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The Surprising Origin of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” Song
Bruegel's The Massacre of the Innocents
You’re all familiar with the Christmas song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” I think. To most it’s a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written.
It is a good deal more than just a repetitious melody with pretty phrases and a list of strange gifts.
Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829, when Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England, were prohibited from ANY practice of their faith by law – private OR public. It was a crime to BE a Catholic.
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” was written in England as one of the “catechism songs” to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith – a memory aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged, or shortened by a head – or hanged, drawn and quartered, a rather peculiar and ghastly punishment I’m not aware was ever practiced anywhere else.
Hanging, drawing and quartering involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then the party was taken down from the gallows, and disembowelled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, where the executioners stomped all over them, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts – one to each limb and the remaining torso.
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The “true love” mentioned in the song doesn’t refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The “me” who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ’s sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: “Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so…”
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the
“Pentateuch”, which gives the history of man’s fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven
sacraments 8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle’s Creed
Fr. Hal Stockert
History, Theology
Catechism, Christmas, England, English, persecution
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Sara Carter: Allies’ Five Eyes global SPY arrangement exposed over Trump-Russia hoax
TOPICS:2016 Trump campaigncorruptionFive EyesObama administrationPresident Donald TrumpSara A. CarterSpygateTrump campaign
Posted By: usafeaturesmedia June 4, 2018
(National Sentinel) Exposure: The so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing arrangement between the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand was implemented after World War II as a global surveillance network aimed at keeping track of the Soviet Union.
At the end of the Cold War, the alliance remained intact and had since been functioning about the same.
Here’s how it works: Each nation’s spy agency tracks threats around the world and then shares it with the collective.
It’s been a pretty effective alliance but it seems it, too, may soon become a casualty of Obama corruption.
As noted by investigative journalist Sara A. Carter, the alliance may have been used and abused in order to fabricate the Trump-Russia “collusion” narrative and hence to justify a counterintelligence investigation into his 2016 campaign.
She notes that in recent days there have been many articles referencing the timeline regarding Obama’s “Spygate” operation into Team Trump.
It seems as though new evidence leaked to the media contradicts a previous timeline offered up by the FBI and Justice Department.
Carter says that sources have told her the investigation began in Great Britain, not in the U.S. — which would help explain why DoJ and the FBI are stonewalling House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes’ subpoena requesting to see specific evidence that led them to open the Trump probe.
She also notes that John Brennan, James Clapper, Samantha Power, Loretta Lynch were all briefed by James Comey on the alleged Russian interference into the Trump campaign, but not the president-to-be or any of his staff.
What’s more, Carter says she’s been told that Germany, Poland, and Estonia have also shared communications related to members of the Trump campaign with the United States.
So it seems as though everyone but the Trump campaign knew about it — including the Clinton campaign.
Carter writes:
Investigations conducted by Congressional and Senate committees are entering the second year and what has been pieced together by investigators – battling for documents every step of the way – challenges the information the FBI and former senior Obama administration have revealed about the investigation.
Their evidence is at odds with the DOJ/FBI timeline leaked to various news outlets indicating the investigation began in late summer of 2016. These discrepancies make it all the more important that the DOJ and FBI turn over documents to the Congressional oversight committees who are investigating what looks like an abuse and weaponization of the tools used by U.S. federal law enforcement and the intelligence community.
In a December 2017 article, I interviewed numerous intelligence officials and whistleblowers, who say what happened in the Trump campaign is a microcosm of ongoing abuse of the intelligence apparatus and explain why the American public has a right to know what happened.
But the FBI’s Russia/Trump investigation has become more of a Pandora’s box and the revelations lead to multiple unanswered questions on the part of all the players involved.
What was the evidence that allowed the Obama administration to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign? We still don’t have an answer but we’re closer than ever to unraveling what happened and why. If the FBI was truly concerned that Russians were trying to influence the campaign, why didn’t the Bureau give a defensive briefing to alert the campaign about these concerns? What role did the offices of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA and NSA have in the investigation?
Here are some more questions.
Why wasn’t the Clinton campaign placed under surveillance since it hired a firm — Fusion GPS — which hired a former British spook, Christopher Steele, who used Russian sources for his bogus “dossier?”
The FBI was even paying Steele, so since the bureau obviously knew what he was up to and why he was doing what he was doing, why not keep an eye on Clinton and her people?
What was Barack Obama’s role in all of this, and what part did any of the Five Eyes allies play in all of this?
This is a scandal of epic proportions. No wonder it’s taking so long to get through it all. And in the end, we’re likely to find out that several systems, institutions, and spying alliances were all compromised or abused by the Obama regime in the process.
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Christchurch attack: 4 people in custody after horror shooting, one gunman believed to be Australian
Christchurch: Four people were arrested on Friday after two gunmen opened fire at two mosques in New Zealand‘s Christchurch city, with the police saying that there were ‘multiple fatalities’. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said the four arrested people comprised three men and one woman, CNN reported.
“We are not aware of other people, but we cannot assume there are not others at large,” Bush told the media here.
The shootings took place at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Masjid, The New Zealand Herald reported.
One gunman believed to be Australian, filmed as he shot victims in the mosque – and wrote a manifesto declaring his intentions, saying that ‘it is a terrorist attack’, according to Bush.
He said that there were also multiple improvised explosive devices attached to vehicles as part of the attack.
“This goes to the seriousness of the situation,” Bush said, adding that the police were not assuming the situation was limited to Christchurch at this stage.
Authorities advised people not to go to mosques until further notice. All Christchurch schools are on lockdown.
Resident Robert Weatherhead told Newstalk, that he took in people who escaped from the Al Noor Mosque. He described the gunman as “white, aged in his 30s or 40s and wearing a uniform”, but he had not been able to ascertain what the uniform was.
Another witness, who was in the front row of prayers when the gunman came in, told The New Zealand Herald that the suspect first shot people outside, adding that he heard the gun being reloaded about three times.
“The gunman began shooting in all directions,” the witness said.
A woman told the Christchurch Star she lay in her car near the mosque as four to five men came running towards her.
Addressing a media conference in New Plymouth, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the events in Christchurch as ‘one of New Zealand’s darkest days’. Ardern described the event as ‘extreme and unprecedented violence’.
Apart from numerous witness reports of casualties, a reporter following the Bangladesh cricket team, who are currently in New Zealand, tweeted that the team had “escaped from a mosque near Hagley Park where there were active shooters”.
Player Tamim Iqbal tweeted that the “entire team got saved from active shooters”.
Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of the team had gone to mosque by bus and were about to go inside when the incident took place.
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What We’re Watching: Wednesday & Thursday
Posted on November 29, 2013 January 25, 2019 by TJDietsch
As it turns out, our Wednesdays and Thursdays are mixed between longtime favorites and brand new shows that are tickling our fancies these days. This batch includes mostly half hour comedies as well as my personal favorite comic book TV show Arrow. My wife also enjoyed this season of Cover Affairs, but I usually read or watching the other TV when it’s on because it just never quite grabbed me. If you’re interested, I covered Mondays and Tuesdays in a post last week.
Arrow (8:00 PM, The CW)
Arrow is one of my favorite shows on TV and probably one of the ones I look forward to the most in any given week. I was cautiously optimistic when it kicked off last season, but got sucked in with the story of spoiled rich kid Oliver Queen trying to make things right in his city while also flashing back to his time on a crazy island. Sure there’s a ton of melodrama involved in the proceedings (it is a CW show after all), but I love the solid mix of action, fun stories and deep cuts when it comes to comic book references. I couldn’t help but compare Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to Arrow and in nearly every way, Arrow came off better.
Modern Family (9:00 PM, ABC)
I’m not really sure what to say about Modern Family that hasn’t been said a million times. It’s so intricately written and perfectly acted that it’s impossible not to fall in love. We’ve been watching the reruns on Fox at 7:30 every day after Jeopardy and even though there aren’t a ton of episodes, it’s a welcome addition to the syndication rotation.
Super Fun Night (9:30 PM, ABC)
I wanted to like Super Fun Night, but the first episode just killed all the excitement I had going in. The basic concept of the show is cool: three 30 somethings put a bunch of ideas for ladies night in a hat, pull one out and that’s what they do that evening. The problem? Star Rebel Wilson puts on a terrible American accent throughout the entire thing. There are pretty much three things everyone knows about Wilson after watching Pitch Perfect: she’s not America, she’s super funny and she can sing incredibly well. The first episode of this series tried to get you to forget two of these things as her character is nervous about karaoke. I was pretty much done at that point and tend to flip around or read during this time slot. I really think I would be back in if they just had her speak in her regular voice.
The Big Bang Theory (8:00 PM, CBS)
We’re still big Big Bang Theory fans. I love how they’ve expanded the group to fully include Bernadette and Amy. It does kind of seem like the writers aren’t quite sure what to do with Penny lately. She and Sheldon work so well together, but they seem to be writing her a bit dumber than before. It’s a minor problem and I think they’re probably ramping up for something big at the end of the season, but we’ll see.
The Millers (8:30 PM, CBS)
The Millers was a big surprise for me. We’ve liked previous Greg Garcia shows like My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope, but got burned out on the latter. I also didn’t much like Will Arnett’s two previous shows, Running Wilde and Up All Night. But I think this is enough of a departure for Garcia — it’s not about dumdums in a mysterious western town — and it allows Arnett to play awkward and put-upon in a way we haven’t quite seen before. I think it’s funny that last season saw all kinds of “adult kids moving back in with their parents” shows and this seasons has the reverse. Even though it’s not super original, I’m still enjoying two shows like that this season between Millers and Dads. As a nice bonus, the show features Jayma Mays who deserves a show better than Glee and Nelson Franklin who I’ve enjoyed on Traffic Light and his brief stint on New Girl. I hope the show succeeds just so I can keep seeing them all!
The Crazy Ones (9:00 PM, CBS)
I’ll be honest, I wish Parks & Rec was on at 9:00 PM on Thursdays. I love that show and really miss it, but since we’re full-on into BBT, that’s the show we watch. Plus, it sounds like the schedule’s going to be all over the place. Anyway, since NBC doesn’t have much to offer, we’re watching The Crazy Ones, an ad agency comedy starring Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar as well as the guy who played Bob Benson on Mad Men and the former secretary from The Mindy Project. The dynamics on this show are a ton of fun and really carry it through. This is one of two shows that I could probably just watch the outtakes of and have a great time. New Girl is the other for what it’s worth. Still, as enjoyable as the show has been, I’d drop it in a heartbeat if it meant I could watch Parks & Rec.
The Michael J. Fox Show (9:30 PM, NBC)
I think The Michael J. Fox Show is the only show we watch on NBC these days which is crazy because it used to one of the main stops for us, especially on Thursdays. As a dyed in the wool child of the 80s, I have an almost inborn love for all things Fox going back to the days of Family Ties on through Spin City. The fact that the show puts his Parkinsons right on front street and just deals with it as part of the ongoing story is an ingenious move that brings everyone in on what’s going on and deals with it honestly.
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First the Window, Then It’s to the Wall
Last week I worked my third Lollapalooza in the box office/ticketing department, but for the first time, I managed my own ticket help. Lolla was where I started working in ticketing 2 years ago so it felt like a full circle moment being able to work Lolla in a higher position. Another full circle moment happened on Saturday night when I was able to see Vampire Weekend. I found out about the band in 2008 way before I was even into the indie rock scene. A friend of mine in my Music 101 class in college told me about them. He was also the first person to tell me about Lollapalooza so being able to say the first time I saw Vampire Weekend was at Lollapalooza is super cool and special to me. All that aside, much like Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend is back from their 5 year hiatus and will be releasing a new album soon!
Vampire Weekend was formed when founding members Ezra Koenig (vocals, guitar), Chris Tomson (drums), Chris Baio (bass, backing vocals), and Rostam Batmanglij (keyboard) were in college at Columbia University. Their name comes from a summer project of Koenig’s inspired by the 1980 film The Lost Boys. With the project, he decided to create basically the Northeastern version of the film. The project also inspired the song “Walcott” as well even though he abandoned it after working on the short film for only a few days. The band started playing shows around 2006 by performing at battle of the bands around Columbia. Then in 2007 they opened for The Shins on their UK tour. They self-produced their self-titled debut album while simultaneously working full time jobs. The album was released on January 29, 2008. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and number 15 on the UK Albums Chart.
Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra was released just short of 2 years later. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The band also began a large festival circuit in 2010 making stops at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Glastonbury. They had played their first Lollapalooza the previous summer. They also toured in support of the album in 2010. Contra was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Album, but did not win.
Their most recent album to date Modern Vampires of the City was released in May 2013 after much talk of its release in 2011 and 2012. Like Contra, it debuted at number 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart making them the first indie rock band to accomplish this feat with two consecutive albums. The album won Vampire Weekend a Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2014.
In 2016, Rostam Batmanglij announced his leave from Vampire Weekend via Twitter, but also noted that he would still continue to collaborate with Ezra Koenig. Koenig confirmed this by saying the band was working on a new album with help from Batmanglij. At Lollapalooza last week, the band announced that the 4th album was complete after playing a set list of all old hits including the song “A-Punk” three times in a row to open the set (…and I missed it!).
Vampire Weekend is a pretty standard indie rock band. Their sound is a mixture of indie rock, indie pop, baroque pop, afro-pop, and art pop. Most of their hits have an upbeat, joyfulness to their sound. You can’t help but want to dance to their tracks like “A-Punk”, “Unbelievers”, or “Diane Young”.
As I said, I found out about Vampire Weekend 10 years ago. I kept up with them by periodically adding songs to my iTunes as new releases would come out. I never saw them live though, until last week. They were on my “must-see” list for a while. Since seeing them last week, I haven’t been able to stop listening to them. It was like Lollapalooza revitalized Vampire Weekend for me. It did the same thing for me last year with The Killers. I guess that’s another reason why I like Lollapalooza so much.
If you haven’t been listening to Vampire Weekend for the last 10 years or started somewhere in between there, here’s my call for you to listen to them asap. An album release date for their fourth full length has yet to be announced, but it’s coming soon! I’m sure I’ll probably review it once it’s out, but until then there’s tons of jams to help you wait it out. I swear. Like Lil Jon, I always tell the truth.
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What Had Happened Was Trending stories on the intersections of race, sports & culture
The Wopsters
ATLANTA, GA – OCTOBER 18: Keyshia Ka’oir and Gucci Mane attend Gucci Mane “Woptober” Album Release Party at Gold Room on October 18, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage) Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage
‘The Wopsters’ are coming
Gucci Mane and Keyshia Ka’oir have a new reality show on BET
By Clinton Yates @clintonyates
The WOPSTERS are officially apart of the @BET family!!! Our wedding Special will be EPIC! #1017 10/17/17 #TheWopsters👰🏽❤️💎
A post shared by Keyshia Ka'oir Davis (@keyshiakaoir) on Jun 5, 2017 at 7:18am PDT
Considering the year he’s had, Gucci Mane’s life has to be pretty interesting at this point. His comeback star turn has reached epic proportions, and he’s been putting out music the entire time as well. Now, it could take another step toward the top.
On Monday, his fiancée, Keyshia Ka’oir, announced via Instagram that the two would be starring in a new series called The Wopsters on BET, leading up to their wedding on Oct. 17. And for as much as we’re looking forward to more Guwop, the real star here is Ka’oir. This could be the Hollywood come-up she’s deserved for some time. If you don’t know, she’s a serious entrepreneur who, when this all is said and done, can take full credit for Wop’s life now.
She’s a fitness entrepreneur who’s been at it for years. Her “link in bio” game crushes yours. In an era in which the hustle from wherever you are to celebrity is finally being rewarded for black women (see: Blac Chyna and my personal favorite, Cardi B), this should do wonders for Ka’oir. By the way, if you don’t know the full story of how they met or how they managed to keep things together while he was in jail, and how she got him home without a whole bunch of nonsense from cameras, read this. It’s excellent.
A famous black couple on television living healthy lifestyles and enjoying life? Yes, more of that please. And make sure that Zaytoven writes the theme song and plays at the wedding.
Sneaker Shopping with Complex takes on Ball family
and everyone had a good time
3:03 PMYou knew it had to happen.
The most famous hoops family in America took to the streets with Complex’s Joe La Puma, and the results were about exactly what you’d expect. LaVar Ball yelling about his playing days in the Air Jordan 2s. They’re all wearing BBB slides, which is hilarious.
La Puma didn’t pull punches when it came to the price of Ball’s sneakers. They went at it for a couple of minutes in front of the kids, and their dad held himself pretty well. La Puma seems to imply that Ball should apologize or rephrase his words when it comes to how he chooses to market his brands, pointing out that some people just can’t afford $500 kicks. “Don’t go to Rolls-Royce talking about you need a Toyota,” Ball replied. Fair enough.
Perhaps the biggest reveal of this entire video is Ball pointing out that his kids will not necessarily be wearing Big Baller Brand at all times.
“You may see them in Jordans, but you won’t see me in Jordans. I’ll be in Big Baller Brand,” Ball said. “I don’t restrict them just to have any shoe. But it depends on how our brand grows. … Lonzo can wear any shoe he wants; all my boys can wear any shoe they want.”
Understandably, La Puma is really into the production and design of the sneakers. Not going to lie, it doesn’t seem like the host is taking the dad very seriously, but, hey, most people don’t. The best part of the video is Ball explaining that none of this was really about selling all sorts of shoes. It was about indicating that if they wanted to do something, they could.
“Lonzo’s shoe was put together the way he wanted it,” Ball says. “Now, I feel that’s the price tag. Being our own shoe, symbolic comes with a price. And that’s basically what the shoe is for.”
Watching this family interact will never cease to amaze and entertain me.
LaZercism
Actor Keith Stanfield at Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 23, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Essence
Lakeith Stanfield introduces ‘LaZercism’
Are you suffering from racial glaucoma?
“How are we supposed to do our jobs, if we can’t even see?”
Those are the words of an actor playing the role of one of the police officers involved in that 2015 incident near Dallas, where authorities broke up a pool party on video. You might recall that classic for the barrel roll memes that came out of it, but for the 15-year-old girl who was pulled to the ground by her hair, it was traumatizing. She ended up suing the city, and the officer was never charged.
Incidents like this are exactly what actor Lakeith Stanfield is tackling in his new sketch-not-quite-comedy video that he’s released called LaZercism: in short, laser eye surgery that attacks racism at its core, through your vision. If only it were so easy. The entirety of the short takes on the feel of an infomercial, which makes it feel like it might have been left on the Atlanta cutting-room floor. Then again, the concept of the joke is something directly out of the Get Out playbook.
But the very premise of the bit is fascinating. Written and directed by Shaka King, it’s worth your time.
Bill Cosby arrives with actress Keshia Knight Pulliam at the Montgomery County Courthouse before the opening of the sexual assault trial June 5, 2017 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela/Getty Images
Daily Dose: 6/5/17
Bill Cosby trial begins outside of Philadelphia
12:32 PMI didn’t get to see it this weekend, but I can’t wait until I do. Reviews like this will definitely get me to the theater.
I had super high expectations for Wonder Woman and was still blown away & not prepared for how emotional I'd be
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) June 5, 2017
Bill Cosby’s trial has already gotten off to an awkward start. He arrived at the courtroom in Norristown, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia on Monday with Keshia Knight Pulliam on his arm. You might remember her as the little girl who played Rudy on The Cosby Show, which is just uncomfortable on multiple levels. He doesn’t expect to testify at the trial, but the woman who accused him of sexual assault will, getting the ball rolling on so many others becoming willing to come out about encounters they had with the comedian. Here’s what to watch while this all unfolds.
Speaking of questionable characters named Bill, Mr. Maher is canceled. Not literally, but as far as I’m concerned he can go away and never come back. This dude, who hosts an HBO show, said during an interview in front of an audience that he was a “house n—–” without one bit of hesitation. Various people came to cape for him, which I’m never going to understand. The list includes Killer Mike, Donna Brazile, Michael Eric Dyson and his wife. Maher apologized, but the damage is done. It’s not like he’s got some great history when it comes to bigotry.
If you’re on Instagram, what you like is public. Meaning, if someone wants to know what it is you’re double-tapping on, all they have to do is go to the activity page and scroll to see that your co-worker is really into lemon trees, or your old high school baseball teammate is now seriously stalking models in Monaco. But what would you do if you saw your significant other like someone else’s butt selfie? Hurt, offended, angry, no big deal? Here’s one woman’s investigation into why her boyfriend hearts a model’s backside.
You might recall that Kobe Bryant once scored 81 points in a game. You might also remember that that game was against the Toronto Raptors. If you didn’t know, Jalen Rose was on that team and now is obviously an ESPN personality. I like Jalen a lot and always have since I was a middle schooler trying to emulate him and the Fab Five on the court. But when it comes to asking him about that fateful day, things can get awkward. Someone decided to lean all the way in on that and make a commercial out of it. It’s hilarious.
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Coffee Break: Graduation season is really fun. Particularly when school administrators aren’t being jerks and actually understand the ceremony is about the kids and not about keeping decorum or whatever nonsense they come up with to hate on fun. This is what graduation should look like.
Snack Time: Pusha T is an anti-gun-violence advocate, and he’s been in these streets delivering his message for quite some time. Recently, he penned a letter to a 6-year-old on the topic, and it’s perfectly adorable.
Dessert: Rest in peace, Cheick Tioté. He will not be forgotten. Tioté, 30, died after collapsing during training in China.
RIP Cheick Tioté, far too young. He left his mark on football history with this goal. pic.twitter.com/WPmjI3dOpX
— Parker (@panoparker) June 5, 2017
The Morning Roast
The Morning Roast: 6/4/17
It was an animal-heavy show
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The gang got things off to a hot start this week and had more fun than usual. With Mina Kimes on the East Coast, everyone was on the same page from a body clock standpoint. In the first hour, we actually got into some pretty serious baseball talk, discussing whether no-hitters are a big deal and taking a look at Albert Pujols breaking the 600 home-run mark and if anyone actually cares about that.
Perhaps most importantly, though, was that we finally got to discuss what’s going on with The Bachelorette, and it appears that Domonique Foxworth is one step closer to actually turning on his television to watch this show. You might recall that last week ESPN’s Mike Golic Jr. was dead-on when he said he thought that contestant Lee was a racist. GoJo was exactly right. Not to mention, there’s the whole matter that Rachel Lindsay actually dated Kevin Durant. What a world.
In the second hour, we talked with Tom Junod, whose story about the people who handled Muhammad Ali’s body is out in ESPN The Magazine. It’s a rich and detailed look at The Greatest’s last days and the reaction in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. After that, we kept things very high-minded and chatted with Jake Waddell, the dude who threw a catfish on the ice during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. He was awesome. After that is when things went haywire during Top 5.
A conversation about rappers having exotic animals turned into Mina listing the top five favorite ones she’d like to have in a rap video. Then, I said that I once got out of the car during a safari in Africa, and the other two went haywire. Clearly, they’ve never been in that position and don’t know that people do this all the time, even though it is wild dangerous.
The show ended with a visit from a new friend of the show, a character I made up. He’s a classical music enthusiast and, well, he’s rather sophisticated. Enjoy!
‘Cherry Bomb: The Documentary’ is fire
What can’t Tyler, the Creator do well?
4:21 PMTyler, the Creator does the most.
As a creative, he’s got his hands in all sorts of products and projects from music to sports to fashion. But back in 2015, when his solo album Cherry Bomb dropped, people weren’t necessarily ready for his brand of weird to go full mainstream. He had all sorts of people on the album, and music critics had trouble putting it into a box, many just sticking with the word “experimental.”
This documentary, directed by Mikey Alfred, is as madcap as Tyler’s life actually seems. Featuring footage from 2013 to 2015, it’s a proper documentary. Behind-the-scenes footage of what artists can do is often mundane, unless you’re completely obsessed with the subject of the film. But watching Tyler’s creative process is a really informative look at how he works. There’s no big fancy studio. Dude invites his friends over and sets up his equipment in the living room. Also, if you’re a bit of an equipment nerd, you get to see all the gear he works with.
One particularly poignant moment comes when he spits the lyrics to his song “Run,” which he says was motivated by him being on Twitter one morning and seeing a bunch of tweets about people ready to smoke weed first thing in the morning. With just him, sitting on the sidewalk, the overall tone of his lyrics is a little easier to digest for the layperson.
At 42 minutes long, this is definitely for the card-carrying Odd Future fan. Random footage of him playing video games and exercising physical challenges with his friends is spliced with musicians performing in studio. Occasionally, he pops in as a narrator to explain who his famous friends are. There’s no doubting how much of a thought leader he is. If you want more details on that, click here.
But overall, it’ll be interesting to see what he makes next. Tyler is a perfectly named artist who can do all sorts of things. “I feel like rap has a time stamp,” he says at one point. “It’s less boundaries in signing songs.”
Once this guy gets his hands on a movie or, say, an entire channel of programming, whatever the platform. As a stand-alone movie, Cherry Bomb: The Documentary is absolutely inspirational, never mind funny.
Oh, and Jaden Smith makes a cameo, which basically tells you everything you need to know.
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – MAY 23: Rachel Lindsay visits “Extra” at Universal Studios Hollywood on May 23, 2017 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)
Kevin Durant used to date the Bachelorette
Rachel Lindsay and the Warriors star were together at UT-Austin
2:34 PMIt’s been a weird week for The Bachelorette. With one of the contestants being outed as a bigot on social media, the rest of us were wondering just how we were going to cringe through the remainder of the season. Then, the news fairy dropped this incredible headline on us to save the week.
‘Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay Dated NBA Pro Kevin Durant — All the Details, Us Weekly wrote.
HOLD UP, WHAT? Rachel just took this group of stooges on a basketball date, and DeMario was carrying on about the simple fact that he could even dunk. The rest of them looked like the worst version of guys who didn’t make their high school teams but thought they were dominant because of church league glory days. One dude — it might have even been Lee — was wearing camo sweatpants.
Imagine how stupid these dudes must feel knowing that they were trying to impress Rachel with their hoops game, after SHE DATED KEVIN DURANT. I’m 100 percent disappointed that she didn’t drop that fact on them right then and there after that little game with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watching, to crush their egos regarding who they thought they were dealing with. Truly an opportunity missed.
Back to the onetime happy couple, though. Apparently this all went down when he went to University of Texas at Austin. He was only there for a year, but Us Weekly tells us they dated before she then left to go to law school. Now, she’s engaged and we’re happy for her.
But, let’s not skip past the obvious here. We’re in the middle of the NBA Finals. Kevin Durant is playing out of his mind right now for the Golden State Warriors. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers might need a little something to turn things around (don’t at me, we all know they got blown out in Game 1 of the Finals last year too). Why not have two courtside seats for The Bachelorette once you get back to Cleveland? Great publicity for the show, a little time on the big screen, and hopefully, if you’re a Cavs fan, you can rattle KD a bit.
Seriously, though. Cavaliers: Make this happen.
CLEVELAND, OH – FEBRUARY 23: Former NBA player Charles Oakley sits court side prior to the game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks at Quicken Loans Arena on February 15, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images) Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images
Charles Oakley is not letting the Knicks off the hook
1:36 PMFriday is National Doughnut Day. Personally, I’m a guy who likes plain ones, aka old-fashioned doughnut. Not very exciting.
So, Thursday was a doozy. The president of the United States publicly declared war on science, without actually doing so. By pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, he’s basically said that this country doesn’t need the world for anything and he’s not afraid to test that theory, even when it comes to the health of the globe. Now his aides are scrambling to defend that decision, and it’s getting awkward. No one wants to say out loud that Trump thinks climate change is a hoax, including Kellyanne Conway.
It appears things are improving in Chicago. Which is a good thing for the city and also for all the people who like to cite the Windy City every time some situation comes up in which we need to address police violence. “What about black-on-black crime in Chicago?” is the constant refrain. Well, while the numbers are still unacceptably high for homicides and shootings, they are going down in 2017. But speaking of heinous crimes, this also happened recently in Chicago, which is terrifying.
Wonder Woman comes out Friday, but I’m already a fan. Mainly because a theater in Texas decided to hold a woman-only screening of the film and dudes across the nation flipped out because they just couldn’t bear the thought of being denied something based on their gender. The irony is obvious. But on top of that, this just looks like a really good movie, as WW is an awesome character. Here’s everything you need to know about the movie before you see it, in case it’s been a while since you visited that universe.
Charles Oakley is not messing around when it comes to the New York Knicks. Remember a while back when he decided he was going to put his hands on Madison Square Garden security and yell at the team owner from his seat? He got physically removed for that stunt. Yeah, it was special. Well, both sides still believe they were in the right, and this whole thing is actually going to court. Mind you, Oak had a chance to agree to a scenario in which the charges were dropped, but he’d rather fight. This is not going to end well for anyone.
Coffee Break: What is a Black Dandy, you ask? On a simple level, it’s someone who dresses better than you, because he can and he wants to. But, in the case of one photographer, the meaning is a lot larger than just fashion. It’s about portrayal and stereotyping, and her new project looks to shatter some old molds.
Snack Time: If the only thing we get from Ice Cube’s 3-on-3 league is the possibility of the sport getting to the Olympics, it’ll be a success. The FIBA tourney is always a pleasure, and it looks like it’s on the table for 2020.
Dessert: Party Next Door blessed us with some new music for the weekend. Enjoy.
US-Somalia model Halima Aden presents a creation for fashion house Max Mara during the Women’s Fall/Winter 2017/2018 fashion week in Milan, on February 23, 2017 MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images
Halima Aden covers ‘Vogue Arabia’
hijab and all, she’s breaking the mold
5:24 PMIf you don’t know who Halima Aden is, where have you been?
You might remember her for taking the stage at the Miss Minnesota USA pageant in her hijab, then rocking a burkini for the judges. Now, she’s on the cover of Vogue Arabia and still staying true to her look. The publication is only on its fourth cover after launching in March.
This is dope for several reasons. But you can watch below and let Halima tell you herself.
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All Day Podcast
All Day Podcast: 6/1/17
NBA Finals, Muhammad Ali’s death and LeBron James’ eloquence
2:42 PMWhat’s up, kiddos, we’re back. The podcast has been retooled a bit, as you’ll notice, which I explain more in the show.
This week, I talked to Marc Spears about the upcoming NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers, which is already an epic matchup even before the games start. If you don’t know, it’s the first time that two teams have faced off three times in a row in the NBA Finals, and the first time it’s happened in any of the major American sports leagues where the teams were tied 1-1 after the first two series.
Perhaps most interesting was Spears’ discussion about what the Dubs mean to Oakland, California, as a place. He went deep on what that team moving from one part of the Bay Area to another, San Francisco, could signal for not only basketball fans but also for other sports franchises there.
Switching gears: I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Junod, who’s got a new story for ESPN The Magazine about Muhammad Ali and his last days. It’s rich with detail, specifics and beautiful prose surrounding the greatest man alive, in his time. If you’re not familiar with the intricacies of how bodies are prepared for burial in Islam, there are details on that. Junod delves into the process of getting this story done, not just the topic, which as a writer I find fascinating.
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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 24: The opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on September 24, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Monica Morgan/WireImage) Photo by Monica Morgan/WireImage
Racism rears its ugly head at African-American museum
12:48 PMSo, I’m going to start featuring my favorite tweet of the morning in this spot just to get things started. Here’s Thursday’s.
https://twitter.com/blk_tray/status/870295156540325889
You gotta be a majorly hateful person to leave a noose at the Blacksonian. Think about it. Either you planned for months to come to D.C., or got up early to get downtown and pull some racist nonsense just to make you feel better about yourself. There is a part of me that feels bad for people who have so much hate in their heart, because they have no idea how limiting it is. Nonetheless, this matter must be addressed, and Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture — a great dude, btw — did as much Wednesday. The cowardice in the perpetrator’s act is staggering.
We’ve talked about wedding music before, here. It’s a tough balance to figure out exactly what’s going to hype up a crowd, what works for the wedding party and what’s going to be good enough to get people to remember your nuptials. I’ve been to some weddings with some pretty awful music, personally. It’s so awkward. But some people like awkward. So now, FiveThirtyEight is looking for those wedding songs that no couple ever wants to hear, which is a hilarious premise for a playlist if you ask me.
Drugs make you do wild things. This is why people like them, but this is also why they’re relatively dangerous, no matter how the government may classify their existence. Some people have to take things to make their bodies or minds work. And in some cases, that can come with disastrous effects. Take for example this woman, whose husband is on antidepressants, which makes him physically abusive in his sleep. It’s probably time to start sleeping in separate beds.
There are a lot of storylines at play in the NBA Finals. But my favorite is Mike Brown. He used to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers, and now he is acting head coach for the Golden State Warriors. There’s no way to deny how bizarre of a twist that is for two teams that are battling for the title. And he didn’t just coach the team — Brown coached many of these actual dudes before the Cavaliers fired him. Now, Kyrie Irving is looking back on his time with Brown as his coach, when he basically got Brown fired because he wouldn’t change up his game.
Coffee Break: Being a mascot is tough. You don’t get to talk. You always have to be jovial, and people are very rude to you in general. This week at Citi Field, Mr. Met gave a fan the finger, and it was unfortunately caught on camera, which means Mr. Met will now be a different person inside that suit.
Snack Time: Mac and cheese might be slightly overrated, but this picture of a little girl not letting a Disney princess get between her and her food is downright hilarious.
Dessert: Donald Glover is out here serving LOOKS, y’all.
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A Pennsylvania man who said he was cleaning out an old videotape collection found what he thought was a recording of R&B singer R. Kelly in concert, but instead turned out to show a man who appeared to be Kelly sexually abusing girls, he and his attorney said Sunday.
The man then turned the tape over to law enforcement, according to attorney Gloria Allred. She and her client, Gary Dennis, would not discuss the specifics of the tape during a news conference in New York. But Allred said it appears to show a separate incident from the 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse that Kelly faces in Chicago, though she acknowledged she could not be “100 percent certain” that the man in the tape is Kelly.
Steve Greenberg, an attorney for Kelly, noted that lack of certainty.
“It is not him,” Greenberg said. He also said that Kelly “denies that he is on any tape with underaged girls.”
Dennis, an assistant at a nursing home, said he was cleaning out a box of old VHS tapes in his Pennsylvania home recently when he found the footage, on a tape that was labeled with Kelly’s name. Dennis said he has never met Kelly and doesn’t know how the tape came to be in his possession. He said that because the tape also has a sports game on it, he believes it may have come from a friend.
“To my shock and surprise, R. Kelly appeared to be on the tape, but not in concert,” Dennis said. “Instead he was sexually abusing underaged African-American girls.”
“I was disgusted and horrified when I saw that,” Dennis said.
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The cold white shoulder to shoulder
13 July 2016 Claire L Bell
On Youth Day weekend, thirteen South Africans gathered at a retreat centre in the Underberg to experiment with Insight Dialogue as a way of dealing with the pain and anger caused by the racism and prejudice that is thick in our country. We were an Indian woman, 6 black people (all women), 6 white people (including two men),…
A TRC for everyman?
15 October 2015 Claire L Bell
It is happening. Last night in a church in Parktown North, three white Afrikaans men tried to explain how it feels to be white to an audience of almost-exclusively black South Africans. The previous night, in a church in Pretoria, three black men opened up to what it was like to be black, and what…
What makes diversity dialogues relevant and meaningful?
1 July 2015 Psychological Society of South Africa
By Curwyn Mapaling “We were like best friends and yet we just met that day. It’s so cool that you could come from such different places in the world and still form that kind of connection.” What happens when American post-grad counselling students from Indiana start talking to a bunch of post-grad psychology students from…
Christopher Hitchens not great, says this “atheist”
23 December 2011 Rod MacKenzie
It depressed me a bit to write the title for this column, playing on one of the late Hitchen’s book titles, God is not Great. I think nothing can ever be achieved by slamming other people’s religious beliefs. Those people are going to continue holding on to their beliefs. Perhaps even more dearly. The attack…
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Our sexual expression is our choice
25 October 2011 Michelle Solomon
As the Slutwalk movement has spread internationally, it has increasingly come under fire from a broad range of communities. What started as a simple idea has been criticised for being exclusive, “white supremacist” and an insult to the victims and survivors of sexual assault. The movement started in Toronto after a law-enforcement officer told a…
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Protecting Pregnant Women in the Workplace
Companies that provide special treatment for a large percentage of their injured workers should do the same for pregnant women, the Supreme Court decided on Wednesday.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of former UPS employee Peggy Young, who challenged a company policy that did not allow her to take on lighter duties during her pregnancy, even though the company provided alternative work to some employees with injuries or other circumstances that prevented them from doing their regular jobs.
Wednesday’s ruling blocked an earlier decision saying UPS was justified in not accommodating Young and now sends the case back to a lower court, where her original lawsuit can be revived. Young is seeking back pay and benefits for the time she went without work during her pregnancy. (She’s since found work elsewhere.)
In the court’s majority opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer, said there is “genuine dispute as to whether UPS provided more favorable treatment to at least some employees whose situation cannot reasonably be distinguished from Young’s.”
Breyer was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elana Kagan and Chief Justice John Roberts in his opinion. Justice Samuel Alito also joined, but wrote his own opinion.
When Young became pregnant in 2006, doctors advised her to take on a lighter workload during her pregnancy. UPS refused, saying its policy was to treat pregnant women as if they were injured outside the workplace, which did not entitle them to special accommodations. As a result, Young had to take unpaid leave.
Young challenged this decision, saying it was unfair of UPS to not make accommodations for pregnant workers (a policy that has since changed) while offering alternative duties to those who were injured on the job.
Breyer wrote that the lower court must consider why UPS made accommodations for other workers but did not do the same for pregnant women. “Why, when the employer accommodated so many, could it not accommodate pregnant women as well?” Breyer asked.
The Court didn’t go so far as to say that pregnant workers should be treated more favorably than others, just that pregnant workers should be given the same accommodations offered to others. Still, Young’s lawyers called the decision a “big win for women in the workplace.”
“The Court recognized that employers can’t put pregnancy in a class by itself. The Court recognized that a ruling for UPS would thwart Congress’s intent,” said Sam Bagenstos, who argued Young’s case before the Supreme Court last December.
“It made clear that employers may not refuse to accommodate pregnant workers based on considerations of cost or convenience when they accommodate other workers,” he said in a statement.
On a press call Wednesday, Marcia Greenberger of the National Women’s Law Center said the Court’s ruling “reaffirmed that the pregnancy discrimination act means what it says.”
“It is illegal sex discrimination,” she said.
UPS praised the Supreme Court’s ruling as well.
“UPS is pleased that the Supreme Court rejected the argument that UPS’s pregnancy-neutral policy was inherently discriminatory,” the company said in a statement, according to reports. “Instead, the Supreme Court adopted a new standard for evaluating pregnancy discrimination claims without ruling for either party and sent the case back to the lower courts for further consideration.”
Young’s case comes as many states have and are considering expanded protections for pregnant workers. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also issued updated guidance on how employers can treat pregnant employees under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act last July.
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Hero of Alexandria was the Tony Stark of His Day
Apr9 by Tim Kane
If the ancient world has taught me anything it’s this: Everything was invented thousands of years ago. Only we’ve forgotten nearly all of it.
One such uber-inventer was Hero of Alexandria (also called Heron). He lived and studied in the city of Alexandria in Egypt (between 60 and 70 AD). This city had become a center for learning, drawing scholars from all over the ancient world to exchange ideas and, in Hero’s case, build some pretty cool machines.
Hero was responsible for the first steam engine, wind-powered machines, robots, and the railroad. After that, he built some more crazy contraptions. Enough to make Wile E Coyote look like a layabout.
Hero had the disadvantage of being born two centuries before the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. Thus, most of his inventions were millennia before their time. Even his own life is a mystery. He most likely taught at the Musaeum at Alexandria, the gathering place for scholars. It was there that he thought up his Iron Man inventions.
The Steam Engine
Okay, so this wasn’t the type of steam engine that could power a locomotive across the Wild West. But it could have, if Hero had spent more time on perfecting it. Basically he used steam to cause a ball to spin around, thus converting heat into mechanical energy. Hero called this an aeolipile.
Hero’s Aeolipile was a fascinating curio and nothing more because although it could create mechanical energy, there were no gears or cars or other machines that could use that energy. This was the ancient world after all. However, there is no other mention of such a device until we get to the Ottoman inventor Taqi al-Din in 1577, who was hailed as the greatest scientist on Earth. If he was the greatest for copying Hero’s steam engine, what does that make Hero?
Instead of iron tracks, the ancient world’s version of a rail road consisted of grooved paths pulled by people or horses. The most famous was the Diolkos, cutting across the narrow isthmus of Corinth. It allowed ships to be hauled overland (sort of like a land version of the Panama Canal).
Hero didn’t invent the railroad. It dated back to 600 BCE. However, if Hero had combined it with his steam engine, we’d have the industrial revolution back in ancient Greece. Imagine steampunks in togas.
Although he might not have created the railroad, Hero was very much into automating tasks. He created all sorts of devices that were “programmed” to do certain functions and the left alone (with no human input) to complete those functions.
He constructed an automaton called “”Hercules and the Dragon”, powered by water. As water pours into the container Hercules hits the dragon’s head. This causes the dragon to shoot water into Hercules’ face.
He used wind to power a pipe organ (making him the first to use wind to power a machine). As the arm turned from the wind, it transferred the motion to an air compressor. Then the organ was activated, the air was released to create a flute sound.
He even created a vending machine that served up holy water.
Drop a coin into the slot and a balance beam moves, drawing out a plug from a jar of holy water. As the balance beam reverts to equilibrium, the jug of holy water is sealed and your purchase ends. If only Hero had invented the candy bar.
And yes, he also made the very first robot. Sources suggest that Heron created a cart programmed to move along different directions. Around 60 CE, he built a cart with a rope wrapped around two independent axles. A falling weight provided the power. Pegs projected from the axle (sort of like cogs) and Heron used these to change how the rope was wound around the axel. This let the cart change direction and move the way Hero wanted to.
The cart was controlled with knots tied to ropes. When Hero pulled a rope, the knot moved a lever which caused certain actions to happen. He used the same process to create a mechanical play almost 10 minutes long, including dropping metal balls onto a sheet of metal to resemble thunder.
Genius at Math
If you any doubts that Hero was a genius way before his time, take a look at his mathematical accomplishments. He came up with the basics for Fermat’s principle. Hero stated that a light ray would always take the shortest route between two points. This is the basis for optics and fiber optics.
In his spare time, he discovered a quick way to find the square root of a number. He also created a formula (called Hero’s formula) to calculate the area of any triangle using only the lengths of its sides. Finally he discovered imaginary numbers. No, they’re not made up. When you square a number, say 4, the result is 16. When you square a negative number, like -4, the result it also 16. (The negatives cancel out). But, what happens when you take the square root of a negative number, like -16. The answer isn’t 4 or -4. It’s imaginary 4 (can you tell I was a math geek in school?).
Enough. Let it be known that Hero of Alexandria was the most amazing inventor of the ancient world, and perhaps all time.
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3 comments on “Hero of Alexandria was the Tony Stark of His Day”
evilhippo says:
Good article but…
“Hero had the disadvantage of being born two centuries before the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.”
I think you mean about 1,300 years before the Renaissance and 1,700 years before the Industrial Revolution 🙂
Tim Kane says:
Very true. Thanks for catching that.
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The Most Generous Law Schools - And The Stingiest - Page 2 of 5
The Most Generous Law Schools – And The Stingiest
by: Jeff Schmitt on August 05, 2015 | 0 Comments 203,547 Views
(Editor’s Note: All numbers except rank are percentages)
Duke (83.8%), Michigan (77%) and the University of Chicago (75%) reported the highest proportion of students receiving grant money. However, such numbers only reflect one piece of the puzzle. At Duke, for example, seven out of eight students who won grants received them for less than 50% of tuition. And that ratio is even worse at Michigan. At Chicago, however, nearly 10% of students were given full rides (with New York University coming in second at 7.2%).
Bottom line: schools allots their resources differently. Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and Northwestern, for example, allocate grant money more heavily in the 50% to 99% of tuition range (21.5%, 18.4% and 17% respectively). As alluded to earlier, the philosophy of Duke and Michigan is to cast a wider net. As a result, more students receive assistance, but few receive 50% or more of tuition. Don’t forget: such assistance is tied to academic performance (i.e. class rank), so it isn’t necessarily guaranteed for the three years.
LOOKING FOR AID? THINK NASHVILLE AND IOWA CITY
If your heart is set on Georgetown, expect some pushback. It is among the stingiest schools when it comes to aid. Just 0.1% of its first-year students – roughly six students – were offered a full ride for 2014. And just 40% received any aid at all. Columbia, Chicago, and Cornell tendered the lowest median grants ($15,000). Conversely, Northwestern (0.6%), Columbia (1.1%) and Harvard (1.2%) conferred the fewest full-tuition-or-more grants.
Vanderbilt Law School
Looking for the best deals among Top 25 programs? Start with Vanderbilt and the University of Iowa. At Vanderbilt, a whopping 96.4% of students are part of the grant program – among the highest in the nation. Although two-thirds of first-years are given less than 50% of tuition, the median grant is still a respectable $20,000 (with the average between $15,000 to $20,000). In Iowa City, 31.2% of its first-years have their full tuition paid (which is $41,296 for out-of-state residents). That’s the highest percentage among U.S. News’ Top 50 law schools. In fact, Iowa is truly a diamond-in-the-rough: a Top 25 school where 82.7% of students are receiving grants with a median of $23,453. And the school’s cost of living — $16,600 – is the fourth-lowest among Top 50 programs. The school, which has already slashed tuition and expanded its 3+3 program in recent years, can truly be called student friendly.
Washington University, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is another good bet if you want to go after a better aid package. Ranked 18th overall, median grants come in around $26,000, with 70.5% of first-years receiving aid (including 11.7% getting a full ride). The same is true at the University of Minnesota, with 86.3% of first years averaging $20,000 medians (including 13.4% enjoying full tuition or more). And 15.4% of Alabama entrants earn a full ride as well.
As a state, Texas is known for low tax and low service. And its flagship law program follows a similar philosophy. Although 84.8% of first-years are awarded grants, the median is $9,700, the lowest among Top 25 law schools. George Washington, like nearby Georgetown, also skimps on grants. Its median average is $16,000, with only 3.9% of grants covering full tuition there. In other words, you’re negotiating for dimes over dollars there. If you’re bent on getting your tuition covered, avoid Emory and the University of Southern California. Barely 1% of their students have their tuition covered – though median aid at Emory ($26,000) and USC ($24,100) rank in the Top 25’s upper echelon.
NOT AS MANY BARGAINS AS YOU’D EXPECT BELOW THE TOP 25 PROGRAMS
Think you have a better shot at scoring big money grants below the Top 25 schools? Not necessarily. Among these programs, eight schools maintain median grants of $20,000 or more, compared to 13 in the Top 25. These schools are headed by the University of California-Davis ($25,000), Indiana University ($24,936), California-Irvine ($23,654), and Southern Methodist ($23,000).
In fact, your odds for grants don’t much improve at this tier, either. Among schools ranked 26th to 50th, there are 12 where 75% or more of first-years receive grant money. That number is 11 among programs ranked 1st to 25th. However, if you enroll at the University of Illinois, you are certain to get a grant, with 100% receiving assistance (at a respectable $18,550 mean). At Indiana University (Maurer), 99% receive grants (with 24.9% having their whole tuition paid, no less). You’ll also find heavy assistance for first years at Ohio State (96.1%), the University of North Carolina (94.5%), and California-Irvine (92.9%).
If you thought Top 25 programs were penny-pinchers when it came to full rides, the rest aren’t much better. Just 10 of the 25 schools ranked from 26th to 50th give 2% or more of their first-years grant money covering full tuition or more. In fact, the University Of Illinois, William & Mary, and Tulane offer no full grants (and Maryland and Fordham come in at 0.2% and 0.4% respectively). However, the University of Arizona (12.5%) and Brigham Young (12.4%) are more generous in this regard.
If you are open to paying less than half of your tuition, a program ranked 26th to 50th is a good bet. In this tier, there are eight schools where 30% or more of their students pay less than 50% of their tuition. Among the Top 25 law schools, just one program – Washington University – does that. That said, there are 12 schools among the 26th to 50th where the median grant is $10,000 or less. Compare that to the Top 25, where only one school – Texas – fits that profile.
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Savills Group CEO sees Vietnam’s potential
Vietnam is considered one of Asia’s most vibrant property markets and a long-term strategic area for Savills.
VIR’s Quynh Chau talked with Mark Ridley, newly-appointed Group CEO for Savills, on his assessment of the Vietnamese real estate market and its role in Savills’ development strategy.
Mark Ridley - Newly-appointed CEO of Savills Group
Ridley joined Savills in 1996 and was appointed to the Commercial Board in 1998. He was named chairman and chief executive of Savills Commercial in January 2008 and was appointed to the Group Executive Board at the same time.
He was chairman of Savills Commercial from May 2008, then chief executive officer (CEO) of Savills UK from 2013 and of Savills Europe from 2014 until he was appointed as deputy group chief executive on May 1, 2018.
As of January 1 this year, Ridley was appointed as group CEO.
Why did you decide to visit Vietnam?
I first came to Vietnam 25 years ago. This time, when I came back, I was very excited to see how the country has been developing. I must use the word “revolution” for this change and I may say that Vietnam has become one of the global property hotspots.
With robust fundamentals, positive macroeconomic outlook, and continuous investment in infrastructure, the market is thriving across a multitude of real estate sectors.
What role will Vietnam play in Savills Group’s investment strategy?
Vietnam has a strong economy with a very dynamic and young workforce. I think the future growth of Vietnam and particularly its major cities are going to be significant attractions for international investors. In the global context, the growth of Asian and Southeast Asian business is very important for Savills. In Vietnam, we have great expertise in place and we have seen so many international companies – from the US, Europe, Asia, and every other continent – wanting to invest in Vietnam. They are investing in all real estate segments from accommodation and hotels to retail, offices, as well as industrial and logistics property. In addition, we are starting to be contacted by a number of pension funds and institutions asking questions of how to access real estate investment in Vietnam.
Again, there is a lot of interest from international businesses, and that is why Vietnam is an important market for us. I would place Vietnam as one of our most important growth markets alongside China and India.
In Vietnam, we have a staff of over 1,600 – which makes it a really large office in our Southeast Asia network. Project management is important business here. We always deliver the consistent services to make sure that international customers can receive the same services in Vietnam.
As one of the first foreign property consultants in Vietnam, what is your strategy to compete with new consultants flocking to the market?
One of the most important things is that Savills has been around for more than 160 years, and more than 22 years in Vietnam. We have a very clear view of our operations and pride ourselves on our professionalism and reputation. Especially, we have a world-leading reputation when it comes to high-end residences and property management. We continue adopting the best practices and give consistent and professional advice to our customers. For example, we continuously apply innovation in our services such as developing the Savills Property Management Solutions in Vietnam. In Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Savills is the only consultant to provide a full range of services.
How do you think Vietnam could improve the already strong foreign investment drive in the property market?
I think the most important thing for the government is to provide as much transparency as they can to investors. Second, the quality of the actual products must be ensured, and third, the scale of the products must be large enough to attract foreign investment. VIR
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Martha’s Vineyard Museum executive director David Nathans will step down early next year, the museum announced Wednesday.
Mr. Nathans, who has led the museum for the past six years, plans to leave by the end of March 2016, a press release said. A search for a new executive director will begin immediately.
Reached by telephone Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Nathans said he is getting married on Saturday and eventually will leave the Island.
“My life changes in three days,” he said. “And looking ahead at where we are as an institution, I think there are some exciting things to attract a really good candidate next year.”
Hired in 2009, Mr. Nathans came to the Vineyard from Princeton, N.J., with a background in both museum management and business marketing. He took the reins of an institution that was struggling with its finances and also its public image on the Island. A previous executive director had resigned amid a foundering $35 million capital campaign.
During his tenure Mr. Nathans has raised visibility at the venerable Island museum, strengthening the core mission by substantially beefing up exhibits and programming, including education programs, and casting a new vision for the future. That vision includes relocating the museum from its current home in downtown Edgartown to a new campus in Vineyard Haven at the former marine hospital overlooking the Lagoon Pond. The museum bought the old hospital building in June 2011 from the St. Pierre family who had long used the property for a summer camp. An ambitious capital campaign to make the marine hospital project a reality has not been completed.
Mr. Nathans said he is confident that the project will see successful completion in the next year or two, and he said that makes it a good time for a change in leadership.
“I’ve had that fun in the early stages [of the marine hospital project] and I think someone else should have that fun in the middle stages,” he said. “So it made sense to give someone else an exciting chance and have the board see the best group of candidates come forward and not a limited group.
“It’s bittersweet for me . . . . I’d love to stay through it, but I’d like to be with my wife.”
“David Nathans’ dedication, energy and vision have provided the institution with a forward momentum so that now we can realistically think about a major transformation,” museum board chairman Elizabeth Beim said in the press release. “He has made the museum a significantly more valued and recognized leader in the Island’s day-to-day cultural life . . . . it is a comfortable moment in our institutional history for us to make this change.”
Mr. Nathans cited his considerable work expanding museum programs. “We have grown tremendously in our programming — in terms of its diversity from what might have been considered a historical society type of programming to broader art, history and cultural programming,” he said. “Whether through events or exhibits, we needed to broaden our audience and the way you do that is to have more kinds of programs.”
He had high praise for the museum staff. “The staff has been the leader,” he said. “My job has been to encourage, coach try to be a catalyst — they do all the work. The credit really is a shared credit. The terrific staff is another reason it feels comfortable . . . . the next person is going to have a team that’s humming. That’s also one of the most bittersweet things. It was hard when we told them today,” he said.
Mr. Nathans said he will help with the search for his replacement, a process he said will likely take about six months. He recently turned 65, and said he plans to move to New York with his wife Kate Hastings — and the next phase of his career. “I’m not retiring,” he said.
Last fall the museum was awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, specifically to boost education programs at the museum. The grant must be matched by $1.5 million in private donations; Mr. Nathans said the money will go toward creating an education endowment, a first for the museum.
As for the marine hospital capital campaign, he said fundraising is “more than halfway there,” but he would not be specific about how much money has been raised or how much needs to be raised.
“It’s kind of a moving target . . . . what it is today may shift a little down the road,” he said. “Numbers are quiet and still being formed.”
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How Lego rebuilt the core, brick by brick
I caught a fascinating film on the rejuvenation of the Lego brand on a flight to Dubai to watch the World Rugby 7's last week. It is a great example how remembering and refreshing what made you famous can boost brand and business. Since re-focusing on the core in the early 2000's turnover has quadrupled. It has overthrown Hasbro and Barbie to become the world's best selling toy brand.
1. Forgetting what made Lego famous
In the early 2000's Lego was under attack from both direct competitors, Playmobil and Mattel's Barbie, and indirect competition in the form of video games. The CEO at the time Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of founder Kiel Christiansen, responded by developing in-house video games such as Lego Island. However, this was not a core competence of Lego and the video games were of poor quality. Lego also launched more complex product such as a range of high speed cars called 'Racers'. These products strayed away from the core of the brand and also drove up costs for components such as micro-motors and fibre-optics. "The number of parts climbed rapidly from 6000 to over 12,000 causing a nightmare of logistics and storage and a huge amount of infrastructure expansion for no gain in sales," according to one Lego insider. The business made heavy losses of $100 million in 2000 and $200 million 3 years later.
2. Refocus on the core
Jargon Vig Knudstorp (JVK for short) was brought in as the new CEO in 2004, the first non-family member to run the business. He brought the brand "back to basics" and refocused on what made Lego famous. This meant going back to the essence of the brand which is about playing by building. The name Lego is Danish for "play well".
In the film, JVK showed the example of a fire engine from before turnaround (below left). It had been simplified and was sold on the idea of being easy to make in order to attract people not interested in building. However, as he pointed out, if you don't want to build, you will buy something else. The new fire engine Lego launched had more bricks, but was actually less expensive to make as it was based on 'reusable' bricks that go into other kits.
3. Upgrade the core
Lego invests heavily in rejuvenating the core range. A team of 200 creators come up with new ideas, with the objective of renewing the half the core range each year. Costs are kept down by forcing the creative team to work with Lego bricks that can be re-used in multiple kits. The total of 3,500 different types of brick sounds a lot, but is half the number of 10 years ago, even though turnover has increased by several hundred percent.
Lego also draws on the creative energy of its large army of fans around the world who come up with new ideas for free. The ideas are displayed on The Lego Ideas website. If an idea gets 10,000 votes Lego will look will look at it, with the lucky few like the bird kit below being put into production and earning 1% of sales for the creator.
4. Extend the core
Once a solid core business was re-built, Lego then strategically extended the core business. Lego Friends targeted girls with a set of product with themes and colours relevant to them, versus the boy-oriented focus of the brand before. Another key extension has been the licensed collections using movie properties such has Harry Potter and especially Star Wars, which accounts for an estimated 1/3 of all Lego sales. Lego invests heavily in these licenses, spending an estimated € 270 million a year on them!
5. Stretch the core
In a marketing masterstroke Lego stretched its brand into the entertainment market, with the launch of The Lego Movie. This was a blockbuster success with box office takings of over $460million and a profit estimated here at a cool $229million, some of which I assume went into Lego's pocket. The genius in this brand stretch is how it grows the core business, by promoting the Lego core product. As Steve Davis of the Austin Chronicle said. “The Lego Movie may be the shrewdest marketing ploy you’ve ever seen.”
In conclusion, Lego is a great example of how to remember and refresh what made your brand famous, rebuilding a strong core before then extending and stretching into new markets.
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Nearly 1 in 13 US males reported having sex before age 13, study says
Posted 12:12 pm, April 8, 2019, by CNN Wire
The percentage of boys who start having sex at a young age can vary based on factors such as where they live and their mothers’ education level, according to a new study. Yet among those boys, only about half described their first time as something they fully “wanted.”
The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, found that 3.6% to 7.6% of boys and young men in the United States — nearly 1 in 13 — report having had sex for the first time before they turned age 13.
The researchers are calling for more education, care and conversations about supporting healthy sexual development in boys.
“Too often, the sexual health needs of young men are overlooked. These findings have major implications for the timing of sex education and sexual and reproductive health care,” said Laura Lindberg, a principal research scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights think tank, and first author of the study.
In general, about age 17 is when most boys and girls have sex for the first time — but boys are more likely than girls to have sex for the first time before 13, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new study included data from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System from 2011, 2013 and 2015 and from the National Survey of Family Growth from 2006 to 2015.
Data in the first system was collected in questionnaires completed by students in grades nine to 12 and involved 19,916 male students. The family growth survey data was collected through in-person interviews with 15- to 24-year-olds and involved 7,739 males.
The researchers analyzed that data with a close eye toward demographic factors, where the boys lived and how much respondents wanted that first experience to happen.
To measure “wantedness,” the National Survey of Family Growth asked the respondents to describe how much they wanted the encounter to happen, choosing between “I really didn’t want it to happen at the time,” “I had mixed feelings — part of me wanted it to happen at the time and part of me didn’t” and “I really wanted it to happen at the time.”
The researchers found that sex before 13 was reported by 7.6% of the male high school students in the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System data and 3.6% of the respondents in the National Survey of Family Growth data.
The National Survey of Family Growth data showed that among those who reported having sex before 13, 8.5% described it as “unwanted,” 37% had mixed feelings about it, and 54.6% described it was “wanted.” Most described their first sexual partner as a friend.
That was similar to findings among males who had sex later than 13, the study found, which was that 5.4% reported it as “unwanted,” 31.3% had mixed feelings, and 63.3% described it as “wanted.”
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System data showed that, across 15 metropolitan areas in the United States, the percentage of male students reporting having sex before 13 varied widely: 5% in San Francisco to 25% in Memphis, Tennessee.
The researchers also found that respondents whose mothers had a college degree or higher educational level were less likely, by a statistically significant amount, to report having sex before 13, and reports of having sex before 13 were higher among black males.
The study had some limitations, including that the younger the survey respondent the more likely they were to report having sex before age 13, and the data focused only on male-female sexual intercourse, not other types of sexual experiences.
Dr. David Bell, pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Samantha Garbers, an associate professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, wrote an editorial published alongside the study in JAMA Pediatrics.
They called for improvements in sex education and screening for sexual activity in youth.
“Any messaging, whether from clinicians or schools or parents, must recognize pressures that ‘manhood is something that boys must make happen, by passing certain social milestones,’ such as having sex. It is critical to engage young men in self-reflection about the real pressures US society places on them that affect their overall health and well-being,” Bell and Garbers wrote.
“Any discussions associated with pressures should include topics of ‘what it means to be a man’ and soliciting and giving consent,” they wrote. “With the support of caring adults, led by existing national guidelines that call for developmentally appropriate interventions early in life, boys can achieve healthier milestones without ambivalence or societal risk.”
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What Is Plant-Thinking?: Botany’s Copernican Revolution
By Michael Marder
Triptych image: Megan Cotts, “ECU”
DID YOU KNOW that plants communicate with each other through the biochemical cues emitted by their roots? That, when attacked, they produce the same substances that function as painkillers in animals and humans? That they can distinguish blue colors from red in their environments, and their kin from a plant of a different species growing nearby?
The current scientific paradigm shift in our understanding of plants is comparable in its magnitude and significance to what, at the end of the 18th century, Immanuel Kant called “the Copernican Revolution” in philosophy. With the discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa, the original Copernican Revolution in astronomy signaled the end of the Ptolemaic geocentric model. The Kantian turn accomplished something similar for philosophy. Instead of the traditional focus on objective reality and the ontological question “What is X?” Kant proposed a reorientation toward the subject of knowledge and inquired into the conditions of possibility for, as well as the limits to, human knowing.
What are the reasons for including recent discoveries in the field of plant signaling and behavior, or plant neurobiology, in this illustrious list of revolutions? Philosophers of biology have often insisted on the special status of the discipline among the sciences. In different ways, Henri Bergson and Hans Jonas argued that, unlike physics or chemistry, biology and evolutionary theory do not obey “objective” laws, because life introduces a fair degree of indeterminacy into matter. The minimal interpretation of this claim is quite banal: it simply means that biology is not, and never can be, an exact science. What we are after, however, is the full sense of biological exceptionalism. Taken to its logical conclusion, the irreducible indeterminacy of biology implies that every form of life is not a totally predictable object of study, but a subject in its own milieu. Or, as Kant put it in his Critique of Judgment: “there will never be a Newton of a blade of grass.”
A century ago, the German biologist Jakob von Uexküll applied this insight to the worlds of animals. Even when the environment is objectively the same, he argued, the animal species that populate it selectively make sense of those aspects that are conducive to their survival, while safely ignoring all others. With time, von Uexküll’s writings influenced such crucial 20th-century philosophers as Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Max Scheler, and Georges Canguilhem. But his theory of biological “perception signs” (Merkzeichen) did not extend to the world of plants, which remained relegated to the backdrop for the drama of animal life.
Today, we are still living with the repercussions of this oversight. In some progressive theoretical circles, anthropocentrism has given way to zoocentrism, such that animal life has become firmly established among the top philosophical concerns. Without denying the value of these investigations, we may conclude that a new decentering is afoot, this time announced from the margins of life occupied by plants.
When I say “the margins of life,” I am not talking about the scarcity of plants on the planet; on the contrary, vegetal cellulose is the most common organic compound on Earth. The marginality of plants has been conceptual, not empirical, as they have been imagined throughout the history of Western philosophy only in the shape of “deficient animals,” or “matter organized for reproduction.” Given this millennia-old bias, the plants’ transition from the margins to the center of thought would truly constitute a Copernican Revolution in botany, as well as in philosophy.
Let me be perfectly clear: the idea that plants are intelligent living beings is not a veiled attempt at anthropomorphizing our “green cousins.” Such a theoretical move would only leave intact — if not strengthen — our current anthropocentrism, extending its effects to living beings that have been situated relatively far from anthropos (the human), which is analogous to the Earth in the Ptolemaic system. The point is, rather, to argue that human intelligence, much like that of animals and plants, is a response to the problems each life form in question faces. As I write in my book Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life: “The sensitivity of the roots seeking moisture in the dark of the soil, the antennae of a snail probing the way ahead, and human ideas or representation we project, casting them in front of ourselves, are not as dissimilar from one another as we tend to think.”
The intelligence of plants is not merely a shadow of human knowing, and their behavior is not a rudimentary form of human conduct. After all, unlike animal and humans, for whom behavior is most often associated with physical movement, plants behave by changing their states, both morphologically and physiologically. An honest approach to the capacities of plants thus requires a simultaneous acknowledgement of the similarities and differences between them and other living beings.
In scientific circles, there is certainly no consensus on the implications of new research data drawn from the behavior of plant cells, tissues, and communities. On the one hand, the opponents of the Copernican Revolution in botany claim that the data do nothing but exemplify what has been known all along about plant plasticity and adaptability. This is the position expressed in the open letter to the journal Trends in Plant Science, signed in 2007 by 36 plant scientists who deemed the extrapolations of plant neurobiology “questionable.” On the other hand, we have the investigations of kin recognition in plants by Richard Karban and Kaori Shiojiri; of plant intelligence by Anthony Trewavas; of plant bioacoustics by Stefano Mancuso and Monica Gagliano; of the sensitivity of root apices as brain-like “command centers” by František Baluška and Dieter Volkmann; of plant learning and communication by Ariel Novoplansky; and of plant senses by Daniel Chamowitz, among many others. Their peer-reviewed research findings no longer fit within the scientific framework where plants are studied as objects, rather than living organisms. Leaving aside the provocative analogies they suggest between plants and animals, doesn’t the drastic change in approach (from plants as objects to plants as subjects) amount to a veritable Copernican Revolution, or Kuhnian paradigm shift, in botany?
It is not the role of philosophy to provide botany with inflexible and technical definitions of the mind, intelligence, learning, and other related terms that might or might not apply to the life of plants. Instead, we can imagine and work towards a creative symbiosis of philosophy and botany, where philosophical concepts would be destabilized upon contact with cutting-edge research in plant sciences, and where plant sciences would, in turn, resort to philosophy in their search for an appropriate theoretical framework. Such rigorously interdisciplinary thought would belong somewhere between a philosophy of botany and a botany of philosophy; it would discuss how plant processes, as well as vegetal images and metaphors, exert a formative influence on thinking. “Plant-thinking” demarcates this in-between space in the hopes of promoting a cross-pollination of philosophy and plant sciences.
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity,” Kant famously wrote in his 1784 Idea for a General History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective, “no straight thing was ever made.” Perhaps it is time now for philosophy to adopt a new perspective, and to begin to think beyond the human, for the “crooked timber of humanity” to learn to communicate with the magnificent woods that surround us.
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Classic Automatic
By Colin McCallister
Those who have seen Classic Automatic perform live would probably be surprised to learn that they came from quiet and humble folk origins. The band members themselves know they’ve come a long way from their first acoustic shows more than a year ago at coffee shops like the Peace Frog. The first show was only 20 minutes long and was witnessed by about five people. Fast forward to this year’s Battle of the Bands X season where they rocked out in front of a significantly larger crowd that received them warmly and achieved high scores from the judges. Everyone has to start somewhere, and for Classic Automatic, their flirtations with folk got them to realize that their modest, but fun-loving, boisterous personalities needed to be reflected in their music. Since ditching their folk roots, Classic Automatic have been brewing their own brand of garage/alternative music that offers the older crowds hard rock and metal reminiscent of Led Zeppelin and still attracts the college crowd with bluesy tinges of Black Keys and White Stripes.Originating through friendship and a shared interest in music, the seeds of Classic Automatic were sown about five years ago when brothers Mike (guitar) and Brian Newsome (bass) were joined by Kyle Hettinger who was just learning drums after playing trumpet throughout middle school.Jesse Yoder joined later as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. The largely self-taught players have utilized a highly collaborative approach to songwriting: a member approaches the band with an idea for a riff or lyrics set to a melody; the song is then built off that component and diligently rehearsed and fine-tuned for a live performance.
Not long after the group decided to travel on the alternative rock path, the songs became more fun, and as a result, the band was having more fun as well. However, as rehearsals became more focused and intense, the band did have to learn to be more laid back. “In the beginning we would take it super-serious, and get pissed off at each other whenever someone made a mistake,” Yoder said. “We also play better when we’re having fun. Whenever someone makes a mistake, it’s not the end of the world.” Classic Automatic have since taught each other to achieve the delicate balance between having fun during rehearsals while still maintaining a strong work ethic.
The collaborative efforts and work ethic proved themselves on September 20 when patrons at O’Sullivan’s in Fort Wayne learned that you can’t pin down this band as exclusively playing alternative rock. Throughout the band’s 90-minute set, those in the audience were treated to some country songs that had never before played for an audience, followed by an R&B set with a friend, Pamela Shue, adding soulful vocals. This is a band that is open to trying a variety of ideas that will potentially resonate with new listeners. Judging by the number of nodding heads and visible smiles during these sets, Classic Automatic’s audacious approach toward blending hard rock with conflicting music genres seems to be paying off.
Classic Automatic have put together a catalog of 23 original songs along with a few covers, and new material is added to their set every so often. They have recorded three rough demos with a simple 4-track recorder and posted the results on their ReverbNation. Last February they performed an hour-long set on NIPR’s Meet the Music program.
“It was fun because we had never been in a studio place like that, and it was cool to see how much they cared about local music,” said Mike Newsome. “It was our thing. We got to play altogether, and it was neat knowing people were going to hear it. It was like a live show and that’s how we handled it.” Kyle said.
This past spring, with those experiences under their belts, band members felt it was time to really push themselves and enroll in whatzup/Wooden Nickel Battle of the Bands X. The experience gave them the opportunity to meet and be on the same bill with older, more experienced bands and to reach out to the crowds those bands brought along with them. Classic Automatic played three total Battle of the Bands sets, including one in the semifinals round. They rehearsed intensively to make sure that no one set would be the same. They closed every set, however, with their cover of the Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down,” which seemed to generate the most positive crowd response.
“Even though it’s a cover song, we were reluctant to take it out of the set because we spent so much time working on it,” Hettinger said. “No regrets. People seemed to like the song.”
Classic Automatic’s progress as a band hasn’t come without some bumps along the way. Recently, Brian Newsome left the band to be with his fiancée who is attending law school in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“Leaving the band was hard because not only were they my bandmates, but they were my family and friends,” he said. “Everyone knew that I was moving away when we formed the band, so we made the most of it. But every now and then I would hear a ‘dang, I wish you didn’t have to leave!’ or ‘how are we supposed to replace you?’ But anytime someone in the band would fret, no pun intended, it would make me feel good because I knew they cared so much.”
Fortunately, a friend of the band, Taylor Williams, was able to join them as the new bassist immediately after Brian Newsome’s departure. Williams had a lot of catching up to do, but he was able to accomplish the extraordinary feat of learning 20 songs within two weeks.
“I’ve had a blast for the past month, but it was hectic for the first two weeks learning as many songs as I could,” he said. Since Williams shared a lot of the same musical tastes and styles as the rest of the band, the transition went smoothly.
While Classic Automatic consider themselves loners in the local music scene, they have made friends with other bands along the way. They don’t necessarily concern themselves with what they contribute to the local music scene, but one of their goals is to be recognized and liked by other bands. That’s a goal they have largely accomplished since participating in the Battle of the Bands. With a new bassist in tow, new ideas in development and prospective opportunities to record and release more material, Classic Automatic’s ongoing tale is likely to have new chapters on the horizon.
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Categories 40th Anniversary Additional Natural Categories Archaeology Articles Brochures & Info kits Cities Climate Change Conservation of Cultural Sites Conservation of Natural Sites Convention Cultural landscapes Cultural Routes Disaster Risk Reduction Earthen Architecture Education & Training Forests Human Evolution Human Evolution Industrial Marine & coastal Modern Heritage Museum Natural Other materials Partnerships Periodic Reporting Periodicals Publications Religious & Sacred Resource Manuals Restoration Rock art Science & technology Site Management Small Island Developing States Sustainable Development Sustainable Tourism Urban Context Null
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Preparation and publication: “Historic atlas of Kyoto”, Japan
© UNESCO/Editions de l'Amateur / Nicolas Fiévé
The “Historical Atlas of Kyoto: Spatial Analysis of the Memory Systems of a City, its Architecture and Urban Landscape” (In French: « Atlas historique de Kyoto: Analyse spatiale des systèmes de mémoire d’une ville, de son architecture et de son paysage urbain ») was published under the direction of Nicolas Fiévé, with preface by Jacques Gernet, World Heritage Collection, UNESCO publishing / Published by Éditions de l’Amateur 2008.
Home of Japanese culture for more than a thousand years, Kyoto was the capital of the Japanese Empire from its founding in the eighth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Miraculously spared by the bombings of World War II, Kyoto retraces the evolution of Japanese wooden architecture and the art of Japanese gardens, and testifies to a unique form of interaction between man and nature. The property Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994.
As part of the “Cities of Asia: Heritage for the Future” programme, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, with the support of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, supported the research programme on urban transformations of the City of Kyoto, Japan, conducted by a group of French and Japanese university scholars studying contemporary phenomenon of the development of Kyoto, which is representative of numerous Asian cities.
This research project, on the transformation of the urban landscape of Kyoto, was developed in a broader framework with the input of several disciplines including history, anthropology, urban planning and architecture. It resulted in the drafting of the Historical Atlas of Kyoto: Spatial Analysis of the Memory Systems of a City, its Architecture and Urban Landscape, which examines the economic, social, cultural, political, religious, architectural and urban history of the city through its spatial evolution. This reference tool for research in human and social sciences on the City of Kyoto examines the place and role that cultural heritage can play in the construction of new urban landscapes within the modernisation process of traditional areas.
Twenty-one of the researchers contributed to the preparation of the atlas prepared under the direction of Nicolas Fiévé, Director of Studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études (institution of higher education and research) and Deputy Director of the centre for research on Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan civilizations. This atlas, published in 2008, relies on ancient and modern epigraphic sources and includes numerous previously unpublished archival documents, as well as over 200 original maps.
Categories: Cities Publications
Date Start: 01-Jan-2000
Date end: 31-Dec-2000
France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement (CFU)
“Portraying Kyoto’s Cultural Heritage” Contest 20-Jul-2012-18-Sep-2012
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UNESCO Announces the Bamiyan Cultural Centre Design Competition
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley (19/11/2014) © UNESCO / J. Sorosh Wali
November 15, 2014, marks the official announcement of the design competition to build the new Bamiyan Cultural Centre in Afghanistan. UNESCO, together with the Government of Afghanistan, decided to select the design of the Cultural Centre through an open international competition.
The competition will generate interest in the project and ensure that the winning design is both iconic and also commensurate with the worldwide significance of the site itself. Proposals are welcome from qualified and experienced applicants with a vision for sharing the importance of cultural identity of Afghanistan from the past, present and into the future.
UNESCO believes that culture represents an essential element of nation building in every country, and has an important role to play in Afghanistan. Culture makes a valuable contribution to socio-economic development, and in the case of Bamiyan, it paves the way towards future tourism opportunities and the participation of local communities, in not only protecting and preserving their cultural heritage, but also in sharing it. The Bamiyan Cultural Centre will support artistic and cultural processes, using the institution as a platform to connect the public with Afghan cultural traditions and practices. The space will host permanent and temporary exhibitions, with the overall aim of promoting cross-cultural understanding and heritage safeguarding through education, training, research, lectures and performance events.
This competition has been announced through national and international media outlets as well as the UNESCO Kabul Website. A worldwide outreach campaign will invite architects, engineers and students from around the world to submit a design proposal for the Centre. It is especially important to encourage the people of Afghanistan to participate.
The realization of this project within its designated land in one of the most prominent sites overlooking the Buddha Cliffs was made possible by the support of the Bamiyan Governor and Mayor, the Ministry of Information and Culture, the Ministry of Agriculture and the people of Bamiyan. This project of public significance is near to the UNESCO World Heritage property of Bamiyan which has outstanding universal value.
We would like to thank all our stakeholders and partners who are involved in the protection and preservation of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley and in particular the Government of the Republic of Korea for providing the funding for such project. Activities will include design and construction of the Centre, cultural mapping of heritage resources, conservation and restoration, capacity training, and raising heritage awareness through public education. The Cultural Centre will open new horizons for local residents and all Afghans; our hope is that this building helps people move beyond conflict, to reclaim their shared heritage and to step towards building a peaceful future.
Bamiyan Cultural Centre
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Ministry of Information and Culture, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
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Daily Current Affairs 2 January 2019
Daily Current Affairs 2 January 2019: Your guide for daily General Knowledge Preparation
This post contains important current affairs of 2 January 2019. It includes all Major National, International, Business and Sports related current affairs of 2 January 2019. A brief explanation of every current affair is provided to further enhance your general knowledge. Once you have gone through these current affairs we would recommend to you to try 2 January 2019 Current affairs test.
1. MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre
MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre in Hyderabad has noted for the Guinness Book of World Records.
It organised the largest men’s Health Awareness programme on prostate cancer on a single day.
2. New chairman of Railway Board
VK Yadav has been appointed new chairman of Railway Board.
He will replace Ashwani Lohani.
3. Restructuring of National Health Agency as “National Health Authority”
Govt. will do the Restructuring of National Health Agency as “National Health Authority”.
The main purpose is for better implementation of Pradhan Mantri-Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY).
4. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has achieved 6 crore mark.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for providing LPG connections to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.
Under the scheme, five crore LPG connections are to be provided to BPL households. The identification of eligible BPL families will be made in consultation with the State Governments and the Union Territories. BPL is a person/ household who suffers from at least one deprivation under the Socio-Economic Caste census (SECC) – 2011 Database.
5. DRDO day
Defence Research and Development Organisation celebrated its establishment day on 1st January.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation is an agency of the Republic of India, charged with the military’s research and development, headquartered in New Delhi, India.
1. MoU between India and Morocco
Cabinet has apprised of MoU between India and Morocco on Cooperation in the area of Cyber Security.
Morocco, a North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, is distinguished by its Berber, Arabian and European cultural influences. Marrakesh’s medina, a mazelike medieval quarter, offers entertainment in its Djemaa el-Fna square and souks (marketplaces) selling ceramics, jewellery and metal lanterns. The capital Rabat’s Kasbah of the Udayas is a 12th-century royal fort overlooking the water.
2. Lawrence Roberts passes away
Larry Roberts who was the program manager for The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet) has passed away.
Lawrence Gilman Roberts was an American scientist who received the Draper Prize in 2001 “for the development of the Internet”, and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002.
3. 52nd World Day of Peace
The World Day of Peace is a feast day of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to universal peace, held on 1 January, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
Theme :- ‘Good Politics is at the Service of Peace’
It is different from International Day of Peace.The International Day of Peace is observed annually on 21 September.
4. GAFA tax
France has introduced GAFA tax on global internet technology firms such as likes of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
The aim is to ensure these companies pay a fair share of taxes on their massive businesses in Europe.
1. Shikha Sharma retires
Axis Bank’s Managing Director and CEO Shikha Sharma has retired.
She will be replaced by Amitabh Chaudhry, effective January 1, 2019.
2. The provision coverage ratio (PCR)
Provision coverage ratio of PSU banks is on the rise and crossed the 66% mark.
The provision coverage ratio (PCR) gives an indication of the provision made against bad loans from the profit generated. Higher the PCR, lower is the unexposed part of the bad debts.
3. Capital Infusion in PSB
Government will infuse Rs 10,086 crore in Bank of India.
Government will infuse Rs 3,076 crore in UCO Bank.
4. Cred – Pay credit card bills Mobile App
Kunal Shah(The Founder of Freecharge) has launched CRED that allows users to keep track of due dates of multiple credit cards and pay their credit card bills in one place.
FreeCharge is an e-commerce and fintech company headquartered in Gurgaon. It provides online facility to recharge any prepaid mobile phone, postpaid mobile, DTH & Data Cards in India.
1. Mubadala title
Novak Djokovic (Serbia) has defeated Kevin Anderson (South Africa) to win the Mubadala World Tennis Championship
Mubadala World Tennis Championship was held at Abu Dhabi International Tennis Centre, Abu Dhabi.
2. Hopman Cup 2019
The Hopman Cup is an annual international eight-team indoor hardcourt tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early January (sometimes commencing in late December) each year, which plays mixed-gender teams on a country-by-country basis.
The championship is named in honour of Harry Hopman (1906–1985), an Australian tennis player and coach who guided the country to 15 Davis Cup titles between 1938 and 1969.
Roger Federer’s Switzerland beat Serena Williams’ USA as the two tennis greats met on court for the first time at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia.
Switzerland is the most recent champion.
3. Ramakant Achrekar passes away
Ramakant Vithal Achrekar was an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai. He was most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most notably Sachin Tendulkar. He has also been a selector for Mumbai cricket team.
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Writeliving Interview – Pam Houston
I am thrilled to feature our first fiction writer in our interview series – Pam Houston. I have been reading her work for almost 20 years now (better be careful not to date me or Pam too much!).
Soon, I plan on announcing a new blogger to join the Writeliving team. In the meantime, enjoy the interview and feel free to comment.
It has been suggested to me that the poet, Larry Levis has been the very most influential writer to my work, and it may be true. He taught poetry at Utah when I was there studying fiction, and though I was too scared to take a class from him, (and man, do I regret that) he was writing The Widening Spell of the Leaves at that time, and I paid really close attention to how he made that book. That book taught me about making associative leaps (wild ones, and yet, in retrospect, inevitable somehow), which is, in my opinion, the most fun a writer can have, the thing that keeps the process always new and exciting. It may be true that he, more than anyone else, taught me what to reach for in my work. I feel like there could never be a conclusive list of writers whose work I have read that has left an imprint on my own, but a few of my strongest influences follow: Ron Carlson’s work taught me pacing, and how to bump humor right up against pathos as many times as the story can bear. Lorie Moore’s work taught me the particular way humor works for a female. Toni Morrison taught me the importance of making my characters multiple, no heroes, no villains, and also the unlimited number of layers a story can have. Russell Banks’ stories taught me how form follows function. Richard Ford’s Rock Springs taught me that the landscape of the west has its own voice, and Gretel Ehrlich convinced me that I had a place in it. Tim O’Brien’s work introduced me to the rich territory that exists between fiction and nonfiction. Jack Driscoll taught me that if you don’t risk sentimentality you are not in the ballpark.
I feel like my first job as a writer is to pay really strict attention out in the world, and then to bring the resonant images, scenes, moments, glimmers, back to the page with me and turn them into language. Every single thing I have ever written has begun with the question, “What glimmered at me lately?” In this way I am sort of a collagist. I don’t ever say, for example, “I think I would like to write a story about…., or, “I have an idea for a character who…” I pay strict attention, both to what is going on in my physical proximity, and also to whenever something that is happening out there in the exterior landscape resonates with what is happening in my interior landscape. I trust those shivers of recognition more than I trust anything. Whether I am at a sky burial in Tibet, or in the check out line at the Whole Foods, hearing the crack of my turned ankle on an ancient stair in Greece, or listening to the sound of goat bells over the sound of the waves of the Agean…I collect those, and do my best to represent them fully in language, and then combine them with other resonant glimmers and they cook for a while in there and over time, a story emerges.
Well, I am not sure this really qualifies as adversity, but it is a nice story. I went to graduate school at the University of Utah, and my work was pretty much uniformly disliked by all of the fiction teachers there. David Kranes, the playwright, liked it pretty well, but in my years there I collected a stack of evaluations, the worst of which said, no kidding, “Pam should find something else to do with her hands.” It was my class at Utah, along with some professors, that started the conference called Writers At Work in Park City, and one of the things we got in exchange for our volunteer work on the conference was a 30 minute one-on-one with a visiting writer, editor, or agent. Because I had become so convinced at Utah that my work was awful, I had turned in the name of three writers on my preference sheet, and when they hung up the pairings I didn’t find my name anywhere, and when I asked, the woman at the desk said, “Oh, sorry, all of the people you chose had full plates, so we couldn’t get you in.”
This was pretty much the way I was used to being treated at Utah, and it was pretty much the way I had been treated in my family of origin, which is likely why I picked Utah, so I just sucked it up and walked away. But Shannon Ravenel, who was one of the editors at the conference (Best American Short Stories series editor all through the 80’s, founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.) followed me out of the ballroom, and said, “You know, my plate is not full. If you have a copy of a story you want to give me, I would be happy to read it.” Now let me just say that this was an entirely unprompted act of kindness on Shannon’s part. She had no reason to think I was any good, in fact, I was not, at that time, very good (though not quite as bad as my professors said). She had simply witnessed my dismissal by the pairing lady, and reached out to me in a human way.
Shannon read my story, and was so excited about it, she showed it to Carol Houck Smith, a W.W. Norton editor at that conference. She also called her friend, agent Liz Darhansoff, and told her to contact me. Pretty much my entire career grew out of that moment of un-asked for kindness. Carol was my editor until the time of her death, and I have published five books with W.W. Norton. Liz Darhansoff is still my editor to this day.
That I was Chaplin of Delta Delta Delta sorority at Denison University, which meant I was in charge of 80 girls “spirituality” when I was little more than a girl myself. But perhaps you mean something less silly than that. When I was four years old and my mother was a night club singer, I would go to the bar with her, wearing my thigh high white boots and sing “These Boots Were Made For Walking,” and at the part in the song where Nancy Sinatra always said, “Come on, Boots, start walkin!” I would walk across the top of the baby grand. Only marginally less silly. How about this? Nothing terrifies me quite like the prospect of playing co-ed softball.
Pam Houston’s most recent book is Contents May Have Shifted, published in 2012, by W.W. Norton. She is also the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the novel, Sight Hound, and a collection of essays called A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, and The Evil Companions Literary Award and multiple teaching awards. She is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis and teaches in The Pacific University low residency MFA program, and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world. She lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
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The Pilbara is a region south of the Kimberley that covers half a million square kilometres. When we set out from Sydney, it never occurred to us to take a detour into it. Much of it is inaccessible, and we associated it largely with iron ore mining, remote Aboriginal communities, and the Great Sandy Desert. We had planned to track the coastline as we travelled south from Broome to Exmouth.
The idea of taking a detour into the Pilbara was sparked by a conversation with a man who worked at a gallery in Darwin that specialised in Aboriginal art. We got chatting with him about travel, and foreshadowed our journey further west. He gave us a vivid and rapturous description of Karijini National Park, which is located in the Eastern Pilbara, and he urged us to visit it. We didn’t think much more about it at the time, but the seed was sown.
As we completed our journey through the Kimberley we learned that Karijini was readily accessible by sealed roads, but a visit would entail a detour of over 600 km. The more we learned about this place, however, the keener we became to visit it.
Our detour would take us from Cape Keroudren, at the southern tip of Eighty Mile Beach, east to Port Hedland, which is the biggest town in the region. From Port Hedland we would leave the coast and head south on the road to Newman, as far as Karajini National Park, where we planned to stay as long as our provisions lasted. We would then head east towards to coast again, and join Highway 1 again near Exmouth Gulf.
Journey through the Pilbara region of W.A.
The beauty of the Kimberley region had awed us, so we were keen to set eyes on the Pilbara’s best-kept secret.
Next post: Cape Keraudren to Karajini
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Tom Petty’s Former Lake House Listed for $5.9 Million
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The Ventura County, Calif., lakeside villa most recently owned by Tom Petty has been put up for sale. Sitting on one acre of land with a lakefront boat dock, the property is currently listed for $5.9 million.
You can see pictures of the Casa Della Madonna estate below. According to Page Six, Petty, who died in early October, was the latest in a long line of celebrities such as Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole who have called the lakeside retreat their home.
"An inspiration to musicians, actors and writers, this home inspires all and evokes memories of favorite summer vacations," declared Compass real estate agent and former Casa Della Madonna owner Dana Sparks. Petty's grand piano still sits in the house's main room.
Originally completed in 1931, with walls built using local field stone, the 5,300-square-foot home contains three bathrooms and three bedrooms -- each with a view of Lake Sherwood. It features vaulted ceilings, wood beams, tile flooring throughout and even a "quaint" guest house. Casa Della Madonna was renovated in 2004 to add a new master suite with a stone tub and a balcony with a fireplace.
Despite its scenic forest views, Petty's former villa sits just 15 minutes from Malibu. As Sparks explains, “only nine miles from the ocean, this location is blessed with afternoon breezes and is also above the fog zone, ensuring sunshine all summer."
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GLOBAL TIMES: Personal touch enlivens Sino-US ties
Illustration: Liu Rui/GT
Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a historic visit to the US. The trip came at a critical moment as the US-China relationship stands at a decisive crossroads. While the bilateral relationship generates substantial benefits for both countries, tensions are rising over cyber security, maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas, obstacles impeding businesses operating in each other’s country and more. These frustrations, along with other friction points, have led to a heightened level of strategic rivalry between the world’s two largest military powers.
There is simply too much at stake, including global stability and prosperity, to allow heightened tensions between our two nations to boil over into conflict. While it should be expected that some discord will inevitably exist between the two largest economies in the world, the growing strategic rivalry could, if left unchecked, very well damage ties and result in negative outcomes for both nations.
The world faces a litany of global challenges ranging from climate change and extremism to non-proliferation and public health crises. To resolve these, the US and China must be able to work together.
In fact, as China has become increasingly more engaged in multilateral efforts, senior leaders on both sides have begun pointing to global governance cooperation as the future glue of the relationship. We urge Washington and Beijing to identify and jointly cultivate many more opportunities to collaborate in areas of mutual concern and overlapping interests.
So how can these two powers be encouraged to mutually address shared challenges while simultaneously laying the foundation for a future, collaborative relationship? Our answer: through cultivating more robust strategic people-to-people ties.
People-to-people exchanges have played a critical role in the development of the US-China relationship. Just over 40 years ago, ping-pong players broke the diplomatic ice between the two countries, heralding the normalization of the bilateral relationship several years later. In 2014, Chinese and US citizens made more than 4.3 million trips across the Pacific Ocean.
The number of exchanges occurring between students, scientists, artists and athletes is growing. In 2014, 275,000 Chinese students studied in the US, an increase of 17 percent from the previous year. Likewise, between 2010 and 2014 more than 100,000 American students studied in China, achieving the goal of US President Barack Obama’s “100,000 Strong” initiative.
Among the many outcomes from the Obama-Xi Summit, we believe none is more important than those designed to shore up long-term stability of the relationship by strengthening people-to-people relations. The two presidents announced several long-term investments in the future of the relationship. Two particularly noteworthy efforts are the “1 Million Strong” initiative and the China-US University Think Tank Forum (CUUTTF) .
The “1 Million Strong” initiative seeks to increase five-fold the number of US K-12 students studying standard Chinese from approximately 200,000 to 1 million by 2020.
As Obama said, “If our countries are going to do more together around the world, then speaking each other’s language, truly understanding each other is a good place to start.”
This ambitious goal to encourage 1 million American students to study Putonghua in the coming five years is crucial for the United States’ future. There is a vast learning gap in the US when it comes to China and the Chinese language. Between 300 million and 400 million Chinese students are leaning English today; but only about 200,000 US students are studying Chinese.
This will ensure the next generation of Americans are better prepared to work constructively with their Chinese counterparts to guarantee win-win cooperation and mutual benefits are achieved. The mission of “1 Million Strong” is to create a nation of stakeholders who value the US-China relationship and will be equipped to successfully manage and lead the US-China relationship away from conflict and in a mutually beneficial direction.
In addition to the “1 Million Strong” initiative, Xi and Obama agreed to launch the CUUTTF in 2016. The CUUTTF will bring together top scholars and experts from both countries by creating a high-end institutional platform to engage in in-depth discussion and research on subject matters concerning bilateral, regional and global issues and challenges, and injecting new intellectual momentum into US-China relations.
As Xi noted, “The foundation of Sino-US friendship lies in the people, and our hope in youth.” It is imperative that intense, high-level diplomatic negotiations continue in order to keep the US-China relationship on a positive track. Stepping up investments in people-to-people exchange will help lay the foundation of what Xi calls a new type of major country relationship that contributes to global peace and prosperity.
Travis Tanner is senior vice president and chief operating officer of the 100,000 Strong Foundation; Wang Dong is deputy executive director of Institute for China-US People-to-People Exchange, Peking University.opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
Click here to read the original article on the Global Times website.
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Essay on The Contrasting Nature Of Love Explored In Toni Morrison's Beloved
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In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison explores the paradoxical nature of love both as a dangerous presence that promises suffering and a life-giving force that gives the strength to proceed; through the experiences of the run-away slave Sethe. The dangerous aspect of love is revealed through the comments of Paul D and Ella regarding the motherly love of Sethe towards her children. Sethe's deep attachment to her children is deemed dangerous due to their social environment which evidently promises that the loved one of a slave will be hurt. On the other hand, love is portrayed as a sustaining force that allows Sethe to move on with her life. All the devastating experiences Sethe endures do not matter due to the fact that she must live for her children. Although dangerous, Sethe's love finally emerges as the prevalent force that allows her to leave the past behind and move on with her life.
The dangerous aspect of Sethe's love is first established with the comments of Paul D regarding her attachment to Denver. At page 54, when Sethe refuses to hear Paul D criticize Denver, he thinks: "Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous(
)" he deems Sethe's attachment dangerous because he believes that when "(
) they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack (
)" having such a strong love will prevent her from going on with her life. Paul D's remarks indicate that evidently the loved one of a slave is taken away. Mothers are separated from their children, husbands from their wives and whole families are destroyed; slaves are not given the right to claim their loved ones. Having experienced such atrocities, Paul D realizes that the deep love Sethe bears for her daughter will onl...
...at has been denied and not passed on. She reminds us of the inclination to forget the past and the impossibility of dealing with a silenced history. Morrison intends to ensure the sensitive and responsible conveyance of a history of suffering and to this end her use of parallelism between Paul D and Ella, the symbolisms and the employment of a loaded language, explore the two aspects of love. The contrasting aspects come together at the end to emerge as a united statement underlying the life-giving force of love. The powerful display of the role of love in the lives of the characters, the role it plays in keeping them going is intended to add to the impact of the novel. As a universal concept, love constitutes the best device to communicate the atrocities the negro slaves have faced and serves Morrison's intention to make the reader never forget this shameful history.
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John Berger in his highly influential book, Ways of Seeing, observed that ‘according to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome - men act and women appear’ (1972, pp. 45)
Such conventions of hetronormative gender representation can be seen in all areas of the mass media today, such as advertising and film. The representation of both male and female bodies within the medium of video games reflects understandings of gender and sexuality, and it is important that we as players are made aware of these representations and what they signify. I argue that Grand Theft Auto IV, through its framing of both female and male bodies, promotes hetronormative hierarchal distinctions between feminity and masculinity, by encouraging players to adopt and act out a hypermasculine role, and by presenting women as objects of the male gaze and thus positioning them as existing to please and benefit men.
The objectification of women has a long history within western society, as explored by John Berger. Berger studies the history of female portraiture in Western painting, and argues that beginning with European art of the Renaissance, women were depicted as being aware as the subject of a male spectator, and that paintings of female nudes reflected the submission of a woman to ‘the owner of both woman and painting’ (1972, pp. 52), as a part of a wider tradition of ‘representing women as properties that belong to men’ (Griffin 2004 pp. 230). Berger’s claim that women are ‘depicted in a different way to men - because the "ideal" spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him’ (1972, ...
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Vic boy jailed over carjacking murder
On the last night of his life, Paul Costa dressed in a "beautiful suit and new shoes", asked his mother if he looked good, then set out in Melbourne.
His parents thought the 43-year-old must have had "an appointment with a lovely girl".
But on the night of July 2 last year, Mr Costa became an innocent victim of a carjacking gone wrong at the hands of five youths.
The boys wanted to steal Mr Costa's four-wheel drive to use as a getaway car in a supermarket robbery.
They tried to remove him from the car, but Mr Costa fought back, with the boys pulling him into his back seat and handcuffing him.
They planned to choke Mr Costa to put him to sleep.
But during the assault, the youngest of the group - a 16-year-old boy - stabbed the father-of-four with a small kitchen knife, the blade entering through the right of Mr Costa's neck and emerging from the left.
The stab cut through Mr Costa's thyroid artery, causing significant bleeding.
The back seat of his car was soaked in blood.
The young assailants carried Mr Costa, dressed impeccably in a designer Ermenegildo Zegna suit, and left him below a tree at Dunstan Reserve at Brunswick West.
Four of the assailants later pleaded guilty to aggravated carjacking, while the killer pleaded not guilty to murder.
A jury convicted him in September.
On Tuesday, the boy - who cannot be named due to his age - was jailed by the Supreme Court for 18 years.
"This is a tragic and pointless loss of life caused by you," the sentencing judge said.
"Mr Costa could not have been a more innocent victim."
Speaking outside court, Mr Costa's father, Alessandro Costa, said he didn't understand why "such a young man" would commit murder.
"Just for the sake of a car, killing a person, I think is ridiculous, outrageous. I don't have words to explain why they would do that," he told reporters.
"Such a young man, why would he commit murder?"
He said Mr Costa had been his "right-hand man", helping him in his Christmas tree business.
"You could not hope for a better son," he said through tears.
He added he believed capital punishment should be brought back.
The boy, who is now 17, must serve at least 14 years before he is eligible for parole.
He has already served 460 days in pre-sentence detention.
The other four youths have already been sentenced for aggravated burglary.
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Fernando J. Meza
Dr. Meza is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he received his B.A. in Psychology in 1997. In 2002, he received his D.M.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. After graduating from dental School, Dr. Meza went on to receive his specialty training from Temple University School of Dentistry, where he obtained his Certificate in Endodontics. During his residency program, Dr. Meza conducted research using the Biolase Er,Cr,YSGG laser to investigate its effectiveness in disinfecting root canals. The promising results of his research led to a publication in the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA July 2007, Volume 138 – Research).
Dr. Meza is originally from El Salvador. He is fluent in Spanish. He grew up in the Northern Virginia area attending Fairfax County public schools including Langley High School. After his graduate and professional studies, he returned to Northern Virginia where he has been practicing endodontics since 2004. Dr. Meza remains active in research and academics as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Department of Endodontics where he enjoys teaching dental students and residents.
Dr. Meza is an active member of the following organizations:
American Association of Endodontists
American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
Virginia Dental Association
Northern Virginia Dental Society (Program Chairman, Secretary Treasurer, Vice-President)
In 2011, Dr. Meza received the New Dentist Award presented by the Virginia Dental Association in recognition of Dr. Meza’s leadership qualities through service to dentistry during the first ten years of practice.
In addition, Dr. Meza has been awarded Top Endodontist by the Washingtonian Magazine in 2013 and by the Northern Virginia Magazine since 2009. Dr. Meza has also been recognized as one of the America’s Top Dentist since 2011 by the Consumer Research Council.
Dr. Meza is married and has two kids. He enjoys cooking, traveling, fishing, skiing, and spending time with his friends and family.
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Another elected representative shames her supporters
Will Doolittle
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will@poststar.com
In St. Lawrence County, scores of people showed up at a recent county Legislature meeting and about 40 made comments after a Republican legislator from Massena, Rita Curran, put up a post on her Facebook page attacking Muslims.
Many of them wanted Curran to resign, but the board voted 10-5 against calling for her resignation. One Republican, John Burke of Norfolk, joined four Democrats in voting for resignation.
“It’s a forgiveness that’s not ours to give … none of us on the board, to the best of my knowledge, are Muslim,” Burke said, according to a story in North Country Now.
Burke went on to say that hate speech has affected his family, and he guessed had affected friends or relatives of everyone on the board.
In contrast with Burke’s big-heartedness, the Republican chairman of the county board, Joe Lightfoot, blamed the controversy on Democrats who had pointed out the post. It wasn’t Curran’s fault for characterizing Muslims unfairly and inaccurately, it was the fault of Democratic legislators who noticed, according to Lightfoot.
In Lightfoot’s world, bad things would never happen as long as no one mentioned them.
On April 25, Curran shared a meme from the Empire State Conservative Network Facebook page. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend clicking on the link. It provides more evidence, if more were needed, of how incredibly low the level of public dialogue is on social media. The meme shows an image of the Twin Towers burning on Sept. 11, along with the following text: “Every time a Muslim stand up in Congress and tells us they are going to change the Constitution, impeach our president, or vote for socialism, remember you swore you would never forget. They swore they would destroy us from within.”
A handful of people who were Muslims attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, just as a white man (Timothy McVeigh) attacked the U.S. on April 19, 1995. In recent years, a handful of Christian white men have carried out terrorist attacks on various places of worship, schools, a newspaper office and other places in the U.S. Should we adjust the meme to say, “Every time a white man stands up in Congress and tells us … blah-blah”? It does seem absurd, since Congress is made up mostly of white men.
The acts of individuals, good or bad, do not represent whatever groups they get lumped in with, whether by race or nationality or ethnicity or class or region or religion or anything else. We don’t judge white men by Ted Bundy. We don’t judge Christians by Fred Phelps. This sort of thing should be obvious to everybody and especially to an elected political representative.
So far, Curran hasn’t had anything to say for herself. I don’t think she should resign, either, unless she really comes to feel ashamed for what she did and resigns for that reason. But if she’s unrepentant, then it would be much better if she were rejected by voters — that’s what should happen in her case and in every case where those who are supposed to make voters proud shame them instead. Voters should show their displeasure at the ballot box.
Will Doolittle is projects editor of the Post-Star of Glens Falls.
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In San Francisco, you don’t have to leave the airport to visit a museum
Author: Scott McMurren
| Alaska Travel
Updated: March 2
Published March 2
Tim O’Brien, assistant director of the SFO Museum, shows off the large-scale model of a United DC-3 “Mainliner.” It hangs in a replica of the airport’s original terminal building in 1937. (Photo: Scott McMurren)
The next time you take a flight from Anchorage, you won’t be able to miss the new bronze sculpture between the B and C concourses. Sitting on a bench is a life-size model of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, for whom the airport is named.
The sculpture, by Joan Jackson, is the latest in a series of beautiful artworks at the airport. Stroll down the B concourse and you’ll see a flock of oversized geese flying overhead by Rachelle Dowdy.
Other airports have beautiful works of art, to be sure. But San Francisco International Airport, or SFO, has pushed this theme to a high art form. The SFO Museum is the only airport-located museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, according to Assistant Director Tim O’Brien.
There is a replica of the original terminal building at SFO in 1937, which houses a number of exhibits in International Terminal A outside the security checkpoint.
Bill Lex, a museum volunteer, guided me through the permanent exhibit on Pan Am’s fabled China Clipper service between 1935 and 1946.
"Usually, people think of the China Clipper as just one plane,” said Lex. “But there were three planes that flew these trans-Pacific island-to-island itineraries,” he said. The most iconic was the Boeing 314. But the Martin M-130 also flew the routes, as well as the Sikorsky s-42.
SFO Museum features large models on display of all three Clippers, in addition to a nine-foot metal prop from one of the flying boats.
Also on display this month are scale models of almost 300 aircraft, meticulously crafted by San Francisco’s Jim Lund. Lund made all the models at a 1:72 scale, where one inch is equal to 6 feet. Lund’s exhibits help document the evolution of aviation — from the Wright Brothers’ plane in 1903 to the Concorde SST, the 747 and all major airliners and cargo planes in between. All of the models feature accurate paint and livery. This is “AvGeek” heaven. There’s an accompanying photo display of the models, set up with miniature terminals and passengers.
SFO Museum volunteer Bill Lex shows off the Pan Am “China Clipper” exhibit. There are large models of the Clippers, which flew between 1936 and 1946. Other Pan Am memorabilia includes a huge globe, from the airline’s downtown ticket office. (Photo: Scott McMurren)
The biggest airplane model hanging from the ceiling is a DC-3 replica, a United Airlines “Mainliner.”
“It was the DC-3 which really opened up cross-country air travel,” said O’Brien.
In addition to the aviation displays, the museum has a number of exhibits which feature modern design or are historically significant.
On display now is a huge exhibit on cats, called “Caticons: The cat in art.” The collection is on loan from Sandy Lerner, who has searched for examples of cats in sculpture, textiles and decorative art for many years.
Another large exhibit which also is available outside the security checkpoint features classic surfboards made from hardwood. “It’s essentially a chronological display of the history of surfing and includes replicas of old Hawaiian boards,” said O’Brien.
Only a small number of the museum’s displays are available to view outside of security. Take a walk through Terminal 2, home to Alaska Airlines’ new hub (since their takeover of Virgin America) and you’ll see a display of old manual typewriters, as well as an interactive exhibit of Arhoolie Records and its “downhome music.”
Another exhibit in the “A” terminal is a mini-theater where the museum runs four short films (no more than 15 minutes). The films come from different countries—some are animated and some are documentaries. The movies get swapped out every four weeks.
“We understand that when travelers get to the airport, they’re stressed,” said O’Brien. “So here at the museum, we want to offer some chances to unplug and relax.”
San Francisco and particularly SFO are coming into focus as Alaska Airlines further integrates Virgin America’s fleet of 73 Airbus planes into its fleet. Both Virgin America and Alaska Airlines have offered nonstop service between Anchorage and San Francisco in the past.
Andrew Harrison, Alaska Air’s executive vice president, was at the airport to show off some of the airline’s new art: the all-new interior of one of the Virgin America A321s. The interior had all-new seats and exuded a leathery “new plane” smell. On display at the gate were new uniforms, new seats and new food choices for flights from San Francisco. When asked if Alaska planned to resume nonstop service to its new hub at SFO, Harrison said “Yes. San Francisco is a hub and Anchorage is a hub—and we fly hub to hub.”
United Airlines offers Anchorage-San Francisco nonstop service between June 6 and Sept. 4.
Alaska Air also is building a new lounge on the third floor of Terminal 2, which will be completed next year.
So whether you’re flying to San Francisco on vacation, or to pick up an international flight across the Pacific, take some time to soak in the art from the SFO Museum.
Scott McMurren
Scott McMurren is an Anchorage-based marketing consultant, serving clients in the transportation, hospitality, media and specialty destination sectors, among others. Contact him by email at zoom907@me.com. You can follow him on Twitter (@alaskatravelGRM) and alaskatravelgram.com. For more information, visit alaskatravelgram.com/about.
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Porsche Reviews Global Media
By Steve Mcclellan
Porsche has called a global media review, the automaker has confirmed.
Worldwide ad spending is approximately $80 million. In the U.S., Porsche’s largest market, spending totaled about $20 million last year, down from $33 million in 2008, according to Nielsen. Those figures, however, do not include digital outlays, a significant part of the strategy, which is highly targeted and combines new-media outreach with print and direct marketing efforts.
The North American incumbent is Chicago-based independent Cramer-Krasselt, which won full-service duties on the account in 2007 after a review. (The creative portion of the account at C-K is not in play.)
The pitch is being handled out of Germany and follows an announcement late last year that Volkswagen and Porsche are merging.
As it stands now, the media review covers all Porsche markets, including key territories like North America, the U.K., Germany, Italy and China. VW media is not part of the process.
But there’s a chance that could change. Porsche Cars North America was displeased with the decision to review, and is lobbying its corporate parent to allow it to stick with C-K, according to sources.
Given that dynamic, C-K is taking a wait and see position, waiting on the sidelines until the domestic unit of Porsche and its German management settle the issue, sources said. The agency declined comment.
A North American rep for Porsche confirmed that a global review was in progress and said no further information was available.
Ironically, a similar turn of events transpired five years ago when VW conducted a global review and its U.S. subsidiary wished to remain with Havas’ MPG, while the parent wanted to consolidate with WPP’s MediaCom, which handled the non-U.S. portion of the business. Ultimately that battle was won by the parent and the N.A. business shifted to MediaCom.
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Fox News Is Delivering a Multi-Faceted Election Experience to Its ‘Nation’ of Superfans
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By A.J. Katz on Nov. 6, 2018 - 6:00 AM Comment
Beginning at 6 p.m. ET., Special Report’s Bret Baier and The Story’s Martha MacCallum, will co-anchor Fox News’ America’s Election HQ: 2018 Midterms special from the friendly confines of Studio F at Fox News’ HQ in New York.
But the real action will be outside the studio. Fox News is holding an interactive viewing party on Fox Square, the plaza directly outside of the network HQ on Avenue of the Americas. There, Fox News aficionados will be able to watch and interact with the latest coverage alongside Fox News Headlines 24/7’s Carley Shimkus, who will provide live updates and reactions from the crowd.
From 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. ET on Fox Square, FNC will host The Fox Nation Election Experience where Fox News fans can get a sneak peek of Fox Nation –the new subscription-based streaming service that costs $5.99 per month – and will have the chance meet Fox News hosts, along with live music, book signings, food and giveaways.
Co-host of The Five and host of Watters World, Jesse Watters and Fox News Channel svp of marketing Michael Tammero gave TVNewser an exclusive grand tour of The Experience hospitality tent, which was getting finishing touches when we stopped by Monday afternoon.
Upon entering the tent, we saw walls painted red and adorned with information about the Fox Nation product; there were kiosks with iPads where fans can learn more about the product and sign up; a step and repeat area where Fox News fans can meet and greet their favorite talent; a photo booth, a ton of swag (t-shirts, buttons, Fox Nation-branded towels) and more. There will also be a food truck right outside the Experience for those looking for an election night pick-me-up.
How long did the Experience take to come together? “Two weeks!,” said Tammero, the brains behind the whole operation. “The idea came about during the summer, and we really started pushing to drive it to execution in recent weeks.”
“We’re providing a true fan experience here, and it happens to coincide with the midterms so there’s going to be a ton of energy here tomorrow,” added Watters, who, along with his buddy and co-host Greg Gutfeld, will be hanging out with fans in the Experience tent after finishing up The Five. “In addition to meeting the Fox Nation ‘Founders,’ I think we’re going to bring new people too off the streets, get them to sign up, and get them in the building.”
Fox News “Founders” are people who have already signed up for the product (the official launch is Nov. 27). They’ll receive VIP status, which includes access to book signing inside Studio A, the studio adjacent to the Experience hospitality tent that has been re-done and will serve as the home of Fox Nation programming.
For other Fox News fans wanting to check out the Experience, they’ll enter from West 48th Street and wait in a general admission line (there’s a velvet rope, as you can see) before entering. The hope, Tammero says, is to get as many people to sign up for the service while in the tent as possible.
Entrance to Fox Nation Election Experience (calm before the storm)
Inside the Experience hospitality tent; veterans and new stars.
We also received early access to Studio A, the first studio used at Fox News that has been redone and will be the new home for Fox Nation.
“We’ll have talent behind the desks in Studio A tomorrow, signing books and interacting with the fans,” said Tammero.
Studio A – Home of Fox Nation
Fox News svp of development and production John Finley joined us later in the tour, and we asked him how Fox News will deem the direct-to-consumer product a success.
“In terms of real numbers, I don’t know the answer to that yet, but there is early enthusiasm, it has been selling briskly, and I think everyone is jazzed about it,” said Finley. “As you said, yes, it’s very different, but it’s exciting and it’s building off of the Jesse Watters ‘superfan’ base, which is all we need!,” a remark which elicited a grin from Watters.
“I’ll be honest with you: After we did the launch in San Diego, I got a lot of people coming up to me on the street, asking me ‘What’s that Fox Nation thing’?,” added Watters. “I think there’s a lot of interest already, based off of our launch show.”
What will Watters bring to the platform? “I’m going to be doing an ‘after-the-show’ show, so when I get off The Five, I’m going to be doing a weekly wrap up show,” he said. “It will be something looser, a wrap up of the week, a wrap up of the show, we’ll be taking questions too, giving viewers and behind-the-scenes look, so that will be fun.”
Is the network worried that the product could take viewers away from the linear channel, or is it just being thought of and marketed as a supplement?
“We’re positioning it as a supplement,” said Finley. “I think for Fox fans there’s plenty of time to do both. The way we’re programmed with our live schedule, this will compliment the news channel. For folks who can’t get enough Jesse Watters, Fox Nation gives them more to do,” he continued. “I think it will be fine.”
As for Tuesday’s Experience, Tammero is fired up and grateful to the powers-that-be for helping to make all of this happen.
“This has been one of the most collaborative projects we have done here at Fox News in 20+ years and that credit goes to Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace who have worked so hard to change the culture here,” Tammero remarked. “Every group from MPG, Operations, programming made positive contributions.”
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USCA supports Beef Checkoff Modernization legislation
Today Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced the Beef Checkoff Modernization Act in the U.S. Senate, according to a press release from the U.S. Cattlemen's Association (USCA) which supports the legislation.
Senator Tester's bill will amend the Beef Act to allow the promotion of beef born and raised exclusively in the U.S., allow the establishment of an importers qualified beef council to promote non-domestic beef, and it will establish new referendum requirements that will give producers more control over the program.
Specifically, the bill directs at least 30% of funds derived from beef checkoff assessments be made available for the promotion and marketing of products derived from cattle exclusively born and raised in the U.S. and also directs that a certain percentage of funds be authorized for use by the importers qualified beef council to promote products derived from cattle not born and raised in the U.S. Further, the bill calls for a periodic producer referendum on the beef checkoff, beginning in 2010, to determine whether cattle producers favor termination or suspension of the program. The bill also provides for any future changes to the program to be voted on by referendum and approved by a majority of producers, including any increase in the assessment.
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Freight vs Passenger Flying?
themat (Theodore Matthews ) February 7, 2017, 3:35pm #1
Can you explain some of the difference between working for a “freight dog” and a passenger airline? How much more are they paid? Why? Are the captain and flight engineer the only people on the plane? If that’s the case can one feel like it’s a more “isolated” job since there is no crew or passengers?
Adam February 7, 2017, 4:25pm #2
Hope you don’t mind but I moved this post to it’s own topic since it’s really different from the thread it was on. Anyway to your questions. There are many differences flying freight vs passengers, many of which depends on the airline you’re flying for. Some of the biggest, most noticeable difference are when and where you fly. Most passengers operations fly when it’s convenient or desirable for the pax (passengers), boxes don’t really care. With that you’ll find there’s a lot of “backside of the clock” flying (12am - 5am) so the packages can be where they need to be early. Also it’s not unusual for cargo pilots to be away for longer periods of time. I have friends at Atlas and they can be gone 17 days in a row literally flying around the planet.
As for pay, yes FedEx and UPS are some of the highest paid pilots in the industry but other companies like Atlas and Kalitta are not. The salaries at the Major pax airlines have come up considerably the last couple of years and the gap is much smaller. The main reason FedEx and UPS pilots get paid more is simply there’s much more profit flying cargo. The companies make more so they pay more.
Depending on the aircraft, there will always be a Capt and a First Officer. Some of the older planes (747-200, 727) flying still have Flight Engineers but they’re all but gone other than at few freight carriers. The longer flights will be augmented with at least 1 additional FO. The longest will have 2 full crews (2 CAs, 2 FOs). That’s another big difference. Some pilots love the interaction with the flight attendants and pax, others do not. If you’re a people person sure you may feel isolated but if you’re not it’s probably easier. Boxes don’t complain, they don’t get sick and they generally will never attack you.
There are pros and cons to both. A few years ago I had wanted to fly cargo but I got my dream job at Hawaiian instead. I have friends who love it and those who don’t. Definitely something to look into if it interests you.
Thank you Adam very helpful information.
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More charges for Fort Hood suspect
US army psychiatrist now faces 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
The army has asked for an inquiry into Hasan's mental state [Reuters]
Mental evaluation
The additional charges come less than 24 hours after Hasan's civilian lawyer was notified that the army planned to evaluate Hasan's competency to stand trial, as well as his mental state at the time of the shooting.
Retired Colonel John Galligan, Hasan's lawyer, said everything "seems to be on the fast track in this case".
Galligan said he had filed an objection to the evaluation, pointing out that Hasan was still in intensive care recovering from gunshot wounds that left him paralysed.
"I'm incensed at the way the military is handling this, serving additional charges on my client when he's in the hospital and defence attorneys are not present," Galligan told the Associated Press news agency.
"And nobody will tell me what the plans are for the evaluation."
Hasan is accused of killing 12 soldiers and a civilian, and wounding dozens others in the November 5 rampage at the army base in central Texas before he was due to be deployed to Afghanistan.
Investigation and review
The case has drawn criticism after if became known that Hasan had been in contact with a figure sympathetic to al-Qaeda.
US officials have said that intelligence agencies had previously investigated Hasan last December, reviewing what they believed to be email communications between him and a Muslim cleric in Yemen who was known for his anti-American teachings.
Federal officials ended the investigation after concluding that Hasan's communications were related to research he needed to work as a psychiatrist at the medical centre situated inside the US base.
Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has named two former military officials to lead a review of the Fort Hood case with the aim of preventing a similar attack.
Barack Obama, the US president, has ordered a probe into how US intelligence agencies handled information they may have gathered about Hasan.
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Raqqa: 'It is a very sad life under ISIL'
Residents fleeing Raqqa give testimonies of what life is like under ISIL.
by Umar Farooq
28 Jan 2015 09:42 GMT
A group of special police, called al-Hisba, ensures adherence to ISIL laws in public [AP]
A year since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took control of its de facto capital, Raqqa, located east of Aleppo, locals say the group is taking on the trappings of a government.
But many of those who fled the city, told Al Jazeera that locals resent the group's meticulous control over public life, and live in a state of constant fear.
"We hate them. Except for a few people who benefit from them personally, we do not want them around," said a shop owner who moved to Turkey six months ago from Raqqa, asking for his name not be used.
ISIL is headed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-titled caliph, to whom all subjects, even school children, must pledge absolute allegiance. Daily affairs are run by at least nine ministries and governors in each of the 18 provinces under its control.
"People are afraid of them," said Zubair, 27, a college student and photographer who left the city four months ago, but still keeps in touch with his parents and siblings living in Raqqa. "It's a very sad life, there are almost no services at all. If you are walking in the street you can be forced to go pray at the mosque."
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ISIL, believed to run on a budget of around a million dollars a day most of which comes from smuggling oil, also collects taxes and utility payments in Raqqa. Zubair's father, who owns a corner grocery store, pays ISIL about $200 a month as tax. Other businesses, located in more lucrative parts of the city, pay twice the amount. Services like electricity, phone, and street cleaning, cost each household about 500 Syrian pounds a month ($2.73).
Municipal workers are paid to maintain three major hydroelectric dams supplying power to Raqqa, but activists say much of the electricity is sold to the regime, leaving locals to cope with, on good days, four hours of blackouts every two days.
We hate them. Except for a few people who benefit from them personally, we do not want them around.
Anonymous, shop owner who moved to Turkey six months ago from Raqqa
Clean water in the city is increasingly hard to come by, partly because power stations, needed to run pumps, and filtration plants were destroyed during anti-ISIL coalition air strikes that began last September, killing hundreds of fighters, and scores of civilians.
While ISIL has occasionally raided aid supplies in other parts of Syria, a spokesperson for Raqqa Local Administration Council (LAC) in Turkey, an opposition body tasked with providing basic services in rebel-held areas, along with two aid agencies that send aid to the city told Al Jazeera that the group currently allows international aid in with little interference.
Women must currently see female doctors, except in cases where they are wounded and need emergency treatment. Last December, ISIL announced it would open a medical college for men and women, a move activists like Abu Muhammad, from the group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, say is meant to address a severe shortage of medical personnel.
"Almost all doctors have fled, because ISIL has executed anyone who treated fighters from other rebel groups," said Abu Muhammad, who left the city in September, 2014, but keeps in touch with dozens of activists still in Raqqa.
Schools, which functioned even under rebel control, were closed in early January, after ISIL decided to rewrite the curriculum. "They want to cut out what they see as un-Islamic teachings from books," explained Abu Muhammad. The decision took 670,000 children, in Raqqa and Deir Ezzor governorates and parts of rural Aleppo, out of the classroom, according to the United Nations.
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One of those effected is Zubair's 13-year-old sister. "She wants to leave the city to continue her studies," he said, "but ISIL is stopping her - they have a new law that says women under 30 cannot leave... My family is trying to leave the city, but cannot because my sister cannot leave."
In what some activists say is an effort to keep the city's population intact, ISIL has barred young women like Zubair's sister from leaving the city entirely. Men are given more freedom to move, but at checkpoints on the roads leading out of the city, ISIL police meticulously checks their identities, stopping those that are wanted, or suspected of working for other rebel groups.
Each member of a group of special police called al-Hisba, is paid $300 a month to ensure adherence to ISIL laws in public. "They go around teaching people the law, and catching those breaking it, for disobeying the caliph, like by missing prayers, or smoking," Zubair said.
Music, aside from religious songs without instruments praising jihad, is banned. Police stop people on the streets to check their cellphones for inappropriate pictures, an offence that can earn a flogging.
At prayer time, al-Hisba men flood the streets. "It used to be that people were allowed to close their shops and pray individually there, but recently, al-Hisba has begun forcing men to go to the mosque for prayer in a congregation," Abu Muhammad said.
Men are required to wear loose fitting pants, with hems falling above the ankles. "Some of the ISIL fighters have even started telling men to emulate their own example, [to] stuff your pants legs into your socks," said Yaseen, a senior member of LAC. "Barbers are still cutting hair, they are usually afraid to cut beards, but for now, it is not required [to keep a beard]."
Billboards posted around town remind women to cover from head to toe, and a group of gun-toting police women, called al-Khansa Brigades, ensures compliance.
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Markets are still frequented by women, but they must be accompanied by a male guardian - a husband, brother, or father, for example. Yaseen said that lately, women have adopted a covering that is stiff along the arms and chest. "We literally call it armour, when you wear it, when you move, your chest, your arms, it's like they don't move."
Zubair and other locals say ISIL has formed a number of secret intelligence cells to root out dissenters and informants in the city.
"They go to each home and tell kids, 12 to 18 years old, they will get $50 for each person they turn in," Yaseen said. "Like someone they see smoking cigarettes, for instance... Unfortunately many young people are becoming informants."
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ISIL has setup a special office to receive complaints from locals. "Once I saw a man get beaten up by police because he was told to close his shop for prayer time, but he said it was not time yet," Zubair told Al Jazeera.
"Afterwards, he went and complained, and they [the judges] took the policemen and sentenced them to 30 days in prison."
But in cases where ISIL members are involved, an objective decision is rare. "You always needed a personal connection in Syria, even under Assad. They have just changed the name of the system," Abu Muhammad said.
For long-time activists like Abu Muhammad, ISIL now resembles the Assad regime. "Assad used to use secularism to impose his will on people, and now ISIL uses religion to impose its will on people."
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Stefano Poda
Stefano PodaDirector
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival (Zubin Mehta)
Massenet: Thaïs – Teatro Regio Turin, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Puccini: Turandot, Gounod: Faust – Teatro Regio Turin (Gianandrea Noseda), Liège Opera
Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue – Toulouse Capitole Theatre
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette – Beijing NCPA
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Handel: Ariodante – Lausanne Opera
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Giordano: Andrea Chénier – Korea National Opera
Donizetti: L’Elisir d’amore – Strasbourg Opera
Verdi: La Forza del Destino – Teatro Regio and Festival Verdi in Parma
Verdi: Otello – Budapest Opera
Verdi: Il Trovatore – Athens Festival
Stefano Poda: The mighty magician! (Roger Alier, La Vanguardia)
In his search for aesthetic and conceptual unity, the artistic work of Stefano Poda always encompasses direction, set design, costume design, lightning and choreography in a personal seal founded on a visionary, multi-level imprint balanced between ancient images and contemporary art. He has developed a language that is understandable in the same way as music, sculpture, painting and architecture can be.
His mise-en-scène of Gounod’s Faust at the Teatro Regio Torino in 2015, a co-production of the Israeli Opera of Tel Aviv and the Lausanne Opera (DVD & Blu-Ray Unitel Classica, C Major Entertainment) has been broadcast with great success in movie theatres across the world. This is true also for Puccini’s Turandot in 2018 (DVD Unitel, streaming on Operavision) and Massenet’s Thaïs in 2008 (DVD & Blu-ray, RAI/Arthaus Musik) both staged at the Teatro Regio Torino and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Thaïs has been included in the list of twenty landmark opera productions over the past twenty years, compiled by BBC Music Magazine in 2012.
Stefano Poda’s worldwide career numbers about one hundred productions. His more recent and best-known works include Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (2019); Roméo et Juliette at the NCPA of Beijing (2018); Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra de Lausanne broadcast on ARTE TV (2017); Boris Godunov at the Korea National Opera (2017); Il Trovatore at the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari (2016); Fosca by Carlos Gomes and Titan, a choreography on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, both at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (2016); L’Elisir d’amore at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg (2016); Ariodante at the Opéra de Lausanne (2016); Otello at the Hungarian State Opera of Budapest (2015); Andrea Chénier at the Korea National Opera (2015); Tristan und Isolde conducted by Zubin Mehta for the opening of the 77th edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival (2014); Thaïs at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (2015); Attila for the opening of the St. Gallen Festival (2013); Don Carlo at the Theater Erfurt (2013); Tosca in Klagenfurt (2012) and Wuppertal (2014); Il Trovatore at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens Festival (2012, revival in 2017); Maria Stuarda at the Opera Graz (2012, revival in Bilbao in 2013); Trittico by Puccini at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (2011); Leggenda by Alessandro Solbiati at the Teatro Regio di Torino (2011; DVD EMA Vinci Records); La Forza del Destino (2011) at the Teatro Regio di Parma (DVD Unitel) with a revival at the Festival Verdi in Parma (2014); Rigoletto (2010, 2013), Lucia di Lammermoor (2011) and Nabucco (2012) at the Teatro Verdi in Padua and in Trieste (2014); Falstaff with Ruggero Raimondi in Liège (2009) streamed in movie theatres around the world (DVD RAI/Dynamic).
Stefano Poda’s production of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue by Paul Dukas at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse won the most prestigious “Prix Claude Rostand de la Critique Française” for best opera production in 2019. He was invited as special guest to the PQ Prague Quadriennal 2019, the 14th edition of the largest international festival of theatre and stage design.
Puccini: Turandot - Teatro Regio Torino
Gounod: Faust - Teatro Regio Torino
Massenet: Thaïs - Teatro Regio Torino, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - Lausanne Opera
Mahler: Titan, a choreography on Mahler’s Symphony No.1 - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Donizetti: L’Elisir d’amore – Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg
Verdi: Otello – Hungarian State Opera, Budapest
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Arts Factory Society A New Creative Hub In Vancouver, British Columbia
About the Arts Factory
Artist Studios
The Arts Factory Opens in Summer of 2015!
The City of Vancouver and Arts Factory Society are pleased to announce that The Arts Factory, a new cultural hub at 281 Industrial Avenue, will open its doors in July 2015. After two years of renovations, the City-owned building has been transformed from an old warehouse into a multi-disciplinary arts facility that will provide affordable studio and production space to a community of professional artists and arts organizations.
"City Hall is committed to expanding arts and culture spaces, making Vancouver even more vibrant and building on support for our local arts community and booming creative economy," said Mayor Gregor Robertson. "Council is proud to support this partnership to build a unique multi-disciplinary creative hub in a City-owned building - it helps meet Vancouver's huge need for new affordable workspace for artists."
The Arts Factory is primarily geared to serve professional artists requiring industrial fabrication such as sculptures, painting, fabric, wood, and ceramics. The 21,000-square-foot industrial warehouse will include shared production and office space, as well as multiple artist studios and administrative "hot desks" for artists and professionals in the cultural sector.
The Arts Factory has re-launched an open selection process for artists and arts collectives interested in the studio space — encouraging a mix of emerging and established artists requiring industrial work space. Arts professionals and arts organizations are also encouraged to apply for the office space available in the facility.
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1916 - In the year that Edward S Budzynski was born, the Battle of Verdun was fought from February through December. It was the largest and longest battle of World War I, lasting 303 days. The original estimates were 714,231 casualties - 377,231 French and 337,000 German, an average of 70,000 casualties a month. Current estimates are even larger. The Battle of the Somme was also fought from July through September of the same year. Original estimates were 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German casualties.
1921 - Edward was merely 5 years old when the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
1979 - By the time he was 63 years old, on November 4th, Iranian militant students seized the US embassy in Teheran and held 52 American citizens and diplomats hostage for 444 days. They were released at the end of the inauguration speech of the newly elected Ronald Reagan.
1981 - At the age of 65 years old, Edward was alive when on January 20th, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. He ran against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, and won 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%.
1982 - Edward was 66 years old when on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".
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“The Best Attitude Is Gratitude”
Meet the Business Woman of the Year: Ani Keshishian of Anoush Catering
“It’s the people surrounding me day in and day out at work who are my inspiration,” says Ani Keshishian, recipient of the 2013 Women in Business Award, presented by the Armenian American Chamber of Commerce.
Ani is the Director of Human Resources for both L.A. Banquets & Anoush Catering, where she works to ensure that all of the company’s employees feel like members of the family. Putting together a close-knit team keeps the business operating smoothly and more importantly keeps her motivated. “Without a hardworking, loyal and dedicated team, I can never be successful.”
Ani embraces her personal motto, “the best attitude is gratitude,” in several charities. She actively participates in the SAK Foundation, a charity established by her family to better the lives of impoverished children in Armenia. “When I see pictures of the children in Armenia, I can’t help but see my own kids reflected in their eyes and smiles. The instinct to help them is great and I’m so glad I can through SAK’s work.”
Since the importance of giving back was instilled in her at a young age by her family, she is today involving her own children in charity projects.
Ani recently bridged her charity work with her professional career by establishing the Charity Outreach Division at L.A. Banquets & Anoush Catering. “Anoush Catering and L.A. Banquets have been the backdrop for so many important events for the people in our community. Our Charity Outreach Division is a way of saying thank you to everyone for always letting us be part of their celebrations and gatherings.”
With gratitude for the people around her and her successes, Ani recognizes that the joy in life is in the journey. “Building and creating lasting memories is the key ingredient. Between my two kids, my career, and an incredibly busy husband, it’s a constant juggling act to maintain a well-balanced and happy life. But being passionate, humble, and willing to learn has made this journey pleasant and rewarding.”
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Key Words in Ecocinema Studies
Stephen Rust often tells his students in cinema studies courses that learning to carefully describe and analyze cinematic texts requires us to learn a new set of vocabulary terms and the ability to apply those terms. As students take a further step toward engaging in more specific discourse communities such as Ecomedia Studies it becomes even more important to gain an awareness and understanding of the sometimes complex terminology scholars use to think with as we seek to communicate with each other precisely and concisely.
The annotated keywords assignment Steve designed this past year for a course he taught at the University of Oregon on the topic of Ecocinema represents an attempt to engage students in both linguistic and audiovisual learning. The assignments requires students to identify keywords used by scholars in the field, to provide a concise definition of these terms, and to take the next crucial step in the learning process by deploying these terms to analyze audiovisual examples of their own choice. In this way students are able to both understand more fully the arguments and ideas of professional scholars and extend this understanding beyond the text.
When students signed up for his course it was under the general title English 381: Film, Media, and Culture; so the vast majority of students had no idea that Steve would be tailoring the course to focus on Ecocinema. The course fulfills a general university arts and letters requirement so it draws students from the sophomore through senior levels from across campus. The examples provide a representative sample of the final products the students turned in for evaluation. It is useful to keep in mind that of the five students whose work is represented, two are cinema studies majors, one is a psychology major, one an economics major, and one a sociology major. These students approached the course from diverse ethnic and gender perspectives as well. Given this diversity, Steve was particularly impressed at the outcome of these projects and the class as a whole. This project, which was due during the fourth week of the term, marked a real turning point in the course as students became better able to navigate the arguments made in the textbooks he chose (Ecocinema Theory and Practice and Transnational Ecocinema), more adept at applying the ideas of scholars to the films screened in class, and more engaged in class discussions.
Stephen Rust teaches in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. If you are interested in a copy of the complete assignment, guidelines, or wish to provide Steve with feedback/suggestions on ways to improve the assignment, feel free to contact him.
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International Trans Day of Visibility 2018
This International Trans Day of Visibility, join us as we celebrate the power and vitality of Trans Movements worldwide.
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This International Trans Day of Visibility, join us as we celebrate the power and vitality of Trans Movements worldwide. Watch the video above to find out how Astraea grantee partners like Trans-Fuzja in Poland, S.H.E. in South Africa, and Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project in the U.S. are seeding deep and lasting change and challenging discrimination, stigma, and violence against Trans people all over the world. Trans people face serious human rights violations in every region of the world. In philanthropy, we see that Trans groups internationally are severely underfunded—they receive less than 1% of all foundation money dedicated to human rights, and according to our recent report on The State of Trans Organizing, more than three-fifths of Trans groups worldwide have budgets of less than USD $10,000. Despite the lack of funding, Trans Movements are growing rapidly in the U.S. and all over the world—and Astraea is proud to be a longtime supporter, having supported Trans organizing since as early as 1994. Build Trans power with us this TDOV:
Join us to support activists and organizations on the front lines of international Trans rights movements
Read more from our recent report on The State of Trans Organizing
Learn about the International Trans Fund, an activist-led fund created to increase the capacity of the Trans movement that Astraea has been hosting since 2016
*** Video transcript:
[Ruby Corado (Casa Ruby):] “We are here to speak for the hundreds of transgender people…”
[Ruby Corado (Casa Ruby):] Number one as a transgender woman, I experience a lot of barriers, a lot of obstacles. Many times it felt like people really wanted to delete me from the face of the earth. As I started Casa Ruby, it felt the same way. And receiving the grant from Astraea, it really says that our work is worth it. That our lives are worth it.
[Kristian Randjelovic (XY Spectrum)]: Being a inter and trans person, it’s very hard…It used to be very hard for me in Serbia. I didn’t want to share that. I didn’t want to talk about it. I was, for a long time, pretty embarrassed about it. And when I reached that point, I don’t want to be embarrassed anymore. I just want to be myself.
[Leigh Ann Van Der Merwe (S.H.E.)]: Trans women is the last population ever to be thought about. We are very invisibilized in feminist spaces. It’s like we don’t have the same legitimacy as other women to be in feminist spaces. That’s one of the reasons we started S.H.E.
[Wes Ware (BreakOUT)]: When we started, we had very little funding. We were a project of another organization and Astraea was one of our very first funders. So from there we’ve gotten Astraea’s support every year since we started.
[Jennicet Gutierrez (Familia TQLM)]: I have been working to end trans detention. We believe as an organization that uplifting the voices of the LGBT community, specifically Latino/Latina and also transgender women who have often been left out, it’s important and critical for the work.
[Wiktor Dynarski (formerly of Trans-Fuzja)]: My work in trans rights is not something that I planned from the very beginning, ’cause I was really afraid of coming out. There was almost no trans visibility. Trans people didn’t have a voice, didn’t have faces that could be identified. So it was an issue of shame rather than pride. So we as an organization try to make trans a proud thing. We have trans YouTubers now, trans vloggers. A lot of things have shifted. And I think one of the reasons for that is the huge amount of work that we did as an organization, that we pushed a lot of people to share their stories and be visible.
[Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (formerly of TGIJP)]: The only difference between now and…when I was growing up, and young girls that are here today, they at least have the opportunity to stand in their own right. The girls can go out in the daytime now. My generation could not even think about sunshine and being in a dress, that was not in the equation. And so, as things progressed and the girls, they’re getting out, and they’re jumping on buses and planes, getting their stuff. That’s a wonderful, wonderful thing.
[Ruby Corado (Casa Ruby)]: There’s a reason why you’re in this world. And if nobody tells you, you need to speak it to yourself. And I can tell you it gets better. It gets better because we make it better.
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District of Maryland
Rod J. Rosenstein
Contact: Marcia Murphy
http://www.justice.gov/usao/md
Delaware Man Indicted For Murder for Hire
Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Marquis Antwan Mack, a/k/a “Ice,” and “Goldie,” age 31, of Dover, Delaware, today for use of the telephone and interstate travel in the commission of a murder for hire.
The indictment was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge William P. McMullan of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Baltimore Field Division; and Chief Paul M. Bernat of the Dover Police Department.
The indictment alleges that from September 3, 2014 through September 12, 2014, Mack used his cellular telephone and traveled from Delaware to Maryland to arrange a murder for hire. According to indictment Mack allegedly agreed to pay $1,000 for the murder.
Mack faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for use of the telephone and interstate travel in the commission of a murder for hire. An initial appearance has not yet been scheduled. Mack remains detained.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised ATF Baltimore and its Delaware Field Offices, and the Dover Police Department, for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorneys Daniel C. Gardner and Leah J. Bressack, who are prosecuting the case.
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Ticket to Write: Remembering the Raisin in Monroe
Steve Stephens More Content Now
May 13, 2019 at 10:18 AM May 13, 2019 at 10:18 AM
MONROE, Michigan - The cry "Remember the Raisin!" doesn’t mean a lot to most people these days unless, perhaps, they’re making a Waldorf salad.
But the rallying call once held the same emotional impact for Americans as "Remember the Alamo!" later did, and for many of the same reasons.
The War of 1812 is often overlooked in history books, but along the shores of Lake Erie, a prime theater of operations during the conflict that some call the Second War of American Independence.
The bloodiest American defeat in that war was at Frenchtown, at the present-day site of Monroe, Michigan, on the River Raisin, a 25-minute drive north of Toledo.
River Raisin National Battlefield Park today offers exhibits and videos that tell the history of the battle and of the Americans, British, Canadians and Indians who took part.
That battle was quite costly in terms of American lives and ambitions. At the battle on Jan. 22, 1813, only 33 American troops escaped death or capture. Nearly 400 were killed and 500 taken prisoner. And dozens of the captured and wounded Americans were killed the next day by Indian allies of the British.
American dreams of driving the British from Canada were at an end. But "Remember the Raisin!" became a battle cry that contributed, if not to outright American victory,
at least to an epic overtime tie when the war ended two years later.
Today the battlefield, which became a national park in 2009, is quite unassuming as national parks go, but plans are in the works to change all of that. A proposed $100 million development would turn the park and surrounding area into a major visitor destination over the next 10 years.
The current visitor center, a re-purposed house, would be replaced with a $20 million education center in a former ice-hockey arena at the edge of the park.
Several other houses in the neighborhood would be bought and razed to make way for a re-creation of historic Frenchtown on its original site. A $10 million Wyandot Indian tribal center also is planned in the area.
Although all of the private and public funds necessary for the proposal have yet to be secured, the redevelopment is scheduled to begin next year.
In the meantime, visitors to Monroe will find other historical sites that are also worth a visit, including the one place in Michigan where the state flag of Kentucky always flies. A monument at Kentucky Memorial Place honors the American soldiers, mostly members of the Kentucky militia, who fell at the River Raisin.
In downtown Monroe, the Monroe County Historical Museum has exhibits that include a collection of mementos and memorabilia of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, of Little Big Horn fame. Custer, an Ohio native, lived in Monroe for a time, married a local woman and commanded the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, which played a crucial role at Gettysburg in the Civil War.
A large equestrian statue of Custer stands at the corner of Monroe and Elm streets along the River Raisin.
So don’t forget.
More information about River Raisin National Battlefield Park is available at 734-243-7136 or visit www.nps.gov/rira.
Steve Stephens can be reached at sstephens@dispatch.com.
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Could Alzheimer’s stem from infections like Salmonella
Gina Kolata of The New York Times reports on new research by a team of investigators at Harvard which suggests Alzheimer’s disease stems from the toxic remnants of the brain’s attempt to fight off infection.
It is still early days, but Alzheimer’s experts not associated with the work are captivated by the idea that infections, including ones that are too mild to elicit symptoms, may produce a fierce reaction that leaves debris in the brain, causing Alzheimer’s. The idea is surprising, but it makes sense, and the Harvard group’s data, published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, supports it. If it holds up, the hypothesis has major implications for preventing and treating this degenerative brain disease.
The Harvard researchers report a scenario seemingly out of science fiction. A virus, fungus or bacterium gets into the brain, passing through a membrane — the blood-brain barrier — that becomes leaky as people age. The brain’s defense system rushes in to stop the invader by making a sticky cage out of proteins, called beta amyloid. The microbe, like a fly in a spider web, becomes trapped in the cage and dies. What is left behind is the cage — a plaque that is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s.
So far, the group has confirmed this hypothesis in neurons growing in petri dishes as well as in yeast, roundworms, fruit flies and mice. There is much more work to be done to determine if a similar sequence happens in humans, but plans — and funding — are in place to start those studies, involving a multicenter project that will examine human brains.
“It’s interesting and provocative,” said Dr. Michael W. Weiner, a radiology professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a principal investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, a large national effort to track the progression of the disease and look for biomarkers like blood proteins and brain imaging to signal the disease’s presence.
The work began when Robert D. Moir, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, had an idea about the function of amyloid proteins, normal brain proteins whose role had long been a mystery.
The proteins were traditionally thought to be garbage that accumulates in the brain with age. But Dr. Moir noticed that they looked a lot like proteins of the innate immune system, a primitive system that is the body’s first line of defense against infections.
Elsewhere in the body, such proteins trap microbes — viruses, fungi, yeast and bacteria. Then white blood cells come by and clear up the mess. Perhaps amyloid was part of this system, Dr. Moir thought.
He began collaborating with Rudolph E. Tanzi, also at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. The idea was to see if amyloid trapped microbes in living animals and if mice without amyloid proteins were quickly ravaged by infections that amyloid could have stopped.
The answers, they reported, were yes and yes.
In one study, the group injected Salmonella bacteria into the brains of young mice that did not have plaques.
“Overnight, the bacteria seeded plaques,” Dr. Tanzi said. “The hippocampus was full of plaques, and each plaque had a single bacterium at its center.”
In contrast, mice that did not make beta amyloid succumbed more quickly to the bacterial infection, and did not make plaques.
This entry was posted in Salmonella and tagged alzheimer's, amyloid plaques, infection, salmonella by Doug Powell. Bookmark the permalink.
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Bates Emergency Medical Services (EMS) was founded in the 1995-1996 academic year, and has provided Basic Life Support (BLS) care to the Bates community ever since. Bates EMS is composed of student volunteers licensed at the EMT-Basic or Wilderness EMT levels in the State of Maine.
Bates EMS is in service and available 24/7 when classes are in session. 3 EMTs are on call at all times, and carry portable radios allowing them to be dispatched and to communicate with both the Bates EMS crew and Bates Security. When Bates EMS is dispatched, one EMT responds to the scene in the Bates EMS emergency response vehicle, which carries all equipment mandated by Maine EMS regulations, including a primary jump bag, oxygen, and an AED. Two other EMTs respond on foot or with Bates Security, carrying small packs which contain the necessary equipment for the initial moments of a call. Bates EMS responds to approximately 150 calls per year, which range from general malaise to multi-systems trauma to cardiac arrest.
Bates EMS works constantly with United Ambulance Service, who provides transport and Advanced Life Support (ALS) when necessary. Bates EMS is also partnered with a United Ambulance Service paramedic, who acts as the Director of Service. Additionally, Bates EMS uses United Ambulance Service’s facilities and instructors for training.
Bates EMS is partnered with the Bates College Office of Residence Life and Health Education. In working closely alongside the Bates College Administration, Bates EMS is able to best serve the needs of the Bates community.
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Baxter Highlights Business Strategies and Innovation at 2018 Investor Conference
Company Increases Financial Guidance for 2020 and Provides Outlook for 2023
NEW YORK - May 21, 2018
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX), today at its investor conference, outlined the company’s strategies to drive sustained growth, deliver attractive shareholder value and advance patient care around the world. Baxter defined its top-quartile goals around four key areas: patient safety and quality; growth through innovation; best place to work; and industry-leading performance; and its leadership team highlighted strategic growth opportunities across its six global businesses. Additionally, the company showcased innovative products and technologies that should bring meaningful benefits to patients and their healthcare providers.
“Fueled by Baxter’s strong progress over the last two years, we’re well positioned to launch the next phase of our business transformation,” said José (Joe) E. Almeida, chairman and chief executive officer. “Our growing investment in innovation combined with an expanding focus across the spectrum of care will help increase our impact for patients while driving growth for investors. These efforts will remain firmly rooted in our core mission to save and sustain lives, and reflect the commitment to operational efficiency that has sparked our transformation to date.”
2020 Outlook
Baxter expects to grow sales 4 to 5 percent on a compounded annual basis at constant currency rates from 2018 through 2020. Through a relentless focus on disciplined financial management, operational excellence and accelerated innovation, the company now expects a 2020 adjusted operating margin of 20 to 21 percent and adjusted diluted earnings of $3.60 to $3.75 per share. Baxter also now expects free cash flow (operating cash flow less capital expenditures) of approximately $2.1 billion in 2020. See the table below for a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures contained in this paragraph.
The company expects sales to grow approximately 5 percent on a compounded annual basis at constant currency rates from 2018 to 2023. In 2023, the company anticipates an adjusted operating margin of 23 to 24 percent and adjusted diluted earnings of $4.90 to $5.05 per share. Baxter also expects to generate free cash flow of approximately $2.65 billion in 2023. See the table below for a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures contained in this paragraph.
“Our confidence in our strategic trajectory is reflected in today’s updated financial guidance,” said Jay Saccaro, Baxter’s chief financial officer. “Continued strong performance provides us the fuel to reinvest in growth and return value to shareholders through increased dividends and share repurchases, while also creating unparalleled flexibility to pursue strategic business development opportunities.”
Non-GAAP Reconciliation
The non-GAAP measures in the 2020 and 2023 financial outlook above reflect the impact of several known items, as set forth below. Other items that may impact those measures that are not known as of the date hereof (including foreign exchange rates) are not included in the reconciliations below. The actual GAAP measures for 2020 and 2023 may differ materially from the numbers set forth below.
Operating Margin – Adjusted
Known intangible asset amortization
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Operating Margin – GAAP
Diluted Earnings per Share – Adjusted
Diluted Earnings per Share – GAAP
$2.65 billion
Capital expenditures
Operating Cash Flow
Baxter Innovation Hall
Attendees at Baxter’s investor conference received a firsthand look at innovative products and technologies that are making a difference for patients and providers today as well as a robust pipeline of future opportunities the company believes have the potential to advance healthcare globally for years to come. Examples of Baxter’s patient-centric approach to innovation across its six global business units include the following:
In Renal Care: Baxter showcased its latest automated peritoneal dialysis (PD) system, Kaguya with Sharesource1 remote patient management. The platform was launched exclusively in Japan in March and builds off the success of the Amia platform with innovations tailored to the unique needs of Japanese patients. The company’s Sharesource technology helps to transform home dialysis by providing clinicians the ability to monitor and adjust patient therapy programs remotely. In addition, Baxter demonstrated an innovative home PD solution generation system that could help streamline the process for conducting PD therapy at home by reducing the supplies and deliveries required to administer it, streamlining the administrative workload involved in managing the therapy and creating an opportunity to personalize it with precise prescribing options.
In Medication Delivery: Patient care is moving from a one-size-fits-all approach toward data-driven care, tailored to individual patient needs. Baxter’s team showcased an integrated management platform it is developing for personalized fluid management that combines the company’s newest smart pump, the Spectrum IQ Infusion System, with real-time fluid monitoring technology along with balanced solutions to optimize patient therapy.
In Pharmaceuticals: Baxter showcased its growing generic injectables portfolio across key therapeutic areas including anesthesia, anti-infectives, cardiovascular, oncology and specialty care. Baxter provides generic medications in a variety of differentiated delivery platforms, including ready-to-use premixed injectable products, frozen and liquid preparations, and vial and ampoule presentations to meet the variety of infusion methods used around the world by healthcare providers to treat their patients.
In Clinical Nutrition: Approximately 70percent2 of critically ill hospital patients suffer from malnutrition, of which 80 percent go undiagnosed. Baxter is working to address this critical need and bring more innovative nutrition products to market that utilize the company’s leading triple-chamber technology.
In Advanced Surgery: Baxter showcased innovative enhancements to Floseal and Tisseel, the company’s leading hemostat and sealant products, as well as microsurgery products that provide surgeons with a comprehensive portfolio to help surgeons work quickly and efficiently.
In Acute Therapies: Baxter’s new Prismax1 system – which is currently available in select markets – offers clinicians the flexibility to meet patients’ diverse needs. It is the company’s latest innovation to simplify and make continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and other extracorporeal (outside the body) blood purification easier to administer. The Prismax system was designed to simplify the complexities of delivering CRRT from set-up to treatment delivery – reducing the time and resources required to administer the therapy. The platform was shown with the company’s oXiris set, which can be used to help remove excessive levels of cytokines, endotoxin and other inflammatory mediators from a patient’s blood. This makes oXiris the first blood purification set that can be used in CRRT and sepsis management protocols.
Investor Conference Webcast
A webcast of Baxter's investor conference and accompanying slides can be accessed live from the investor section of the company's website at www.baxter.com beginning at 7 a.m. CDT on May 21, 2018. A replay of the presentations will also be posted to the site following the live event.
About Baxter
Every day, millions of patients and caregivers rely on Baxter’s leading portfolio of critical care, nutrition, renal, hospital and surgical products. For more than 85 years, we’ve been operating at the critical intersection where innovations that save and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers that make it happen. With products, technologies and therapies available in more than 100 countries, Baxter’s employees worldwide are now building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations. To learn more, visit www.baxter.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
This release includes forward-looking statements concerning the company’s financial results, R&D pipeline, including planned product launches (many of which are subject to regulatory approval) and results of clinical trials, business development activities, capital structure, cost savings initiatives and financial outlook for 2020 and 2023. The statements are based on assumptions about many important factors, including the following, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: demand for and market acceptance of risks for new and existing products; product development risks; product quality or patient safety concerns; continuity, availability and pricing of acceptable raw materials and component supply; inability to create additional production capacity in a timely manner or the occurrence of other manufacturing or supply difficulties (including as a result of a natural disaster or otherwise); breaches or failures of the company’s information technology systems, including by cyberattack; future actions of regulatory bodies and other governmental authorities, including FDA, the Department of Justice, the New York Attorney General and foreign regulatory agencies; failures with respect to compliance programs; future actions of third parties, including payers; U.S. healthcare reform and other global austerity measures; pricing, reimbursement, taxation and rebate policies of government agencies and private payers; the impact of competitive products and pricing, including generic competition, drug reimportation and disruptive technologies; global, trade and tax policies; accurate identification of and execution on business development and R&D opportunities and realization of anticipated benefits (including the recent acquisitions of Claris Injectables and two surgical products from Mallinckrodt plc); the ability to enforce owned or in-licensed patents or the patents of third parties preventing or restricting manufacture, sale or use of affected products or technology; the impact of global economic conditions; fluctuations in foreign exchange and interest rates; any change in law concerning the taxation of income (including current or future tax reform), including income earned outside the United States; actions taken by tax authorities in connection with ongoing tax audits; loss of key employees or inability to identify and recruit new employees; the outcome of pending or future litigation; the adequacy of the company’s cash flows from operations to meet its ongoing cash obligations and fund its investment program; and other risks identified in Baxter’s most recent filing on Form 10-K and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings, all of which are available on Baxter’s website. Baxter does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.
1Not cleared in the United States
2Norman k, et al. Clin Nutr 2008:27:5-15.
Baxter, Kaguya, Sharesource, Amia, Spectrum IQ, Floseal, Tisseel, Prismax, and oXiris are trademarks of Baxter International Inc. or its subsidiaries.
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Our Department of Pathology residents and fellows have an excellent track record in obtaining fellowships and career positions after training. Check out the list below for our graduates' outcomes.
Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office, San Antonio, Texas
Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Houston, Texas
Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department, Miami, Florida
Gastrointestinal Pathology
AmeriPath Institute of Gastrointestinal Pathology
Stuart C. Lauchlan Fellowship in Women's Pathology, Warren Alpert Medical School Brown University
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Molecular Genetic Pathology
Houston Citywide Neuropathology
Pediatric Pathology
Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
Surgical Pathology
Women's Pathology (Breast and Gynecologic Pathology)
Career Positions
AmeriPath Institute of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Cleveland, Ohio
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, Texas
Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Children’s Hospital of New Orleans’s, New Orleans, Louisiana
Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio
Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana
IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu, Hawaii
Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee
Arkana Laboratories (formerly NephroPath), Little Rock, Arkansas
North Texas Pathology Laboratories, Rowlett, Texas
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Baltimore, Maryland
Private Practice, Birmingham, Alabama
Private Practice, Crowley, Louisiana
Private Practice, Hawaii
Private Practice, Longview, Texas
Private Practice, Nashville, Tennessee
Providence Yakima Medical Center, Yakima, Washington
Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, California
Reading Health System, West Reading, Pennsylvania
St Francis Hospital system, Tulsa, Oklahoma
St. Joseph Medical Center, Houston, Texas
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
Thyroid Cytopathology Partners, Austin, Texas
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas
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Simple Minds Talk Iggy Pop Stealing Their 'Goodies' Back In the Day -- And Singing With Bowie
9/25/2018 by Gary Graff
Dean Chalkley
Sarah Brown, Charlie Burchill, Ged Grimes, Jim Kerr, Gordy Goudie and Cherisse Osei of Simple Minds.
Simple Minds commemorated the 40th anniversary of its formation last year with the release of a new album, Walk Between Worlds. Now the Scottish group -- which is on its first full-scale North American tour in a couple of decades -- is hatching plans to do the same for the 40th anniversary of its first two album, the 1979 pair of Life in a Day and Real to Real Cacophony -- with even more new music.
"That's exactly what we're thinking about," frontman Jim Kerr, who remains from that original lineup along with guitarist-keyboardist Charlie Burchill, tells Billboard. "It would be great that very month (April) to put something out and make a bit of a nod towards that -- possibly an EP or something. It's got to be new (music), but it's got to be really good. And it's got to evoke that first record, 'cause that would bring the cycle around. So stay tuned..."
Flashing back to those first days in a recording studio also has Kerr experiencing memory flashbacks -- including how his relationship with David Bowie began during sessions for Real to Real Cacophony at Rockfield studios in Wales.
After recording Life in a Day in London "overwhelmed us Glasgow boys," Simple Minds opted for the Welsh countryside for its sophomore set. The band set up camp in Rockfield's small studio and was delighted to find out that Iggy Pop, a personal hero, was making his 1980 album Soldier with former Stooges mate James Williamson producing. "It was unimaginable to us that Iggy Pop would be in the Welsh countryside, where there's nothing going on except sheep and hills," Kerr recalls. And it got even better when Pop, who had pledged to stay clean and sober and be "a good, good boy" during his sessions, started hanging around with Kerr and company, who were under no such self-restraint.
"We turned up with a lot of goodies," Kerr recalls with a laugh, "the kind of goodies that are not good for someone who's trying to keep on the wagon. So we had the goodies and a lot of young girls as well. Iggy got word of this and, like a tomcat when his studio sessions were finished and everyone there had gone to bed he would creep around to our little scene. Every night he would come and take all our goodies and all our women and head into the night -- and we still love him for it."
About a week into the sessions Pop brought Bowie with him, who Kerr remembers being dressed in a full-body black jumpsuit and holding "a big piece of cheese -- he obviously had the munchies -- and a can of Heineken beer, looking to see what else we had on the go. For about a half hour he sat there, and it was just great, and then they disappeared." Or so Kerr thought; Bowie had apparently commandeered Pop's session away from Williamson (who subsequently abandoned the project) and was working on a track called "Play It Safe," recruiting the crowd from Simple Minds' studio to come in and provide football-style chants for the chorus. "We ran through the track a few times, and very diplomatically Bowie said, 'Not bad, but why doesn't everybody who doesn't sing for a living take a few steps back from the microphone.' Of course, that just left me sandwiched between (Bowie and Pop) at the microphone and we did it and I got a credit on the album and it was just...fantastic. A lot of stories grow arms and legs as they get old, but that one's true."
Kerr remained friendly with Bowie after that and also remembers one phone call in which Bowie asked about using the studio Simple Minds had built for itself and also seeking a reference for an Italian promoter who had offered Bowie some dates. "It was a lot of money," Kerr remembers, "and (Bowie) said, 'I hear you know the guy and you work with him, but I also hear he's one of the mafia.' And I said, 'Well, the mafia don't go around telling you they're one of the mafia, but I think there might be something to that. But we're not talking about horse's heads in bed; In Italy, to get stuff done you've got to know people.' Lo and behold (Bowie) did work with him and became great friends with him. The man in question was invited to Bowie's wedding a few years later -- and I wasn't!"
Simple Minds current tour, which just kicked off Sept. 24 in Bethlehem, Pa. features two sets with an intermission and a wealth of material both new and old. "We feel we've got to go the extra mile after such a long time away," Kerr says, "but it won't drive people crazy like Springsteen. We know they have a life to get on with." The tour runs through Nov. 11, finishing at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando, Fla.
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Junkie XL Channels The '70s For Xbox Game
In-demand producer/artist Junkie XL conjures a range of '70s-inspired music on the in-game soundtrack to the Xbox racing simulator "Forza Motorsport," which Microsoft will release on May 3.
In-demand producer/artist Junkie XL conjures a range of '70s-inspired music on the in-game soundtrack to the Xbox racing simulator "Forza Motorsport," which Microsoft will release on May 3. The artist (real name: Tom Holkenborg) worked in tandem with guitarists James A. Rota (Fireball Ministry) and Logan Mader (Soulfly, Machinehead) to create nearly 150 minutes of music for the racing sequences and off-track scenarios.
"The racing stuff is very energetic, high-octane music," Holkenborg tells Billboard.com. "For inspiration, I listened to '70s bands that made very dark guitar music, like Motorhead, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and very early Iron Maiden. The music I wrote is basically an homage to those bands. It's not like it has been copied, but it sounds very familiar."
For extended off-track sequences when users are customizing their vehicles, Holkenborg utilized "that same time period, but more of the trippy side, like the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath ballads. There's more acoustic guitars, guitars with a lot of reverb, acoustic drums and percussion."
There are no plans to release the music separately from the game at present, but Holkenborg says, "That's something that needs to be considered. The cool thing is, I own the music, so I could release it as an album and finish it with proper songs."
Perhaps best known for his 2002 worldwide smash hit remix of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation," the artist has also been busy working on his next studio album, which he says is about 60% complete and will likely be released by late summer or early fall by Roadrunner International.
It will be the follow-up to last year's "Radio JXL: A Broadcast From the Computer Hall Cabin," which featured guest spots by the Cure's Robert Smith, Gary Numan and Public Enemy's Chuck D.
"The music is more organic than the stuff I've done before," he offers. "It also has a lot of influences I've picked up in the last year, being in Los Angeles and working on movies. It's more organic. It has tracks with a lot of energy, but it's not a full club album. I'm also working on how I play this stuff out live. All the music lends itself really well for a different twist in the live shows."
To that end, Junkie XL promises to unveil new tracks during his March 26 appearance at Miami's Ultra festival and May 1 at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. "I'm so looking forward to that gig," he enthuses of the latter.
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Solid Waste Management (SWM) was a challenging issue facing Bethlehem Governorate. It contributed to many pollution problems in spite of gradual improvement. There are some serious shortfalls in SWM in which are potentially causing a significant impact on the environment and public health. Wide improvements were urgently needed to the solid waste management system.
The project consisted of two components:
The first was the preparation of a solid waste master plan for serving the Bethlehem Governorate up to 2034. Focus group discussions, surveys for household residents’ and SWM program operators, on-site waste characterizations and field investigations, were conducted. Per capita waste generation rates varied between different localities with a mean value of 0.74 kg /person/day. Average percentage of waste was organic (40.9% by weight), suggesting a strong resource recovery potential in terms of animal feed or compost. Recyclable waste (plastic, paper and card, glass and metals) made up 40% by weight of the waste composition suggesting an incentive to introduce source separation. Most localities (91.4%) in Bethlehem Governorate have a solid waste collection service.
Different options for improving the efficiency of the existing SW routing system in Bethlehem have been studied, and the optimum one has been recommended. The core change to waste collection is a proposed new system to be implemented in 18 waste catchment areas. Efficient routing of solid waste collection vehicles has been designed which will decrease costs by reducing the distances to be travelled, laborers expended for collection and the number of collection vehicles. Forty eight dumping sites have been surveyed in Bethlehem governorate and detailed recommendations for their rehabilitation and control have been presented a detailed financial analysis of two scenarios to have a transfer station (TS) or not in Bethlehem governorate has been investigated. The analysis shows that the mean direct and in-direct operating costs for the collection and transporting of one ton from Bethlehem governorate to Al Menya landfill with a Transfer station will be at a higher cost. So, the final decision was not to establish a TS, and re-evaluating the need for it every 5 years.
The Master Plan recommended that the solid waste collection system for Bethlehem governorate should include construction and demolition waste in addition to the planning and construction of a sanitary landfill for these wastes. In order to reach a sustainable situation of SWM at Bethlehem governorate, different issues should be enhanced such as expertise, funding, public awareness and facilities and equipment that are currently lacking or inappropriate. SW recycling should be considered as an important option and a priority to reduce degradation of the environment.
The second component involved the procurement of solid waste containers, waste collection equipment and building of a central maintenance station.
Comprehensive surveys in Bethlehem localities exposed the real needs of the different types of containers which includes steel and plastic waste containers, wooden dust bins for touristic areas, steel mesh basket containers for solid cardboard waste separation at source, plastic containers for butchers’ waste separation at source and plastic container for compost at household level. Solid Waste Containers was awarded to Al Marah Company for Industry and Trading with a Total Price of $400,234.
Surveys also exposed the need for the procurement of solid waste vehicles including compactors, large street sweeper trucks, mini street sweepers, a skid steer loader, a mini-tipper truck, a roll-on-roll off truck and a vacuum cleaner for street litter.
The bulk of the heavy equipped was supplied by Al Assbah Company for Heavy Equipment (VOLVO).
Other suppliers included BOW Equipment Co, Palestinian Tractor & Equipment Co (CATERPILLAR), Lot 3
The surveys found that the Joint Services Council for Solid Waste Management is in dire need of a central maintenance workshop, fully equipped with tools and machinery. The Construction of the Central Maintenance Station and Administration building was constructed by Al Helo Contracting.
A public awareness campaign has been implemented during this Project. Four central workshops under the title “Towards a clean and beautiful environment in Bethlehem” that targeted related groups and individuals in Bethlehem governorate have been conducted. Workshops evaluation ranged from excellent to very good. At the end of the project, also 10 theatrical awareness plays were made in schools targeting all malpractices and encouraging good practices conducted by Al-Hara Theatre in cooperation with Al-Asbah Company – Volvo Dealer.
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Books by Christopher Artinian
Twitter: @Christo71635959
Christopher Artinian was born and raised in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Wanting to escape life in a big city and concentrate more on working to live than living to work, he moved to the Outer Hebrides in the north-west of Scotland in 2004, and has lived there ever since with his wife and dogs.
He released his debut novel, Safe Haven: Rise of the Rams in February 2017. This was the first instalment of a post-apocalyptic zombie series. Book two, Safe Haven: Realm of the Raiders continues the fast moving and often terrifying story, and book three, Reap of the Righteous concludes the first chapter in this gripping saga. Safe Haven – Ice was released in November 2018 and already some fans are saying, “this is his best book yet”. For those who can’t get enough of the characters, two novellas have been released. Before Safe Haven: Lucy follows the story of one of the most loved characters from the books. While the other release, Before Safe Haven: Alex takes a look at one of the unsung heroes.
In October 2017, he won the prestigious Zombie Book of the Month Award for Rise of the RAMs. In December 2017 he was also awarded with the prestigious, "Best New Author" award by the Reanimated Writers group. In addition, Safe Haven won the "Best Series" award in the popular GMZ poll.
For fans of the Safe Haven books, a stand-alone short story featuring one of the main Safe Haven characters was published as part of an anthology (Undead Worlds). Christopher was also featured in the Treasured Chests anthology and another of his stories, "Condemned" was released in the Zombie Road anthology. More recently, one of his horror short stories has been included in the Trick or Treat Thrillers - Best Paranormal 2018 anthology.
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Safe Haven - Rise of the RAMs: Book 1 of the Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Horror series
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From the multi-award-winning author Christopher Artinian, comes the first book of the post-apocalyptic zombie series people are calling, "Gripping", "fast paced and full of action", "very realistic", "captivating", "inventive", and "emotional". The planet has succumbed to a monstrous virus. Those who die from the infection return as...
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What will you do to save your family when the zombie apocalypse starts? Because Mike Fletcher will do anything, and that's his greatest weapon.From the multi-award-winning author Christopher Artinian, comes the second book of the post-apocalyptic zombie series people are calling, "Gripping", "fast paced and full of action", "very...
The End of Everything: Book 1
Two sisters, one nightmare. The last thing they wanted to do was spend time with each other. Now their very survival depends on it. Forced from their home and thrown into an apocalyptic horror neither could have imagined, they didn’t think things could get any worse. They were wrong. As they navigate the city to escape to safety...
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Three baby boomers, Singing into Retirement!
May 3, 2016 Retirement3 Comments
Retirement for many baby boomers sure doesn’t mean sitting in a rocker til we die! Take the acoustic folk group Huxtable, Christensen and Hood. They sang together when they were young and single, and now decades later, as group member Carol Christensen of the Washington DC area writes for BoomerCafé, they’re singing into retirement.
When college freshmen Terri Huxtable, Liz Hood, and I began singing together in 1966, we never expected to still be doing it fifty years later, with a third CD by our folk/acoustic group Huxtable, Christensen and Hood. But here we are, and this newest CD has made it into the Top 100 played nationally on folk stations so far this year.
Terri Huxtable, Carol Christiensen and Liz Hood today.
Originally all living in Saratoga Springs, New York, which was a folk music center during the 60s and 70s, we never pursued music full-time, since each of us had demanding careers in other professions (Terri as a teacher, Liz as a Public Broadcasting administrator, and me as a painting restorer at the National Gallery of Art). But with all three of us having retired last year, we had more time to devote to music-making; the CD “Under the Weather” is the result. It includes British and American traditional tunes, American Songbook selections, and original compositions by Terri, accompanied on period instruments like reed organ, piano, recorder, and accordion.
After our freshman year we had lost touch, only reuniting once we all were living again in Saratoga several years after graduation. Inspired by the traditional British folk revival, we began performing in local coffee houses, eventually graduating to larger folk festivals. Along the way we were signed by Philo (later Rounder) Records, resulting in our first CD “Wallflowers,” then by Andy’s Front Hall where we recorded our second album, “Melancholy Babies.”
Huxtable, Christiensen and Hood.
Eventually I moved to the Washington DC area to work at the National Gallery of Art, but we continued to meet in Saratoga and perform several times per year. Our music was the cement that preserved our friendship despite being geographically separated.
But we always had a lot in common. As young single women, we all had emotional ups and downs, and rehearsals sometimes devolved into ‘emergency biscuit’ sessions where we sang, baked, and emotionally supported each other through various romantic entanglements gone awry.
Now that I’m living part-time back in Saratoga, we are able to rehearse more often and return to more frequent performances. On the new CD, it’s a family affair because we are accompanied by Terri’s husband Michael Jerling, a noted singer/songwriter, and my own sons Jonathan and Ned on flute and snare drum, as well as my husband Fred Parker on spoons.
So the music-making has become an affair of the heart as well as a testament to our fifty-year friendship.
Buy their recording – click here.
Carol Christensen, Featured, Liz Hood, Terri Huxtable
Eric Mondschein says:
Wonderful story, thanks for sharing. Living not far from Saratoga Springs, I just might have to come and catch you playing.
Barbara Bell says:
Our graduating class included these ladies. We’ve been so fortunate thru the years to have them sing at several reunions, including the 45th last year!
Sam Jones says:
I grew up with you three (that dates me, doesn’t it?) ! I’m AMAZED and SO GLAD you’re still alive and kickin’ ( or rather, singing!)! I guess some of us don’t really grow old- we just keep growing and changing… Again, thanks so much for your beautiful music and your beautiful selves! I hope you think of touring a little again!
-Sam
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Andy Cohen Shares Secrets of Lady Gaga's 'G.U.Y.' Video
March 23, 2014, 10:14 AM ET
He dishes on the "completely surreal" experience of filming with the Real Housewives.
What's it like to team up with Lady Gaga for one of her over-the-top music videos? For Andy Cohen, it was a "completely surreal" experience.
The WWHL host and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are featured in her epic clip for "G.U.Y.," which hit the web last night. The video portrays Gaga as a wounded angel who is nursed back to life by a cadre of sexy women, buff dudes and the Real Housewives; Andy plays the role of a mythic God who witnesses all the action from the heavens.
So how was the experience?
"Being directed by Gaga was completely surreal," Andy tells the Dish. "We were singing the words to her song together. She was giving me attitude, direction: 'Be sexy! Be strong!'"
Andy even had to doff some of his clothes while filming his portion. "I was shirtless in front of a green screen, but you only see my face," he says. He adds that filming was done quickly. "I shot my part, which is small, seconds, the morning after the RHOBH reunion, and the Housewives shot theirs in the days following." The women are billed as the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Band; their appearance was shot at the massive Hearst Mansion in San Simeon, California.
Andy's not revealing everything about his role, however. "Gaga had an incredible reasoning for casting me as Zeus," he says, "but you'll have to ask her to explain because it's better coming from her."
Watch Lady Gaga's epic "G.U.Y." video.
Andy filmed video of his reaction to seeing the video—watch the clip below.
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Left Claims 'Attacks' on Wendy Davis Are Sexism
If you were paying attention yesterday afternoon you probably saw this coming. Attacks on Wendy Davis are not the result of Wendy Davis misleading people (for years) about her life story. No, according to Think Progress, this is about “classic sexist” archetypes.
Davis has said she came from an impoverished family and lived in a
mobile home as a teenage mother, but overcame the odds to eventually
graduate from college and Harvard Law School. The Dallas Morning News
profile and subsequent media reactions have played up her marital and
familial problems to poke holes in this story. While these personal details would be hardly a blip on a male
candidate’s record, they are now being used to paint the state senator
as a classic sexist archetype: the ruthlessly ambitious woman who
sacrifices her children and uses her sexual wiles to manipulate men.
Think Progress then lays out three points which supposedly conform to this archetype. However, in each case TP misstates the actual objection in order to make the argument fit their sexism template. Here are the headings for each of the three items listed by TP, followed by my commentary.
She didn’t really struggle because she only lived in a trailer for a few months as a single mom.
The point here is not that Wendy Davis never struggled. She clearly did struggle. The problem is that Wendy Davis repeatedly overstates the extent and duration of her struggles, usually by omitting key details. For instance, Wendy Davis claimed that she was raised by a single mother and worked from the age of 14 to contribute to the household. The working part is true. What she left out is that her parents were married until she was 11. Before that her circumstances seem to have been somewhat better.
Similarly, Wendy Davis has repeatedly mentioned her time in a trailer park after having a child and getting divorced at 19. The 19 part was wrong. She divorced at 21. But the more important point is that she only spent a few months in a trailer before moving herself and her daughter into an apartment. A few years later, Davis remarried and moved into a house in a nice part of Fort Worth. She didn’t mention that either. Again, the point is not that she never struggled only that she seemed to hide from view some mitigating factors and context.
She manipulated her husband into paying her tuition.
This is a real stretch. In the Dallas Morning News story, her ex-husband notes that he paid for her two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law by digging into his own savings. He also cared for their two children so she could be away in Boston. Both seem like significant contributions to Davis’ success.
But the bio Davis posted on her website doesn’t mention a 2nd husband at all. Instead it reads “With the help of academic scholarships and student loans, Wendy not only
became the first person in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, but
graduated first in her class and was accepted to Harvard Law School.” The same is true for her current campaign bio. The point is that the well-off 2nd husband played a pretty big role in her success, one that Davis has not really acknowledged.
She abandoned her children in order to pursue a career.
The Dallas Morning News story notes that a) her 2nd husband kept the kids while she was in law school and b) the husband got custody of both kids after the divorce. There is nothing in the story claiming this equates to abandoning her children. In any case, even if that were the claim being made it would not be the first time the divorce of a politician became part of a campaign.
Davis has not been shy about telling her prototypical rags-to-riches story. It has been the cornerstone of her campaign. She is only open to this criticism now because she exaggerated or omitted details of her story to the point it was more prototypical than true. That was her choice. Sexism is not the problem here. The problem is Wendy Davis’ decision to mislead voters as the basis of her campaign. That’s something that doesn’t go over well whether the candidate is a man or a woman.
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Former Major Leaguer John Wetteland Charged with Child Sex Abuse
AP Photo/Denton County Jail
DENTON, Texas (AP) — Former major league pitcher John Wetteland has been charged in Texas with continuous sex abuse of a child under age 14.
Denton County jail records show the 52-year-old Wetteland was arrested Monday and freed on $25,000 bond.
Authorities have not released details of the investigation into the Texas Rangers Hall of Famer.
The Associated Press was not able to contact Wetteland or his attorney to ask for comment. The Denton County district attorney’s office hasn’t returned a phone message requesting details.
Wetteland was MVP of the 1996 World Series with the New York Yankees. The All-Star closer was 48-45 with 330 saves and a 2.93 ERA from 1989-2000, also playing for Montreal and the Dodgers.
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Best Science Podcasts 2019
Adolescents with autism four times more likely to visit emergency department
Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use emergency-department services four times as often as their peers without autism, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The findings suggest that youth with autism may need better access to primary care and specialist services.
The researchers looked at private insurance healthcare claims from 2005 to 2013 in 12- to 21-year-olds. Adolescents with autism included in the study received at least two separate diagnoses of ASD over the timeframe. Two diagnoses reduce the chance of including misdiagnoses.
Although there was no significant increase in autism rates among adolescents in the study over the nine-year period, emergency-department use in adolescents with autism increased five-fold, from 3 percent in 2005 to 16 percent in 2013. During the same time period, emergency-department use in adolescents without an autism diagnosis remained steady at around 3 percent. Researchers report their results in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
On average, adolescents with autism had a four-times higher risk of visiting the emergency department than adolescents without ASD. Older adolescents with autism also visited the emergency department more often than their younger counterparts. A third of middle and late adolescents in this group had medical emergencies, compared to just one-tenth of early adolescents. Females were more likely to visit the emergency room than males and individuals living in rural areas were more likely to visit the emergency room than those living in urban areas.
There was an increase over the study period in adolescents with autism who visited the emergency department for a mental health crisis. By 2013, 22 percent of emergency-department visits included a behavioral health concern, compared to 12 percent in 2005.
Previous research has shown that although youth with autism should be visiting primary care doctors and specialists more often than their peers, these services are underused in adolescents with ASD.
Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences and lead author of the study, said there could be a link between this underuse of preventive care services and overuse of emergency-department services.
"We believe if their regular medical and behavioral specialist services served them better, a big portion of them would end up with fewer emergency-department visits," he said.
In addition, Liu said, changes related to puberty and the transition to adulthood may be more difficult to manage for youth with autism compared to their peers. However, their parents and other caregivers may not be aware that they need extra guidance and support at this vulnerable time.
Some adolescents with ASD may injure themselves physically during times of stress, by cutting themselves, for example.
"The consequence is they're more likely to end up in the emergency department," Liu said.
Liu hopes the study brings more attention to the behavioral and physical health needs of autistic adolescents, whom he said are both underserved and understudied -- especially compared to younger children with ASD.
He wants to see more data on adolescents with ASD to confirm his findings. He is planning a similar study of emergency-department use in adolescent Medicaid patients with autism. His goal is to plot an unbiased nationally representative picture of how this special population fares in terms of their emergency-department usage and, in related work, hospitalizations.
With an extensive background in data mining, Liu is also searching for modifiable factors that could be addressed to reduce emergency visits and resulting hospitalizations in adolescents with autism.
For now, he says, "These patients need to be actively taken care of and monitored. There should be better communication between these adolescents and their caregivers and with their regular pediatricians and specialists. If we can do those kinds of things we may help them have less frequent emergencies."
Other researchers on this study were Amanda M. Pearl and Michael J. Murray, Department of Psychiatry; Lan Kong, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Public Health Sciences; and Douglas L. Leslie, Division of Health Services and Behavioral Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, all at Penn State College of Medicine.
The National Institutes of Health and Penn State College of Medicine Junior Faculty Development Program funded this research.
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Bay Bridge
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Alternative Title: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Bay Bridge, in full San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, complex crossing that spans San Francisco Bay from the city of San Francisco to Oakland via Yerba Buena Island. One of the preeminent engineering feats of the 20th century, it was built during the 1930s under the direction of C.H. Purcell. The double-deck crossing extends 8 miles (13 km) and consists of two end-to-end suspension bridges of 2,310-foot (704-metre) main spans and 1,160-foot (354-metre) side spans; an exceptionally large-bore tunnel through Yerba Buena Island that extends about 0.5 mile (about 800 metres); a cantilever bridge with a main span of 1,400 feet (427 metres); and a long viaduct to the Oakland shore. The greatest challenge in the construction of the Bay Bridge was the sinking to bedrock (some 265 feet [81 metres]) of the central anchorage for the two suspension bridges. This feat was accomplished by use of a multiple-dome caisson invented by Daniel Moran. A section of the Bay Bridge’s upper deck collapsed during an earthquake that struck the San Francisco area on Oct. 17, 1989, requiring lengthy repair. In September 2009 the bridge was briefly closed to allow for replacement of a section of the eastern span, the upgrade being part of a plan to make the bridge more seismically sound.
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25-mile- (13-km-) long San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge to San Francisco (opened 1936) and military and naval installations (built in the 1940s) stimulated further population growth and heavy and diversified industrial expansion. Notable was the influx of African Americans seeking work in the city’s factories during World War II.…
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Sounds of Buffalo: Kate Mallen | Vote for Buffalo’s Hometown Riser
by queenseyes June 13, 2018, 9:02 am 0 Comments
List your band members and the instruments that they play.
Kate Mallen: Singer/songwriter. Guitar and vocals
Who writes the music?
I write all my own songs. I started playing guitar when I was six years old and I started writing my own music when I was in High School. Mostly puppy love heartbreak songs. All deeply personal, autobiographical, whiny even. What I’ve evolved into as a songwriter, now that I am older, is quite different though. The more I’ve lived, the more I’ve learned to listen. And the more I’ve listened, the more I’ve connected with other people and grown as an artist. Above all, I consider my self a story teller. But, my favorite songs will always be the love kind. And I definitely write music that beats to the pulse of my own heart. You’ll know them when you hear them. I couldn’t hide that in a performance even if I tried.
How would you describe the sound?
Modern Soulful Country.
Where are you from originally? If not from Buffalo, why are you here?
I was born and raised on Long Island. I lived in Rochester for a bit and moved to Buffalo 7 years ago for career purposes. This is home now.
What are some of the band’s influences?
My biggest influences are Patty Griffin, Lori McKenna, Otis Redding, and Jewel.
Are you schooled in music? From where?
I’m not. My brother and sister and I weren’t really allowed to watch TV growing up, so we had a lot of free time on our hands and we all played instruments. With a guitar laying around, theres always something to do. I never learned theory though. I wish that I had. It’s embarrassing for me to admit that.
Where is your favorite place to play/sing in Buffalo?
Rusty Nickel Brewing Company in West Seneca is my absolute favorite place to play and also where you would most likely find me performing.
What’s your day job?
I work in Human Resources.
What was the last live music performance that you caught?
Taste of Country at Coca – Cola Field, which I also performed at. Rasomville, a phenomenal band, backed me up for that show. They spent a lot of time learning my songs and building them to be full band and I will be forever grateful to them. That was a big moment for me for sure and a night I will never forget.
Do you play/sing covers or all originals? Or a combination of both?
I play 80% originals. I do play cover songs and I would like to play more because it’s not easy for an audience to sit through a long set of songs they’ve never heard. But, it isn’t a comfortable feeling for me to sing songs that I don’t connect with. That’s the hippy artist in me. I’d rather play a shorter set and sing my soul than get more stage time and just sing.
If you could play/sing with one famous band/musician (any time in history), what/who would that be?
I’d want to duet ‘Tramp’ with Otis Redding. It wouldn’t matter where. Just so long as I could get close enough to him to feel his vibe when he sings “I’m a lover-er-er-er-er”
I hear that you have a significant opportunity at hand… something about a contest?
I do. I do. And I feel so incredibly fortunate. I’ll need to explain a bit of the back story before I get to what’s happening current day. Taste of Country (TOC) introduced a program last year called ‘Taste of Country Risers’ which was a year long program based out of Nashville that gave up-and-coming country artists, whom they identified as the hottest new artists to watch, a ton of exposure. These artists were given exclusive interviews and performances on the Taste of Country Nights radio program and were featured at major country music festivals across the U.S. And then at the end of the year the public was given the opportunity to vote for their favorite ‘Riser’. So a similar concept to the bigger TV talent search shows like American Idol and The Voice, but aimed specifically at country music fans.
That program was wildly successful as far as finding some really incredible talent. Brett Young, Kalie Shorr and Devin Dawson were all “Risers’ who are all doing exceptionally well right now in the industry. So fast forward a bit…Taste of Country then decided to expand their search beyond Nashville and identified 15 markets across the US that would compete in a local talent search called Taste of Country’s ‘Hometown Risers‘. And Buffalo was chosen as one of the cities. 106.5 WYRK hosted the contest and I submitted my audition online back in November and I made it into the final four. And then I had to do a live performance, essentially battling it out with another three bands and made it to the top two. And then the live finale was held at Buffalo River Works in December and I won!
This happened in all 15 cities and now, there is the final competition for the top spot. There aren’t going to be any live performances or anything like that. Taste of Country has links to all of the contestants performances online, including mine, and its just up to the people of the cities to vote and to chose their city as the home of the ‘Hometown Riser‘. Voting is open until June 18th. I’m not worried though. WYRK has been so amazing and so super supportive and if any city has the will and the drive to get a hometown girl voted in, it’s Buffalo!
Now, go and vote!
Why is winning this contest important to you?
It’s amazing…when you’re a performer, you start out doing it for you, but you end up doing it for the people who connect with your music and who want to listen to you. They’re the only reason you do it really. At least for me that’s how it is. There’s no better feeling than having someone tell me that my music moved them in some way. Because I know that feeling. I know what its like to have a song touch you, heal you, hurt you, help you. So for me, the people who are coming to hear me play, they’re the only ones that matter. And I’d love to win this contest, for myself or course, so I can share my music to hopefully connect with people. But also for the city of Buffalo. To shine some the light on the incredible talent that we have here and so others can do the same. I won a songwriting contest and I’m proud of that for sure, but there are so many unbelievably talented artists and musicians in this city. And I don’t just mean good musicians, I mean GOOD musicians. Super talented, dedicated, hard working performers, singers and songwriters. We SHOULD be known for that. Buffalo should be thought of as a city that you visit for the music. I’d love to see a national spotlight shine on that fact. And if winning this contest helps do that, it will be worth it just for that. Truly. One Buffalo!
Voting is super easy. No email needed or forms to fill out. Just click on Kate Mallen! Voting can be done once every 24hours.
Do you have a label? A recording studio? Have you recorded a CD?
Not yet!
Where and when is your next gig(s) in the city?
I am participating in a fundraiser called ‘Rockin for Roswell’ at Rusty Nickel Brewing Company on Saturday, June 16th and then I’ll be performing at the 106.5 WYRK LaBatt Blue Pontoon Pop Up show at Water Street Landing on Thursday June 21st. And then I’m opening Jam in the Valley in Varysburg on Thursday, July 5th.
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Lead photo credit: Gail Gallagher
If you would like your band featured on Buffalo Rising, please send an email to newell@buffalorising.com. The only caveat is that you must have an upcoming live performance scheduled in a public venue in Buffalo.
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Mary Barr Raynbird1
#11541, b. 11 February 1868, d. 7 December 1933
Mary Barr Raynbird was born on 11 February 1868 in Dunedin, New Zealand.2,3,1 She was the daughter of Robert Raynbird and Mary Allan.1 She married Robert Burns, son of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, on 10 November 1897 in Holy Trinity Church, Fort Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.1 She married Thomas Burns, son of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, in 1903 in Dunedin, New Zealand.3,4 She died on 7 December 1933 in New Zealand at age 65.2,3
Descendants of Gilbert Burns (#1)
Marriage Registration, New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Lawrence R. Burness, Genealogical Charts of the Family of Robert Burns.
Deaths and Marriages New Zealand Registry of Births, Historical Records Index.
Death Registration, New Zealand Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Patrick MacIntyre1
#11542, b. circa 1846, d. 14 November 1890
Patrick MacIntyre was born circa 1846 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.2,3 He married Mary Grant Burns, daughter of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, in 1889 in New Zealand.2,1 He died on 14 November 1890 in Timaru, New Zealand.1,2,3,4
Descendants of Gilbert Burns
Children of Patrick MacIntyre and Mary Grant Burns
Patrick Arthur Malcolm MacIntyre2 b. 1890, d. 3 Mar 1914
Robert Burness MacIntyre2 b. 1891, d. 29 Mar 1957
Timaru Herald, New Zealand.
Ancestry.com, New Zealand Cemetery Records, 1800-2007.
Ian John MacPherson1
#11543, b. circa 1860, d. 27 May 1918
Ian John MacPherson is estimated to have been born circa 1860. He married Mary Grant Burns, daughter of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson.1 He died on 27 May 1918.1,2
Elizabeth Josephine McLaren1
#11544, b. 15 February 1849, d. 10 February 1906
Elizabeth Josephine McLaren was born on 15 February 1849 in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland.2 She was the daughter of Malcolm McLaren and Elizabeth Findlay.3,1 She married Thomas Burns, son of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, on 15 July 1889 in The Shean, Meikleriggs, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.3,1 She died on 10 February 1906 in 172 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland, at age 56.1
Death Registration, General Register Office for Scotland.
IGI.
Marriage Registration, General Register Office for Scotland.
Annie Elizabeth Tonkinson1
#11545, b. circa 1871, d. 19 January 1934
Annie Elizabeth Tonkinson was born circa 1871 in England.1 She married Arthur Sutherland Burns, son of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, on 8 April 1896 in St Andrew's Church, Dunedin, New Zealand.2,3,4 She died on 19 January 1934 in New Zealand.1,3
Otago Daily Times, New Zealand.
Eglantine Grant Burns1
#11546, b. 11 September 1873, d. 21 November 1952
Eglantine Grant Burns was born on 11 September 1873 in Dunedin, New Zealand.1 She was the daughter of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson.1,2 She died on 21 November 1952 in Lewisham Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, at age 79.2
Birth Registration, New Zealand Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
John William Herbert Haynes1
#11547, b. 19 November 1867, d. 3 October 1927
John William Herbert Haynes was born on 19 November 1867 in New Zealand.1,2 He married Clementina Grant Burns, daughter of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, on 29 March 1899 in Mount Oliphant, Heriot Row, Dunedin, New Zealand.3,2,4 He died on 3 October 1927 in New Zealand at age 59.1,2
Otago Witness, New Zealand.
James John Ames1
#11548, b. 19 January 1874, d. 25 November 1958
James John Ames was born on 19 January 1874 in New Zealand.2,1 He married Christina Sarah Burns, daughter of Arthur John Burns and Sarah Scott Dickson, in 1905 in New Zealand.1,3 He died on 25 November 1958 at age 84.4
Children of James John Ames and Christina Sarah Burns
James Arthur Oughterson Ames1 b. 1906, d. 1979
Kenneth Scott Ames+1 b. 1908, d. 31 Mar 1977
Vincent Grant Ames+1 b. 1910, d. 28 May 2002
Research of Sue Schreuder.
Rosamund Baines1,2
#11549, b. 9 January 1867, d. 22 July 1932
Rosamund Baines was born on 9 January 1867 in Woolton, Lancashire, England.3,4 She was the daughter of Edward Talbot Baines and Elizabeth Job.2,3,4 She was baptized on 9 March 1867 in Woolton, Lancashire, England.4 She married Theodore Gilbert Alexander Burns, son of Gilbert Burns and Jemima Georgiana Ferrier, on 8 April 1899 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.2 She died on 22 July 1932 in 243 Lynwood, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, at age 65.5,6
Children of Rosamund Baines and Theodore Gilbert Alexander Burns
Robert Burns+7,8 b. 29 Oct 1900, d. 1 May 1959
Gilbert Talbot Burns+7 b. 20 Dec 1901, d. 25 Aug 1978
Harold Ferrier Burns+7,9 b. 7 Aug 1904, d. 14 Jun 1971
Mary Rosamund Burns7,9 b. 16 Sep 1907, d. 1994
Frederica Jean Burns7,9 b. 4 Sep 1909, d. 28 Oct 1987
Research of Jane Louie.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. British Isles Vital Records Index.
Death Registration, General Register Office, transcribed by: Lawrence Ruxton Burness.
Ancestry.com, England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations).
1901 English Census, London.
Emmeline Bertha Winter1,2
#11550, b. 1864, d. 16 November 1953
Emmeline Bertha Winter was born in 1864 in Newhaven, Sussex, England.3,4 She was the daughter of William Winter.2 She was baptized on 12 May 1864 in Newhaven, Sussex, England.5 She married Kenneth Glencairn Burns, son of Robert Burns and Sibylla Dayman, on 15 October 1895 in St Mary's, West Brompton, London, England.1,2 She died on 16 November 1953 in Little Manor, Milford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.6
Ancestry.com, London Marriages 1754-1921.
General Register Office, England Birth Index 1837-1915.
FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
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Gerome Kamrowski - Internal Visit
Internal Visit, 2000
Mosiac Tiles, 24 x 36 inches
Gift of Mary Jane Kamrowski
Ann Arbor artist Gerome Kamrowski's contributions to the surrealist and abstract expressionist movements in American art are represented in major museums in the U.S. and worldwide. During the late 1930s and 40s, Kamrowski was part of a group of young artists based in New York, which included Jackson Pollack and Robert Motherwell. Kamrowski's work from this period, including his collaborative painting with Pollock and William Baziotes, is still being shown internationally. In 1948, Gerome Kamrowski moved to Ann Arbor, where he taught at the University of Michigan School of Art until his retirement in 1982. During the Art School years he continued to exhibit widely and maintained an active studio life. His work ranges from paintings and collages on canvas and paper to an investigation of the use of industrial materials and an interest in painted geodesic domes.
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4 Most Thrilling Things About Travelling To Israel For Business
Called Israel by some people and called Palestine by others, this little piece of land hemmed by water has always been as controversial as they can possibly get. Whether you talk about Gaza, the West Bank, or even Jerusalem, Israel is always the centre of attention for one political reason or another, but politics isn’t the only thing that this special land is famous for. Religious sites, a plethora of seas, lush greenery, and everlasting deserts, Israel has them all, and all this combines to make Israel one of the most attractive places for visitors from all around the planet. It’s a great place for business travellers and a wonderful place for your next vacation, so we’re going to give you 4 thrilling reasons why Israel is a place that thrills.
The holiest of all places:
Islam, Christianity, and Jewism are three of the most common and the most famous religions of the world. And while all these three religions have a religious headquarters so to speak, such as, Makkah for Islam, Vatican City for Christianity etc., Israel contains places that are considered really sacred by the people of all these three religions. For Muslims, Masjid Al-Aqsa is the reason why Jerusalem means so much to them, this is where they believe that prophet Mohammad came to this particular place during his journey and prayed alongside the souls of other prophets. For Christians, the land of Israel is where the Church of Holy Sepulchre is located. Besides that, the city of Nazareth is where Jesus grew up, so you can understand the significance. For the Jews, it contains the last remaining wall of the Holy Temple.
The sightseeing:
Israel is blessed with the most amazing natural and manmade sights you can every possibly see. From the luxurious greenery at Golan Heights and Haifa to the never-ending deserts of Ramon Crater, and from the sensational waters of the Mediterranean to the salty waters of the dead sea, you name it, Israel has it. That’s not all, apart from all this, Israel also has vibrant beaches and the ever amazing, Sea of Galilee. In addition to that, the West Bank and Gaza strip offer another side of living and travelling to Israel. A 26-meter high wall is what separates the vicinity of Israel controlled territory to Hamas controlled territory. All these things, make tours to Israel real fun and really exciting.
The diversity:
When someone talks about Israel, you immediately start thinking about Jewish people, and although Jews do represent the majority of the population in Israel, they are certainly not the only one. Other parts of Israel may have a pretty evident demographic, but when it comes to diversity, Tel Aviv takes the cake. Israel’s capital, Tel Aviv, is the epitome of universalness and variety. This city is not only pretty interesting when it comes to the famous spots it has, but also very fascinating because of the people who live in it. Tel Aviv is one of the most open-minded cities you are ever going to see. People of this city, and Israel in general are very welcoming towards tourists and other guests, so you can feel right at home when you go there. Plus, the open-mindedness and the liberalism exhibited by the inhabitants of this city also invites a lot of praise from the visitors.
The food:
Keeping in mind that Israel is the birthplace of Hummus, the first thing anybody would expect from Israel is quality and quantity of food. If you are planning to travel to Israel anytime soon, know that you can enjoy over 280 dishes at every restaurant or hotel in the nation.
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Home News A pizza chain...
A pizza chain announced it will be selling a box of pizza crusts for less than $3
If you love crust, this is a dream come true.
Villa Italian Kitchen
The restaurant chain Villa Italian Kitchen recently announced its plans to sell boxes of pizza crust in select locations nationwide.
This “Just the Crust” option will be available starting July 18 and will be sold for $2.75.
Villa Italian Kitchen said it created this menu option in response to its customers desiring more of the chain’s crust.
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If you firmly believe the crust is the best part of a pizza slice, you’re in for a treat.
On Tuesday, the NYC-based chain Villa Italian Kitchen announced a new menu item – boxes filled with just the crusts of pizza slices.
Per a press release, the chain is selling these boxes because so many customers have asked about its crust
In a press release, the company explained it wants to “give the people what they want” and designed this dish after it received “a record number of consumer inquiries regarding Villa Italian Kitchen’s crust and just what makes it so delicious.”
The chain added that it completely understood its customers’ desire for more of its crust, writing that it is “the last delicious doughy bites after a hot, fresh slice by carb-lovers everywhere.”
These crust boxes will be available at participating locations nationwide
The chain has locations around the US.
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The new crust option will be sold at select locations for $2.75 starting July 18. This eatery has locations all around the US, from California to New York City, though it’s unclear which ones will be serving up this new menu item.
This isn’t the chain’s first big release of the year – in January it launched a gender-reveal lasagna
Earlier this year, Villa Italian Kitchen debuted its gender-reveal lasagna. The dish was designed to ooze blue-colored or pink-colored cheese when cut into it to reveal a baby’s biological sex.
Designed to be ordered as part of a catering package that includes garlic knots and salad, it sells for $139.99 and is meant to serve 12 people. It’s unclear if it is still available for purchase.
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Student newspaper aims to break down international barriers
A new feature in UPEI's student newspaper hopes to introduce international students to its readers, including other international students.
1 in 4 students at UPEI is from outside Canada
Kevin Yarr · CBC News · Posted: Oct 11, 2018 10:45 AM AT | Last Updated: October 11, 2018
Malak Nassar, right, stepped up for the first Disposition column for Chelsea Perry. (Matt Rainnie/CBC)
Disposition is a forum for international students to introduce themselves. It was recently launched by editor Chelsea Perry.
About one in four students at UPEI come from outside of Canada, something Perry said she was struck by during her first year at the school. She wanted to learn more about them.
"I want to know what it's like growing up from a very, very different background from what I'm familiar with," said Perry.
"It was a very personal project initially. I just really like learning about people and learning their stories. I hope that it builds that greater sense of community."
Telling their own stories
Perry said the idea came from a Ted Talk she saw while she was in high school, The Danger of a Single Story, which focused on the variety of stories that make up our identities as people — and the dangers of oversimplifying those stories.
The hope is by letting international student tell their own stories in Disposition readers will be able to see how people are all similar, rather than focusing on differences.
Malak Nassar, an international student from Egypt, was profiled in the first Disposition. Nassar is at UPEI following in her sister's footsteps, who did an exchange program on the Island.
Nassar said she sees the feature as helping international students understand each other, as much as it helps Canadians.
"International students … put themselves outside of their comfort zone," she said.
"They come here and they're struck with challenges so they try to creep back into their comfort zone and they go into groups of people from the same place,"
Don't be intimidated
Nassar said this happened to her, and it took a conscious effort to go back to spending time with people from backgrounds different from hers.
"It's very important to not be intimidated, to go up to people from different backgrounds, from different cultures, to Canadians. There's so much more similarities than differences, and try to see those," she said.
Perry said there has been positive feedback from the first column, and a number of students have approached her about writing their own stories.
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New JDA/Centiro Report Reveals More Than Three-Quarters of European Online Customers are Willing to Exceed Minimum Order Thresholds for Free Delivery
Yet ‘last-mile’ online fulfillment issues continue to blight retailers in the face of heightened customer expectations
Bracknell, U.K., and Scottsdale, Ariz. – September 28, 2016 – More than three-quarters (80 per cent) of European online shoppers are willing to exceed minimum order thresholds if it qualifies them for free delivery or collection, according to data from the JDA/Centiro Customer Pulse Report Europe 2016, conducted by YouGov. The survey of 8,190 adults online across the UK, Germany, France and Sweden revealed that despite this willingness to spend more with retailers, European online shoppers continue to be intolerant of poor service. Overall, nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of respondents stated they would likely switch to an alternative retailer as a result of a poor experience with an online home delivery, or when using a Click & Collect service. UK online shoppers were the least tolerant, with nearly three-quarters (74 per cent) stating they would likely switch to an alternative retailer.
Ongoing online home delivery problems fuels Click & Collect growth
The research reveals that 1 in 2 European shoppers experienced a problem with an online order in the last 12 months. As problems with home deliveries continue, Click & Collect is gaining increasing popularity among European online shoppers. Almost half of those surveyed (49 per cent) stated they had used this service over the past 12 months, growing by 17 per cent since 2014. The French (59 per cent) and the UK markets (54 per cent) saw the highest rate of adoption of Click & Collect services over the last year.
Despite the growing popularity of Click & Collect, more than half (54 per cent) of European adults that used the service had encountered an issue. This figure is lower in the UK (45 per cent), due in part to it being a more mature market for Click & Collect. In other regions where issues were more frequent (Germany 65 per cent, France 56 per cent, Sweden 56 per cent) retailers are still learning and refining how to run an effective in-store Click & Collect service.
“The growth of online retail shows no sign of slowing down – with retailers competing ever more aggressively for sales and offering an increasing array of fulfillment options. Delivering a high level of service in an efficient and profitable manner remains a challenge for many retailers,” said Jason Shorrock, vice president, retail strategy EMEA at JDA. “As our research shows, last-mile issues continue to negatively impact the customer experience and customers are more willing to go elsewhere if their expectations aren’t being met. The good news for retailers is that customers appear to be willing to exceed order thresholds if it qualifies them for free delivery or collection. Now, more than ever, it is important for retailers to ensure they are offering outstanding customer service, or they risk damaging customer relationships and revenue.”
Differing responses to minimum order values
When ordering goods online for home delivery, cost (50 per cent) continues to be the most important factor for European online shoppers, followed by convenience (26 per cent) and speed (18 per cent). Interestingly, speed was much more important for German (21 per cent) and French (21 per cent) online shoppers than those in the UK (16 per cent) and Sweden (12 per cent).
Over the last 12 months, many retailers have introduced measures such as minimum order values and charges for Click & Collect orders, as they look to boost the profitability of their online operations. Despite the majority (79 per cent) of European online shoppers indicating they would be happy to exceed minimum order thresholds, the research shows that behavior differs by delivery option. Twenty-five per cent would do so for same-day delivery and 22% for next-day delivery, but this drops to 15 per cent for standard (3-5 days) delivery. Responses also varied by geography, with a third (33 per cent) of UK respondents exceeding minimum order values to qualify for next-day delivery, compared to just 16 per cent of French respondents.
Regarding free delivery, UK respondents had the highest expectations with almost three-quarter (72 per cent) expecting standard (3-5 days) delivery to be free. In comparison, this expectation was far less in Sweden (61 per cent), Germany (55 per cent) and France (55 per cent).
Returns remain a conundrum for European retailers
Returns continue to put stress on European retailers from both an operational and margin perspective. The research shows that 30 per cent of European online adults return items bought online twice in an average year, with a further 25 per cent returning items three or more times. Overall, 46 per cent of European online shoppers returned items as a result of them not meeting their expectations. A further 16 per cent stated they bought multiple items with the intention of returning the goods they did not want. Significantly, that figure was higher in Germany (23 per cent) and the UK (19 per cent) specifically, which indicates a possible trend towards ‘serial returners’ in those regions.
“Processing online returns continues to pose an operational and financial challenge for retailers. At the same time, the returns experience is having an increasing influence on who consumers shop with online,” said Niklas Hedin, CEO of Centiro. “A significant number of customers are now buying multiple items online with the intention of sending back those they don’t want. It will become increasingly important for retailers to identify these ‘serial returners’ – so they can better tailor their returns offering and use it as a source of greater customer engagement.”
Stores to retain a key role in online retail
According to the research, online home delivery (61 per cent will be the most popular way to shop in five years’ time. However, a significant number of European shoppers stated they will use Click & Collect (28 per cent) or use the store to shop and pick up in store (35 per cent), or shop and opt for home delivery (21 per cent). This indicates that the store will continue to play a significant role in the retail industry in the future.
Another trend is the increased use of third-party fulfillment services to enable shoppers to pick up their goods from locations such as train stations and convenience stores. More than a quarter (27 per cent) of European adults online said they would use such services in the future, with it being especially popular in Sweden (37%) and France (36 per cent).
“It is clear that there are differing levels of maturity within the European online retail market and customer behavior varies from country to country. For international retailers, it is important to understand these regional differences so they can tailor their approach to meet local needs. Key to this will be mining the volume and variety of customer data to generate and use insights to serve shoppers in a much more personal and segmented manner. Aligning this insight with their supply chains will help retailers deliver a better and more cost-effective service to their customers,” added Jason Shorrock.
All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. The results are based on data from JDA’s Customer Pulse Reports 2016. The total sample size was UK (2,096), France (2,057), Germany (2,023), Sweden (2,014). Fieldwork was undertaken between April – May 2016. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been given an even weighting for each country to produce an average value.
Centiro is the leading innovator in cloud-based transportation and delivery management solutions. Centiro’s products empower companies and finer supply chains in more than 105 countries. The company has won several awards and accolades over the years and is ranked as one of the best places to work in Europe by Great Place to Work®. For further information, please visit: www.centiro.com.
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
At JDA, we’re fearless leaders. We’re the leading provider of end-to-end, integrated retail, omni-channel and supply chain planning and execution solutions for more than 4,000 customers worldwide. Our unique solutions empower our clients to reduce costs, increase profitability and improve collaboration so they can deliver on their customer promises every time. Using JDA, you can plan to deliver. www.jda.com
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Aladdin (2019): Review
Credit: Disney Studios
Once you let the genie out of the bottle, it's hard to get the magic back in... and the genie first got out of that bottle in 1992 with the animated classic. Let's be honest, Will Smith following the act of Robin Williams is difficult, to say the least. In the 2019 live-action version of Aladdin, the movie saw some upgrades, which may also be its downfall.
At times the movie seems to follow beat for beat the original material, but the tempo changes quickly (sometimes literally speeding up the film rate to get through slow action). There was new songs and dance numbers introduced into the movie that we have not seen before (which nearly all has Jasmine involved). It's hard to swallow them because they don't seem to flow with the original songs. Basically, if you're comparing this to the original material, prepare for disappointment. That original magic is long gone and was used up for the past 28 years in the movie, sequels and all the use in Disney Parks. That being said...
If you go into this movie with totally and complete open minds (or if you have never seen the cartoon, or any variation of the original source), you might find yourself tapping your toes along with the music and enjoying the sheer spectacle that movies can't do these days because they are just laughable at times, but this movie pulls it off. Be assured, without getting into spoilers, this movie actually is much more child friendly than the original movie.
All in all, you'll still have a good time. The original movie is a hard act to follow, but Disney attempted to "freshen" this version up to play better to a new generation. The biggest change that Disney should have done to make the film better, would be a title change from Aladdin to Jasmine. In this film, she is really the main character and Aladdin seems far more forgettable. Maybe you should stick with the animated classic.
3/5 Stars.
"Dirty Toes," a Local Documentary
Filming in Morro Bay. Credit: facebook.com/dirtytoesmovie
Cameron Sluggett, credit: facebook.com/dirtytoesmovie
Platinum Peek's new documentary film, Dirty Toes, was released online recently and has been receiving a great response. The film is made by a Cal Poly student and his brother and focuses on a local resident with Cerebral Palsy. Erikson Dickens said in an interview with KSBY that he and his brother decided to make the documentary because they like telling stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Their goal is to encourage people to go after what they want and live a full life.
Dickens said he and Cameron Sluggett met at age 14 and became friends. Dickens said Sluggett has never let his disability stop him from following his dreams.
Sluggett said he has never let his disability define his life.
“I’m honored to have a story be told about me,” Sluggett said. “I didn’t realize it was so different. It just seems like it’s my life.”
By age 24, Sluggett grew 5 businesses and traveled to Tahoe, Maui and Nicaragua.
The film is called “Dirty Toes” and you can watch it at cameronsluggett.com, or watch it below!
Local Star to Join Marvel?
Art by @Bosslogic on Twitter.
Straight from the Rumor Mill! Which means: none of the following is official or has been confirmed.
Local Central Coast star, Zac Efron, is rumored to be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)'s "Phase 4" as Adam Warlock. The Marvel character was teased heavily to be joining the other comic book characters on screen in Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2 during the end credit scene. And "Guardian's of the Galaxy 3" is currently being developed with James Gunn returning at the helm. Of course, the third film was set up perfectly to continue after the events of Avengers: Endgame.
So as the production begins to ramp up, the rumors begin to swirl. BossLogic on twitter has done some fan art to see what it may look like with Zac as Adam, and it looks amazing!!
Would you like to see Zac Efron join the ranks of the Avengers?
We vote: Yes!
Haven't done a rumour casting in awhile, starting to hear Adam Warlock @ZacEfron talk so I thought this would be a fun way to get back into it :D hope you like it. #guardiansofthegalaxy @JamesGunn pic.twitter.com/6CdLMb3yB7
— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) May 15, 2019
Central Coast Legend Passes
Doris Day, photo courtesy of Photofest.
Everyone here at the Central Coast Film Society is shocked this morning by the news of the Hollywood and Central Coast icon's passing. We had only yesterday posted on our social media about Doris Day and her work in Hollywood, plus her hotel, the Cypress Inn located in Carmel, California.
Doris Day celebrated her 97th birthday on April 3rd by having more than 300 people come to her Carmel Valley home. But according to the Doris Day Animal Foundation, she "had been in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia, resulting in her death. She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed."
The Doris Day Animal Foundation is committed to continuing its work as a grant-giving organization, funding smaller animal welfare non-profits across the country. Doris’ wishes were that she have no funeral or memorial service and no grave marker. Friends and fans wishing to remember Doris Day, are encouraged to visit www.dorisdayanimalfoundation.org.
RIP, Chewie (Peter).
There are few characters in cinematic history that you could identify from a lineup of silhouettes. In the Star Wars films, the mighty Chewbacca is instantly recognizable.
It was announced today that Peter Mayhew, the actor responsible for bringing this character to life, passed away on April 30th at his home in Northern Texas, surrounded by his family. He was 74 years old. Peter had a recent surgery to help with mobility issues, something that forced him to retire playing the iconic character after appearing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Standing at a commanding height of 7' 2", he openly and continually embraced the fandom of the beloved character that he breathed life into when Star Wars: A New Hope premiered in 1977.
Sideways the Musical... and Sequel Coming!
The Hollywood Reporter is out with an article saying that Rex Pickett, the author of the novel that Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor's screenplay was based on is, has begun working with EFG-Renascence Productions to develop a musical based on the film. EFG-Renascence founder Solomon J. LeFlore and his partner Susan Gee made the announcement earlier today. It is their hope that Sideways will be heading to Broadway soon.
Not to pump the breaks on the project too quickly, but Disney recently acquired Fox Studios, which means Sideways now is under Mickey's realm. Therefore, Disney Theatrical Productions will have the first option to make the musical. No timeline is announced for the show.
According to the article, Pickett is still working in his Sideways world by working on an "unscripted international viticulture travel series" which will be called Going Sideways. He has also finalized a sequel called Sideways 2.0, which follows two millennials following the original wine tromping journey through the Santa Ynez Valley.
Click here to read the whole Hollywood Reporter article.
Avengers: Endgame (SPOILER) Review
So Avengers: Endgame has been out in theaters for about a week and it looks as if most of the planets population has already seen it. The behemoth blockbuster did better than a Professor Hulk smashing a car (if you've seen the movie you get that joke). Speaking of which, if you have NOT had a chance to see this movie yet, do not read further. Seriously. I appreciate you wanting to read this review, but I'm telling you right now, you're going to be doing a disservice to yourself when you see it. So last warning... we're going to be not holding back any punches and will going into MAJOR spoiler territory in 3... 2... 1....
If you had a chance to read my spoiler-free review, you'll see that I gave it an initial 4/5 score. A week later, I still stand by that. I wanted to be able to give this a 5/5 so bad, but in good consciousness, I couldn't. There were several little things that irked me too hard. It was like riding on the most beautiful road, with the top down in a car that only Tony Stark would dream of, but then suddenly hitting the breaks every 20 or 30 minutes... just because.
So let's start out with some of the cons for me that thwarted my perfect score for this movie. For starters: fat, mopey Thor. I get it, he's sad because he lost his family and he didn't "go for the head." But he has New Asgard now and his pals Korg, Miek and even Valkyrie are there. The village... even the culture looks to be rebuilding.... with no thanks to our fallen hero. He's too busy trolling kids on video games. A funny moment for sure when he gives Rocket a big hug with his over done beer gut body suit... but the joke continues on.... for the entire movie. At least the look of fat Thor does. He's back in a wig and false beard and fat body suit as he fights Thanos with the rest of the Avengers, but he's moving and fighting like he was fine. He could have been a little more winded if they wanted to go along with the joke in the fight, but still.... it was a sad choice.
Speaking of that fight... it was amazing, it was tough and, did you notice, it was fought by the girls?Now, this isn't a complaint about getting the girls together to fight or a knock on Marvel showing love to their strong female characters. Its just I actually feel like Avengers: Infinity War pulled it off much better! This felt like overkill. The final battle with Thanos and his army was too massive on scale to focus on one shot that had all the women (even the timid Mantis was in the fray with everyone). It's like Marvel wanted to beat you over the head with the fact they have powerful female superheroes in that moment, and it sure worked. I think I still have the bruise. But on the other hand, if they were going to do it... there would have not been any other time to seize the opportunity. The moment will garner many more cheers than groans.
Speaking of powerful female superheroes... let's talk about the newest one. She had her debut movie just prior to Avengers: Endgame, but her role was reduced here to being a simple plot point, called "Deus ex machina." It's a classic phrase that literally means "God from the machine" and is to have some high powered outside force come in to save the day. You can see her be this in the opening of the movie, saving Tony Stark and Nebula. After the first death of Thanos, she retreats back into the cosmos to fight other threats, leaving the rest of the Avengers to work out their own things back on Earth. But without the use of Nick Fury's pager, she somehow was able to join the battle with everyone else. Say it with me, "Deus ex machina."
Finally there was only one other thing that seemed to get old for me was the running commentary on how wonderful Captain's rear-end looks. Like with Thor, one quick quip is funny and cute, but more than that just seemed gratuitous at times. Even when Captain looks at his own butt after he knocks himself out just took me out of the moment of one of my favorite parts of the movie.
Yes! The best part for me was not the big finale of everyone fighting each other, it was the smaller moments of this movie. When the team travels back in time to collect the infinity stones, Captain America comes into contact with himself from the past. The past Captain America believes it to be Loki, whom Loki seems to love to impersonate, and the fight ensues. This was such a fun surprise and yet so darn cool.
While Captain America was the real stand-out character who carried the film, we can't talk about Avengers films without Tony Stark. He presented an issue where he finally got everything he needed in his life, not what he used to think he wanted. He is humbled, married and a father! And a great father. Speaking of fathers, he even gets to have one last touching moment with his father that he had only ever dreamed of. Tony is the one who started it all, and at the post-credits "scene" is really just a sound of iron being hammered. The spirit of Iron Man will always be there after his passing. We will always love him, 3000.
I was pleasantly surprised by the new threat that Thanos had gained. He lost the stones when he destroyed them himself, and then died, all within the first 15 minutes of the movie. But when Thanos from the past discovers Nebula's connection to the future Nebula's memory banks, it gets real. It had me in a place of thinking, "What do you do when your enemy knows the future?" It's dangerous, and Thanos shows just how that can be far more dangerous than taking a sports almanac to the past and betting on the Cubs.
Other highlights was that we got to see Hawkeye and Ant-Man really shine. I think their characters got some much deserved (and well acted) love in an Avengers movie. Of course the ending of the film was a strong finish, much like closing the cover of a huge, hard-cover book. There's a complete sense of satisfaction and finality. True, we lost a few characters in this film, possibly forever. Tony, Natasha, Bruce Banner (well, he and Hulk worked out a seemingly permanent solution in becoming Professor Hulk) and... can't we fix Vision and put the stone back? What happened there, Captain? And when Captain went back to return the soul stone, what happened when he met up with a ghostly Red Skull?
Again, the cons for me are really nothing more than momentary nit-picks, but for me they stick out like a sore thumb. But this beautifully shot movie does truly take many viewings to be able to digest everything that is really going on. Maybe that's why it broke so many records in just the first weekend alone! It not only demands a second screening (mainly to watch the parts you missed when you had to go to the bathroom), but because this is a true cinematic event that needs to be seen on a big screen... and in a packed room. You won't feel that silly when you cheer and cry, because everyone else is doing the same thing.
Still a solid 4/5 stars.
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Audio tape of Khashoggi killing has been given to U.S., Saudis, Europeans, Erdogan says
By Loveday Morris and Louisa Loveluck and Souad Mekhennet
| Washington Post |
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Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a resident of the United States and opinion writer for The Washington Post, died inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. (Metafora Production)
An audio recording tracking the dying moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has been shared with Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in addition to the United States, the leader of Turkey said Saturday.
"We gave it to Saudi Arabia," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the Ankara airport before departing for Paris for commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. "We gave it to America. To the Germans, French, English, we gave it to all of them."
It was the first time that Erdogan has publicly acknowledged the existence of an audio recording that Turkish officials say backs the assertion that Khashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Post World Opinions section, was killed by a 15-member Saudi hit team after he entered the consulate on Oct. 2.
Wider access to the recording could increase pressure on the Trump administration to take stronger measures against Saudi Arabia in response to Khashoggi's killing.
Although Erdogan said he "gave" the tapes to those countries, it was unclear whether he meant that he had physically passed them on.
A senior German official said that the head of the Federal Intelligence Service received a briefing and listened to the audio recording during a trip to Ankara. "The recording was very convincing," the official said.
The White House and Elysee Palace did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The British foreign office said it was "not confirming or denying" Erdogan's comments.
U.S. officials have said that CIA Director Gina Haspel listened to the recording during a trip to Turkey last month.
Two Turkish officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, said the audio makes clear that Khashoggi suffered a drawn-out death. He is choked for about seven minutes before he dies, they said.
One said he had been told directly by Erdogan that the killers took 7.5 minutes to choke Khashoggi. The other said he had been briefed by someone who had listened to the recording. Neither said they had heard the tape themselves.
Turkey has not said how it obtained a recording from inside the consulate. Wiretapping of foreign missions breaches the Vienna Convention. Turkish newspapers had run stories on how the recording was made by Khashoggi's Apple watch, a scenario that was met with skepticism by experts.
Saudi Arabia now acknowledges that Khashoggi was intentionally killed in the building and says it has arrested 18 people. It also has fired two senior officials close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The crown prince has not been directly implicated by Turkey, but Erdogan has said that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the "highest levels" in Saudi Arabia and that he doesn't think King Salman is responsible.
Erdogan said that he may meet President Donald Trump during his Paris visit. Two Turkish officials said they expected a meeting to take place, with discussion to include U.S.-Turkish relations, Iranian sanctions and the Khashoggi case.
As Turkey has increased pressure on the Saudis through leaks to the news media on the gruesome killing, Saudi Arabia has been forced to shift its story. Saudi officials had initially insisted that the journalist left the consulate alive.
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Analysts and Western diplomats say that Erdogan may be using the carefully orchestrated leaks to leverage Turkish interests internationally.
"Erdogan can afford for this crisis to play out in a number of different ways, given the strength of his position," said one Western diplomat who declined to be named, citing protocol. "He has a media infrastructure that works for him, and power is pretty much centralized."
Turkish officials had repeatedly complained about a lack of Saudi cooperation in the investigation, saying that Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor, who visited Istanbul last month, did not share any information.
The Turkish official who said he had been briefed on the tape said the prosecutor had been more interested in finding out what evidence Turkey already had than in offering information. He also asked for the dead journalist's cellphones, the official said.
Erdogan said the Saudi prosecutor was obstructive during his visit. "And then they invite our chief prosecutor there," he said. "The scene of the crime is here."
"The murder or murders are definitely within this 15," he said, referencing 15 members of an alleged hit team identified by Turkish authorities. "The Saudi Arabian administration will succeed in revealing this by making these 15 people talk."
Speaking at an International Peace Institute event in New York on Friday evening, Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi's intelligence service and ambassador to Washington and London, rejected calls for an international investigation into the killing. "The kingdom is proud of its legal system," he said. "It will never accept foreign interference in that system."
He said he expects Saudi Arabia to "put all the facts on the table."
"The kingdom wants to show the rest of the world exactly what happened and to go on from there," he said. He said he hoped that would mean an improvement in the conduct of the Saudi security forces and also in the image of the kingdom, "which has been tarnished by this tragic and extraordinarily painful incident in all of our lives."
However, Turkish officials say that they do not trust Saudi Arabia to try the suspects or hold accountable the person responsible for giving the order. They say Saudi Arabia has rejected Turkish requests to extradite the suspects to be tried in Turkey.
"They are not telling the whole truth," said another Turkish official. "There is an important person behind this and they have to explain."
Mekhennet reported from New York. The Washington Post's Zeynep Karatas in Istanbul, and James McAuley and Seung Min Kim in Paris, contributed to this report.
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Jewish Evangelism in Light
of a Negative History
The primary reason Jewish people today will not easily consider the possibility that Jesus is the Messiah is because of the historically negative relationship Jewish people have had with Christianity. Growing up in a Jewish home, I was sure of two things: that Christians did not like Jews, and Jesus was not the Messiah… and I knew that the two were intertwined.
Why? For many reasons!
The History of Antisemitism and Christianity
The seeds of antisemitism were sown by the antagonism of early Christian leaders toward Jews and the Jewish religion. A famous example is John “Chrysostom” (Golden-Mouth), Archbishop of Constantinople (349-ca. 407), whose stirring sermons moved many listeners. But when he turned to Jews and Judaism, his mouth was anything but golden.
He vented his ire against members of his own flock, whom he accused of “Judaizing” because they were visiting synagogues and some were trying to keep the Jewish feasts. Underlying his pastoral concerns was a deep disdain for the Jewish people. He wrote,
Do you not see that you are condemned by the testimony of what Christ and the prophets predicted and which the facts have proved? But why should this surprise me? That is the kind of people you are. From the beginning you have been shameless and obstinate, ready to fight at all times against obvious facts. (Homily V, XII, 1)
This is one example of antisemitism on the part of a “Church Father” – and there is much more! From Origen to Augustine to Luther and Calvin, harsh and negative rhetoric was often used against the Jewish people by Christian leaders. This attitude towards the chosen people reached a high point in Luther’s treatise entitled, The Jews and Their Lies, where he called for the burning of Jewish religious texts and the dismantling of synagogues. In fact, in Mein Kampf, Hitler asserted that he was merely continuing what Luther started!
There is no doubt that anti-Jewish teaching by church leaders – both Catholic and Protestant – contributed greatly to the Crusades, pogroms and finally to the the Holocaust.
This intermingling of the Church’s anti-Jewish teaching and the resultant antisemitism it fostered is an almost insurmountable obstacle to Jewish evangelism by Christians today. But this dark cloud can be pierced!
I know this is true because the Lord reached me through faithful and loving Gentile Christians who showed me the difference between what I was raised to believe and what is true of believers who know the truth and have been transformed by the Gospel. As Paul wrote,
I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. (Romans 11:11)
We have the opportunity today to show our Jewish friends and neighbors that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah for all – and that His true followers love the Jewish people.
The “Oldest Hatred” Goes Global
For as long as the Jewish people have existed, their history has been punctuated by antisemitism, the world’s “oldest hatred.” It comes in different forms: from academic boycotts to cemetery desecration to physical violence, not to mention Holocaust denial and even murder.
Based on the latest statistics, antisemitism is at the highest level since the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism started to keep records. Of course, everybody remembers the Toulouse, France massacre of March 2012 that claimed the lives of a rabbi, three students and three soldiers. There are parts of France where Jews do not dare to go out wearing a yarmulke or any visible Jewish symbol.
Antisemitism is also growing in Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Greece and Hungary. We have even started to see the rebirth of political antisemitism with Neo-Nazi parties in Greece and Hungary. Europe is rapidly losing its Jewish communities who, for safety reasons, are immigrating to Canada, the United States and, of course, Israel.
Antisemitism in the “Golden Land”
From the late 19th into the early 20th century, approximately three million Jewish people fled persecution in Europe for the United States – which was known as the Goldina Medina, or “Golden Land.” The 1986 animated film An American Tail depicts this journey, as Fievel Mouskewitz, a Jewish mouse, and his family flee from ferocious cats in Russia. These cats represent the Cossacks who carried out pogroms, or violent riots, against Jewish villages in Russia and Eastern Europe. The Mouskewitz family believed that living in America would alleviate their problems, but when they arrived, they discovered that cats live here too.
Even so, for the most part, America has treated the Jewish community better than any other nation in history. George Washington established a strong relationship between the United States and its Jewish citizens. Since the first American colonies, the United States has provided a place where the Jewish people have flourished.
Yet while America remains the Goldina Medina, the existence of antisemitism must not be overlooked. Just as the Mouskewitz family discovered “cats” in America, Jewish immigrants to the United States have faced notable instances of prejudice. Typically, these experiences were subtle and less pervasive than in Europe, but at times this hatred has become more overt and venomous.
Today, followers of Yeshua have a unique opportunity to reach out to the Jewish community wherever they are and express Messiah’s love and compassion for the “apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8). Antisemitic antagonists and indifferent bystanders of yesteryear can be replaced by people who love, support, and defend the Jewish people. As one of the villagers said in Le Chambon, France, where the whole town saved over 5,000 Jews during World War II, “It was the most natural thing to do.”
Loving Israel and the Jewish people should be the most natural thing to do for Christian believers who understand the biblical mandate of Genesis 12:3. Even though blessing the Jewish people [with the Gospel] might become increasingly challenging, genuine disciples of Yeshua are among the few remaining friends of Israel in a world of many foes. As such, we have no choice but to combat antisemitism.
Notable Instances of American Antisemitism
The first prominent expression of antisemitism occurred during the Civil War, when an order drafted under General Grant expelled the Jewish people from Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. Fortunately, President Lincoln quickly revoked this order.
As Jewish immigration to America swelled at the turn of the 20th century, so did incidents of antisemitism. This discrimination led to the exclusion of Jewish people from social clubs, employment, and owning certain real estate.
Around this time, a young Jewish man named Leo Frank moved from Brooklyn to work as an engineer and superintendent at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta. In April 1913, Frank faced false accusations of strangling a thirteen-year-old girl at the factory. During his trial, the people portrayed Frank as part of the northern Jewish aristocracy who perpetually take advantage of the vulnerable and underprivileged. Crowds celebrated his conviction and used his caricature as a means of calling for the reestablishment of the Klu Klux Klan in 1915. An angry mob abducted Frank, hung him, and then beat his body into disfigurement. As a result, the Jewish community founded the Anti-Defamation League to fight antisemitism.
Shortly after World War I, Henry Ford acquired the weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent, in which he published regular antisemitic rants. For example, he accused Jewish people of instigating the war for profit. He blamed “German-Jewish bankers” for the war and believed that “the Jew is a threat.” Ford also perpetuated an antisemitic lie called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which outlined a Jewish plan for world domination.
The Great Depression further fueled antisemitism. Father Coughlin, a Catholic priest, became a prominent voice for this hatred. He created a weekly radio program with an audience as large as twelve million, and his broadcasts accused Jewish bankers of causing both the Depression and the Russian Revolution. He also publicly sympathized with Nazi Germany and Hitler’s policies.
Although instances of antisemitism in America declined in the aftermath of World War II, a few fringe groups still deny the Holocaust, claiming it was a hoax and a Jewish conspiracy. America continues to be refuge for the Jewish people, but hate still exists. The Jewish community needs believers in Messiah to lovingly stand with them and oppose anti-Jewish ideology wherever it rears its head.
Spreading Hatred in the Middle East
A strong hatred of Jews is also found in the Middle East region, as illustrated by the Arab-Israeli conflict of the last 65 years. If it were not for the global rebirth of antisemitism, the world would have become rather immune to the xenophobic agenda of radical Islam in the Middle East, but the weed of hatred is spreading. However, Israel might still be the safest place for Jewish people to live, as the country is always well-prepared to defend its people against the daily threat of terrorism.
North America remains a haven for Jews from all over the world, but even North America is not immune to the ailment, even if takes the form of words more frequently than in deeds. Universities all over America are promoting yearly anti-Israel conferences under the banner of “Israeli Apartheid Week” on a myriad of campuses. Other organizations prefer to support the BDS movement (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel.
South America seems to have a growing Jewish community despite existing concerns about antisemitism. Venezuela remains a major problem, where the “oldest hatred” is state-sponsored.
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Fla. Army Veteran Recruits US Soldiers to Fight ISIS by Joining 'Veterans Against ISIS' Militia
CP Current Page: U.S. | Tuesday, March 03, 2015
By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter | Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Westerners who have joined the Iraqi Christian militia Dwekh Nawsha to fight against Islamic State militants sit together at the office of the Assyrian political party in Dohuk, northern Iraq February 13, 2015. Thousands of foreigners have flocked to Iraq and Syria in the past two years, mostly to join Islamic State, but a handful of idealistic Westerners are enlisting as well, citing frustration their governments are not doing more to combat the ultra-radical Islamists or prevent the suffering of innocents. The militia they joined is called Dwekh Nawsha - meaning self-sacrifice in the ancient Aramaic language spoken by Christ and still used by Assyrian Christians, who consider themselves the indigenous people of Iraq. Picture taken February 13, 2015. | (Photo: Reuters/Ari Jalal)
An eight-year U.S. Army veteran in Florida has started an initiative calling on experienced military veterans to join him in traveling to Iraq or Syria to fight against the Islamic State terrorist organization.
Fed up with the U.S.'s lack of a physical presence in Iraq and Syria in order to help defend the millions of people who've been affected by ISIS' uprising, Army veteran Sean Rowe founded the group Veterans Against ISIS last Wednesday and is asking for donations and other veterans to join his cause and take a stand against ISIS' radical Islamic oppression.
"We are tired of seeing what's going on, and it doesn't look like anything is being done," Rowe told ActionNews Jacksonville. "These guys are slaughtering and beheading people. We're going over there to stop that. It's not about the money."
Although Rowe referred to his movement as "we," he's currently the only member, as no other military veteran has yet vowed to join in the fight against ISIS. However, Rowe claims other veterans are considering joining him.
"There has definitely been strong support and numerous veterans who are seriously interested in going," Rowe told WLTV. "I'll be talking with them, screening them. I don't want to just take anybody."
Rowe added that he has placed a four-year minimum-service requirement for those who want to join.
Rowe warns that veterans who decide to join in the fight against ISIS will have to make greater sacrifices than they would under normal U.S. military service because a makeshift militia group won't have easy access to medical treatment and won't be protected under the Geneva Convention.
"It is going to be very dangerous, but that's a risk that anyone who's signing up for this is voluntarily taking," Rowe emphasized.
Although ISIS has become notorious for killing its captured opposition fighters in the most brutal and inhumane ways, Rowe assured that he's not afraid.
"I am not scared of these guys," he asserted. "They can come for me if they want. I want to take the fight to them. That is my goal. I want to take the fight to them."
Even if Rowe is unable to get anyone else to join him in traveling to fight ISIS, he said he still plans on bringing the fight to ISIS.
"I'll be surprised if anyone is actually crazy enough to go on this first mission," Rowe admitted. "If I have to go alone that's fine."
Rowe didn't indicate where in Iraq or Syria he planned on going to combat ISIS, or how he would go about it.
"We just got to get in the area," he explained. "We just got to get over there and just leave [strategy] for us."
Although there are no federal laws prohibiting individuals from traveling overseas and acting as mercenaries, there are travel restrictions that could create a problem for mercenaries that plan on using their own weapons to fight ISIS.
It is uncertain as to whether Rowe plans on traveling to the conflict area to fight by himself or whether he plans to join another opposition militia such as the various Christian militias or the Kurdish peshmerga forces.
A number of other U.S. military veterans have already traveled to the region and joined Christian militias. U.S. Marine Corps veteran Louis Park told Radio Free Europe on Feb. 19 that he believes ISIS will eventually attack the U.S. if nothing is done to stop them in Iraq or Syria.
"I know that if [ISIS] is allowed to stay here, we will see violence in the United States as well. So I'm protecting my homeland too," Park said. "I'm not being paid at all. I'm being fed and I'm being clothed and everything, but any gear that I need, I'm paying out of pocket. This is all money that I saved for this effort myself, because I believe in the cause a lot, so I'm willing to finance everything."
U.S. Army veteran Brett Royales, a former machine gunner and marksman, told Radio Free Europe that he joined a Christian militia's fight against ISIS because he felt guilty sitting at home while ISIS was brutally killing innocent people.
"I've been given a skill set. I've honored it over the years. I can't sit home and watch what's going on here — the atrocities, crucifixions, rapes, sex slaves, people being driven out from their towns," Royales explained. "It's unacceptable to me, so I'm here to do what I can to get people back in their homes and protect their way of life."
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Fla. Court - Cigarette Firms To Face Punitive Damages
A state appeals court in Florida Wednesday refused to shelter U.S. tobacco companies from punitive damages in a follow-up trial to last July's sweeping liability verdict for as many as 1 million sick smokers.
The ruling knocked down arguments by Philip Morris Cos. Inc. and other defendants in the Engle vs RJ Reynolds class-action that potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in punitive damages be fixed through thousands of individual trials. It also sets the stage for a possibly massive award against beleaguered U.S. tobacco companies by year's end, analysts have said. The follow-up trial, now scheduled for November 1, had been delayed by appeals by tobacco industry lawyers. They argued that the trial judge was improperly allowing punitive damages, usually the biggest portion of cash payments awarded by U.S. juries, to be set for all Florida's sick smokers at once. Analysts have said the prospect of individual trials taking decades was a much milder threat to the financial health of cigarette makers than the possibility of a single massive judgement. The three judges of Florida's Third District Court of Appeal ruled after an hour-long hearing in which Judge David Levy said the court had no intention of "micromanaging" the pioneering class-action suit. Cigarette makers may appeal on other issues later, the judges said in a brief written ruling. Tobacco companies stocks fell after the ruling. Philip Morris, maker of top-selling Marlboro cigarettes, was off 2-1/4 to 28-11/16, after touching a 52-week low of 28-9/16. RJR Tobacco Holdings Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and the No. 2 U.S. tobacco company after Philip Morris, also touched a new 12-month low of 23-1/2 before recovering slightly to 23-3/4, off 2-3/16.
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Bats go quiet as Cincinnati Reds lose 7-1 to Texas Rangers at Great American Ball Park
In front of a Great American Ball Park crowd of 30,090, Cincinnati collected just five hits against four Texas pitchers on Friday, June 14, 2019.
Bats go quiet as Cincinnati Reds lose 7-1 to Texas Rangers at Great American Ball Park In front of a Great American Ball Park crowd of 30,090, Cincinnati collected just five hits against four Texas pitchers on Friday, June 14, 2019. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2019/06/14/bats-go-quiet-cincinnati-reds-lose-texas-rangers-mlb-baseball-yasiel-puig-joey-votto-derek-dietrich/1463135001/
Mark Schmetzer, Enquirer contributor Published 10:45 p.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 11:38 p.m. ET June 14, 2019
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Tyler Mahle (30) reacts after throwing a wild pitch in the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (Photo: The Associated Press)
The Texas Rangers weren’t sure how much they would get from starting pitcher Jesse Chavez in what was projected to be a bullpen night, but against a struggling Cincinnati Reds offense, anything was possible.
In front of a Great American Ball Park crowd of 30,090, Cincinnati collected just five hits against four Texas pitchers, and Rougned Odor – who was batting .179 going into the at bat – hit a fifth-inning grand slam as Texas handed the Reds a 7-1 loss in the opener of a six-game, interleague homestand against the top two teams in the American League West.
Nick Senzel’s bases-empty, two-out home run in the eighth allowed the Reds to avoid their eighth shutout loss of the season. He raised his right index finger in the air as he neared second base on his sixth homer of the season. He was the only one of Cincinnati’s seven baserunners to get past second all night.
“Chavez did a good job starting the game and then all the left-handers after,” Reds Manager David Bell said. “We just weren’t able to get anything going offensively. I’m frustrated for them (the Reds' batters).”
Derek Dietrich went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and has two hits in his last 29 at-bats, Eugenio Suárez, whose homer on Wednesday at Cleveland was his first since May 24 at Wrigley Field, was 0-for-3 with a walk and now has four hits in his last 35 at-bats.
Cincinnati, which hasn’t posted a winning interleague record since going 11-9 in 2013, fell to 2-4 against AL teams this season with West-leading Houston scheduled to open a three-game series here on Monday.
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Chavez, making just his fourth start among 33 appearances in 2019, finished a season-high three innings with as many hits at the plate as he allowed on the mound – one with four strikeouts against a Reds offense that went into the game ranked last among the 30 major league teams in hitting, scoring, hits, home runs and runs batted in for the month of June.
Right-hander Tyler Mahle lasted one out into the fifth inning, leaving with runners on first and second and one out. He allowed four hits and four runs with three walks and four strikeouts while throwing 96 pitches.
Mahle's biggest problem might have been caused while he was recording outs. He threw a combined 21 pitches to Nomar Mazara and Asdrubal Cabrera while getting a strikeout and groundout.
“They put some good at-bats together and battled,” he said. “I threw some good pitches, and they battled.”
Bell added: “He kept competing, kept battling, but his pitch count got too high."
Still, Mahle felt Bell was premature in taking him out of the game.
“It hasn’t been a good first half, in my opinion, but there have been times when I’ve been yanked when I thought I was throwing a really good or decent game,” said Mahle, who’s logged six or more innings in six of his 13 starts. “I haven’t had many chances to battle into the sixth inning. I threw 96 pitches tonight, but the last time (on June 7 in Philadelphia) they took me out after five innings with only 73. In my opinion, I thought I deserved a chance to get out of the fifth or at least face the next batter.”
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Left-hander Wandy Peralta came in for his fourth appearance since being recalled on May 31. After striking out left-handed hitting Mazara and walking Cabrera, Peralta gave up Odor’s grand slam on an 86.4 mph 2-2 slider.
“When things like that happen, it is frustrating, but that’s part of the game,” Peralta said through translator Julio Morillo about being one strike away from getting out of the inning. “I just have to keep working hard.”
He didn’t want to blame any rust that might have accumulated from not having pitched since June 7.
“It is pretty hard, but I don’t want to make that an excuse,” he said. “I just have to take the opportunity and do well.”
The homer was Odor’s eighth of the season and first since May 20 off of Seattle’s Mike Leake.
Mahle (2-7) threw 28 pitches in a wacky first inning that started with a routine flyout, followed by the Rangers' Delino DeShields’ line drive single to center. This is what followed: hit by pitch, passed ball, run-scoring groundout, infield single, double steal with the lead runner called out at the plate, only to see the call reversed on review, walk and inning-ending strikeout.
Joey Votto singled with one out in the first inning to extend his hitting streak to six games, but Chavez and Brett Martin teamed up to retire the next 11 Reds batters before Yasiel Puig led off the fifth with the first of his three hits, including a ninth-inning, two-out double.
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Making a Successful CIO Transition
By Pat O'Connell | Posted 09-18-2013 Print
Mark Katz discusses the myriad challenges and opportunities he faced as he changed industries and jobs to become the new CIO of ASCAP.
By Pat O’Connell
Switching industries for a CIO creates both challenges and opportunities to make a quick impact. Mark Katz, CIO of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), talks about what it takes to make a successful transition.
Katz’s career began in financial services and steadily progressed in a number of firms before he become the CIO of a major reinsurer. When moving to ASCAP this time last year, Katz’s goal was to turn IT into a leaner, more agile organization. With the full support of the executive management team, he undertook some significant challenges to turn around the IT department.
“When I arrived, the teams were in silos, with some operating independently, dedicated to certain users, and not effectively communicating to other team members about what and how they were providing solutions,” says Katz. “IT was acting in some capacities as an order taker for a great number of break/fix projects. There was little transparency across the entire project portfolio. Most salient, however, was that larger projects were using a traditional waterfall approach methodology. Probably of more concern, though, was that all requested changes were granted for each business request, with less of an eye toward the overall impact to the portfolio, the business and the technology department. In addition, there were some ‘stealth’ projects that had no real business case in a lot of instances.” Katz worked with ASCAP COO Al Wallace, his senior IT team and business line leaders to bring about transparent and meaningful governance.
Initially, Katz invested a great deal of time with the business users to understand their needs and priorities, and a lot of time with his staff, including one-on-one meetings with every IT member, as he worked on changing the culture in IT as part of a planned re-organization of the department.
Katz next addressed IT methodologies. “I’m a big fan of the agile methodology and self-organized teams,” he says. After spending some time first understanding ASCAP’s culture, Katz wanted to ensure that agile was properly introduced to the firm. “Indeed, agile represents much more than a methodology change,” he says. “It is about alignment, transparency and commitment in partnership with the business: adoption through real ‘opting in.’ With this new approach, IT now has a more informed seat at the table with the business, and we’ve been able to get key business people to fully participate in agile scrums. However, to really ensure that agile was adopted at ASCAP, open space meetings were held where business users and technology staff participated. Attendance was excellent.”
Open space meetings represent a repeatable technique for getting a rapid and lasting agile adoption. It’s based on the hypothesis that human engagement is what actually powers genuine and lasting agile adoptions.
“In terms of the mechanics of agile, we start by writing the epic story for each product team, then breaking the story down into sprints, all prioritized by the business, working through the product owners,” says Katz. “Then we have the daily 15-minute scrum with a view to releasing useable software every two to three weeks. Our approach is “yes, we can,” not “no, we can’t.” Change is always welcomed, even late in a sprint. The business users decide the priorities, and the scrums are very candid and very honest. This has led to velocity, but, more importantly, to vastly improved communication with the business lines.”
Another key initiative for Katz was governance, and he developed a project management office (PMO) for the major systems projects. “The PMO is creating integrated process workflows across the company. Its charter is to provide increased transparency that further builds upon business trust. ASCAP leverages a federated governance model with full business and IT participation. Large projects over a certain threshold are approved on an up or down vote via the executive committee. All other projects are assessed for synergies and duplication and then prioritized with the business.” Katz collaborated with the Wallace, the COO, to ensure a full business case was presented for the significant projects.
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Wind Shear, Dry Air Curb Atlantic Storm Activity at Season Peak
By Brian K. Sullivan | September 10, 2015
The day during the Atlantic hurricane season when a tropical storm or worse is most likely to be swirling around the basin may come and go with a whimper.
The best the Atlantic probably will come up with by Thursday, the statistical peak of the season, is Tropical Depression Grace, which started out as a tropical storm on Saturday before wind shear and dry air took it down, according to the National Hurricane Center.
“It looks to be falling apart,” said Frank Strait, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
If Grace can’t get back up to storm strength by Thursday, and no other systems step up, this will be the second year in a row with neither a hurricane nor a tropical storm ranging across the Atlantic at the season’s six-month peak. Tropical depression 8, an unnamed system, started to form overnight about 220 miles east-southeast of Bermuda.
The dry air and shear that robbed Grace of power are also behind the lackluster showing of the mid-Atlantic at this usually very busy time of the year. They have kept many of this year’s storms from maintaining their top power for very long, said Matt Rogers, president of the Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland.
Biggest Culprit
The biggest culprit is shear, when winds blow at different speeds or directions at various altitudes.
“Nothing can survive,” said Phil Klotzbach, lead author of the Colorado State University seasonal hurricane forecast.
Across a large part of what’s known as the main development region, wind shear has been so strong that it has ripped storms apart. Even Tropical Storm Erika, which killed at least 20 on the Caribbean island of Dominica, was finally crushed by shear, a trek over land and dry air before reaching Florida as predicted.
“I don’t expect that to change,” Klotzbach said.
The strong El Nino in the equatorial Pacific Ocean actually helps keep wind shear in place over the Atlantic and it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, according to forecasts from both U.S. and Australian meteorologists.
Normal Storm
If the system near Bermuda strengthens enough to get a name, it may be less of a tropical system and more of a normal mid-latitude storm, Strait said. It has the potential to bring some rain and winds to Canada’s Atlantic Provinces later in the week.
Further ahead, computer-forecast models have been toying with the idea of a storm in the Bay of Campeche at the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico early next week, Rogers said. A storm there would almost certainly spark interest among natural gas traders and energy companies working platforms and rigs in the Gulf.
While it’s worth watching, Klotzbach said he doesn’t think there’s any cause for panic. “It’s still a long way out,” he said. “Models spin up storms that don’t show up all the time.”
If the models still are keeping it alive through Wednesday, maybe “it could be something to watch,” Rogers added.
Or maybe it will be sheared apart like so many other storms this year.
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Categories: Southeast NewsTopics: Atlantic hurricane season, El Nino, National Hurricane Center, wind shear
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Wrongful death trial in Waffle House shooting set for late 2019
A trial date has been set in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed New Year's Day in a Columbia Waffle House.
Family members of the late Anthony Warren filed a lawsuit in January claiming negligence by Waffle House, franchise owners Ozark Waffles, Signal 88 Security and its employee Robert Moses that caused Warren’s death at the Vandiver Drive restaurant.
Boone County judge Jeff Harris will preside during a five-day court trial Dec. 9, 2019.
Columbia police were sent early New Year’s Day to a disturbance at the restaurant, where two men had argued and a gun was brandished, according to court documents.
As the two struggled, Signal 88 security guard Robert Moses attempted to intervene, according to official accounts. Moses told police the restaurant patrons then started to “encroach” on him and he believed them to be a threat. He said in order to protect himself and other customers he fired his weapon, striking Warren, who later died at a hospital.
The man suspected of pulling a firearm during the dispute inside the restaurant, Matthew C. McMillan, 30, of Columbia, is facing charges of second-degree murder and first-degree assault in connection to Warren’s death.
Warren was killed by being shot as a result of McMillan engaging in first-degree assault, a felony, prosecutors allege. A jury trial is set in his case for 9 a.m. Sept. 5 with Boone County judge Jodie Asel presiding.
Jaylon Freelon, 20, of Columbia, was sentenced June 4 to five months in jail for evidence tampering and given credit for time served. Court records say he ran off with the gun pulled by McMillan in the dispute that led to Warren’s death.
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ACLU effort to put abortion ban to vote can proceed
By Heather HollingsworthThe Associated Press
KANSAS CITY — An appellate court panel ruled Monday that the American Civil Liberties Union can soon begin collecting signatures that would put a new Missouri law banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy to a public vote.
A three-judge panel of the state's Court of Appeals found that GOP Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft was "without authority" to reject petitions on constitutional grounds. The 31-page ruling was issued just hours after the panel heard oral arguments in the case.
Tony Rothert, ACLU of Missouri acting executive director, had argued time was of the essence. Most of the new law, including the eight-week abortion ban, takes effect Aug. 28. The ACLU needs to collect more than 100,000 signatures by then to put the law on hold until a public vote in 2020. Rothert had argued the signature gathering should begin by July 18.
"We are pleased with the ruling," Rothert said. "We think the secretary of state was wrong and quite clearly trying to derail the referendum effort. We are happy that the court is going to get it back on track."
The Secretary of State's office didn't immediately have a comment.
At issue is how the Republican-led Legislature voted to classify a section of the bill that changed the law to make both parents consent to abortions for minors in most cases. Because lawmakers made it an "emergency clause," it took effect as soon as Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed it into law.
Under Missouri law, there is no right for a referendum when the law is addressing an emergency. The ACLU argued that parental consent isn't actually an emergency, while the law said it is "because of the need to protect the health and safety of women and their children, both unborn and born."
The emergency issue is what led Ashcroft to reject the petitions from the ACLU and prominent Republican donor David Humphreys, who has cited the lack of exceptions for rape and incest in his opposition to the policy, which does include exceptions for medical emergencies.
Humphreys' attorney, Lowell Pearson, said in an email that "no decision has been made as of yet" about how to proceed. The two cases were not lumped together.
The legal dispute over the abortion law comes as the state's only abortion clinic fights its own court battle to continue providing the service, despite a licensing dispute with the state health department.
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William Boyd, 1949-2018
William Muir Boyd, 69, died Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, at University Hospital in Columbia.
A visitation is set for 10:00 a.m. with a memorial service to follow at 12:00 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 3, at the United Methodist Church on 719 Court Street in Fulton.
Born in Fulton on Dec. 20, 1949, to William and Mary Lee Boyd, Willie was dedicated to his family. The former president of Boyd & Boyd title company and graduate of Westminster College treasured his wife, daughters, and grandchildren—attending Owen’s wrestling matches, playing with Ellie, listening to Henry’s stories, and getting to know baby Sam.
Willie was also relentlessly curious about the world around him, tinkering on homemade tractors in his workshops and filling a sizable library with works on literature, history, philosophy and art. An exuberant traveler, he never knew a stranger, whether in central Missouri or on the banks of the Seine. He also was dedicated to public service, volunteering for years with PET International’s Mobility Worldwide of Columbia.
Willie is survived by wife, Pamela Kirk Boyd of Columbia; brother Jack and his wife, Beth, of Fulton; daughter Julia Boyd Uhls and her husband, Chad, and their son, Owen, of Fulton; daughter, Cynthia Boyd Beckmeyer and her husband, Brian, and their daughter, Ellie, of Fulton; stepson Aaron Warren and his fiancé, Kit Godfrey, of Columbia; stepson Thomas Warren and his wife, Sarah, and their sons Henry and Sam of Washington, D.C.; and many other relatives and friends.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to PET International and Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society.
Online condolences may be made at www.debofuneralhome.com.
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Study: Handheld sales up 169 percent
December retail sales of personal digital assistants grow by a whopping 169 percent over the same month a year ago.
Lots of small packages were delivered this past holiday season as sales of palm-sized devices skyrocketed in December, according to a new report.
December retail sales of personal digital assistants (PDAs) grew by a whopping 169 percent over the same month a year ago, according to a survey by retail market analysts NPD Intelect. Although desktop and notebook computers saw double-digit gains, holiday shoppers apparently could not resist the appeal of portability.
The bounding popularity also came with an increased stratification in the market. Although several personal organizers are fairly inexpensive, consumers also bought devices that cost as much, if not more than, low-end PCs in growing numbers.
"Consumers are willing to pay a high price for the total mobility of personal digital assistants," Sima Vasa, vice president of technology products for NPD Intelect, said in the report. "They're paying $700 for high-end PDAs when it's possible to buy a complete desktop PC for about the same amount. People rely on the new functionality of handheld devices for easier, more efficient completion of the same tasks formerly reserved for desktop or notebook PCs."
The news is particularly good for the major handheld manufacturers such as Palm Computing and Casio, as well as for computer stores, which have been nervously keeping an eye on online sales and their potential to cannibalize traditional retail profits.
Handheld devices are now more compelling in terms of functionality, and there are far more options and price ranges available than there were last holiday season. Since last year, market leader Palm Computing has released several models ranging in price from $200 to $600, and major players such as Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard have all stepped up their efforts.
Whereas last year's PDA offered basic organization and contact management help, this year's device allows users to capture digital images, play digital music, access the Net wirelessly, and send and receive emails--and often faster and with less hassle than using a desktop PC.
Among handheld manufacturers, Palm added to its leadership position, gaining 8 market share points to take 73.6 percent of the retail market, according to the report. Casio, which makes the most popular of the Microsoft Windows CE-based devices, the Cassiopeia, along with several low-cost organizers, came in a distant second, with 17.4 percent of the market.
Relative newcomers Compaq and HP made the top-five list in part because of missteps and defections from established players. Those included Royal, which makes the daVinci device, and Philips, which decided to leave the Windows CE market last year, the survey found. Royal was forced to stop distributing the DaVinci because of a technology infringement lawsuit filed by Palm Computing.
But PDAs weren't the only products flying off the shelves. Sales of notebook and desktop computers also rose significantly in December, the report said. Notebook sales increased by 25 percent, and desktops were up 19 percent compared to last year.
Among computer makers, Compaq was number one, followed by HP, Emachines, Apple and IBM, according to the report. Emachines saw particularly significant gains, shipping 167,000 machines this year, up from 26,000 last December.
"This brand took off because it was the first of the 'bargain PCs' to hit retail channels, selling machines at the $500 price point long before any of the big names," Vasa said in the report. The study focuses only on retail sales and does not take into account sales of direct manufacturers like Dell or Gateway, or even direct sales by Compaq.
The increase in PC sales is also good news for retailers at a time when more attention than ever is being paid to online sellers.
PDA sales specifically are a bright spot for retailers. Although many Palm products are available for far below retail price on the Net, electronics stores saw their market share increase from 63.6 percent to 70.8 percent among all retailers.
"Consumers have shown the industry they'll pay for products that match their fast-paced, mobile lifestyles," Vasa said.
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J-1 visa waiver program
Back to international medical graduates
We can recommend to the U.S. Department of State that the two-year home obligation be waived for qualified international medical graduates.
Request a waiver
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We typically only fill 12-15 slots each year. Please contact us for current availability of waiver and/or flex slots.
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Practice full time in an underserved area for three years.
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Submit a complete application with payment.
Physicians who attend medical school and receive a medical degree in a foreign country are permitted to come to the United States for residency training on a J-1 visa.
Upon completion of residency training, these physicians are required to return to their home country for two years before applying for a new U.S. visa.
The two-year home-return requirement may be waived if the physician is willing to practice medicine full time for three years in an underserved area of the United States.
Physicians must work in underserved areas of the state to increase access to primary and specialty medical services.
No state can make more than 30 waiver recommendations each year.
Ten “flex” placements are available each year to physicians who serve the underserved but aren't located in a federally designated shortage area.
Waivers can be granted for primary care or specialist physicians.
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Home Authors Littwin Columns Littwin: As self-justifying Ryan bashes Trump, Gardner must wonder when his turn...
Mike Littwin
History isn’t kind to the man who holds Mussolini’s jacket. — Ted Cruz, as quoted in the new book, “American Carnage”
I’d love to know what Cory Gardner is thinking as he reads the Paul-Ryan-on-Trump excerpts from “American Carnage,” Tim Alberta’s hottest of hot new books on how the GOP civil war produced Donald Trump and how Trump brought the GOP to its knees.
Gardner must imagine that someday he’d have to take his turn in the dock, maybe if he loses his Senate seat next year and is forced to make his return to decent society. Only then would he reveal his contempt for Trump and for his ignorance and for his casual cruelty. And only then would he try to make his peace with how he sold his soul to Trump, saying that he knows his support looks hypocritical and self-serving, but he never meant to help enable Trump’s unprecedented assault on America’s small-d democratic ideals.
He must imagine, too, that when he does try to excuse himself, as he will, that when he says he was working from within to help moderate Trump’s worst impulses, few will believe him and many will mock him.
If Gardner didn’t understand the trap that he has stepped into — and I’m guessing he has understood it for quite a while — he would have to know by now. Ryan, an ambitious politician not unlike Gardner, has pointed the way. I mean, Ryan, who my friend Charles Pierce calls the granny starver, must know it’s a little late for self-justification now.
“We’ve gotten so numbed by it all,” Ryan told Alberta as he explained that he resigned as House speaker because he couldn’t continue to work with Trump. “Not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. Don’t call a woman a ‘horse face.’ Don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t cheat on anything. Be a good person. Set a good example.”
He also said to Alberta: “I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right. Because, I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government . . . I wanted to scold him all the time.”
And now Ryan sees Trump’s presidency growing ever more dangerous, without the people around Trump like, you know, him who “really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time.”
I’m assuming that Ryan spoke to Alberta because he is worried about history’s judgment of him and his party. Let’s just say his confession may not have helped. Ryan’s words are basically being greeted as a profile in cowardice. Where was he when he was speaker and the words might have meant something? Where was he after calling out Trump for his “textbook” racism? Where has Gardner been, for that matter, after refusing to vote for Trump in 2016?
Speaking of cowardice, I’m guessing Gardner won’t even read the book. He wouldn’t be able to bring himself to look that closely in the mirror. I’m sure he hasn’t read the Mueller Report either — or won’t admit if he has. No sentient person can read the Mueller Report and also support Trump’s re-election bid unless that person is also able to make himself believe that the upright Mueller is the liar and the debauched Trump is the truth teller.
“American Carnage,” which won’t hit the bookstores until next week but is already a No. 1 best seller, details how Republicans who once rejected Trump’s reality-show vulgarity were completely co-opted by him for a tax cut for rich people and a couple of Supreme Court justices. I’m so eager to read it that I broke one of my most closely-held principles, which is to never buy a book through evil Amazon, so I can be sure to get it the day it comes out.
In the meantime, Gardner has little — or is it nothing? — to say about the mistreated children in cages or the photo of the desperate father and his little girl, hoping to seek asylum, lying dead on the banks of the Rio Grande. He won’t say what Trump himself sometimes allows — that the cruelty of separating children from parents is the point of his immigration policy, that the cruelty will discourage others from coming. He has little — or is it nothing? — to say about Trump’s now-thwarted plan to undercount Latinos in the coming census as a most brutal and cynical way to promote Republican gerrymandering in favor of “non-Hispanic whites.”
What Gardner will say, if he’s cornered by a reporter, is that we must do something about the Dreamers, without mentioning that the person who put the Dreamers at risk is the person he’s supporting for president. And he’ll say we must do something about immigration reform without mentioning that the person he’s supporting for president routinely demonizes these migrants.
These are not hypotheticals. Gardner was asked Friday and refused, naturally, to say whether he agreed with Trump’s promised nationwide roundup of thousands of members of undocumented families — another move with no motive other than pleasing his base by putting the fear of Trump into people living in the American shadows. Denver is expected to be one of the target cities — and virtually every elected Democrat in the state has registered an objection.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock put it this way: “Every time there’s an issue for him, most recently the Mueller investigation, Trump does something to distract from it. Trump is using immigrants as political pawns.”
Michael Bennet released a letter he sent to Trump, asking him to cancel the raids, saying they would “stoke fear and anxiety in some of our most vulnerable communities” and encourage “hatred and division.”
And Gardner?
”The law is the law,” he said, according to Jesse Aaron Paul of the Colorado Sun, when asked by a reporter about the raids. And when asked again, Gardner dodged again, saying “What we need is an ability to find a way to reform the laws to make sure they work for everyone.”
And if the raids come — they were postponed once, remember — and if children in Denver are separated from their parents and if ICE, which has a long record, as reported by the Cato Institute, of arresting the wrong people, rounds up American citizens, what will Gardner have to say then?
We may have to wait for an “American Carnage” sequel to find out.
michael hancock
He has covered Dr. J, four presidential inaugurations, six national conventions and countless brain-numbing speeches in the New Hampshire and Iowa snow.
Colorado delegation reacts to Trump’s inflammatory tweets about congresswomen
Jeannie Dunham July 13, 2019 at 9:32 am
Any of the Dem candidates who’ve announced that they are running for Gardner’s Senate seat would be a vast improvement, but I believe it’s time Andrew Romanoff takes his rightful place in the U.S. Senate. He should have been appointed to fill Ken Salazar’s seat when Salazar was tapped for Interior Secretary during Obama’s first term. He is smart, witty, and extremely knowledgeable about government. A true public servant minded politician.
Buford July 14, 2019 at 6:53 am
so…I take it that everyone that reads this Site, has written or called our so-called representatives…starting with any serving republican and let them know just how you feel…Cory Gardner does not deserve re-election, nor consideration of any other elected office…Scott Tipton, can be considered a non-entity as he has hidden from everyone in congress, in Colorado, and in the House…Tipton and his fellow republicans must not be re-elected…period…I look at the State republican party, and wow, these folks are not even close to representing the people…they only are looking to represent BIG MONEY…or the koch boys…big oil and gas…the republican party in Colorado is as inept and corrupt as the national party…these folks have no scruples, ethics or morals that can be found…these guys are willing to break laws, and destroy our normal political process to remain in power…
Robert M. Copley July 15, 2019 at 12:17 pm
Oh, and the small d democrats aren’t breaking laws and destroying our normal (supposed normal) political process as the Democrat Party moves to install a socialist government? Not much different from the Republican Party in all reality.
Jim July 16, 2019 at 9:29 am
Silly Robert. Didn’t you know, socialism is only for the 1 % !
Donald Alan Davis July 15, 2019 at 2:28 pm
In being consistent with the facts in the column, Senator Gardner remains silent as President Trump fires off racist tweets. Senator Gardner is a coward and a Trump rubber stamp.
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Going Beyond a 'Day of Service'
Companies benefit from letting employees serve their communities year-round.
By Jim Senft 23 May 2018
Marlene Gregory, Regional Sales Manager, CSL Behring, reads to a group of students at Gotwals Elementary School in Norristown, Pennsylvania, as part of a charitable partnership between the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and CSL Behring. Employees like Marlene say they enjoy participating in activities such as these throughout the year, and experts agree that there are multiple benefits to both community organizations and businesses that encourage their employees to volunteer. (Photo/Peter Chung/United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey)
On May 31, more than 50 employees at CSL Behring in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, will join with hundreds of other volunteers from companies throughout their region for UNITED2FEED, an event organized by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. At the event, volunteers will pack 8,000 emergency food boxes that will feed 32,000 individuals in need of food. The event is one of many ways in which CSL Behring employees can give back to their community throughout the year.
Like many companies, CSL Behring employees also give back on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has become a day to honor the legacy of Dr. King through community service. On this day, many American companies offer their employees a chance to serve their communities. Schools across the country ask their students to participate in special giving back opportunities, often accompanied by their parents. It’s a wonderful way to honor the legacy of a man who changed the world for the better. But charitable organizations agree that they could use the help at other times throughout the year as well.
"Volunteerism that is connected to specific days or events is incredibly powerful in that it demonstrates the needs facing our neighbors and amplifies the collective impact that happens when we all rally around one cause,” said Bill Golderer, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “But the fact is -- volunteers are needed every day of the year.”
Golderer said that the United Way works with companies such as CSL Behring to ensure that volunteerism is a year-round priority, so nonprofit organizations have the leadership and resources needed to ensure they can best help their communities.
For the past several years CSL Behring has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by offering its employees the opportunity to go outside of the office and participate in a service project of their choosing. In 2018, the company expanded upon this concept to allow employees the flexibility of choosing their own Day of Service, starting on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and lasting for an entire month
“Our employees have shown a real commitment to their communities, and leadership at CSL Behring puts a high value on giving back to the communities in which we serve,” said Karen Etchberger, Executive Vice President of Quality and Business Services and Site Head at CSL Behring, King of Prussia. “We realized that offering our employees a more flexible timeframe to participate in a community service project would help to increase participation in the program and provide more benefit to the community.”
Through partnerships with the United Way as well as the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House, CSL Behring employees also have other opportunities to give back outside of the office throughout the year. Along with UNITED2FEED, these events include stuffing backpacks with school supplies at the charity’s Backpack-A-Thon, and preparing meals for Ronald McDonald House families through their Guest Chef program.
The people served by nonprofit organizations aren’t the only ones who benefit from community outreach initiatives. Companies who encourage their employees to volunteer also benefit. The United Way pointed to a study by Cone Research that found that 79 percent of people prefer to work for a socially responsible company. A separate Deloitte study notes that “corporate philanthropy and volunteerism help businesses attract, develop and retain talent.” That same study states that employees see a benefit from volunteering. Ninety-two percent of respondents agree that volunteering improves both broader professional skill sets and leadership skills.
For many who volunteer, there are less tangible but equally powerful benefits.
“I can’t even put into words how much I got out of the experience,” said Marlene Gregory, Regional Sales Manager at CSL Behring. Marlene was among a group of employees who read to children at Gotwals Elementary School in Norristown, Pennsylvania, through a United Way early childhood literacy program. “The children were adorable, well-mannered and so engaged. It was an amazing way to spend my day.”
MLK Day Leads to Month of Giving
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President, PBOC Governor Elections, 2018 Targets and More
Talking points:
- China’s NPC will elect executive, judicial and legislative leaders for the next five years.
- PBOC Governor will be appointed as well; Liu He, a top economic advisor, is the top runner.
- Growth, inflation and fiscal deficit targets will be released at the open of NPC on March 5th.
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China’s annual parliament meetings are kicking off this weekend: Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opens on March 3rd and National People’s Congress (NPC) on March 5th. This year’s meetings are considered to be extremely important: NPC will elect new government leaders and officials including the president and premier for the coming five years; China’s Central Bank’s Governor will be appointed as well; and economic targets for 2018 will be released.
WHAT ARE NPC AND CPPCC
China has two parliaments: NPC and CPPCC. NPC is the legislature, more powerful one among the two. NPC delegates have the power to elect the president and other officials, and to vote to change the constitution and make new laws. CPPCC, on the other hand, is a top legislative advisory body. CPPCC members discuss important political, social and economic issues, and raise proposals. There are nearly 3000 NPC delegates and more than 2000 CPPCC members. Every March they will come to Beijing for the annual meetings, also known as “Two Sessions”. The meetings normally last for about 10 days.
ELECTION OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT LEADERS
A special highlight for the March’ 2018 meetings is that new government leaders and officials will be determined. This happens every five year. NPC will first elect president and vice president. Then, based on the president’s nomination, NPC will decide the premier. And then based on the premier’s nomination, NPC will determine vice premier, ministers and minister-level department heads. The current President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang are widely expected to be re-elected. A proposal that is raised to NPC and will be voted is to remove the two-term (10 years) restriction for president and vice president.
The heads of China’s highest-level justice agencies will be determined by NPC as well. These include the president of the Supreme People’s Court and the president of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Also, the chairmen of NPC and CPPCC will be elected by the delegates and members respectively.
In short, top executive, judicial and legislative leaders for China over the next five years will all be determined in the coming two weeks.
ELECTION OF THE NEW PBOC GOVERNOR
Among all ministers and minister-level heads’ elections, the new PBOC governor is in the spotlight. Normally, a governor is only allowed to serve for two terms. The current Governor Zhou Xiaochuan is an exception. He was appointed for his third term (5 year/term) in 2013, the longest ever. The candidates of his successor have not been official announced, but it is reported by Reuters that Liu He, a top economic advisor is the front runner. Liu spoke at the Davos Forum representing China this year, following President Xi’s attendance in 2017.
No matter who becomes the new central bank head, the essential goals and policies for the regulator will most likely remain unchanged in 2018: curbing financial risk will be the top target for the PBOC as well as other financial regulators; monetary policy is expected to continue to be prudent and neutral. What worth watching are measures that the new governor will launch to achieve these goals and how effectively they are.
ECONOMIC TARGETS IN 2018
China’s Premier Li Keqiang will deliver the annual government work report at the open of NPC meetings on March 5th. Economic targets include growth, inflation, unemployment rate, fiscal deficit and other goals. Among all, we discussed that the growth and fiscal deficit targetsfor 2018 are the top two to watch[2]. In 2017, China has met major goals, as shown below.
Also, the government work report will cover China’s foreign exchange rate policy in 2018. The statement itself may not be the most important; what matters more is any change in the statement. For instance, in the 2016 report, “increasing flexibility of the two-way floating” which was included in 2014 and 2015 was removed; only “maintaining the Yuan exchange rate at reasonable and balanced level” was left. This indicated that the regulator strengthened focus on the stability of Yuan rate; when extreme moves are seen, they become more likely to step in.
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Mr President, your fly is open...
Bill Saidi • 8 November 2013 9:15AM • 0 comments
HARARE - It is very rare, but is said to have happened once or twice.
The president or prime minister is standing by the microphone, ready to start the proceedings…a news conference awaited eagerly by all.
Before he can utter a word, a gruff, rather whisky-soaked voice is heard above the silence.
“Mr President, are you aware that your fly is open?” There is increased volume in the stunned silence — if that is possible.
The man in front of the mike looks sheepishly, down his trousers, before hastily crossing his legs, the colour on his face changing rapidly. “I…don’t know what you mean, sir,” he says, recovering his equanimity. “I’ve never heard such rubbish in my life…”
After which there is loud laughter all round. The politician then clears his throat, manfully, before calling on the MC to launch the show with his customary panache.
But what if the politician’s fly was indeed open? I leave you to speculate. It would compare, easily, with Monica Lewisnky and Bill Clinton, or that French international bank executive and the New York hotel maid.
Many journalism manuals on the art of the interview recommend a reporter choose his opening gambit very carefully, to set the tone for the interview.
The interviewee must know, from the start, that they are in for a torrid ride.
This is particularly so if the character has a shady past — such as jumping from one political pillar to another post.
I was reminded of this at the recent death of David Frost whose interview with Richard Nixon on the subject of Watergate earned him much kudos as an interviewer, bringing into the open — for the first time — Nixon’s confession of guilt.
By the way, I met both men: Nixon in Lusaka while on his way on holiday to South Africa in the early 1960s. He refused to speak on apartheid.
Frost interviewed me in London on the closure in 2003 of the Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday. We had his sympathies.
Nixon was involved in the all-time political scandal known as Watergate in 1972. He was eventually impeached after being sworn in as president.
Watergate demonstrated to the world that politicians everywhere can be as dirty the lousiest pickpocket in the most crowded housing area in the capital of a poor developing country, existing on less than a dollar a day.
A point in passing: allegations of dirty tricks in the run-up to the July 31 elections in Zimbabwe ought not to be dismissed as wild speculation or propaganda churned up by enemies of Zanu PF.
Politics is dirty business. There is subterfuge and murder.
The stakes include winning the right to exploit the country’s resources. You might not have to answer to anyone, if you frighten people with enough dead bodies turning up with no clues as to who dunit.
In the Watergate scandal, Nixon pleaded: “I am not a crook.” As time passed and the evidence against him mounted, he did not come out and declare: “Okay, you’ve got me dead to rights. I am a crook!”
There were people whose tenacity would not be challenged. Someone had abused their system.
They had shamed the entire United States, showing the world that, in spite of its history of democracy, it teemed with crooks, as dirty as the dirtiest politicians in the banana republics.
So, even for us, in Zimbabwe, as innocent as we may be, the point is not to be lulled into a false sense of security.
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Consistency is always a winner
Dean Du Plessis • 7 August 2015 2:04PM • 0 comments
HARARE - Cricket in Zimbabwe has always been bedevilled by lack of consistency.Dating back to the so called glory days when the Flower brothers, Heath Streak and the rest were at their peak, right up to the present.
Zimbabwean cricket teams, and quite possibly sport in general have never been able to sustain long periods of consistency, which causes tremendous frustration and indeed anger to those loyal fans who have more often than not have to endure a barrage of at times derogatory remarks by the international media.
Yesterday’s second ODI match against New Zealand springs to mind.
After the euphoria of Sunday’s seven wicket win, the sparks seem to go out of the Zimbabweans, as is so often the case after a good outing.
Either that, or New Zealand upped their game considerably to make Zimbabwe look rather ordinary after Sunday's win.
Though to be fare, New Zealand were the team who looked at sea on Sunday, probably due to the fact that the Black Caps were a bit short of match practice leading up to the series.
The World Cup finalists, however, put Sunday's loss behind them with a typical all round performance that has made them the team they are.
Elton Chigumbura seems to have been caught up in the whole toss debacle, and may at this point of time be struggling to read the pitch conditions.
Having said that, the Black Caps were ruthless with the new ball, and Craig Ervine in particular got a thorough working over with a number of extremely well directed bouncers, two of which hit him on the helmet.
This rough treatment softened Sunday's match winner up nicely, and it didn't come as much of a surprise when medium pacer Grant Elliott got through Ervine's defence, and castled his stumps for just 12 runs.
Despite Ervine missing out, the idea of him batting at number three may prove to be a good one.
It would be sad to see the coaching staff drop him back to his number five spot, after one failure.
The number three position is foreign territory for Ervine, especially against the new ball which both Matt Henry and Mitchell McClenaghan utilised to perfection.
The Black Caps seamers weren't afraid to bend their backs and bowl back of a length which caused considerable discomfort to Zimbabwe's top order batsmen.
Zimbabwe would have been hoping for some respite when Grant Elliott and leg spinner Ish Sodhi were introduced, but it was the opposite as the medium pacer and leg spinner claimed the crucial wickets of Ervine, Regis Chikabva, Elton Chigumbura and Chamu Chibhabha in a relatively short space of time.
Sodhi, who took a pounding on Sunday was outstanding yesterday, his combination of quicker balls and wrong ones caused havoc in the middle overs on a dry pitch, which in truth was probably prepared for the Zimbabwean spinners.
A decision which backfired on the home side with Sodhi taking 3-38 from his 10 overs.
Raza Butt made a bit of history of his own, becoming the first Zimbabwean batsman batting at number six or lower to score an ODI hundred, and one assumes that his ninth wicket partnership of 89 will stand for some time, as did the previous partnership of 55 between the late Kevin Curran and Peter Rawson, which stood for 32 years.
The sad irony of this loss is that a pitch was prepared to suit the Zimbabwean spinners, yet the selectors opted to play one spinner in Graeme Cremer, and then try and fill the second spinner's role by using Sean Williams, and Raza Butt.
Surely the option of John Nyumbu would have been a better one?
Nyumbu is capable of tying up an end, but he also has the ability of producing match changing spells, depending on how the captain chooses to use him.
Zimbabwe will be happy that two batsmen have been able to register hundreds, and Chibhabha is continued to score freely and fluently at the top of the order, but fans will be wondering how much longer they will have to wait, before celebrating a series win over a major cricket playing nation, other than Bangladesh.
The last time Zimbabwe enjoyed a series win over a higher ranked team, was back in January of 2001, when the Heath Streak lead team beat the Black caps in New Zealand, and their last home series win over a higher ranked team, was against the same team in October 2000.
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Deseret NewsU.S. & World
Dow sinks another 464 points as slowdown fears worsen
By Marley Jay
Published: December 20, 2018 7:18 pm
Mark Lennihan, Associated Press
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, the New York Stock Exchange is bathed in holiday light, in New York. U.S. stocks are slightly lower Thursday morning, Dec. 20, a day after another big plunge rocked markets around the world. Asian and European indexes suffered bigger losses. Stocks have tumbled as investors grow increasingly worried the U.S. could slip into a recession in the next few years.
NEW YORK — Stocks went into another slide Thursday in what is shaping up as the worst December on Wall Street since the depths of the Great Depression, with prices dragged down by rising fears of a recession somewhere on the horizon.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 464 points, bringing its losses to more than 1,700 since last Friday. The broader S&P 500 index continued its slump, too, and is down 10.6 percent this month alone, with six days of trading to go.
"This is the classic shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later market," said Scott Wren, senior global equity strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
Stocks usually end the year with a flourish, and December is usually the best month of the year for the market. But this month has been dismal. Without a decent rally, this could be the worst December since 1931.
The S&P 500 is almost 16 percent below the peak it reached in late September. It is on track for its biggest one-month loss since February 2009 and its first losing year in a decade. (The index took tiny losses in 2011 and 2015 but ended those years higher once dividends were included.)
Likewise, the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite is down 19.5 percent from the record high it reached in August.
Investors are growing worried that global economic growth is cooling off and that the U.S. could slip into a recession in the next few years.
The market swoon is coming even as the U.S. economy is on track to expand this year at the fastest pace in 13 years. Markets tend to move, however, on what investors anticipate will happen further out.
The possibility of a partial shutdown of the federal government at midnight Friday also loomed over the market. In general, shutdowns don't affect the U.S. economy or the market much unless they stretch out for several weeks, but investors don't like uncertainty, especially in Washington.
Among other threats: the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, and rising U.S. interest rates, which act as a brake on economic growth by making it more expensive for businesses and individuals to borrow money.
The selling in the last two days came after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the fourth time this year and signaled it was likely to continue raising rates next year.
Wren said investors felt Fed Chairman Jerome Powell came off as unconcerned about the state of the U.S. economy and fears that the economy could not just slow down, as expected, but go into a recession in 2019 or 2020.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business on Thursday afternoon that the market's reaction to the Fed was "completely overblown."
The S&P 500 index skidded 39.54 points, or 1.6 percent, to 2,467.42. The Dow fell 464.06 points, or 2 percent, to 22,859.60 after sinking as much as 679 during the day.
The Nasdaq fell 108.42 points, or 1.6 percent, to 6,528.41. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies dropped 23.23 points, or 1.7 percent, to 1,326.
Oil prices continued to retreat. Benchmark U.S. crude fell 4.8 percent to $45.88 a barrel in New York, and it has dropped 40 percent since early October.
After early gains, bond prices headed lower. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 2.87 percent from 2.65 percent, while the 10-year note rose to 2.80 percent from 2.77 percent.
The stock markets in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Tokyo and Hong Kong also fell.
AP Economics Writer Josh Boak contributed to this story from Washington.
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Donation allows Iowa library to clear fines for children
The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend donation has erased fines incurred by about 300 youth cardholders from June 2017 to January 2018.
Donation allows Iowa library to clear fines for children The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend donation has erased fines incurred by about 300 youth cardholders from June 2017 to January 2018. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2IcHxzo
The Associated Press, The Des Moines Register Published 2:23 p.m. CT May 13, 2018
The Davenport Public Library has erased nearly $4,000 in fines incurred by hundreds of young cardholders thanks to a donation by the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend intended to encourage summertime reading. The donation erased fines incurred by about 300 youth cardholders between June 2017 and January 2018.(Photo: Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register)Buy Photo
DAVENPORT, Ia. — The Davenport Public Library has erased nearly $4,000 in fines incurred by hundreds of young cardholders thanks to a donation that's intended to encourage summertime reading.
The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend donation has erased fines incurred by about 300 youth cardholders from June 2017 to January 2018, the Quad-City Times reported. The gift was from the organization's John J. and Bette J. Schmid Fund.
Most of the accounts had $5 to $20 in fines, which were mostly late fees, said Amy Groskopf, the library's director. Families will soon be notified by mail if their fines have been covered by the donation.
Library officials hope the move will encourage more children to read this summer.
"We're hoping families who receive this benefit will take advantage of it and make sure their kids are participating in summer reading," Groskopf said. "We've heard anecdotally that fines are a barrier for some folks."
Accounts are charged 10 cents a day for late material and individuals aren't allowed to check out more items if they owe $5 or more in fees, Groskopf said. The library collected about $44,000 in fines during fiscal year 2017. Those funds were deposited into the city's revenue account.
Bette Schmid was on the library's Board of Trustees from 1979 to 1994.
"She'd be thrilled," said Chris Schmid, one of Bette Schmid's daughters. "I'm just grateful we could do it."
Bette Schmid died in 2012 at age 86, while John Schmid died in 2016 at age 94.
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Complaint: Clarke County Attorney was drunk in court, charged with public intoxication
The attorney was taken to jail, but was released after posting a $300 cash bond, court documents show.
Complaint: Clarke County Attorney was drunk in court, charged with public intoxication The attorney was taken to jail, but was released after posting a $300 cash bond, court documents show. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/10/22/complaint-clarke-county-attorney-michelle-murphy-rivera-drunk-court-charged-public-intoxication/1730904002/
Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register Published 3:34 p.m. CT Oct. 22, 2018 | Updated 10:32 a.m. CT Oct. 23, 2018
Michelle Murphy Rivera(Photo: Special to the Register)
A county attorney in southern Iowa has been charged with public intoxication after a county deputy saw her drunk in the courtroom, charging documents state.
Clarke County Attorney Michelle M. Rivera was "slurring her words and stumbling on her feet" at about 3 p.m. on Thursday, according to a criminal complaint written by Clarke County Sheriff's Deputy George Barber III.
Barber was on duty at the courthouse in Osceola at the time, he wrote in the complaint. He alleges Rivera, 42, "sat in a chair and swayed her head back and (forth), actions common with being intoxicated."
He asked to speak with Rivera in a small room outside the courtroom and smelled a strong odor of alcohol, the complaint states.
Rivera declined to take a breath test and Barber arrested her on a public intoxication charge and took her to the Clarke County Jail. Rivera was cooperative, the complaint states.
Rivera later posted a $300 cash bond and was released from jail.
A judge has ordered Dallas County Attorney Wayne Reisetter to serve as a special prosecutor in Rivera's case, court documents show.
Rivera, a Democrat, is up for re-election this year, according to the Osceola Sentinel-Tribune.
In a statement, she apologized and said "I am taking every step necessary to get help, to fix this problem and to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again."
"I have worked extremely hard for Clarke County for the last seven years and have truly loved doing so. I sincerely hope the voters will afford me the opportunity to continue this endeavor next term," Rivera said in the statement.
Read Rivera's statement in full:
"I genuinely apologize to my family, friends, law enforcement, colleagues, and my community for all that transpired last Thursday. I can assure you all that I am taking every step necessary to get help, to fix this problem, and to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. I have worked extremely hard for Clarke County for the last seven years and have truly loved doing so. I sincerely hope the voters will afford me the opportunity to continue this endeavor next term. Thank you so much to the many for all of your kind words and support during this difficult time."
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Sitting on the Couch Too Much Can Change Your Personality
Andrew Fiouzi July 31, 2018
Doing nothing is actually doing a lot (none of it good).
Sitting on your butt and not doing anything has always been a recipe for dying young (exercise is good for you, yo). But according to new research, being a couch potato also could change the type of person you are before your untimely death.
According to Scientific American, Yannick Stephan, a psychologist at the University of Montpellier in France, found a strong link between lack of exercise and declines in character traits. Stephan and his team combined data from The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and The Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), two large, survey-based studies in which participants had answered questions about their exercise habits and health. “Stephan and his team found that subjects who reported being less active had greater reductions on average in conscientiousness, openness, agreeableness and extroversion — four of the so-called Big Five personality traits — even after accounting for differences in baseline personality and health,” reported Scientific American. Though the changes in the traits were small, the link with exercise — or lack thereof — was relatively strong.
James Galvin, a professor of integrated medical science at Florida Atlantic University, says that although personality is a fairly stable trait, based on his research he too has noticed the link between physical activity and changes in a person’s personality. “It’s a little bit of the chicken-and-the-egg question,” says Galvin. “People who are less active are more susceptible to a whole host of other issues. Those medical conditions are also associated with changes in personality and traits.”
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One example based on Galvin’s own research is the link between lack of physical activity, neuroticism and Alzheimer’s disease. “Our research has looked at physical activity and muscle mass and strength as a potentially strong indicator of future Alzheimer’s disease,” says Galvin. “Low physical activity is a predictor of neuroticisms and neuroticism is a predictor of Alzheimer’s.”
Furthermore, Galvin says that those who are less active early in their lives tend to be more obese and have a higher risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. “Those medical conditions are also associated with changes in personality,” says Galvin. “Basically, you’re setting up a long-term chain of events that has some bad downstream consequences that lead to changes in personality.”
With regard to the study out of France, Galvin says that there are some limitations to the study, foremost among them the fact that the data was collected in midlife. “The researchers don’t know what their [participants’] life was like in young adulthood,” says Galvin. “When you start collecting things at midlife, we don’t know what could have happened prior to midlife that could have put those factors in play.”
Still, it’s a worrying thought, so how much does the average person have to do to prevent themselves from falling into this trap? Galvin says defining a threshold is a bit challenging because everyone’s circumstances are different: “It’s going to vary — [for] a person who’s never exercised, just getting them off the couch is going to have a great effect. But a person who was athletic for most of their young and midlife, the same added benefits may not be true.”
He does, however, suggest that at minimum, a moderate level of activity — defined as a brisk walk for about 20 minutes a day, three times a week — is a good start. Which means if you don’t want to turn into a close-minded, unhappy jerk later in life, you might want to consider not binge watching another season tonight.
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The Supreme Court - April 4, 2016
The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in two cases today:
Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940: In this legislative redistricting case, certain voters brought a challenge to the redistricting in Texas under the one-person, one-vote principle of the Equal Protection Clause. While legislative maps are deemed to presumptively comply with the one-person, one-vote rule where the maximum population deviation between the largest and smallest district is less than 10%, and here the maximum total-population deviation was 8.04%, petitioners based their challenge on the fact that the maximum population deviation among eligible voters or registered voters exceeded 40%. A three-judge District Court dismissed the complaint, and today, the Court affirmed, holding that, based on constitutional history, the Court’s decisions, and longstanding practice, a State may draw its legislative districts based on total population.
The Court's decision is available here.
Nichols v. United States, No. 15-5238: Petitioner Lester Ray Nichols, a registered sex offender, moved from Kansas to the Philippines without notifying Kansas authorities. Nichols was then convicted of failing to update his sex-offender registration, in violation of 19 U.S.C. §2250(a) of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). That statute makes it a crime to “knowingly fai[l] to register or update a registration,” and requires that offenders who move to a different State inform “at least 1 jurisdiction involved” of the change, with a “jurisdiction” under this section including “each jurisdiction where the offender resides, . . . is an employee, and . . . is a student.” The Tenth Circuit affirmed the conviction, holding that even though Nichols moved out of Kansas, that State remained a “jurisdiction involved” under the statute. Today, the Court reversed, holding that because the SORNA provision at issue refers to jurisdictions in the present tense (i.e., the jurisdiction in which the offender “resides”), Nichols was not required to update his registration in Kansas after he departed the State.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari in one case today:
Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 15-606: Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally may bar evidence of racial bias offered to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.
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A rare chance to buy up almost 4,000 acres of Scottish forest
Country Life April 7, 2017
Castles & Estates
An extraordinary portfolio has come to the market, comprising of 10 forests across the breadth of Scotland.
The Stellar Forestry Portfolio features 10 high quality forests, collectively extending to 1,577 hectares – that’s 3,896 acres – located throughout Scotland, from Inverness-shire in the north to Dumfries and Galloway in the south.
Five of the forests, in Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, are primarily spruce grown for commercial forestry purposes.
But perhaps more interesting are the varied, wide-ranging properties further north – some of which could even offer the possibility of building a dream forest home.
“It is unusual that 1,577 hectares of quality woodlands can be purchased in one offering,” says Jon Lambert, a partner at John Clegg & Co, who are handling the sale.
“Half of these woodlands – those in the south of Scotland – occupy a prime location for commercial forestry investment where it is possible to access a large number of competitive processors.
“The properties in the north create different opportunities, including two wind turbines providing annual income, a high quality pine forest giving longevity and conveniently located next to a sawmill, a greater degree of species diversity and amenity value as well as the potential for house site creation and other possibilities for adding value.
“We believe will meet considerable interest from prospective buyers both north and south of the border and, indeed, from overseas,” he said.
“At present, demand far outstrips supply and we anticipate a significant degree of competition for this portfolio.” That’s despite a guide price listed as “offers over £11.25 million”.
The full portfolio
Sleepieshill Forest, nr Mosstodloch, Moray (265.90ha)
Ord Hill, Muir of Ord, Inverness-shire (234.45ha)
Ballinloan-A, Aberfeldy, Perthshire (154.15ha)
Ayton Forest, Aberargie, Perthshire (167.24ha)
Craigallian Forest, Strathblane, Stirlingshire (135.60ha)
Dunter Law, Ellemford Bridge, by Duns, Scottish Borders (92.35ha)
Venlaw, Peebles, Scottish Borders (118.90ha)
Laverhay, Wamphrayhead, Dumfries and Galloway (105.95ha)
Ruegill, Boreland, Dumfries and Galloway (152.86ha)
Yellowsike, Stennieswater Complex, Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway (149.10ha)
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Democratic debate: Beto O'Rourke speaks in Spanish while answering question on economy
Speaking in Spanish, Beto O'Rourke said the economy doesn't represent everyone in the United States.
Democratic debate: Beto O'Rourke speaks in Spanish while answering question on economy Speaking in Spanish, Beto O'Rourke said the economy doesn't represent everyone in the United States. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/26/democratic-debates-2019-beto-orourke-speaks-spanish/1579046001/
Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY Published 9:38 p.m. ET June 26, 2019 | Updated 6:13 a.m. ET June 27, 2019
Who won the Democratic debate remains to be seen, but here are some of the best moments from the first ten contenders to take the stage. USA TODAY
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke was the first candidate of the Democratic debate to answer a question not only in English, but also in Spanish.
O'Rourke, who hails from the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, was asked whether he would support a 70% marginal tax rate.
O'Rouke said he didn't believe that the economy is working for everyone. He then again said in Spanish that the economy doesn't represent everyone in the United States.
"Right now we have a system that favors those who can pay for access and outcomes," he went on to say. "That's how you can explain an economy that is rigged to corporations and to the very wealthiest."
Democratic candidates debate in Florida to kick off the 2020 election
Democratic supporters gather outside of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where the Democratic presidential candidates are go to debate for the first time in Miami on June 26, 2019. Ricardo Rolon, The News-Press via USA TODAY Network
Protestors gather outside of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where Democratic presidential candidates are going to debate for the first time in Miami on June 26, 2019. Ricardo Rolon, The News-Press via USA TODAY Network
Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez speaks on the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019, in Miami. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Former Rep. John Delaney, D- Md. arrives to participate the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidates take part in the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019 in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Democratic presidential primary candidates, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, left, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., enter the debate stage on June 26, 2019, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro and Sen. Cory Booker, D- N.J., participate in the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn,, speaks during the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Cory Booker D-N.J. and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speak ahead of the first Democratic primary debate in Miami, on June 26, 2019. JIm Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio participates in the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Members of the audience listen to the Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26. 2019. Wilfredo Lee, AP
Democratic presidential candidates take part in the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019 in Miami. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks during the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Former Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., speaks during the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, speaks during the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Governor of Washington Jay Inslee speaks during the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro speaks during the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., gestures as he arrives to participate in the first Democratic primary debate in Miami, on June 26, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., arrives to participate in the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Moderators Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow speak to audience during a technical problem as they host the first night of the Democratic presidential primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, participates in the first Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images
Former housing secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., talk during the first night of the Democratic presidential debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, takes questions following the debate on June 26, 2019, in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro takes questions following the debate on June 26, 2019, in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is interviewed by MSNBC's Chris Matthews following the debate on June 26, 2019, in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, takes questions following the debate on June 26, 2019, in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Former Rep. John Delaney, D- Md. takes questions following the debate on June 26, 2019, in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, is interviewed by MSNBC's Chris Matthews following the debate Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPALM
Alex Gonzalez, left, and Rod Owens, center, eat a free "Biden berry" ice cream from Gio Marquez and Chris Willis, right, ahead of the second night of the Democratic presidential primary debates on June 27, 2019, outside of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPalm.com via USA TODAY Network
Gio Marquez, right, and Chris Willis prepare the Miss Froztee ice cream truck to give out free "Biden berry" ice cream in support of former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the second night of the Democratic presidential primary debates on June 27, 2019, outside of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPalm.com via USA TODAY Network
Chaunce O'Connor, left, and Xavier Presley, share their opinions on the corner of Northeast 13th Street and Biscayne Boulevard ahead of the second night of the Democratic presidential primary debates on June 27, 2019, outside of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPalm.com via USA TODAY Network
People support their candidates ahead of the second night of the Democratic presidential primary debates on June 27, 2019, outside of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Leah Voss, TCPalm.com via USA TODAY Network
Democratic presidential primary candidates Andrew Yang, left, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., enter the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network
Former Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders greet the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network
The group of Democratic presidential primary candidates greet the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., greets the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., greet the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network
Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network
Democratic presidential hopefuls participate in the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., arrive to participate in the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) take the stage for the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, on June 27, 2019. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., arrive for the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., left, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., stand on stage before a Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Wilfredo Lee, AP
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., take the stage for the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Former Vice President Joseph Biden, right, and Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg talk before the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Former Vice President Joseph Biden speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidates listen to a question during a Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Wilfredo Lee, AP
Former Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speak during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Author Marianne Williamson speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
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Former Vice President Joe Biden greets members of the audience after the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. Drew Angerer, Getty Images
He did not answer whether he supported that tax rate.
Latino voters are an increasingly important block of voters in the primary election. In addition, the debate is being held in Miami, where many voters are bilinigual.
WATCH: Beto O'Rourke delivers his first #DemDebate response in English and Spanish. pic.twitter.com/xxZSvvYTyq
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'America's Day as the Racist': Trump's 'go back' tweet spurs graffiti
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Republican beats incumbent for Madison County auditor's office
Nov 3, 2010 at 12:01 AM Nov 3, 2010 at 1:43 PM
Madison County voters will have a new auditor come March for the first time in 16 years because 53 percent of the voters yesterday chose Republican challenger Jennifer Hunter over incumbent Jim Williamson, an independent, according to final, unofficial election results.
Hunter, a self-employed certified public accountant, said she is eager to get into office and get busy. Her first goal is to improve communication coming out of the office and let people know exactly how their tax dollars are being spent and invested.
"The difference in the campaign was personal contact," said Hunter, 49, of rural London. "We heavily focused on going door-to-door so that people knew what I could do in office."
Williamson said he's confident he is leaving Madison County better off than it once was.
"Thank you, Madison County, for my 16 years of service to you. It has been both challenging and fulfilling," he said.
Much of the race focused on how Madison County reports its financial statements to the state.
Williamson used an outdated method, and Hunter says she will comply with a state mandate that requires a different kind of reporting from cities, counties and school districts.
The auditor's position in Madison County pays $58,132 annually. The auditor is elected to serve a four-year term and will take office March 14.
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Steelers sure can pick 'em
PITTSBURGH - First round. First class.
Successful drafts are a major reason that the Pittsburgh Steelers are going for their seventh Super Bowl title when they play the Green Bay Packers on Feb. 6 in Dallas.
This is a team built mostly through the draft, and its top picks always seem to work out. Eight of Pittsburgh's past 10 first-round choices are still on the team, and each is a starter. One of the two players no longer with the Steelers is receiver Santonio Holmes, who was MVP of the team's 2009 Super Bowl victory over Arizona.
The eight remaining first-round picks are Casey Hampton, Troy Polamalu, Ben Roethlisberger, Heath Miller, Lawrence Timmons, Rashard Mendenhall, Ziggy Hood and Maurkice Pouncey.
Kevin Colbert, director of football operations, is responsible for the past 11 drafts. In 2003, he made arguably one of the best moves by a football executive, trading up from the 27th pick to No. 16 to select Polamalu. He is a six-time Pro Bowl pick, three-time All-Pro and a candidate for Defensive Player of the Year honors this season.
A year later, Roethlisberger was selected with the 11th overall pick. Two quarterbacks - Eli Manning and Philip Rivers - went ahead of Big Ben. He already has twice as many championship rings as those two combined and is one win away from becoming just the fifth QB with three.
In 2008, Colbert took Mendenhall at No. 28, even though Willie Parker was coming off a 1,300-yard season for Pittsburgh. Mendenhall was the fourth running back chosen behind Darren McFadden, Jonathan Stewart and Felix Jones. Only Stewart has more yards rushing, but he has played 10 more games. Mendenhall missed 12 games his rookie year because of a shoulder injury.
Plucking Pro Bowl-caliber players in the draft is a tough science. First-round picks that turn out to be busts cost a team big money, and making mistakes can ruin careers among front-office staffers.
The Steelers rarely pick among the can't-miss prospects in the top 10. Roethlisberger and Timmons - a linebacker chosen 15th in the 2007 draft - are the only players chosen by Colbert in the top 15.
That can be an advantage, though.
"At the top of the draft, you have to keep people around because they are making too much money," third-string quarterback Charlie Batch said. "Regardless of how a guy pans out, you can't get rid of him in three years. It's not something you have to worry about with this team, developing guys because you have so much money invested in them."
The Steelers aren't usually in a position where they need to draft a player who has to start right away, so they can have patience with their rookies.
Also important for a family-owned organization that prides itself on having an exemplary image is drafting players with strong character. The Rooneys struggled with the decision to keep Roethlisberger after he was suspended for four games to start this season for violating the league's personal-conduct policy.
"They evaluate the players off the field as well and they choose good people, and when they make a decision, it's weighted out and measured with all the goods and bads, and if they see something in a player to make them take him in the first round, that means they like what they see," said Hood, a defensive end selected No.32 overall in '09.
Holmes was made an example after he provoked the Steelers one too many times. He caught the touchdown pass that secured Pittsburgh's sixth Super Bowl championship, but he was traded to the New York Jets for a fifth-round pick last April after a series of off-field infractions embarrassed the organization.
"Character issues wipe you off the board," Batch said.
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Education Inc.
Makers of Online Systems Merge
Blackboard buys up rival in course-handling market.
The educational software company Blackboard Inc. announced its acquisition of its biggest rival last week, giving it the lion’s share of the market for online management of higher education courses.
Besides being widely used in colleges, Blackboard’s online course-management system is used in an estimated 1,200 school districts nationwide. Blackboard allows teachers to post their course materials on the Internet, including homework assignments, syllabuses, and other resources. Teachers and students can also communicate online through the system.
Based in Washington, the company is buying Lynnfield, Mass.-based WebCT for $180 million. Blackboard will absorb WebCT’s 1,480 institutional customers, 274 employees, and about $26 million in cash.
WebCT controls 27 percent of the higher education market for the online management of courses, compared with Blackboard’s estimated 54 percent of the market. So the deal will give Blackboard more than 80 percent of that market, according to analysts.
The effect of the merger on the K-12 market is likely to be more muted, said Timothy Wiley, an analyst for Eduventures Inc., a Boston-based market-research firm that tracks business activity in education.
He noted that only 8 percent of Blackboard’s revenues last year came from the K-12 market. That market, composed of some 14,500 school districts spread across the country, is very fragmented, he said.
“It’s not going to create the same waves as in the postsecondary market,” Mr. Wiley said.
However, Patrick M. Supanc, the senior director of K-12 markets for Blackboard, said that elementary and secondary education has been the fastest-growing client segment for the company for the past two years.
By Rhea R. Borja
Vol. 25, Issue 09, Page 8
Published in Print: October 26, 2005, as Makers of Online Systems Merge
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Senators Should Subpoena Ma Bell
By Derek Slater
Today Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin wrote to the CEOs of AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., asking if the telecommunications giants collaborated with the government's domestic spying program, as has been reported in USA Today and many other news outlets.
The letter asserts that "understanding your company's participation in the NSA's domestic surveillance program is critical to congressional oversight efforts," and asks a number of detailed and important questions. We certainly agree and have sued AT&T, alleging that it violated the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the NSA in its massive program to wiretap and data-mine millions of ordinary Americans' communications. While the letter is an important step towards uncovering the truth, we urge the entire Senate to add its support and use its subpoena power to bring the telecommunications companies before the Judiciary Committee.
Press Release | July 16, 2019
Hearing Thursday: EFF, ACLU Will Ask Court to Rule In Favor of Travelers Suing DHS Over Unconstitutional, Warrantless Searches of Cellphones, Laptops
Boston, Massachusetts—On Thursday, July 18, at 3:00 p.m., lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU will ask a federal judge to decide that the constitutional rights of 11 travelers were violated by the suspicionless, warrantless searches of their electronic devices at the border by the U.S...
EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations
SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP filed a class action lawsuit today on behalf of AT&T customers in California to stop the telecom giant and two data location aggregators from allowing numerous entities—including bounty hunters, car dealerships, landlords, and...
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Knowing the “Value” of Our Data Won’t Fix Our Privacy Problems
Some lawmakers, seeking to hold companies accountable for the way they collect and profit from our personal information, are pushing a new idea: requiring companies to report a dollar value for the data they collect from us. Some frame this reporting as a first step towards requiring companies to share...
California’s Senate Judiciary Committee Blocks Efforts to Weaken California’s Privacy Law
The California Senate Judiciary Committee heard five bills on Tuesday that EFF and other privacy advocates strongly opposed. These measures, backed by big business and the tech industry, would have eviscerated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a landmark privacy law passed last year. We thank the Senate Judiciary...
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | July 8, 2019
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Signals It Will investigate NSA Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and Terror Watchlists
After a long dormant stretch, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has signaled it’s ready to tackle another big review of government surveillance and overreach. The PCLOB, an independent agency in the executive branch, last published a 2014 report on warrantless surveillance of the Internet by the...
Press Release | July 5, 2019
Media Briefing Monday: EFF and Partners Will Discuss California Bills Aimed at Weakening State’s Consumer Privacy Law
San Francisco—On Monday, June 8, at 11 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ACLU, Common Sense Media, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and Consumer Reports will hold a conference call to brief reporters about five bills designed to weaken consumer privacy protections that are set for hearing in the California Senate.Members...
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 27, 2019
Again!? The NSA’s Phone Records Program Still Can’t Stay Within the Law
Just as the Trump administration has signaled its interest in a permanent “clean” reauthorization of the Patriot Act’s phone surveillance provision, the NSA proves once again that it is not to be trusted with these tools. New documents obtained by the ACLU and reported in the...
Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | June 18, 2019
Massachusetts Can Become a National Leader to Stop Face Surveillance
Massachusetts has a long history of standing up for liberty. Right now, it has the opportunity to become a national leader in fighting invasive government surveillance. Lawmakers need to hear from the people of Massachusetts to say they oppose government use of face surveillance. Face surveillance poses a threat to...
The Lofgren-Amash Amendment Would Check Warrantless Surveillance
The NSA has used Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to justify collecting and storing millions of Americans’ online communications. Now, the House of Representatives has a chance to pull the plug on funding for Section 702 unless the government agrees to limit the reach of that program...
Press Release | June 12, 2019
Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows
San Francisco and Tunis, Tunisia—While social media platforms are increasingly giving users the opportunity to appeal decisions to censor their posts, very few platforms comprehensively commit to notifying users that their content has been removed in the first place, raising questions about their accountability and transparency, the Electronic...
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Study gives high marks to U.S. internet
Contradicting earlier studies, conventional wisdom, and politicians' rhetoric, European researchers say that the internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the world's best and getting better, the New York Times reports. The Global Information Technology Report, issued on April 9, found that the United States now ranked fourth in the world behind just three European nations: Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland. Last year, the United States was ranked seventh. The study, which has been issued annually for the last seven years, is an effort to draw a more complete picture of national network readiness.
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