the city has become something of a tourist magnet, too.
“Nashville” is a show about country music, and it’s country music that has made the city famous. Downtown, you’ll find the Country Music Hall of Fame with a museum attached. As you walk down Lower Broadway, you will always hear country music issuing from the honky-tonks, which are often crowded by midday. But Nashville’s music is more complex: It’s a mix of punk rock, Americana, indie, pop and blues that has its own scene – off Honky Tonk Highway – in Melrose, 12 South and trendy East Nashville across the Cumberland River.
Recorded in Nashville
Musicians have been finding fame and fortune in Nashville for many years. A selection of best-of albums recorded there
Elvis is back!
Blonde on Blonde
Coat of Many Colours
Only by the night
View of downtown Nashville
Tanya Montana Coe was a corporate accountant before becoming a musician
It’s not yet noon in East Nashville’s hippy-esque Graze bistro. The door opens and redhead Tanya Montana Coe walks in sporting cowboy boots and a blouse that glitters differently with every movement. Born and raised in Nashville, the singer with the smooth, husky voice is one of those people who attracts attention even when they’re going for brunch. Her father, musician David Allan Coe, wrote “Tanya Montana” for his daughter when she was a teenager. Later, she didn’t want to have anything to do with the music business. “Show business loses its appeal when you spend most of your childhood somewhere backstage,” she explains, sipping a smoothie.
She didn’t start learning to play the guitar until she was in her twenties. She was working as an accountant then, but the office job was too constricting. “My friends were all doing something creative, and that was infectious.” She and a friend opened Goodbuy Girls, a vintage boutique selling stylish cowgirl boots and Western clothing. Once a week, they invited different musicians to play during their shop-and-sip happy hour. One night, one of them said: “Tanya, why don’t you play something.” The response surprised her completely: “The applause blew me away,” she recalls. When the husband of a friend offered to produce her debut album, she agreed and then spent three years honing her sound to make it as different from her father’s as possible. “I wanted it to be my own style, not what people expected.” Coe’s first album, Silver Bullet, came out in 2015, a true product born of talent and friendship. It sounds best right here in Nashville. Even as a child, she disliked touring on a grand scale. Coe, who recently released the single “Electric Blue,” still feels most at home in Nashville clubs.
I spent most of my childhood somewhere backstage
Tanya Montana Coe, Indie-Country Musician
BNA
Cowgirl’s closet: Musicians find plenty to wear for their music videos at the Goodbuy Girls vintage boutique
Jess Rice works at Third Man Records
Vinyl Tap has a huge selection of records
The city has just the right infrastructure for a newcomer like Coe: legendary studios, the historic letterpress printer Hatch Show Print and United Record Pressing, the largest operation of its kind in North America. There are countless outstanding musicians waiting to be booked for a studio recording here. Chances are that the guy making sandwiches at the café is a better drummer than the one who was just on the radio. Nashville’s location within the U.S. helps, too. They say that if you go on tour from Nashville, you’ll reach nearly half of the U.S. population within just one day. Some artists do so well, their success spills over onto everyone else. Jack White, founder of the White Stripes rock duo, influenced much more than the city’s indie scene when he established the physical headquarters of his label, Third Man Records (along with a performance venue and a record store) in Nashville. In addition to producing country legend Loretta Lynn and Nashville discovery Margo Price, his label releases blues, jazz, gospel and folk. Every set played in his The Blue Room club is pressed straight onto vinyl.
“When Father John Misty played there, they recorded the gig and gave guests a freshly pressed record to take home,” Heather Lose enthuses over a beer at the Vinyl Tap record store and bar. Lose – red curly hair and a hearty laugh – cofounded WXNA, a radio station run by enthusiasts that’s open to all genres. Musicians love it and it’s considered the city’s best station. An art director and photographer, Lose is also a typical Nashvillian. As the daughter of a bass player (and married to one, too), she’s crazy about music and works in the business. Before college, she spent some time with a record label in Los Angeles. What brought her back? “In a city like LA, the buildings are so much taller than you, you automatically feel small.” In Nashville, everyone finds their own creative niche and artists tend to work together rather than competing.
Night watchman: Santa in front of his trailer ...
... where jam sessions regularly take place
Wall advertisement in East Nashville for a Loretta Lynn exhibit at the Hall of Fame and Museum
On Saturday night, the house band at Santa’s Pub demonstrates the art of jamming. Santa is a tall man with a white beard and a trailer with Christmassy graffiti. The week-night karaoke events he holds there are wildly popular, perhaps because a can of beer costs just two dollars there, but also because he and his wife, Angelina, treat everyone like a favorite grandchild come for the weekend. Inside it’s like a scene from Urban Cowboy, the air thick with cigarette smoke and so full you can’t even get to the bar. There’s no dance floor, but the bearded gents in plaid shirts whirl their cowboy-hatted ladies around the tables in a spirited two-step without upsetting a single beer. The eight musicians just fit on the tiny stage. The double bass played by Carter Brallier, the band’s founder, nearly scrapes the low ceiling. The Ice Cold Pickers, Nashville’s best and youngest, talented and charming, play here every Sunday night. Admission is free but tips are welcome.
They get together at Santa’s to pay tribute to their musical heroes. After playing the first song themselves, they invite people from the audience onto the stage – singers, songwriters, guitarists, passers-
by. We tear up. Is it the smoke or the soft voice of Ben Haggard, son of the legendary Merle? It hardly matters. In the end, it’s the music that matters, the sound that endures from generation to generation and the lyrics that hang in the air after all the beer cans have been collected and the floors have been swept. Songs that were written right here in Nashville.
The regional dishes at Butcher & Bee are meant to be shared
Relaxing (in a cowboy hat, of course) on the Cumberland River Pedestrian Bridge
Nashville-Highlights
The 21c has rooms designed by artists and changing exhibitions.
21cmuseumhotels.com
down home
The Idea Hatchery is a small retail development for local designers.
theideahatchery.net
star allure
Designer Manuel has created outfits for stars from Elvis to Johnny Cash.
manuelcouture.com
hits the spot
The 5 Spot club has it all: live music, good drinks and nachos.
the5spot.club
Lufthansa flies up to twice daily from Frankfurt (FRA) and once daily from Munich to Chicago (ORD); United Airlines flies from there to Nashville (BNA). Use the app to calculate your miles. Download here: miles-and-more.com/app
Coming up roses
Many mountain villages are dying out on Cyprus, but Agros is flourishing. The damask rose, which grows there, creates prospects and jobs
“Such incredible energy”
Sky talk
As her directorial debut, Natalie Portman has made a film that takes place in Jerusalem – a city that holds her spellbound to this day. She talks about her strong Jewish roots
Finding socks under the tree
There are some really special socks from dedicated boutiques!
Treats for soccer tourists
With charters for sausages, guidelines for baguettes and birth certificates (appellations) for wine, food has always been a matter of state importance in France. Our experts bring us the local specialties
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Rena Arshinoff. Photo by Lorne Bridgman
January 3, 2018 | By Cynthia Macdonald
Rena Arshinoff was sitting in a hospital cafeteria one day, taking a break from her work as a medical researcher. The institution’s chaplain, a Baptist minister she knew, approached her table and asked: “What are you reading?”
Arshinoff (MHSc 1983) obliged her with the title: A Woman’s Journey to God.
The chaplain’s response was unusual. She didn’t see this book as idle reading for Arshinoff, but as a step toward something bigger. “You’re going to be a rabbi,” she said.
Arshinoff was intrigued – especially since others, too, were suggesting that she look into this radically different career. Recently, she’d been leading services at her local synagogue and immersing herself in religious life. But at almost 50, the nurse-turned-epidemiologist could already look back on not one but two full careers. Could she really embark on a third?
“Never in a million years did I think I would become a rabbi,” she says now, sitting in her office at Toronto’s Baycrest Health Sciences, a seniors’ hospital, residence and research centre where she herself is now chaplain. “I was accustomed to science, and looking for statistical significance in the data. To me, if there wasn’t proof, how do we know?”
But the late 1990s had been a challenging time for Arshinoff; her sister Arlene (known as Cookie) died in 1997, followed by her father three years later. The empirical proof she regularly hunted down at work could offer certainty, but not comfort.
Arshinoff’s journey took shape as she stopped at her synagogue every day on her way to work to commemorate her father’s life. Jewish mourning is long and methodical, parcelled out into periods of time: seven days of intense grieving during shiva, then 30 days of shloshim, followed by – in the case of a deceased parent – a year in which the Kaddish, or Hebrew mourner’s prayer, is recited daily. With each passing day, as she did the prayers, the Hebrew language became more familiar to her. She began to wear a kippah (skullcap) and prayer shawl, and decided to have a bat mitzvah, something that had not been readily available to girls in 1960s Montreal.
After the year of formal mourning was over, “I thought I’d just go back to being Rena the Epidemiologist,” she says. “But that didn’t work.” Her newfound religious life was becoming more and more meaningful.
Arshinoff’s losses, while painful, had revealed to her the power of spirituality. “There is a profound sense of community in Judaism,” she says. “We do a lot of public mourning in community, and that involves supporting each other.”
After she began leading services, the comments began. You would be such a great rabbi, said one friend. Then another. And another. One friend told her three times. “You know,” Arshinoff responded, “one day I’m not going to laugh at that joke anymore.” Her friend said she wasn’t joking.
And so it was that Arshinoff embarked on the long, arduous path toward ordination. This involved five years of study in Israel and Cincinnati, psychological testing, and a lengthy period living apart from her husband and three children (two of whom had already left home themselves). She trained for a further year as a chaplain, and was ordained as a rabbi in 2008.
Today Arshinoff has returned to hospital life – but in a spiritual, instead of scientific, capacity. “Because I had a health-care background, it made sense,” she says. Her experience of mourning inspired her to specialize in grief counselling. She is currently completing a PhD in palliative care at Lancaster University in England, and works as an instructor in U of T’s bereavement education program, a joint venture between OISE and the Canadian Centre for Bereavement Education and Grief Counselling.
Undoubtedly, this is emotionally difficult work, but Arshinoff never doubts her chosen path. “It’s not easy to bear witness to another person’s suffering,” she says. “But I am so privileged to work with people as they experience the healing. To be able to offer them opportunities that help them work through their grief is just so rewarding.”
“One woman,” she says, “came to see me for two-and-a-half years after her mother died. She thought she’d never have a time where she wasn’t in pain every moment.” At length, however, “when she thought of her mother, she didn’t have the pain she used to have. She now feels joy, warmth, love and gratitude for the relationship she had.” Judaism, Arshinoff explains, recommends that grieving not be extended indefinitely; the timelines for prayers build structure into the process and provide guidance through ritual. Seeing grief as a job – terms such as “grief work,” or “tasks of mourning” are common in the field – is thought to be therapeutic, both inside and outside the faith.
“And at the same time, grief isn’t linear,” Arshinoff admits. “We can find ourselves on an emotional roller-coaster and sometimes it doesn’t take much to start grieving again. It could be a song on the radio, or something else.” Her own “something else” moment came in a grocery store when she was shopping for grapes, and caught the scent of her sister’s Clinique perfume on another shopper.
Such moments can be terribly sad, but they help Arshinoff identify with the people she counsels. These include children – she leads support groups as a volunteer with Bereaved Families of Ontario – as well as the seniors at Baycrest. In the past year, she has also started working with patients with spinal cord injuries at Toronto’s Lyndhurst Centre. “These patients are dealing with huge changes in their lives; they’re learning how to live a new kind of life,” she says. “Sometimes I’ll sit with family members, and ask how they’re managing.”
If it all seems a long way from the number-crunching and data analysis of her previous life, in some ways it isn’t. In the early years of Arshinoff’s epidemiology career, she worked as an AIDS researcher, neutralizing tragedy as best she could using reason and science. The book she was reading that day in the cafeteria – A Woman’s Journey to God – was actually written by a microbiologist who, says Arshinoff, “was tired of knowing people by their cells in petri dishes. She wanted to know who they really were.”
Last August, Arshinoff was appointed as an adjunct lecturer at U of T in the department of family and community medicine’s palliative care division. She hopes to teach students about health care’s qualitative aspects, rather than the quantitative metrics that dominated her past. “In my work now, I don’t look at statistics or p-values, I look at feelings. And feelings are not easily measured, or rational. Coming from science, I always thought I was a rational person. But I started to see that some components of life are more nebulous: They just require reflection – and acceptance.”
Tags: 1980s alumni, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), School of Graduate Studies
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One Response to “ A New Life After Loss ”
Joyce Thomas says:
Love this story! It's so inspirational, and it made me think of my daughter. She has finished one degree and is now working through her second. Like so many young adults, she needs to know that she can explore more than one career path and not be afraid to do so. It just takes time and the passion to continue to learn and grow.
The Art of Design
Gord Dorrett explains why FORREC has given $100,000 to support a “critique room” at U of T's new Daniels Building
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CIVIL SOCIETY SUPPORT
Improving fundraising & donor retention
Category: Civil Society Support
Client: ActionAid India
ActionAid India is a locally registered CSO that works to fight poverty and it does this by partnering with projects at the grassroot level and securing support through child sponsorship for such projects. ActionAid Sponsorship Unit that manages donor relations and donor retention required to develop skills and insights into improving methods of communication.
Mahiti was assigned the task of handholding ActionAid Sponsorship Unit and developing communications to improve fundraising and donor retention in India. To make this happen, Mahiti developed a road map and template for various donor communications and short films to be used for fundraising. To ensure sustainability, the Sponsorship Unit's team was trained to independently create engaging and dynamic content for existing and potential donors. Know More
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whxjjPGwCR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nalIOYREY_8
Duration: 20 July 2012 to 19 June 2013
Developing a website that improves public engagement in policy debates
Category: Community Empowerment
Client: Centre for Policy Research(CPR)
CPR has been one of India’s leading public policy think tanks since 1973. It is a CSO dedicated to conducting research that contributes to a more robust public discourse about the structures and processes that shape life in India. CPR is a Department of Science and Technology (DST) recognised institution and is a member institution of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI), a programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Mahiti architected, designed and developed a website for CPR to improve public engagement in policy debates. Know More
Duration: 14 July 2013 to 13 July 2014
Re-designing and development of website with a Content Management System
Client: Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)
CSTEP is an Indian CSO incorporated in 2005 under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956. It is a multi-disciplinary policy research organisation in the areas of Energy, Infrastructure, Security Studies, Materials, Climate Studies and Governance. As one of the largest Think Tanks in South Asia, CSTEP's mission is to impact policy at governmental and corporate levels by assessing and designing science and technology options with informed and systematic analysis for equitable and inclusive human development and economic growth. CSTEP is recognised as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
CSTEP wanted to revamp their website and be able to project their work and research on their website that would be accessed by organisations across the world. Mahiti redesigned and developed CSTEP’s website with a Content Management System.
Mahiti also created a micro-site for their initiative FOWIND. A consortium led by Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) is implementing the Facilitating Offshore Wind in India (FOWIND) project. The other consortium partners include CSTEP, DNV GL, the Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) and the World Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE). http://www.fowind.in/
Duration: 15 April 2014 to 06 March 2015
Educating 38 CSO Partners in effective communications
Client: Development Focus
Development Focus(DF) is an Indian CSO in Bangalore working on education and skills for employment in the least developed States in India i.e. Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, where poverty level is higher than most States. It supports 38 partners across 15 of the poorest districts in these States, where Dalit and tribal populations are high, to implement projects related to education, vocational skills, employment & entrepreneurship. DF through its partners cover over 100,000 children in nearly 900 schools in 900 villages.
Development Focus contracted Mahiti to build its partners' capacity in communications that will help raise their visibility and mobilise support for their programmes.
Partners of Development Focus participated in workshops delivered by Mahiti, on the basics of fundraising and communications, in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. The workshop also covered video production/editing techniques and lessons in effective use of social media. Know More
Duration: 31 July 2012 to 29 April 2013
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awesome geographers
In-Betweeny Geographers
April 21, 2015 Natasha Majewski Leave a comment
The power of in-between places has been studied by many earth explorers. Here are a few that really delve into those abstract identities of what makes a place a place.
John Kirtland Wright: In the 1940s, John Kirtland Wright pioneered concepts of human perception as an important factor to geographical understanding, writing about how the feel of a place was as important as the actual material composition. Wright called to fellow geographers to embrace rather than disregard their perceptions of the world, allowing their own siren call of the imagination to lead them, and their aesthetic subjectivity, with creativity as its guide, to direct world discoveries (Wright, 1947).
Wright, J. K. (1947). Terrae incognitae: The place of the imagination in geography. Annals for the Association of American Geographers, 37(1), 1-15.
Edward Casey: Humanistic and philosophical geographer Edward Casey explores multiple concepts of place, with perception as an important part of the process of understanding the world around us, to which he called us placelings. Casey writes:
“Minimally places gather things in their midst — where “things connote various animate and inanimate entities. Places also gather experiences and histories, even languages and thoughts. Think only of what it means to go back to a place you know, finding it full of memories and expectations, old things and new things, the familiar and the strange, and much more besides…(this) power belongs to place itself, and it is a power of gathering.” (1996, p. 24-25)
Casey, E. S. (1996). How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena. In S. a. B. Feld, K.H. (Ed.), Senses of place (pp. 13-52). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Keith Basso: An anthropologist by training, Keith Basso’s work incorporates a philosophical search for place meaning beyond Western thought. In his investigation of Apache people’s connections to landscape, Basso concludes that “sense of place” is experienced in both the “heart and mind” (1996, p. 54). Basso scribes an elder’s poetic expression of his homeland, inspiring the title of his 1996 work Wisdom Sits in Places:
“Wisdom sits in places. It’s like water that never dries up. You need to drink water to stay alive, don’t you? Well you also need to drink from places. You must remember everything about them. You must learn their names. You must remember what happened at them long ago. You must think about it and keep on thinking about it.” (A passage told by Apache elder Dudley Patterson, p. 70).
Basso, K. H. (1996). Wisdom sits in places:Notes of a Western Apache landscape. In S. B. Feld, K.H. (Ed.), Senses of place (pp. 53-90). Santa Fe, New Mexico School of American Research Press.
Yi-Fu Tuan: A paramount figure in the formation of humanistic geography, Yi-Fu Tuan explored phenomenology and existentialism in the landscape, delving into ideas of sense and feeling of place, including how we bond to our environments emotionally. Tuan relates the fundamental importance of connecting an individual’s intimate relationships to places, writing:
“The feel of the pavement, the smell of the evening air, and the color of autumn foliage become, through long acquaintance, extensions of ourselves-not just a stage but supporting actors in the human drama” (1974, p. 452).
Tuan, Y.-F. (1974). Topophilia: A study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values (Morningside Edition 1990 ed.). New York: Colombia University Press. rs.
Doreen Massey: Social geographer Doreen Massey investigates construction of place, arguing that human activity plays a large role in the constant shifting expression of place identity. Massey focuses on the complexities making-up individual identities which transfer to place-making identities writing ” conflict between interests and views of what the area is and what it ought to become.” (1991, p. 276). Massey writes:
“Localities are constructions out of the intersections and interactions of concrete social relations and social processes in a situation of copresence…It is people, not places in themselves, which arereactionary or progressive. (1991, p. 278)
Massey, D. (1991). The political place of locality studies. Environment and Planning A, 23(2), 267-281.
Who are your favorite in-betweenies?
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Fully Funded Public Schools: Australian Greens Launch Package for Public Education
The Australian Greens have announced plans for a huge investment in public schools, committing an additional $4.6 billion for public schools over the next four years and $20.5 billion over the next ten years. Under this plan, all public schools would reach 100% of their Schooling Resource Standard by 2023. This will ensure every public school in Australia has the funding to meet the educational needs of their students, no matter their postcode or their parents’ bank balance.
In addition to this, the Greens will increase funding to the existing Capital Grants Program to $400 million a year to improve infrastructure in all schools. This fund will include public schools, which are currently excluded, and guarantee 80% of the fund, $320 million a year, for public schools only.
The Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, said:
“The Greens are proudly the party of public education. We are unapologetic in our advocacy for a well-resourced, world class public education system.
“For too long, public schools have had to wait at the back of the queue while Government’s pander to already overfunded private schools. The Greens will ensure that, for the first time, every public school is fully funded.
“There are more than 2.5 million students going to public schools who deserve the best possible education we can offer them. We have to step up and invest in their future.
“We know education is life changing. All public school students should have the funding for a world class education.
“If we continue on the current trajectory, almost nine in ten public schools won’t be funded to meet the basic needs of their students. This is a national shame.
“Ninety-three percent of public school teachers dip into their own pocket to buy stationery and classroom equipment, and nearly half buy library resources and textbooks to make up for the lack of Government funding. It doesn’t have to be this way.
“A world class education can only happen in quality and comfortable learning environments for students and teachers. At the moment, public school students continue to sweat it out in demountable classrooms with no air conditioning, while some private schools build orchestra pits and their second swimming pool. We will ensure $320 million a year goes to disadvantaged and needy public schools to assist in upgrading and building infrastructure,” she concluded.
The Greens policy will see the Commonwealth Government make a guaranteed 25% contribution to each school’s Schooling Resource Standard (SRS), the minimum amount of funding needed to provide a quality education. This will amount to $20.5 billion over ten years.
Our Plan: Additional Commonwealth Recurrent Funding for public schools
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Author Archives: MR
A lifelong Torontonian
Posted on January 16, 2019 by MR
Thank you for visiting this page. Below you will find all nine parts of the poem “Scar Tissue”. The words of other poets are in another colour. In each section, the colour of the quote will correspond to the author’s name and the poem the words come from.
A suite for The Gryphon Trio
1. Unity
This body and its grace of being—
I sing gratitude full of feeling
for telomeres and collagen. Our
world is the dream we’re having while we
live these lives on earth. So this is who
I am, this body. Hallellujah!
Don’t be bothered by death. Unity
is only for the here and now. We
must mourn, come night, so let’s celebrate.
William Wordsworth, “One’s-Self I Sing”
Sharon Olds, “This”
John Donne, “Elegy Twelve: His Parting From Her”
2. Change
In the present, it only feels
like things are staying still. The green
fuse burns and sparks life. Your body
will change by the end of this song.
It’s hard to live by wits alone.
You still need nature on your side.
Today, the rain: Plip plip then (crack!)
it’s boiling everywhere now.
Dylan Thomas, “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”
Margaret Avison, “Cloudburst”
3. Growth
A star probably still has light,
don’t doubt that herald, flying
at its own speed to glow here
on you. Starblown energy
charged with fire. Change is the
nursery of music, joy,
life and eternity. Sing it.
Paul Celan, “The Straightening”
John Donne, “Elegy 3: Change”
4. Disturbance
And now good morrow to
our waking souls. Pain has
an element of blank —
it cannot recollect
when it began, nor re-
call its first disturbance.
John Donne, “The Good Morrow”
Emily Dickenson, “The Mystery of Pain”
5. Wound
A breach opens. In
becomes out. Stunning
din of a sob. Hold on!
Your scarred skin boat — in-
conceivable now.
Mary Ruefle, “Furtherness”
Michael Ondaatje, “[Kissing the Stomach]”
Margaret Avison, “Patience”
6. Debris
For when I look at you,
even a moment, no
speaking is left in me.
I’m never alone now.
My God, how we all swiftly
swiftly unwrap our lives.
Anne Carson/Sappho, Fragment #31
Don Coles, “How We All Swiftly”
7. Relict
The savage pianist
annually growing hands
to salvage music from notes.
The lost arpeggio ends
in fatty acids drowned
in so many singing mouths.
Just press my hand if you know.
Don McKay,
Don McKay, “?”
Don Coles, “Landslides”
Phosphatidylinositol,
is central to metabolic
processes. It’s like a music
that plays under everything, and
no one knows it. It wounds without
the pleasure of a scar. I am
carried in my shadow like a
violin in its black case.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia
Michael Ondaatje, “The Cinnamon Peeler”
Tomas Tranströmer, “April and Silence”
9. Renewal
The maidens sang a holy song and
straight up the air went amazing sound!
A small child says, ‘I love you’ and lilies
in the yard throw open the doors of
the heart. Accept Lord Mother/Father
the briefness of this life you’ve granted.
As proof of my love, I offer this.
Pity my voice burning in your mouth:
Eros comes nowhere near this bliss.
Don Coles, “Abrupt Daylight Sadness”
Mary Ruefle, “Nothing Like the Earth”
bpnichol, “Continental Trance”
John Donne, adapted from “Witchcraft by a Picture”
Anne Carson/Sappho, Fragment 44Aa
Posted on December 5, 2012 by MR
Last week, I read part of a short story at a reading held at the Magpie Taproom in Toronto, for the University of Guelph MFA in Creative Writing. The story was too long to read in its entirety and I thought people might want to find out how it ends.
You can read the story right off this blog by clicking on the cover image above, but the formatting sucks. If you want to download a digital version for your e-reader, you can get it at Amazon. The e-version costs 99¢. You can get that file here.
Thanks to Catherine Bush and the other U of Guelphians at the Magpie last week.
Red Hand was written in 1998-99, and was cut from my story collection Fidelity by a queamish editor. It’s never been published, until now. I hope you enjoy it.
Posted on October 25, 2012 by MR
I read this week of the shuttering of bicoastal Canadian publisher Douglas & MacIntyre with the sadness many other writers and readers did. But immediately afterward, and for not the first time in recent memory, parts of the media announced that the great and noble dream of a Canadian culture was dead. And of course, and with reason, some folks replied that such rumours were exagerrations. (To wit, a warm and well-written reply by Anansi’s Matt Williams to John Barber’s endtimes article in the Globe.)
When local or national cultural concerns go down, it does make you shake your head. But in some ways, it shouldn’t. I’m sad D&M will not, at least in its current incarnation, continue to find authors and make books in some form. But I have no illusions that their demise in any way is a sign of general rot or decline in my or anyone’s ability to read, write, or publish.
A lot of realities have contributed to what happened to D&M, but any one of them could have resulted in a failure to thrive: globalisation, the Internet, the state of international economies, a sea change in technology, the shifting nature of literacy, the corporatisation of publishing the world over. So it can’t come as a surprise that the tenderest shoots may die off or change. But while it’s happening, something else is happening as well, and to view the closure of a publishing house, no matter how dear, as a sign of the apocalypse is (I think) a mistake.
We’re in the midst of an evolutionary shift that is affecting not only how we create and consume culture, but even the materials of it. The terms “virtual” and “digital” only begin to contain the nature of the change. Remember how much hand-wringing there was over NAFTA? NAFTA was going to destroy culture. Doesn’t it seem quaint now compared to the Internet, though? The Internet has taken our borders away much more significantly than any free trade agreement could have. It’s convinced us we ought to talk about our feelings in public, with strangers. It’s convinced us to buy eyeglasses without trying them on. It’s turned us into readers and writers much more than books and magazines and newspapers ever could have. Just as significant as the gradual decline of books and book publishing is and will be, think about the push-and-pull of the Internet on literacy and the gradual outcomes of digitization, and imagine what that will mean for what gets read and how it gets read in the future. Then answer this: is the disappearance of publishers, the decline in physical book sales, and the difficulty of making a living as writer tragic or inevitable?
Already it seems clear to me that self-publishing is the most important advance the Internet offers, and making it possible for anyone to have a voice is its greatest contribution to cultural democracy. It’s been fun buying old comic books off of eBay, but the fact that almost anyone at any time can tell their story (and get readers) has already changed the game for good. Maybe some stories will only have three readers, but they will be readers all the same, seeking readerly pleasure: to hear a human voice, to be told a story, to have an emotion. Despite its coldness as a technology, the Internet was built for feeling and it is remarkably good at not just providing a forum for it, but for storing emotion as well.
One thing I find especially interesting is that flood of commerce on the Internet has had no meaningful effect on this layer of it, where all this storytelling is going on. In blogs, in the comments sections of gazoolions of websites, in forums, through Twitter (where the ancient art of aphorism has been reborn), and through ancillary avenues of expression, like Facebook and YouTube. Much of what you find is raw and rough, much is autobiographical or terse or truculent, but there are human voices out there in a quantity we have never known in the history of human society. And it is changing publishing, as much as it is changing what reading is, and what an author is. This change is not on the level of one technology displacing another. Books vs. Internet ≠ horse vs. car. It’s closer to lizard vs. bird. They are not the same in just about any way it matters, except one evolved into the other.
We see the closure of D&M and we wonder: what’s next? But we already know, even if those of us who depend on that infrastructure are afraid to say it out loud. We know that within fifteen years books and publishing books will be a boutique business. Someday awful soon, the people who really don’t want to give up books will be offered something almost identical to them, with pages that turn and all, but they’ll still upload text. Maybe you’ll buy different sizes to upload different kinds of things to. There’ll be a coffee-table book device, a pocketbook device, a comic book device, and so on. For those of us who like the feel of the analog reading experience—two carbon life forms curling up with each other—the virtual book will make your Kindle seem like a grandfather clock. But publishing houses? Sprawling bookstores? Um, I don’t think so.
So whither publishing houses? Whither books? More of what is happening right now. Small, regional, expressly literary, risk-taking, or specialist publishers like Anansi, Coach House, Cormorant, Pedlar, Playwright’s Canada, Gaspereau, Brick, Wolsak & Wynn, Annick, Biblioasis, Cocteau, Dundurn, Raincoast, and so on are going to keep doing what they do: finding and publishing and trying to survive. Some will make the leap fully to virtual publishing. A few, or many, more will die. Amazon is going to be a part of it all whether you, Author Currently Published by a Non-Virtual Entity, like it or not. There will be more paroxyms. But even as we brace ourselves, we shouldn’t be waiting for the sky to fall. We need to brace ourselves the way Johannes Gutenberg’s countrymen—the ones who were decrying the end of the scroll—prepared themselves for what was to come.
Thank you D&M, because publishers like you carried on what was nothing less than a thankless, ongoing act of citizenship. Who could expect you to live forever? But no books have died, no ideas have died, and the new, in all its forms, is ceaselessly arriving. The only death knell is for yesterday.
Posted in Writing | Tagged blogs, Canadian publishing, Douglas & Macintyre, ebooks, internet publishing, Key Porter, Mclelland & Stewart, Stoddart | 1 Reply
[Hey, if you click the titles of my posts, you can see them laid out in a more eye-pleasing form. Should that sort of thing appeal to you.]
I’m out in Banff, Alberta for two weeks, at the Banff Centre. I’ve been sitting in a studio in the woods, typing. Fourteen hour days with the music playing and the trees bending outside in the faint wind. I’ve somehow written 15,000 words in one week, which is shocking to me, but when the phone doesn’t ring and the elk leave you alone, you can get a lot done.
Banff is a mythical place to me, especially the centre. I first came here in 1984, when I was 18, to participate in the theatre program. I was in the “beginner” program; there were two levels. The “senior” program involved frightening older people who really knew how to emote. David Barnet, who still teaches at U of A, was the acting teacher that summer for our group. I don’t remember much except the last day, when David gave us our marks out loud, in a group setting. We were all given Bs, I think, owing to our efforts (these grades counted toward high school or university, if I’m remembering correctly), but the real appraisals were given live, in front of our peers. He talked about what each of our strengths and weaknesses were as actors. When he was done, he’d discussed everyone but me. There were protests from the rest of the class, and he finally admitted he’d skipped me. “I skipped you, Mr. Redhill,” he said, “because you’re not an actor. You don’t know what you’re doing. However, I’ve never seen anyone analyse a text the way you do. Your insight into character is quite fine. But, you can’t embody it.”
It was therefore his fault that I went to university for acting the following year. To prove him wrong. In Bloomington, Indiana. I lasted one year.
We also had to take “movement” class, which was some kind of dance class. We wore leotards and dance belts. All you need to know about a dance belt is that it’s a pair of thong underwear crossed with a boxing glove. It’s big, and it holds your nuts in a vice and goes straight up your bum. It’s supposed to make your grande chausees better I guess. It had no effect on mine. The teacher of the class was a 74-yr-old man named Paul Draper. Paul was tall, with an incredibly erect bearing, and he had a tragic story. He was a tapper, and he’d been famous in the 30s and 40s. Hugely famous. Hollywood, Carnegie Hall, Broadway. He performed for ten years with Larry Adler. Then he came to the attention of Joseph McCarthy and his friends and he was blacklisted for life. He told us the only work he could get in the movies after that was doing shadow dancing, like behind a curtain, a sihouette.
He took dancing seriously. When he was showing us a routine, he’d move his feet through it, murmuring some kind of private language hup-a-hup-dup-dup-dohh and then we tried to do it. He was ferocious. Despite the fact that none of us had had any training in dance, he would be furious with us if we couldn’t get it. The highest mark he gave was a C+. He gave me, who moved like a spavinned ape, an F. He died at 86 years of age in 1996.
I fell in love for the first time that summer, too. First, some kind young woman kissed me on the lawn behind Donald Cameron during a costume party. I was dressed in civilian clothes, but I had a shirtboard Superman “S” taped to my t-shirt. Guess it worked. Then I met someone and eventually had a relationship with her! But in August of 1984, we were meeting for the first time.
I came back to the centre in ’88 and ’89 for the writing programs. More my speed. In 1988, the writing program at Banff had as students Gil Adamson, Laura Lush, Terry Jordan, Rick Hillis, Gabrielle Gunther, Lesley-Anne Bourne, Jean Yoon, and others whose names I’m neglecting to recall. I shared a room with a man who, some years later, changed his name to Algo McNada, which he said meant Nothing From Nothing. He got married to another student who was here that year, too. W.O. Mitchell, huffing snuff, Alistair MacLeod, Richard Lemm, Lorna Crozier, Dale (now David) Zieroth and Holly Ballard Rubinsky were the teachers. All of them were wonderful. Holly and Bill are gone now. Bill was already getting a little old and forgetful. Holly would have to draw him away from the students, who he would have spent 12 hours a day talking to, and remind him to go eat.
That summer of ’84, we had a student from Calgary, a young woman whose father was a rigid, religious type and who disdained the arts, especially dance and theatre because it was too physical. Her mother had plotted with her in secret to get her here, and here she was, slight, pale, frightened, but talented. In the second week, her father found out she wasn’t in bible camp and told her to wait for him; he was coming to get her. That night, sitting in the third-floor lounge, a bunch of us saw her walk into the elevator in what looked for all the world like a wedding dress. She’d pushed the up button. We looked at each other silently and then made a run for the stairwell. We ran up three flights of stairs, to the top floor and began looking for her frantically. She was standing at the railing on the outdoor deck, looking down. Three of us grabbed her and held her. Her father came the next day and I’ve never heard of her since.
1989, I was here in the May Studio, working on poetry with Don Coles. I remember Don reading the whole manuscript of K in Love to us in his room. Laura and Lesley were there that year, too, as well as Steve Heighton, Karen Connolly and, again, faces without names. (Someone, I know, is going to write me an angry email—we were best friends in 1989! Forgive me, whoever you are.) I was working on the poems that would become Lake Nora Arms that year. That book wasn’t published until 1993, but my real beginnings as a writer are rooted in that month in 1989.
1989 was one of the years that Adele Wiseman, the late and lamented Adele Wiseman, was the head of the literary program at Banff. She was a fierce woman who took no prisoners, and she was political to her toenails. However, she was also one of the warmest human beings I’d ever known. In my early twenties, I was a frequent dinner guest in Adele’s house in Toronto, but this summer, I was meeting her for the first time.
She was driving me and two young women to the Banff Springs Hotel because the program was having its yearly visit to the gourmet trough that is Sunday Brunch at the Banff Springs. And one of the women in the car was talking about the movie Stand By Me, that film with River Phoenix, remember, based on that Stephen King story? This young woman was talking in dreamy tones about the boys in the movie and how sad the movie was, etc etc, and when we parked the car in the hotel parking lot, Adele turned around in her seat to her and said, “That movie is a garbagy piece of misogynistic bullshit.” And got out of the car. And then we got out of the car. Adele waited for us and when the young woman caught up to her, Adele said, “I’m very disappointed in your feminism.” Then she put her arm around her and a minute later they were laughing at something. Adele Wiseman was a force of nature and I was lucky to know her.
In 1991, I came to the Leighton Artists Colony for the first time. I wrote a terrible screenplay. The few people who read it died instantly of brain hemmorages. I was at York, in film school, by that point. I’m in the same studio I was in in 1991 right now: Hemingway. Perfectly round, with a high conical roof, and a balcony that looks out onto the woods.
In 2001, I was here as part of the Banff/Calgary Wordfest (running as I write this in fact) and met Nick Earls, who’s now an old friend. That was the year of my novel Martin Sloane and I recall experimenting, serially, with how much I could drink at book festivals. Finally, I was here in 2002, helping, with John Murrell, to dramaturge a multimedia piece that the Gryphon Trio was developing. The centre had changed some since 1991, but nothing like it’s changed beween 2002 and now. The quaint, Swiss-cottagey centerpiece of the whole campus is gone. Donald Cameron Hall, which used to house the administration, the cafeteria, a bar, a nice little shop, and other things is gone, replaced by this:
I accept that corporate citizenship leads to things like this, and support of culture from the private sector is very important, but when they block your view of the mountains and stomp on your memories, I don’t like it as much. They’ve done something similarly blocky and unfortunate with the Sally Borden, which used to house the rec centre and had a huge lounge for artists to gather in. It was built to mimic, in reverse, the peak of Mount Rundle, which is behind it. Now it’s a massive hunk of pleasantly designed, multi-purpose CorpoStructure. No lounge anymore. No fireplace. No pool table.
At least Lloyd Hall is the same. The main dorm. I walked in there a week ago and smelled its slightly yeasty carpets, the vaguely pleasant pong of human beings living and sleeping all together and it shot me back to 1984.
I’ve been here a week in the Leighton Colony. It’s been wonderful to be here again, to have the mountains and the trees and the animals (I’ve even seen one of these!):
A pine marten. Latin name: Oo-cutie-pa-pootie-num-num
My life as a writer would have been different without The Banff Centre. I was lucky to discover it, and so many writers in this country have passed through here and been glad they did. And thank goodness they haven’t touched the Leighton Colony. DON’T TOUCH THE COLONY, BANFF CENTRE! It’s such a wonderful place to work.
Both the centre and the town have changed a great deal in twenty years. In the town, there are more souvenir shops. A Gap. A Keg. But it still has the charm I remember when I was eighteen, galloping downhill with a girl I’d just met to the Magpie and Stump, probably the worst Mexican food in Canada.
I’m going to be on The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers this Monday at 1pm EST. I’m talking about Inger, me, and writing in general. I think it went pretty well, hope you’ll listen in. The wonderful Christine Pountney is on the show, too, talking about her novel, Sweet Jesus. If you miss the show and want to listen to the podcast, click here.
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing | Tagged Banff, Banff Centre, canadian fiction, fiction, memoir, michael redhill, writing process | Leave a reply
This is an open letter to Mayor Robert Ford, from a concerned citizen. First off, I didn’t vote for you, but I’m glad you’re the mayor. You’re actually quite good for Toronto. But these are hard times for you. You must be feeling cornered. The press has united against you, you have very few allies left on council, your support has plummetted. The walls are closing in. You’re feeling it now.
It would be understandable if you were worried that one day people are going to say your mayoralty was a failure. But they won’t, Mr. Mayor. No, they are going to call it magnificent. Because just now, in your darkest hour, you are going to resist the urge that is growing in you, the urge to wash your hands of it all. As in: fuck ‘em, they don’t deserve me. Fuck all of them.
But don’t do it.
Sure, if you resign, you’ll be replaced, maybe even by a sock puppet, and the new mayor will do a very professional job. You’re not doing a very professional job, but duh, how could you? You weren’t cut out for this. Someone told you you had to be more “important” to be worth something. And you had lots of pressure from biglittle brother and who knows who else and lots of people put the thoughts into your head that you have in your head. That wasn’t very nice of them, and probably you shouldn’t have listened.
And really and truly, a lot of people really like you, and they are just as mad at the people you’re mad it. The ones who have tried to make you look dumb. The ones who have split hairs. The ones who have sought any technicality to discredit you. The fucking haters, man! It must be awful! But listen, Batman had enemies. And what happened to Batman’s enemies? These are thoughts you need to start having.
Anyway, I guess you could resign. It’s viable, and there is an upside. You could have someone write you the most charming, incredible resignation speech that’s ever been written (look me up) and then you give the speech with grace and a cheering soupçon of your personality—it’s all for the good of the city, the city has to have confidence in its mayor, despite my best efforts, my first love is football, etc etc—and ten years from now, you have a statue of yourself in Etobicoke. Guaranteed. Resignation could be a good outcome for everyone because the city would get back to business and you could get your tuchis out of the fire and de-stress and get your health back. Those are all plusses, obviously. Your health is of serious concern to all Torontonians, it really is. No one wants you to be unwell!
So there are certainly some arguments for walking away from it all, and you can get help taking the high road for sure. But let me tell you why you shouldn’t. You shouldn’t quit because although you are a lousy mayor, you are a great artist. You are one of the most magificent clowns we have ever known. And not a clown in the way the people in the hemp underwear spit that word at you, but well and truly, like Pagliacci, like Emmet Kelly, the greatest clown ever, who would try, and fail, to sweep up a pool of light. People wept for joy.
Your performance, Mr. Mayor, has gladdened the people of Toronto. Like Oliver Hardy, like W.C. Fields, like Ed Koch, your face is the truth. Your inner self is expressed through it as if through a magical foghorn. You speak without guile; your grand comedy is offered gallantly with a straight face and your choices—the sum of every great artist—are astonishing and fill us with delight.
There have been unintended consequences, but you have made love bloom in Toronto, Mayor Rob Ford, and especially in the old city of Toronto, where sleepy citizens, used to business as usual—are you noticing how World Class we are?—have awoken to actually be in the city. You did that! That is awesome! You’ve made a whole city look at itself and people here are talking about how they feel about Toronto, and what they want out of their own city. They never really did that before. They’re out a lot, wandering around. Your marketing people should change the ad campaign from “We’re expecting you,” to “We can fit you in.” It’s electric out there. You’re presiding over an important moment in civic history, and you’re adding soul-cleansing laughter to it.
Unfortunately, the people who elected you are going to get mad because you were supposed to solve transit and you haven’t, and you’ve let the lefty lawyers in, and you have appeared, at times, intemperate, and then there’s all that stuff about supposedly manipulating and rushing staff over public board appointments. I’m not sure I get that bit, but you’re the comic genius, not me. But the suburbanites didn’t even get the ferris wheel joke, and that’s too bad because it means you lost them early. And in the old city of Toronto, we don’t have enough votes to bring you back for four more years! The thought of an epoch of you in office makes me jellylike with pleasure.
So it won’t happen. In all likelihood, you won’t be back. And you’re basically powerless now, so you’re really just going to have to choose. You could resign, which really would be tragic, OR … you could just let it go! You could let your shoulders down and go coo-coo. Have fun. Make some incredible pronouncements. What the fuck, make a reality show out of it. Why couldn’t you do that? Do what you’re doing on the radio on television. (First episode: the Mayor rallies to push the Toronto Islands back up against the mainland in order to build the largest haunted boat ride in the world. Right on our NEW waterfront …)
If you take this route, you can just go to council when you’ve got time and you feel like it. Just do it right in the open. Answer phones. Everyone will eventually get the idea. Council will do some councilly stuff if you’re not there, big whup. (Have you read the stuff they gotta read? I just read the Ombudsman’s report and that’s forty-five pages to say you lit a fire under staff’s collective bottom and they couldn’t handle the heat! Why does there have to be so much work before the work gets started? Get people on boards, get the boards to work. They want it to look like the UN, and you don’t care, just get it done. There are a lot of capable people standing right outside the door. And some people are complaining about the optics, but like I say, it’s brilliant. It’s like watching a whole troop of clowns pile into the backseat of 1982 El Dorado with you, waving a baton.)
I am being honest when I say I have no idea what you’re going to do next, but I’ll tell you, I am glued to my set and my eyes are wide with wonder. So don’t go. Unless you really think it would be better. But don’t. If you give us two more years, we’ll try to be worthy of you. In the meantime, Mr. Mayor, bravo.
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The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio in North America) is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis, with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting. The film has an ensemble cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh. Set in 1966, it tells the story of the fictitious pirate radio station "Radio Rock" and its crew of eclectic disc jockeys, who broadcast rock and pop music to the United Kingdom from a ship anchored in the North Sea while the British government endeavours to shut them down. It was produced by Working Title Films for Universal Pictures, and was filmed on the Isle of Portland and at Shepperton Studios.
The film opened 1 April 2009 and was a commercial failure at the British box office, making only £6.1 million in its first twelve weeks, less than a quarter of its over £30 million production cost. It received mixed reviews, with most criticism directed at its muddled storyline and 2¼-hour length. For its North American release it was re-edited to trim its running time by twenty minutes, and retitled Pirate Radio. Opening 13 November 2009, Pirate Radio was still commercially unsuccessful, earning only about US$8 million (approximately £5 million).
3.1 North American release
5 Historical setting
7 Home media
In 1966, numerous pirate radio stations broadcast to the United Kingdom from ships anchored in international waters, specializing in rock and pop music that is not played on BBC Radio. Seventeen year-old Carl (Tom Sturridge), recently expelled from school, is sent to stay with his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy), who runs the station "Radio Rock" anchored in the North Sea. The eclectic crew of disc jockeys and staffers, led by the brash American DJ "The Count" (Philip Seymour Hoffman), quickly accept Carl as one of their own.
In London, government minister Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) resolves to shut down pirate radio stations due to their commercialism and low morals, instructing his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find legal loopholes that will serve this end. They attempt to cut off the stations' revenue by prohibiting British businesses from advertising on unlicensed radio stations. Quentin counters this by bringing massively popular DJ Gavin Kavanagh (Rhys Ifans) out of retirement and onto Radio Rock, enticing his advertisers to work around the law by paying their bills from abroad. Gavin's popularity creates a rivalry between himself and The Count, who was initially brought to Radio Rock as Gavin's replacement.
On his eighteenth birthday Carl is introduced to Quentin's niece Marianne (Talulah Riley) and falls instantly in love with her, but is heartbroken when she is seduced by Doctor Dave (Nick Frost). Carl's roommate "Thick" Kevin (Tom Brooke) observes that the sex, drug, and alcohol-filled atmosphere of Radio Rock is clearly no place for Carl to get on the straight-and-narrow. He theorizes that the real reason Carl's mother sent him there is that his father—whom Carl has never met—is someone on the ship, with Quentin being the likeliest suspect.
DJ "Simple" Simon Swafford (Chris O'Dowd) marries Elenore (January Jones) in an on board ceremony, but soon learns that she only married him as a means to live on the ship and be with Gavin, with whom she is infatuated. The Count challenges Gavin to a game of chicken in defense of Simon's honor: The two climb one of the ship's radio masts in a clash of egos, reconciling after they are both injured by jumping into the ocean below. When Carl's mother Charlotte (Emma Thompson) visits for Christmas, she denies his suspicion that Quentin is his father. As she departs, Carl passes on a cryptic message from reclusive late-night DJ "Smooth" Bob Silver (Ralph Brown), leading to the unexpected revelation that Bob is actually his father. Soon afterwards, Marianne returns to the ship and apologizes to Carl for sleeping with Doctor Dave. She and Carl have sex that night. The following morning, The Count and the rest of the DJ's announce the news of the event to millions of cheering fans all over Britain.
Meanwhile, Dormandy's mission to ban pirate radio advances when Twatt comes across news of a fishing boat whose distress call was blocked by Radio Rock's powerful signal. Twatt proposes the creation of the Marine Offences Act, which will make pirate radio stations illegal on the grounds that they endanger other vessels. Despite public opinion being heavily in support of the pirate stations, the Act passes unanimously through Parliament and takes effect at midnight on January 1, 1967. The Radio Rock crew choose to defy the law and continue to broadcast, firing up the ship's engine so that they may avoid arrest by relocating. The aging vessel cannot take the strain, causing the engine to explode and the ship to start sinking. The DJs broadcast their position in hope of aid, but Dormandy refuses to send rescue boats. Carl rescues the oblivious Bob from his cabin, while The Count vows to continue broadcasting as long as possible.
With the lifeboats inoperable, all gather on the prow as the ship begins to go down. They are rescued by dozens of fans, who heard about their broadcast predicament, and motored out in fleet of small boats to save them; Carl himself is rescued by Marianne. The Radio Rock ship disappears beneath the sea, with The Count emerging from the sinking vessel at the last moment. Though pirate radio in Britain comes to an end, the music lives on, with rock and pop becoming increasingly popular in subsequent decades, broadcast over hundreds of 'legal' stations around the world.
Philip Seymour Hoffman as "The Count", the brash American DJ on Radio Rock. The character is loosely based on Emperor Rosko, a DJ on BBC Radio 1 during the late 1960s and early 1970s.[4][5][6]
Tom Sturridge as "Young" Carl, who is sent to stay with his godfather Quentin on the Radio Rock ship.
Bill Nighy as Quentin, Carl's godfather, who runs Radio Rock.
Will Adamsdale as "News" John Mayford, the station's news and weather reporter.
Rhys Ifans as Gavin Kavanagh, a massively popular DJ brought out of retirement by Quentin, leading to a professional rivalry with The Count.
Nick Frost as DJ "Doctor" Dave, who unsuccessfully attempts to help Carl lose his virginity and later ends up sleeping with Carl's crush Marianne.
Tom Brooke as "Thick" Kevin, Carl's intellectually dense cabin-mate and member of the Radio Rock staff.
Rhys Darby as Angus "The Nut" Nutsford, DJ and lone New Zealander on the ship.
Katherine Parkinson as Felicity, the lesbian cook and the only single woman permitted to live on the ship.
Chris O'Dowd as "Simple" Simon Swafford, Radio Rock's breakfast DJ who marries the too-good-to-be true Elenore only to learn that she is actually in love with another DJ, Gavin. O'Dowd drew inspiration from Tony Blackburn, the morning DJ on pirate station Radio Caroline in the 1960s, and his Irish contemporary Larry Gogan.[7]
Tom Wisdom as "Midnight" Mark, Radio Rock's suave night time DJ who rarely speaks but nonetheless has female listeners swooning over him. Known as 'The Sexiest Man on the Planet." In one scene, he is shown in his cabin 'entertaining' about 30 naked women who are part of a large group of fans that visit the ship.
Ralph Brown as hippy "Smooth" Bob Silver, "The Dawn Treader" (3-6am shift), Radio Rock's reclusive early-morn DJ who turns out to be Carl's father.
Ike Hamilton as Harold, the station's radio assistant.
Kenneth Branagh as Sir Alistair Dormandy, a strict government minister who endeavors to shut pirate radio stations down.
Sinead Matthews as Miss C (aka Miss Clitt, as revealed in the DVD deleted scenes), Dormandy's assistant who secretly listens to Radio Rock.
Jack Davenport as Domenic Twatt, Dormandy's subordinate who is assigned the task of finding legal loopholes that can be used to shut pirate radio stations down.
Talulah Riley as Marianne, Quentin's niece, (and a fan of Dave) whom Carl falls instantly in love with.
Emma Thompson as Charlotte, Carl's mother.
January Jones as Elenore (referred to as a 'goddess' by Quentin, while acting as 'minister'), who marries Simon as a means of getting to be on the ship with Gavin, whom she is actually in love with, the revelation of which ends the sham marriage after just 17 hours, and causes dissension among the group.
Gemma Arterton as Desiree, a female fan Dave attempts to trick into having sex with virgin Carl.
Additional minor roles were played by Ian Mercer as the transfer boatman, Stephen Moore as the Prime Minister, Michael Thomas and Bohdan Poraj as Dormandy's subordinates Sandford and Fredericks, Olegar Fedoro as the Radio Rock ship's captain, Francesca Longrigg and Amanda Fairbank-Hynes as Dormandy's wife and daughter, and Olivia Llewellyn as Marianne's friend Margaret who Felicity falls in love with.
Production[edit] Edit
[1][2]Principal photography taking place on the steps of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square
The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal Studios.[8] The producers for Working Title were Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Hilary Bevan Jones, with Curtis, Debra Hayward and Liza Chasin acting as executive producers.[9] Principal photography started on 3 March and continued until June 2008.[8] Filming took place on the former Dutch hospital ship Timor Challenger, previously De Hoop, moored in Portland Harbour, Dorset; the "North Sea" scenes were shot off the coast of Dunbar, East Lothian. Boat interior shots were filmed inside a warehouse in Osprey Quay on the Isle of Portland[10] and at Shepperton Studios.[11] They also visited Squerryes Court in Kent to shoot the scenes of the home of government minister Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Brannagh).[12] The film's production cost exceeded £30 million.[13]
Following the film's commercial failure at the British box office, Focus Features commissioned a re-edited version for release in North American release 13 November 2009.[14][15] Retitled Pirate Radio, this version of the film deleted approximately twenty minutes of footage from the original version to address complaints from several critics that the film's running time was excessive.
North American release[edit] Edit
Following the film's commercial failure at the British box office, Focus Features commissioned a re-edited version for release in North American release 13 November 2009.[16][17] Retitled Pirate Radio, this version of the film deleted approximately twenty minutes of footage from the original version to address complaints from several critics that the film's running time was excessive. A shorter version of the film was released in the United States with the title Pirate Radio. Upon that release, Manohla Dargis wrote:[18]
"Stuffed with playful character actors and carpeted with wall-to-wall tunes, the film makes for easy viewing and easier listening, even if Mr. Curtis, who wrote and directed, has nothing really to say about these rebels for whom rock 'n' roll was both life's rhyme and its reason."
Robert Wilonsky, reviewing Pirate Radio after having seen The Boat That Rocked and its UK home video release, said the U.S. theatrical release had had "most of its better bits excised"; according to Wilonsky, "after watching the DVD,Pirate Radio feels so slight in its current incarnation. Shorn of the scenes that actually put meat on its characters' frail bones, the resulting product is vaguely cute and wholly insubstantial, little more than a randomly assembled hodge-podge of scenes crammed in and yanked out that amount to yet another movie about rebellious young men sticking it to The Grumpy Old Man—this time, with a tacked-on Titanic climax."[19] The marketing campaign for the film's North American release was notable for embellishing the nature of the movie, as well as the historical setting. Trailers had a prominent voice-over announcement stating that "in 1966 the British government banned rock 'n' roll on the radio. Until one American DJ and a band of renegades launched a radio station on the high seas and raided the air waves."[20] In the film, pirate radio transmissions were widespread before parliament passed the Marine Offences Act, including the station portrayed on the film.
The trailer in North America also featured dialog from a scene not in the release; chief among which where a British government minister was being told in a voiceover that the American deejay "The Count" is "possibly the most famous broadcaster ever", which wasn't borne by the actual plot. The trailer and commercials also displayed prominent text that stated "inspired by a true story", which was not claimed by either the production or writing staff.[21]
Reception[edit] Edit
The film has received generally mixed reviews: it holds a 60% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 149 reviews.[2] The Daily Telegraph credited the film with "some magical moments", but called it "muddled" and criticised its length.[22] Time Out was also critical of the length and said the film was "disappointing".[23] The Hollywood Reporter ran the headline "Rock 'n' roll movie Boat just barely stays afloat", declaring the film too long to sustain interest.[24]Total Film also criticised the film's length and comedic style.[25] Andrew Neil, writing in The Observer, remarked that he was disappointed in the "contrived" storyline and the "unnecessarily perverted" history.[26] Channel 4 reviewed the film more positively, calling it "touching", "heartfelt" and an "enjoyable journey", but ultimately questioned its coherence.[27]
The film's British box office revenues in its first 12 weeks of release were £6.1 million, less than a quarter of its production cost.[13]
In USA, the film earned less than $US 3 million in its first weekend (in a mid-scale release of 882 screens as opposed to 3,404 screens for 2012 and 3,683 screens for A Christmas Carol) and suffered a 49.7% drop-off on its second weekend - earning only $US1.46 million.[28] Pirate Radio took in only about US$8 million (approximately £5 million) in North America.[28]
Historical setting[edit] Edit
Main article: Pirate radio in the United Kingdom[3][4]The MV Mi Amigo, c. 1974, which was the home of Radio Caroline South from 1964-1968
The official synopsis of The Boat That Rocked before release stated that it tells the fictional story about a group of DJs in 1966 who are at odds with a traditionalist British government that prefers to broadcast jazz.[29] According to director Richard Curtis, the film, though inspired by real British pirate radio of the 1960s, is a work of historical fiction and does not depict a specific radio station of the period.[30]
Soundtrack[edit] Edit
Main article: The Boat That Rocked (soundtrack)*The soundtrack features songs from The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Turtles, Jimi Hendrix, Duffy, Procol Harum, Box Tops, The Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Seekers and The Who
The soundtrack features 32 songs on two discs. The film itself has a 60-song playlist.[31]
Home media[edit] Edit
Scenes cut from the film but available in at least some of the film's home media releases include:[19]
a long scene of late-night sabotage aboard a competitor's vessel;
The Count's homage to the Beatles, delivered in front of Abbey Road studios;
Gavin Kavanagh in a flashback, dancing in a South American bar to "Get Off of My Cloud";
a heartbroken "Simple" Simon lip syncs Lorraine Ellison's "Stay with Me" in its entirety.
DVD Region 1: 13 April 2010
Region 2: 7 September 2009 Region 4: 12 August 2009[32]
Deleted scenes, director's commentary
Blu-ray Region 1: 13 April 2010
Region 2: 7 September 2009[33] Region 4: 12 August 2009
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St. Anthony,MN Contravt for deed Homes. also known as Saint Anthony Village, is a city in Hennepin and Ramsey counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. the population is 8,226, of whom 5,156 lived in the larger Hennepin County part of the city and 3,070 in the Ramsey County part.
St. Anthony was also the name of Minneapolis’s older twin city, across from downtown Minneapolis on the Mississippi River’s east bank. Minneapolis and St. Anthony merged in 1872.
St. Anthony is served by the St. Anthony-New Brighton School District, ISD 282. Wilshire Park Elementary School is the district’s primary school. St. Anthony Middle School serves grades 6–8. St. Anthony Village High School serves grades 9–12. St. Charles Borromeo offers private education for grades K–8.
St. Anthony has several city parks. The most notable is Central Park, in the center of the city near the High School and Community Center, as well as the police station, fire station and water treatment plant. Several of the high school’s athletic teams host home competitions in Central Park. Smaller parks include Emerald Park, Silver Point Park, and Trillium Park. St. Anthony also has a golf course maintained by the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board and a county park, Silverwood, maintained by the Three Rivers Park District. Silverwood Park is on Silver Lake, which is almost entirely within St. Anthony’s boundaries.
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Obama's pick to fix veterans affairs tried to fix Procter & Gamble, too
by Gregory Wallace @gregorywallace June 30, 2014: 8:22 AM ET
Bob McDonald, a former CEO of Procter & Gamble, is President Obama's nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary.
For the most challenging turnaround job in the federal government, President Obama wants to tap a former CEO.
Bob McDonald has been in the hot seat before. He took the helm of global consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (PG) in 2009 amid the throes of the Great Recession. His task was to restructure and streamline the company, no easy task for a company with recognizable brands as diverse as Bounty paper towels, Duracell batteries, Pampers diapers and Tide detergent.
Although he was ousted from the top job four years later, his legacy at the company includes growing sales and profits in rough economic waters.
His critics argued the company wasn't moving fast enough to improve efficiency. Chief among them was hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who charged that McDonald served on the boards of too many other organizations to focus properly on P&G's needs; the company said Ackman's claims were overstated.
McDonald will be announced on Monday as Obama's nominee to lead the troubled Veterans Affairs department, a White House official told CNN's Jim Acosta. Secretary Eric Shinseki stepped down in late May amid allegations of shortcomings in medical care for veterans. To land the job, McDonald must be confirmed by the Senate.
Related: Obama taps CEO to lead VA
McDonald began his rise to the corner office in 1980, when he joined P&G as an entry-level employee after five years in the Army. In his final year as CEO, he was paid nearly $16 million, according to documents filed with the SEC .
By the time he took over in 2009, the company was in need of cost-cutting. McDonald responded with a plan that would save about $10 billion over four years, including a significant cut to the marketing budget and a 10% workforce reduction.
That wasn't enough for Ackman, who bought nearly $2 billion in P&G stock. The board eventually let McDonald go. He was replaced by A.G. Lafley, who was also his predecessor. Ackman told CNNMoney at the time that Lafley's only mistake "was who he picked to succeed him, and now he's going to fix that."
The company won several awards under McDonald's tenure: it was twice named best company for leaders by Chief Executive Magazine, and ranked first among over 2,000 companies in a leadership study by the management consultants at Hay Group.
McDonald currently serves on the board of the Xerox Corporation (a post he held while CEO of P&G) as well as U.S. Steel and several advisory groups.
He has donated to the political campaigns of several prominent Republicans, including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney and House Speaker John Boehner.
McDonald was first named to the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Steering Committee by President George W. Bush, an appointment that was renewed by Obama.
--CNNMoney's Zain Asher and CNN's Erin McPike contributed to this report
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James Bond's new Aston Martin DB10 unveiled
by Peter Valdes-Dapena @peterdrives December 5, 2014: 11:01 AM ET
James Bond's new Aston Martin unveiled
For 50 years James Bond's "Q" has retrofitted cars to fit the needs of the fictional British spy. But now Aston Martin says it will design and build a car befitting Mr. Bond's bespoke tastes.
His new car will be called the DB10.
The iconic British luxury performance car maker released images of the new car Thursday. It will appear in the next Bond film, titled "Spectre," due to be released in November, 2015. Ten will be built, and no, you won't be able to have one of your own -- at least not for now.
The DB10 marks the 50th anniversary of Bond's first spin in an Aston Martin, a 1964 DB5 used in the movie Goldfinger. It was unveiled at Pinewood Studios near London, where many Bond movies have been filmed.
James Bond has driven a number of cars over the years. In the Ian Fleming novels on which the films are based he drove a Bentley. In the movies, he's driven BMWs, a Lotus Esprit that went underwater (and which was eventually bought by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk), a Toyota 2000GT sports car and even an AMC Hornet.
Gallery - 10 James Bond cars you can afford
Aston Martin is the car brand with which the character has become most closely associated, however. The DB5 famously reappeared in the most recent Bond film, "Skyfall."
It had a number of options not offered to those outside MI6's Double-0 section. It had rear-firing guns hidden behind the taillights, a license place that rotated to show three different sets of numbers, and a retracting roof panel to allow easy egress for a passenger in the ejector seat.
Secrecy is to be expected, even in a vehicle built for the imaginary British spy, so there weren't any details about what special features the new DB10 might have.
It does, however give some indication of how future Aston Martin cars will look, the automaker said. So, while you may not be able to fulfill your James Bond fantasy in the new DB10 now, you will probably be able to get pretty close sometime in the future.
CNNMoney (New York) First published December 4, 2014: 12:53 PM ET
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Thailand selects contractors to build 220km/h line between airports
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 1:50 PM - Bangkok, Thailand
THE government of Thailand has selected a group of 13 companies led by the Chareon Pokphand Group (CP) conglomerate for a public-private partnership to develop a $US 6.8bn 220km/h railway between three of the country’s most important airports.
The line will connect Suvarnabhumi International and Don Muang International airports, which are located to the east and north respectively of Bangkok, with U-Tapao Rayong Pattaya International on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand.
The Eastern Economic Corridor Policy (EEC) office, which is overseeing the project, said the government committee, chaired by prime minister Mr Prayut Chan-o-cha, chose the joint venture which required the least amount of government investment.
The proposal is set to be sent for cabinet approval on May 28 and the contract could be signed by June 15 depending on the results of an Environmental Impact Assessment report.
CP is headed by Thailand’s richest man, Mr Dhanin Chearavanont, and among its reported strategic partners for the project are China’s CTIC Group, China Railway Construction, Hyundai Rotem, Siemens, Italian-Thai Development Pcl, and the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (Jica).
The project will connect the existing 29km Suvarnabhumi Airport rail link with Phaya Thai BTS station in central Bangkok with a new 21km line to Don Muang airport. A separate 170km line will connect Suvarnabhumi with U-Tapao.
The line is expected to offer a journey time of one hour between the capital and Rayong, and the government is aiming for delivery of the project within five years. The government is also reportedly exploring the development of a second phase to Chanthaburi, with a journey time of 1h 40min, and Trat near the Thai-Cambodian border, with a journey time of two hours.
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—— Calvin Zabo and Raina[src]
Calvin "Cal" Zabo, born Calvin L. Johnson, is a medical doctor of ambiguous morality. After being violently separated from his gifted wife and baby daughter by HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D., he started a quest to avenge his wife's "death" and find his daughter, committing numerous crimes that have caused others to consider him to be a monster. During this time, Zabo developed a formula that gave him enhanced strength. However, the side effects of the unstable formula gave Zabo an erratic personality and severe issues controlling his emotions, particularly anger.
Having discovered his daughter's location, Zabo made a temporary alliance with Daniel Whitehall so he could take his daughter to the ancient Kree City where she could undergo Terrigenesis. Zabo's actions, including forming a team of enhanced criminals, attracted the attention of the Inhumans, who brought him to Afterlife where he was reunited with Jiaying. Zabo and his wife developed a plan to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. once and for all, however Phil Coulson convinced Zabo to fight his wife to protect his daughter, resulting in Zabo killing Jiaying. In the aftermath of the battle, Zabo's mind was wiped by the remaining resources of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. and he lived a new life as a veterinarian named Doctor Winslow.
1.1 Doctors Without Borders
1.1.1 Hunan Province
1.1.2 Search for Daisy
1.2 Monster
1.3 The Diviner
1.3.1 Threatening Raina
1.4 The New Alliance
1.4.1 Working with Daniel Whitehall
1.4.2 Meeting Phil Coulson
1.4.3 New Member
1.4.4 Family Reunion
1.4.5 Trapped by Daniel Whitehall
1.4.6 Denied Revenge
1.5 Revenge Against S.H.I.E.L.D.
1.5.1 Slicing Talons
1.5.2 Ambush at Manitowoc
1.6 Reunion with the Inhumans
1.6.1 An Animal in a Cage
1.6.2 Family Dinner
1.6.3 Leaving Afterlife
1.6.4 Father Daughter Day
1.6.5 Battle at Calvin Zabo's Building
1.6.6 Return to Afterlife
1.6.7 S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat
1.7 Returned to S.H.I.E.L.D.
1.7.1 Questioned by Phil Coulson
1.7.2 True Intentions Revealed
1.7.3 The Monster
1.7.4 Accepting the Truth
1.7.5 Retaking of the Iliad
1.7.6 An Impossible Choice
1.8 A New Beginning
5.1 Family
I was in China volunteering for Doctors Without Borders. Hard to picture that, right? I was supposed to be there for two weeks, but I met your mother and I couldn't leave. She stole my heart.
—— Calvin Zabo to Skye[src]
Calvin Johnson had a medical practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when he decided to work with Doctors Without Borders and moved to China to work there for two weeks as a young adult. During his time there, Johnson worked in a clinic in China, where he met Jiaying, an Inhuman who would eventually become his wife.[1]
Hunan Province
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Johnson with his daughter.
I worked in a clinic. People liked me. I liked myself.
—— Calvin Zabo[src]
During their relationship, Johnson came to learn of the Inhumans and their history. As Johnson could not understand Chinese, Jiaying helped him with translations. After a while, the two of them had a daughter, whom Johnson delivered himself at their home, and they named her Daisy. Men claiming to be S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, but who were in fact members of HYDRA, came to their clinic and demanded that Jiaying be handed over. Johnson and Jiaying resisted, but their efforts were in vain, as she was kidnapped nonetheless. He then left Daisy among people he trusted, and set off to search for his beloved wife.[3]
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Johnson discovers his wife's butchered body.
He later found her remains in Austria, apparently dead as a result of vivisection performed by Daniel Whitehall. When Johnson discovered her body, he refused to allow his beloved wife to die and using his medical skills, stitched her body back together until her Inhuman powers allowed her to recover and return to life. [4] Understanding, however, that he would be unable to defeat Whitehall in his current form, Johnson began to try and make himself stronger by dabbling in chemistry. Eventually he concocted a formula which made him stronger, but also much more volatile.[5]
Search for Daisy
They took my little girl, they stole her from me. Losing a child, it tears you apart!
He and Jiaying later returned to their village, only to find that Daisy had been taken by S.H.I.E.L.D.. Jiaying ordered her husband to kill everyone, and so he did, butchering the entire population of the village and the S.H.I.E.L.D. teams who were coming to extract an 0-8-4. The first S.H.I.E.L.D. team was killed and a second team, composed of Linda Avery and Richard Lumley, succeeded in extracting Daisy. However, when they landed, all members of the team, including Avery, were killed by Johnson himself.
Lumley managed to get Daisy to safety and arranged to disappear from S.H.I.E.L.D. circulation. Johnson then set off to find his daughter.[3] In his attempts to do so, Johnson came across another gifted individual, Wendell Levi. With Levi, Johnson was able to look at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Index, but could not find Daisy in it.[5] When Johnson told Jiaying that he had lost their daughter, she was heartbroken and divorced him. Johnson swore that he would reunite their family one day.[6] He later changed his last name to Zabo.[1]
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Raina tells Zabo that she's found his daughter
I wasn't strong. I couldn't protect the people I loved. So I tried to change, improve myself, with chemistry. Results were... inconsistent. Some volatility issues. But I keep working on a formula. Always tweaking...
Zabo found Raina living on the streets as a beggar, holding onto stories that her grandmother had told her.[6] He sheltered her and her friends and raised their self-esteem. Meanwhile, he revealed to Raina that, if she could reunite him with his daughter, he could prove that her grandmother's stories about the Kree and the Inhumans were in fact true.[7] Years later, Zabo was visited by Raina, who had discovered his daughter, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, going by the name of Skye, and presented him with a picture of her.[8]
The Diviner
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Zabo orders Raina to bring him Skye
It worked."
"No. It let you live. There's a difference."
"Show me. Please."
"Bring me my daughter, and I'll show the both of you.
—— Raina and Calvin Zabo[src]
As ordered by Zabo, Raina successfully retrieved what he desired, the Obelisk, and in order to test its authenticity, instructed Raina to hold it. Instead of turning into stone, the Obelisk glowed orange with the Words of Creation, confirming Raina was an Inhuman. He was pleased by the Obelisk's reaction. Raina begged Zabo for more information about the Obelisk, but in order to explain to her its significance, he required his daughter. He ordered Raina to bring him his daughter, and he would show the both of them.[9]
Threatening Raina
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Zabo illegally operates of Brick's injuries
Who wants it? Who has you so afraid, Raina?"
"... Daniel Whitehall."
"He scares you more than I do?
A few days later Zabo was performing an illegal surgery on a gang member Brick, who had been injured in a fight. As the bullet was removed, Brick's ally Deacon drew a gun, saying he planned on killing the man who injured his friend. Zabo politely asked the gang member to put the gun away, which the man did, since Zabo asked politely. As they were speaking Raina appeared, much to Deacon and Zabo's annoyance. Raina explained that her life had been threatened by HYDRA leader Daniel Whitehall and begged Zabo to give her the Obelisk.
Zabo with Raina discussing his daughter
Without any sympathy, Zabo refused, saying that Raina has still had not brought him Skye. As Raina compared Zabo to Whitehall, Zabo lost his temper and grabbed Raina's throat, he asked her if she feared Whitehall more than him. Raina told him he was losing control and needed her to help him with his rage. Loosening his grip, he refused to give up the Obelisk and told her to plead to Whitehall for her life. Once Raina had left the building Zabo returned to the surgery. When the unnerved Deacon told him to calm down, Zabo did not react well to the comment and murdered both of the gang members with his bear hands in a fit of furious rage.
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Zabo hears Skye calling him a monster
Later, Phil Coulson's team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents reached his hideout, after following Raina, only to discover it was deserted. A picture of him was left on the ground which Skye found, leaving her in a state of shock having finally seeing her father's face. Meanwhile, Zabo was hiding in his car outside and watched the team's searching his hideout through a secret camera. After seeing the two corpses of the two gang members he had killed, Skye called him a monster. In response he angrily smashed his tablet, throwing it out of the window before driving away from the scene in a fit of grief.[6]
The New Alliance
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Zabo introduces himself to Daniel Whitehall
We share a common enemy, guy named Phil Coulson, I thought maybe together you and I could kill him, along with, you know, everyone else.
—— Calvin Zabo to Daniel Whitehall[src]
Seeking a new alliance, Zabo then went to HYDRA Laboratories to meet Daniel Whitehall; as he arrived, he commented on the fact that they seemed to be moving locations. When the guards tried to stop him, he promptly killed them both before apologizing for making a mess on Whitehall's table with their blood. He then showed Whitehall the Obelisk, and offered not only to teach him how to control the power of the Diviner, as it was called in its native language, but how to survive it.
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Zabo makes a deal with Daniel Whitehall
With Whitehall and Sunil Bakshi now both interested in what Zabo was offering, Whitehall asked what his motivation was, Zabo said that they both shared a common enemy; Phil Coulson, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and together they could kill him and everybody else.[6] With his knowledge of the Diviner, Zabo was able to help Whitehall and Toshiro Mori to design a new deadly weapon that became known as the Splinter Bomb, which HYDRA quickly used to assassinate various world leaders from the United Nations.[10]
Working with Daniel Whitehall
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Zabo explains the history of the Diviner
I've lost everything important to me. And I want to kill those who took it and finally be reunited with my family."
"Reunited?"
"In the Afterlife.
—— Calvin Zabo and Daniel Whitehall[src]
As Daniel Whitehall's scientists struggled to understand the Diviner, Zabo was brought in and immediately insulted Whitehall's efforts. Whitehall explained that he knew that only a select few could touch the Diviner without dying. Zabo explained that it only killed those unworthy of unlocking its true power. He told him that if the Diviner was taken to a special place it would do something much cooler than killing.
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Zabo is threatened by Daniel Whitehall
As Zabo and Whitehall continued their discussions about the Diviner's power, Whitehall told him that he had come to believe that the Kree Empire had come to conquer the Earth with the Diviner, but Zabo explained that they had come to end all life on Earth, apart from those the Diviner deemed worthy, not going into detail about how it would only select Inhumans to undergo Terrigenesis for the Kree's army. Zabo promised Whitehall that he would be able to take a team into the Kree City to use the Diviner to its potential.
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Zabo claims he wants to reunite with his family
When Whitehall accused Zabo of planning to steal the Diviner's power for himself, Zabo assured him that he was not worthy of it's power. Whitehall questioned why Zabo was willing to help him in his quest; Zabo explained that it was because he had nothing to lose and he wished to kill those who took his life away from him. As Whitehall questioned this answer, Zabo claimed that he had lost his family and would be reunited with them in the Afterlife, which further intrigued Whitehall but Zabo offered no further explaination.[4]
Meeting Phil Coulson
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Zabo volunteers to save Antoine Triplett
You realize we're talking life and death here."
"I know. It's exciting, isn't it? I mean, both sides racing to the temple, life and death, flesh and blood, emotions! Who knows how it'll shake out? All I know is, my baby's gonna be right there in the center of it.
—— Phil Coulson and Calvin Zabo[src]
Zabo was given a team of operatives to take to Australia to find the city matching the Words of Creation. When S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived on the scene, also looking for the city, Zabo disguised himself as a hostage. When agent Antoine Triplett was shot during a firefight there, Zabo stepped forward and volunteered to assist in saving his life, in order to talk face-to-face with Phil Coulson while operating on Triplett's wound.
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Zabo has a face-to-face with Phil Coulson
When he accidentally revealed his identity to Coulson during their conversation, Zabo was forced to cut Triplett's brachial artery and told Coulson he would only save him from bleeding to death if he was allowed to escape. As Coulson demanded answers, Zabo explained that the Diviner had something within it, but when Coulson asked if it's power was equal to the Tesseract, Zabo admitted that he had no clue of the comparison. Zabo then escaped, leaving the medical care of Triplett in Coulson and Leo Fitz's hands.[4]
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Zabo with Daniel Whitehall and Grant Ward
Heard you crossed Coulson, that can be rough."
"Oh it wasn't a complete lose. It's always good to look your enemy right in the eye.
—— Grant Ward and Calvin Zabo[src]
Upon Zabo's return to HYDRA, Daniel Whitehall introduced him to Grant Ward, who had been a member of Coulson's Team and worked closely with Skye. Whitehall explained that Ward had been allowed to rejoin HYDRA after murdering his brother, Senator Christian Ward. Whitehall believed that, as a team, they would be able to achieve many great things for HYDRA. Ward asked him how his meeting with Phil Coulson had gone, as Coulson could be a difficult man to deal with. Zabo said that it was worthwhile, as it was always worth looking your enemy right in the eye. Saying this, he looked at Whitehall.[4]
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Zabo's reunion with his long lost daughter
You're a monster, a murderer, a trail of death wherever you go"
"Those are all true. But you need to understand, my little girl was, you, were taken from me, my world fell apart. It was the worst day of my life losing you, but I didn't lose you, I wasn't careless. I didn't forget you were stolen from me!
—— Skye and Calvin Zabo[src]
While Daniel Whitehall began to enact his plan, Zabo sat patiently in a room and waited until Grant Ward returned and brought Skye to him inside the Ponce de León Theater, a temporary base which HYDRA had established in San Juan. Zabo told Skye how he had waited so long to be reunited with her. Though she was repulsed by him, calling him a monster, she listened as he told her of how he met Jiaying.
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Zabo reveals the honest truth to Skye
Zabo went on to tell Skye about the concept of Terrigenesis and how her mother had this gift which had been passed down to her if she went to the Kree City as he planned for her so she could receive her gifts. Skye corrected Zabo's story when he said that S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Linda Avery, took her to Austria to kill her, revealing that it was HYDRA that was responsible for the massacre. Zabo informed her that he had known all along that it had been Whitehall who had butchered his wife and that he was using the HYDRA leader to reunite them; and once they were together, he planned to rip Whitehall apart in revenge, calling it the best day ever.[3]
Trapped by Daniel Whitehall
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Zabo speaks with Daniel Whitehall
If my daughter wasn't here I would tear you to pieces."
"Well, then, I'll add that to the number of reasons that I'm glad she's here.
Zabo and Skye attended a meeting held by Daniel Whitehall, where he expressed his gratitude to Zabo for helping him locate the Kree City and giving him understanding of the Diviner. He then explained that he wished to know if Skye would survive touching the Diviner. When Skye picked it up, she attacked a HYDRA operative with it as Zabo killed his guard, leading to a stand-off. Whitehall explained he remembered who Zabo was and told him that he would not get his revenge.
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Zabo attempts to kill Daniel Whitehall
Zabo was then knocked unconscious by one of the guards. When he awoke he found that Skye and Grant Ward had been tied to chairs while Agent 33 stood guard with various other armed HYDRA agents. As Zabo got to his feet, he checked that Skye had not been harmed before discovering that his own hands were not tied and therefore attempted to kill Whitehall again, but was stopped when Whitehall activated a remote Control Device that paralyzed him, forcing him to fall helplessly to the ground in considerable pain.
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Zabo is paralyzed by the Control Device
As Zabo lay on the ground, unable to move for the amount of pain he was in, he was forced to listen as Whitehall continued to mock Zabo, before moving over to Skye. As Zabo listened, Whitehall told Skye about Jiaying's gift to never age which he had taken from her the day he had torn her body to pieces. Whitehall once again reminded Zabo of his failure to gain revenge before telling him he wanted Zabo to watch as he tortured Skye to death during his experiments to find her Inhuman gifts before he would kill him as well.
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Zabo escapes to finally enact his revenge
Once Daniel Whitehall and Agent 33 had left the room to investigate the gunfire that was heard once S.H.I.E.L.D. had arrived to stop Whitehall's plans, Zabo used the opportunity that Ward gave him by distracting their guard to remove the Control Device on his neck and kill the guard by snapping his neck. Despite their requests for help, Zabo explained that he did not free Ward or Skye from their binds because he did not want her to see him rip Whitehall to pieces and refused Ward's polite offer to assist him.[3]
Denied Revenge
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Zabo prepares to rip apart Daniel Whitehall
WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
"You're welcome..."
"You killed him! He was mine and you killed him!
—— Calvin Zabo and Phil Coulson[src]
As he moved through the Ponce de León Theater, Zabo evenutally found Daniel Whitehall giving orders to Agent 33 and his other HYDRA soldiers to fight and kill all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were attacking their base. Zabo waited until Whitehall was standing alone and prepared to finally exact his revenge on the man who robbed him of his life, smiling to himself at the concept of finally fulfilling his promise to Jiaying and his life's goal since losing his family decades before.
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Zabo witnesses Daniel Whitehall's death
While Zabo moved forward with his hands ready to rip apart his greatest enemy, Whitehall spotted him and raised his gun, preparing to shoot Zabo. However before Whitehall could fire a single bullet, Phil Coulson shot the HYDRA leader from behind. Zabo watched in shock as his enemy dropped to the ground dead in front of his eyes before he could get his long-planned revenge. Mortified Zabo roared at Coulson and demanded to know why he had done this while Coulson looked on in confusion with his gun raised.
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Zabo beats Phil Coulson into submission
Furious that he had not been allowed to exact his revenge upon his greatest enemy, Zabo took his rage out on Coulson as they dodged fire from Agent 33 who had arrived too late to save Whitehall. Zabo began attacking and beating Coulson, fuelled by his incredible rage. Coulson fought back for a while, but Zabo chased him down and eventually got the upper hand due to his far superior strength and beat Coulson into submission, desiring nothing more than to kill him with his fists alone as he continued hitting him.
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Skye threatens Zabo to save Phil Coulson
However, before Zabo could crush Coulson's skull, Skye found the two struggling, Coulson having nearly been beaten to death. At gunpoint, Skye ordered her father to step away from Coulson and leave and never see her again. Zabo agreed to leave, but promised that she would eventually come to him for comfort, because no one other than him would understand her struggle after her Terrigenesis. He then revealed her birth name to her: Daisy, before turning around and walking away completely devastated.[3]
Revenge Against S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Zabo is confronted by the furious Raina
We can't stop now. We can't let them make us afraid or make the world afraid of us! They are the criminals, and we're gonna shine a light on that!
Zabo went into hiding following his confrontation with S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA, intending to leave Puerto Rico inside one of the container units of a cargo ship. Raina, who had traveled with Zabo using that method many times before, went to the cargo ship to confront him, having been transformed into her Inhuman form, which she considered monstrous. She demanded to know what had happened to her, but Zabo simply told her this was what she wanted and there was no way back.
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Zabo celebrates Skye's Terrigenesis
Raina then revealed that Skye had gone through Terrigenesis. Zabo danced with glee and swore he would have to help her through her confusion the same way Jiaying helped others. However, his glee turned to horror as he remembered that Skye would go back to Phil Coulson's arms, who would put her on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Index. Raina retorted that it would never happen, though he ignored her. He then decided to contact other powered people he knew from the Index so he could exact his revenge. When Raina told him that she could not live looking as she did, Zabo dismissed her and left.[11]
Slicing Talons
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Zabo assembling the Slicing Talons
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to welcome you to this historic matchup between the S.H.I.E.L.D. Eagles and us, rivals and underdogs, the... Slicing Talons?
Seeking to build a team of enhanced individuals of fight against his enemies, Zabo quickly reconnected with Wendell Levi to assemble a group of people from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Index to help him destroy Phil Coulson. Zabo removed the microchip in Levi's arm that kept him from accessing technology and Levi hacked into the Index to find potential members that Zabo felt was wronged by the organization. Zabo also recruited Francis Noche who had been locked up for three years after being gifted with superhuman strength from experimental steroids.
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Zabo easily recruits Karla Faye Gideon
The three then went to Coney Island, finding the home of Karla Faye Gideon, who questioned if they were with S.H.I.E.L.D. with Zabo denied. Zabo explained his and his friend's situation and offered her the chance to be free from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s restrictions. Although Gideon was initally reluctant to take the risk, she soon changed her mind and Zabo convinced her to join them, allowing Levi to free her of her restraints and unleash her deadly clawed fingertips at long last. Gideon then agreed to join Zabo's crusade of revenge.
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Zabo tricks a guard before having him killed
Together, the team worked out a plan to break into the Brynmore Psychiatric Facility and recruit the other enhanced individuals who had been locked away there after they had located them from the Index's list. While Zabo distracted the guard by claiming that he had gotten lost while driving an RV, Karla Faye Gideon approached and sliced his throat open while Wendell Levi disabled the security systems. Before the power was shut off, Zabo took the opportunity to smile and wave at the security camera as a mocking message to Phil Coulson who was undoubtedly tracking their movements.
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Zabo recruits members to the Slicing Talons
Once Francis Noche had given them access by ripping open the gates, Zabo and his team freed the Facility's prisoners, including John Bruno and David Angar. Bruno was left behind to kill the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents when they came to investigate while the rest of the Slicing Talons escaped, but not before Zabo left a message on the wall calling for a fight on between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Talons, written in blood. As they drove to Manitowoc, Wisconsin to exact their revenge, Zabo assure Gideon that they did not need to go to S.H.I.E.L.D. directly as Coulson would undoubtedly come to them.
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Zabo talks about his past to his new team
Along the way, the team stopped at a diner to eat some dinner. Zabo commented about Wendell Levi not eating at all and Levi claimed not to enjoy food. Zabo was able to gain the sympathy of his compatriots by explaining to them how S.H.I.E.L.D. had stolen his daughter from him after his wife had been murdered, and how Coulson had killed Daniel Whitehall, despite his desire to do so himself. He explained to the group how he gained his strength after experimenting with body enhancing chemicals. The group all desired to teach Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. a lesson and show the world the crimes that had been committed against them and many others with powers.[5]
Ambush at Manitowoc
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Zabo watches as David Angar tests his powers
Let’s welcome Phil Coulson to the field. Here is a fun fact: He killed the man I had been plotting to kill for two and a half decades! Disappointment! Come out, come out wherever you are.
Arriving at a high school in Manitowoc, Zabo had David Angar's muzzle was removed by Wendell Levi and Karla Faye Gideon, but before he could speak his first work in several years, Zabo advised him to make it count his first sound count. Zabo watched, smiling, as Angar stepped into the middle of a football field filled with athletes and cheerleaders before screaming at the top of his voice, causing them all to lose consciousness. Zabo laughed as his watched the incident unfold.
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Zabo greets and threatens Phil Coulson
Zabo's team then awaited Phil Coulson's arrival on the pitch to stop then. When Coulson finally arrived along with Bobbi Morse, Zabo spoke through a sound system, announcing his team as the Slicing Talons and that they wanted revenge against S.H.I.E.L.D. for wrongs against gifted individuals. He reminded Coulson that he wanted his own revenge for Coulson taking away his chance of finally killing Daniel Whitehall after twenty five years of planning and then called upon Coulson to save the lives of all the innocent high schoolers knocked out by Angar's sonic voice.
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Zabo vows to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. at last
Once he had been disarmed by Angar, Zabo approached Coulson with his teammates, except for Gideon, who was in the bleachers with a group of unconscious students. Zabo explained that he wanted the world to know what he believed to be the truth about S.H.I.E.L.D. and to stop their actions before they did it to anyone else. As Zabo was mid-speech, Melinda May arrived with Skye at gunpoint. This made Zabo hesitant as May threatened that now Skye was on the Index they could decide if she had to die in order to protect others from her dangerous powers while Zabo watched furiously.
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Zabo is teleported away by Gordon
Zabo insisted to Skye that S.H.I.E.L.D. was afriad of her Terrigenesis and that he was the only one would could help her understand it. Trying to reason with his daughter, Zabo claimed that Coulson had brainwashed her into threatening her and promised that he forgave her. He then passed the microphone to Angar, intending for him to kill the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents once Skye was safe. Before Zabo could kill Coulson, Gordon suddenly teleported onto the football field and warped Zabo away, taking him back to Afterlife while everyone else looked on in both shock and amazement.[5]
Reunion with the Inhumans
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Zabo arrives at the Inhumans' home at Afterlife
You're making too much noise."
"Noise? I'm sounding a battle cry! I'm protecting us from S.H.I.E.L.D.!"
"There is no "us." You're not one of us. You're just a science experiment.
—— Gordon and Calvin Zabo[src]
Having been locked inside a cold dark cell within Afterlife for several hours, Zabo threw a tantrum and destroyed the furniture in the room in which he was placed. Once he eventually calmed down at sat on the floor surrounded by the wreckage, Gordon entered and asked if Zabo was finished. Zabo demanded to know why Gordon had teleported him away to Afterlife instead of the more deserving Skye, as she desperately needed help to understand her new found and potentially harmful gifts after undergoing Terrigenesis.
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Zabo is confronted by Gordon
Gordon explained that Zabo was creating too much attention towards the Inhumans with his violent actions and, since he was not one of them, it was not appreciated. Zabo however insisted that him creating the Slicing Talons was his way of preparing them for war against S.H.I.E.L.D., although Gordon reminded him that he was not an Inhuman and did not speak for them. Gordon then motioned Zabo to the door to see the one who would decide his fate. Zabo adjusted his attire to be more presentable and walked slowly out the door preparing for what was to come.[5]
An Animal in a Cage
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Zabo demands that Gordon bring him Skye
Where have you been! After all I've done this is how you treat me, locking me up, feeding me like some animal?! I can't have a window, I don't even know what day it is anymore!"
"You are lucky we kept you alive.
—— Calvin Zabo and Gordon[src]
Ultimately, Zabo found himself in a room with no exit, neither windows or doors; he pounded and rampaged to no avail, causing his hands a great deal of painful damage as he punched the walls and pleaded for his freedom. Days later, Gordon teleported into the room. Zabo demanded to be released, claiming that after all he had done for the Inhumans he deserved better treatment than being kept like an unruly animal.
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Zabo tries and fails to fight Gordon
Gordon showed no emotion to him and claimed he was lucky to be alive, Zabo soon realized that, after days without a visitor, Gordon was there because Skye was in Afterlife and demanded to be see her, although Gordon refused claiming that Zabo had no self control. Mortified by his treatment and these insults, Zabo then attacked him, but Gordon used his strength and teleportation to strike and evade Cal, who eventually relented because he had hurt his already sore hands, Gordon told him he may never leave Afterlife because of his actions that had put everything at risk.
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Zabo is finally reunited with Jiaying
Hours later, while Zabo was still suffering from the pain in his hands, Jiaying and Gordon appeared in the room. She thanked and hugged him for keeping his promise to reunite her with their daughter Skye and help her to fulfill her destiny in becoming an Inhuman. However, when he asked her if he could see her, Jiaying told him he could not. Knowing that it was due to his uncontrollable anger, Zabo reluctantly agreed, although he wished to stay in Afterlife on the off-chance Jiaying or Daisy might change their minds.[12]
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Zabo is allowed to have dinner with his family
I'd wanted so badly to make everything perfect for tonight and suddenly it is. This are for you. I wanna thank you, both of you, for giving me another shot. I know that my actions...
—— Calvin Zabo to Daisy and Jiaying[src]
Zabo was informed by Jiaying that he would have an opportunity to have dinner with her and Skye as she had built up her confidence by training her to understand her Terrigenesis and felt that Zabo had earned a reward for fulfilling his promise to her. Zabo prepared for the meal by collecting daisies and wearing a suit. When Skye and Jiaying arrived, Zabo handed Skye the flowers and greeted her warmly, thanking them both for giving him a second chance to be with his family.
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Zabo and his family toast to their happiness
Jiaying mentioned that Skye did not know when her birthday was, and Zabo immediately told her that it was July 2nd, going on to happily tell the story of her birth in detail, describing how he had struggled to get a car to take Jiaying to the hospital due to his poor Chinese. Zabo then revealed that Skye was born in 1988, not 1989 as Skye had originally believed and the family group shared a laugh over the misunderstanding before raising a toast to one another. Zabo then continued his story while Skye listened on happily.[13]
Leaving Afterlife
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Zabo and Jiaying discuss their dinner plans
I wish she could've know me back when we were first married, when I was calm and my mind wasn't so jumbled."
"We've both changed. We're not the people we used to be.
—— Calvin Zabo and Jiaying[src]
Still delighting in the success of the pervious night's dinner, Zabo spoke to Jiaying and claimed that it was almost exactly how he had imagined it. Zabo acknowledged that Skye was still afraid of him, noting that he wished Skye could have known him when he and Jiaying were married and his mind was calmer, but Zabo remained delighted none the less. Zabo was told that he could leave Afterlife to pick up some of his belongings from his home, but Zabo was uninformed that Gordon would simply leave him behind so he could never return to Afterlife and never see his family again.
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Zabo speaks to Skye about leaving
While lying on his bed in his room, Skye knocked on Zabo's door and asked if she could come in before asking him where he was going. Zabo happily told her he was going to retrieve his belongings, but when Skye asked if he was going to China, Zabo told her he had a practice in Milwaukee, and that was where he was going and offered to bring her back a gift which Skye politely declined. Zabo told Skye a brief bit of history of how he had met Jiaying before Skye asked if she could go with him to Milwaukee, Zabo happily agreed to, telling her that it would be the best day ever for them both.[1]
Father Daughter Day
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Zabo teases and insults Gordon
Oh, it was gonna be perfect. I was gonna drop you off every morning and pick you up, help you with your science fair project. The volcano, because who doesn't love a volcano, right? We'd go to the father-daughter dances together, get ice cream. A life we could have. Should have.
The next morning, Gordon dropped off Zabo and Skye in Milwaukee as he had promised. Once they arrived Zabo rudely told Gordon to leave them alone, getting a disapproving look from Skye as a result. As Gordon prepared to leave he told them that he would pick them up when they were ready before allowing the pair to walk down the street together.
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Zabo and Skye spend the day together
Zabo tried to show his daughter all the old places he knew, but they had all closed down in the years since he had been there. Zabo remained nervous, often asking if Skye was bored spending time with him, but she assured him that he was a lot of things but boring was not one of them. At one point Skye bumped into a stranger, Zabo began to lose his temper, demanding the stranger apologize to Skye, but she managed to calm him down and asked him instead to see if a local corner shop had ice cream instead.
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Zabo shows Skye his old office
Eventually, he took her to his old office, where all his things were left untouched, revealing to her that he, in fact, owned the entire building. Skye noted that Zabo's original surname was Johnson, but told her that he had changed it when he went on the run. He showed Skye his grandfather's operating kit he had used to sew Jiaying back together. His enthusiasm was spoiled when Skye told him that he was holding on to the idea of raising a family, a thought that would never come true and she told him it was time to move on. Skye let it slip that Zabo was not to return to Afterlife.[1]
Battle at Calvin Zabo's Building
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Zabo learns he was going to be left behind
What an idiot I've been huh, I see what's happening. You were going to dump me here like yesterday's trash. You don't want to spend time with me, this isn't Daddy's day out. This is goodbye.
—— Calvin Zabo to Skye and Lincoln Campbell[src]
The two were interrupted by a noise in the building. When they went to investigate, with Zabo grabbing a pair of scissors to defends them, they found it was Lincoln Campbell, who had been sent by Jiaying to watch over Skye, annoying Zabo at not being trusted. Zabo suddenly realized that Jiaying and Skye were intending to leave him behind and in his anger, Zabo threw Campbell against a wall and demanded that he call her by the name Daisy, causing a great deal of noise in the struggle.
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Zabo prepares to fight Sunil Bakshi's soldiers
As Zabo reacted in rage of the betrayal, Campbell tried to calm him down, only angering him further. Before a fight could break out, Zabo was interrupted by HYDRA agents sent by Sunil Bakshi, and he told Campbell to get Skye to safety. He walked towards the agents, and attacked them, using a blade and his own strength to kill them. As Zabo won the fight, he witnessed Gordon come back to retrieve Skye and return her to Afterlife, Zabo leaped at him and just managed to reach him as Gordon teleported away.[1]
Return to Afterlife
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Zabo confronts Jiaying back in Afterlife
Ahh, didn't expect to see me back here so soon, did you my love? Not after such a well planned banishing!
—— Calvin Zabo to Jiaying[src]
Zabo and Skye were taken from the HYDRA battle to Afterlife by Gordon, leaving Lincoln Campbell behind to be captured by Sunil Bakshi. Once they arrived, the enraged Zabo immediately began arguing with Jiaying about how she had planned to leave him behind like an unwanted dog in order to keep him away from their daughter. She tried to calm him down, but Zabo continued to shout at the top of his voice so everyone could hear, she eventually convinced him to wait in his room and calm his rage, telling him she would visit him later.
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Zabo manages to control his anger
Although he was unhappy, he knew Jiaying was often right in these situations and so did as he was instructed, leaving Jiaying to deal with the current situation. Having spent a few hours locked away in his room pacing up and down trying to calm his rage and frustration down, Zabo was eventually visited by Jiaying. Despite seeing his wife who had so cruelly betrayed him, Zabo managed to keep his temper under control while Jiaying teased him for predictably pacing up and down the room before inviting him to talk calmly.
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Zabo and Jiaying discuss Raina's character
She took him outside for a walk and Zabo tried to defend himself that he had come back too hot and had not had time to calm down, which is why he lost his temper. Zabo tried to learn why Jiaying had attempted to send him away, she tried to explain it was too dangerous to have him in Afterlife. She told him he could stay for the time being, which delighted him as the idea of spending time with his family made him incredibly happy. Jiaying then asked Zabo about Raina and he told her that they had spent a lot of time together and she had proven to him several times that she was not to be trusted.[14]
S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat
Zabo talks about Raina's past
The Index? Do they want to?.. No no no... They will brand you, all of you. You have power here, lots of it."
"To do what? Attack them, blast their planes out of the sky?"
"Well for a start.
Raina and Gordon were sent on a mission to locate the Monolith; Zabo was called into Jiaying's office once again to discuss Raina and whether or not this was a danger to Inhumans. Zabo threatened to rip out Raina's heart if she ever hurt his family, but quickly calmed down and told Jiaying how he had met her when she was a homeless orphan, and how he witnessed her go from resourceful to manipulative and selfish. He told her that he had never known Raina to not want something, so Jiaying asked what she wanted now.
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Zabo argues with Raina and Gordon
Raina and Gordon returned to Afterlife having located the Monolith in onboard the Iliad, Zabo was invited to the meeting to discuss their next step. Although Gordon argued that Zabo should not be involved, Zabo argued that Skye was currently at S.H.I.E.L.D.. Raina attempted to calm Zabo down, but only succeeded in annoying him further. Zabo accused Raina of making up her visions to control the Inhumans to create chaos while Gordon mocked Zabo for being nothing without his formula. Jiaying calmed down the situation assuring them that they would not allow S.H.I.E.L.D. to bring down their civilization.
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Zabo discusses the Index with Jiaying
Jiaying later informed Zabo that S.H.I.E.L.D. was coming to Afterlife to meet her. The idea enraged Zabo and he smashed a table with his bare hands, although he immediately apologized. Jiaying asked him if he believed she could trust S.H.I.E.L.D., although Zabo made it clear he despised S.H.I.E.L.D. and especially Coulson, he knew that Coulson did care greatly for their daughter. When she asked Zabo about the Index, Zabo appeared horrified at the idea, telling her that S.H.I.E.L.D. would brand them and take away her power.
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Zabo expresses his love for Jiaying
He suggested that she should use her power to fight against S.H.I.E.L.D., but she insisted that that was not what Skye would want. Jiaying said that her people would never follow her blindly into a war, but Zabo insisted that he would. Hearing this, she told Zabo that even though he had aged, he was still the same bold man with whom she fell in love, and the two shared a tender moment. Seeing no choice, Zabo suggested that she hand him over to S.H.I.E.L.D. as a gesture of good faith, allowing him to protect his family.[15]
Returned to S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Zabo prepares to be arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D.
You know I was always excited to meet you, even when you were a little bit of nothing inside your mother's belly. I had all these ideas in my head of what kind of woman you'd turn out to be. You really are magnificent.
Zabo was present when Robert Gonzales arrived in Jiaying's office for a meeting. When Gonzales asked why Zabo was present, Jiaying explained that she was willing to hand him over to S.H.I.E.L.D. as they had willingly handed Skye and Lincoln Campbell back to them. When Gonzales mentioned that Zabo had killed his agents, Zabo insisted that he had not, although he admitted to having killed many other people whom he had deemed to have deserve killing. Jiaying then ordered Skye to deliver Zabo to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, while she began her peace meeting with Gonzales.
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Zabo tells Skye how impressed he is by her
As they walked through Afterlife towards the Quinjet, Zabo told Skye about how excited he had been to meet her, even before she was born. He expressed his gratitude for having been able to meet and spend time with her, telling her that she had proven herself to be an even more remarkable young wound than he could have ever imagined. She told him she was grateful that she got to know him as well before she was forced to hand Zabo over to Melinda May to be put into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s custody for questioning.
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Zabo denies knowledge of his formula
May contacted Phil Coulson back at the Playground to informed him to the Inhumans actions of handing him over to their custody while Zabo was handcuffed and put onto the Quinjet, his pockets were then searched by the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents aboard. One of the agents found the vials of his formula in his pockets, empty after he had injected himself earlier as per Jiaying's order, when Anne Weaver asked him about it he denied all knowledge of what they were. As they were put away and the search continued, Zabo watched the agents with a strange and confident smile on his face.[15]
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Zabo sings to himself onboard a Quinjet
As his formula began to take hold, Zabo struggled to keep his sanity and began singing children's songs to himself while tied down and wearing noise-cancelling headphones to ensure he could not hear what the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents were discussing. Although he could not hear anything, Zabo knew that Jiaying's plan was going successfully under way, as many of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents appeared distressed and at one point, Melinda May was returned unconscious to the Quinjet before they took off and left Afterlife.[16]
Questioned by Phil Coulson
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Zabo arrives at the Playground
You want to tell me what you're really doing here?"
"Sure. I'm a present, a gift horse, a peace offering from my family. I'm also an excellent Shanghai rummy partner.
Zabo flown back to the Playground onboard the Quinjet where he was greeted by Phil Coulson. Coulson demanded to know why Zabo was really there, as he found it nearly impossible to believe that the Inhumans would have so willingly handed him over just before the mysterious death of Robert Gonzales, but Zabo insisted that he was simply a peace offering sent by his family. As Zabo continued to make jokes, Coulson put his headphones back on and had Zabo locked in Vault D.
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Zabo complains about the extreme cold
Zabo, still suffering from the effects of overdosing on his Formula, found himself feeling extreme cold and extreme heat in quick periods. Phil Coulson arrived to begin questioning Zabo, who complained of the intense cold he was feeling and demanded that Coulson turn up the heating or bring him another blanket to keep warm. When Coulson asked why Zabo had surrendered so easily to them, he responded by explaining that Coulson, not being a father, could never understand what a father would do for his child.
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Zabo describes his killing of an entire village
Coulson once again insisted that it was Daniel Whitehall's team of HYDRA agents who had taken Skye from him, not S.H.I.E.L.D. as Zabo continued to claim as he described the pain of losing his daughter. Changing the subject, Coulson began asking about how Zabo had managed to kill an entire village of people single-handedly in revenge for losing her in the first place, Zabo took pleasure in the memory and simply told Coulson that he had done it with style, refusing to go into any further detail than that.[16]
True Intentions Revealed
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Zabo requests a glass of water to cool down
You're here to take out some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents?"
"No, I'm here to take out as many as I can.
When Phil Coulson returned to Vault D to continue the questioning, Zabo was now suffering was intense heat and requested a glass of water. Coulson gave Zabo the water, which he poured over himself before requesting another glass to drink, to which Coulson told him it depended on his cooperation. Zabo explained that the Inhumans only wanted to live in peace in Afterlife. Coulson revealed that Jiaying had assassinated Robert Gonzales with the intention of starting a war between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Inhumans, but Zabo refused to believe him.
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Zabo threatens to kill the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents
Coulson asked if Jiaying had forced Zabo to inject himself with his Formula as part of the distraction, noting that the formula was clearly killing him. Zabo divulged to Coulson that it was a formula of his own invention, designed to enhance his strength in order to protect his family. When Zabo went on to explain that Coulson's assumption was incorrect as he had taken it of his own free will and viewed it well worth the risk to help Jiaying. Zabo then proudly revealed that his intention was to kill as many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as he could.
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Zabo furiously defends Jiaying's actions
During their discussion, Coulson causally referred to Skye as Daisy, which threw Zabo into a rage as he felt only her family should call her Daisy. Coulson attempted to reason with Zabo, pointing out that everything he had done, including wiping out the village and taking the vials of his formula, was all on Jiaying's behalf as she had made him believe that he was a monster that he never was before, but Zabo insisted that he had killed the villagers because they had attempted to hide his daughter from him which had driven him to violence.
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Zabo's rage causes him to have a heart attack
Zabo refused to believe he was being manipulated by his wife, claiming that she was not a monster like him, while Coulson argued that she was much worse as she had forced him to do her dirty work for her and now she did not care if he lived or died as long as he completed his violent task to wipe out all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents located at the Playground. As he grew more and more angry at Coulson's accusations and desperately tried to defend his wife's barbaric actions, Zabo's heart gave out as he went into cardiac arrest and collapsed in his cell, struggling to breath.[16]
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Jemma Simmons tries to save Zabo's life
Phil... Time for you to go night night, time for the big sleep, time to die! Everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. to die!
"This is Jiaying's plan not yours."
"So what?! I've always done whatever she asks, it makes me happy. It's why she loves me.
With his heart no longer beating, Zabo was quickly rushed to the medical unit, where Jemma Simmons attempted to restart his heart. When the defibrillator failed to bring him back, Simmons was forced to use adrenaline to start his heart again and save his life, as despite his threats to kill them all they felt a need to try and save Skye's father.
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Zabo after his physical transformation
By chance, the adrenaline Simmons injected Zabo with happened to be the missing component the serum needed to work, and Zabo went into a seizure as a result of having the needle puncture his skin and fell off the table. The final dosage resulted in Zabo undergoing a physical transformation, causing his skin, veins and fingernails to grow to repulsive sizes and giving him the enhanced strength he had always desired as he stood up to face his enemies, calling himself the monster that they had been referring to earlier during his interrogation while also delighting in his new found power.
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Zabo attacks the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents
Phil Coulson, Simmons and Leo Fitz tried subduing Zabo by locking him in the medical pod, but while Zabo tested out his new found strength, he overturned the bed before smashing his way through the enhanced glass with little effort, claiming that he was perfectly calm while smiling at their fear of him. As the furious Zabo moved forward to kill his targets, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents then attempted to stop him by shooting I.C.E.R.s at him, but they failed to slow him down, with Zabo claiming they caused him to lose feeling in his legs while keeping a big grin on his now hideously disfigured face.
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Zabo attempts to finally kill Phil Coulson
While Coulson ordered Fitz and Simmons to run for their own safety as Zabo clearly was not going to stop before he had massacred them all, he tried to calm Zabo down by reminding him this was Jiaying's plan not his. Zabo however argued that he did not care as he had spent much of his life doing whatever Jiaying asked of him as it not only made him happy but made Jiaying love him. Coulson's attempts for peace soon failed and he was forced to flee as Zabo attacked him by launching a large canister at his head but just missing before he began his rampage through the base, destroying everything.
Accepting the Truth
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Zabo is confronted by Phil Coulson
You were just trying to save her, trying to please your wife."
"No, I was trying to put my family back together!
Zabo pursued the agents, wreaking havoc in the Playground until he spotted Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons running to the main hanger. When Zabo gave chance, Phil Coulson was able to pin him against a wall with the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV,[16] reinforced with an Electronic Battering Ram. As the furious Zabo tried to free himself and vowed to rip him apart, Coulson managed to talk Zabo down, expressing his opinion that Zabo was not the monster he had been made to believe he was but a good man, acknowledging that everything he had done was out of Zabo's love for his family and a desire to bring them back together.
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Zabo agrees to work with Phil Coulson
Zabo agreed with Coulson, admitting that Jiaying was the one who had convinced him to kill dozens of people for her as he has only wanted her to love him again so his family could be back together after Daniel Whitehall had torn them apart. As Coulson continued to provoke Zabo by promising that he would do everything he could to stop Jiaying's plan, Zabo used all his strength and managed to free himself from his entrapment before grabbing Coulson by his jacket. However, rather than attacking his once greatest enemy, he agreed to work with Coulson to protect Skye and bring her home.
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Zabo recovers from his transformation
Zabo was placed under armed guard, while Simmons helped counteract the effects of his formula, resulting in the reversal of his physical changes. While he continued his treatment, Zabo overheard Fitz informing Coulson that Jiaying and a team of Inhumans had successfully taken over the Iliad. It was decided that Zabo should join Coulson and his team on the mission to stop Jiaying, as he had inside knowledge of the Inhumans which could prove highly beneficial and if need be he could be a highly dangerous weapon for S.H.I.E.L.D. to unleash upon their enemy and defeat Jiaying.[17]
Retaking of the Iliad
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Zabo discusses the plan with Phil Coulson
This isn't about us or them. This is about our daughter. Think of what you're doing to Daisy."
"I'm trying to protect her from the cruelty of this world like you swore to.
As they approached the Iliad while onboard the Quinjet, Zabo realized that Jiaying's plan was to use deadly Terrigen Crystals to kill all the Humans on board, although Melinda May continued to question while Zabo had been brought on the mission. Zabo then assured Phil Coulson that he would deal with Jiaying, as it as a family matter. He told Coulson to ensure the crystals were safe while he dealt with Jiaying.
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Zabo confronts and tries to stop Jiaying
Zabo soon found Jiaying attempting to escape with a case of Crystals alongside her small army of Inhumans. Zabo tried to reason with her but Jiaying was mortified that Zabo had seemingly betrayed her and her people by joining with S.H.I.E.L.D. in combating the Inhumans. While Jiaying insisted that she was trying to save her people from the cruelty of S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA, Zabo attempted to stop her and make her reconsider her plans for a mass genocide of the human raise by telling her to think of their daughter and how she would feel about the massacre of her friends and allies.
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Zabo is trapped in a small room by Gordon
Jiaying refused to listen and ordered Zabo to move out of her way, noting that she planned to give all Inhumans the chance to undergo Terrigenesis and live peacefully on the planet without being hunted by the humans who wished to enslave them all by putting them on the Index. When Zabo refused to move aside and continued to insist that she stop what she was doing, Jiaying had Gordon teleport Zabo into a locked room, trapping him before walking away as Zabo banged on the glass and demanded to know where Skye was.[17]
An Impossible Choice
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Zabo finds Jiaying and Skye fighting
Please stop. You don't have to do this, you don't have to live with that pain. I will."
"Oh... Cal... what are you doing?"
"Keeping my promise.
Zabo soon escaped from his entrapment and found Jiaying and Skye outside the ship, both using their powers to try and kill each other as Skye had destroyed the Terrigen Crystals by knocking them into the sea. Zabo begged them to stop before telling Skye she did not have to live with the pain of killing someone she loved. Seeing there was no way to stop Jiaying, he pulled her away from Skye and broke her nerve endings.
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Zabo is forced to crush Jiaying's spine
As Jiaying looked up in horror at her husbands actions against her, she asked him why he had done this to her, and he replied that he did it to keep his promise to her of protecting their daughter. Zabo then lifted Jiaying high in the air and crushed her spine with just his own strength, killing her. As Jiaying died, Zabo held the body of his beloved wife in his arms and cried as he took the pain of her death and suffered it, knowing that he had saved Skye from the same agony that he would have to live with from this point onwards.[17]
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Zabo says goodbye to Daisy Johnson
I know I'm going away for good, but I was hoping you might come visit, once in a while."
"I will, I promise."
"That would be..."
"Let me guess, the best day ever? You have a lot of those."
"No, just one. July 2nd 1988.
—— Calvin Zabo and Skye[src]
With the Inhuman threat at an end, Zabo left the Playground. As he was leaving, he was walked out by Skye. In their last few moments together, Zabo told her that she was better than he ever imagined, although he had imagined her perfect. Assuming that he was going to be incarcerated for the rest of his life for his crimes, Zabo requested that Skye come and visit him, and she promised that she would, joking it would be the best day ever. Zabo told her he had only had one best day, the day she was born.
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Zabo begins his new life as Dr. Winslow
Zabo's mind was erased by S.H.I.E.L.D. at Skye's request, using the remaining resources from Project T.A.H.I.T.I., and he was allowed to begin a new and happy life as Doctor Winslow. He began work as a veterinarian with his own office. As Winslow worked another day at his new building, welcoming new animals to his practise with a smile, he was visited by a young woman, who showed an interest in his business. Winslow greeted the woman warmly and she introduced herself as Daisy. Winslow noted that it was a lovely name before continuing his life as a happy and peaceful man.[17]
What I want is to snap your spine like celery."
"See, I don't think you really do."
"Well, let's test your hypothesis.
Since experiencing the trauma of discovering the brutally murdered corpse of his wife and experimenting on himself, Calvin Zabo has demonstrated a highly unstable personality, easily prone to outbursts of rage, driven by a desperate motivation to restore the family he feels he had lost while seeking revenge on his transgressors. Under normal conditions, Zabo maintains a calm demeanor, expressing high intelligence and a sensible, level-headed personality, but at times he may still express mild anger or annoyance in a more tactful manner.
Although Zabo was mentally unstable, he was also very caring. This was put forward by Phil Coulson who went on to say that he wore his heart on his sleeve. He ultimately only wished to fulfill his promise to Jiaying, which was to protect their daughter, which he made sure to follow to the point where he even killed Jiaying herself because she attempted to murder Skye. This promise, however, made Zabo go to desperate lengths experimenting on himself and murdering an entire village of people.
Zabo's true self, however, was a much more caring and admirable man, a positive side of himself which most people who meet him find hard to believe, including his own daughter, who persistently called him a monster since their first meeting. As Calvin Johnson, he was a responsible and dedicated physician and worked for Doctors Without Borders. And were it not for their family tragedy, he would have been a wonderful father and husband as well. When Zabo showed his daughter around Milwaukee, he would continuously talk about how he planned on giving his family a normal and peaceful life, having already chosen a school for Daisy, and taking her to school and to dances.
After undergoing the T.A.H.I.T.I Protocol and having his memories wiped, he is now living happily as a veterinarian. As Dr. Winslow, he is very social and hospitable to others, and kind to animals. It can be assumed that Zabo has been restored to the good man he once was, albeit without the family he no longer realizes that he lost.
If I wasn't born with Inhuman powers then I would make my own.
Enhanced Strength: Calvin Zabo shows physical strength that exceeds that of an average man, being capable of easily killing a man with his bare hands and breaking a HYDRA operative's neck by lifting him and tossing him on the floor. Derived from experiments Zabo performed on himself, hoping to protect his daughter after her mother's death, his strength allowed him to toss a now transformed Raina to the ground, even though she had him by the throat, once he got enraged when she insulted his daughter.
Transformation: Thanks to his formula, Zabo can partially transform himself into a mostly huge humanoid, extremely resilient to physical damage: In this form, non-lethal weapons such as the I.C.E.R.s have absolutely no effect on him, and even lethal force barely slows him down. Also his strength increases remarkably, as he is able to toss around extremely heavy lab equipment with no effort, and was able to break Jiaying's neck with a simple twist of his wrist.
I can help. I'm a doctor.
Master Physician: Zabo has extensive medical training, having worked in a clinic in his youth, and having performed underground surgeries in his recent years. He possesses extensive medical knowledge regarding human physiology, which in turn makes him effective at saving lives, or killing others whenever he loses his composure. He has used his medical knowledge to create a chemical formula that enhanced his physiology and improved his strength, though he was not entirely successful with it, as it gave him a more violent personality.
Combatant: Zabo is an adept combatant, being able to kill multiple HYDRA soldiers with relative ease. However, he often uses his enhanced strength to his advantage, rather than using actual skill as shown when he took on Phil Coulson.
That little concoction is my own special formula. I took it of my own free will. You see, when my Daisy was stolen, I wasn't strong enough to protect her, so I started experimenting. If I wasn't born with Inhuman powers, then I would make my own. Best-laid plans. C'est la vie. I never got it quite right... Always missing something. Highly unstable. Made me a little moody. Could it kill me? Sure. But it was worth the risk.
—— Calvin Zabo to Phil Coulson[src]
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Zabo examines his missing ingredient
Calvin Zabo's Formula: In response to having his family torn apart, Zabo began experimenting and created his own Formula which gave him super human strength. This formula proved to be highly unstable and caused him to have dramatic mood swings which often resulted in violent outbursts. It was only when Jemma Simmons injected Zabo with adrenaline that the formula caused Zabo to gain the maximum strength his body could take while also mutating him into a monstrous version of himself hell bent on ripping his enemies apart.
Jiaying † - Former Wife and Victim
Daisy Johnson - Daughter
Raina †
Grant Ward †
Karla Faye Gideon
David Angar
Francis Noche
Wendell Levi
S.H.I.E.L.D. - Situational Allies
Richard Lumley
Linda Avery † - Victim
Bobbi Morse
Melinda May
Antoine Triplett †
Leo Fitz
Jemma Simmons
Robert Gonzales †
Anne Weaver
Deacon † - Victim
Brick † - Victim
Andrew Garner †
HYDRA - Former Allies
Daniel Whitehall †
Sunil Bakshi †
Toshiro Mori †
Agent 33 †
Lincoln Campbell †
Gordon †
Appearances for Calvin Zabo
Ragtag (mentioned)
Shadows (mentioned)
Heavy is the Head
Making Friends and Influencing People (mentioned)
A Hen in the Wolf House
A Fractured House (mentioned)
The Writing on the Wall (mentioned)
The Things We Bury
Ye Who Enter Here (mentioned)
What They Become
Aftershocks
Love in the Time of HYDRA (mentioned)
The Frenemy of My Enemy
The Dirty Half Dozen
S.O.S. Part One
S.O.S. Part Two
Bouncing Back (Indirectly Mentioned)
The Singularity (mentioned)
Failed Experiments (mentioned)
Ascension (mentioned)
In the comics, Calvin Zabo is best known as the super-villain Mister Hyde, a recurring enemy of Thor and Daredevil, and father of super-powered S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson. In season two of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , he actually becomes a monstrous version of himself that alludes to the comic book character.
Zabo has a miniature hula girl on his desk, much like the one Skye had in her van.
The character's full name was never revealed in the series, though it was confirmed by Maurissa Tancharoen that it was Calvin Zabo.
Kyle MacLachlan did not play Calvin Zabo in the character's first appearance, Beginning of the End; the character was instead portrayed by a stand-in.
The actors of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the staff responsible for the marketing of the TV series, suggested in social media that the character's alter ego is the same as in the comics. For example, promotional art using the word "Hyde" instead of "hide,"[18] also promoted by Kyle MacLachlan with the description "You can run but you can't Hyde!", paraphrasing a statement attributed to American boxer Joe Louis.[19]
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漫威电影宇宙资料站上关于卡尔文·扎博的语录
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.18: The Frenemy of My Enemy
↑ Debriefing the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Winter Finale
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.10: What They Become
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.08: The Things We Bury
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.13: One of Us
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.05: A Hen in the Wolf House
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.09: Ye Who Enter Here
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.22: Beginning of the End
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.02: Heavy is the Head
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.06: A Fractured House
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.11: Aftershocks
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.16: Afterlife
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.17: Melinda
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.19: The Dirty Half Dozen
↑ 15.0 15.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.20: Scars
↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.21: S.O.S. Part One
↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.22: S.O.S. Part Two
↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Facebook Official Page - May 8, 2015 Promotional Art
↑ Kyle MacLachlan Official Page - May 11, 2015
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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009
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In the early-mid 1990s, Albania entered a new phase of major changes, moving from a totalitarian to a democratic system and shifting gradually to the free market economy. This process led, naturally, to changes in various demographic and health characteristics of the Albanian society.
The 2008-09 Albania Demographic and Health Survey (ADHS) is a nationally representative study aimed at collecting and providing information on population, demographic, and health characteristics of the country. Population-based studies of this magnitude are a major undertaking that provide information on important indicators which measure the progress of a country.
The ADHS results help provide the necessary information to assess, measure, and evaluate the existing programs in the country. They also provide crucial information to policy-makers when drafting new policies and strategies related to the health sector and health services in Albania.
The information collected in the 2008-09 Albania Demographic and Health Survey will be used not only by local decision-makers and programme managers, but also by partners and foreign donors involved in various development areas in Albania, as well as by academic institutions to do further analysis with the collected data.
The 2008-09 Albania Demographic and Health Survey (ADHS) was implemented by the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) and the Institute of Public Health (IPH), of the Ministry of Health. ICF Macro provided technical assistance to the ADHS through funding from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United State Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded MEASURE DHS programme. Local costs of the survey were supported by USAID, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Albania (SCO-A), UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Data collection was conducted from 28 October, 2008 to 26 April, 2009 using a nationally representative sample of almost 9,000 households. All women age 15-49 in these households and all men age 15-49 in half of the households were eligible to be individually interviewed. In addition to the data collected through interviews with these women and men, capillary blood samples were collected from all children age 6-59 months and all eligible women and men age 15-49 for anaemia testing. All children under five years of age and eligible women and men age 15-49 were weighed and measured to assess their nutritional status. Finally, blood pressure (BP) was measured for eligible women and men in the households selected for the men’s interview to estimate the prevalence of hypertension in the adult population.
The 2008-09 ADHS is designed to provide data to monitor the population and health situation in Albania. Specifically, the 2008-09 ADHS collected information on fertility levels, marriage, sexual activity, fertility preferences, knowledge and use of family planning methods, breastfeeding practices, nutritional status of women and young children, childhood mortality, maternal and child health, and awareness and behaviour regarding AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. Additional features of the 2008-09 ADHS include the collection of information on migration (out-migration, returning migrants and internal migration), haemoglobin testing to detect the presence of anaemia, blood pressure (BP) measurements among the adult population, and questions related to accessibility and affordability of health services. The information collected in the 2008-09 ADHS provides updated estimates of an array of demographic and health indicators that will assist in the development of appropriate policies and programmes to address the most important health issues in Albania.
Sample survey data
Unit of analysis
- Children under five years
- Women age 15-49
- Men age 15-49
All women age 15-49 in the total sample of households, and all men age 15-49 in the subsample of half of the households, who were either usual residents of the households or visitors present in the household on the night before the survey were eligible to be interviewed.
Authoring entity
Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Institute of Public Health (IShP)
ICF Macro Technical assistance
United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF Financial support
United State Agency for International Development USAID Financial support
Swiss Cooperation Office in Albania SCO-A Financial support
United Nations Population Fund UNFPA Financial support
World Health Organization WHO Financial support
Sampling procedure
The 2008-09 Albania Demographic and Health Survey is based on a representative probability sample of almost 9,000 households. This sample was selected in such a manner as to allow separate urban and rural, as well as regional-level estimates for key population and health indicators, e.g., fertility, contraceptive prevalence, and infant mortality for children under five.
The 2008-09 ADHS utilized a two-stage sample design. The first stage involved selection of a sample of primary sampling units (PSUs) from the PSUs used for the 2008 Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS). In total, 450 PSUs were selected for the ADHS sample, including 245 urban PSUs and 205 rural PSUs, covering 4 geographic domains-mountains, central, coastal, and urban Tirana. A listing of each of the selected PSUs was carried out in preparation for the LSMS. The ADHS survey selected 20 households from the updated household listing in each PSU, excluding those households selected for the LSMS. In two PSUs, numbers 27 (13 households) and 172 (17 households), there were less than 20 households in the re-listed PSU-all households were selected in those cases. In a further 6 PSUs there were less than 20 households after the LSMS households were excluded. In these PSUs some of the households from the LSMS sample were included to bring the number of households selected up to 20. After selection of the households, the sample selection forms were printed and the list of selected households was adapted for use in a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).
Note: See detailed description of sample implementation in APPENDIX A of the survey final report.
A total of 8,994 households were selected in the sample, of which 8,168 were occupied at the time of fieldwork. This difference between selected and occupied households is largely due to structures found to be vacant or nonexistent. The number of households successfully interviewed was 7,999, yielding a household response rate of 98 percent.
In the households interviewed in the survey, a total of 7,733 eligible women were identified; interviews were completed with 7,584 of these women, yielding a response rate of 98 percent. In a sub-sample of half of the households in the ADHS sample, a total of 3,144 eligible men were identified; interviews were completed with 3,013 of these men, yielding a men’s survey response rate of 96 percent. Household response rates are slightly lower in urban areas than in rural areas, while the opposite is seen for individual response rates. The response rates for women and men in urban areas (99 and 98 percent, respectively) are slightly higher than the response rates for their counterparts in rural areas (98 and 94 percent, respectively). Response rates vary little by region, although urban Tirana has slightly lower response rates for households (97 percent), and slightly higher response rates for eligible women and men (99 percent).
The principal reason for non-response among both eligible women and men was the failure to find individuals at home despite repeated visits to the household.
Note: See summarized response rates by residence (urban/rural) in Table 1.1 of the survey final report.
Dates of collection
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Three questionnaires were used for the 2008-09 ADHS: the Household Questionnaire, the Women’s Questionnaire and the Men’s Questionnaire. The content of these questionnaires was based on model questionnaires developed by the MEASURE DHS programme.
Consultations with partners were held in Tirana to obtain input from various national and international experts on a broad array of issues. Based on these consultations, the DHS model questionnaires were modified to reflect issues relevant in Albania concerning population, women and children’s health, family planning, and other health issues. After approval of the final content by the Steering and the Technical Committees, the questionnaires were translated from English into Albanian.
The Household Questionnaire was used to list all the usual members and visitors in the selected households and to identify women and men who were eligible for the individual interview. Basic information was collected on the characteristics of each person listed, including their age, sex, education, and relationship to the head of the household. In addition, a separate listing and basic information on former household members who had emigrated abroad was collected. The Household Questionnaire also collected information on characteristics of the household’s dwelling unit, such as the source of water, type of toilet facilities, materials used for the floor and roof of the house, and ownership of various durable goods. A module was included to obtain information about methods used in the household for disciplining children; the information was gathered concerning one selected child in the age range 2-14 years. Finally, height and weight measurements, and the results of haemoglobin measurements for consenting women and men age 15-49 years and children age 6 to 59 months were recorded in the Household Questionnaire. The haemoglobin testing procedures are described in detail in the next section.
The Women’s Questionnaire was used to collect information from all women age 15-49. These women were asked questions on the following topics:
- Background characteristics (education, residential history, media exposure, etc.);
- Reproductive history;
- Knowledge and use of family planning methods;
- Fertility preferences;
- Antenatal and delivery care;
- Breastfeeding and infant feeding practices;
- Vaccinations and childhood illnesses;
- Marriage and sexual activity;
- Woman’s work and husband’s background characteristics;
- Infant and child feeding practices;
- Childhood mortality; and
- Awareness and behaviour about AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
The Women’s Questionnaire had a number of important additions not present in the DHS model questionnaire. First, the BP readings were taken for all women age 15-49 that lived in the households selected for the men’s survey. Secondly, a vaccination module was added for each child under the age of five years to be completed at the local health clinic or centre. As indicated by the 2005 MICS survey findings and according to child health experts, immunization information in Albania is more frequently kept at the health clinics or centres than on an immunization card or child health book in the mother’s possession. The purpose of this module was, therefore, to collect information on immunizations from the local health clinics or centres in addition to that collected during the woman’s interview. The vaccination module provides better quality immunization indicators because information gathered during the interview is augmented with information from the local health facilities. Additionally, a series of questions were asked to assess the occurrence of chronic illnesses or disabilities and acute illnesses or injuries among eligible women. Finally, eligible women were asked a number of questions aimed at assessing the accessibility and affordability of health services in the country.
The Men’s Questionnaire was administered to all men age 15-49 living in every second household in the ADHS sample. The Men’s Questionnaire collected much of the same information as the Women’s Questionnaire, but was shorter because it did not contain questions on reproductive history, maternal and child health, and nutrition.
Because the 2008-09 ADHS used PDAs for data collection, data processing activities were an integral part of all survey activities. Throughout data collection, range and consistency checks were applied to the data collected, and interviewers reviewed and corrected the data as needed. At the end of each interview the data collected were backed up to secondary storage within the PDA. As soon as data collection for the day ended, the data for the completed interviews were transferred via Bluetooth from the interviewer's PDA to the supervisor's PDA, and the household, women's and men's questionnaires were reconciled and automatically checked against the list of selected households.
After all interviewing was completed for the PSU, and the supervisor had received all data for that PSU, all questionnaires were checked for completeness before being prepared for transfer to the central office at INSTAT in Tirana. The data recorded in the PDAs from the completed PSUs were downloaded to desktop computers and sent from the field to INSTAT headquarters in Tirana on a regular basis, typically every one to two weeks. The data received at INSTAT were checked for completeness and edited by data processing personnel who were specially trained for this task. All programs for processing the ADHS were prepared using the Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro). On a weekly basis, a set of data quality tables was prepared based on the data received; these were used to provide feedback to the interviewing teams on their performance and to advise them of any problems detected.
Following the completion of fieldwork, additional data processing was performed to aggregate all data, complete secondary data editing and date imputation, compute sampling weights and prepare the data files for analysis. This phase of the survey was completed in late May 2009.
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The estimates from a sample survey are affected by two types of errors: 1) non-sampling errors, and 2) sampling errors. Non-sampling errors are the results of mistakes made in implementing data collection and data processing, such as failure to locate and interview the correct household, misunderstanding of the questions on the part of either the interviewer or the respondent, and data entry errors. Although numerous efforts were made during the implementation of the 2008-09 ADHS to minimize this type of error, non-sampling errors are impossible to avoid and difficult to evaluate statistically.
Sampling errors, on the other hand, can be evaluated statistically. The sample of respondents selected in the ADHS is only one of many samples that could have been selected from the same population, using the same design and expected size. Each of these samples would yield results that differ somewhat from the results of the actual sample selected. Sampling errors are a measure of the variability between all possible samples. Although the degree of variability is not known exactly, it can be estimated from the survey results.
A sampling error is usually measured in terms of the standard error for a particular statistic (mean, percentage, etc.), which is the square root of the variance. The standard error can be used to calculate confidence intervals within which the true value for the population can reasonably be assumed to fall. For example, for any given statistic calculated from a sample survey, the value of that statistic will fall within a range of plus or minus two times the standard error of that statistic in 95 percent of all possible samples of identical size and design.
If the sample of respondents had been selected as a simple random sample, it would have been possible to use straightforward formulas for calculating sampling errors. However, the ADHS sample is the result of a multi-stage stratified design, and, consequently, it was necessary to use more complex formulae. The computer software used to calculate sampling errors for the ADHS is the ISSA Sampling Error Module (ISSAS). This module used the Taylor linearization method of variance estimation for survey estimates that are means or proportions. The Jackknife repeated replication method is used for variance estimation of more complex statistics such as fertility and mortality rates.
Note: See detailed estimate of sampling error calculation in APPENDIX B of the survey final report.
Other forms of data appraisal
Data Quality Tables
Three types of tables are produced to examine the quality of the data collected in the 2008-09 ADHS:
- Table C.1 contains the single-year age distribution of the de facto household population by sex. The purpose of Table C.1 is to examine the age structure obtained in the 2008-09 ADHS for evidence of heaping, especially ages ending in 0 and 5, and to examine the age limits of eligibility for interview, comparing women with men.
- Tables C.2.1 and C.2.2 contain the age distribution of the eligible respondents. The purpose of these tables is to detect both displacement of respondents out of the eligible age range and differential response rates by age.
- Table C.3 shows completeness of reporting of basic indicators. The purpose of this table is to examine the amount of missing information for certain key indicators. High levels of missing data may indicate that the non-missing data are biased or of poor quality.
- Table C.4 shows the distribution of births by calendar years. The purpose of Table C.4 is to examine the impact of omission of births in the five years preceding the survey and the transference of births out of the dates of eligibility for the health, calendar and anthropometry sections of the questionnaire.
- Table C.5 contains information on the reporting of age at death in days and Table C.6 shows the reporting of age at death in months. The purposes of these tables are to examine the possible omission of neonatal and early neonatal deaths and to examine the effects of age at death heaping.
- Table C.7 contains nutritional status indicators for children under five years of age, based on the NCHS/CDC/WHO reference population and can be used for comparison with older nutritional status data that did not use the newer WHO Child Growth Standards.
NOTE: See detailed tables in APPENDIX C of the survey final report.
Access authorities
MEASURE DHS ICF International archive@measuredhs.com www.measuredhs.com
Access conditions
DISSEMINATION POLICY
MEASURE DHS believes that widespread access to survey data by responsible researchers has enormous advantages for the countries concerned and the international community in general. Therefore, MEASURE DHS policy is to release survey data to researchers after the main survey report is published, generally within 12 months after the end of fieldwork. with few limitations these data have been made available for wide use.
DISTRIBUTION OF DATASETS
MEASURE DHS is authorized to distribute, at no cost, unrestricted survey data files for legitimate academic research, with the condition that we receive a description of any research project that will be using the data.
Registration is required for access to data.
Datasets are available for download to all registered users, free of charge. To download datasets, you must first register online and request the country(ies) and datasets that you are interested in. When submitting a dataset request, users must include a brief description of how the data will be used.
DATASETS TERMS OF USE
Datasets are made available with the following conditions:
- Survey data files are distributed by MEASURE DHS for academic research/statistical analysis. Researchers need to provide a description of any research/analysis that will be using the data, before access is granted to the datasets.
- Once downloaded, the datasets must not be passed on to other researchers without the written consent of MEASURE DHS.
- All reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to the MEASURE DHS Data Archive as a Portable Format Document (pdf) or a hard copy, for us to forward to the country(ies) whose data have been used.
More information on the access policy and terms of use is available at www.measuredhs.com
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Albania Institute of Statistics and Institute of Public Health, and ICF Macro. Albania Demographic and Health Survey 2008-09. Ref. ALB_2008_DHS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from www.measuredhs.com on [date]
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
General Inquiries info@measuredhs.com www.measuredhs.com
Data and Data Related Resources archive@measuredhs.com www.measuredhs.com
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Biography of Ion Keith-Falconer Missionary to Arabia
April 9, 2018 April 9, 2018 by Rob
Ion Keith-Falconer Missionary to Arabia. Frontipiece
Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer [1856-1887] was Professor of Semitic Languages at Cambridge University.
The remarkable life of the third son of the Earl of Kintore was once familiar to many Christians, for his academic and cycle-racing prowess as well as his love of the arabs were outstanding. In 1881 whilst in Assiut in Egypt to learn colloquial Arabic, Keith-Falconer observed the work of a Presbyterian missionary, Dr Hogg. Influence, too, by discussions with General [Felix T.] Haig, and by General Gordon Gordon (of Khartoum) Keith-Falconer heard God’s call to take the Gospel to the Arabs of South Arabia, gaining access by the British Colony of Aden. In 1885 he made a four month visit to assess the situation, concluding that there was much scope for medical and educational work. He chose to make Shaykh’Uthman, twelve miles inland from Steamer Point, Aden, the base for such work which would aim to reach into the interior of the country.
Shirley A. Fraser, In the Footsteps of Ion Keith-Falconer. A brief overview of the history of the Christian Mission to South Arabia. 1998. p.2. [Brackets mine]
Although he died on malaria within six months of arriving to establish the mission in 1887… “his vision and talents inspired Samuel Zwemer and Zwemer’s brother, Peter, and Scottish and Danish recruits who took up his labors”. [Kenneth Cragg, “Keith-Falconer, Ion G(rant) N(eville),” Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, p.356.]
I am grateful to one of Theology on the Web’s supporters for providing a copy of this book for digitisation. This title is in the public domain.
Robert Sinker [1838-1913], Memorials of the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer. Late Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and Missionary to the Mohammedans of Southern Arabia. Deighton, Bell & Co. / London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. Hbk. pp.258. [Click to visit the download page]
Preface to the First Edition
Home, Childhood, School
Student Life at Cambridge
Evangelistic Work: Barnwell and Mile End
Assiout: Home
Cambridge: Marriage: Kelilah
Professorship of Arabic
Shaikh Othman
L’Envoi
Categories Saudi Arabia, Yemen Post navigation
Remarkable Story of Dr Valerie Inchley, OBE and her work in Nepal
Fires at the Foot of Fish-Tail by Patricia Hepworth
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J.K. Rowling Finally Releases ‘Harry Potter’ E-Books
Shauna Wright
Potterphiles, fire up your e-readers. On Tuesday, author J.K. Rowling finally made her wildly popular ‘Harry Potter’ book series available in digital format through her Pottermore website.
The long-awaited move comes after months of testing to ensure the site could handle what is sure to be an onslaught of orders.
By selling the digital versions of the books herself, Rowling — who smartly retained the digital rights to her works when she signed her publishing contracts — will keep most of the revenue instead of being compelled to share it with publishers as she did when the books were strictly on paper.
The first three Harry Potter titles are $7.99 each, while the remaining four titles, which are longer, will set you back $9.99 per book. Links to buy them are also now on sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble — clicking those will download the digital books onto associated e-readers, with the retailers keeping a cut of the profits.
[The Wall Street Journal]
Read Original: J.K. Rowling Finally Releases ‘Harry Potter’ E-Books
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Historical Savvy: Its Dearth Hurts
In Education, Women's Health
Historical Savvy: Its Dearth Hurts2018-12-102018-12-10https://ndnr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ndnr-logo-with-web1-300x169-copy.pngNaturopathic Doctor News and Reviewhttps://ndnr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/11989580_m.jpg200px200px
David J. Schleich, PhD
Quite recently I was in Butler, NJ, to confer with local leaders about the huge importance of their little town in our history. Painfully, the only fragments of that special period of Jungborn and the early growth of naturopathy in the Northeast, were 2 small postcards lost in a binder. An expedition into the hinterland of the town – where hundreds of patients came (often from NYC) for naturopathic care, and from whose clinical experiences arose a robust literature about the therapeutic order and natural approaches to health and healing – led us to an abandoned, small valley in the Ramapo Mountains of northern New Jersey. The earlier grounds of Jungborn were bifurcated long ago by a highway. The small river, dam, and walled pond on the grounds, so central to hydrotherapy and other modalities at Jungborn, were overgrown and in abject disrepair. Only the tiniest sprinkle of people living in Butler has any inkling of the astonishing history of that space. Shucks.
George Bernard Shaw famously warned us, as only he could frame such a sentiment, that “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” At the same time, George Santayana, the philosopher and poet, equally adept with rhetoric, has something more optimistic to share, that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” There exist rich categories in the literature of the history of medicine that our teachers are doing their best to keep top of mind in curricula for the modern era. There are lessons in that history which can definitely help in the current confusion about naturopathic medicine’s legitimate place in the legitimized medical systems in North America.
I’m referencing here not only remarkable achievements, such as the Foundation of Naturopathic Medicine’s TIMELINE, but also systematic study of several strands weaving and hurtling through the history of medicine. When we look closely at the most important aspects of the evolution of medicine, and concomitantly conjugate naturopathic medical education’s record and current trajectories through that record, it’s the historical data and analysis that emerge as wonderfully instructive in navigating the vicissitudes of political, philosophical and economic rivalry. Lessons learned from our history can help our academic leaders and teachers make better sense of that knot of political, social, and epistemological roots which swirl around, manifesting in today’s regulatory, educational, clinical and research challenges.
Learning from Our History
Our naturopathic educators can benefit from understanding the patterns that show up in the historical record of generic medical education. There are parallel paths between the ascendancy of the allopathic professions in civil society and the form and content of medical education that got them there. Key categories from the literature can yield valuable insights:
the teaching of anatomy
the evolution of bedside teaching and apprenticeship within a professional curriculum
the last century’s rush toward new forms of medical teaching
the ever-expanding routine of medical education
the place of social determinants in medical practice
One who has broadly studied the history of medicine can attest to the substantial and enduring value of the scholarship of medical history, indeed to its very language. Immanuel Kant was so right when he wrote about the density and interdisciplinary interrelatedness of content. Sensing such patterns help us to discern not only momentum, but also what Kant described as “a regular movement” in that continuum. It is complex terrain and often feels chaotic, repetitive, and even exasperating. A high-altitude perspective, though, reveals a steady progress in the end. Translation: the naturopathic profession is in better shape epistemologically and politically than it has ever been. All of our detractors wouldn’t be so vociferous were that not so. And, the internal conflict between “drifting to allopathy” and honoring our “traditional roots” is a symptom, not of a wretched, expanding schism, but of a yearning, like a river for the sea, for continuity and balance in theory and practice. Thought leaders among the allopaths know the jig is up and that they must learn from their history. They too see the cumulative impact of research yanking them out of a reductionist paradigm into a more holistic one. The recent Functional Medicine international forum in early November 2018 in London, for example, had as its theme, the “evolution of medicine,” focusing directly on the need for integrating professional medical systems, modalities, and philosophies. Tough, ongoing work.
During worried moments when I witness the unrelenting bruising efforts of our critics, I am reminded of Machiavelli’s dictum, that “human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” Close reading of the events, people, institutions, and organizations in the naturopathic story will point out the greatest aspect of our history and contribution to the medical profession, that we have been more moral than scientific at times, and that both are strong in our brand, in our identity, and in what our graduates end up doing out in the world year after year. By knowing more about who we were once, and how we got to the present, we are less strangers in the strange land of integrative medicine dominated by orthodox systems, and instead are on more familiar ground. We become more skilled in building our future, having learned from what we endured, especially when we face the unrelenting guild behaviors of the allopathic enterprise and its partners in high tech and pharmacy as they plop obstacles in our path.
Whatever we keep on doing to keep naturopathic medicine robust and relevant, every plan along the way must be informed by what Socrates once called “these several actions with the whole soul.” Specifically, and if we know our history, the “whole soul” of naturopathic medicine cannot be as easily slammed by the reductionist approach to medicine which conveniently forgets and forgives bloodletting and calomel in the same breath as it enables an opioid pandemic.
The at-once highly complex and beautifully simple principles of the medicine are increasingly of interest to healers across the professions. In our work to form the profession, there are 3 imperatives:
the establishing and accrediting of our educational preparation for practice
the recognition of our graduates by civil authority
the codifying of our knowledge, secure in its derivation, relevance, and application
Let us turn briefly to those historical benchmarks to see how we’re faring…
Persisting Approaches in Medical Education
Medical education in the 19th century was as much about “moral and intellectual discipline” as it was about professional preparation. As Lisa Rosner puts it, “Education made a good man, whereas medical improvement made a knowledgeable doctor.” (Rosner, 1997, p.147) The depth of information arising from the early research and teaching of Vesalius, Harvey, and von Haller, for example, was not meant for the exclusive use of the medical doctors of their time. As Rosner points out, “medical knowledge was universal.” The historical literature shows that from the Renaissance forward, anatomy was a central subject. By the end of the 17th century, bedside clinical experience joined anatomy as essential in medical education. Hermann Boerhaave, a prominent late-18th-century “medical man” at the University of Leiden, routinely delivered clinical lectures in the tiny ward of St Caecilia hospital (12 beds). This model, more theoretically fashioned than practical, was soon transformed into an apprenticeship design in which medical students were often legally contracted to a “master.” That “attending” doctor, in turn, was a member of the local doctors’ guild, and thus the apprenticeship led to entry to practice. The pattern we see historically is familiar today in our own naturopathic medical education:
The first few years [of a medical apprenticeship] are mostly spent doing small tasks and waiting at table … until [the apprentice] gradually becomes accustomed to wielding the razor, opening veins, applying plasters and at most bandaging a wound or fracture … and [seeing on occasion] a few operations performed by his master. (Rosner, 1997, p.149)
New forms of medical teaching appeared in university contexts (eg, Leiden, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Gottingen, Pavia, Ingolstadt, Stockholm), most of which we recognize as part of naturopathic medical education structure in our own era. Differentiated “disciplines” emerged (anatomy, surgery, chemistry, botany, physiology, pathology, hygiene, dietetics), since no one “medical man” could master them all. Boerhaave’s dozen beds gave way to universities linking up to hospital wards for instruction … so-called “hospital schools,” the most famous of which were in London. Significantly, the allopathic profession effectively blocked naturopathic medical students from such resources very early on, and persisting well after Flexner; the blurring of “science” with “art” also expanded sharply.
Then came what Schon (1987) has described as prototypical profession education (specifically, basic sciences followed by applied sciences followed by a practicum). As this model expanded, its cost grew exponentially. Enter government and professional bodies and the rapid rise of regulation and control. Alongside this development came, especially in France at the time, the emergence of 2 different kinds of licenses: the doctorate in medicine [only available at approved medical schools] and the “license for Officiers de Santé.” Bifurcation arose from the latter, say, the Heilpraktiker category in Germany and the relegation to “public domain” of certain health providers in America who were excluded from mainstream licensing and credibility as regulation took root and university study coupled with the standardizing of curriculum and assessment. It isn’t hard to see how the orthodox group see themselves as the real deal, and all heterodox providers as subservient.
The Rise of Basic Medical Sciences
The history, then, sheds light on why we have had such a time establishing, say, the CNME, state and provincial licensing, access to state funding for students (Title IV and Stafford loans, for example), and so on. Factored into this dense terrain is the rise in importance in medical education of the basic medical sciences, the skills and content dimensions of which are assumed in the naturopathic profession’s own curriculum design. We joined that process, emulating, for example, the explosion in volume, as well as in breadth and depth of specific training. As a benchmark, Stanford University Medical School grew its curriculum dramatically at the same time as the naturopathic profession hung on in the Pacific Northwest. Stanford added 900 hours to the 4-year medical course, between 1945 and 1960. Each new course, taught by a specialist in the field in the tradition established in the 18th century, attempted to provide students with all a practitioner needed to know.
Inevitably, high-end scientific training took precedence over clinical work for allopathic students. The naturopathic profession prided itself in applied knowledge (manifesting in the long tradition of “elders” who tutored and mentored, often as volunteers, in our fledgling schools in that era). Clinical training became increasingly difficult to access for naturopathic students because the larger context of medical education precluded them from teaching hospitals.
Once again, history teaches us that we have good instincts. As Rosner points out,
Even if clinical training is carried out effectively, a university hospital does not truly prepare students for what they will experience in practice. Patients in a university medical centre are often there precisely because they have serious or unusual ailments; in treating them, students learn little about the most common ailments. (Rosner, 1997, p.158)
One can connect the dots, with such an historical perspective, to the affinity naturopathic professionals have in states with more robust “licensing” for primary-care physician status. This is despite the accompanying challenge of needing to access high-tech medical centers in order to utilize labs and procedures and the challenge of how to balance prescriptive rights with abhorrence for the dangers of pharmaceutical invasiveness.
Naturopathic professionals worry that treating the patient as a whole human being, that the role of social determinants in understanding presenting conditions, and the power of the third-party reimbursers in defining appropriate care, are eroding the principles which Lust and others in Jungborn a century ago tried for many years to emphasize.
We circle back, then, to the notion that naturopathic professionals continue to see themselves as holding ground that is more moral than scientific; yet, the latter descriptor is increasingly essential in the healthcare landscape, sometimes, though, at the expense of the former. The allopathic profession has protected itself strategically from charges of moral failure (eg, iatrogenic disease, the vaccination debate); however, many of its members understand that their own history has lessons for them too.
Rosner, L. (1997). The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession. In: Loudon, I, ed. Western Medicine: An Illustrated History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Schon, D. A. (1987). Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Inc.
David J. Schleich, PhD, is president and CEO of the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM), former president of Truestar Health, and former CEO and president of CCNM, where he served from 1996 to 2003. Previous posts have included appointments as vice president academic of Niagara College, and administrative and teaching positions at St. Lawrence College, Swinburne University (Australia) and the University of Alberta. His academic credentials have been earned from the University of Western Ontario (BA), the University of Alberta (MA), Queen’s University (BEd), and the University of Toronto (PhD).
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SMC launches Love Your Body Week
Kelly Konya | Monday, February 24, 2014
This week marks the fourth annual Love Your Body Week at Saint Mary’s, a time for members of the community to reflect on positive self-image and a healthy lifestyle.
According to Love Your Body Week event chair and junior Sam Moorhead, the week’s events are intended to provide encouragement to women who may be struggling with body image-related issues, such as eating disorders or pop culture’s portrayal of beauty.
“We hope that people who are struggling with these sorts of issues can find encouragement through the events of the week,” Moorhead said. “We want to encourage women to see themselves as beautiful, despite our many imperfections.”
Junior Kelly Gutrich, a former coordinator of Love Your Body Week, said it is one of the most constructive initiatives during the school year at the College.
“When Laura Glaub started Love Your Body Week four years ago, the point was to inspire self-confidence in women, because it is such a controversy with the images in the media in our current world,” Gutrich said. “In continuing Glaub’s mission and recognizing that there are many positive ways to reinforce body image in young women, the week’s events can be beneficial for all members of our community.”
Gutrich said she is also excited Notre Dame has followed the tradition of Love Your Body Week to cultivate the dialogue between communities.
“I like when both Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame devote weeks to raising awareness of similar issues,” Gutrich said. “It’s uplifting when both campuses believe in promoting this issue, because it demonstrates how we are always striving to be supportive of one another.”
According to Moorhead, the week’s events include a variety of speakers and fun events every night.
“On Monday, Christina Grasso will speak about her battle with anorexia,” Moorhead said. “She spoke two years ago during Love Your Body Week as well, and we hope that in sharing her story once more, she can provide hope to women who may relate to her struggles.”
Gutrich said she is excited for Grasso to return to campus once again.
“[Grasso] has an incredible story and I can’t wait for more students to be moved by her courageous development of the organization Project HEAL (Help to Eat, Accept and Live),” Gutrich said. “Grasso is a true Saint Mary’s woman, empowered by her sense of self and dedicated to making a difference in the community. It will definitely be one of the most inspirational events of the week.”
Moorhead said free yoga classes would be held on Tuesday and Wednesday to encourage exercise alongside healthy minds. On Thursday, the Belles Against Violence Office (BAVO) will host a Self-Awareness and Familiarization Exchange (S.A.F.E.) event, where students can learn about self-defense.
Moorhead said she hopes this week will increase dialogue related to prevalent issues that are seldom discussed amongst the women on campus.
“We would love for students to come out of this week having learned ways to form a healthier and happier lifestyle for themselves,” Moorhead said. “If they are struggling with body image-related issues, we want them to know that they have the support of the Saint Mary’s community.
“We hope that this will be a week that encourages each woman in the Saint Mary’s community to see the beauty in herself.”
For a full list of events, visit the Saint Mary’s website’s event calendar.
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About Kelly Konya
Kelly Konya is an English major bred on Catcher in the Rye and Roman cornettos.
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College Democrats support mural decision
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, January 29, 2019
University President Fr. Jenkins recently announced plans to cease displaying the murals in the Main Building that depict the voyage of Christopher Columbus. The College Democrats of the University of Notre Dame support this decision and the message of inclusion it sends to the Notre Dame community.
While the voyage and exploration of Christopher Columbus represent major historical events, their consequences cannot be ignored. The arrival of Columbus in the Americas precipitated slavery, epidemic and genocide for indigenous populations and established the foundation for a legacy of racial injustice that affects us even today. None of these historical facts, of equal or arguably greater importance, are depicted in the murals in the Main Building; consequently, sincere defenders of “history on campus” should object to the misrepresentation on display.
Furthermore, the current prominence of these murals on campus sends a message of exclusion to prospective members of the Notre Dame community. Their celebration of a man who enslaved, tortured, and executed his fellow humans is an insult to any member of a marginalized community who enters the Main Building, and in deciding to cover the murals, the University acts consistently with its stated intention to “build a Notre Dame community in which all can flourish.” Christopher Columbus may have been Catholic, but he abandoned the central tenets of the Catholic faith — human dignity, solidarity and care for the vulnerable — that Notre Dame holds dear. It is heartening to see the University reaffirm its own commitment to those values.
We understand, better than many, the importance of reckoning with our history, and we would never advocate removing Christopher Columbus, or any other figure, from the history books. However, we stand by the University’s decision to remove his deeds from a place of honor and prominence on our campus, and we are committed to working with the University administration and all interested parties to make Notre Dame a more welcoming and compassionate home.
Patrick Aimone
College Democrats of the University of Notre Dame
The views expressed in this Letter to the Editor are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction – 9.26.10
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The 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, which was held Sept. 26 in Shubert Alley, raised a total of $476,917 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Since its debut in 1987, the 24 editions of The Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction have raised a grand total of $8,638,669 for BC/EFA.
A total of $239,342 was raised by 72 tables: Highest earners were the booths hosted by the Broadway show Wicked ($19,834) and ”Broadway Beat” ($12,171).
This year’s Silent Auction included 114 items and raised $55,925. The top item sold was an A Little Night Music “Soon” musical phrase, handwritten and signed by Stephen Sondheim that went for $3,500.
This year’s grand auction, which featured longtime BC/EFA auctioneer Lorna Kelly and actor Bryan Batt (TV’s “Mad Men”), featured 44 “lots,” which raised $126,650. The top-selling lot was a walk-on role in the Broadway show Wicked that when for $16,500.
Broadway and daytime stars made appearances at the Autograph Table and Celebrity Photo Booths, which was emceed by Jim Caruso and raised $9,765. Dozens of stars donated their time and support to the tables, including Kate Baldwin, Bryan Batt, PJ Benjamin, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Mario Cantone, Kathleen Chalfant, Kristin Chenoweth, Terri Colombino, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Jason Danieley, Ellen Dolan, Richard Easton, Malcolm Gets, Mandy Gonzalez, Montego Glover, Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Sean Hayes, Jessica Hecht, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Matthew Hydzik, Gregory Jbara, Cherry Jones, Andy Karl, Chad Kimball, Levi Kreis, Dan Lauria, Aaron Lazar, Judith Light, Robert Britton Lyons, Lorna Luft, David Andrew MacDonald, Andrea McArdle, Marin Mazzie, Jerry Mitchell, Julia Murney, Donna Murphy, Bebe Neuwirth, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O’Hara, Denis O’Hare, Orfeh, Austin Peck, Anthony Rapp, Vanessa Ray, Alice Ripley, Carole Shelley, Jordin Sparks, Elizabeth Stanley, Bobby Steggert, John Tartaglia, Patrick Wilson, Julie White, Colleen Zenk.
Last year’s Flea Market raised $403,929 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC/EFA has raised over $195 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States
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Roundup: St. Louis businesses to which we bid ‘adieu’
By Holly Edgell • Dec 30, 2017
Closures of popular and long-standing St. Louis businesses began in late 2017.
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It’s hard to say goodbye. But in 2018, St. Louis-area residents will have to get used to several long-standing businesses not being around anymore.
Retail retirement
The bad news for loyal J.C. Penney shoppers: The retail chain is permanently closing its St. Louis store in the Hampton Village Plaza shopping center. After nearly 70 years in business, the store's last day will be Jan. 21.
The good news for bargain hunters: A liquidation sale will begin on Jan. 2.
Another familiar retail giant is also shuttering an outlet. Kmart is closing its Lemay Ferry Road store in late January. Shoppers have been able to take advantage of liquidation sales that started in November.
Pilot base to take off
One of the last links between St. Louis and TWA will be broken in 2018. Fort Worth-based American Airlines announced it will fold its pilot base at St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Sept. 1.
"STL will remain a key part of our network and there are no plans to change the level of flying into or out of STL. We need all of our STL-based pilots and will work with them to train on other equipment, or relocate if they choose." — American Airlines
The closure affects 180 pilots who used to work for TWA, which American bought in 2001.
The airline says the St. Louis-based pilots can transfer to other bases in American’s system including Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Charlotte and Chicago.
O, Canada donuts
Fans of Tim Hortons are still mourning the closure of all of the area’s locations. It started with the downtown and Central West End stores in late November. Then, franchisee Show Me Hospitality closed its remaining branches in St. Louis, Frontenac, Maplewood and O’Fallon, Missouri.
The closings were the result of a legal dispute between Show Me Hospitality and the Canadian fast food restaurant chain known for its coffee and donuts.
Speaking of food …
The last glasses of wine at Remy’s Kitchen & Wine Bar will be raised on New Year’s Eve. Tim Mallet, the owner of the Clayton eatery, made the announcement online in mid-December. In a letter to customers Mallet said he would not be renewing his lease for the eatery on South Bemiston Avenue. Remy’s was in business for more than 20 years.
Mallet’s letter assures customers that his other restaurant, Big Sky Cafe in Webster Groves, will remain open.
Closed but not all the way
TechShop, the cutting edge workshop for entrepreneurs and makers closed its locations in St. Louis and around the country in November.
Now it looks like its equipment will get a new life in the new year. According to several published reports, entrepreneur Jim McKelvey bought a building on Delmar Boulevard, where he will open a maker space with the 3D printers, injection molders, laser cutters and other equipment from TechShop.
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By Maria Altman • Nov 17, 2017
The same day TechShop announced it was filing for bankruptcy and closing all locations, a St. Louis native decided to step in to save the local makerspace.
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Town & Country rejects Tim Hortons after some residents call for 'no fast food'
By Camille Phillips • Jul 14, 2015
courtesy Show Me Hospitality LLC
(Updated at 10:55 a.m. July 14, 2015 with result of Board of Aldermen vote)
Plans for a Tim Hortons restaurant in Town & Country are uncertain following a rejection by city leaders.
The Board of Aldermen has voted against the request to place one of the donut, bakery and coffee shops in the suburb west of St. Louis.
Officials with Show Me Hospitality, the St. Louis-area franchisee for Tim Hortons, tell St. Louis Public Radio they are not sure about the developers’ plans moving forward.
American recalls the last of the former TWA flight attendants
By Bill Raack • Aug 30, 2012
It's back to work for some 200 ex-TWA flight attendants. American Airlines will recall the workers in November, according to U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill.
They were laid off back in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks hit the airline industry hard. American had cut 2,500 flight attendants in all during the slowdown, many of them were former TWA employees. The airline had bought out TWA earlier in 2001.
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How to sustain a democracy: An interview with Prabha Sankaranarayan
By Lionel Foster
Prabha Sankaranarayan,
a conflict resolution practitioner.
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Mediators Beyond Borders International.
Prabha Sankaranarayan is president and CEO of Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI), which partners with more than 130 organizations around the world to facilitate an end to violent conflicts and help people develop the skills to peacefully navigate difference.
Sankaranarayan spoke to the Urban Institute about building functional national communities from the ground up, why the United States needs a Department of Peace, and the debate over the preemptive use of political violence.
“Conflict is not the problem. It’s how we resolve it that matters.”
Prabha Sankaranarayan
Could you describe what a mediation process looks like?
I live in Pittsburgh. About 10 years ago, there was an influx of the Somali Bantu population. Most of them came from the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Our refugee and immigration policies that were welcoming to refugees from all over the world brought about 200 families to this part of Pittsburgh, which is great, except when you drop 200 to 300 people in the middle of an established community with its own norms and practices without any preparation or consideration of what it will take for those communities to safely integrate, it can create problems. The families experienced challenges. Among other things, children were verbally attacked and beaten up at bus stops, and there were problems in the schools. People in the community said things like, “You look different. You smell different. Go back where you came from.”
The schools that tried to address these issues called me and asked for help. So we started what ended up being called the “Third Side Project” and worked with a variety of groups, including the leaders of the Somali Bantu community, a local mediation center and its volunteers, a University of Pittsburgh volunteer group that was very engaged in mentoring the children in the homes of families, the police, the municipality, the business community, and refugee resettlement organizations. Over 18 months, we had meetings with the various groups and community members in every ward and district. Together, we created a safe space to increase positive interactions and cross-cultural learning, and, in the process, decrease tension.
MBBI has the word “international” in its title but focuses most of its work on local communities? Why is that?
More than 10 years ago, there was this idea a small group of people had that the world would be a better place if, instead of dropping bombs into conflict zones, we had people working at preventing, resolving, and transforming conflicts.
When the founders started MBBI, the world was making a shift from a powerful-nations model of peacebuilding to a people-centered model. It was largely governments represented by their respective heads of state that addressed major conflicts through peace processes, treaties, and agreements. But over the past 30 years, space for civil society has grown. That’s incredibly important, because in that time, research on peace processes has shown that when people at the ground level are engaged, those processes are much more effective. Peacebuilding is not about somebody flying in from some other country to say, “Here’s what you all need to do to end your violence,” but rather ensuring that the people impacted by violent conflict are at the center of the peacebuilding process.
Most of us grow up with the idea that conflict is bad. In fact, it gets referred to in the same way as violence. But as conflict resolution practitioners, we believe that conflict is not the problem. Conflicts can be transformative. It’s how we resolve them that matters.
You’re describing very intimate and personal interactions. Do you have to have warmer personal relationships to reach a lasting resolution? Do the parties in conflict have to become friends?
The commercial mediators of the world will tell you that you don’t, that you just need to reach an agreement. The experience of peacebuilders is that we cannot prevent violence if we cannot prevent people from dehumanizing each other.
If I see any element of my own identity in the other person, it’s much harder to dehumanize them. The peace process is really about connecting. The literature on resilience in communities tells us that connected communities are safer communities. If you do an ecomap of a community, when there are more lines between the social institutions—the justice system, the faith-based organizations, civil society, the educational system—the more connected lines you have between them, the stronger the connective tissue in that community and the lower the crime rate. So for me, it is about connecting people and communities to decrease violence and increase the capacity to thrive.
But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Democracy is one of the biggest challenges of our times. I don’t think it comes naturally.
You don’t think democracy comes naturally?
I think it takes a lot of deliberate work. In many ways, many countries have undermined what it takes to sustain democracy.
We have enjoyed what we have seen in well-functioning democracies. But what we’ve seen globally is when there is insecurity—this is what’s happened in the last three or four years—there is a decline in trust in democracy. People seem to be willing to give up the underpinnings of democracy for security and economic betterment. Yet what we know is all of those things can disappear if the underpinnings of democracy, like freedom of speech, the idea of a humane and just society, and the public square, disappear.
What I would love to see is a well-funded Department of Peace. We have departments of defense. Why don’t we have departments of peace that study and implement what we have learned about building community cohesion and sustainable societies?
In the last 40 years, we’ve learned far more about how to wage peace. It’s not simple, but we know far more about how to do that than we ever did in the history of mankind. You can find thousands of books on war. It’s only in the last 30 or so years that you can find books, research, and scholarly articles on peacebuilding.
Some people on the left argue that the threat posed by white supremacist groups on the far right justifies preemptive use of force. There’s a debate over why people should or shouldn’t “punch a Nazi.” How would you respond to that?
I wonder if some of the people advocating punching Nazis might be the same people who say you should not bring people whose ideas we disagree with onto our college campuses. It doesn’t solve anything.
I’ll give you the example of my local ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] leader. About 20 years ago, we learned that the Ku Klux Klan wanted a permit for a rally in Pittsburgh. There were people who said, “No, they shouldn’t be given the permit. That’s nonsense, we can’t allow them here.” Vic Walczak, who was executive director of the Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of the ACLU of Pennsylvania and a man who clearly understood the importance of the First Amendment, had a different perspective. His parents grew up in Poland, and through his travels there, he saw the impact of their political history and was deeply moved. His concern was, if we shut down the Klan today, who will be shut down tomorrow? The Klan got their permit. But Walczak said, “Okay. That’s not the end of it. We don’t shut down dissidents. What we do is come out in greater numbers on the other side.” The Klan ended up with about 200 people, and about 2,000 people showed up to clearly communicate the message that “we don’t believe in what you do.”
I truly believe that there are more people on the side of peace, so for me, it’s about using everything we can to build that group of people. Critical thinking and dialogue are important tools in a democracy. How do you get people engaged, is the question. How do we communicate the immediacy, the urgency of everyone needing to speak up? Speak up by exercising their right to vote and ensuring voting rights are not limited; speak up by participating in community dialogues about the important issues that affect all of us and our values as a community. Silence is complicit. By their silence, half the people in this country are complicit. You cannot support a democracy if half the people in a country stay silent or if their voices are suppressed.
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We need Messenger Interoperability
Messengers are still stuck in the early days, with almost no interoperability. But these days are long past.
By Martin Recke
How many messengers do you have installed on your phone? In my case, it's WhatsApp, iMessage, SMS/MMS, Hangouts, Signal, Telegram, Threema and Facebook Messenger. Slack, Skype, Instagram and LinkedIn all have messaging functionality as well. I've probably missed a few apps, and some of them I rarely use. I also have accounts on other platforms, but didn't even bother to install the apps.
This abundance of messengers provides me with a challenge you probably reckon with as well: how to contact any given person? Which messenger do they really use? For people you chat with on a daily basis, this is not a problem. But what about the other 1,000+ contacts you may have on all these platforms?
In the history of telecommunication and other networks, this is a common issue of the early days. After the telephone was invented, it was impossible to call anyone who used to be on the wrong network. Early in the 20th century, more than half of the US population lived in areas where there were two unconnected telephone exchanges.
Railways had similar problems: track widths varied, carriages could not be coupled. Lawmakers had to solve this and ensure interoperability. And that turned out to be a good thing, ensuring both growth and positive network effects.
Opening up the walled messaging gardens
So why don't we have messenger interoperability today? We have, at least when it comes to SMS/MMS. The ITU has standardised these services to a point where phone users can send messages to everyone who has a cell phone. And Facebook has announced plans to make FB messenger interoperable with WhatsApp and Instagram, both owned by Facebook.
But Apple, Google and Microsoft (which owns Skype) don't show any intention to open up their walled messaging gardens. Apple's iMessage at least is somehow integrated with SMS/MMS, allowing to exchange messages with people outside the Apple universe. Skype can send SMS as well.
There are a few possible ways to achieve messenger interoperability. As a first step, the integration of SMS/MMS should be made mandatory by regulators. This would bring a kind of basic message exchange between different platforms. Users would need to configure how and where they want their messages, like they need to do with iMessage today.
But what about groups, the killer feature of modern messaging? It will be interesting to watch if and how Facebook is going to implement cross-platform message groups. From a UI/UX point of view, this could be a challenge.
Regulators need to step in
It is about time to throw off the chains of the WhatsApp group tyranny. There should be a way to participate in message groups without being forced to join a specific company's walled garden.
Messenger interoperability has been a topic for years, if not decades. Ten years ago, we had more interoperability than we have today. The IETF, which has been working on internet protocols for ages, has discussed and proposed different solutions over all those years. In 2001, the FCC imposed measures after the AOL Time Warner deal to ensure interoperability.
The early days of messaging are long past. It is ridiculous that we still don't have interoperability after so many years. Regulators clearly need to step in. With interoperability finally ensured, there is still ample room for product differentiation: through innovative features, better UI/UX, or integration with other products and platforms, to name a few.
Some basic level of interoperability should be feasible: SMS/MMS integration is a first step, and group interoperability a second step, that could follow after Facebook's big switch to messenger interoperability later this year or maybe in early 2020.
Cory Doctorow, who spoke at NEXT a few years ago, recently called for interoperability to be applied to all kinds of monopolistic and oligopolistic big tech behaviour, not just in the field of messaging. It is true: interoperability is deeply rooted in the internet's basic design. The term internet itself is shorthand for interconnected network.
Time to interconnect the messenger networks.
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Category / death and dying
October 5, 2018 October 5, 2018 by death sponge
Skip and a mallet
death and dying, end of life, inheritence, Life, stuff
When my son was much younger than he is now I asked him what would happen to my belongings when I died, my son, who has always had a dry and very caustic sense of humour replied “it will involve a skip and a mallet”. My house was, is, filled with a mish-mash of charity shop finds, old unwanted and pre-loved ornaments, trinkets and pictures, these things were found in charity shops after they were evicted from family homes, they were unwanted and so in my mind they were unloved and I’m a sucker for a social outcast or reject.
There is a lot of clutter in my home, a lot of charity shop gems and a great number of books, I think I hoard books, we didn’t have many books when I was a child, my father had a leather bound set of Dennis Wheatley books he kept on glass shelves that we were not permitted to touch, other than that we were not a book owning family but we are a book reading family. I cannot bear to part with my books and in places in my home they are taking over, I’m not sure my collecting would meet the DSM standard for hoarding but its not healthy and I struggle to throw things away, I have a war-time, frugal mindset instilled by my grandma in which I try to avoid throwing anything away which might have a useful life. And so this means my home is full, it is full of things which matter only to me and the task of clearing it out when I die will fall to my son. I could grow very sentimental about this but in reality, I don’t want to face the task of clearing out my home so why would my son want to do it.
I have a sense that some of the things I own are imbued with power, or potency and so are “magical” in some way. I don’t want to throw some things away because I would miss them, other things I might “need”, some things I think it would be bad luck, bad karma to throw away. Some things I couldn’t bear to part with, photographs of people I love, cards from people who love me, knick-knacks with sentimental value, I don’t own anything of any material value. The things around me represent me, they represent my inner being, be it my soul or my mind, the kitsch, cluttered, eclectic, useless assembly of things tell visitors who I am but they also remind me who I am. In the same way the ancient Egyptians buried symbolic items with the Pharos or my Romani ancestors burned and destroyed the belongings of the deceased , we all understand the symbolism, the potency of the “things” we surround ourselves with, I am not unusual in equating “me” with my things, indeed this is part of all cultures in varying ways, the things we own define us but today this is the witchcraft of capitalism, our current system tells us that we are judged in accordance with what we own, owning the right things, be they the right new things and the right old or antique or vintage things.
The sense that some things have a potency beyond their financial value is evident in our collecting our children’s milk teeth or locks of hair or, in the case of my nan, keeping her gallstones in a jar after they were removed. My Nan kept the chunk of my hair that was cut off when I had my first “proper” hair cut at a hairdressers when I was 7years old, the pony tail was tied in an elastic band and stored in a drawer in one of her cupboards, it was still there when we cleared out her home some thirty years later following her death, I don’t think this was an item she would have remembered she had but at the same time I also don’t think she had forgotten she had it either. My Nan keeping my ponytail reminded me of the Victorian custom of memento mori, and particularly the taking of locks of hair from a deceased loved one to make mourning jewellery, a way in which to keep the person close, to remember death and loss and to signify ones grief and love to the world.
My maternal family are of Romani descent and one of the traditional customs after death which is not often enacted today is that all belongings which can be reduced to ash must be burned and all belongings which cant be burned must be smashed and broken, partly this is so the deceased can have their possessions in the next life but partly it is designed to prevent “marime” or contamination from whatever ailed the deceased. This is a complex custom and one which results in there being nothing to hand on from generation to generation, this lack of tangible inheritance may well be the reason for the longing deep within my psyche to seek out things without a home and cherish them creating my own version of a cabinet of curiosities, I have no inheritance from my family but I have created one for my son curated from the discarded belongings of other people and its small wonder he is less than excited about having to fit it all into his home after I am gone. The things I own will doubtless be returned to charity shops and will begin the cycle again but I like the idea of that, I’ve collected the things which stir my soul and appeal to my eye and my spirit, my mismatched collection of tat would not appeal in its entirety to anyone else and so it seems only right that its scattered and separated because it is uniquely mine and when I’m gone the purpose for which it was assembled will also be gone.
September 22, 2018 January 5, 2019 by death sponge
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
death and dying, end of life, palliative care
Bucket list, death doula, Doula, end of life, Living well dying well
When someone is the same age as me and dying, their situation has a heartache inducing fascination for me, a kind of ghost visiting from another realm telling me about time running out and asking me what I’m doing with my life. This has been the case no matter what age I have been, its not about the actual age I am, its about the reality of spending time with a person of my age who is dying and, more importantly, knows they are dying. I am curious about the experience, the emotional response and the emotional journey, the reflections and the regret and the making peace with the situation or, conversely, fighting the situation and screaming in rage at god or the universe or whatever you believe has put you in the situation you find yourself in.
This is different to my spending time with people who are younger than me and are dying, this causes a sadness which combines a maternal feeling of love and a sense of injustice. When I’m working with older people I tend to feel a little more comfortable with their dying the older they are. I know that there is a natural order to the life cycle and its one on which old people die after having had a long life, young people have a life ahead of them and people with young children shouldn’t die. That doesn’t mean I am unaffected by the death of anyone, young or old I am touched by the loss for them and for their family but each loss, each experience of death touches me in a different way, death is unique and so is our response to it.
Several years ago I worked with a woman who was my age. Her illness was complex and there was no further treatment available for her. She had children the same age as my own and she had a husband and a cat and she had an average, ordinary life very much like mine. She had some of the same interests and hobbies as me, we liked some of the same music and films and we had passed some of the same milestones in life, in another setting we might have struck up a friendship but, we were brought together in a situation in which she was dying and I was one of her palliative care team.
When she was given her prognosis it came as a shock to her and her family, they had hoped that there would be treatment options, there were none and so the count down to death began. She was give facts about the prognosis of her disease and the effect it would have on her physical being and on her quality of life.
When we talked about what she wanted for her final months she had a “bucket list”, it included all manner of things, big and small, mundane and ambitious, a recurring theme on the list was visiting places she had always wanted to travel to but she was now too ill to travel, too dependent on small machines keeping her pain free and alive and too ill for travel insurance and so half of the bucket list plans were wiped out in an instant. She hadn’t travelled before because life got in the way, there was always some other demand on the money she was saving or she couldn’t get the time off work or one of her parents or children were ill, all manner of reasons why she couldn’t do the things she wanted to do at some other stage in life and so she put them off, she opted to do them “later”. We all have these things on lists, whether an actual list pinned to the fridge or a list in our heads, we all have stuff we want to do, stuff we thinks/hope/say/expect we will get round to doing but we don’t.
I’m not writing this to advocate that you seize the day and live your dreams nor am I writing it to tell you that I have been prompted into action and am working through a bucket list. Nothing life affirming happened and that’s the bit I find most interesting, I’m working with someone of my age, she’s got unfinished business, an incomplete list, a list she will never be able to complete and I can identify massively with that and I feel very emotional about the unfulfilled aspect of it all and the belief that the clock is ticking but it doesn’t prompt me to action, it doesn’t prompt me to change, why would that be?
I can only conclude at this moment that the reason I’m not prompted is the same reason every one of us isn’t prompted to live their lives more fully: we are surrounded by death and we don’t necessarily think death is coming for us, we think we will have time, we think time runs out for other people, we don’t think its coming today and we think there’s some kind of rational or logical process to death in that it comes when the time is right but what we think is the right time isn’t necessarily the right time for other people or the world or the Grim Reaper or who ever comes for us.
But, if we are doing it right we should have an incomplete list, not because we haven’t had chance to do things but because we want to do so very much that we don’t have time to cram it all in and we have a list of incomplete things because we have plans and hold onto at least a gram of optimism and because we are engaged in the world, filling life with the big and the small: running down hills, riding a bike, admiring art, reading books, eating cake, falling in love, finding the perfect t-shirt, dancing to The Damned, laying in the grass looking up at the sky, holding a tiny hand, laughing until you cry, forgiving, being warmed by the sun and drenched by the rain, wandering round the supermarket, shopping for records, talking about the new things in the world and looking at old buildings and watching cheesy American comedies and knowing that these things are at the core of living every day right up until we die.
September 7, 2018 April 7, 2019 by death sponge
The story of the unguarded piece of paper with the red border
death, death doula, Doula, dying, EOL, grief, Living well dying well, loss, palliative care
There was once an elderly lady who had lived for over 90 years, she was at the end of her life and was going to stay in a home, a care home. She was only going for a short time while her family travelled to another city to go to a wedding. The lady was too ill to travel to go to the wedding and she told her family to go without her, she wanted them to celebrate the wedding and to bring photographs back to show her. She told her family she would be ok for the few days while they went away. Because the lady was poorly and she was palliative doctors had already talked with her about Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and after discussion the lady was happy that a DNACPR was in place, the A4 size piece of paper with a solid red border told medical staff that in the event that the lady needed CPR she did not want it, she did not want to be resuscitated, the lady knew that she was palliative, she wanted the right to say what treatment she had and wanted the right to chose how she died, she made a decision that her final moments would not be spent with medical staff trying to resuscitate her, she knew that the CPR might cause injury and she had decided that she wanted to be allowed to die and the doctors agreed. The piece of paper went everywhere with the lady, because she was frail and had heart problems it was important that the piece of paper went with her so there was no mistake about her wish not to be resuscitated. The document was a legal one and had to be respected by everyone. The DNACPR had a red border so it stood out from other pieces of white paper.
When the lady went to the care home for her short stay her family carefully packed the DNACPR with her belongings because they knew how important it was and they knew it was crucial that the document stayed with the lady during the journey and once she arrived at the home, just in case.
The family went to the wedding, after they had been gone for a day the lady became poorly, she had a heart attack. The staff at the home were good and caring and kind and they called an ambulance, when the paramedics arrived they asked about the lady and her wishes regarding treatment and about DNACPR.
The staff at the home were always very busy, they all worked hard and a lot of the time there weren’t quite enough staff to do all of the work that was needed and sometimes jobs were put on a “to do” list but by the end of the shift the jobs didn’t always get done and not everyone could remember all of the jobs for all of the people they cared for every day, they were just ordinary human people who sometimes forgot things. When the lady arrived at the home the DNACPR was given to the staff to put in the lady’s file so that it was safe and wasn’t forgotten about and so everyone knew where it was “just in case”. Something went wrong, maybe the phone rang at the exact moment of the piece of paper being given to the staff or maybe someone came to the door and caused a distraction or maybe there was an emergency to deal with and the piece of paper with the red border was put on the desk for just a moment and in the confusion and the busyness was then forgotten about, the DNACPR didn’t go into the file, no one knows why, the DNACPR vanished, no one knows where it went but it didn’t go into the lady’s file and so when she had a heart attack and the paramedics came and asked about the DNACPR no one could find it to show to the paramedics and so the paramedics had no legal reason to not carry out CPR, there was no evidence to stop the CPR and so the paramedics did their best and tried to save the lady’s life. The lady couldn’t tell them not to and the staff couldn’t find the DNACPR to show the paramedics and so the paramedics tried to save the lady’s life, even though that’s not what the lady wanted. The lady couldn’t be saved, she died.
Sometimes for the want of a piece of paper it goes wrong, no one did a deliberately bad or cruel thing, no one lost the form on purpose, everyone did their utmost and everyone wanted it to be the right thing.
When I read that story I think about the Dylan Thomas poem “The hand that signed the paper” and about the line “hands have no tears to flow”, it was a hand that put down the DNACPR, it was a hand that moved it, hands frantically searching for the DNACPR but also hands trying to carry out life saving tasks, our hands can be incredibly expressive and convey so much including kindness and compassion. These are services staffed by people, ordinary people like you and me and which one of us can say we never made mistakes at work? I think about the unguarded piece of paper which will probably turn up in a drawer or the wrong file or just under a pile of other paperwork, the mythical, magical, illusive and powerful piece of paper with the red border.
September 5, 2018 September 22, 2018 by death sponge
death, death doula, Doula, dying, end of life, EOL, Living well dying well, palliative care
Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut,
Not everyone was born to be a king,
Not everyone can be Freddie Mercu-ry,
But everyone can raise their glass and sing.
Well I haven’t always been a perfect person,
I haven’t done what mum and dad had dreamed,
But on the day I die, I’ll say at least I fucking tried.
That’s the only eulogy I need,
Thats the only eulogy I need.
From the 2011 album “England Keep my Bones”
August 15, 2018 by death sponge
5 stages of grief, anger, death and dying, end of life, Life, palliative care
Today I’m distracted by repeated thoughts of a woman I worked with, when I move into thinking of her I well with emotion and I’m overcome, I have to stop thinking about her, but then my mind creeps stealthily back to her as if to test the water of my thoughts. There’s a tentative tread towards recalling her, towards allowing my mind to remember her, to picture her as she was when I visited the family home. She was the mother of a man who was dying, she was caring for him, he was only young and she has stayed in my thoughts long after my involvement with the family ended. I think of her whenever I work with carers who are deeply distressed by the suffering of their loved ones and I think about her when I encounter strong, fearless women, woman who have passed the stage of life where they care what the world thinks about them and so are free to be authentic and free to voice their rage and to process it in a way that works for them.
Distress is manifest in a variety of ways but for this woman it was expressed in honest, direct, visceral ways. Her rage was expressed in her physicality, the way she moved and gestured when she spoke, the way she grimaced and contorted her face as she retold incidents, the way she re-enacted conversations as she moved around the room pushing furniture out of the way or sitting at the dining table writhing and convulsing with her hands trembling in fists held just in front of her in a way that reminded me of someone experiencing a seizure, the way she cried and shouted in the course of every conversation I had with her. She was a terrifying presence when she was in this flow and I was in awe of her. She unsettled me, she left me feeling rattled, she filled the entire room and I found no reason to speak or to try to explore what was happening because she was a raging force of nature and she was centre stage and I was overwhelmed as her audience of one. She was incensed but her anger was purposeful, it wasn’t indiscriminate, her fury was about the situation, the disease and the injustice of it, she was angry about the economic system and its injustices, she was enraged about the inequities in funding and access to care and in her anger she was eloquent, hypnotic, persuasive and passionate and so I didn’t want to do anything other than allow it, to observe it and often to slip into it in order to fully experience it. When she was angry she was absolutely alive, the inner emotional fight she was experiencing every day watching her son die was manifest on the outside through her rage. She hid her rage from her son and so it needed an outlet. Her anger made people who witnessed it uncomfortable, it made people turn away and in some cases walk away. She wasn’t stoic, she wasn’t dignified or reserved she was f**king raging and why not, her son was dying, his life was barely underway and he hadn’t done many of the things we see as landmarks on the road of an adult life, how could she convey in words the anger and injustice she felt, it was impossible. Far better to show me, to make me see and feel it, to provide me with the experience of apprehension, uncertainty, dread, loss of security, of wanting to run away, of wanting it to stop, of wanting to be rescued of wanting it to change.
When I reflected on her anger after each visit I could process it in a logical way and relate it to research in death and dying, I could see the resonance with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ 5 stage model of grief, anger is in there as a stage but I never said this to her at the subsequent visits, I never spoke of it, how could I tell a mother who was grieving for the impending death of her son that there was a model which could provide comfort and reassurance about the fact that this is an understandable part of the grief process. I understood that some of her anger was projected onto issues outside of the illness but she was subject to the system and experienced first hand the inadequacies of it and the impact of this on her son and his situation and so I couldn’t disabuse her of this or deny the reality of hers and her sons experience.
Rather than try to comfort or sooth her I wanted to join her, it was contagious, I wanted to give vent to my rage about all manner of things, the injustice of her sons illness was on my list, her pain was on there too but I had a long list, a list of “things which make me angry”, some of them my own personal rages and some of them bigger societal rages. I never gave into it, I remained professional, I was her witness, I didn’t try to stop her raging, I didn’t hush her or offer solace because there was no place for these at that stage in her grief, I didn’t want to try to curb her anger because it was likely to be the thing that kept her going after her sons death, it was going to be her survival tool, she was going to be a campaigner and an activist in the world in memory of her son and in support of others so I had no desire to dissuade her from her anger, as Johnny Rotten said, “anger is an energy” and she was bouncing with it. At the end of each visit I would climb into my car and drive back to the office but on the journey I would ensure my music was loud and angry to give voice to my own rage because sometimes its important to have the anger.
August 9, 2018 August 10, 2018 by death sponge
The grief of leaving everyone and everything
death and dying, Life
death, death doula, dying, end of life, EOL, existentialism, north of england, palliative care
In Felicity Warner’s The Soul Midwives Handbook she describes an exercise used by spiritual care trainer and author Christine Longaker which is designed to try to show how it feels to be in the position of leaving life behind, of being on the threshold of death and trying to make the psychological and emotional adjustment necessary. The exercise looks at the enormity of leaving everyone and everything. We have all experienced loss and can recall the emotions and thought processes which accompany a loss whether it be loss of things or people but the amplification of leaving everything and everyone is so intense that we seldom think about it for fear it will overwhelm us. Just saying the words “leaving everyone and everything” has an intensity to it, when I say it the words slow down, theres an emphasis on the final syllable and I feel something in me, some part of me recoils when I say it, its not just a thought, its a feeling and its a feeling I don’t like. In saying it my mind flits across names of people I love and the things Im surrounded by here in this room and I can only go so far into the thought and I retreat again, it feels a little like falling, like the image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice falling down the rabbit hole with cupboards and tables floating past on the way down only Im falling past the faces of people I care about and the kitsch clutter I’ve surrounded myself with and freeze-frame style shots of scenes from my life, I want to grab onto something to stop the fall because I suspect at the end theres just nothing…just nothing at all but I cant picture “just nothing”, I can’t picture the absence of everything.
I worked with a woman several years ago who fought against her death, she raged against it and her sense of injustice about her impending death was contagious, I would find myself being outraged about the unfairness of a world in which a mother, still relatively young could die. I was angry and appalled on her behalf but I didn’t know who to direct my anger at, I just had a sense of it not being “fair”, of it not being “right”. She didn’t want to leave everyone and everything, to leave hope, to leave the future, to leave the sounds and smells and taste and touch of things and of people but there was no way to convey the enormity of that, sometimes it can only be conveyed by sounds, by screams and by moans which aren’t recognisably human but at the same time the audience recognises the depth of the anguish transmitted.
Leonardo da Vinci said “While I thought I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die“, we are all moving towards death everyday, we forget that, we push it out of our minds, we are all learning how to die without most of us actually acknowledging it and our lamentations will not hold death back.
We are all trapped by a singular fate.
Alone, Bukowski, death, death doula, dying, end of life, EOL, existentialism, north of england, palliative care, poetry
Alone with Everybody
The flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
and nobody finds the
but keep
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
flesh.
there’s no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
fills.
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Ex-Newcastle flop who didn’t play one minute for club fires current side towards Champions League quarter final
Date: 22nd February 2018 at 12:14pm
Written by: Jak Penny
Facundo Ferreyra didn’t play a single competitive minute for Newcastle during an ill-fated loan spell during the 2014/15 season and is generally considered to be a damning indictment of the club’s recruitment policy under Mike Ashley.
So it will come as no surprise to Magpies fans to learn that Ferreyra is one match away from playing in a Champions League quarter final after scoring for Shakhtar Donetsk in the last-16 tie against Roma on Wednesday night.
He couldn't get a minute for Newcastle…
But Facundo Ferreyra has now been directly involved in five goals in seven Champions League games this season
And if that is too much to swallow, the Argentinian striker has been directly involved in five goals in seven Champions League matches (three goals, two assists) for Shakhtar this season, scoring 23 times in 30 appearances in all competitions.
In fact, since returning to Shakhtar in the summer of 2015 Ferreyra has certainly hit a rich vein of consistent form in front of goal with 49 goals in 79 matches in all competitions. That’s just six less goals than the combined record of Papiss Cisse, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Dwight Gayle, Daryl Murphy and Joselu (56) in the proceeding three seasons. A frightening statistic.
It will be almost four years ago this summer that former chief scout Graham Carr brought Ferreyra to St James’ Park, a stadium he would never once set foot on in a black and white shirt, and it’s clear that he is a better player and a more accomplished finisher than we gave him credit for.
Then again, we never actually got to see the 26-year-old in action due, unlike the lamentable Joselu.
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USA Today Report: Environmentalist Groups Hurt CA Port Truckers
Environmentalists have skirted responsibility for adversely affecting the trucking industry, according to the report.
An extensive investigation by USA Today last week focused on the unfortunate circumstances faced by many short-haul truck drivers at ports in Southern California, including allegations of tough and exploitive working conditions. However, one group that appears to be skirting responsibility are the environmentalist groups that pushed for so-called “clean energy” policies that upended the transportation system at California’s ports, leading directly to the situation confronting the truck drivers today.
The piece notes that these issues began in 2008 when liberal activists from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Coalition For Clean Air pushed both the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to mandate the replacement of diesel-powered trucks for new rigs, at a cost of some $2.5 billion:
In October 2008, that changed dramatically in southern California, home of the nation’s busiest ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach. State officials, fed up with deadly diesel fumes from 16,000 outdated trucks, ordered the entire fleet replaced with new, cleaner rigs.
Suddenly, this obscure but critical collection of trucking companies faced a $2.5 billion crossroads unlike anything experienced at other U.S. ports.
These environmental activists actually began pushing the ports some five years earlier, in 2003, when they reached a settlement with the port and city of Los Angeles to require that non-diesel trucks be used in the shipping terminal, putting many drivers at a disadvantage.
“The port has agreed to make the China Shipping terminal less polluting by requiring non-diesel trucks in the terminal yard and installing electrical power for docked ships so that they do not keep running their diesel engines while in port.”
In 2006, the environmentalist groups linked up with big labor organizations to call for further reductions in diesel emissions at the ports and to try and force drivers to unionize.
This culminated in the forging of a “Landmark Pollution-Control Program” in 2008 that the USA Today article argues was the “critical change” that started to deteriorate the situation for trucker drivers. According to The Los Angeles Times, the program banned all trucks that were built before 1989 and by 2012, only trucks that met the 2007 emissions standards would be allowed to enter the ports.
Four years after the program was implemented, NRDC lawyers wrote that their lawsuit “was indisputably a catalyst for all this positive change.”
When reviewing the conditions that truckers find themselves in today thanks to the environmentalist community’s threats and lawsuits over the last 15 years, it’s startling that the NRDC calls hurting these men and women a “positive change.”
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The National Stadium and the Olympic dream
The “Sportforum”
Plans for the remodelling of the National Stadium
Construction of the Olympiastadion
The Olympic Games 1936
The Olympiastadion before and during World War II
The post-war era
From “Reichssportfeld” to Olympiastadion
Monument Conservation, Floodlight and a new roof
The bid for the 2004 Olympic Games
Preparations for restauration
Reconstruction into a multifunctional arena
The reopening
The “Five-Star-Stadium” award
World class sports with the World Cup Final 2006
ISTAF-anniversary, visitor records and high class concerts
The year of Guiness World records
The world is looking to the Olympiastadion Berlin
World Records, Hard Rock and a new CEO.
75 years Olympiastadion, Mass with pope Benedikt XVI., FIFA Woman WC
German Cup final - walk of fame
Champions League Final, German Cup Final and additional categorization as a UEFA "Elite Stadium"
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1868-1908 The historical beginning
Even before the turn of the century, horse races were a popular spectator sport among the high society. The horse race track at Hoppegarten, located in the East just outside of Berlin, was a playground for the rich and beautiful of the aspiring new capital. The first horse races were staged here as early as 1868, with the “Union-Klub” being the driving force behind them. The wealthy audience increasingly shied away from travelling two hours across the city just to attend the horse races.
Due to the dwindling interest, the Union-Klub was looking for a suitable area to build a new horse race track in the now fashionable Berlin West. It found a place in Ruhleben, where the club leased premises and managed a race track from 1884 to 1893. It was only in 1906, that Victor von Podbielski, thanks to his various functions and his far-flung personal connections, managed to find another Grunewald location for the “Union-Klub.”
In February 1907, the club signed a 30-year lease for an adequate area north of the Döberitzer Heerstrasse, today’s Heerstrasse. But the area the rich and beautiful had selected for their sophisticated sport, was already taken by the people of Berlin – and, most unfortunately – by highest orders of the Emperor himself. Emperor Wilhelm II. had promised this area in northern Grundewald to his subjects in 1904, as a „People’s Park“. The “Union-Klub” had to accept that its leased area would also serve “general sports functions”. This was birth of the horse race track in Grunewald.
1909 - 1916 The National Stadium and the Olympic dream
On May 23rd 1909 the Grunewald horse race track designed by architect Otto March was opened. It had a capacity of 40,000 and, in its centre, featured a depression measuring 85,000 square metres, which was thought to serve as building ground of a stadium later. In 1912 Berlin succeeded in its bid for the Games of 1916. Podbielski organized the funding of a new stadium, whose construction was estimated at 2,25 million Reichsmark.
In August 1912, the excavation works for the National Stadium (Deutsches Stadion), also known as the “Grunewaldstadion”, began. The stadium featured 11,500 seats and standing room for another 18,500, the swimming pool stadium had a capacity of another 3,000. The National Stadium and all of its facilities were proudly inaugurated after only 200 days of construction, on May 15th 1913. Otto March, however, would not live to see the opening ceremony on June 8th 1913, as he deceased on April 1, 1913. From now on, the stadium was at the centre of German sports. It also quickly evolved as the centre for German professional, competitive sports, preparing the country’s top athletes for the Games of 1916 – a centre, where young talents were selected, trainers and sports teachers were educated.
In February 1914, the mighty oak, marking the eastern edge of stadium, was named “Podbielski-Eiche“, to honour the State Minister. Otto March’s decision to leave the oak (standing at the far end of the stadium) untouched, was a deliberate move: It was now thought to bless the Games, just like the holy olive tree once has blessed the antique games at the Zeus temple at Olympia. But the Olympic dream came to a sudden halt, when Europe suddenly tumbled into World War I. On July 26th 1914, the stadium closed and, as of 1915, served as a military hospital. Another year passed before it was used for sports once again.
1917-1929 The “Sportforum”
On May 15th 1920, a new Deutsche Hochschule für Leibesübungen (DHfL) – the German University for Athletics – was installed at Berlin’s Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, today’s Humboldt-University. Starting in summer 1921, a two-storied university building was erected north of the stadium’s swimming pool. On May 26th 1922, this new building, including a gymnasium, a fencing hall and a dining and reading room, was opened. In 1925, Theodor Lewald suggested the name „Sportforum“ for the newly planned building complex – but this idea received little support. Despite all objections, the name “Sportforum” quickly became popular, and on September 16th 1925, the board of the DRA officially named the expansion area “Deutsches Sportforum“ – a name that has been used until today.
On October 18th 1925 Reichspräsident von Hindenburg, in a festive ceremony, performed the laying of the cornerstone – despite the fact that there were no finalized architectural designs ready. It came as a surprise when the brothers Werner und Walter March, the sons of the architect of the National Stadion, won the architectural competition in late 1925. In the late 1920s, plans for hosting the Olympic Games in Berlin once again emerged. Werner March developed a design for remodelling the National Stadium into a sports arena with a capacity of 65,000. This time the beginning of the Great Depression crushed the dream.
1909 - 19161930-1933
1930-1933 Plans for the remodelling of the National Stadium
But in 1930, during the 9th Olympic Congress of the IOC in Berlin, Theodor Lewald officially announced an invitation for the Olympic Summer Games of 1936. The IOC was impressed with Berlin’s city landscape, its many sports parks and the general enthusiasm for sports. On May 13th 1931, the election of the next host city took place at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, and Berlin managed to defeat Barcelona with 43 to 16 votes (eight votes were abstentions). The plans for remodelling the stadium as suggested by Werner March continued to enjoy wide support.
When Adolf Hitler was made Chancellor on January 30th 1933, the discussions about building a new stadium were suddenly directed into a different direction. The Nazi regime quickly understood the valuable propaganda opportunity the Olympic Games presented. The government now made available six million marks for re-modelling the National Stadion. At the same time, the project was renamed into “Reichssportfeld” (Imperial Sports Area). On December 14th 1933, Hitler himself decided to have the third design by the brothers March, called “solution option B”, to be implemented. This plan called for the demolition of the National Stadium. The new stadium was designed to be built ten metres below and 13 metres above the ground – creating a commanding, highly visible building.
The layout of the stands for the audience was planned above and below a circular middle gallery on ground level. All of the architectural features actually built later, can already be found in this initial plan: The Olympischer Platz, the Olympic Stadium itself, the parade grounds with the so-called “Führerloge” and the Bell Tower on the East-West-Axis, the Coubertinplatz, as well as the swimming pool stadium on the North-South-Axis.
1934-1936 Construction of the Olympiastadion
The demolition of the horse race track and the National Stadium began in March 1934. The huge mass of soil created by excavating the construction pit, were used to erect the western main stand, on the Maifield. Hitler had decided that the construction should be supervised by the Imperial Ministry of the Interior. At this point, both the brothers Werner and Walter March were still named as architects. It was only later, that Werner March took over the general management of the project. But right from the start, the construction was always behind schedule.
Secretary of State Hans Pfundtner tried to speed things up by announcing to the construction companies that any firm that was unfit to work in several shifts or companies that turned out to be “difficult“ would be replaced immediately by competitors. In addition, the construction companies were forced to hire only “complying, non-union workers of German citizenship and Arian race“. In April 1935, a total of 1,500 workers were employed, in July 1935, this number had increased to 2,064, in order to make up for the lost time.
At one point, 500 companies with a total of 2,600 workers were employed at the “Reichssportfeld”. There are no exact figures about the total construction costs of the Olympiastadion. However, some information and hints point to a figure of at least 27 million Marks. The gap between the planned funding by the state was closed by donations and money from the regime’s employment program. The city invested another twelve million Marks for the expansion and the improvement of the traffic infrastructure.
1936 The Olympic Games 1936
The XI. OIympic Summer Games officially began on August 1st 1936 at the Olympiastadion Berlin and closed on August 16th 1936 with a grand closing ceremony. A total of 3,956 athletes, among them 328 women, from 49 nations took part in the competitions. The most successful athlete was James Cleveland “Jesse“ Owens, who won four gold medals – 100m and 200m sprints, long jump and with the American 4x100m relay. The (unofficial) nations’ ranking was led by Germany with 33 gold, 26 silver and 30 bronze medals, followed by the USA (24/29/21) and Hungary (10/1/5).
During the Olympic Games, the German Imperial capital presented itself in its most beautiful appearance. Adolf Hitler had informed the German IOC member Karl Ritter von Halt as early as 1932 that the NSDAP would not present “any difficulties” during the Olympic Games of 1936 and that “he would also not oppose the participation of coloured people at the competitions”. The SA was ordered to stop any anti-semitic attacks between June 30th and September 1st 1936. But despite the positive reviews of the sports competitions, some foreign observers, who realized the real terror regime behind the feigned façade, voiced their criticism.
After the Olympic Games, the “Reichssportfeld” annually saw 20 to 25 large-scale events. The Hochschule für Leibesübungen (Academy for Athletics), however, was ordered to cease operations, and instead a new school, the Reichsakademie für Leibesübungen (State Academy for Athletics), was opened on April 15th 1936 by Hitler’s orders. Here, aspiring teachers were destined to receive a „uniform education as leaders in the field of physical education“ – but in reality, the school served the purposes of the paramilitary SA sports training.
1937-1945 The Olympiastadion before and during World War II
The first final match of the German National Soccer Cup was played at the stadium on June 20th 1937, Schalke 04 beat the 1.FC Nuremberg by a score of 2:0. On September 28th 1937, thousands of torch-carrying Nazis marched on the Maifield to welcome Italian “Duce” Mussolini. During the first years of the war there was a continuous series of „War Championships“, Hitlerjugend- and Army Sports Festivals. The Olympiastadion played a crucial part in the entertainment programs for German troops.
The Reichssportfeld had been prepared for war quite early – in the area around the Marathon tunnel, a concrete ceiling and separating walls had been added to expand these underground rooms into a real bunker. At the dawn of the war, the German company Blaupunkt produced primers for anti-aircraft weapons here. In late 1944, the Allied bombardments became increasingly more intense, and the underground facilities of the stadium were prepared as makeshift headquarters for the “Großdeutscher Rundfunk”, Nazi Germany’s national radio network.
The administration building north of the Olympischer Platz served as an ammunition depot, other buildings were used for large-scale food and wine storages. The Olympischer Platz was one of ten locations in Berlin, where, on November 12th 1944, Hitler’s last contingents were being sworn in.
1945 The post-war era
Only days after Germany’s unconditional surrender in May 1945, the Reichssportfeld was cleaned up. The area was dotted with bomb craters, empty ammunitions boxes, burned equipment, barricades and dead bodies. The Sportforum building was heavily damaged, the „Stadion-Terrassen“ were reduced to ruins. The stands on the Maifeld were smouldering for days after the national German film archive, whose material was stored there, had caught fire. The fire expanded onto the Bell Tower, which completely burnt out.
The administration building at the Olympischer Platz was completely destroyed after the war, when stored ammunition exploded. Carl Diem, the Secretary General of the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games 1936, made himself the director of the “Reichssportfeld” administration and, together with other former employees, began the clean-up process. The Red Army had occupied the “Haus des Deutschen Sports” temporarily, establishing a garrison there.
On June 20th 1945, Diem had the largely untouched swimming pool stadium opened to the public – and masses of Berliners made good use of it. After the Soviets had drawn back their forces from this part of the city, British troops occupied the premises on July 1st 1945. The Olympiastadion was closed immediately to the public because the British Army wanted to use all the facilities – except for the “Stadion-Terrassen” – for itself.
1946-1956 From “Reichssportfeld” to Olympiastadion
The British reopened the stadium for the first time on September 7th and 8th 1946 when the “Eight-Nations-Games”, a track-and-field competition of Allied soldiers, was staged here. On February 15th 1947, the Olympiastadion lost one of its landmarks: The British Military Government ordered to demolish the dilapidated Bell Tower. The bell’s fall to the ground created a long crack in the bell material. In order to save the bell from metal hunters, British pioneers buried it on the square in front of the former tower location. Former Heavyweight World Champion Max Schmeling staged his last fight at the open-air arena, now called “Waldbühne” on October 31st 1948 in front of an audience of 24,000.
Step by step, more parts of the “Reichssportfeld” were turned back to German authorities. The Olympiastadion was handed over on June 12th 1949. Exactly one year later, the Berlin Senate decided to rename the “Reichssportfeld” into “Olympiastadion”. The new mounting of the bell was finally realized on December 18th 1956, thanks to efforts made by Werner March. He succeeded in the reconstruction of the bell tower, which was completed after two years in 1962. This new tower has a height of 77,17m, almost one metre more than its predecessor. During the course in the reconstruction, the “Langemarckhalle” at the middle level was also rebuilt – without any consideration of its negative historic context: The hall had been envisioned by the Nazis who wanted to honour the dead of the battle at Langemarck. The hall – along with the tower – had been completely destroyed by the detonation in 1947.
1957-1988 Monument Conservation, Floodlight and a new roof
Inside the arena, a discreet denazification had started as well: The “Führerloge” on the Honorary Stand was reduced in by one metre in length to take away its historic effect. In 1966, the former “Reichssportfeld” was put under Monument Conservation of West Berlin. And in November 1966, a new floodlight system was completed.
The four poles, each 88 metres high, had a power of 4,000 Lux for soccer matches and 300 Lux for track-and-field events – but they fell short of the standard power for stadia of the time (1,500 Lux). In 1969, the old ash-covered running track was replaced by a more modern synthetic running track made of Rekortan. This material was new then and was tested for its usage during the Olympic Summer Games of 1972.
For the 1974 World Cup the stadium received a partial roof over the Northern and Southern stands, designed by architects Dübbers and Krahe. A total of 26,000 seats were now protected from bad weather. In addition, the press stands, and the public bathrooms for the audience were modernized. The stands and the reporter’s trench were now separated by a plexiglass wall.
1989-1997 The bid for the 2004 Olympic Games
In November 1989, Berlin’s bid for the Olympic Summer Games 2004 was advanced for the Games of 2000. This involved plans to completely modernize the whole stadium. But Berlin’s candicacy failed miserably on September 23rd 1993 in the first round. After almost fifty years, the British military presence on the former “Reichssportfeld” ended on September 8th 1994. British Prime Minister John Major, and Governing Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen unsealed a commemorative plaque on the Adlerplatz in front of the the “Haus des Deutschen Sports” with a festive ceremony.
1998-1999 Preparations for restauration
After a series of plans, some of which suggested the dismantling of the stadium or the construction of a football arena, the Berlin Senate, on May 26th 1998, decided to renovate the ailing stadium and to expand it into a multifunctional sports arena. Companies interested in the project’s tender competition, could bid until July 31st 1998.
On December 1st 1998, the Senate decided to adopt the plan of the architects “von Gerkan, Marg and Partner (gmp)”. On May 9th 2000, the investor for the restoration, the modernization, and the management was found: the Augsburg-based Walter Bau-AG. A concession contract included a flat fee of 242 million Euros for the renovation and modernization of the stadium, carried out by the Walter Bau-AG.
In return, the construction company – along with Berlin’s soccer team Hertha BSC – would each be awarded 37,45% of the new stadium management company, with the State of Berlin holding the other 25,1%. Those 46 million Euros not funded by the State of Berlin and the Federal Government, were to be financed by a credit given by the stadium management company to the Walter Bau-AG. This contract had a duration of 13 years.
2000-2004 Reconstruction into a multifunctional arena
On July 3rd, the ground-breaking ceremony was performed by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily, and the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, along with DFB-representative Franz Beckenbauer.
Step by step the ailing building was renovated. For the re-construction, the stadium was divided into 19 sectors, starting in the North East. The upper ring was largely left untouched, but the lower ring of stands had to be completely rebuilt. This new lower ring also involved the lowering of the infield by 2.65 metres, allowing the addition of another two seating rows and a shorter distance between infield and stands. The inner gallery between lower and upper ring now served for the integration of most of the 76 new VIP boxes. In addition, the honorary stand as well as the historic Hall of Honour and Coubertin Hall, based on the requirements of the monument conservation, could be remodelled. 13 new Sky boxes were installed in the former press stands in the upper ring stands.
The renovation was carried out without closing the stadium: Despite the stadium being a huge construction site, the National Soccer League games of Hertha BSC, the annual DFB FA-Cup Final Matches, and (starting in 2003) the home games of the NFL-Europe team Berlin Thunder were staged. The Walter Bau-AG had guaranteed a total of 55,000 seats for sporting events, for the DFB FA-Cup Final Matches, a total of 70,000 seats were made possible. Only the Golden League track-and-field meeting ISTAF had to move to the Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark.
The new roofing of the stands was not closed because the historic opening at the Marathon Gate was to be preserved. The undisturbed view of the Maifeld and the Bell Tower, requested by the Monument Conservation Authority, thus was left untouched as well. Due to this construction, the seemingly floating roof is supported by 20 filigree steel columns standing in the upper ring. Some of the most advanced lighting technology and an audio system with a performance of more than 150,000 Watts is integrated into the roof.
2004 The reopening
In summer 2004, the stadium was handed over to a new management and administration company. The stadium was re-opened with a grand opening festival and event on July 31st. Since August 2nd, the stadium has been open to all Berliners and tourists (on days without scheduled events).
On September 8th 2004, the German national soccer team played their first match at the new stadium – the team led by federal coach Jürgen Klinsmann managed to hold its ground against the Brazilian team by playing 1:1.
The final completion of the stadium and the surrounding areas continued until 2006, when the stadium was well-prepared for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the sports highlight of 2006: The final match on July 9th at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
2005 The “Five-Star-Stadium” award
The new Olympiastadion Berlin has been celebrated as a “Five-Star-Stadium” since its reopening. In April 2005 the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) officially named the Olympiastadion Berlin to the list of “Five-Star-Stadia” – the highest ranking possible for all stadiums in Europe. The new roof construction by gmp (Gerkan, Marg & Partner) and the engineering firm Krebs and Kiefer was honoured with the 2004 steel construction prize by Bauen mit Stahl e.V. – one of the oldest German architectural prizes.
Barely one year after reopening, the Olympiastadion Berlin was able to greet its 150.000th visitor (excluding events). 12.407 guests took advantage of the opportunity to see the stadium for free on the day of the first anniversary of the new Olympiastadion Berlin. Additional highlights during the “first” year were the U2 concert, the international German gymnastics festival and the ISTAF.
2006 World class sports with the World Cup Final 2006
Football, as the number one sport, played the biggest role in 2006. Highlighting the football history at the Olympiastadion Berlin was the FIFA World Cup 2006, when six games of the tournament were played there. Unforgettable memories will remain from the games Germany – Argentina, which the eventual 3rd place finisher Germany won in penalty kicks, and the World Cup Final between Italy and France. The Squadra Azzura had to go to penalty kicks as well on their way to becoming the 18th World Cup Champions at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
In time before the start of the FIFA World Cup, the chapel inside the Olympiastadion Berlin was opened. The chapel serves the athletes as well as people who want to celebrate a marriage or the christening of their children. Since September of 2006, a tailormade organ provides the musical elements of services.
Immediately following the FIFA World Cup two more major events took place at the Olympiastadion Berlin, as Robbie Williams as well as the Rolling Stones fascinated tens of thousands of fans. Major sporting events also followed, as the world’s track and field stars including Asafa Powell and Jeremy Wariner battled for the win at the ISTAF, an IAAF Golden League Meeting.
A world premiere was also part of the events at the Olympiastadion Berlin, as 50.000 fams gathered to see the first Pyronale. Six teams of the internationally leading pyrotechnicians competed over two days and fascinated the people with fireworks displays never before seen. A jury consisting of specialists in the field of pyrotechnics as well as celebrities judged the teams’ performances and chose the Portuguese “Luso Pirotecnia Group” to be the winners.
2007 ISTAF-anniversary, visitor records and high class concerts
The number of visitors did not fall in 2007, as the 500.000th visitor was greeted in February. Approximately 276.000 tourists came to see the new Olympiastadion Berlin during non-event days.
The 2007 sporting events highlights included home games for Hertha BSC Berlin and Berlin Thunder, as well as the DFB Cup Final and the U16 international match between Germany and France. Additionally, the ISTAF celebrated its 70th year of existence and 66th time the event was held.
Concerts included Herbert Grönemeyer and Genesis, who were on a Comeback-Tour while stopping at the Olympiastadion Berlin. The Pyronale fireworks world championship also returned in September to find a new world champion on the Maifeld behind the Olympiastadion Berlin.
2008 The year of Guiness World records
The year 2008 is one of records at the Olympiastadion Berlin. On June 3rd, the first of two Guinness world records was set by the longest children’s painting, which covered all 75.000 seats, measuring a total length of 37 kilometres. In July, German Comedy-Star Mario Barth set a new world record when 70.000 people came to see his comedy act.
Since July bears are growling at the Olympiastadion Berlin. The Olympiastadion Berlin Buddy-Bear was greeted at the stadium. The bear displays the beauty, meaning and functionality of the Olympiastadion Berlin in many different ways.
On August 28th Pop-Queen Madonna thrilled 50.000 fans at the Olympiastadion Berlin, the first stop in Germany on her “Sticky & Sweet” Tour.
Another success was the 3rd Pyronale fireworks World Championships at the Maifeld, next to the Olympiastadion Berlin.
2008 was and remains an interesting year in sports as well. The German FA Cup Finals for men and women were sold out on April 19th at the Olympiastadion Berlin. At the ISTAF approximately 60.000 fans came to cheer on the world’s elite athletes. After a two year wait, Hertha BSC Berlin was able to welcome fans once again to UEFA-Cup games at the Olympiastadion Berlin. The absolute highlight of 2008 sporting events will be the friendly match between the German and English national teams on November 11th. The preparations for next years sporting event highlight are also being made. The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics will come to Berlin in 2009. The stadium’s track is being re-topped to shine blue once more and the long and triple jump sites are also being renewed to comply with the highest standards of the IAAF.
2009 The world is looking to the Olympiastadion Berlin
The record setting at the Olympiastadion Berlin continued in 2009. During the ISTAF, Ariane Friedrich equalled the German Record in the women’s high jump and thusly enthused Berlin for the world’s third largest sporting event: the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics berlin 2009™. Around 400.000 spectators at the Olympiastadion and the millions in front of the TV screens in more than 200 countries celebrated three World Records and hundreds of National Records during the nine days of the championships. Usain Bolt’s new World Records in the men’s 100m and 200m on the fastest track in the world – the blue track at the Olympiastadion Berlin set the absolute highlights.
The concert season also brought a new record – one for spectators: More than 90.000 Fans came to see rock superstars U2 in July during their 360° Tour, where for the first time ever, a 360° stage was used. One month before Depeche Mode had played in front of a sell out crowd.
Hertha BSC also enthused Berlin. For several weeks, the capital’s soccer team was at the top of the standings and let fans dream of the first championship since the 1930/1931 season. In the end, it was not quite enough for the trophy, but with a fourth place finish, the club will be playing internationally during the 2009/2010 season.
The DFB Cup Finals were also once again sold out and Werder Bremen and FCR 2001 Duisburg secured the titles in the men’s and women’s finals. The beginning of September marked the fourth time the Pyronale World Championships of Fireworks took place at the Olympiastadion. The season’s closing event was the B2Run, Germany’s most beautiful company running event, which will take place every year on from this year at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
2010 World Records, Hard Rock and a new CEO.
2010 had a lot to offer: 3 new Athletics World Records, Hard Rock at its finest and much more.
The first set of records was achieved at the BIG25 road race – the fastest road race for the 25 km distance. For the first time in history, both the male and female winners set new World Records in a road race. Kenyan long-distance runner Samuel Kosgei improved upon the old World Record (1:12:45) by finishing in just 1 hour, 11 minutes and 50 seconds. Mary Keitany beat the old World Record (1:22:13) with a time of 1 hour, 19 minutes and 53 seconds.
Four months later, David Rudisha excited the world of Athletics by shattering the 800 m World Record that had previously stood for 23 years, setting a new time of 1 minute and 41,09 seconds.
The German Cup Final promised an exciting match between the two best teams of the tournament: FC Bayern Munich and SV Werder Bremen squared off in a match that did not quite live up to the potential with Bayern Munich earning a decisive 4:0 victory.
The 5th Pyronale lit up the Berlin night-sky with bright colors and about 65.000 Visitors marveled at the fireworks from six international teams of pyro technicians. The Swiss team “Bugano” took home the winners’ trophy. Slovakia and Greece placed second and third.
Hard Rock fans were treated to a highlight in the summer of 2010 as well, as the Australian Hard Rock Band AC/DC jammed in front of 70.000 excited fans at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
On July 1, 2010 a change in management occurred for the Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH. Peter von Löbbecke left the Olympiastadion after six years of successful work with many major sporting and cultural events. His successor was 56-year old lawyer Joachim E. Thomas. Thomas is not new to the business, having recently lead a consulting firm for sports, cultural and leisure time activities. In the past, he has worked with the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt and the Allianz Arena in Munich. Thomas is also a member of the German Olympic Association.
2011 75 years Olympiastadion, Mass with pope Benedikt XVI., FIFA Woman WC
75 Years Olympiastadion – 75 Years Olympic Games Berlin
Two anniversaries, one celebration – although it seemed more like a series of celebrations that took place at the Olympiastadion and Olympiapark during the months of August to November. Thank you to all visitors, fans, athletes and artists who travel to Berlin to deliver unforgettable events and emotions year in and year out at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
The visitor center reopened after a remodeling period and offered an extended program for all tourists including an exhibit on the Olympic Games of 1936. Several round table discussions on the Olympic movement and historical significance with some high-profile guests were also held. The highlight of the event series also marked the end of the celebratory period: The Night of Lights – a light show and installation created a colorful atmosphere inside the Olympiastadion. A party with live music also entertained the guests.
In the time from August 1st to November 11th 2011 the Olympiastadion Berlin welcomed more than 100.000 guests.
Hertha BSC: 2. Bundesliga winners 2010/2011
After being relegated to the second division last year, Hertha BSC and its fans had something to celebrate this season. Coach Markus Babbel’s team managed to claim the league title and earn their promotion back to the Bundesliga.
The final league match of the season provided another big reason to celebrate as Hertha BSC defeated FC Augsburg by a score of 2:1. 77.116 fans were able to attend thanks to an additionally erected mobile stand at the marathon gate.
In total, 784.221 fans came to see the 17 home matches. Hertha BSC finished the season with 12 victories and only three losses in 17 home games.
23rd January 2011, the 10.000.000 Guest in the Olympiastadion Berlin
The walk to the office of Hertha BSC was worth it for Olaf Hartwich: He bought the jubilee ticket and thereby became the 10.000.000 Guest of the Olympiastadion Berlin since the reopening in summer 2004.
Olympiastadion Berlin director Joachim E. Thomas and Hertha-director Ingo Schiller honored the winner before the game (Hertha BSC – Fortuna Düsseldorf) inside the stadium. The happy stadium guest received two VIP tickets for the Herbert Grönemeyer concert in June 2011, furthermore he was invited to watch the following game in the VIP area and got his personal Hertha BSC jersey.
“My father took me to my first Hertha game in 1978 against Roter Stern Belgrad. I am a fan since that day and try to go to as many games as I can. I normally watch from the Ostkurve, but thanks to Hertha I can watch the game from another angle.” Said the happy winner Olaf Hartwich.
“It’s nice to welcome our jubilee guest to our Hertha game day. The fact that the winner is a Hertha Fan makes it even better.”
BIG 25 Berlin 2011
The BIG 25 Berlin run solidified his role as the world’s high-class 25 km run. Despite the warm weather, two athletes managed to beat this year’s best marks.
Mathew Kisorio ran the 3rd best time ever, over the 25 km distance with 1:12:13. The fastest woman was Filomena Chepchirchir who also made it on top of this year’s best list with 1:23:22. The host, Berlin Runs, counted 10.423 participants at the BIG 25 Berlin this year.
BIG 25 Berlin received a unique international award. After the last BIG 25 Berlin run in 2010, where two world-records were set, the association of international Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) decided to honor the event with a special award “AIMS Award”.
21st Mai 2011: German Cup Final
The derby between the MSV Duisburg and Schalke 04 resulted in a heavy defeat for Duisburg as Schalke won 0:5 with Duisburg failing to offer any bigger kind of resistance.
In front of 75.708 fans, both teams showed amibition to win this trophy in the beginning. But just after 18. minutes Julian Draxler scored. The game seemed to be decided afterwards, Schalke took over control and didn’t want to give it away anymore. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Benedikt Höwedes extended the lead to 3:0 before the end of the first half.
The second half had no room for surprises. Schalke played superiorly and scored two more goals.
Schalke 04 earned their victory and finished the season 2010/2011 as “Pokalsieger”.
26. Juni 2011: Opening game FIFA Women’s World Championship. Germany vs. Canada 2:1
The Women World Championship had their opening match in the Olympiastadion Berlin. It never happened before that so many people visited a woman football match in Europe. 73.680 guests were present, when the German team won against the Canadian Team and made for a successful start in the tournament.
The German team scored 10 minutes after kick-off for the lead, Kerstin Garefrekes headed the ball past the Canadian Keeper. Just before the half time break Celia Okoyino Da Mbabi scored the second goal for the hosting/home team.
The second half: The Canadian Team managed to score their first goal in the game. Germany won 2:1 against Canada.
2. and 03. Juli 2011: World Culture Festival
The World Culture Festival took place because of the 30. anniversary of the “Art of Living” foundation. Participants from more than 150 different countries witnessed the unique features of different cultures from all over the world and took important and sensational experiences home with them.
The big celebration inside and outside of the Olympiastadion was presented by music, food, drinks, literature and conferences from the big variety and individual beauty of cultures from around the world. The festival honored the cultures and celebrated the harmony of diversity.
30 pianists and 2.000 guitarists celebrated the end of the festival with a big concert.
16. July 2011: Mario Barth – Tour Final
He did it again! Three years after his impressive world record, Mario Barth invited everyone into the Olympiastadion Berlin and it was a full house. It was the last of four stadium perfomances from Mario Barth: “Men are embarrassing – sometimes women are, too!” was the motto of the day. The weather couldn’t have been better for an open-air event.
Before the actual Barth show started, some opening acts prepared the audience for the German comedian. Revolverheld as well as Victoria S., Madcon and Sido entertained the crowd.
The impressive stage showed the metro station Schlesisches Tor. A typical yellow Berlin metro train drove across the stage. As the train stopped, only one passenger left the train: Mario Barth! Barth entered the stage and started with his impressive show. The audience was under Mario’s control and after one hour, everyone got a break for the laughing muscles. DJ Bobo, the famous singer and dancer fired up the audience during Barth’s break. The second part of the show ended with a huge firework and the night sky over the Olympiastadion lit up in bright colors.
27. July 2011: Hertha BSC – Real Madrid
On the July 27th, Hertha BSC welcomed Real Madrid in the Olympiastadion Berlin.
This game served Hertha BSC to thank the fans for their fantastic support and celebrate the ascent to the first Bundesliga. The visit of the “Royal Club” under star-coach Jose Mourinho guaranteed a full Olympiastadion.
Quotes from the heads of Hertha BSC and Olympiastadion Berlin (translated)
Michael Preetz, Manager Sports for Hertha BSC:
“We’re proud to have the Royals with their stars like Mesut Özil and Cristiano Ronaldo in Berlin. This isn’t just a game – it’s an absolute highlight.”
Joachim E. Thomas, Manager of Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH:
“We’re looking forward to that Highlight in the Olympiastadion Berlin. We await the match against the Madrilenians with excitement.”
2. and 03. September 2011: Pyronale – Firework-World-Championship
The firework-world-championship in September is an important event for six years now. This year’s Pyronale at the Olympiastadion Berlin was a fantastic sensation. The six teams impressed the audience as well as the jury. Team Surex from Poland was the overall winner of the Pyronale 2011.
Team Orion Art from Russia delivered a stunning show and became the winner of the first day. The fireworks of Team Malta Fireworks and Groupe Fiatlux-Ampleman from Canada were left standing.
On the second day, Team Joho Pyro from Finland, Team Classic Fireworks from the UK and Team Surex from Poland competed. Team Surex did not only impress the spectators, but also fascinated the judges and thereby won the golden trophy of the event.
The color guideline this year was silver-violet and the given music was a medley from Camille Saint-Saëns “Fossilien and “Karneval der Tiere”. The other music choice was “Ungarischer Tanz Nr. 5” from Johannes Brahms.
11. September 2011: Internationales Stadionfest ISTAF
51.812 people came to the 70th ISTAF and enjoyed the perfomances of the world’s top athletes under warm conditions.
The two times world-champion Yohan Blake, set a new ISTAF record in the surpreme discipline over 100 m. He overtopped the old record (9,86 seconds) with a spectacular 9,82!
The German athletes had more than one reason to celebrate. Reigning discus world champion Robert Harting kept his opponents on distance with a 67,22 m throw.
The crowd saw four ISTAF-records and three victories of German athletes this day.
14. September 2011: B2Run
The third B2Run event attracted more than 7.000 runner from 450 companies.
Known faces like ex-professional boxer Henry Maske, handball national keeper Silvio Heinevetter and SAT.1 host Simone Panteleit were part of the event. They served as messengers from the company run championship, to appreciate the commitment from partaking companies to health promotion.
The 6 km run ended on the blue tartan track inside the Olympiastadion. Not only the fastest runner was promoted, but also the one with the most creative outfit.
The following Party in the new Lounge- and Catering area was accompanied by an event host team and DJs.
22. September 2011: Mass with pope Benedikt XVI.
Pope Benedikt XVI was welcomed in the Olympiastadion Berlin. The pope of the Catholic Church drove through the marathon gate in the popemobile and rounded the blue tartan track to greet the community. Afterwards he signed the Golden City book of Berlin in the presence of reigning mayor, Klaus Wowereit. Subsequently followed the mass.
After the service with 61.000 believers, Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki thanked Pope Benedict XVI for a moving celebration of faith.
“I thank him today for a real pleasant preachment, where he invited us to not fixate on negativities but on Jesus Christ. We are connected in church because of him. This joy got ahold of me, so let us take this joy to look at the following days.”
Woelki also thanked the many people who made it possible to create this joyful event and named for example the Olympiastadion Berlin Team, the staff which built the structure, the staff of rbb and many more.
Archbishop Woelki and other German Bishops accompanied the pope through his Germany visit, next stops were Erfurt and Freiburg.
24. September 2011: Breakfast-Run
Warming up and a breakfast afterwards: Traditionally the breakfast-runners gather on Saturday morning before the Berlin-marathon, to run 6km from Schloss-Charlottenburg to the Olympiastadion Berlin. 11.000 people participated this year.
Start was at 9:30 am and just after 10 am, the first people arrived at the blue tartan track. The big group’s entrance in the stadium was accompanied by a group of 30 drummers. Everybody got a chance to eat some breakfast before they jogged back to the city to prepare for the marathon.
2014 German Cup final - walk of fame
Under the expert moderation of Gerhard Delling and in the presence of two “real” Cup heroes – Norbert Dickel and Günter Netzer – two new attractions were opened at the Olympiastadion Berlin: From now on the “Wall of Fame” with more than 40 meters in length shows all historic match ups of the DFB Cup final including their results and team logos. The “Walk of Fame” immortalized the greatest Cup heroes of the past and present with their hand or footprints.
Freshly unveiled and immediately set in concrete: the hand and footprints of BVB Allstar Norbert Dickel and “self-substitutior” Günter Netzer in bronze. Representing all Cup heroes were both on hand to inaugurate solemnly their own imprints at the opening ceremony.
The DFB Cup “Walk of Fame” was brought into being by the German Football Association and Volkswagen, the official partner of the DFB Cup, in 2013. With the opening on the 16th of May 2014, it received its place at the Olympiastadion Berlin – the place where each year the final of the DFB-Pokal Club is being discharged.
These include the large, well-known names of football, as well as the non-famous personalities who have achieved the extraordinary around the DFB Cup and thus helped shape the history of this competition.
With the foundation in 2013 the first 13 Cup heroes were appointed after being nominated by a jury of experts and a public vote among all football fans on the “Walk of Fame”. Since the season 2013/2014 two new Cup heroes are added through this mode every year: each another hero from the more than 70 years of history of the German Cup and the most valuable player of the currently ended DFB Cup season.
The “Wall of Fame” offers the Cup fans another genuine pilgrim destination and the opportunity to experience the special stories and emotions of the DFB Cup at first hand. The core of the 30-meter-long “Wall of Fame” are 35 winner panels made of acrylic glass, in which all previous finals can be seen with the date of the game, the club name (incl. the logos of the clubs) and the final score. The focus of the design of the “Wall of Fame” is – highly visible – the DFB Cup.
Over the past few years, the annual DFB Cup final has become one of the major international football events and is broadcasted in about 200 countries worldwide.
Joachim E. Thomas (CEO Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH):
The “Wall and Walk of Fame” are not just an enrichment for the Olympiastadion Berlin. Finally, we have – in addition to the stadium itself – for the fans of the German Cup a real pilgrimage site on our ground. Completed is the entire thing by the permanent exhibition of a custom-made trophy replica in our visitor center. The trophy is at home in Berlin – all year round “.
Thomas Zahn (Sales and Marketing Manager Germany VW car):
“We are particularly pleased that the unique stories and personalities that have shaped the DFB Cup so far, can now be experienced permanently by all fans directly at the home of the Cup final. We are already excited about the further cup episodes and heroes that will move onto the “Walk of Fame” within the next years.”
The members of the DFB-Pokal Walk of Fame at a glance
Thomas Schaaf
The first footballer to win the DFB Cup as a player and as a coach. Overall Schaaf has five cup victories, all with the SV Werder Bremen.
Roland Stein
TSV Vestenbergsgreuth’s scorer of the winning goal in the 1: 0 win over FC Bayern München in 1994. The German Champion was eliminated in the first round.
Kurt Sommerlatt
The first football player who won the DFB Cup three times in a row: Twice with the Karlsruher SC (1955 and 1956) and once with Bayern Munich (1957).
Thomas Radlspeck
1994 Victory scorer for the amateurs of FC Bayern München at the 2: 1 win over the defending champion Werder Bremen. At the same time, Bayern’s first team got eliminated.
Gerd Störzer
Victory Goal Scorer for the VfB Eppingen as they won 2: 1 against the Hamburger SV in 1974. It was the first cup win of an Amateur Association against a Bundesliga team.
Rudolf Thömmes
1997 Goal Scorer Eintracht Trier in the two sensational consecutive victories against the reigning UEFA Cup winners FC Schalke 04 (1: 0) and UEFA Champions League winners Borussia Dortmund (2: 1).
Became the first player to score six goals in one half when he scored in the second half of the match FC Schönberg 95 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2004. The game ended 0:15.
Jörg Sievers
In 1992, the goalkeeper of the then second division team Hannover 96 scored in the semifinals a penalty kick. In the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach, he held two penalties and Hannover 96 thereby won with 4:3 in the penalty shoot-out.
Hans Meyer
The only coach who has won the FDGB Cup of Eastern Germany and the DFB Cup.
Klaus Allofs
The only player who played in every game of the legendary series of victories of Fortuna Dusseldorf in the German Cup 1978-1981 and thereby won 18 matches in a row.
Wilhelm Nagel
Goldsmith, who designed and manufactured the DFB Cup.
Frank Rost
Held ten penalty kicks in DFB Cup games and was the first goalkeeper to score a penalty kick in a German Cup final as he helped Werder Bremen to win the final match against Bayern Munich in 1999 with 6:5 after penalties.
Substituted himself in and scored the winning goal for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Cup final in 1973 against the 1. FC Köln.
New historical Cup-hero 2014:
Norbert Dickel
Played despite sustaining a serious knee injury in the German Cup final in 1989 and scored two goals for Borussia Dortmund against Werder Bremen. The match ended 4: 1. Thus, the “Hero of Berlin” became very iconic among the fans.
2015 Champions League Final, German Cup Final and additional categorization as a UEFA "Elite Stadium"
DFB Cup final and UEFA Champions League Final in just one week. From the 30th of May to the 6th of June 2015, the football elite of Europe conjured at the Olympiastadion Berlin. A double challenge for the organizers and for a stadium that was awarded by the UEFA a five-star stadium – the highest award that is awarded by the European Football Association for a stadium – once before.
Now, the Olympiastadion Berlin has additionally received the classification as “Elite Stadium”, in Gold: The massive plaque that was received by Managing Director Peter von Löbbecke, the Commercial Director, Britta Bachmann, and the Director of Event Operations, Christoph Meyer, is emblazoned distinctly and visibly in the open daily visitor center at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
Peter von Löbbecke is proud of the Finale which was discharged between the FC Barcelona and Juventus Turin on the 6th of June, 2015 : “We were very concerned about the Champions League Final, we have been talking with the UEFA about a future hosting since 2004,” said the head of the Stadium. But the successful bid is only half the battle: “We have heard praise for the implementation from all sides and excellent press coverage speaks for itself”, sums up Löbbecke. “The organization and cooperation between UEFA, the DFB, the State of Berlin and us could not have worked out any better – therefore we would like to thank all participants by heart. And without our experienced Stadium team it all would have been unthinkable.”
The preparation time had taken two and a half years on site and brought the Sportmetropole Berlin an exceptional “Week of Football”.
For a total of 37 times the final of the German cup, this year between Borussia Dortmund and VfL Wolfsburg, took place at the Olympiastadion Berlin. Since 1985, the “German Wembley” has been the permanent venue of the sporting climax of the national football season and the flagship of the DFB, as the world’s largest sports association. This year, the final was broadcasted in more than 176 countries, including Afghanistan, Panama and Zimbabwe and was with 75,815 spectators completely sold out.
Furthermore, this year’s UEFA Champions League final between the FC Barcelona and Juventus Turin, the supreme discipline of the UEFA was with 70,500 spectators completely sold out and was further broadcasted in more than 200 countries worldwide. More than 100,000 fans from Spain and Italy came to Berlin to cheer on their teams.
Within the “Week of Football” visited a total of 147,000 spectators, the Olympiastadion Berlin, approximately 20,000 hospitality guests were in the 45,000-square-foot tent city on the Maifeld and 13,000 accreditations were issued for the contributors in the preparation and implementation of the two events.
When more than 300 million people are watching, everything has to be planned down to the last detail and sit with pinpoint accuracy – or how the UEFA says: “The best of the best on the ultimate stage”!
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Relive Greg Louganis’ diving board accident on 30th anniversary
By Nick ZaccardiSep 19, 2018, 7:00 AM EDT
Before the 1996 Olympics, an international panel of journalists selected one outstanding Olympian from each previous Summer Games.
Greg Louganis was chosen from Seoul 1988.
Wednesday marks 30 years since Louganis smacked his head on the springboard in the preliminary round of those Olympics, though he still qualified for the next day’s final and earned gold.
“After hitting my head on the springboard, I was really scared,” Louganis said in an NBC interview at prelims, after receiving four stitches and performing two more dives. “My concern was I didn’t know how bad the injury was. Fortunately, it was just a minor cut. … Those kinds of things are bad to look at [laugh].”
That wasn’t the whole story.
Louganis revealed seven years later, after retiring, that he had been HIV positive at the time of the Seoul Olympics.
His coach, Ron O’Brien, one of the few who knew, smuggled the medication into Seoul, Louganis said, because he wouldn’t have been allowed in if it was known he was HIV positive.
Louganis revisited the incident for an NBC profile ahead of the 1996 Atlanta Games.
“I heard this big, hollow thud, and then I went crashing into the water,” Louganis said. “Then I realized that was my head that just hit the board. My first feelings were embarrassment, and I was trying to figure out how to get out of the pool without anybody seeing me. And then I got scared because I knew I was HIV positive. Had I done it all over again, I would have told the doctor of my HIV status. That’s the only person that really needed to know.”
Louganis remains one of just two divers to sweep the springboard and platform at multiple Olympics, along with countrywoman Pat McCormick.
NBC Olympic Research contributed to this report.
MORE: Ato Boldon reflects on track and field season, looks to 2019
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Alweendo roasted over Namdia board fees
Albertina Nakale WINDHOEK - Minister of Mines and Energy Tom Alweendo, expressed concern over the current sitting fees paid to the Namib Desert Diamonds (Pty) Ltd (Namdia) board members. He said the fees are too excessive in relation to what is paid to other State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) board members. He made this revelation when he responded to Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarian Jennifer Van den Heever last week in the National Assembly regarding the sitting board fees paid to Namdia members. She wanted the Mines Minister to explain why Namdia’s board members each get paid over N$90 000 per meeting in comparison to N$35 000 of what the Namibia Diamond Trading Company (NDTC) and other parastatals are getting. Even though, Alweendo disputed the figures, he said board fees at Namdia which is on a quarterly sitting fee is N$50 000 and N$45 000 for the chairperson and directors. In addition to the quarterly fees, he said there is a monthly retainer of N$35 000. “I am not so sure where the honourable member got her information. It is not true that Namdia board members get N$90 000 per meeting. It is also not true that NDTV board members get N$35 000 per meeting. As for the NDTC, it is important to note that NDTC is not an SOE because it is owned 50:50 by the government and De Beers,” he clarified. He however agreed and raised concern that such fees are exorbitant. “It is important for me to note that the current fees to the Namdia board members are too excessive in relation to what is paid to other SOE board members. Together with the Ministry of Public Enterprises, we are busy to regularise this anomaly. With regard to the NDTC board fees, the sitting is N$7 900 for all directors’ and there is also a quarterly fee of N$13 800 for the chairperson and N$9 600 for the other directors,” he noted. Van den Heever further wanted clarity why Namdia is not registered as an SOE under the Ministry of Public Enterprises in terms of schedule 1 of the Public Enterprise Governance Act. Alweendo revealed that they are in the process of updating schedule 1 of the Public Enterprises Governance Act of 2006, where Namdia will be listed as an SOE. The State-owned Enterprises Governance Act, 2006, currently indicates that there are 52 SOEs listed under schedule 1. Alweendo responded there is a bit of confusion where some people will argue that Namdia is not an SOE but rather a state-owned company- and this distinction is being made ostensibly because Namdia is not listed under schedule 1 of the Public Enterprises Governance Act. He admitted it is the case that Namdia is not currently listed under schedule 1. Alweendo said an SOE is defined in the Act as any company where the government has the majority shareholding-and not because it is listed in schedule 1, hence Namdia is by definition an SOE. He explained that it is not listed because the last time schedule 1 was updated, Namdia was not in existence. Van den Heever wanted the minister to explain under which Act Namdia was established. Alweendo said Namdia is not established under an Act under the companies Act. “It is not true that all SOEs are established by an Act of parliament. For example, NamPower is established under the companies Act and is MTC. It might be argued that it is desirable that all SOEs be established by an Act of parliament but currently it is mandatory,” he explained. Moreover, she asked why the salary of Namdia CEO is undisclosed to the public. “I am not aware of a requirement that all salaries of CEOs of SOEs be disclosed publicly. What is publicly disclosed is the gazetted guidelines on remuneration at SOEs, indicating the range within which CEOs and senior management will be paid. However, what is gazetted is not the actual remuneration being paid to CEOs of SOEs,” Alweendo responded. As proponent of transparency, he agreed that in future, there is a need to look into the issue of making remuneration of senior management at SOEs public. Namdia is a cutting-edge diamond marketing and sales company, perfectly positioned to create a sustainable route to market a portion of Namibia’s unique and highly sought-after diamonds.
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McDonald's Unveils Collectible, Limited Edition MacCoin to Celebrate 50 Years of the Big Mac
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac, McDonald’s unveiled the MacCoin, a limited edition global currency* backed by the internationally iconic Big Mac that fans across the world can get their hands on starting August 2 to share, collect or redeem. Beginning at lunch time on August 2, customers can receive a MacCoin with the purchase of a Big Mac at 14,000 participating restaurants across the U.S., while supplies last. Starting on August 3 through 2018, customers can redeem their MacCoin for a free Big Mac at participating McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. and in more than 50 participating countries.
More than 6.2 million MacCoins will be distributed globally in more than 50 countries while supplies last. These commemorative coins feature five unique designs, each representing a decade of the Big Mac. Each MacCoin design pulls in elements from that time in history, nodding to art, music and pop culture, while the front-side of the MacCoin celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac. The MacCoin highlights:
The ‘70s, showcasing the decade’s flower power
The ‘80s alluding to pop art
The ‘90s defined with bold, abstract shapes
The early ‘00s specifically focusing on the technology that was at the forefront of the turn of the century
The ‘10s MacCoin calling attention to the evolution of communication
In its 50 years, the legendary taste of the Big Mac has helped it achieve universal recognition and a lasting legacy. No matter where they live in the world, Big Mac fans recognize the two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun as the iconic burger with a flavor combination that’s just as craveable and delicious as the day it was introduced.
*MacCoin has no cash value and is only redeemable for one free Big Mac at participating McDonald’s restaurants through 2018.
50 Years of the Big Mac Infographic
Coin is valid for one (1) free Big Mac on a future visit to a participating McDonald’s in the United States and other participating countries only. Visit playatmcd.com/BigMac50 for a list of participating countries. Expires 12/31/2018. One-time use. Not valid with any other offer, discount, coupon or combo meal. No cash value. Limit one free Big Mac per person per visit. Coin may not be auctioned, sold, or duplicated in any way. Valid when product served. May not be valid for custom orders. Void where prohibited.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac, McDonald’s unveiled the MacCoin, a limited edition global currency* backed by the internationally iconic Big Mac that fans across the world can get their hands on starting August 2 to share, collect or redeem.
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IST Schreyer Scholar to further philosophy, tech research at Indian Monastery
Vidur Mishra will spend his summer living with monks at the Tushita monastery in India to advance his undergraduate research which explores differences between how the eastern and western worlds perceive the mind.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A college student who spends the summer doing nothing may be perceived as unambitious. But for Vidur Mishra, his summer of “doing nothing” will help advance his research on a global level.
“I’ll be living in the Tushita monastery in India for a month and a half, giving up my personal possessions to meditate rigorously, read scriptures, and learn how Buddhists perceive the nature of the mind,” said Mishra, a Schreyer Scholar majoring in information sciences and technology. “I’ll literally be doing nothing by design. I won’t have any access to my phone, laptop, or anything else during my stay.”
The experience will have Mishra, who is also pursuing minors in philosophy and security and risk analysis, living and studying with monks in Dharamshala, India, the town most widely known as the home for the Dalai Lama.
Mishra’s undergraduate thesis research explores the differences between how the eastern and western worlds perceive the mind. Between the more inwardly-focused sessions, he will spend his time interviewing monks to advance his work.
“We think we understand the mind from a scientific perspective, but we really don’t have sufficient knowledge of it,” he said. “Western research tends to focus on the science of analyzing the mind. Eastern tradition is more about purely experiencing, channelizing, and attaining mastery over the mind. It’s very hard to put that phenomenon into words.”
“If we can bring the eastern and western ways of thinking about the mind together, we may get a more cohesive understanding of the subject,” he added. “As a result, my research focuses on the quantum, psychological, and ecological analysis of the consciousness and the spiritual channelization of its altered states.”
The pursuit of that cohesive understanding is what brought him from New Delhi, India, to Penn State, where the financial support from the Schreyer Honors College and the opportunity to conduct undergraduate research is allowing him to blend his passions for technology and philosophy.
“Based on the latest advances in the western studies, consciousness has been described as the emergence of the quantum information stored in the protein-based microtubules of cells and our universe as a conscious informational structure that unfolds into matter,” he explained. “We are like very complex biological computers, but we have a consciousness that – as of now – computers lack that allows us to reflect on our internal stimuli and possibly control them.”
Richard Doyle, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English in the College of the Liberal Arts, is helping Mishra guide his research. Doyle’s work has explored the intersection of the sciences, arts, and humanities, and he posits that Mishra’s experience will help him integrate contemplative practices into his software design work by understanding how these environments alter our consciousness.
“Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon put it this way – ‘What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients,’” Doyle explained. “In order to take the measure of the effect of this increase capture of human attention, it is useful to find a minimum baseline for consciousness without the continual stimulus of new information.”
Doyle believes that Mishra’s meditation sessions will enable him to gain exposure to this baseline consciousness and its characteristics.
“By zeroing out his experience of external information through extensive meditation, Vidur will deepen his understanding of the experience of being informed, feeding back into his design and understanding of information systems,” said Doyle.
Though anyone can apply to spend the summer at the monastery, only 20 percent of those accepted show up. He shares that family and friends have been supportive of what he describes as “an experiment I’m conducting on myself with the goal of purely experiencing the unconditioned-baseline state of consciousness and then reflecting upon it for my research.”
“The real challenge begins when you are there,” he said. “I’m not really preparing myself yet, but I know when I step in, I will be ready at that moment.”
Once his stay in the monastery is complete, Mishra will teach English at a local school for the remainder of the summer. With his junior year ahead of him, Mishra has already completed one internship and has another lined up for next summer.
His experience will also be shaped through his work as a research assistant with Lynette (Kvasny) Yarger, associate professor of IST. The team’s ongoing research measures if and how much human resources anti-bias software discriminates hiring behavior based on gender and race. Yarger believes this work and Mishra’s interests in both technology and philosophy makes his work more compelling.
“Philosophical ideas are created by an endless process of thinking, reflecting, and contemplating. It’s slow, deliberate, and cerebral,” said Yarger. “Approaches to technology are active, agile, and unpredictable. Technology does not have a strong moral code and is largely missing a guiding set of philosophical principles like fairness.”
“By understanding both technology and philosophy, Vidur can examine the technologies that companies are creating and their impacts on human lives,” she added. “This deep reflection on software systems is necessary if you are trying to create tech to change the world for good.”
After graduation, Mishra is looking forward to a career in data analytics or software development. He credits philosophy with helping him approach information systems from a better viewpoint.
“Information systems are a good metaphor of the world itself, and how a computer works is an oversimplified metaphor of how the individual works,” he said. “When you start seeing these patterns, you realize that what you’re creating in technology is a reflection of yourself.”
“IST helps me to code computers, philosophy helps me to code myself.”
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Meet the Moravians
Two Moravians didn’t volunteer to be slaves for the Gospel—three did. But none of them actually became slaves.
You may have heard a story passed on in many sermons about two Moravians. A former slave comes to the Moravians and tells them that his people are longing to hear the Gospel—but no one has access to them except for slaves. “Fine,” respond the undaunted Moravians. “We will sell ourselves into slavery.”
Then we fade into a shot of the two Moravians on the deck of a slave barge, headed to the West Indies, shouting at their weeping families, “May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of his suffering!” And that is the last that their flesh and blood ever heard from them.
This story has taken on legendary proportions in the modern evangelical church, probably because of Paris Reidhead’s erstwhile viral sermon, “Ten Shekels and a Shirt,” and its reincarnation as the “Revival Hymn.”1 But of the two scenes that pass before your mind’s eye, only one of them is true.
Fortunately for the two Moravians, the second scene is either somewhat mythical, or it is someone else’s story. The two Moravians did go to the Caribbean island of St. Thomas as missionaries, and they did preach the gospel to many slaves, but they did not become slaves themselves. Here it is worthwhile to unpack the full story of these remarkable men. I think you will agree with me that the truth of this story is just as inspiring as the legend—or more so.
The story starts with a widespread revival in the Moravian community, dated to August 13, 1727.2 There was a great stirring among the immigrants who had sought asylum in Count Zinzendorf’s estate, and many spoke about the claims of Christ in unknown lands.
According to Hutton’s account, many Moravians were longing to spread the Gospel abroad during the years that followed, but without any precedent, they were unsure how to move forward. On February 11, 1728, several of them made a covenant that they would go overseas once the way forward was made clear. No Protestant church was sending its own missionaries at that time, although the Danish government had supported a few in its colonies.3
In 1731, that changed. Antony Ulrich, a former slave from the Danish colony of St. Thomas, visited Copenhagen. He told the Danish king that the residents of the island and its slaves were primed to respond to the Gospel. He especially pleaded on behalf of his family members.
On July 24, 1731, Count Zinzendorf shared Antony’s story with his Moravian brothers. The shocking Macedonian call was passed on from ear to ear among the Moravians. A few were quietly contemplating the possibility of going to St. Thomas, but no one spoke up publicly or immediately.
In time, Johann Leonard Dober brought the matter up with his friend, Tobias Leupold, and they wrote a letter to Zinzendorf, declaring their intent to go. Zinzendorf shared the news of the letter with the congregation, but did not disclose their names.
Antony Ulrich, the Caribbean freedman, was still in Europe, and he followed up with Zinzendorf around this time (in present-day Germany). He spoke to the Moravians in Dutch. When Zinzendorf asked Ulrich about sending two men right away, Ulrich—mistakenly—told him that they could only come as slaves.
Both Leonard Dober and Tobias Leupold repeated without hesitation their willingness to go to St. Thomas, even as slaves. Dober wrote the congregation as he had earlier written their leader. It was a heroic declaration of sacrifice that shocked and stirred the Moravian settlement, and inspired many others to consider a commitment to preach abroad. In the end, though, such a sacrifice of freedom was both inadmissible and unnecessary.
Changed Plans
Eventually, the church decided that only Dober should go.4 Dober then chose another Moravian named David Nitschman to accompany him. Just like Tobias Leupold, whom he replaced, Nitschman fully expected to become a slave for the Gospel. Thus, at that point, three men had publicly and enthusiastically declared that they would be enslaved in exchange for the opportunity to preach to the unreachable.
Hutton describes the two men, waiting outside Zinzendorf’s house in the pre-dawn hours on August 21st, 1732. The Count spent the night in prayer, and then he drove them part of the way to Copenhagen. They received a prayer of blessing, and departed on foot to Denmark to secure their passage to the Caribbean.
They had a few belongings and very little money. Although the idea may have been naive, both of them—Dober and Nitschman—fully intended to sell themselves into slavery.
In the end, however, the Danish king deemed this impossible. Dober and Tobias met with Von Plesz, the chamberlain of King Frederick VI. Here is the dialogue given in Hutton’s History of the Moravian Church:
Von Plesz, the king’s chamberlain, asked them how they would live.
“We shall work,” replied Nitschman, “as slaves among the slaves.”
“But,” said Von Plesz, “that is impossible. It will not be allowed. No white man ever works as a slave.”
“Very well,” replied Nitschman, “I am a carpenter, and will ply my trade.”
“But what will the potter do?”
“He will help me in my work.”
“If you go on like that,” exclaimed the Chamberlain, “you will stand your ground the wide world over.”5
Twenty-five years earlier, in 1706, King Frederick IV of Denmark had sent the first Protestant missionaries to his colonies. But Dober and Nitschman went without royal support. They were not even offered passage by the Danes.
The ‘tall tale’ of two Moravians says that they never saw their families again. In fact, Leonard Dober only stayed for about two years, until he was called to Herrnhut to take office as General Elder of the church there. Amazingly, Tobias Leupold—who had been turned down as his companion—broke the news to Dober in person in June 1734.6 This was not the end of the mission, however. The Moravians would send 18 more missionaries to those islands in the next two years.
Dober arrived in Europe February 5th, 1735 and held the office of General Elder for six years, travelling often to Holland and England during the remainder of his life. He spent the last few months of his life in Herrnhut.
David Nitschman only went to St. Thomas as an assistant to Dober in his travels, and so he left St. Thomas after just four months.7 Nitschman later took passage to Georgia in 1736, where he met John Wesley, and spent the later years of his life in the Moravian colony at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Forerunners in Protestant Missions
Today, Moravians are little known in America; we tout them as a missionary powerhouse, but that’s where the story ends—at least at missions conferences. But in the 18th century, many Europeans viewed the Moravians as a cult, an uneducated church for spiritual outcasts and fanatics.
They had strange and unique customs, some gleaned from Zinzendorf’s leadership. The original settlement had a rote discipleship system which would sound today like a drug rehab program. They were passionate, committed, communal, innovative, and evangelistic.
When John and Charles Wesley sailed to Georgia with twenty-six Moravian shipmates, they were greatly impressed by their no-nonsense attitudes and the way they returned blessing for insult. John Wesley feared for his life during day after day of violent Atlantic storms, but he wrote in his journal of the Moravians:
“In the midst of the psalm wherewith their service began, the sea broke over, split the main-sail in pieces. … A terrible screaming began among the English. The Germans calmly sang on. I asked one of them afterwards, ‘Was you not afraid?’
He answered, ‘I thank God, no.’
I asked, ‘But were not your women and children afraid?’
He replied mildly, ‘No; our women and children are not afraid to die.'”8
The Moravians’ historian takes great pride in the fact that many English Moravians preceded William Carey to the mission field. When they left for St. Thomas, Dober and Nitschman preceded William Carey by sixty years. There is no doubt that they were the first Protestant church, as far as we know, to send missionaries with no worldly or political ties.
Why, then, does the modern legend transform Nitschman and Dober into slaves? It betrays a deep confusion in modern American missiology. Maybe deep down, we believe that going overseas is pointless unless the sacrifices are tangible, irreversible, and impressive.
But it was not their romantic sacrifice that gave them access to the unreached—it was their flexibility. They did not hang on to some heroic vision of missionary life, but showed that they would undergo any hardship—even pursuing a secular vocation!
“For over one hundred years no missionary in the West Indies received from the Moravian Church one penny of salary for his services. Each man, during all the period, had first to earn his own living.”9
Maybe we should also think about where the legend ends: “They went overseas.” But that is where the preface ends, and we reach page one. Leonard Dober and David Nitschman, in fact, preached the gospel to numerous slaves. They worked hard, maintained careers, baptized disciples, and preached the Gospel in the Caribbean. And their impact outlasted them.
An important point to this story is that these two were not just two among a centuries-long stream of missionaries out of Herrnhut. They were the first. Immediately inspired by their commitment, a trio of Moravians joined Hans Egede in his apostolic work in Greenland.10
Many of the workers that followed our wayfaring pair to the Caribbean died of tropical diseases. After they left, 18 Moravian missionaries began work in St. Croix, and within two years, half of them had died. In fact, Moravian missionaries had to take their own headstone across the Atlantic with them, because the Caribbean islands couldn’t supply them with stones.
By the time Leonard Dober died, there were more than 5,000 former slaves in the Moravian congregations of the West Indies.11 The Moravian Brethren still have disciples in the Caribbean today, and it started with those two young men volunteering.
There are a few things that stick out about this story.
First, they didn’t sell themselves into slavery; they did something much less heroic—they plied their trade. No one wants to share a story of two volunteer missionaries saying: we will do anything to reach people, even manual labor.
Second, volunteering was not enough. After they declared their intent to go to the mission field, they had to find a way to support their work. They had to be sent. The church decided one of them shouldn’t go. When they got there, real life had to happen. Willingness was only one ingredient.
Third, the story didn’t end when their ship weighed anchor from Denmark; then their work had only begun. They only contributed to the work for a couple of years, but they paved the way for the Moravian missionaries that followed them—both in the West Indies, and globally.
In the end, the mythical version says more about our generation than theirs. We would not pass on the story if it did not have a ring of romance to it. The legendary retelling certainly appeals to our heartstrings. But the heroes this generation needs are not going to be those one or two who give it all, forsake their families, and cross the seas to become slaves. We need an army of workers willing to scrap their way, by any means, to the unreached and the inconvenient lost, whether or not they have to use a university degree to do so.
Share the true story and help restore our generation’s understanding of missions. As A. W. Tozer said, you don’t become a missionary by crossing the sea; you become a missionary by seeing the cross.
1 The audio of Reidhead’s famous sermon is available here.
2 You can read about this revival, for example, in John Greenfield’s book, Power from on High, or The History of the Moravians by J. E. Hutton.
3 See, for example:
Helen H. Holcomb, Men of Might in India Missions. 1901.
J. Ferd. Fenger. History of the Tranquebar Mission. 1842. Translated from the Danish in 1863.
Jesse Page. Amid Greenland Snows: The Early History of Arctic Missions. 1904.
4 Remarkably, this decision was made using a system of casting lots for Scriptures, a practice that the Moravian Brethren have since given up, for obvious reasons.
5 J. E. Hutton. History of the Moravian Church. Book II, Chapter VI. “The Foreign Missions and Their Influence.”
The story is also told by J. E. Hutton in his History of Moravian Missions. 1922.
6 J. E. Hutton. A History of Moravian Missions. p. 37-38. 1922.
7 “Memoir of Leonard Dober.” Periodical Accounts Relating to the Missions of the Church of the United Brethren Established Among the Heathen, vol. 12. p. 241-246.
8 Richard Watson. The Life of John Wesley, p. 43. 1857.
10 Jesse Page. Amid Greenland Snows: The Early History of Arctic Missions. Ch. 6.
11 “Memoir of Leonard Dober.” Periodical Accounts Relating to the Missions of the Church of the United Brethren Established Among the Heathen, vol. 12. p. 241-246.
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Review: An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens
Who: William Carey, British missionary to India, known as “the father of modern missions.” He is also noted for his linguistic works and Bible translations in Bengali, Marathi, and several other languages.
When: 1792, one year before William Carey left for his mission field in India.
Overview: Encyclopedia Brittanica calls this pamphlet “the charter of Protestant missions.” This pamphlet led directly to the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society. While it’s not so widely read today, Carey’s arguments are surprisingly current and readable.
Carey argues first that the Great Commission is Christ’s mandate to all his disciples, not just the Eleven (Section I); then he gives a summary of how Christianity grew through missions work, in the Book of Acts as well as over the centuries (Section II); the third section summarizes the state of missions in his day; the fourth section debunks a series of objections in the way of missionary service; and, the last section explains the duties of all Christians to further missions work by prayer and finances.
Meat: The first part of Carey’s pamphlet argues persuasively that the commissions of Jesus apply to all Christians, not just the apostles. His arguments in this section are timeless and should be discussed even at the present time. Jesus has not repealed or amended the Great Commission; it stands binding on all his followers.
Carey also has some great reminders about missionary hardship. (He encourages his readers that the invention of mariner’s compass has made travel much more certain!) He points out with conviction—Livingstone noted the same in Africa—that traders will undergo any hardship for the single goal of riches; Christians with a single goal should likewise “act with all their might,” without fear, in the pursuit of this all-encompassing goal. (See quote below from p. 82.)
Bones: It is difficult to make heads or tails of Section III, Carey’s survey of the state of world missions, which is replete with obsolete place names; even the data itself is questionable. Section II might also seem superfluous to many readers, although the history itself is well done.
Quotes: “Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.” (On the Great Commission, p. 11)
“After all, the uncivilized state of the heathen, instead of affording an objection against preaching the gospel to them, ought to furnish an argument for it.” (p. 69)
“It is inconsistent for ministers to please themselves with thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial friends, a civilized country, legal protection, affluence, splendour, or even a competency. The flights, and hatred of men, and even pretended friends, gloomy prisons, and tortures, the society of barbarians of uncouth speech, miserable accommodations in wretched wildernesses, hunger, and thirst, nakedness, weariness, and painfulness, hard work, and but little worldly encouragement, should rather be the objects of their expectation. ” (p. 72)
“When a trading company have obtained their charter they usually go to its utmost limits. … They cross the widest and most tempestuous seas, and encounter the most unfavourable climates; they introduce themselves into the most barbarous nations, and sometimes undergo the most affecting hardship. … Christians are a body whose truest interest lies in the exaltation of the Messiah’s kingdom. Their charter is very extensive, their encouragements exceeding great, and the returns promised infinitely superior to all the gains of the most lucrative fellowship. Let then every one in his station consider himself as bound to act with all his might, and in every possible way for God.” (p. 82)
This entry was posted in Book Reviews and tagged 18th century, Early modern missions, Late 18th century, Late 18th-century missions, Missions survey, William Carey on April 19, 2017 by Pioneer Library.
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Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:
The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use instead.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by Planty Delights, he or she may at any time contact the controller. The controller of Planty Delights will arrange the restriction of the processing.
f) Right to data portability
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact the controller of Planty Delights.
g) Right to object
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
Planty Delights shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If Planty Delights processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to Planty Delights to the processing for direct marketing purposes, Planty Delights will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by Planty Delights for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact the controller of Planty Delights. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, Planty Delights shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact the controller of Planty Delights.
i) Right to withdraw data protection consent
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact the controller of Planty Delights.
11. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the enterprise Facebook. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows social network users to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook, Facebook detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-site of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, e.g. the “Like” button, or if the data subject submits a comment, then Facebook matches this information with the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component, information about a visit to our website by the data subject, whenever the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook during the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Facebook account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
12. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
On this website, the controller has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us.
Google Analytics places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google Analytics component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits of our website by the data subject. With each visit to our Internet site, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.
13. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google+
On this website, the controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is a social meeting place on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Google+ allows users of the social network to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically downloads a display of the corresponding Google+ button of Google through the respective Google+ button component. During the course of this technical procedure, Google is made aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available under https://developers.google.com/+/.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google recognizes with each call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of his or her stay on our Internet site, which specific sub-pages of our Internet page were visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Google+ button and Google matches this with the respective Google+ account associated with the data subject.
If the data subject clicks on the Google+ button integrated on our website and thus gives a Google+ 1 recommendation, then Google assigns this information to the personal Google+ user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Google stores the Google+ 1 recommendation of the data subject, making it publicly available in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. Subsequently, a Google+ 1 recommendation given by the data subject on this website together with other personal data, such as the Google+ account name used by the data subject and the stored photo, is stored and processed on other Google services, such as search-engine results of the Google search engine, the Google account of the data subject or in other places, e.g. on Internet pages, or in relation to advertisements. Google is also able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored on Google. Google further records this personal information with the purpose of improving or optimizing the various Google services.
Through the Google+ button, Google receives information that the data subject visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call-up to our website is logged in to Google+. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks or doesn’t click on the Google+ button.
If the data subject does not wish to transmit personal data to Google, he or she may prevent such transmission by logging out of his Google+ account before calling up our website.
Further information and the data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. More references from Google about the Google+ 1 button may be obtained under https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
14. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Instagram
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the service Instagram. Instagram is a service that may be qualified as an audiovisual platform, which allows users to share photos and videos, as well as disseminate such data in other social networks.
The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which an Instagram component (Insta button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding Instagram component of Instagram. During the course of this technical procedure, Instagram becomes aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Instagram, Instagram detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Instagram component and is associated with the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, then Instagram matches this information with the personal Instagram user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Instagram receives information via the Instagram component that the data subject has visited our website provided that the data subject is logged in at Instagram at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Instagram button or not. If such a transmission of information to Instagram is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their Instagram account before a call-up to our website is made.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved under https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
15. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Jetpack for WordPress
On this website, the controller has integrated Jetpack. Jetpack is a WordPress plug-in, which provides additional features to the operator of a website based on WordPress. Jetpack allows the Internet site operator, inter alia, an overview of the visitors of the site. By displaying related posts and publications, or the ability to share content on the page, it is also possible to increase visitor numbers. In addition, security features are integrated into Jetpack, so a Jetpack-using site is better protected against brute-force attacks. Jetpack also optimizes and accelerates the loading of images on the website.
The operating company of Jetpack Plug-Ins for WordPress is the Automattic Inc., 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, UNITED STATES. The operating enterprise uses the tracking technology created by Quantcast Inc., 201 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
Jetpack sets a cookie on the information technology system used by the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Jetpack component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to submit data through the Jetpack component for analysis purposes to Automattic. During the course of this technical procedure Automattic receives data that is used to create an overview of website visits. The data obtained in this way serves the analysis of the behaviour of the data subject, which has access to the Internet page of the controller and is analyzed with the aim to optimize the website. The data collected through the Jetpack component is not used to identify the data subject without a prior obtaining of a separate express consent of the data subject. The data comes also to the notice of Quantcast. Quantcast uses the data for the same purposes as Automattic.
The data subject can, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Automattic/Quantcast from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Automattic/Quantcast may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by the Jetpack cookie as well as the processing of these data by Automattic/Quantcast and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must press the ‘opt-out’ button under the link https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set with this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies are deleted on the system of the data subject, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the possibility exists that the websites of the controller are not fully usable anymore by the data subject.
The applicable data protection provisions of Automattic may be accessed under https://automattic.com/privacy/. The applicable data protection provisions of Quantcast can be accessed under https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/.
16. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Pinterest
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Pinterest Inc. Pinterest is a so-called social network. A social network is an Internet social meeting place, an online community that allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or allow the Internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Pinterest enables the users of the social network to publish, inter alia, picture collections and individual pictures as well as descriptions on virtual pinboards (so-called pins), which can then be shared by other user’s (so-called re-pins) or commented on.
The operating company of Pinterest is Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Pinterest component (Pinterest plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically prompted to download through the respective Pinterest component a display of the corresponding Pinterest component. Further information on Pinterest is available under https://pinterest.com/. During the course of this technical procedure, Pinterest gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Pinterest, Pinterest detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Pinterest component and associated with the respective Pinterest account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Pinterest buttons, integrated on our website, then Pinterest assigns this information to the personal Pinterest user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Pinterest receives information via the Pinterest component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at Pinterest at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Pinterest component or not. If such a transmission of information to Pinterest is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Pinterest account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Pinterest, which is available under https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Pinterest.
17. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’ e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user’s tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.
The operating company of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Twitter, Twitter detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Twitter component and associated with the respective Twitter account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Twitter buttons integrated on our website, then Twitter assigns this information to the personal Twitter user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Twitter receives information via the Twitter component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in on Twitter at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Twitter component or not. If such a transmission of information to Twitter is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Twitter account before a call-up to our website is made.
The applicable data protection provisions of Twitter may be accessed under https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.
18. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.
YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.
YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
19. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Bloglovin
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Bloglovin’. Bloglovin’ is an online platform that allows users to organize their favorite blogs. A blog is a web-based, generally publicly-accessible portal, in which one or more people called bloggers or web bloggers can post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts.
The operating company of Bloglovin’ is Bloglovin’ Inc., 25 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Bloglovin’ component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Bloglovin’ component, through the Bloglovin’ component. During the course of this technical procedure, Bloglovin’ gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time at Bloglovin’, Bloglovin’ recognizes with each call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Bloglovin’ component and through Bloglovin’ assigned to the respective Bloglovin’ account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on the Bloglovin’ button that is integrated on our website, then this information is delivered to Bloglovin’. The data subject has already agreed to the transmission of such information to Bloglovin’.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Bloglovin’ may be retrieved under https://www.bloglovin.com/tos.
20. Legal basis for the processing
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR.
In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR.
Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
21. The legitimate interests pursued by a third party
Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR the legitimate interest is to carry out the business in favor of the well-being of all their employees and the shareholders.
22. Period for which the personal data will be stored
The criteria used to determine the period of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.
23. Existence of automated decision-making
Planty Delights does not use automatic decision-making or profiling.
This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the German Association for Data Protection that was developed in cooperation with Privacy Lawyers from WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, Cologne.
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ATC130829: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on The 2011/12 Annual Report of the Central Drug Authority (CDA) dated 20 August 2013
REPORT OF THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE 2011/12 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL DRUG AUTHORITY (CDA) DATED 20 AUGUST 2013
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development having considered and deliberated on the 2011/12 Annual Report of the Central Drug Authority (CDA or Authority) on 04 June 2013, wishes to report as follows:
The Committees mandate as prescribed by the Constitution of South Africa and the Rules of Parliament is to build an oversight process that ensures a quality process of scrutinising and overseeing Governments action and that is driven by the ideal of realising a better quality of life for all people of South Africa.
The Committee, as part of exercising its oversight function received a briefing from the CDA on its 2011/12 Annual Report. This report presents some of the key achievements and challenges encountered by the CDA in meeting its set strategic objectives. It will also highlight the observations made by the Committee.
2. Presentation by the Central Drug Authority on its 2011/12 annual report
The CDA is a statutory body, established in terms of the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Dependency Act, Act No 20 of 1992 as amended. The CDA consists of 12 appointed members from the private sector, who are experts in the substance abuse field, 14 representatives of the national government departments, and three national government entities nominated by their respective Ministers. Currently, the authority is composed of nine Provincial Substance Abuse Forums (PSAF) and 238 Local Drug Action Committees (LDAC).
It serves as an advisory body to the Minister of Social Development for a period of five years. Its functions are to give effect to the National Drug Master Plan (NDMP), advise the Minister on any matter affecting the abuse of drugs referred to the CDA by the Minister for advice and may advise the Minister on any matter on which the CDA considers it necessary and it may plan, co-ordinate and promote measures relating to the prevention and combating of the abuse of drugs and the treatment of persons dependent on drugs in accordance with the National Drug Master Plan. The CDA also arranges conferences/summits relating to the combating of substance abuse in South Africa. It oversees and monitors the anti substance abuse activities of the 16 national departments and entities. It also ensures that there is effective liaison between the Provincial Substance Abuse Forums and the Local Drug Action Committees.
The overall goal of CDA is to ensure that there is measurable reduction in the substance abuse. The impact of this, is to see reduction in the substance abuse and related social ills such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, sex work, crime etc. The outcome of this goal is to ensure that there is improved quality of life through integrated Departmental and Provincial Drug Master Plans and reports.
3. Target set for 2011/12
The authority set itself the following targets to achieve during the year under review:
Review the National Drug Master Plan;
Improve access to substance abuse information, interventions, including treatment;
Reduce demand for illicit and licit substances of abuse;
Reduce supply of illicit and licit substances of abuse;
Reduce harm caused by substances;
Conduct research;
Conduct capacity building of service providers; and
Develop policy and legislation.
3.1 Achievements on set targets
The following achievements were reported:
3.1.1 National Drug Master Plan
The Authority consulted with the relevant stakeholders on the new NDMP and all inputs were factored into the document which resulted into the updated and refined Draft NDMP 2013 2017, which had been finalised.
3.1.2 Improvement of access to substance abuse information and effective
A national clearinghouse was established and it was functional. The Resource Directory was updated. The helpline was sustained and it reached 14 871 people. The SMS line was also sustained and it reached 31 078 people.
3.1.3 In c rease capacity building to provincial forum members and the LDAC
The CDA conducted capacity building workshops in Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Northern Cape, Free State, North West, KwaZulu Natal and Eastern Cape.
3.1.4 Development of policy and legislation
The Department of Health drafted the legislation on alcohol advertising, sponsorship and promotion. It also finalised the Detoxification Policy.
The Department of Social Development finalised and gazetted the Regulations of the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act (No.70 of 2008). The Department of Home Affairs developed an integrated policy and drafted guidelines for combating substance abuse.
3.1.5 Reduce demand for illicit and licit substances of abuse
The Department of Health implemented the Departmental Drug Master Plan and the Department of Community Safety through the Moral Regeneration programme. The department also conducted the screening and limited interventions for alcohol use disorders among TB patients. The patients were integrated into three health districts and two primary health facilities.
The Department of Correctional Services Moral Regeneration Programme known as Heart lines reached 19 468 inmates. The department procured a Youth Resilience Programme and 7 290 youth were enrolled in the programme.
The Department of Basic Education reached 105 231 learners through a Life Skills programme. It also developed a national strategy for the prevention and management of substance abuse among learners. A total of 10 350 schools were linked to the police stations.
The Department of Social Development developed an Integrated Anti-Substance Abuse Programme of Action and evaluated the Ke Moja programme. A monitoring and assessment tool for substance abuse services was developed and a Community Based Model was implemented in all the provinces. The department also developed a treatment model and capacitated all provinces in the implementation of norms and standards for outpatient services. It monitored four treatment centres.
The Department of Sports and Recreation implemented an anti-doping programme to combat doping in all 86 sporting codes. It also implemented a Registered Testing Pool programme in all 86 sporting codes.
The South African Police Services (SAPS) conducted 52 940 inspections on liquor premises and 27 416 illegal premises were closed. A total of 1 093 069 036 litres of illegal liquor, including home brewed beer, were confiscated.
The Department of Trade and Industry Compliance inspections and investigations were conducted by at provincial and national levels. The department ensured that liquor industry set aside 1% of its annual turnover for anti substance abuse interventions.
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development implemented a Departmental Drug Master Plan. It also established drug courts in the Western Cape province. The national department conducted a special project to determine the link between HIV and substance abuse in schools.
4. Achievements of Provincial Substance Abuse Forums
4.1 Reduce supply for illicit and licit substances of abuse
A total number of 1 869 people were arrested in the Free State by the SAPS on drug related crimes and 63 964 604 grams of dagga was confiscated. About 6 800 inspections were conducted at liquor outlets and 34 404 litres of alcohol were confiscated from illegal traders and 182 licensed liquor premises were charged.
In 2012, the Western Cape province implemented the Liquor Act and liquor tribunal members were appointed. SAPS made 70 000 drug related arrests.
4.2 Reduce demand for illicit and licit substances of abuse
The Authority through the Ke Moja programmes reached a total number of 1 916 youth and it established 218 Teenagers Against Drug Abuse (TADA) progra mmes in schools.
The province trained 79 master trainers on the Ke Moja programme which was implemented in 71 schools. A total of 7 381 learners were reached through this programme. A total of 1 108 schools implemented a Adopt a Cop Programme in partnership with the SAPS. The provincial Department of Basic Education held drug testing workshops to 227 educators in 100 schools. The province established 1 083 school safety committees.
Gauteng Province
The province developed an anti substance abuse strategy. Five (5) regional action committees and 23 LDACs were sustained. The Ke Moja prevention programmes were established and they reached 5 592 beneficiaries. Approximately 1 000 people were trained on the prevention campaign in Mamelodi and Hammanskraal. Educators from 15 districts were capacitated on prevention and awareness campaigns. A total number of 5 000 people were reached through the aftercare programmes. A total number of 2 935 million people were reached through media campaigns. Eight thousand young people attended the Future Leaders conference in July 2011. The province established 22 LADCs.
Thirty two (32) LDACs were established in five districts and 65 members of the LDACs were trained on the effects of drugs on the human body. Nine (9) Community Based Organisations (CBOs) were established and training was provided to 40 social workers on puppets prevention and learner support programme.
The province also conducted 12 community mobilization campaigns. Awareness and information talks were given to 27 schools. The province also held a youth indaba and a provincial liquor conference.
The province managed to sustain 18 LDACs and three districts action committees during the year under review. Awareness campaigns were conducted in three districts, reaching 55 272 learners. A Provincial Master Plan was developed and launched.
Approximately 20 500 youth people were r ea ched through the youth campaigns and 248 Department of Social Development personnel were capacitated to render substance abuse prevention services.
Three (3) NPOs were funded to deliver services on substance abuse and a total of 28 111 adults and children were made aware of the effects of substance abuse.
A total number of 60 Provincial Substance Abuse Forum (PSAF) members were capacitated on aftercare programmes and 19 were orientated on NDMP. Advocacy and awareness programmes were conducted and they reached about 2 500 people.
The Community Mobilization Campaign reached a total of 2 723 people and 42 000 people were reached through the Ke Moja Anti-substance Prevention Strategy.
A full directory of substance abuse services was developed in each district. The early intervention, screening, assessment, brief interventions and referral services continued to be delivered in partnership with the Department of Social Development, Department of Health and the Department of Basic Education.
4.3 Reduce harm caused by illicit and licit substances of abuse
A total number of 3 628 offenders were reached through the treatment services. Forty five (45) non-government organisations (NGOs) were funded to render anti substance abuse intervention services and 878 service users were reached through the individual counselling and pre-admission services by social workers. Capacity building in 31 CBOs was provided in the SANCA centres.
Sixty seven (67) beds were purchased from six (6) NPOs that run in-patient treatment centres to ensure that the treatment services were accessible. Six hundred and fifty three (653) beneficiaries were treated at in-patient treatment centres managed by the not-for-profit organisations (NPOs). The province registered four private treatment centres.
Two (2) inpatient treatment centres were funded and that two (2) NGOs were funded to render treatment services to children.
The province has one in patient private treatment centre for adults and six NPOs were subsidised by government.
A total number of 48 clients were referred to in-patient treatment centres outside the province while 445 people received out-patient treatment in their communities. A total of 45 people received aftercare services.
The province has two public treatment centres and six private treatment centres. The Department of Social Development introduced urine testing as a requirement for all drug treatment programmes funded by the department.
The province has five funded treatment centres and 738 admitted clients accessed their services.
The province intensified its substance abuse prevention and awareness initiatives. The Department of Health held a provincial mental health and substance abuse conferences.
5. Challenges
The authority reported that it had encountered the following challenges:
· The impact of the CDA and the NDMP on the quality of life of communities in South Africa was yet to be measured;
· The Departmental Drug Master Plans and reports from the national and provincial departments responsible for drug abuse counteraction continued not to be submitted on time;
· The Provincial Substance Abuse Forums had to be put on both the public and political agenda of the provinces;
· The Local Drug Action Committees (LDACs) had to be established in all 238 Municipal Areas in order to combat substance abuse at local level; and
· There was a shortage of public treatment centres to deal with a large number of people who are addicted to harmful substances.
6. Observations
The Committee expressed dissatisfaction over CDAs late submission of its annual report over the past two years. It emphasized the importance of the CDAs compliance to the deadline set for submission of annual reports to Parliament, which is 30 September each year. It noted the CDAs undertaking that it would submit the 2012/2013 annual report on time.
The Committee noted with serious concern the lack of support and reporting by government departments and other agencies such as the National Youth Development Agency, responsible for the fight again substance abuse, to the CDA. This has resulted in the CDA not meeting the deadline of submitting its annual report to Parliament on time.
The Committee also noted with great concern the shortage of rehabilitation centres in the country and the inadequate assessment of the existing centres. The committee raised this as worrying factor as communities are faced with enormous problems of substance abuse. It recommended that necessary measures should be taken to establish state funded rehabilitation centres in all provinces.
It noted the explanation provided by the CDA that the delays in the finalisation of the cannabis paper had been due to the ever changing ingredients used to manufacture this drug. This made it difficult for scientists to develop an appropriate therapeutic treatment to be used.
It expressed concern over the delays by the CDA in finalising the revised National Drug Master Plan. It felt that this plan should have been approved long time ago. The absence of the revised master plan made it difficult for the stakeholders in the sector to operate.
It felt that the Ke Moja programme is not being optimally implemented in schools. This is an important programme and an effective intervention in the fight against substance abuse. It is therefore critical that it be rolled out to all the schools across the country. It requested a copy of a draft report on the assessment of the Ke Moja programme.
The Committee emphasised the vital role played by the Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) in the fight against substance abuse. It felt that these organisations are doing a significant job in the fight against substance abuse.
It was not satisfied with the content and structure of the annual report. It felt that the report lacked content. It only reported on figures without any narrative to further explain the achievements and the impact analysis of the programmes.
7. Recommendations
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development, having considered the annual report of the CDA, makes the following overall recommendations:
The Minister of Social Development should ensure that:
· The tabling of the National Drug Master Plan to Cabinet for finalisation is treated as a matter of urgency.
· The CDA develops a plan to address any challenges or obstacles that had resulted in minimal involvement of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) in the CDA programmes.
· The Department of Social Development is encouraged to expand the anti-substance abuse model it used in Eldorado Park to other communities in the country.
· The CDA prioritises the impact assessment of its programmes in provinces. This is very critical.
· The CDA develops a standardised reporting template that would be used by the provinces when reporting on their anti-substance abuse programmes so as to improve the CDAs annual reporting to Parliament.
· The National Department of Social Development and the Provincial Department of Social Development in collaboration with the National Treasury should take necessary measures to ensure that the state funded rehabilitation centres are established in all provinces and monitoring and evaluation is conducted in the existing centres.
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Proposing an Argument in History
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Douglas and Stanton in their works came up with various arguments on the Declaration of independence. They adopted the use of comparison to analyze issues of slavery that was rampant in America before independence. This was the time when almost all American people were fighting for freedom. He also uses irony to analyze issues that came with the enactment of the constitution. He said that the constitution has been written with its main aim being the abolishment of slavery in the country.
After telling the people the history of their fathers, he talks about the current situation of slavery in the country. He argues that many individuals claim that there are many evils associated with slavery but they fail to fight it. To Douglas the fathers of the American people fought hard for the independence of the nation but afterwards the people are not living up to the standardsset by those fighters. When he was called upon to give a speech, he claims that he is giving some form of offering to the state altar and is acknowledging the fruits that he and the other black people have obtained from the constitution yet all this is not what he is really after. He later claimed that the constitution was only meant for the white Americans. Though they are celebrating the anniversary he claims that he and all the black Americans sees fourth of July as the time when America became blacker and full of evils instead of being a state that has attained its independence.
Douglas also through the use of comparison argues that the independence that was attained was meant for only the white Americans. He compares the lives that the blacks and the whites are living in the world and argues that the blacks have not received the fruits of independence.
Stantonn on the other hand uses comparison and irony in her work as she strives for equality between men and women in the society. She compares the laws of nature and the laws of God with various actions of mankind. She also compares the current society with the time of creation where both men and women were to be equal in all rights. She claims that whenever the society goes against this rule the subjects have a right to disobey it.
She puts forward the kind of life that women are living today. She claims that this kind of life is what has been started by men who do not give women the right to vote and made them to be submissive. Through the use of irony she claims that even the rights given to the less capable man are not awarded to the women in the society. She claims that the acts done by women to men are immoral and marriage institution puts them into jail where they are bond by acts of obedience.
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The Dan LeBatard Show Premieres September 30th On ESPN Radio
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The countdown is on. The Dan LeBatard Show premieres next Monday on as part of ESPN Radio’s new Fall lineup. LeBatard’s show will premiere Monday afternoon at 4pm on ESPN Radio affiliates across the country. The daily three-hour sports talk program will cover all of the major sports issues of the day. His current local Miami-based show will continue to be heard each day at 3pm ET. He will also continue to host ESPN2’s Highly Questionable. Along with himself and co-host Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, a series of rotating guest hosts will make appearances on the show. That list of guests hosts includes Bomani Jones and Greg Cote. They will appear on the show to share with LeBatard and Weiner their own experience in relation to the hot button sports issues.
LeBatard recently sat down to discuss expectations for his new show. He was upbeat and just as funny as ever in his thoughts, noting, “I am very excited to take our show to a national audience for the two days before the suits come after us.” Along with being broadcast across the country on ESPN Radio, The Dan LeBatard show will also be available online at ESPNRadio.com and via the ESPN Radio app. Audiences with Sirius satellite radio can pick up the show at Sirius Channel 84.
ESPN Radio’s newly revamped late afternoon/evening lineup includes not just the new Dan LeBatard show. It also includes Sedano & Stink at 7pm and The Freddie Coleman Show at 10pm. Sedano & Stink is hosted by Jorge Sedano and Mark Schlereth.
More information on ESPN Radio’s new late afternoon/evening lineup is available online at http://www.ESPNRadio.com and http://www.facebook.com/ESPNRadio. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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Rob Zombie Signs New Record Deal
Courtesy: Nuclear Blast Records
Veteran shock rocker Rob Zombie is officially calling another label home.
Zombie has signed a new record deal with famed metal label Nuclear Blast Records. Specific terms of the deal have not been made public, but it is known that he will release his first record for the label sometime in 2019.
Zombie said he was happy to have the deal official in a recent interview.
“I am very excited to work with the fine folks at Nuclear Blast,” Zombie said. “The combination of the label’s grassroots urge to get the hustle done, mixed with the detonation of our most combustible, melodic masterpiece yet should prove to be a winning hybrid of hellacious hullabaloo.”
A Nuclear Blast official who chose not to be identified said the label’s staff shared Zombie’s thoughts and feelings.
“As fans ourselves at Nuclear Blast, we have long admired the artistry of Rob Zombie throughout his extensive and successful career in both music and film,” the official said. “It is a very exciting opportunity to unite Rob’s visionary talent with Nuclear Blast ingenuity. Nuclear Blast has a long history of thinking outside of the box and creating personal and collectible experiences for the fans. We look forward to delivering unforgettable experiences to fans around the world for years to come with the legendary Rob Zombie.”
More information on Rob Zombie’s new record deal is available online now along with all of his latest news and more at:
Website: http://robzombie.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RoboZombie
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Audiences Will Enjoy John 5’s New LP In Every “Season”
Posted on May 4, 2017 by philspicks
Courtesy: 60 cycle hum records
Early this past March, guitarist John 5 released his new solo recording Season of the Witch. The famed guitarist’s now ninth overall solo instrumental recording, Season of the Witch proves from start to finish that it belongs on any critic’s list of the year’s top new rock albums. That is due in part to the album’s songs. This will be discussed shortly. The arrangements at the center of each song are just as important to note as the songs themselves in examining the album’s overall presentation. The record’s sequencing rounds out its most important elements. Each element is important in its own right to the album’s overall presentation. All things considered, Season of the Witch proves to be a record that rock fans will enjoy in every season.
John 5’s latest solo instrumental record Season of the Witch is a record that rock fans will enjoy in every season. That is due in part to the songs that are featured in this recording. While the guitarist, whose real name is John William Lowery, is known largely for his work with the likes of Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and David Lee Roth, this record displays his versatility as a musician once again. Lowery reaches liberally into the rock realm throughout the course of the record’s 13-song, 39-minute run time. But it is not the only realm into which he reaches as is proven in the likes of ‘Behind The Nut Love,’ ‘Hell Haw’ and ‘Ode To Jasper.’ The first of the group is a country-western style song while the second is a fun, up-tempo bluegrass/rockabilly style work that even incorporates a touch of jazz at the same time. ‘Ode to Jasper’ is a beautifully tragic work that will tug at any listener’s heart strings even while it clocks in at not even two minutes. Getting back on the matter of the album’s rich rock reachings, listeners will be impressed at the amount of ground Lowery covers in that realm. From the industrial leanings of the album’s title track/closer to the almost Joe Satriani/Living Colour-esque sound of ‘Now Fear This’ to the prog-rock sound of ‘Here’s To The Crazy Ones’ and beyond, this record displays great diverse talent from Lowery and his fellow musicians. That diversity forms a solid foundation for this new offering from the famed guitarist. The arrangements at the center of the songs build onto that foundation, strengthening it even more.
The arrangements at the center of the record’s featured songs are so important to note in examining the album’s presentation because they exhibit just as much diversity as the songs themselves. Yes, there is a lot of high-velocity guitar playing throughout the record. However, Lowery also proves that he can play just as expertly in more contemplative moments as he can in wilder moments. That is proven throughout the record as he goes from full-on riffs to other elements and back time and again. ‘Guitars, T**s, and Monsters’ is one of the songs that supports this statement. This song mixes Jimi Hendrix-esque riffs with a touch of Eddie Van Halen fluidly for a song that clearly exhibits his (and his band mates’) ability to handle such quick shifts in style. The whole thing winds down with a rather reserved arrangement that gently places listeners, albeit breathless, on another musical shore. ‘Hell Haw’ is another example of the diversity presented in the songs’s arrangements. This song takes the classic jazz tune ‘Who Could Ask For Anything More’ and crosses it with a touch of rockabilly and bluegrass, clearly showing Lowery’s ability to handle all three genres in one whole. The same can be said of his fellow musicians. It is, in fact, one of the moments that allows them to really put their talents on display. Very much the same can be said of the simplistic arrangement in ‘Ode To Jasper.’ This song’s arrangement only calls for a small handful of notes to be played throughout. Yet even with so few notes being played by any of the band members, the gentility in those notes and their gentle flowing nature creates a massive emotional impact. Considering this it is one more arrangement that proves the arrangements in the album’s featured songs are collectively just as diverse as the songs themselves. Keeping that in mind, that diversity—which is shown just as much through the album’s other arrangements not noted here—proves to be just as important to this record’s presentation as its songs. It is not the last of the record’s most important elements either. The record’s sequencing rounds out its most important elements.
The diversity in SOTW’s songs and their arrangements are both key pieces of the record’s whole. Each element ensures in its own way listeners’ engagement. They are not the record’s only important elements. Its sequencing rounds out its most important elements. The record opens and closes with a nod to Lowery’s industrial roots. In between, Lowery and company take listeners on quite the musical ride. The transition from ‘Black Grass Plague’ and ‘Guitars, T***, and Monsters’ eventually makes way for the more controlled riffs of ‘Now Fear This’ before the band really pulls back in the country-western ‘Behind The Nut Love.’ From there, the energy picks back up shortly in ‘Making Monsters’ and ‘Here’s To The Crazy Ones’ before pulling back again in ‘The Macabre,’ which despite its name, sounds anything but macabre. If anything the harmonics incorporated into the mid-tempo ballad style song makes for an interesting emotional impact. The record’s energy rises again from there before reaching that already noted deeply emotional ballad that is ‘Ode To Jasper.’ The final powerful punch of the record’s title song makes for the ideal ending to the album. When it is considered along with the rest of the record’s crests and troughs, the whole picture is one is even more certain to keep listeners engaged. When this consideration is joined with the notes on the record’s songs and their arrangements, it becomes clear that much time and thought was put into crafting this album. That time and thought resulted in a record that deserves a spot on any critic’s list of the year’s top new rock records.
John 5’s new instrumental solo record Season of the Witch is a work that deserves a spot on any critic’s list of the year’s top new rock records. That is evidenced through the diversity in the record’s songs and their arrangements. The record’s sequencing provides its own share of diversity, too. That diversity across the board makes this record one that is certain to entertain not just rock loyalists but music lovers in whole. It shows that this record deserves a spot on any critic’s list of the year’s top new rock records and potentially the year’s top new albums overall. It is available now in stores and online. More information on Season of the Witch is available online now along with all of John 5’s latest news and more at:
Website: http://www.john-5.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/john5official
Twitter: http://twitter.com/john5guitarist
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Korn Unveils New Video; Announces New Tour Schedule
Photo Credit: Dean Karr
Korn will release its new album this fall.
The band announced this week that it will release The Serenity of Suffering on Friday, October 21st via Roadrunner Records. The record is the album’s twelfth full-length studio recording and features a guest appearance by Slipknot front man Corey Taylor. The record is the band’s third for Roadrunner Records. The band also released 2010’s Korn III – Remember Who You Are and 2011’s The Path of Totality via Roadrunner Records. Pre-orders for the album are open now here.
In anticipation of the album’s release the band has unveiled the video for the album’s lead single ‘Rotting in Vain’ this week via RollingStone.com. It features Son of Anarchy star Tommy Flanagan and can be viewed online now here. Front man Jonathan Davis explained the concept behind the song in a recent interview noting that it is “about being in that black place, being in situations that I don’t like in life–be it relationships, or feeling when you’re stuck and you’re just being abused or you don’t like where you’re at, and you just sit there and rot.” He went on to explain that the song came from the years that it takes to figure a way out while still battling those feelings. “It takes you years and years to figure out how to claw your way out. That’s where ‘Rotting in Vain’ came from. I’m just sitting there, fucking dying and letting it happen for years and years and not helping myself to get out of that place. That’s the vibe that inspired the song,” he said.
Korn is currently touring in support of its upcoming album. It launched a co-headlining tour this week alongside Rob Zombie. In This Moment is joining the bands as a special guest on the tour, which currently runs through September 3rd. After that the band will take some time to rest before heading back out on the road again on September 24th alongside Breaking Benjamin for another co-headlining tour dubbed the “Nocturnal Underground Tour.” Motionless in White and Silver Snakes will join the bands as special guests on the tour. Korn also has performances at the Louder Than Life Festival and Aftershock Festival scheduled for October. Those dates and Korn’s complete tour schedule are noted below.
KORN’s complete U.S. tour routing for 2016 is:
Co-headlining with Rob Zombie
Fri 7/22 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater
Sat 7/23 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
Sun 7/24 Irvine, CA Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
Tue 7/26 Nampa (Boise), ID Idaho Center Amphitheater
Wed 7/27 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
Fri 7/29 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sat 7/30 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
Tue 8/2 Austin, TX Austin 360 Amphitheater
Wed 8/3 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Thu 8/4 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
Sat 8/6 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
Sun 8/7 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Tue 8/9 Maryland Heights, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Wed 8/10 Kansas City, MO Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Sat 8/20 Mt. Pleasant, MI Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort (without Rob Zombie)
Sun 8/21 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Tue 8/23 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Wed 8/24 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Thu 8/25 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
Sat 8/27 Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphitheater
Sun 8/28 Boston, MA Xfinity Center
Tue 8/30 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Thu 9/1 Hartford, CT Xfinity Theatre
Fri 9/2 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
Sat 9/3 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
Co-headlining with Breaking Benjamin
Sat 9/24 Fargo, ND Scheels Arena
Sun 9/25 Omaha, NE Baxter Arena
Tue 9/27 Cedar Rapids, IA US Cellular Center
Wed 9/28 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center
Festival Appearances
Sat 10/1 Madison, WI JJO Sonic Boom
Sun 10/2 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life
Wed 10/5 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
Fri 10/7 Pelham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
Sat 10/8 Southaven, MS Landers Center
Sun 10/9 Biloxi, MS Mississippi Coast Coliseum
Tue 10/11 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds
Wed 10/12 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Thu 10/13 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sat 10/15 Rogers, AR Walmart AMP
Sun 10/16 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
Tue 10/18 Topeka, KS Landon Arena
Wed 10/19 Colorado Springs, CO Colorado Springs World Arena
Festival Appearance
Sat 10/22 Sacramento, CA Aftershock Festival
More information on Korn’s new album, tour schedule and more is available online now at:
Website: http://official.korn.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/korn
Twitter: http://twitter.com/korn
Posted in Celebrities, Concerts, Internet, Music | Tagged Breaking Benjamin, Corey Taylor, entertainment, facebook, In This Moment, internet, Korn, Motionless in White, music, Phils Picks, Roadrunner Records, Rob Zombie, Rolling Stone, Silver Snakes, Slipknot, Sons of Anarchy, Tommy Flanagan, Twitter, Wordpress | Leave a reply
The Rock Carnival Returns This Summer
Posted on June 11, 2016 by philspicks
Courtesy: Stan Levinstone Presents/Game Loud
The Rock Carnival is officially returning.
The Rock Carnival, the Northeast’s only classic carnival + Rock ‘N Roll experience returns this year for its second year. And headlining this year’s festival is none other than one of the great legends of rock, Alice Cooper. The second annual Rock Carnival will be held Friday, September 30th – Sunday, October 2nd. It is produced by Stan Levinstone Presents and Game Loud. It will take place at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood New Jersey. It is the home of the Lakewood Blue Claws minor league baseball team. The team is a minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. This year marks the first time that it will take place at FirstEnergy Park. General Admission tickets for single day and weekend access are available now along with Reserved Seat Weekend passes VIP packages, and Skybox Meet and Greets. The General admission passes and Reserved Seat Weekend Passes can be purchased online here now. The VIP and Skybox packages are available here.
While Alice Cooper will headline this year’s festival he will not be the only big name on the bill. Also on this year’s bill are the likes of: Kyng, Overkill, Texas Hippie Coalition, Jackyl, Ace Frehley, Clutch, Blue Oyster Cult, Zakk Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Fuel and many others. Twisted Sister will also be on hand for the festival in its final tri-state appearance. The performance is part of the band’s official farewell tour. Performances will take place across a number of stages including two side-by-side main stages.
Along with the major acts scheduled to perform, a special “Classic” Friday night celebration has been added to this year’s festivities. The celebration will feature performances by a number of cover bands including: Voyage (Journey tribute band), Almost Queen (Queen tribute band), and Zakk Zabbath. Zac Sabbath’s lineup features Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society Ozzy Osbourne) on vocals and guitar, Blasko (Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie) on bass, and Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age) on drums.
More information on the second annual Rock Carnival will be announced in the weeks to come. Audiences can keep up with all of those updates online now at:
Website: http://therockcarnival.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheRockCarnival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheRockCarnival
Posted in Celebrities, Concerts, Internet, Music | Tagged Ace Frehley, Alice Cooper, Almost Queen, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Blasko, Blue Oyster Cult, celebrities, Clutch, entertainment, facebook, FirstEnergy Park, Fuel, Game Loud, internet, Jackyl, Joey Castillo, Journey, Kyng, Lakewood Blue Chiladelphia Phillies, Major League Baseball, MiLB, MLB, Monster Magnet, music, Overkill, Phils Picks, Queen, QUeens of the Stone Age, Rob Zombie, Stan Levinstone Presents, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Rock Carnival, Twitter, Voyage, Wordpress, Zakk Sabbath, Zakk Wylde | Leave a reply
Rock On The Range Sells Out For Fourth Straight Year
Posted on March 7, 2016 by philspicks
Courtesy: AEG Live/Danny Wimmer Presents/Ashton-Magnuson Media
The annual Rock on the Range festival has done it again.
For the fourth consecutive year the Rock on the Range festival has officially sold out. This year’s mark is especially important for the festival as it marks the festival’s 10th anniversary. Last year 120,000 people from all across America and the world bought every last ticket to the three-day festival. This year’s festival will be another three-day event, running from May 20th – 22nd. It will take place at the MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. The lineup for this year’s festival includes: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Deftones, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Megadeth, At The Drive-In, Lamb Of God, Sixx:A.M., Hellyeah, and Pennywise, as well as a number of up-and-coming acts.
Along with some of the rock and metal community’s biggest names and biggest names of their next generation, the Rock on the Range Festival will also feature some of the most well-known and respected comedians out there today. They include: Big Jay Oakerson, Nate Bargatze, Craig Gass, Bethany Dwyer, Madison Malloy and Grammy®–nominated comedian Jay Mohr in the Rock on the Range Rolling Rock Comedy Tent. There will even be a craft beer village featuring the top breweries from the region, new art installations, and activities special to the festival among so much more. ROTR co-executive producer Danny Wimmer discussed the sellout and what it says not only of the festival but of rock and metal as well in a recent interview. “Anyone who says, ‘Rock is Dead,’ hasn’t paid attention to Rock On The Range,” he said. “This festival has grown in each one of its 10 years, selling out in record time this year. Rock On The Range’s strength stands as a testament that rock fans are not only alive and well, they are flourishing.”
Whether or not audiences will be headed to the annual festival they can still get all of the latest information on the festival including performance times and more via its new mobile app. The app is free and can be downloaded via iTunes and Google Play.
Rock on the Range is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, AEG Live, and MAPFRE Stadium. It is sponsored by Monster Energy, Jack Daniel’s, Zippo, The Music Experience, and Bud Light. More information on the Rock on the Range festival is available online along with all of its latest news at:
Website: http://www.RockOnTheRange.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rockontherange
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rockontherange
Posted in Celebrities, Concerts, Internet, Music | Tagged A Day to Remember, AEG live, At The Drive In, Bethany Dwyer, Big Jay Oakerson, Bring Me The Horizon, Bud Light, celebrities, Craig Gass, Danny WImmer Presents, Deftones, Disturbed, entertainment, facebook, Five Finger Death Punch, Google Play, Grammy, Grammys, Hellyeah, internet, iTunes, Jack Daniel's Zippo, Jay Mohr, Lamb of God, Madison Malloy, MAPFRE Stadium, Megadeth, Monster Energy, music, Nate Bargatze, Pennywise, Phils Picks, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Zombie, Rock on The Range, Shinedown, Sixx:A.M., The Music Experience, Twitter, Wordpress | Leave a reply
Band Schedule, Pre-Party Announced For Welcome To Rockville Festival
Posted on April 12, 2014 by philspicks
Courtesy: Ashton-Magnuson Media
The organizers of the annual Welcome to Rockville festival have announced the complete schedule for this year’s festival, including performance times for each act on the bill.
Digital Summer and World Gone kick off this year’s festival. Digital Summer and World Gone are schedule to open the festival at 11:15am on the Monster Energy Fire Museum Stage and Jagermeister Stage respectively. Cathercist, winner of the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands, is up next at 11:45am ET on the Ernie Ball Stage. Within Reason and Ghost of War will open the festival’s second day at noon on the Monster Energy Fire Museum Stage and Jagermeister Stage respectively. The complete performance schedule for the weekend’s events is included below.
Performance times for Monster Energy’s Welcome To Rockville are as follows (subject to change):
Monster Energy Fire Museum Stage
11:15 AM Digital Summer
12:30 PM Rev Theory
2:00 PM Adelitas Way
3:30 PM Hellyeah
5:15 PM Chevelle
7:15 PM A Day To Remember
9:40 PM Avenged Sevenfold
Monster Energy Metropolitan Park Stage
11:45 PM Gemini Syndrome
1:15 PM Middle Class Rut
2:45 PM Chiodos
4:15 PM Alter Bridge
6:15 PM Volbeat
8:20 PM The Cult
Jägermeister Stage
11:15 AM World Gone
12:30 PM Silvertung (Jägermeister Band)
2:00 PM Evergreen Terrace
3:30 PM Smile Empty Soul
5:15 PM Memphis May Fire
7:15 PM We Came As Romans
Ernie Ball Stage
11:45 AM Cathercist (Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands Winner)
1:15 PM Monster Truck
2:45 PM We As Human
4:15 PM Devour The Day
6:15 PM Fozzy
Noon Within Reason
1:15 PM Sick Puppies
2:35 PM Black Label Society
4:15 PM Seether
6:25 PM Five Finger Death Punch
8:50 PM Korn
12:35 PM The Pretty Reckless
1:55 PM Black Stone Cherry
3:25 PM Theory of a Deadman
5:15 PM Staind
7:35 PM Rob Zombie
Noon Ghost Of War (Jägermeister Band)
1:15 PM Kyng
2:35 PM Lacuna Coil
4:15 PM Emmure
6:25 PM Motionless In White
12:35 PM Twelve Foot Ninja
1:55 PM Nothing More
3:25 PM Butcher Babies
5:15 PM Trivium
Before the bands take to their respective stages, audiences will be treated to Monster Energy’s Welcome to Rockville Official Pre-Party Friday, April 25th. The Pre-Party is presented by X102.9 and Bud Light and will feature performances by Rev Theory and more. It will be held at 1904 Music Hall (19 N. Ocean Street in downtown Jacksonville, FL). It is free to ticketholders that are 21 and older. Ticketholders that want to attend the Pre-Party must show their festival tickets at 1904 Music Hall to get a Pre-Party wristband in advance. Wristbands are in limited quality. So they will be first come first serve beginning at 12pm ET on Friday, April 25th. Doors open at 8pm. The show will start at 9pm.
More information on the fourth annual Welcome to Rockville Festival is available online at http://www.WelcomeToRockvilleFestival.com, http://www.facebook.com/welcometorockville, and via Twitter at @RockvilleFest. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Day to Remember, Adelita's Way, Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold, AX7, Black Label Society, Black Stone Cherry, Bud Light, Butcher Babies, Cathercist, celebrities, Chevelle, Chiodos, Devour the Day, Digital Summer, Emmure, entertainment, Evergreen Terrace, facebook, Five Finger Death Punch, Fozzy, Gemini Syndrome, Ghost of War, Hellyeah, internet, Jagermeister, Korn, Kyng, Lacuna Coil, Memphis May Fire, Middle Class Rut, Monster Truck, Motionless in White, music, Nothing More, Phils Picks, Rev Theory, Rob Zombie, Seether, Sick Puppies, Silvertung, Smile Empty Soul, Staind, the Cult, The Pretty Reckless, Theory of a Deadman, Trivium, Twelve Foot Ninja, Twitter, Volbeat, We as Human, We Came As Romans, Welcome to Rockville Festival, Within Reason, Wordpress, World Gone | Leave a reply
Lineup Change Announced For 2014 Carolina Rebellion Festival
Posted on March 29, 2014 by philspicks
The organizers of the Carolina Rebellion Festival have announced a change to the weekend of the annual concert festival. It has been announced that Motorhead will no longer be on the lineup for this year’s festival.
Organizers released the following statement regarding the lineup change: “Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have learned that Motorhead will be unable to perform at Monster Energy’s Carolina Rebellion in Concord, NC May 3rd. We are working hard to find a replacement artist, so stay tuned to http://www.CarolinaRebellion.com for further updates.”
The Carolina Rebellion Festival is the mid-Atlantic region’s biggest annual rock festival. It will return to Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, NC May 3rd and 4th, 2014. The current band lineup for this year’s edition of the Carolina Rebellion Festival is listed below.
Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Seether, Volbeat, Black Label Society, Killswitch Engage, Black Stone Cherry, Fozzy, Adelitas Way, Thousand Foot Krutch, KYNG, Nothing More, Devour The Day and Truckfighters
Sunday, May 4
Kid Rock, Five Finger Death Punch, 311, Staind, A Day To Remember, Alter Bridge, Theory of a Deadman, Fuel, Hellyeah, Of Mice & Men, Trivium, Redlight King, Twelve Foot Ninja and Gemini Syndrome
Bands announced for the festival will perform on one of three separate stages throughout the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Those stages are the: Carolina Stage, Rebellion Stage, and Jagermeister Stage.
Tickets for the 2014 edition of the Carolina Rebellion Festival are on sale now. This includes Camping, Hotel, VIP Packages, and Weekend 4-packs and upgrades. All camping and hotel packages include access to the Friday Night Campground Party. Active military members can purchase tickets once again at a discount. More information for all ticketing, including military discounts, is available online at http://www.CarolinaRebellion.com.
The Carolina Rebellion Festival was created in partnership by AEG Live and Danny Wimmer Presents. It is sponsored by Monster Energy, Jagermeister, Ernie Ball, Jack Daniels, Bud Light, F.Y.E. and Pabst Blue Ribbon. More information on the Carolina Rebellion Festival is available online at http://www.CarolinaRebellion.com and http://www.facebook.com/carolinarebellion. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
Posted in Celebrities, Concerts, Internet, Music | Tagged 311, A Day to Remember, Adelita's Way, AEG live, Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Label Society, Blackstone Cherry, Bud Light, Carolina Rebellion Festival, celebrities, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Coke 600, Danny WImmer Presents, Daytona 500, Devour the Day, entertainment, Ernie Ball, f.y.e., facebook, Five Finger Death Punch, Fozzy, Fuel, Gemini Syndrome, Hellyeah, internet, Jack Daniels, Jagermeister, Kid Rock, Killswitch Engage, Kyng, Monster Energy, Motorhead, music, NASCAR, NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Nothing More, Of Mice & Men, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Phils Picks, Redlight King, Rob Zombie, Seether, Staind, Theory of a Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Trivium, Truck Fighters, Twleve Foot Ninja, Volbeat, Wordpress | Leave a reply
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Brand Meets Audience: Interview with Stephen Collis
Brand Meets Audience is a podcast that explores how brands are built, interact with audiences, the challenges they encounter during these interactions, and how the people at the heart of these brands. innovate to achieve their goals.
On May 29th, Trevor Battye interviewed Stephen Collis (http://beatingthebounds.com/), activist, poet, and SFU English professor. Here’s the interview:
http://publishing.sfu.ca/BMA/2015-06-01StephenCollis.mp3
Stephen Collis’ many books of poetry include The Commons (Talon Books 2008; second edition 2014), On the Material (Talon Books 2010—awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), To the Barricades (Talon Books 2013),http://talonbooks.com/authors/stephen-collis and (with Jordan Scott) DECOMP (Coach House 2013). He has also written two books of literary criticism, a book of essays on the Occupy Movement, Dispatches from the Occupation (Talon Books 2012), and a novel, The Red Album (BookThug 2013).
In 2014, while involved in anti-pipeline activism, he was sued for $5.6 million by US energy giant Kinder Morgan, whose lawyers read his writing in court as “evidence.” His forthcoming book is Reading Wordsworth in the Tar Sands. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches at Simon Fraser University.
Editorials & Commentary | Posted by John Maxwell, June 05, 2015 | Brand Meets Audience, podcast |
Brand Meets Audience: Trevor Battye Interviews Chris Kennedy
On Feb 22, Trevor Battye interviewed Chris Kennedy (http://cultureofyes.ca/), Superintendent of Schools / CEO with the West Vancouver School District. Here’s the interview:
http://publishing.sfu.ca/BMA/2015-02-22ChrisKennedy.mp3
Chris Kennedy has taught secondary English and Social Studies, and been both an elementary and secondary school principal.One of the most progressive voices in BC education, Chris has been featured by Macleans Magazine as one of the 100 Young Canadians to Watch and his work has been featured in various local and national publications. In 2010 he was named one of the Top 10 Canadian Newsmakers in Educational Technology , in 2011 Business in Vancouver named him to their top Forty under 40 list and in 2012 Chris was named Canada’s Top Education Blogger.Kennedy is a writer and presenter on personalized learning and infusing technology in the classroom. Chris balances his professional passions with life as the father of four young children. You can also follow Chris on Twitter @http://twitter.com/chrkennedy<
Check out Chris’s TED Talks:
A Parent’s wish for his Children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzvrDkzKyl8
What is Smart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6TuO88nbxA
Trevor Battye is a partner at Clevers Media, a consulting firm based in Vancouver, with clients across Canada (Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Newfoundland) and in Europe, that specializes in marketing, branding, website development, and advertising sales across various media (print, online, social media). Trevor co-founded Clevers Media with Clare E Coughlan in April 2008. He began work in marketing and advertising sales in 2005 with Rebus Creative, where he managed program guide advertising sales for several arts festivals including Word on the Street Vancouver, the See 7 Theatre Seriesand the Vancouver International Film Festival, and worked on fundraising for the BC Book Prizes Adopt a Library Program. Trevor also handled advertising sales for Geist magazine, which he joined in the fall of 2005.
Trevor is currently a regular speaker at Publishing @ SFU and a contributor to the Vancouver Sun Book Club.
Editorials & Commentary | Posted by John Maxwell, May 18, 2015 | Brand Meets Audience, podcast |
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Learn how to Build an Empire with Heels from Award-Winning Shoe Designer, NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD – Join Nicholas in his Masterclass at the 2018 GTBank Fashion Weekend
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In the last decade, Kirkwood’s designs have gone from cult appeal to entering a wider consciousness and proving instantly recognisable. An alumnus of London’s Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design and Cordwainers College, Kirkwood’s shoes are now worn by the fashion cognoscenti and celebrities alike including Beyoncé, Marion Cotillard, Gigi Hadid, Gwen Stefani, Cate Blanchett, Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rihanna.
It is perhaps no surprise that Nicholas Kirkwood has won numerous awards including being given the British Fashion Award for Best Accessory Designer of the year three times and in 2013 being the first accessories designer to ever be awarded the British Fashion Council / Vogue Designer Fashion Fund since its inception.
In 2011, Nicholas Kirkwood opened his flagship store on Mount Street, London which followed the announcement of his partnership with LVMH: the biggest luxury goods conglomerate in the world.
Date: Sunday, November 11th, 2018.
Venue: Plot 1, Water Corporation Drive, Oniru Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Nicholas Kirkwood will be at the GTBank Fashion Weekend to lead the discussion on The Art of Building an Empire with Heels.
To register for his master class click here.
GTBank Fashion Weekend
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Woman Having 'Unusually Lucky Day' Wins $100,000 Lottery Jackpot
A Michigan woman who'd been having an "unusually lucky day" turned that good fortune into a windfall.
The 60-year-old, who was not named, said her string of luck started with a visit to the eye doctor, where she learned that she didn't need to buy new contact lenses.After that, she appreciated that she and her daughter finished yard work they needed to do in half the time they thought it would take.
But the luck didn't end there.
"When I left my daughter's, I left my cellphone on my car trunk and realized when I got about five miles down the road," she told Michigan Lottery officials. "I backtracked, and found it laying in the middle of the road unscathed."
It was at that moment she said she knew she needed to buy a lottery ticket.
The Jackson County woman told Michigan Lottery officials she decided to buy the Bonus Cashword scratch-off ticket from a BP gas station in Jackson after a string of lucky events.
And thankfully she did: The woman took home a $100,000 prize, which she plans to use to purchase a new home with her husband.
"Winning is awesome!" she said. "We've worked so hard our whole lives, it feels like we finally got something we deserve."
Good for her! Here's hoping all of us have some "unusually lucky days" ahead!
Source(s): MSN via Inside Edition
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Top 5 Energy Breakthroughs (2019-2024)
The energy industry is being aggressively disrupted by converging exponential technologies.
In just five days, the Sun provides Earth with an energy supply exceeding all proven reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas. Capturing just 1 part in 8,000 of this available solar energy would allow us to meet 100 percent of our energy needs.
As we leverage renewable energy supplied by the sun, wind, geothermal sources, and eventually fusion, we are rapidly heading towards a future where 100 percent of our energy needs will be met by clean tech in just 30 years.
During the past 40 years, solar prices have dropped 250-fold. And, as these costs plummet, solar panel capacity continues to grow exponentially.
On the heels of energy abundance, we are additionally witnessing a new transportation revolution, which sets the stage for a future of seamlessly efficient travel at lower economic and environmental costs.
Entrepreneur and inventor Ramez Naam is a go-to expert on all things energy and environment.
In the next five years, he forecasts five energy trends, each poised to disrupt major players and birth entirely new business models.
First “1 cent per kWh” deals for solar and wind signed.
Ten years ago, the lowest price of solar and wind power fell between 10 to 12 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), over twice the price of wholesale power from coal or natural gas.
Today, the gap between solar/wind power and fossil fuel-generated electricity is nearly negligible in many parts of the world. In G20 countries, fossil fuel electricity costs between 5 to 17 cents per kWh, while the average cost per kWh of solar power in the U.S. stands at under 10 cents.
Spanish firm Solarpack Corp Technological recently won a bid in Chile for a 120 MW solar power plant supplying energy at 2.91 cents per kWh. This deal will result in an estimated 25 percent drop in energy costs for Chilean businesses by 2021.
Naam indicates, “We will see the first unsubsidized 1.0 cent solar deals in places like Chile, Mexico, the Southwest U.S., the Middle East, and North Africa, and we’ll see similar prices for wind in places like Mexico, Brazil, and the U.S. Great Plains.”
Solar & Wind will reach >15 percent of U.S. electricity, and begin to drive all growth.
Just over 8 percent of energy in the U.S. comes from solar and wind sources. In total, 17 percent of American energy is derived from renewable sources, while a whopping 63 percent is sourced from fossil fuels, and 17 percent from nuclear.
Last year in the U.K., twice as much energy was generated from wind than from coal. For over a week in May, the U.K. went completely coal-free, using wind and solar to supply 35 percent and 21 percent of power, respectively. While fossil fuels remain the primary electricity source, this weeklong experiment highlights the disruptive potential of solar and wind power that major countries like the U.K. are beginning to emphasise.
“Solar and wind are still a relatively small part of the worldwide power mix, only about 6 percent. Within five years, it’s going to be 15 percent in the U.S. and more than close to that worldwide,” Naam predicts. “We are nearing the point where we are not building any new fossil fuel power plants.”
It will be cheaper to build new solar/wind/batteries than to run on existing coal.
Last October, Northern Indiana utility company NIPSCO announced its transition from a 65 percent coal-powered state to projected coal-free status by 2028. Importantly, this decision was made purely on the basis of financials, with an estimated $4 billion in cost savings for customers. The company has already begun several initiatives in solar, wind, and batteries.
NextEra, the largest power generator in the U.S., has taken on a similar goal, making a deal last year to purchase roughly 7 million solar panels from JinkoSolar over four years. Leading power generators across the globe have vocalised a similar economic case for renewable energy.
ICE car sales have now peaked. All car sales growth will be electric.
While electric vehicles (EV) have historically been more expensive for consumers than internal combustion engine-powered (ICE) cars, EV’s are cheaper to operate and maintain. The yearly cost of operating an EV in the U.S. is about $485, less than half the $1,117 cost of operating a gas-powered vehicle.
And as battery prices continue to shrink, the upfront costs of EV’s will decline until a long-term payoff calculation is no longer required to determine which type of car is the better investment. EV’s will become the obvious choice.
Many experts including Naam believe that ICE-powered vehicles peaked worldwide in 2018 and will begin to decline over the next five years, as has already been demonstrated in the past 5 months. At the same time, EV’s are expected to quadruple their market share to 1.6 percent this year.
New storage technologies will displace Li-ion batteries for tomorrow’s most demanding applications.
Lithium ion batteries have dominated the battery market for decades, but Naam anticipates new storage technologies will take hold for different contexts. Flow batteries, which can collect and store solar and wind power at large scales, will supply city grids. Already, California’s Independent System Operator, the non-profit that maintains the majority of the state’s power grid, recently installed a flow battery system in San Diego.
Solid-state batteries, which consist of entirely solid electrolytes, will supply mobile devices in cars. A growing body of competitors, including Toyota, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan, are already working on developing solid-state battery technology. These types of batteries offer up to six times faster charging periods, three times the energy density, and eight years of added lifespan, compared to lithium ion batteries.
Major advancements in transportation and energy technologies will continue to converge over the next five years. A case in point, Tesla’s recent announcement of its “robotaxi” fleet exemplifies the growing trend towards joint priority of sustainability and autonomy.
On the connectivity front, 5G and next-generation mobile networks will continue to enable the growth of autonomous fleets, many of which will soon run on renewable energy sources. This growth demands important partnerships between energy storage manufacturers, automakers, self-driving tech companies, and ridesharing services.
In the eco-realm, increasingly obvious economic calculi will catalyse consumer adoption of autonomous electric vehicles. In just five years, Naam predicts that self-driving rideshare services will be cheaper than owning a private vehicle for urban residents. And by the same token, plummeting renewable energy costs will make these fuels far more attractive than fossil fuel-derived electricity.
As universally optimised AI systems cut down on traffic, aggregate time spent in vehicles will decimate, while hours in your (or not your) car will be applied to any number of activities as autonomous systems steer the way. All the while, sharing an electric vehicle will cut down not only on your carbon footprint but on the exorbitant costs swallowed by your previous SUV. How will you spend this extra time and money? What new natural resources will fuel your everyday life?
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CNC Maps Renderer rewritten - works for Tiberian Sun and RA2
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:10 am Post subject: CNC Maps Renderer rewritten - works for Tiberian Sun and RA2
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Over the past Christmas break I have rewritten my map rendering tool in C#. This resulted in nicer, better and faster code, and as it turned out, filling the request of adding TS support wasn't much work either.
One more important update over the previous versions is that Voxels are now rendered. This happens in an OpenGL context which sadly requires me to ship a 2MB dll along, but this will change in the future.
I will be posting a full installer with updated GUI tomorrow, but for the brave ones a command-line version is already attached. On a final note, for now, .NET 4.0 is required. Here's two example renders:
http://files.zzattack.org/images/forestfires.jpg
http://files.zzattack.org/images/pockets.jpg
Update @ 9 Oct. 2016 - updated installer (always available from http://cnc-maps.net/tool/get_latest by the way!)
CNCMaps_release_v2.2.zip
Filename: CNCMaps_release_v2.2.zip
Downloaded: 61 Time(s)
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Joshy
Please, read the signature rules of the forum.
CCHyper
Defense Minister
Amazing, great new years present to the community!
Haha, great work man.
Okay, my signature was starting to annoy even me.
Alcohol Fueled
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Good stuff, this will save me a lot of time. Thanks.
Dutchygamer
Location: Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Aro wrote:
No more hand-created Megamaps for you boss
Crimsonum
Location: Fineland
Nyerguds
Location: Flanders (Be) Posts:300000001
So.. does it export PNG too? Jpeg is sooo last decade
Why not try it? Source code is at http://github.com/zzattack/ccmaps-net
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Mr. Moosey
Location: Star Kingdom of Manticore
does it render lighting?
"Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." -Adam Young
Yes... but it's not perfect. Try it (or look closely to the glow emitted by the tib fields on forest fires...)
Ah, okay I see it. It's just hard to see with the .jpg blurred up. Is it possible to render in .png or lossless .jpg?
Try, it.
it's the command line version, brah. I don't do command line.
Lossless JPEG? Tell me more!
DaRTzO
Laser Commando
Location: Country Swing
Good job, Franky.
Soo about that PNG...
Allied General
any news on the GUI version?
EVA-251
How on Earth did I miss this? Your contributions to this community are amazing. Extremely well done.
ORA/YR modder/artist, DOOM mapper, aka evanb90
Project Lead Developer, New-Star Strike (2014-), RA Tweaked (2015-)
Former Project Lead Developer Star Strike (2005-2012), Z-Mod (2006-2007), RA1.5 (2008-2013), The Cold War (2006-2007)
zzattack wrote:
It's basically a jpg with a compression ratio of 1:1.01 (or something similar). Photoshop does it. Larger file size. Not quite as big as .png though, which is true lossless. There is very very minor changes to the image due to the minuscule amount of compression.
Atari2600
Cyborg Cannon
Location: Less than 10 minutes from the internet
daTS wrote:
Yep, I remember hearing about this from my dad long ago. He encouraged me to save with files as Tiff's if they needed to be lossless. However, they proved to be rather unused in most cases.
PNG is pretty widely accepted these days for lossless on the internet from what Ive seen.
I will be posting a full installer with updated GUI tomorrow, but for the brave ones a command-line version is already attached.
Slight bamp, but we're waiting.
If I see him on msn I'll poke him.
Krow
Location: Malaysia
Need help guys. I tried this and it won't work at all. Every time I open it, the application errors comes out. It says, The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). What's wrong with it?
Team Black wrote:
interesting seeing your voxel work. They're still better than Aro's!
Topic maker is too lazy.
That doesn't help at all.
Ixith
Cyborg Commando
Location: under there!
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:16 am Post subject:
I will not lie...i am using the fact that there's no easy to start/idiot proof version of this out yet as to why i haven't finished up some of my map projects.
Of course that's far from the truth....but dammit it's good enough for me!
as for you Krow...
but for the brave ones a command-line version is already attached. On a final note, for now, .NET 4.0 is required.
maybe that helps you understand that it's not a ready to go thing straight out of the package it comes in. You need to go through command-line stuffz to get it going. and well...like stated...it's for the brave ones....who don't mind messing with that.
Kalistia Crestland (2)
In Soviet Russia, grass grows on tiberium!
Okay , I get your point but this also happens with the old version. The 0.99 one. The same error.
The old original works fine for me.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:42 am Post subject:
Can't anyone help?
Comr4de
Gauss Rifle Trooper
I am using .NET Framework and I click on the exe file, all I get is an EMPTY command prompt windows, then it *poofs* out, gone. Should there happen something?
I'm on XP SP3 (with .NET 4.0 ofcourse)
lol, lrn2cmd
Krow wrote:
I'm guessing you need the .net framework?
Are you sure? Because i've used the older version before and it didn't need the .net framework.
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:23 am Post subject:
Yep...
Over the past Christmas break I have rewritten my map rendering tool in C#.
^ This means you need .net to run it now.
In my opinion as a programmer, you should get the .net framework anyway. Not installing .net is like not installing java... it's simply something you need to run programs.
Morpher
This application opens and immediately shuts for me, I have .net installed.
Morpher... read the first post. It's a command line tool -_-
Okay , understood. But the error still happens with the older version. The one that doesn't need to use the .net.
hrmm well the older version was simply just RA2/YR i do believe which is why this rewritten one needs the .net and commandline stuff to work properly as it's not completely set up yet.
Here's a grand idea...have you tried running the older version as Administrator? if not...try that...it surprisingly makes a lot of stuff work.
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:
Ooops, used command line prompt, entered everything but it errors at "recalculating object palettes"
And how do I do that, Ixith?
right click it instead of left clicking on it and you should get an option in the list of things that says "Run As Administrator"
Nikademis Von Hisson
Location: Wilkes Barre PA
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:54 am Post subject: Map render
I get a message about net frame, but I have read the posts and thought never mind, I went back to the old version. When I try using a map with custom tiles, i get nothing. Size of map is 215 by 200, but I use a 215 by 200 blank map I get a render. any thoughts?
I am authorized to send out the TMP Studio, PM ME IF YOU WANT IT And check this out, these were sent to me for help with terrain and zdata help along with TMP Studio/Builder
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:54 am Post subject:
I've figured out what caused the application error. I was wrong about the older version not requiring a .net framework, because it does need it and my .net framework was totally outdated. And thanks Ixith for helping.
hrmm well figured i'd bump this up just to poke the ashes and put out the question...
Did this ever get a full program with GUI and the what not so that the not so brave and willing to go through command prompt people can use it?
seriously...i'd like to get a megamap produced the lazy way instead of the 'oh hey imma take a bunch of pictures and then line them up in an image editor'
i cant get any of my maps to use this program. its not the size of my maps, but i think it can't read my new terrain, even though all tiles are in proper mix files and they are in the proper place
Ixith wrote:
It did, for RA2 once...
I can take a blank yuri map and render it, but not a fully made map...or did i miss that can't be used on Yuris
bah. well someone needs to be awesome and get the renderer that works for TS a nice GUI and the works so I can be lazy.
http://code.google.com/p/ccmaps/source/detail?r=18
"Updated GUI and Installer".
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Irish Republican News · April 15, 2010
Heritage sell-off continues
The last letter written by Kevin Barry the night before his execution is to be auctioned to the highest bidder in the latest sell off of Irish heritage.
Thousands of documents from IRA headquarters in the 1920s are among the highlights of a forthcoming auction relating to Ireland’s struggle for independence.
Items are expected to fetch about a half million Euro during the auction next week.
The final letter by 18-year-old Kevin Barry from Mountjoy was described as “truly unique and poignant” by George Mealy of Mealy auctioneers.
Their annual “Independence Auction” comes after a controversial attempt last month to sell an original Irish tricolour flag, taken from the GPO after the 1916 Easter Rising.
Barry wrote to his friends in blue prison pencil on two sheets of paper on October 31st, 1920, the night before he was famously hanged for his part in an IRA attack.
The document has the “bargain” price of between 14,000 and 18,000 euro.
A book signed by Roger Casement the night before his execution at Pentonville in August 1916 following his conviction for high treason is also on the auction block.
Heritage campaigners have again urged the Dublin government to intervene to end the auctions and safeguard the historic treasures for the state.
Last year, a rare original copy of the 1916 Proclamation sold for 2
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← Don Turner RCAA February Artist of the Month at Vigo library
Paintings by Judith Lynn Smith featured in The Crow Show at Arts Illiana →
RCAA exhibit in Palestine Art Center through March
Posted on February 15, 2016 by Sheila T Illustrated
Palestine Art Center will showcase the diverse talents of the River City Art Association February through March in its gallery at 110 S. Main St., Palestine, Illinois.
More than 30 works by 11 members of the Terre Haute-based art group may be viewed from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays.
Participating artists include Edith and Richard Acton, Della Bender, Mike Bender, Steve Harrold, Monty “Indiana” Jones, Dian D. Phillips, Jan Skipo, Todd Stokes, Sheila K. Ter Meer and Spencer Young.
Fused Glass Wall Hanging by Edith Acton
Mediums include fused glass; pottery; pen and ink, and graphite drawings; oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings; glass etching; mixed media, three-dimensional; abstract and traditional photography.
Edith Acton has designed countless fused glass wall hangings, each one-of-a-kind due to the process used to reinvent the colored glass into art. Her wall hangings have received awards in RCAA’s Annual Juried Exhibition as well as the Wabash Valley Art Guild’s Annual Spring Art Exhibition in Terre Haute. More of her wall hangings as well as jewelry are featured on the Rivers & Roads Artisan Trail website at riversandroadstrail.com.
Layer Upon Layer by Richard Acton
Richard Acton majored in industrial arts education in college which led to an interest in building and repairing things in wood using a variety of carpentry tools. Two years ago he pursued a more creative outlet requiring only his hands and a few basic potter’s tools. After taking classes at John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina and at Indiana State University, working with clay became his medium of choice.
Hide Away by Della Bender
Della Bender learned to express herself artistically through plein air instruction from retired Indiana State art professor Evelyn Gertrude James. After three years with James, Della soon was doing commission paintings, receiving accolades, and exhibiting at banks in Brazil, Indiana. Her love of nature and wildlife are evident in her oil landscapes. She went on to teach art at the Glenn Civic Center in East Glenn.
River of Time by Mike Bender
Mike Bender, a Brazil, Indiana native, began exhibiting his pen and ink drawings professionally in 2013 and has since won several awards and accolades. One of his drawings, “River of Time,” was chosen for the cover of the January-March 2013 issue of Arts Illiana’s Spectrum magazine highlighting the 2013 Year of the River celebration in Terre Haute. He later received a Merit Award at the Swope Art Museum 69th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition.
Resting, oil painting by Steve Harrold
Steve Harrold is a sporting dog artist. He has a master’s degree in art and serves on the planning committee for the new German Shorthair wing at the National Bird Dog Museum in Grand Junction, TN. He also has paintings hanging in the museum. He has been involved with sporting dogs, mostly bird dogs since he was 10 years old. He has field trialed German Shorthairs since about 1980 and is fortunate to have a dog in both the GSPCA and NGSPA Hall of Fame.
Monty Jones, an RCAA founding member, has a studio in Terre Haute, where he paints wildlife, automobilia and landscapes in acrylic. He also works with colored pencil and practices pyrography (pokerwork or woodburning). He recently was commissioned to create “Big Mouth,” an acrylic on Masonite, to be used by Bass Unlimited West Central Indiana as a poster for a fundraiser in early 2016.
Buttermilk Barn watercolor on paper Dian D. Phillips
Dian D. Phillips studied painting with professors Harry A. Davis, Edmund Brucker, Robert Berkshire and Sarah Burns at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. She was a graphic designer/art director for the majority of her professional life. She works primarily in watercolor, acrylic and oil, and creates images that are strongly influenced by nature and rural scenes. Her paintings are in private collections throughout the United States.
Children Having Fun by Jan Skipo
Jan Skipo lived 20 years in Indianapolis, working in marketing for Kondas Photographers and for Wyant Photography, assisting at weddings. She also belonged to Photo Venture in Indianapolis, a weekly photo club that focuses on learning and a hands-on approach. Jan now works as a nurse in Terre Haute, and is a strong supporter of the arts community. In 2014, Jan was one of the top winners in the “Aging in the Wabash Valley” photography competition sponsored by Indiana State University and Arts Illiana Inc.
Shadows #4, glass etching, by Todd Stokes
Todd Stokes not only finds an expressive outlet with photography, he also enjoys creating interesting two- and three-dimensional etched glass art incorporating basic geometric shapes as key elements in his designs. Working with glass is an extension of his experience in Plexiglas with a constructionist twist as he continues to explore three-dimensional works combining hand-cut glass with unique etched design work. He currently has work on display in The Crow Show in Arts Illiana as well as in The Golden Frame where he is manager and resident artist. He also is a member of the artist collective Watermark in Terre Haute.
Close up of Scare Tactics by Sheila K. Ter Meer
Sheila K. Ter Meer has a penchant for whimsies – anything playful or fanciful, as an artistic creation. Through photo manipulation she creates abstract art from her traditional images. In 2014, Ter Meer’s portrait of her mother was chosen Overall Winner in Indiana State University’s “Aging in the Wabash Valley” photography competition. One of her wildlife images was featured in the Nature Conservancy of Indiana’s “Indiana, Naturally” photography exhibit at the Indianapolis International Airport. And Best of Show was awarded to her 3-D photo art entry in the 2014 Covered Bridge Art Association Associate Members Exhibition.
Fallen Beech photography by Spencer Young
Spencer Young holds a bachelor’s degree in astronomy from Northwestern University and a master of science from Iowa State University. For several years he was an assistant photographer and darkroom operator for a portrait and wedding studio. Young is a landscape photographer however, capturing solar eclipses is high on his list of priorities. CAD, or computer assisted drawing is his third interest.
“Big Mouth,” print of original artwork, acrylic on Masonite, by Monty Jones of Terre Haute
RCAA was established in 2008 by founding members Debbie Martinez and her late husband Marty, Monty “Indiana” Jones, Ruthann Brady, Adrianus Fraza, Kit Fisher, and the late Rob Robbins. Membership is open to Wabash Valley artists in Indiana and Illinois.
A member’s work is spotlighted each month in RCAA’s Artist of the Month Gallery in the Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute and in its AOTM Gallery in Harrison College.
In February, Don Turner is featured in the library; and Monty Jones, at Harrison.
In March, Turner’s library exhibit will move to the RCAA gallery in Harrison; and crafts by Deanna Swearingen will be featured in the library display cases.
The art group meets at 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in the Vigo County Public Library at Seventh and Poplar streets. For more information call vice president Todd Stokes at 812-232-0048.
For more information on Palestine Art Center exhibits call 618-586-2500 or visit mainstreetpalestine.com/artcenter.
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Visiting the Unit
The ICU
New Unit
Training @ RNSH
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The Northcare Foundation
Tracheostomy Team
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Trainee Teaching
Echo Training
ICU Study Days
ECMO Training
Crit Care Teaching
Specialists and Fellows
Lewis Macken
Lewis has extensive experience as an Emergency physician, when he rose through the ranks to become the Director of Royal North Shore Hospital Emergency Department, Director of Emergency Medicine Training, and Director of Trauma at St George Hospital.
He was also an examiner for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine for many years. He then saw the light and re-trained in Intensive Care Medicine.
He became the Director of the Intensive Care Unit in 2018.
Special interests include infection control and burns management.
He is a core member of the Medical Experts Committee of Avant Insurance, Australia’s largest medical defence organisation.
Lewis enjoys spending time with the kids, but continues to struggle with his golf swing.
Ray Raper
Ray graduated from the University of Sydney and completed his residency and Intensive Care training at Royal North Shore Hospital.
He completed a fellowship in Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario, before returning to RNSH as a Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine in 1986.
He was the Head of Department from 2003 till 2018, and is now the President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.
His other achievements include a BA degree majoring in Philosophy from Macquarie University and an MD from the University of Sydney.
Ray has won several prestigious awards including the Matt Spence medal from ANZICS, the John Sands medal from the RACP, and the College medal from the College of Intensive Care in 2012, the same year he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Ray’s other interests include organ and tissue donation, medical ethics and motorbikes.
Sarah Wesley
Sarah is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care, the Deputy Director of the ICU and Supervisor of Training.
She is responsible for recruitment and co-ordination of junior medical staff at RNSH ICU.
She is also the Director of the Intensive Care Unit at North Shore Private Hospital.
She has a Fellowship in ICU Echocardiography, and enjoys teaching, especially in the field of cardiothoracic intensive care.
She is a CICM Second Part Examiner and member of the FRACP written examinations committee.
She enjoys doing anything the kids want to do!!
Simon Finfer
Simon is a world renowned researcher and a key member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications many of which have changed practice worldwide e.g. PROWESS-SHOCK, The SAFE Study, The NICE-SUGAR study, The RENAL study and many more.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, which was recently ranked number one in the world for research impact.
Simon is a reviewer for many journals including NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet, the BMJ, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, AJRCCM, Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and the Medical Journal of Australia.
Simon is an editor of the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care, Critical Care section Editor for The Oxford Textbook of Critical Care (6th Ed) and is a guest editor for New England Journal of Medicine. His clinical interests include sepsis, fluid resuscitation, metabolism of critical illness, trauma and neuro-intensive care.
Any spare time Simon has is devoted to playing golf with his three sons (trying to maintain his handicap of four) and supporting West Ham United FC from afar.
Richard has had a long and distinguished career in Intensive Care Medicine.
His famous Physiology and CICM Primary Preparation Tutorials (2 hours every Tuesday night) have helped many hundreds of trainees overcome the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Primary examinations over many years.
He is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and has held many high level positions over the years including the Director of Professional Affairs for the College of Intensive Care Medicine and the Dean, Censor and Chairman of Examinations of the previous Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
His interests include medical education and assessment, major burns resuscitation and neurocritical care.
Richard is father of five and a regular gofer.
Carole Foot
Carole graduated from the University of Queensland in 1995 and completed dual fellowships in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. She completed a full-time degree in International Health Management at Imperial College London and has worked in a number of healthcare services around the world.
Her major clinical interest is post-operative ICU, particularly the care of the cardiothoracic surgical patient. She is part of the core management team that set up and runs the RNSH Rapid Response Service for recognition and care of clinically deteriorating patients throughout the hospital.
Carole’s non-clinical interests include education, particularly teaching professional development and non-technical skills including leadership and management topics to medical students and ICU doctors.
She created the Consultant Intensivist Transition Course for newly qualified Australasian Intensivists, is the Director of the RNSH Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) and is responsible for a weekly multidisciplinary Critical Care teaching session for ICU and hospital staff.
She is the author of several textbooks, including Examination Intensive Care Medicine, Examination Emergency Medicine, Diagnostic Imaging in Critical Care and Medical Crisis Management (a DVD/workbook multimedia package).
She is a board member of The Northcare Foundation.
Carole is passionate about her family and friends and personal interests include filmmaking, travel and creative writing.
Anthony Delaney
Anthony is a Senior Staff Specialist at RNSH ICU, with a special interest in Neurosurgical Intensive Care.
He is the Deputy Supervisor of Training and Deputy Director of Research.
He combines these skills in his role as the supervisor of Trainee research projects.
He is a member of the CICM Fellowship Examination Committee, and is actively involved in the Fellowship teaching program.
Anthony has a growing research portfolio, is finishing off a PhD and was a lead investigator on the ARISE trial.
Jonathan Gatward
Jon dual trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the UK before coming to Australia. He worked as a Senior Registrar and Fellow at RNS and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals, before gaining his FCICM in 2011.
He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and is a trained simulation instructor. He is a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and regularly teaches medical students.
Jon co-coordinates RNSH ICU education and runs the in-situ simulation program. His special interests include airway management, and he runs the Critical Care Airway Management course.
Jon is also interested in quality and safety in healthcare, has served as a Council member at the Clinical Excellence Commission and is part of the Clinical Best Practice Working Group at Intensive Care NSW, part of the Agency for Clinical Innovation.
He is one of the Organ Donation Specialists at RNSH and trains colleagues from around the State in conducting the organ donation conversation.
Jon’s other interests include cycling, swimming, kayaking and making movies.
Roger Harris
Roger was a Specialist in Emergency Medicine before moving into Intensive Care Medicine.
He is a co-convenor of the highly successful Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) and Bedside Critical Care (BCC) conferences.
He is co-founder of C4 (Centre for Critical Care Collaboration): a charitable not-for-profit trust, and also on the board of directors for the Northcare Foundation: a registered charity supporting Intensive Care research and education on the North Shore of Sydney.
He is responsible for the Disaster and Emergency Management portfolio at RNSH and is a keen educator, helping to prepare ICU primary candidates in anatomy and his various other areas of expertise including ICU nutrition.
His other interests include keeping up with his wife and 5 kids and cattle farming.
Oliver Flower
Oli has sub-speciality interests in neuro-intensive care and spinal medicine.
He has been a trailblazer in web-based education in Intensive Care, co-creating resources such as Intensive Care Network, Neuro-ICU, and ICU Podcasts and contributing to Life in the Fast Lane.
He is co-convenor of the Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) conference and helps to organise the Bedside Critical Care (BCC) conference.
Oli is developing a research and publication portfolio and has significant involvement with the CICM Fellowship teaching program at RNSH and in Sydney.
He loves being a Dad, doing martial arts, painting and travelling (not all at once).
Celia Bradford
Celia has a sub-speciality interest in neuro-intensive care, particularly subarachnoid haemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. Her other clinical interests include renal replacement therapy and echocardiography.
Her research portfolio includes a prospective RCT on magnesium in subarachnoid haemorrhage and a prospective RCT on regional anticoagulation in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
She is a Clinical Lecturer for the University of Sydney
Celia loves introducing her 2 young children to the exotic corners of Sydney and the world. She is a Nipponophile; believing that the ski slopes of Hokkaido followed by a plate of fresh sashimi is an ideal way to spend a day.
Heather Low
Heather has has a long and successful career in Intensive Care Medicine, being a trailblazer for women in a speciality which used to be dominated by men. She enjoys clinical intensive care and has a special interest in the care of cardiothoracic surgical patients.
She is a keen educator, having taught medical students for many years, and has used her teaching and organisational skills to help create and maintain the highly successful Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) course.
Heather’s other interests include photography, travel and house renovation.
Liz Hickson
Liz graduated from Sheffield University in 1997 and commenced training in General Medicine. After gaining her MRCP, she emigrated to Australia in 2000, originally training in Emergency Medicine, before qualifying as an Intensivist in 2007.
Liz is the Chair of the RNSH Resuscitation Committee and Clinical lead of the Rapid Response Service.
Her main interests are education and mentoring, with active involvement in a number of teaching programs in the ICU and at the Northern Clinical School for medical students. She is an advocate for Intensive Care Medicine trainees and new specialists, having been the CICM New Fellows representative until 2012.
Liz is faculty on the Australasian Consultant Intensivist Transition Course.
She is an author of Examination Intensive Care Medicine and Medical Crisis Management (a DVD/workbook multimedia package).
Liz’s hobbies include creating culinary masterpieces, travel and dog-training. Most of all she loves spending time with her little girl.
Pierre Janin
Pierre is a French born Intensivist who initially trained in Anaesthetics at the University of Liege in Belgium. He subsequently obtained the Belgian Diploma in Intensive Care. He has worked at RNSH since early 2008, with a brief spell at St Vincent’s Hospital, and became a fellow of the CICM in 2013.
Pierre’s special interests include echocardiography, especially in critical care. He teaches echo to the trainees at RNSH and is a member of the faculty of several echo courses.
He also has a special interest in infectious diseases, having completed a one year fellowship in the speciality.
Pierre’s other interests include music and fine wine.
Naomi Diel
As a medical student of Dr Raper and Dr Lee, Naomi was ICUcentric from the outset. Having completed a large bulk of her ICU training in the western suburbs of Sydney at Nepean Hospital, she moved to RNSH as an Advanced Trainee in 2014. Attaining her fellowship during a subsequent Fellow Year she began 2016 as a new Staff Specialist.
Naomi has an interest in post-graduate and intra-professional education and training and is currently undertaking a Masters of Clinical Education. She has completed the NHET-Sim Program and is developing these skills within the RNSH in-situ simulation program. Naomi is involved in a number of multi-disciplinary education programs within RNSH and other hospitals including ICU Trainee education, BASIC, CAP for Nurses and the JMO Education Program. Naomi also co-coordinates the ICU Trainee Roster.
She considers her biggest achievement to be completing ICU training whilst producing a household of Y chromosomes, though she credits an incredibly supportive family who do most of the work for that success! She enjoys Keeping up with the Kardashians, is a closet Belieber and a foundation member of the Western Sydney Wanderers.
Wade Stedman
Wade got his MBBS at the University of Queensland. He has special interests in trauma and neurocritical care, having completed a trauma critical care fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto (the busiest trauma centre in Canada).
He loves teaching, has completed the NHET-Sim Instructor program and teaches on simulation based airway workshops (at Sunnybrook Hospital and now at RNSH). He is heavily involved in ALS training through the ARC (Australian Resuscitation Council) – he is a current course director and has taught on many provider and instructor courses. He also instructs on BASIC and Beyond BASIC courses.
Wade completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Echocardiography from the University of Melbourne during his CICM fellowship.
His other interests include travel, eating out and Australian Rules Football.
Josh Pillemer
Josh’s undergraduate degrees with majors in mathematics and philosophy instilled in him a solid drive to do something more practical. He graduated from the University of Sydney’s medical program in 2006.
Josh managed to leave the Lower North Shore of Sydney after 26 years to commence his internship at the Canberra Hospital. Seven years and three children later, he returned to Sydney to complete his ICU training at RNSH and RPAH.
He is a keen educator, having been an instructor on ALS and CALS courses, and a faculty member on many courses including BASIC, SAFE and SSCICM.
Josh’s interests outside of medicine mostly fall under the categories “geeky” and “nerdy”. He has successfully passed his Star Wars fandom onto his offspring – though has had less success with his long-suffering spousal equivalent.
Josh gained his medical degree at the University of Sydney before completing his training in Intensive Care at Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals followed by a clinical Fellowship St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.
He has a particular interest in medical student, JMO and inter-disciplinary education. He is an instructor on BASIC and a faculty member of the Basic Sciences Clinic preparatory course for the CICM primary examination. He is also interest ICU outreach and inter-disciplinary education around the care of the deteriorating patient.
If Josh wasn’t an Intensivist, you’d probably find him running around for his beloved Sydney Swans, if only his athletic ability matched his ambition. Outside of work, Josh loves spending time with his family and bringing up his two kids. He can often be spotted haunting the aisles of the local Bunnings dreaming up his next DIY project.
Alun Ellis
Originally from Wales, Alun graduated in 2007 and after completing his residency in London and Brighton, immigrated to Australia and completed his training in Intensive Care Medicine in Sydney and Canberra.
In 2018 he completed the Nepean Fellowship in Echocardiography. His clinical interests are in cardiac imaging, cardiothoracic and extracorporeal medicine, respiratory failure and renal replacement therapy.
He has been involved in trainee welfare and CICM activity; he was the trainee representative for NSW between 2014 and 2017. He is also an instructor on a number of courses including BASIC and RACE.
Outside of the ICU, he enjoys travel (especially if by train), off-piste skiing, cooking (well…eating mostly), home renovation (also a Bunnings fan), and oenology. He also harbours the desire to learn to sail, but does not have the means.
Claire Seiffert
Claire is currently undertaking a clinical fellowship at RNSH, having completed the ICU Education and Simulation Fellowship the year before. She is a born and bred Victorian having grown up in Mildura before completing a Physiotherapy degree in Melbourne. She then moved to Canberra where she completed her medical degree. Her love for the country life took her to Wagga Wagga for internship and resident years before being drawn to the big city lights for her husband and to train at the RNSH and RPAH ICUs.
She has a special interest in bariatric medicine, innovative medical education and retrieval medicine (she is also apparently an expert in all things related to faecal matter courtesy of two public ICU talks). Aside from expanding her knowledge in these niche ICU areas, Claire is a passionate John Farnham fan and a loyal Geelong AFL supporter. She has little baby boy that has also independently developed the same passions.
Lachlan Donaldson
Lachlan graduated from UNSW in 2009. After falling in love with the ICU flow-sheets at Lismore Base hospital, he abandoned his plans to become a paediatric surgeon and completed his training in intensive care medicine.
Lachlan recently returned from a clinical fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He has a budding interest in clinical research, and completed a Masters of Philosophy with a program of research focused on the risk of bias in meta-analysis. When not getting excited about meta-analytic techniques, Lachlan has sub-speciality interests in neuro-ICU (particularly subarachnoid haemorrhage) and long-term ICU follow-up and outcomes.
Lachlan is completing the Clinical Teaching Fellowship program this year through USyd. He is a member of the NSW Regional Committee of CICM.
Outside work he has interests in photography, crashing his drone in scenic locales across the globe and chasing cattle around around in the dust at his family’s farm.
Owen Milne
Owen was born and raised over in the wild West, completing his medical degree at the University of Western Australia. Always looking for something new and the opportunity to travel, training was spent bouncing between ICUs in Perth, Darwin and Manchester. Following this eclectic combination of cities, Owen was looking for something a bit more civilised. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find a job in Melbourne and somehow ended up in Sydney where he’s currently undertaking the ICU Simulation and Education Fellowship.
Outside the ICU Owen’s interests largely revolve around travel, food and getting into the great outdoors.
Senior Nursing Staff
Rebecca Riordan
Rebecca has been working in ICU for over 20 years, with the last ten of those at Royal North Shore as the Nurse Manager. Prior to this she lived and worked in various units in the UK and in Queensland. Rebecca cites the team at RNSH as being the most dynamic that she has ever worked with. The department is contantly striving for new and innovative ways to educate, facilitate professional growth and support staff within the ICU team. The collaborative approach at RNSH is testament to the enthusiastic staff who genuinely enjoy working in this environment.
Rebecca’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing (Pre-Registration), a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care and a Masters of Public Health that was completed at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2004. Prior to her career in health, Rebecca was going to be a professional musician and commenced study at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
Some of the highlights of her career so far have been doing remote area work in Uganda and Belize (with a UK charity) and then in Timor (with the RNSH ICU team). The most rewarding part of her current job is facilitating other nurses achieve their professional goals and then supporting them through this process.
Matt Tinker
Matt Tinker is the Clinical Nurse Consultant for Intensive Care services at Royal North Shore Hospital. Matt’s qualifications include Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Intensive Care Nursing and Masters in Nursing, majoring in Adult Education, which was financially supported by the Northcare Foundation.
Matt’s CNC portfolio includes clinical governance, quality and risk management, clinical education, policy and guideline development, long term patient case management and mentorship of staff.
Matt is passionate about lifelong learning with a particular interest in teaching mechanical ventilation, intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) and extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Matt is also a part time lecturer for Post Graduate Critical Care Nursing Studies at University of Technology Sydney and Sydney University.
Matt is an avid lover of photography, fishing and bonsai.
Sarah is a very experienced ICU nurse and is one of the Nurse Practitioners at RNSH ICU. She works as a clinical ICU Nurse Practitioner and also as part of the RNSH Vascular Access Service.
Sarah helps out with the education, training and credentialing of trainees registered with the College of Intensive Care Medicine and maintains the trainee database.
Jessica Butler
Jess is a very experienced ICU nurse and is one of the Nurse Practitioners at RNSH ICU. She works as a clinical ICU Nurse Practitioner and also as part of the RNSH Vascular Access Service.
Jess helps out with the education, training and credentialing of trainees registered with the College of Intensive Care Medicine and maintains the trainee database.
Jess has worked in various roles in the ICU such as the Quality Coordinator, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse Educator and a member of the Rapid Response Team.
Prior to completing a pre-registration Master of Nursing, Jess completed a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology and Physiology. With the support of the Northcare Foundation, went on to complete a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing, a Master of Advance Nursing (Education) and a Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner).
Jess enjoys working within a dynamic, flexible and multidisciplinary team to provide educational and clinical practice support to all ICU staff.
Natasha Hendy
Tash is the NUM of 6G General ICU. Hailing from Cardiothoracic ICU where she nursed on the floor for many years, her first NUM job was on the wards at RNSH on Orthopaedics 5WEST. After almost 2 years, the ICU 6G General NUM position came up and she moved back to ICU.
Tash has completed her Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing and has almost completed her Masters. She loves being a NUM and enjoys watching staff achieve what they want for their careers in a supportive environment.
Out of work, she wrangles 2 kids and loves the balance of work and family. She is thrilled to be back in ICU.
Helen Walker
Helen has worked in Intensive Care for over 20 years, and is currently one of the Nursing Unit Managers in General Intensive Care. She completed Midwifery Training at Royal North Shore Hospital shortly after graduating as a nurse through the hospital training system. She has post graduate qualifications in Psychiatry and Critical Care from the American River College in Sacramento California where she lived for several years, and more recently Health Services Management from the University of Technology in Sydney.
Outside of work Helen enjoys live theatre, maintaining her native plant garden and cooking.
Jill Hamilton
Jill is a Senior Nursing Unit Manager in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care with over 20 years experience in Public Health Networks most of which has been at RNSH. She previously worked at RPAH prior to returning to RNSH in 2009 upon her appointment as NUM.
Jill is very passionate about the care our patients and families receive in our department and ensuring the patient journey is as smooth as possible.
Jill has completed her Graduate Certificate in Critical Care, a Masters in Health Management at University of Technology, Clinical Leadership Programs through the Clinical Excellence Commission and various other Leadership Programs through the Qualitis Leadership Group.
Jill loves running and netball, in fact, any sport. She adores her gorgeous husband and her beautiful children who keep her on her toes with all their sporting commitments.
Mary Linfield
Ashleigh Tracey
Ashleigh has worked within the Intensive Care Unit at RNSH for the past 13 years, with 3 of these as the Nursing Unit Manager of Neuroscience ICU.
Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience and a Master of Nursing in Advanced Practice with a major in Health Services Management in 2015 (UTS). She has previously acted in positions such as Clinical Nurse Educator, Organ Donor Co-ordinator and as a Casual Academic for the University of Technology, Sydney.
Ashleigh’s achievements include co-authoring and developing the textbook and course ‘BASIC for Nurses’ in collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong Hospital and facilitating an education program for the nursing and medical staff of Dilli National Hospital, Timor Leste.
Neuroscience has remained a strong passion of Ashleigh’s with a particular interests in cerebrovascular neurosurgery for the treatment of complex aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and cerebral bypass surgery.
Ashleigh’s drive and focus in the ICU is supporting a healthy and sustainable workforce through professional development opportunities, education, culture and seeing these transform into providing positive and meaningful patient experiences and outcomes. She attributes her development as a clinician and manager to the incredible staff within the Intensive Care Unit and their consistent dedication to the patients and their families.
Her interests include fishing, playing soccer and chasing storms.
Elliot Williams
Elliot is currently a Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 in the ICU, and part of the RNSH Vascular Access Service. Elliot also works two days a week as a Transitional Nurse Practitioner in ICU.
Prior to this he has worked as a Clinical Nurse Educator, Health Manager for the eRIC project, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Registered Nurse in the ICU. Elliot is an ALS instructor and educates nurses across many different parts of the ICU education program. He has a keen interest in ECMO, having co-developed the RNSH ICU ECMO course and is involved with the LearnECMO group.
Elliot is also an Associate of the Faculty of Health at University of Technology, Sydney where he teaches on the post-graduate critical care program. In addition to this, he holds the appointment of Clinical Lead with St John Ambulance (NSW) where he has volunteered for over 20 years. Elliot is also Faculty Lead for the Intense Assist group in NSW, delivering ICU education to nurses.
He has a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care and is currently undertaking a Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) at the University of Sydney.
Kerryn Taylor
Kerryn is permanent member of the Clinical Nurse Education team at RNSH. She is currently working part time in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care unit whilst raising a young daughter. Kerryn has previously worked as a Rapid Response Team Clinical Nurse Specialist, as the Transition to Practice Clinical Nurse Educator for the Intensive Care Stream of the New Graduate Program and as a Clinical Nurse Educator in both General Intensive Care Units.
Kerryn’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing and Graduate Certificate in Critical Care, the latter of which was financially supported by the Northcare Foundation. Kerryn has continued a professional relationship with the University of Technology, working as an academic for the Bachelor of Nursing Degree.
Kerryn is passionate about supporting the transition of Students and Registered Nurses into speciality practice so that an appropriately skilled workforce is able to deliver quality Intensive Care health services.
Imran Hossain
Imran is currently working as Clinical Nurse Educator at RNSH ICU. He started his career in healthcare as a trainee paramedic and later converted to Nursing. Prior to nursing, he worked in finance. He has worked in critical care for over 7 years in various capacities. During this period he has developed keen interest in education, particularly around high fidelity simulation, hands-on skill acquisition, and practice development.
Imran is an advanced life support instructor; clinical accreditation program assessor and simulation faculty. He is also a casual faculty at University of Technology Sydney for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students.
His educational qualifications include Bachelor of Health Science, Bachelor of Business Administration, Graduate certificate in Critical Care, Master of Accounting, Master of Advance Nursing with Education Major and Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.
Imran’s other interests include Free Open Access Medical Education and social media, motorcycle touring and travelling with his family.
Nick Adam
Nick is the rotational Clinical Nurse Educator in the Neuroscience ICU, but has worked mostly in the Cardiothoracic ICU. He completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing at UTS and has since completed a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing and a Master of Advanced Nursing.
Nick has a strong interest in resuscitation and works in a number of pre-hospital areas and enjoys training Basic and Advanced Life Support and building knowledge through simulation and teaching.
He enjoys spending time outdoors, with the most recent obsession is multi-day hiking.
Michael Grew
Michael is currently a clinical nurse educator in ICU at RNSH. He has a Bachelor of Nursing and a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care both through the University of Technology Sydney.
He has worked at RNSH ICU since 2013, has been part of the Rapid Response Team and is an advanced life support assessor.
Michael has interests in simulation and precepting, educating and supporting new nurses to intensive care.
Michael’s other interests include photography and fishing.
Selina Hole
Selina is a long-standing member of the Clinical Nurse Educator team at RNSH ICU and throughout her career has worked closely with the University of Technology Sydney, tutoring and assessing both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. She has also spent time working as a Nurse Educator for the Centre for Excellence and Talent Development at RNSH.
Selina’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing, a Bachelor or Arts (International Studies), a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing and a Masters in Nursing majoring in Education. She has also spent a year studying at university in Barcelona, Spain.
Selina is currently working part time while raising a young family.
Bronwyn Williams
Bron has worked as the Clinical Nurse Consultant for Resuscitation at RNSH since 2014. Prior to this she worked in the ICU setting for 10 years in General, Neuro and Cardiothoracic units in Australia and Ireland in several roles including Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse Educator and a member of the Rapid Response team.
She has a Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing), Master of Advanced Nursing, Graduate Certificate Health Service Management and a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing.
Bron is an assessor for both Basic and Advanced Adult Life Support and Resus4Kids, and has strong interests in Advanced Life Support, the prevention of deterioration in patients and patient safety.
The best part of her job is teaching ALS and BLS to both clinical and non-clinical staff within the organisation and helping them gain both skills and confidence in resuscitation.
Bron is an avid supporter of the All Blacks.
Sarah Woodbridge
Sarah is the acting Between the Flags Clinical Nurse Consultant. She has previously worked as the ICU Quality Coordinator, a member of the Rapid Response Team and has worked in General Intensive Care at RNSH since 2010.
Sarah completed her undergraduate studies at University of Wollongong and has also completed a Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing at the University of Technology Sydney. She is currently working towards her Master of Nursing.
When she’s not at work, Sarah enjoys travelling, reading, cooking and eating.
Katelyn Davis
Katelyn is currently the electronic Record for Intensive Care (eRIC) Clinical Information System Manager. She has a Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing and a Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management, all from the University of Technology Sydney.
She has worked in Intensive Care at Royal North Shore since 2011 and was the Quality Coordinator from 2017-2019.
Tyson Perrin
Ty is currently the Quality Coordinator in the ICU. He has a Bachelor of Nursing through the University of New England, a UTS Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing and is currently undertaking a Master of Advanced Nursing through the University of Technology, Sydney.
He has worked at Royal North Shore Hospital since 2012, been an active member of staff in the Neurosurgical ICU since 2014 and has been working in the Quality Coordinator position since the beginning of 2019. In addition to clinical work, he holds an honorary associate and casual academic position at UTS where he enjoys tutoring undergraduate students interested in the nursing field.
Ty appreciates the change management process and really thrives off working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team environment. He demonstrates a professional approach to recognising issues, investigating strategies to overcome problems and engaging and coordinating project teams to ensure that the high quality of practice our clinical staff provide is focused towards safe delivery of patient-centred care and is consumer-partnered.
Outside of the working world, you will most likely find him making waves up and down the pool or alternatively further north in rural NSW where he frequently visits the family dairy farm he was raised on.
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Star Trek: Discovery's Classic Series Callbacks Work
by Andy L. Kubai
– on Jan 14, 2018
in SR Originals
Does Star Trek: Discovery have a problem with all its classic references? Many modern versions of classic franchises - in particular, science fiction like Star Wars and Dr. Who - love to slip an array of Easter Eggs and to their own history into their shows, and Discovery went all in. The first half of the season contained fun nods like the bookcase in Captain Georgiou’s ready room on the U.S.S. Shenzhou and major ones like the Federation's early dealings with Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
Fun as they are, has the show spent too much time linking up with its past, even for a series set just before Star Trek: The Original Series? Or, did Discovery find a good balance between fan service and story, allowing audiences to enjoy the show for itself and develop its characters without getting caught up in the minutiae of its own history? Today we're going to take a look at the impact of all these callbacks.
Related: Star Trek: Discovery – The Story So Far
Star Trek Has a Deep Connection to Its Past
The road for Discovery, as a prequel, was always going to be rocky, especially with some fans against it from the onset. Despite some missteps and hiccups (including the Klingon’s hard-to-emote-in new makeup), it's won over much of its core viewership by walking a tricky tightrope between fresh and familiar. Without playing it subtly, though, the show is in danger of being overwhelmed by its callbacks. Some earlier episodes, in particular, were criticised for relying on clunky exposition and pop-ins from iconic figures like Sarek. After all, why would the show include one of Trek's most famous Vulcans, the father of Spock, as Michael Burnham’s adoptive father if not to draw in an audience?
The truth is, Sarek and other more overt references are good ways to draw in fans and curious newcomers familiar with the major players. Any show set between the escapades of Captains Archer and Kirk will require some context to avoid feeling disjointed from its continuity. Including deeper links to the past was smart and necessary, and has been true of all prior Trek shows.
Previous series and films set in the future or the Kelvin timeline also featured numerous direct references and guest appearances, including Nimoy's Spock as a key character in Star Trek (2009) and Into Darkness (2013). The franchise’s first reboot, The Next Generation, even modeled its third episode, “The Naked Now,” directly on the unusual space-intoxicant from the classic TOS episode, “The Naked Time.” TNG also brought Spock and Sarek back for two episodes, as well as original series cast members. The franchise's second spinoff, Deep Space Nine also featured numerous tie-ins to classic lore, even including three of The Original Series' Klingons in a one-off storyline - as did its heirs, Voyager and Enterprise on numerous occasions.
True, some of Discovery’s callbacks, like the Tribble and Gorn skeleton in Captain Lorca’s (Jason Isaacs) super secret science room or one of several Wrath of Khan references, feel like fan service and nothing more. But they do contribute to the overall flavor of the latest offering. Plus, if the writers can spin those connections in meaningful ways, it will only enhance our understanding of those murky, pre-Kirk days. The true measure of its use of callbacks, though, lies in their impact on the feature players and their stories, including several that play key roles in the narrative.
More: Things You Completely Missed In Star Trek Discovery
Does Discovery’s Story Rely Too Much on Callbacks?
No matter how fans feel about its position on the timeline, Discovery is wedged ten years before TOS, and therefore inherently linked to mid-era Trek lore. Therefore, some interaction with the established mythology is inevitable. But did the show’s most sizeable references - Sarek and Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd - work appropriately?
For Mudd, whose inclusion was viewed with a raised Vulcan eyebrow by many fans, his two episodes (so far, anyway) actually gave the character more meat and muscle than his prior appearances (no disrespect to TOS writers or Roger C. Carmel's beloved iteration). Mudd is still his same old mustache-twirling self, with his characteristic flair for the dramatic and underwhelming success rate. However, he’s also become a top-notch foil for the multifaceted Captain Lorca. Discovery has also peered into his background, including introducing a young version of his long-suffering wife, Stella (Katherine Barrell), which rounded out his first arc and explains their strained relationship – after all, he scammed her father and ran off on his new bride. It also explains Mudd's later antagonistic relationship with his 'beloved' Stella, who undercuts him regularly, causing him to leave her behind later, even building an android replica of her to finally get one over on her.
In Sarek’s case, Discovery has actually enriched his backstory while adding new layers to his relationship with Spock and his mother, Amanda Grayson. It also gave fans fresh insight into the iconic Vulcan's background, explaining why his choice to join Starfleet over the Vulcan Expeditionary Group kicked off his feud with Sarek. That he feels shame over denying Michael her opportunity, only for Spock to go against his wishes – thereby negating his logical but painful decision – only makes him more relatable. Most of all, Sarek's personality informs viewers about Michael’s temperament and adds depth and richness to both of their stories.
Most importantly, neither character exists strictly in a referential capacity. Sarek’s relationship to Burnham is vital since he’s her adoptive father. He becomes a key player, not only peeling back layers of her character but also her motivations. Similarly, Mudd’s time on Discovery, which is unlikely at an end, informs his later involvement with Kirk and his crew, as well as his motivations. As a result, these characters aren’t just “hey, look it me” moments but serve the show and its own characters.
Related: Star Trek: Discovery Characters Who Could Be The Mirror Universe’s Emperor
Another significant reference is the use of the U.S.S. Defiant in the mid-season premiere "Despite Yourself." When the crew is transplanted into the Mirror Universe by the spore drive, they realize they're not the first Federation ship to make the journey. That honor belongs to the Defiant, a ship from roughly a decade in future, which featured heavily into the TOS episode, "The Tholian Web." It later acted as the lynchpin for Enterprise's own prequel to the classic episode, "Mirror, Mirror," which originally introduced the alternative reality Kirk and Spock (the one with the beard), "In a Mirror. Darkly." During the episode, the crew discovers that the Defiant was pulled into the Mirror Universe by a wormhole.
Not only is the starship a fun reference to a winding story thread, but may play a key role in the crew's attempts to escape the Mirror Universe – and perhaps even hold the key to Discovery's entrance into the official canon.
Clearly, Discovery isn't shy about sprinkling its Easter eggs around. But, for the most part, they aren't distracting or cloying for the most part. References to key franchise names, dates, and places, such as Constitution-class ships like the Enterprise, Mudd’s Q-like “mon capitaine,” or planets like Khitomer (the site of a Romulan massacre) and the Paulson Nebula (where the Enterprise hides from the Borg in “Best of Both Worlds”) are fun but don’t impact the plot or characters one way or the other. And more significant tie-ins like Sarek or the U.S.S. Defiant have, generally speaking, become vital to the story.
If the show continues to use its references to inform rather than merely as a knowing wink, Discovery will remain an engaging series. However, if it falls prey to dropping eggs for the sake of ratings or fan service, the latest outing runs the risk of becoming too self-aware or even parodic. Hopefully, this informs the writers and produces going into season two.
Next: Could CBS All Access Survive Without Star Trek: Discovery?
The latest Star Trek: Discovery episode, "The Wolf Inside," airs on January 14, 2018.
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So Others May Live
I was traveling on business one Friday evening. My flight was going to be late that night, near midnight, and I was in a very small town with no synagogue or havurah. So I decided to just wait at the airport. I bought a small bottle of grape juice and a roll, put on a black kippah that I always carry with me, opened a small siddur and started to recite some of the blessings. A middle-aged business man, who was very walking very determinedly to his flight suddenly stopped, changed course, and approached me. He looked down at me and said “Gut Shabbos, young man.” “Shabbat Shalom, Sir,” I responded. He smiled and walked away. If I had had my druthers I would have been at home, surrounded by my Mom, my Dad, my brother Joshua, my aunt and my uncle, and my two beagles. I didn’t want to be in that small airport. I wanted to be home. But in that moment, with those four words, he transformed that otherwise lonely Shabbat for me.
A couple of months later I was again traveling, this time on military orders. Again, I was in a small airport, the name of which I can’t remember. I was in uniform, anxiously counting down the hours until I would see my family again. Lost in my thoughts, I suddenly felt a tapping on the back of my shoulder. I turned around. It was a frail old man. He wore an oversized ball cap that said “WWII Veteran” on it. Sewn under the inscription were campaign ribbons from multiple battles in that terrible conflict. “I’m so proud of you,” he said. After seeing so much carnage, after having lost many friends who were in the prime of their lives when they died, and after he and his generation saved the world, he still said this to me. At that moment, I didn’t care about the flight anymore. I felt so undeserving. We talked about our units, where we had been, where we had trained, and of course traded a funny army story or two. We spoke until I had to board my flight. As I said goodbye and turned to walk away, he snapped to attention and saluted me. With tears in my eyes, I returned the salute.
That salute encapsulated everything it meant for me to be a solider. That “Gut Shabbos” symbolized everything it meant for me to be Jewish.
A short sentence or phrase conveys so much of what it means to be part of a specific group of people. Words like, yeshar ko-ach or kol hakavod, mazal tov, tzedakah and tikkun olam mean much more than their simple translation. For example, when we mention a person who has passed away, we say zichrono l’vracha, may his memory be a blessing. This habitual phrase sends a message about the enduring value of a life and our respect for others. These words are windows into the Jewish soul.
For the last eight years I have been honored and humbled to serve as an officer in the Army National Guard alongside our Nation’s greatest natural resource, her young men and women who have selflessly volunteered to serve in the armed forces. Just as with Jews, our fighting men and women have a distinct vocabulary: The Marines say, “Semper Fidelis” (Always Faithful). The Army Special Forces have “De Oppresso Libre” (To Free the Oppressed) while the Army Rangers proudly state “Rangers Lead the Way.” The US Coast Guard rescue swimmers and US Air Force Pararescue both share the motto “So that others may live.” And in my beloved state of Rhode Island, the 118th Military Police Battalion’s motto is “Facta Probant” (Deeds prove us). As you read this, there is a young American in the mountains of Afghanistan, in the dust of Djibouti, and in places all around the globe living, fighting, and sadly, but quite possibly dying by these words.
Words unite and words remind. On this Veterans Day, as you say Sh’ma, remember that someone else screamed “Airborne” as he jumped out of an airplane over Fort Bragg, North Carolina or Fort Benning, Georgia, so that you could utter our highest prayer. As you say Oseh shalom, someone else is shouting “Climb to Glory” (10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York) in Afghanistan. While we solemnly say Yitgadal, someone else is standing over the grave of his best friend at Arlington or in front of his or her name at the Vietnam Memorial, whispering “See you on the high ground, brother.”
Words can hurt and words can heal. Thank a veteran. Ask them to tell their stories. Listen to their words. Wish someone a Shabbat Shalom, a peaceful respite, a whole and complete rest, and all that those words signify.
Aaron A. Rozovsky is a second year rabbinical student teaching a class on the connection between Judaism and warfare as well as Jewish military history at Kulanu. He plans to remain in the National Guard as a chaplain once he is ordained.
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List of Academic Departments, Schools, and Programs
Revision as of 18:29, 17 November 2010 by Bsbrom (talk | contribs)
Dating when instruction in various disciplines can be very difficult. For example, the Royal Charter states that the purpose of the College is to be "a certain place of universal study, or perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences." For most of the College's history, there were no departments and the courses offered were the courses that the faculty at the time could teach. For this time period, the list of Past Faculty might provide some of the best information on what was being taught at the College pre-1888.
The modern College of William and Mary began in 1888, with the reopening of the College; it had been closed since 1881. The seven professors at the College at that time, also known as the Seven Wise Men, are the beginning of the modern departments. However, it is not until these men begin to retire that new professors start joining the College and departments have more than one professor at a time. This roughly coincides with the purchase of the College by the Commonwealth of Virginia in March 1906 and the new yearly editions of the course catalog. Therefore, 1906-1907 is considered to be the beginning of modern departments at the College of William and Mary.
Date of founding
Catalog volume #
Date disbanded
1997-1998 91 Founded as the Black Studies Program. There was a Black Studies Program mentioned as a concentration in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department in the catalogs from 1974-1975 until 1983-1984.
1983-1984; 1990-1991 77; 84 Founded as a part of Interdisciplinary Studies in 1983-1984. Moved out of Interdisciplinary Studies in 1990-1991.
1967-1968 (1952-1953) 62 (47) Anthropology was part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1952 until 1967, when it became its own department.
1906-1907 1 The Department of Art and Art History was founded as the Department of Drawing and Manual Arts, whose courses included drawing, painting, and one course on art appreciation and history. In 1917 the department's name was changed to the Department of Fine Arts.
1905-1906; 1916-1917 1905-1906; 11 The Department of Biology is listed in the 1905-1906 Catalog as containing Zoology and Botany. In the 1906-1907 catalog, there are departments of both Zoology and Botany, but no Department of Biology. The Department of Biology returns in 1916-1917.
1920-1921 (1906-1907) 15 (1) In the 1905-1906 school year there were separate departments of Latin and Greek; these were merged into a Department of Ancient Languages in 1920-1921.
1984-1985 (1970-1971;1977-1978) 78 (65; 71) In 1970, the Department of Mathematics started a heading called "Computer Science" in the catalog. In 1977, the Department of Mathematics was renamed the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. In 1984, the Department of Computer Science was founded.
1906-1907 (1888-1889) 1 (1888-1889) Founded as the Department of Economics and Political Science in 1906-1907. There was a Department of Moral Science, Political Economy, and Civil Government, when the College was reopened in 1888.
1906-1907 (1888-1889) 1 (1888-1889) There was a Department of English and History founded in 1888-1889 when the College reopened.
1974-1975; 1995-1996 68; 89 The Environmental Studies Program was founded as part of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department in 1974. It was moved out of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department in 1995-1996.
1922-1923; 1943-1944 (1888-1889) 19; 38 There was also a Department of Moral Science, Political Economy, and Civil Government, when the College was reopened in 1888. The Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship was founded in 1922, which included the School of Government and the School of Law. The Government Department was founded 1943-1944.
1906-1907 (1888-1889) 1 (1888-1889) There was a Department of History and English when the College reopened in 1888.
1918-1919 13 1972 or 1973
1983-1984 77 Founded as the Department of International Studies.
Kinesiology & Health Sciences
1920-1921 15 Founded as the Department of Physical Training and also known as the Department of Physical Education and the Department of Kinesiology. In 1944, the Department of Physical Education is split into the Department of Physical Education for Men and the Department of Physical Education for Women. These departments were combined in 1975.
1931-1932(1926-1927) 26 Founded as a part of the Department of English in 1926. Became its own department in 1931. 1947
1976-1977; 1995-1996 70 Founded as part of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department; moved out of that department in 1995-1996.
Literary and Cultural Studies
1973-1974 (1960-1961) 67 (55) Started as the Humanities Department, which offered 1 class on the interpretation of 10 works of classic literature. In 1973 the Comparative Literature Program was started and the Humanities Department disbanded. In 1995, the Comparative Literature Program became the Literary and Cultural Studies Program.
1906-1907 (1693/1729, 1888-1889) 1 (Royal Charter/Transfer to the Faculty, 1888-1889) The teaching of mathematics was specified in the Royal Charter as well as the 1729 Transfer to the Faculty. It was also one of the departments when the College was reopened in 1888.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
1975-1976; 1990-1991 69; 84 Founded as the Medieval Studies Program as part of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, and mentioned from 1975 until 1984. Restarted 1990-1991.
1947-1948 42 Founded as the Department of Military Science and Tactics.
1908-1909 (1888-1889) 3 (1888-1889) Starting in 1888, there was a Department of Languages, which included modern and classical languages. From 1905 to 1908, languages were taught each in their own Department. Starting in 1908, all modern languages (ie, not Greek or Latin) were taught in the Department of Modern Languages.
1924-1925 (1920-1921) 15 (11) The College first started offering musical education in 1920; however, this only last for two years. In 1924, a more robust Department of Music was founded.
1906-1907 (1693) 1 (Royal Charter) The Philosophy Department was one of the 6 original chairs as specified in the Royal Charter. In 1888 it was part of the Department of Moral Science, Political Economy, and Civil Government.
1906-1907 (1888-1889) 1 (1888-1889)
1943-1944 (1888-1889, 1908-1909) 38 (1888-1889;3) In 1888 it was part of the Department of Moral Science, Political Economy, and Civil Government. In 1905, Psychology was part of the Department of Philosophy. In 1908, that Department was renamed the Department of Philosophy and Psychology. In 1943, the Psychology Department was founded.
1983-1984; 1990-1991 77; 84 Founded as a part of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department; moved out of that department in 1990.
1923-1924; 1968-1969 18; 63 The Religious Studies Department started as the Department of Biblical Literature and Religious Education in 1923. However, it disappeared in 1934, only to be reestablished 1968.
1932-1933 (1922-1923) 26(16) Sociology began as a part of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology in 1922. It became its own department in 1932.
Theatre, Speech, and Dance
1963-1964; 2002-2003 (1926-1927; 1934-1935) The Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance began as Public Speaking and Dramatics, which was a part of the English Department, in 1926. In 1934, Theatre moved to the Department of Fine arts. In 1963, the Department of Theatre and Speech is founded. Dance first started being taught at the College in 1942. The Concentration in Dance was created in 1968 as part of the Physical Education Department. The Dance Department was created from the Physical Education Department in 1988 and merged to form the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance in 2002.
1991-1992 (1990-1991) The Women's Studies Program was created in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department in 1990 and was moved out of that department in 1991.
To search for further material, visit the Special Collections Research Center's Search Tool List for an overview of the Special Collections Database, W&M Digital Archive, Flat Hat-William & Mary News-Alumni Gazette index, card catalogs, and other tools available to help you find material of interest in the Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center.
Questions? Contact the Special Collections Research Center at spcoll@wm.edu or 757-221-3090, or visit the Special Collections Research Center in the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary.
A Note About The Contents Of This Wiki
The information available in this wiki is the best available from known documents and sources at the time it was written. Unfortunately, many of the early original records of the College of William and Mary were destroyed by fires, military occupation, and the normal effects of time. The information available here is the best available from known documents and sources at the time it was written. Information in this wiki is not complete as new information continues to be uncovered in the Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center and elsewhere. Researchers are strongly encouraged to use the Special Collections search tools for their research as the information contained in this wiki is by no means comprehensive.
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Interviews / December 12, 2018
#73: Mike Domitrz | Rethinking Consent and Respect
Shareable listeners! This week, we’re discussing one of the most pressing issues of our time: respect and consent. In the era of #MeToo, a new dialogue is being formed in society. We’re talking with our guest, Mike Domitrz, who sheds light on these two huge domains that are necessary for healthy relationships and for society as a whole. Mike is an award winning author and publisher, educator, ally, expert, and speaker. He works to dramatically improve society’s approach to dating and consent, by giving people the tools to have the necessary conversations. Mike is sharing his incredible insight on the topic: that we all play a role in shaping society. He probes us to think deeply about our own personal experiences, and how we all hold perceptions of consent, intimacy, and respect…at home, in the work place, everywhere. We are honored to have one of the leading voices on this topic share his passions and expertise. Take a listen below!
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Tell us a little bit about what you do. (4:20)
Mike is the founder of The Date Safe Project. Ultimately, he works to create a culture of consent and respect. He has worked with almost every type of organization, from elementary school students to large corporations to the U.S. Military. What he covers is widespread; ranging from sexual intimacy to consent to a comfortable work atmosphere for all employees. The underlying premise is that every environment and human being has a responsibility to create a respectful and empathetic culture.
How do you feel about the political and social climate we currently live in? (5:43)
Mike sheds light on the fact that many people assume that the issues that have led to the large movements and conversations we see today were brought about recently. However, this is not the case. Mike shares that he has worked to raise awareness and facilitate dialogue on respect and consent for almost thirty. The truth is, the issues that led to the recent Me Too Movement have always plagued society. And in the past, there were times where they were discussed in main stream media. However, there have been no major changes in dialogue, which has resulted in the necessary change not being reached. So, the question remains: how will we change moving forward?
So, what do you think needs to change moving forward in order to combat society’s problems? (6:25)
As a society, we need to realize our role in what is going on in the world. We need to, within our own personal lives, engage in these widespread conversations we are seeing in the media. Often times, we see movements such as the Me Too Movement and we only think about the ‘villians’ that have created the need for such movements. We create drastic characters that are responsible for the traumas and pain we are seeing so prevalently. In doing so, we fail to look inward into our own role in contributing to the history of these issues, which directly impacts our role in creating our future society.
How do we discover our role in these problems? (9:10)
Doing so requires us to look in the mirror and work to understand the biases we have consciously or unconsciously applied to thinking about these issues. Think about the important questions: What are your preconceived notions about consent, about intimacy, about the decisions we make regarding the two? We have to see these issues as instances we all play a direct role in. For example, most people don’t realize that current views towards dating and intimacy are based, to varying degrees, on disrespect.
These issues that you have dedicated your life to combating are massive, in that their scope permeates into every section of society. How do you go about creating real change and dialogue from people who may be resistant? (15:52)
Mike says all he needs to enact change in others is a chance to get in the room with them.
At this point in his career, Mike has the experience needed to shift these major paradigms. The work isn’t done from a place of needing to change anyone’s mind, but rather to facilitate the tough discussions. Through these amazing conversations, light bulbs go off in people’s minds. From there, Mike says that people often transform their perceptions.
How has technology impacted the cultures of respect you work to create? (24:52)
Technology has given us more access.
In the past, you had to physically ask someone if you wanted to learn more about something. For many people this was embarrassing and nerve wracking. As a result, not a lot of effective conversations took place.
Today, we have access to almost any sort of information we want, whenever we want it. There are pros and cons to this truth. On one hand, survivors can find support groups and resources to help them in their journey. And people looking to learn more can easily do so. Going off of that, however, it can be extremely unfiltered. We don’t know the validity of the information we come into contact with unless we do extra research.
This current young generation is not any more curious than the previous generations were when they were young. The only difference is that current young people have more access.
Are you optimistic of the direction society is going towards regarding consent and respect? (29:20)
We must let go of the idea that success in overcoming these massive issues is something that will happen in our own lifetimes. Going off of that, we have to let go of the idea that it needs to be accomplished in our lifetimes in order to be successful. These things take time. The main work to be done remains in shifting the dialogue so the work can continue into the future.
One book every person should read. (30:38)
Greatest Salesman in the World- OG Mandino
Think and Grow Rich- Napoleon Hill
Life’s Operating Manual- Thomas Shadyac
Favorite Podcast. (32:05)
Application you can’t live without. (32:20)
One lesson you wish you learned earlier in your career. (32:30)
Do less, better.
Most important skill of the future? (32:36)
One thing every listener of this episode should do today (32:48)
Ask the question: Where in my life am I ensuring that my relationships are mutual?
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Shipbuilders & Shiprepairers Association:
SSA addresses the Business and Innovation needs of the Maritime Industry and provides a platform for, in every way, advancing the interests of the sector.
SSA is fully committed to increasing the competitiveness of the EU marine industry. SSA acts as a representational body for the industry, and as a focal point for research, development and industry promotional activity. SSA takes the initiative in identifying industry requirement, developing and packaging proposals and then managing the resulting projects to a successful conclusion. SSA is currently involved in 10 EU research projects, and has acted as as coordinator for a number of projects. SSA will contribute its knowledge, influence and routes to dissemination in the UK and, through CESA, on a pan-European basis. UK and European industry meetings will be regularly exploited to disseminate information on the progress of the project, and the experience of SSA in arranging seminars and exhibitions will be utilised as appropriate.
University Of Strathclyde, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
SU is a world leading academic institution dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in maritime education and research to serve the maritime community. SU offers degrees in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture and higher degrees in many associated fields of studies and has experience in many national and international projects. SU has been actively involved in ship dismantling projects and within the industry itself and can be considered as a leading academic institute in this field of research. SU has dedicated researchers working on ship dismantling issues who are delivering innovative outputs for the ship dismantling industry. SU can also draw on its vast experience of related activities such as; conducting risk analysis methods, studying accidents, incidents and analysing emergency situations within the maritime industry and delivering training accordingly.
Reciclauto Navarra, S.L.
RECICLAUTO NAVARRA SL. Is an Environmental Engineering and Consulting company created in 1997 to address world issues of waste and the environment in general. As a visionary company in the field of automotive recycling has diversified its activity in other environmental areas like research, development, innovation, quality and renewable energy.
RECICLAUTO NAVARRA SL. has developed over the years centres of Hazardous Waste Management and Decontamination centres of ELV. At the same time it has implemented Environmental and Quality Management Systems in different companies getting a full service offering to customers.
Swerea IVF AB
Swerea IVF offers qualified research and consultancy services within the core areas of the manufacturing industry with focus on product, process, and production development. Mission: to create,refine, supply and promptly implement new techniques and new working methods. Extensive experience in international projects. We work on behalf of government agencies as well as private enterprises. Swerea IVF is a subsidiary of the Swerea-group, which is a group of Swedish institutes focusing on manufacturing and materials engineering. The Swedish industry is highly engaged in the Swerea
institutes, both as owners and as customers. IVF has a vast experience and has gained a lot of empirical data through R&D in the field of risk assessment and management. Swerea IVF has an extensive experience of participation in EC funded projects. During the 4th -7th Framework Programmes, IVF has been participating in well over 100 projects, of which we
have been/are coordinating 22.
Ministry of Labour and Social Security Directorate General of Occupational Health and Safety, Turkey
The Ministry of Labour has been established in 1946 and with the endorsement of the Law of 3146, enforced on January 1985, the Ministry of Labour has been rearranged as “Ministry of Labour and Social Security”. The task of ensuring occupational health and safety is given to the Directorate General of Workers Safety under the structure of Ministry of Labour.
DGOHS has been implemented so many international and national projects such as EU funded “Improvement of Health and Safety Conditions in Workplaces in Turkey” ,“Technical Assistance for Development of Regional Laboratories of Occupational Health and Safety Center (İSGÜM)”; and national funded “Raising Awareness of OHS Professionals and Identification and Diagnosis on Occupational Diseases in Turkey”. And also DGOHS has an national funded project for ship dismantling industry as “Determining Occupational Risks on Ship Recycling Industry by Risk Assessment and Workplace Measurements ”.
Aliaga Shipping and Recycling Company
Aliağa Denizcilik Gemi Söküm ve Geri Dönüşüm(ASR), is located in the Aliağa ship dismantling area. The size of the dismantling area is more than 30000m2. ASR, in cooperation with two Japanese organisations, is currently building their ship dismantling yard which will meet the requirements of the IMO(International Maritime Organization) Hong Kong Convention and aims to become "The World's Lead Model" in Ship Dismantling. ASR’s company mission is to keep the working area free from accidents while protecting the environment while also being proud of the work accomplished. ASR has a strict discipline to work unconditionally in accordance with the National, European and International regulations.
GSR Services e.K.
Our scope of service covers the full scope of the Hong Kong Convention and ISO 30000 for the whole maritime industry. This includes e.g. consultancy service concerning the effective implementation of the convention or the introduction of the ISO-standard, training related to hazardous materials or practical issues as the preparation of an IHM or decontamination works.
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The School of Life entertains and educates 3M+ YouTube subscribers with videos exploring subjects like “Why We Eat Too Much,” “How To Recount Your Dreams,” and even “How To Seduce Someone With Confidence.” Adding over 1.3M subscribers this year alone, the channel created by best-selling Swiss author Alain de Botton continued to post some of the most fascinating work on YouTube. The school uses its channel to address “the questions we're never taught enough about at regular school or college,” allowing it’s students and fans to learn about topics that help them live a more fulfilled life. With events held around the world, and a thriving social media presence, The School of Life is achieving its goal of developing emotional intelligence in global citizens.
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Buying properties in Malta
The Maltese government does not restrict anyone from purchasing property in Malta as long as all requirements of property acquisition permits and licenses are followed accordingly. As a general rule, the properties acquired should not be used for rentals or modified into other structures—they should be solely used for residency. Apart from family, guests may be allowed to live there only when the landlord is available. Unlike in most EU states where citizens can acquire not more than one property, in Malta it's possible to buy another property after being a resident for 5 years.
Important information for non-EU residents
Foreigners from out of the EU community may need to acquire special permits to be able to buy properties. The most crucial permit to have is the AIP (Acquisition Immovable Property) which is issued by the finance ministry. The processes may take up to 12 weeks. A minimum of €70 000 prices of the property is expected for apartments and €116.500 for other properties in order to be issued with the AIP permit.
After receiving the AIP permit, the client is only able to acquire the property after showing bank receipts proving that the money is from outside Malta. As mentioned before, there are strict rules concerning the occupation of the property in Malta—they should strictly be used for residential purposes.
Step by step procedure
One of the initial steps in buying a house in Malta involves hiring a notary public. A notary public is there to file an applicatication for the Acquisition Immovable Property permit. This agent may help the client all the way through the purchasing processes of the property.
The notary agent will also assist with drafting a “convenium” ( Purchase Agreement) after the property has been found and selected and communicated to the selling personnel. The 2 parties, the buyer and seller need to come to an agreement with the contents of the contract which they will eventually conclude by signing or not signing. If the signed contract is for a vacation property, immediately after signing the agreement the new property owner has to pay a deposit of ten percent and including a one percent fee for stamp duty. The stamp duty goes to the notary public to be used for payments to the CIR (Commissioner of Inland Revenue) and registration of the PA.
After the whole process has been done, there is a stalling period which takes about 3 months before the final deed can be produced. In the period of these 12 weeks, the notary public takes its time to validate the authenticity of the property documentation. After thorough scrutiny and when the period has passed, the notary public creates a final deed document which is to be signed by both the buyer and seller. Payments of the remaining credit for the acquisition of the property may, therefore, be done as soon as signing has been completed. The stamp duty also has to be paid for at this point and the sale will be said to be legally completed.
Why invest in Malta?
One of the best things about the state of Malta is that its legislation does not impose a tax on acquisition of immovable properties and wealth. This puts Malta in a better position to attract more visitors and foreign business people who want to reside in the state.
It is imperative that you inquire for in-depth information in regards to purchasing properties in Malta from expert lawyers and accountants. Our team of accountants, lawyers, and consultants stay au courant with the latest business trends and regulations in Malta. They can also help with legal counsel on how to set up a company in Malta including giving a profound understanding of the nations’ tax system. Thus, you can be confident that you will get relevant info which guides you to do everything the right way and in your favor.
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More than 1000 New CBD Businesses Join the WeedLife Network Over the Past Year
ORLANDO, FL / ACCESSWIRE / August 10, 2017 / More than 1000 new CBD businesses join the WeedLife Network, a wholly-owned property of Social Life Network, Inc. (OTC PINK: WDLF), over the past year. That's up from 100 the previous year. The CBD industry is wheels up, and taking off!
The WeedLife Social Network has more CBD and Hemp companies from around the world using it to connect, educate and market to consumers than any other website or app online. This puts WeedLife.com at center stage for the fastest growing and eventually the largest market in the world, Cannabidiol (CBD).
Industry experts believe that the sale of CBD infused products, aimed to help everything from skincare to pain management, will dwarf the THC industry by more than 1000% in time. The question on the minds of businesses that have now focused on supporting this next great health movement around the world is how much larger and when. Matt Karnes of Greenwave Advisors predicts at least a $3 Billion U.S. marketplace by 2021, in a Forbes article in mid-December 2016. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2016/12/12/the-cannabis-market-that-could-grow-700-by-2020/#5ff300fe4be1 ).
Ken Shawn Tapp, CEO of Social Life Network, Inc., the social network technology that operates WeedLife.com feels the experts now need to recalculate their estimates up. Tapp thinks that with the radical increase of new CBD focused businesses from around the world that are using their social network to focus on educating consumers, means the consumer demand will drive the sales much higher than previously estimated.
He adds that for the past six months, their development team has been quietly working on technology that will cater to this new audience, and they aim to heavily monetize this international consumer traffic and worldwide business participation on their WeedLife Social Network.
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WeedLife.com is part of the WeedLife Network which is a wholly-owned property of Social Life Network, Inc. which trades on OTC Markets under the symbol: WDLF (http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/WDLF/).
Social Life Networks, Inc. (http://social-life-network.com/) is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service, based in Denver Colorado. The founders initially launched their social network platform in the emerging cannabis and hemp industry in 2013, but have expanded it to meet the growing demand for niche social networking in the real estate industry and a myriad of sports verticals. Their social networking platform can be accessed by over 120 countries, and is translated in to 10 languages.
More information can be found at http://www.social-life-network.com.
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