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Public Art Collection
Student Lending Art Program
Campus Loan Art Program
Newly Commissioned Percent-for-Art Works
Percent-for-Art
Nick Mauss, Dispersed Events, 2018 tin-glazed, hand-painted ceramic mural An MIT Percent-for-Art Commission for the Landau Chemical Engineering Building. Photo: Peter Harris Studios
The Acoustiguide Audio Tour of MIT’s Public Art Collection offers commentary by artists, architects, scholars, and curators, focusing on 51 works of art and architecture located throughout the campus. Now you can take a campus walking tour of the collection by using our Mobile Phone App. The app features self guided campus walking tour routes, as well as interviews with selected artist and architects. Access the app for your mobile phone here.
Featured artists include Martin Boyce, Victor Burgin, Petah Coyne, Dan Graham, Cai Guo-Qiang, Beverly Pepper, Jaume Plensa, Matthew Ritchie, Sarah Sze, and Lawrence Weiner, and architects Steven Holl and Kevin Roche. Additional voices in the guide include notable curators and scholars, such as MIT Professor Caroline A. Jones, who provides commentary on numerous modernist works in the collection, and MIT School of Architecture and Planning Associate Dean and Professor Mark Jarzombek, who speaks about MIT’s architectural history, including Eero Saarinen’s MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium.
Visitors to campus will find that works of public art and architecture included in the audio guide are designated with signage which includes a number to call to listen. Audio can also be accessed through QR codes.
Listen to an introduction to MIT’s public art collection by actor, film director, and photographer Leonard Nimoy.
Below are general instructions about how to use the audio guide.
To explore individual works in the collection with audio commentary, visit our Public Art Collection page.
This project was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Through grant making, policy development, and research, IMLS helps communities and individuals thrive through broad public access to knowledge, cultural heritage, and lifelong learning.
Additional professional assistance for this project was provide by Acoustiguide, 501Creative, Guide by Cell, and TOKY Design.
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Armenia uses banned white phosphorous shells against civilian population
Armenian armed forces have used white phosphorous shells prohibited by international conventions against civilians in Tartar district of Azerbaijan. AZERTAC's correspondent, dispatched to the frontline, reports that phosphorous artillery shells fired at Sahlabad village of Tartar district did not explode. Madat Mammadov, the employee of the National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) told reporters that based on information received by the 102 Call Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this morning the area was inspected, and two unexploded white phosphorus artillery shells were found. “The 122-millimeter shells contained 3 kilograms 800 grams of white phosphorus. The unexploded ordnance was neutralized on the scene,” he added.
Due to its toxicity, white phosphorus was subsequently banned from the production of matches by a number of European countries towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The first treaty to deal with weapons was the St Petersburg Declaration of 1868. The 1949 Geneva Convention and its Additional Protocols, as well as the 1980 Protocol III to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons state that it is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons.
While using these weapons, Armenia aims at committing terror, provocation and as many massacres as possible against the civilian population of Azerbaijan.
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USC Students Charged with Theft
Five USC students were recently arrested for the theft of plants and lawn ornaments, including a statue of Buddha. The students, all candidates for the fraternity Sigma Nu, thought the pieces would help add to the decor of an upcoming fraternity party.
The identified students are: Eyobed Tsehaye Mesfun, 19, Dylan Avery Walter, 19, Miles Anlian Horton, 18, Gramham Wilson Vines, 18, and Darshan Sanjay Patel, 18. The students, who have since been released from custody, now find themselves at the center of a police investigation as well as an investigation led by Sigma Nu Fraternity Inc. “Sigma Nu Fraternity was founded on the honor principle and is dedicated to our mission of developing ethical leaders for society,” said Brad Beacham, executive director of Sigma Nu Fraternity Inc.. “We will not tolerate unlawful conduct. We have begun an investigation of this matter and will take appropriate action once all facts are known.” The students were arrested on suspicion of grand theft-related offenses.
According to a witness, the five students cruised through the 300 block of North Almansor Street around 1 a.m. They were spotted running back and forth between homes and a black pickup truck. Police were notified and were able to eventually track down the students in the truck, which reportedly had a USC sticker located on the rear window. Police noticed the bed of the truck was filled with palm fronds and tree trunks – some of which had been completely uprooted. Police also found statues of ducks, cats, and a Buddha.
Sigma Nu Fraternity
The students are due in court Nov. 10.
Tanner Sandoval, president of the USC Interfraternity Council, oversees the university’s Greek system. “This is not what we stand for,” he said. USC, as well as the Interfraternity Council plan to investigate the incident to identify if members of the fraternity asked the students to steal, or whether the group acted on their own. Sandoval also said that Sigma Nu’s pledge program has been placed on hold while the investigation is taking place.
Source: The Los Angeles Times, Police: USC students stole lawn statues, plants for frat party, October 9, 2014
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The Wicked King: The Folk of the Air #2 by Holly Black – Review
The Wicked King: The Folk of the Air #2 by Holly Black – Expected publication: January 8th, 2019 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers – young adult fantasy
The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.
You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.
The first lesson is to make yourself strong.
After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.
When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.
Goodreads – Amazon
About the author: Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series, the Curse Workers series, Doll Bones, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, the Magisterium series (with Cassandra Clare), The Darkest Part of the Forest, and her new series which begins with The Cruel Prince in January 2018. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award, the Mythopoeic Award and a Newbery Honor. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret door.
Goodreads Author Page – www.blackholly.com
My review: The second book in the highly anticipated The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black is titled The Wicked King. A young adult fantasy novel that is sure to captivate, intrigue and intoxicate you with a world unlike any other. If you enjoyed reading the first book, The Cruel Prince then you are sure to love The Wicked King. A story that is easy to get lost in, complex mythology, and a list of characters unlike any other. This fast-paced read is one that you will not want to put down. The Wicked King picks up five months after the events of the last book. So if you have not read The Cruel Prince, you could feel a little lost with the characters and their backstories. The Cruel Prince sets up the foundation for the series and the characters. I highly recommend The Wicked King and cannot wait to read the next book in The Folk of the Air series. ** I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.**
A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel – Review
Freefall by Jessica Barry – Review
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EXCLUSIVE GODHRA
'There Was No Waiting Mob'
Depositions before the Nanavati Commission suggest that Godhra wasn't the premeditated act it was made out to be. It exposes the lie of February 27, 2002, but what is its truth?
By Darshan Desai
Darshan Desai July 05, 2004 00:00 IST 'There Was No Waiting Mob'
It has been two-and-a-half years since that ill-fated day when a torched train at Godhra sparked off a communal wildfire that consumed much of Gujarat and scorched the conscience of an entire nation. The burning of the two coaches of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002, in which 58 people including kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya were killed, has been repeatedly described by the Gujarat government as a premeditated effort by local Muslims who worked in connivance with other members of the minority community in Godhra. The state railway police chargesheet, filed after the incident, went along much the same track. But the depositions before the G.T. Nanavati Commission probing the Godhra incident (as sourced by Outlook) reveal that things were not as black and white as they have been made out to be, they are overlaid by confusing shades of grey.
The statements by railway authorities, police officials, eyewitnesses, and kar sevaks who were aboard the train...
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by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
In this photo taken with an electron microscope, the spheres are exosomes and the black dots are gold labels. Credit: Mark A. Aminzadeh, MD.
Cell-derived exosomes are effective in treating disease when mixed with the dominant protein in breast milk and given orally, a new Smidt Heart Institute study of laboratory mice shows. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, could help develop new oral medications for treating patients with muscular dystrophy and heart failure.
The study builds on more than a decade of research led by Eduardo Marbán, MD, Ph.D., executive director of the Smidt Heart Institute and Cedars-Sinai professor of Cardiology. The research has focused on human cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) and a type of extracellular vesicle, called an exosome, that is secreted by those cells and travels throughout the body. Exosomes contain various biomolecules.
"When we started our first human trial in 2009, we were injecting the cells into the hearts of patients, and we thought the cells themselves were the therapeutic answer," Marbán said. "Now, we know it's really the exosomes that do the heavy lifting, and our recent work shows that they could be just as effective when administered orally."
Since that first study concluded in 2010, Marbán has led several studies that have each produced new insights and new methods of delivering the cells to patients and an expansion of the type of patients the cells could potentially help.
The first studies led by Marbán involved patients with heart disease and clogged arteries. After a parent of a muscular dystrophy patient asked Marbán if CDCs might help muscular dystrophy patients who experience progressive muscle weakness—including weakness of the heart muscle—and loss of muscle mass, Marbán began additional research projects aimed at developing treatments for muscular dystrophy patients.
"The work by Dr. Marban and his team highlight the ingenuity our investigators bring to addressing human disease," said Jeffrey A. Golden, MD, Cedars-Sinai's Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Education. "By building on his efforts to develop novel therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, he has found an exciting and novel path to treating another challenging clinical disorder, muscular dystrophy, and in so doing provided the groundwork to expand this strategy to other disorders."
Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases caused by abnormal genes (mutations) that interfere with the production of proteins needed to form and maintain healthy muscle—including the heart muscle.
In the most recent study, exosomes secreted by CDCs were mixed with casein, the major protein found in the milk of most mammals. The casein-coated exosomes were then fed to laboratory mice that had muscular dystrophy.
Casein is the basis of cheese and often is an ingredient in food products. Decades of medical research have shown that babies who are breastfed might have reduced risk for certain allergic diseases, asthma, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Casein-rich breast milk, which contains many natural exosomes, also may help improve an infant's cognitive development.
In this study, laboratory mice with muscular dystrophy were organized into four groups. One group of lab mice was fed CDC-derived exosomes mixed with casein, a second group received the exosomes without casein, a third group received casein only, and a fourth group received food with no added exosomes or casein. Those four groups were compared against a control group of lab mice that did not have muscular dystrophy.
Results showed that the mice with muscular dystrophy who were fed the CDC-derived exosomes experienced improved heart function as well as improved mobility and exercise capacity and that giving the exosomes orally distributed them throughout the body. The effects were enhanced by mixing the exosomes with casein.
"Especially for the patient population we are now targeting, patients with muscular dystrophy, the results are promising," Marbán said. "If we can prolong the amount of time before muscular dystrophy patients have to use a wheelchair, that would be a huge quality-of-life improvement."
Therapy for muscular dystrophy-caused heart failure also improves muscle function in mice
More information: Mark A. Aminzadeh et al. Casein‐enhanced uptake and disease‐modifying bioactivity of ingested extracellular vesicles. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, First published: 11 January 2021 doi.org/10.1002/jev2.12045
Provided by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Citation: Enhanced oral uptake of exosomes opens cell therapy alternative (2021, January 12) retrieved 16 January 2021 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-oral-uptake-exosomes-cell-therapy.html
Cardiac stem cell therapy may heal heart damage caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy
New treatment for common form of muscular dystrophy shows promise in cells, animals
Q&A: Finding treatments for muscular dystrophy starts with understanding the condition better
Muscular dystrophy: Repair the muscles, not the genetic defect
Q&A: Understanding Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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Italian Town Runs On 100% Renewable Power
23 Comments / December 17, 2007 September 22, 2015 / By Justin Thomas
Varese Ligure, a town in Northern Italy, runs on 100% renewable power. The town uses a mix of wind, solar and small-scale hydropower. The town has reaped benefits from the energy network through added jobs, and an additional 350,000 euros [US $514,000] in revenues that are handed over to the council each year. Varese has also seen a six-fold increase in tourists in the last ten years, many coming just to see its renewable energy network.
Varese became the first municipality in Europe to get 100% of its power from renewable energy sources six years ago. It now generates three times more electricity than the people living in Varese need and there are plans in the pipeline for even more renewables.
The town has also launched initiatives to make Varese 100% sustainable. A total of 108 organic farms now supply 98 percent of the town’s food; water is purified using environmentally friendly technology, and waste has been significantly reduced.
Four wind turbines located on a ridge 1100 meters above sea level — where the average annual wind speed is 7.2 meters per second — generate 8 million kWh of electricity a year that is fed into the local grid managed by Acam, a power company in La Spezia. Photovoltaic (PV) panels have been installed on the town hall and the local school. The town hall has 102 PV panels covering 95 square meters and generating 12,700 kWh a year, which supplies 98 percent of the total energy consumption of the building. Varese’s secondary school has 39 PV panels covering 36 square meters and producing 4,600 kWh a year, which supplies 62 percent of the energy used.
In addition to the that, the town’s swimming pool is heated by solar power and a program to promote the use of wood pellet stoves is in the works.
Via: Renewable Energy Access
23 thoughts on “Italian Town Runs On 100% Renewable Power”
Matthew Fine
Very interesting, it is very nice to see that progress is being made towards sustainable living. Hopefully one day we can apply this at home
SEPCO-Solar Lighting
Amazing and wonderful. I wonder how many advances they have had since the article was written and how many other cities in Europe have fallen suit. Great post!
Thomas | Electric Car
Never thought that italy owns such a progressive town. I love the aspect that this town goes beyond the ecological energy production. The efforts in reducing waste and purifying the water in a “green” way are a further step into the right direction!!!
I´m going to visit this town!!!
Great. We are heading to a saner future.
Just imagine what could be done by a huge country with great resources! Our own limitations here in the US are purely political. It’s good to see we are finally moving forward once again.
Yes – very true. Not even close to Varese. And much smaller. Mmm. The heading of the article is what’s wrong, or at least the first line of the main text…
ok, people, please stop calling it just “varese”
Its name is “varese ligure” and the “ligure” is there because there’s a bigger town called Varese. Unfortunately, that town isn’t 100% eco.
Actually Andrew, some of us did understand that…
(North) America’s a great place with great people and great eco-projects. We need you in this too!
We Europeans understand sarcasm perfectly as we invented it 😉
All of you Europeans must not understand sarcasm. Joe was emphasizing how many Americans consider the country modern, when in fact a small town in Italy exceeds all of America with regards to renewable energy. He was making fun of his own country.
Ian –
For sure. The thing is, people have a habit of using threads to, sometimes, poke at each-other. Such a waste of time.
I would like to be optimistic about all of this but I’m not. We have been badly trained and are far too used to wasting instead of conserving, too used to pointing the finger and too much in the habit of thinking there is nothing to be done on an individual basis. Americans AND Europeans are consumers and live in a high-consumption society. That’s very difficult to change.
I would like to add that instead of attacking each other over what probably wasn’t intended in a negative way, but what appear to be just complimentary comments in actual fact, and whether or not one’s geography is up to scratch, we ought to focus on what IS important: The planet!
When one talks about eco villages, and the skill and know-how in setting up and running them, the US follows Scandinavia, and in many respects leads the UK (where I am). However, each country has its merits in the environmental camp, and we should all work together and exchange our knowledge – which we do, but need to do more. ‘Modern’ day society is backward in many ways, when it’s so out of touch with nature. It works against nature rather than with it. We have much to learn from the many indigenous peoples of this world. We ought to listen intently to how they live, and marry this with technology of our societies in an appropriate way. If planned properly, and from an environmental impact stance, instead of big business profits first, then we can all crack this together.
Well, I’m off to live there in July. For good. My sister’s there already and I have the whole plan sorted 🙂
Don’t be hard on Joe. I don’t think he meant any harm. We (Europeans) are too quick to condemn North Americans for voting an idiot twice. Look What Italians voted three times. B O visited a turbine factory on the first day of his term in office. Burluscrappy went to a beauty parlour.
Carl, that’s a pretty ignorant thing to say. You don’t realize how large America is and how we are represented by people who don’t really care about much more than themselves. You’d be surprised to learn that most of the population under 30 in the States are focused greatly on renewable resources and sustainable agriculture. Check yoself fo you wreck yoself bitch
I lived 30km from Varese in Busto Arsizio for six weeks in 2007. What a shame that I didn’t know about their green credentials! I would have loved to have seen as much as possible. A stunning example of why it’s important to know what’s going on in your local area 🙂
Perhaps instead of insulting Joe people need to read that he said he wishes he had politicians like those in Varese!
There are examples of towns in the US taking action, and there are examples in the UK too (where I am) but there’s no way that we can describe the UK as leading the way in fighting climate change either.
Not knowing the geography of europe is irrelevant to this discussion.
Less talking, more action, both in the UK and the US is needed!
What else could we expect from an American? Joe represents the real American. I am sure he doesn’t even know if Europe is a city or a continent.I live in the UK and I went to Varese, Italy, recently and I was amazed by its Renewable Power. I also visited other Italian cities and I saw with my own eyes how those cities followed the example of Varese. When we talk about renewable power an climate change, Italy in general is an example for the rest of Europe. The US is not an example over climate change, neither is China. So, those people from the US, for example, should be worried about their country’s future. Someday, they will realize how wrong they were over renewable power but I’m afraid it’ll be too late.
I think It was meant as a compliment not an insult
Varese is an example for the rest of Europe. Instead of talking about climate change, so many European leaders should start acting and doing something serious about it. Joe, from the US says “This back-country town is light years ahead of the “modern” cities in the US”. He might not know that Europe in general is old and it is common to see old cities and towns in Europe. We all know the USA is modern.Towns like Varese, cities like Rome, Paris and London make Europe so special and that’s exactly why millions of tourists come to Italy, for example, every year to see its historic places. So, when “ignorant” Joe says Varese is light years ahead of “modern US”, well, I would say neither Varese nor any other town or city in Europe would even try to be similar to any American city because that would mean the end of the Special and unique Europe.
Uncle B
In colder Canadian climates huge amounts of energy can be saved by developing and applying super-insulation and building underground or earth-bermed dwellings. Power storage remains a problem but wind, hydro and photo-voltaic generation is costly but very possible. Oil will have to get a little more pricey before these problems are really tackled, however.
The article is somehow forgetting to elaborate about the “small-scale” hydropower in Varese. It might very well be giving most of energy to the town, especially in windless nights. The claim that “Varese is first municipality in Europe to get 100% of its power from renewable energy six years ago ” must be a joke, considering that 98% of power in Norway is from renewable sources too, for much more than six years. So, Varese could easily be beaten by most Norwegian municipalities. Unless by “Europe”, they mean EU only, then many municipalities in Austria must suffice.
To avoid confusion the correct name of the city is Varese Ligure.
offgrid-living
That’s great – now we need to try that here in Canada.
This back-country town is light years ahead of the “modern” cities in the US.
I with their politicians were in charge of my city.
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The dawn of an era in the biotech industry
It was back in 1953 when the elucidation of the DNA structure by Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis Crick, widely regarded as the starting point of modern molecular biology, ignited the fuse that led to unraveling the central role of RNA in life. From that point on, numerous molecular mechanisms such as RNA interference (RNAi) have been described, and an unprecedented number of non-coding RNAs – RNA molecules that are not translated into protein – such as small interfering RNAs (siRNA), micro RNAs (miRNA) or ribozymes have been reported and characterized.
All these discoveries led to the apparition of a plethora of companies pioneering therapeutics based on synthetic RNAs – RNA molecules that are synthesized in the lab – designed to regulate abnormal gene expression caused by certain diseases, thus targeting their root causes rather than just the symptoms. Decades of paramount difficulties in the development of RNA-based therapeutics culminated in 2018, when approval to commercialize Patisiran was granted in the US and Europe, making it the first ever RNAi therapy available in the market.
More recently, just a month ago, Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing. Again, this is a method that uses synthetic RNA molecules: the so-called guide RNAs, which target the region of DNA to be modified and direct the editing molecular machinery there. Not only a number of therapies based on CRISPR/Cas9 are today under clinical development, but variants of this genome editing mechanism have been also used to develop tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19.
Even more recently, two names have been sweeping the board of media headlines during the last two weeks: Pfizer and Moderna. Both companies are racing to bring the first COVID-19 vaccine to the market and both companies claim that their vaccines have achieved an outstanding 95% efficacy. On top of that, and what is central to this article, is that both companies are using synthetic RNA molecules to induce immunity. In this case, those synthetic RNAs are messenger RNAs (mRNA) that code for the disease specific antigen which, once produced by the body, is recognized by the immune system, preparing it to fight the actual virus.
We strongly believe that synthetic RNA has sparked a revolution in the biotech industry, a revolution that started many years ago and that has gained a lot of momentum during the last couple of years. A revolution that, without a doubt, will completely reshape the industry in the coming years.
And we are proud to be part of it.
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Elections · Elections 2016 · Opinion · Partisan Politics and Policy · Politics · Uncategorized
6 Big Reasons To Vote For Hillary
May 7, 2016 by Mindy Fischer No Comments
I get asked often why I support Hillary. There are many reasons actually. Here are 6 big ones…..
We are now facing quite possibly the most important Presidential election of our lifetimes. It is not only the Presidency and the next four years that are at stake here, but now with the Supreme Court in play, an entire generation or more will be affected by the outcome of this election.
For me this is an easy decision….especially when the alternative is Donald Trump….but I understand that for others it may not be quite as simple. Is Hillary an ideal candidate? No. Are there things about her that I wish I could change? Of course. But do I think she will still make a great President? Yes I do.
And here’s why….
Obama’s Third Term
President Obama doesn’t get the credit he deserves for turning this country around after George Bush nearly put us into ruins. He stopped the great recession and has us headed in the right direction. Hillary will continue in that same direction. Her policies and and governing style are very similar to his and many of her goals are to expand on Obama’s accomplishments like:
Legislative action on climate change
fixing and expanding Obamacare
expanding and strengthening Dodd-Frank financial regulations
If you could handle President Obama for the past 8 years, then you will be just fine with a President Hillary Clinton. They are both calculating pragmatic progressives. And the transition should be seamless. And a President Hillary will ensure Obama’s legacy….as well as forge one of her own.
No one in our history has ever come to this office as ready on day one as Hillary will. She has served as Secretary of State, Senator of New York, First Lady of the United States, First Lady of Arkansas, a practicing lawyer, a law professor, and an activist over a very long and public career. Whether you like her or not, it’s very hard to compete with her resume.
And because Hillary has been in the public eye for so many years we have all seen her life play out before us. We’ve seen her accomplishments and her failures. We’ve also seen a Conservative movement attack her like no other. Yet somehow Hillary always remains standing. She is battle tested. There is nothing the Republicans can throw at her that hasn’t already been thrown. And Hillary has proven herself tough enough to handle anything.
That toughness will help her lead this country. I think one of the mistakes that Obama made early on in his Presidency was that he underestimated the hatred that the Republicans had for him. Those same Republicans will have an equal amount of hatred for Hillary…but she won’t make that same mistake.
People like to label her a “bitch.” Well, maybe in order to deal with some of the opposition right now, she will have to be a bitch….and she is just the woman to do the job.
Simply put…there is no one who can touch Hillary when it comes to foreign policy.
Her experience as Secretary as State was invaluable. She is more knowledgeable and respected on foreign affairs than anyone running. And trying to compare her with Trump is hardly more than a joke.
Henry Kissinger said, “She ran the State Department in the most effective way that I have ever seen.”
Her foreign policy will be much like Obama’s. She is probably a bit more hawkish than Obama, but to call her a hawk is unfair….especially when you compare her to any of the Republicans. And if you take issue with Obama’s foreign policy and that’s why you don’t like Hillary’s…just think for a moment what would happen if Donald Trump won the White House.
I don’t care how much you dislike Hillary, there is no comparison between her world views and a madman who wants to use nukes, arm other countries with nukes, and murder the wives and children of terrorists.
Hillary has spent her entire life fighting for women, girls, children, and families. She is fighting for an agenda that includes:
Equal pay for women
A woman’s right to choose
Paid family leave and affordable child care
There’s a reason that Planned Parenthood made the unprecedented decision to endorse Hillary in January. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said,
“No other candidate in our nation’s history has demonstrated such a strong commitment to women or such a clear record on behalf of women’s health and rights. This is about so much more than Planned Parenthood. Health care for an entire generation is at stake.”
As Senator, Hillary Clinton introduced 8 pieces of legislation with the clear purpose of expanding and protecting women’s access to reproductive health care — more than any other presidential candidate.
Hillary Clinton chaired the 1993 task force that created the first plan for health care reform and testified on it before Congress — an unprecedented move by a presidential spouse.
Hillary Clinton helped launch the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Teen birth rates are now at a 40-year low.
Hillary Clinton introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act in 2005, 2007 and 2009. No other presidential candidate has introduced equal pay legislation.
Hillary Clinton waged a multi-year effort with Sen. Patty Murray — and even blocked the nomination of an FDA head — to pass the law that made emergency contraception available over-the-counter.
Hillary Clinton would build on the Affordable Care Act, which has helped nearly 8.2 million adult women gain health coverage. This has been especially important for women of color, who accounted for 53.2 percent of uninsured women before the law went into effect.
Hillary has a 3 part plan:
Strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes
Hold irresponsible dealers and manufacturers accountable
Keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill
Hillary has been one of the strongest voices for stricter gun control in this country and with 33,000 Americans being killed every single year, it has never been more important to have someone in the White House who makes this a priority. And again, when you compare her to Trump…well, there simply is no comparison.
As first lady, she co-convened a White House Summit on School Violence after the Columbine tragedy. She also strongly defended the Brady Bill, which instituted federal background checks on some gun sales.
As senator, she co-sponsored and voted for legislation to close the gun show loophole by requiring criminal background checks on all transactions taking place at events that sell firearms.
She voted against the dangerous immunity protections Congress provided gun dealers and manufacturers that prevent victims of gun violence from holding negligent manufacturers and dealers accountable.
She also co-sponsored and voted for legislation to extend and reinstate the assault weapons ban.
Listen….for me there are many many reasons to vote for Hillary. But if you really can’t seem to find one for yourself it comes down to one simple thing. Trump.
I don’t care how much you might dislike Hillary…or how many reasons you want to give me why NOT to vote for her. The bottom line is she is a million times better than a President Trump. She is not insane. She is not a racist, or a misogynist, or a homophobe, or a xenophobe, or a bigot. She’s not going to deport 11 million immigrants. She’s not going to start WWIII. She’s not going to nuke anyone or kill innocent women and children.
She’s not going to start trade wars or send us into a global recession or worse. She’s not going to make the financial markets panic. She’s not going to make our nation the laughing stock of the world. And she’s not going to make the Supreme Court into a neo-Con disaster that will affect us for generations.
No, she is not perfect. But she is a lot better than the alternative. And sometimes better is what you need for progress. Better is what keeps you moving forward. And that is what she will do. She will continue moving us in the direction we need to go. The alternative is simply not acceptable…and the course correction for a Trump Presidency would take a generation.
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Overview of Non-Exempt, Significant Risk Medical Device Clinical Studies
September 21, 2016 - Lael Pickett; and Liz Scheurer, Principal Clinical Research Scientist, Neurocritical Care
The white paper “Overview of U.S. Medical Device Clinical Trials” provided a brief overview of U.S. clinical studies regulations, types of clinical studies and how to determine if an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) is required (Figure 1).
This paper will focus on Non-Exempt clinical studies that present a significant risk to study subjects and require that an IDE be filed and approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to initiating the study.1
FDA regulations in 21 CFR § 812.3(m) define what a “significant risk” investigational device is:
Intended as an implant and presents a potential for serious risk to the health, safety or welfare of a subject. Note: “implant” is defined in 21 CFR § 812.3(d) as a device that is placed into a surgically or naturally formed cavity of the human body for a period of 30 days or more. FDA may determine that devices placed in subjects for shorter time periods meet the definition of implant.
Purported or represented to be for use in supporting or sustaining human life and presents a potential for serious risk to the health, safety or welfare of a subject. Note: life support or life sustaining devices are described in 21 CFR § 860.3(e) as devices that are essential to, or that yields information that is essential to, the restoration or continuation of a bodily function important to the continuation of human life.
Used for substantial importance in diagnosing, curing, mitigating or treating disease, or otherwise presenting impairment of human health and presents a potential for serious risk to the health, safety or welfare of a subject.
Otherwise presents a potential for serious risk to the health, safety or welfare of a subject.
Interestingly, FDA does not define “serious risk” in its 21 CFR Part 812 Investigational Device Regulations, even though it is critical to determining whether or not a device meets the definition of significant risk device. However, a definition of “risk to health” is described in 21 CFR § 806.2(k) as “a reasonable probability that use of, or exposure to, the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death; or that use of, or exposure to, the product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or an outcome where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
FDA has published an Information Sheet “Guidance For IRBs, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors – Significant Risk and Nonsignificant Risk Medical Device Studies,” that provides examples of Non-Exempt, significant risk studies that could be subject to abbreviated study requirements. Examples include: surgical laser, bronchial tubes, cardiac mapping and ablation catheters, extracorporeal circulation systems, hydrocephalus shunts, hemodialyzers and bone growth stimulators. See the FDA Information Sheet for additional examples.
If there are questions as to whether a study is Non-Exempt and presents a significant risk to study subjects, a Sponsor may consult FDA in accordance with its “Procedures for Handling Inquiries Regarding the Need for an Investigational Device Exemptions Application for Research Involving Medical Devices – October 26, 2001 (#D01-01).”
Significant risk devices require that an IDE application be filed with and approved by FDA prior to initiating a clinical evaluation. Additionally, the clinical site’s IRB must review and approve the study prior to initiation.
IDE Application
FDA regulations 2 , 3 and guidance 4
(1) The name and address of the sponsor.
(2) A complete report of prior investigations of the device and an accurate summary of those sections of the investigational plan or, in lieu of the summary, the complete plan. The report of prior investigations shall include reports of all prior clinical, animal and laboratory testing of the device and shall be comprehensive and adequate to justify the proposed investigation. The report also shall include:
A bibliography of all publications, whether adverse or supportive, that are relevant to an evaluation of the safety or effectiveness of the device, copies of all published and unpublished adverse information, and, if requested by an IRB or FDA, copies of other significant publications.
A summary of all other unpublished information (whether adverse or supportive) in the possession of, or reasonably obtainable by, the sponsor that is relevant to an evaluation of the safety or effectiveness of the device.
If information on non-clinical laboratory studies is provided, a statement that all such studies have been conducted in compliance with applicable requirements in the good laboratory practice regulations in 21 CFR Part 58 should be included, or if the study was not conducted in compliance with these regulations, a brief statement of the reason for the noncompliance should be included. Failure or inability to comply with this requirement does not justify failure to provide information on a relevant nonclinical test study.
(3) A description of the methods, facilities, and controls used for the manufacture, processing, packing, storage, and, where appropriate, installation of the device, in sufficient detail so that a person generally familiar with good manufacturing practices can make a knowledgeable judgment about the quality control used in the manufacture of the device.
(4) An example of the agreements to be entered into by all investigators to comply with investigator obligations under this part, and a list of the names and addresses of all investigators who have signed the agreement.
(5) A certification that all investigators who will participate in the investigation have signed the agreement, that the list of investigators includes all the investigators participating in the investigation, and that no investigators will be added to the investigation until they have signed the agreement.
(6) A list of the name, address, and chairperson of each IRB that has been or will be asked to review the investigation and a certification of the action concerning the investigation taken by each such IRB.
(7) The name and address of any institution at which a part of the investigation may be conducted that has not been identified in accordance with paragraph 6 above.
(8) If the device is to be sold, the amount to be charged and an explanation of why sale does not constitute commercialization of the device.
(9) A claim for categorical exclusion under 21 CFR §25.30 or §25.34 or an environmental assessment under §25.40.
(10) Copies of all labeling for the device.
(11) Copies of all forms and informational materials to be provided to subjects to obtain informed consent.
(12) Any other relevant information FDA requests for review of the application.
FDA IDE Review
FDA has thirty calendar days to review an IDE application. FDA may approve, approve with conditions or disapprove an IDE application. It is not uncommon for FDA to conditionally approve or disapprove an IDE application and provide the sponsor with a list of questions that must be satisfied to obtain full IDE approval. Most US IRBs will not review significant risk studies until FDA IDE approval has been obtained. FDA approval of an IDE application may be granted in a staged manner i.e., a cap on initial enrollments with a required stop and submission of a safety report. This approval method is not unusual in first-in-human studies and ensures that the agency is adhering to the mission of protecting the study subjects.
Sponsors should check with each clinical site’s IRB as to what is required for submission and approval. Obviously the clinical study protocol, informed consent form and FDA letter of IDE approval is required. Additionally sponsors must provide IRBs with copies of any other documents that will be provided to study subjects such as questionnaires, as well as copies of any materials that may be used to recruit potential study participants (e.g. newspaper ads, flyers, etc.). It is not unusual for IRBs to slightly modify the informed consent form to comply with center specific language and any recruitment materials to ensure that potential subjects are aware of all study risks and that their privacy is protected.
Sponsor IDE Responsibilities
Sponsors are responsible for selecting qualified investigators and providing them with the information that they need to conduct the investigation properly. They must also ensure proper monitoring of the investigation and IRB review and approval, submit an IDE application to FDA for significant risk device studies, and inform the IRB and FDA promptly of any significant new information about the investigation. 5
A sponsor cannot begin an investigation or any part of an investigation until an IRB and FDA have both approved the application or supplemental application. 6
A sponsor is responsible for selecting investigators qualified by training and experience to investigate the device. 7
A sponsor must select monitors qualified by training and experience to monitor the investigational study in accordance with the IDE and other applicable FDA regulations. 7
A sponsor can ship investigational devices only to qualified investigators participating in the investigation. 7
A sponsor must obtain a signed agreement from each participating investigator that includes: 7
The investigator’s curriculum vitae
A statement of the investigator’s relevant experience, including the dates, location, extent, and type of experience
An explanation of the circumstances that led to termination of a study if the investigator was involved in an investigation or other research that was terminated
A statement of the investigator’s commitment to:
Conduct the investigation in accordance with the agreement, the investigational plan, the IDE and other applicable FDA regulations, and conditions of approval imposed by the reviewing IRB or FDA
Supervise all testing of the device involving human subjects
Ensure that the requirements for obtaining informed consent are met.
Accurate financial disclosure information to allow the sponsor to submit a complete and accurate certification or disclosure statement as required under 21 CFR 54, Financial disclosure by clinical investigators. The sponsor shall also obtain a commitment from the clinical investigator to promptly update this information if any relevant changes occur during the course of the investigation and for one year following completion of the study.
A sponsor must supply all investigators participating in the investigation with copies of the investigational plan and a report of prior investigations of the device. 8
A sponsor who discovers that an investigator is not complying with the signed agreement, the investigational plan, the IDE requirements, any other applicable FDA regulations, or any conditions of approval imposed by the reviewing IRB or FDA must promptly either secure compliance, or discontinue shipments of the device to the investigator and terminate the investigator’s participation in the investigation. A sponsor must also require that the investigator dispose of or return the device, unless this action would jeopardize the rights, safety, or welfare of a subject. 9
Sponsors must immediately conduct an evaluation of any unanticipated adverse device effect. A sponsor who determines that an unanticipated adverse device effect presents an unreasonable risk to subjects must terminate all investigations or parts of the investigations presenting that risk as soon as possible. Termination must occur no later than 5 working days after the sponsor makes this determination and no later than 15 working days after the sponsor first received notice of the effect.
A sponsor may not resume a terminated investigation without IRB and FDA approval. For a nonsignificant risk device investigation, a sponsor may not resume a terminated investigation without IRB approval. If the nonsignificant risk study was terminated for unanticipated adverse device effects, the sponsor must also obtain FDA approval.
The sponsor must maintain accurate and complete records relating to the investigation. 10 These records include:
All correspondence including required reports
Records of shipment of the device
Records of disposition of the device
Signed investigator agreements including financial disclosure information
Records concerning complaints and adverse device effects whether anticipated or not
Any other records that FDA requires to be maintained by regulation or by specific requirement for a category of investigation or a particular investigatin
The sponsor must provide the following reports in a timely manner to FDA, the IRBs, and/or the investigators: 11
Unanticipated Adverse Device Effects
Withdrawal of IRB Approval
Withdrawal of FDA Approval
Current List of Investigators
Progress Reports (usually on the anniversary date of IDE conditional or full approval)
Recalls and Device Disposition
Informed Consent Form
Significant Risk Device Determination
An investigational device or its immediate package must bear a label with the following information: 12
Name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor
Quantity of contents, if appropriate
The statement, “CAUTION Investigational device. Limited by Federal (or United States) law to investigational use.”
The label must also describe all relevant contraindications, hazards, adverse effects, interfering substances or devices, warnings, and precautions.
The labeling of an investigational device must not contain any false or misleading statements nor imply that the device is safe or effective for the purposes being investigated.
The sponsor should provide detailed information on device labeling in the investigational protocol. This information may vary depending on the device and the nature of the study. Product labeling should be sufficient to ensure stability of the test article for the duration of the study (storage requirements, calibration procedures), bear sufficient directions for proper administration, and detail procedures to follow in the event of patient injury.
A sponsor, investigator, or any person acting for or on behalf of a sponsor or investigator cannot: 13
Promote or test market an investigational device, until after FDA has approved the device for commercial distribution.
Commercialize an investigational device by charging the subjects or investigators a higher price than that necessary to recover costs of manufacture, research, development, and handling.
Unduly prolong an investigation. If data developed by the investigation indicate that premarket approval (PMA) cannot be justified, the sponsor must promptly terminate the investigation.
Represent that an investigational device is safe or effective.
However, the sponsor may advertise for research subjects to solicit their participation in a study. Appropriate advertising methods include but are not necessarily limited to: newspaper, radio, TV, bulletin boards, posters and flyers that are intended for prospective subjects.
Advertisements should be reviewed and approved by the IRB to assure that they are not unduly coercive and do not promise a certainty of cure beyond what is outlined in the consent and the protocol. No claims should be made, either explicitly or implicitly, that the device is safe or effective for the purposes under investigation, or that the test article is known to be equivalent or superior to any other device.
FDA considers direct advertising for study subjects to be the start of the informed consent and subject selection process.
While FDA requirements for significant risk clinical investigations are extensive, they are necessary to ensure study subject safety and welfare.
At Minnetronix, our extensive development experience, commitment to patient safety, and flexible manufacturing environment provide ideal partnership opportunities for limited clinical builds. We equip our customers with Minnetronix developed product design and/or manufacturing information to ensure successful clinical study applications.
[1] 21 CFR § 812.422
[2] 21 CFR § 812.20 Application
[3] 21 CFR § 812.27 Report of prior investigations
[4] https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/HowtoMarketYourDevice/InvestigationalDeviceExemptionIDE/ucm162453.htm
[5] 21 CFR § 812.40 General responsibilities of sponsors
[6] 21 CFR § 812.42 FDA and IRB approval
[7] 21 CFR § 812.43 Selecting investigators and monitors
[8] 21 CFR § 812.45 Informing investigators
[9] 21 CFR § 812.46 Monitoring
[10] 21 CFR § 812.140 Sponsor records
[11] 21 CFR §812.150 Sponsor records
[12] 21 CFR §812.5 Labeling
[13] 21 CFR §812.7 Promotion of investigational devices
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Mission and Ministry > About Us > Sponsoring Religious Communities > Jesuit Community > Members > Fr. Mark Lopez, S.J.
Fr. Mark Lopez, S.J.
Fr. Mark Lopez is a Filipino Jesuit missionary who has worked in Cambodia since 2009 and is now doing Doctoral Studies under the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Program of the LMU School of Education. He has an undergraduate B.S. degree in Management Engineering (1996) and an M.A. in Theology (2015), both from the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He has published research on Social Justice issues, Moral Theology, and the parallels of Ignatian Spirituality and Buddhism. He was also previously Editor-in-Chief of The Windhover (a multi-awarded Philippine Jesuit Magazine).
Prior to enrolling at LMU, Mark served as Vicar Delegate for Planning and Development and Co-Chair of the Care for Creation Advocacy desk of the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang and as Parish Priest for 6 communities under the Good Shepherd parish in Kampong Thom, one of the most economically-challenged provinces in Cambodia. Jesuit superiors have indicated their intention to have Mark help in the Jesuit Mission work to improve the quality of basic public school education in Cambodia and thus missioned him to doctoral studies in preparation for this work. Prior to joining the Society of Jesus in 2004, Mark had worked for several non-profit organizations in the Philippines including the United Nations Development Programme, helping to manage poverty alleviation projects for indigenous, fisher and agrarian communities for eight years.
In his younger days, he enjoyed dabbling in photography, liturgical music and vegetarian culinary arts, and was blessed to be a member of the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP), as well as Hangad and Himig Heswita (popular church choirs in the Philippine liturgical scene and recording artists under the Jesuit Music Ministry label). Now he mostly just enjoys eating, planting trees, exploring sustainable living projects, and tending to gardens during his free time. While he sometimes still misses friends, family and his native hometown of Makati, Philippines, he has no regrets taking-on missionary life in an area of such great need.
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Wheat Research to Address Gluten Sensitivity and Increase Demand
The Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council, in partnership with the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute and the University of Minnesota, are currently pursuing a new study that could make a meaningful impact on the wheat industry. Together, these partners are investigating options to reduce wheat digestibility concerns by identifying naturally occurring anti-nutrient elements in specific breeds of wheat.
For thousands of years wheat has been a staple in human diets due to its un-matched nutrition profile. Although this fact remains undisputed, within recent years wheat has increasingly come under attack due to digestive difficulties for some consumers. These digestibility issues have contributed to an 11% decline in per capita consumption of wheat flour (product) between 1997 and 2017 [1]. On the other hand, experts expect gluten-free product sales to reach about $1 billion in 2020.
For this reason, research into potentially reactive components negatively impacting consumers of wheat is underway. Fermentable sugars known by the acronym “FODMAP” (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, mono-saccharides, and polyols) and certain proteins “ATI” (amylase-trypsin inhibitors) are the focus of this research. Researchers believe these reactive components are triggers of non-celiac gluten sensitivity and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Not all consumers deal with digestive distress when eat-ing cereal grains. Through insights gained in recent research into microbiology, it is also becoming apparent the human microbiome (the vast army of bacteria, fungi and other microbes in the digestive tract) plays a critical role in maintaining or disrupting our health. Research in 2019 showed ATIs kill or suppress good bacteria and enhance the bad bacteria, leading to imbalances in the gut [2]. Current research illustrates that many individuals who suffer from digestive distress when consuming cereal grains may have an underlying dysbiosis (microbial imbalance or impaired microbiota). For such individuals FODMAPS may become reactive, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain, distention and bloat-ing. Recent research indicates the majority of inflammatory diseases are related to microbiome dysbiosis [3].
The process of developing low reactive wheat food products is a combination of selecting the right wheat variety and alternative processing, such as sour-dough fermentation, so that the ATI’s and FODMAPs are substantially reduced. The current project funded by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) Agricultural Growth, Research and Innovation (AGRI) program investigates the level of ATI’s and FODMAPs present in current and past Minnesota wheat varieties, as well as their anti-nutrient levels, after processing the wheat into a sourdough wheat food product.
Australian researchers and businesses have been actively pursuing FODMAP opportunities. Monash University in Australia is a leader in low FODMAP diets and certified low FODMAP food products testing. In addition, the Manildra Group, a major Australian flour milling company that also has facilities in the United States, launched a low FODMAP flour in 2018, which makes low FOD-MAP flour available in the United States. The flour is produced by Lo-Fo Pantry (Manildra Group USA).
The benefits of this research are three-fold. First, bread processors will gain valuable information about processing techniques using fermentation that could reduce anti-nutrients in new wheat products that reduce human digestive issues in populations with FODMAP sensitivities. Second, consumers may start enjoying wheat products that have lower FODMAPs and anti-nutrients that cause digestive issues. For individuals with wheat sensitivity, less reactive wheat products can increase quality of life while enjoying the health benefits of wheat products. Third, Minnesota wheat farmers benefit. By spur-ring research for possible breeding efforts into new wheat varieties that help reduce wheat digestibility sensitivities, it is expected that consumer demand for wheat-based products will increase, thus resulting in expanded market opportunities to increase profit-ability for wheat growers.
Financial support for this project is provided by an Agricultural Growth, Research, & Innovation Crop Research Grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. The AGRI program awards grants, scholarships, and cost shares to advance Minnesota’s agricultural and renewable energy industries. For more information about the AGRI program, visit www.mda.state.mn.us/grants/agri. To learn more about AGRI Crop Research Grants, visit www.mda.state.mn.us/cropresearch.
[1]Data obtained from United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/wheat-data/
[2]”Dietary Wheat Amylase Trypsin Inhibitors Modify the Gut Microbiome by Antimicrobial Activity and Aggravates Experimental Colitis” Pickert, Wirtz, Heck, Thies, et.al. (2019).
[3]Fructans with a higher Degree of Polymerization (HDPI) produced more diversity (of bacteria) towards the end of the experiment, and that this effect was statistically significant against controls when more weight was attached to the more abundant (or “highly effective”) OTUs. “Effect of the Degree of Polymerization of Fructans on Ex Vivo Fermented Human Gut Micro-biome” Asto, Mendez, Prado, Cune, et.al. June 7, 2019.
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Home News Community News From St. Lucia to the world: A Literary master
From St. Lucia to the world: A Literary master
Egbert Gaye
Derek Walcott used the history and the color of the Caribbean to tell his stories
Derek Walcott was a true, true Caribbean man.
The pride that this literary giant harbored for the region from whence he came was reflected in much of his work in the 70-something years that he put pen to paper.
In staking out his place among the great writers of his time, Walcott repeatedly drew from the colonial history of the West Indies and the vibrancy of its language, culture and natural beauty to craft the 24 poetry collections, 25 plays and eight other books that have earned him international acclaim.
On October 8,1992, the year that marked the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Caribbean, the committee announced that the St. Lucian-born poet and playwright had won the Nobel Prize For Literature.
In so doing, they commented: “West Indian culture has found its great poet.”
Having spent a good chunk of his life under the domination of European colonialism, Walcott understood more than most people the debilitating impact it had on the region, but used it to empower himself and his writings.
In his Wikipedia profile, he’s quoted as saying: “What we were deprived of was also our privilege. There was a great joy in making a world that so far, up to then, had been undefined… My generation of West Indian writers has felt such a powerful elation at having the privilege of writing about places and people for the first time and, simultaneously, having behind them the tradition of knowing how well it can be done—by a Defoe, a Dickens, a Richardson.”
And as such, all of his seminal work: poems and plays such as Omerus, Castaway, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Pantomime were constructed upon the imagery and oral culture of the West Indies.
One literary critic summed it up by saying:
“By using the West Indian theater as a showcase for the oral culture of the West Indies, Walcott hoped to create a more secure social identity for West Indians living under English rule.”
Another one saw Walcott’s voice as “an elegant West Indies murmur against history’s violent colonial narrative of bondage.”
Derek Walcott was born one of a twin in Castries, St. Lucia, in 1930. He grew up in a house where art and literature flourished, and was nourished by a regular diet of Shakespeare from his mother, who read to him constantly.
And when at 18, he decided to publish his first book of poetry, it was his mother, a seamstress, who scrapped and scrounged to find the $200 for him to send to Trinidad to have the book printed.
He hawked those copies on street corners and made back the money easily.
He earned a scholarship to study at the University College of The West Indies in Jamaica.
After finishing university in 1953, he settled in Trinidad where he worked as a journalist and established himself as a respectable playwright, writing several of his seminal plays and founding the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s he drew international acclaim with his growing list of poems, most of which touched on the Caribbean and its colonial and postcolonial shackles.
In 1990, he wrote Omeros probably his most influential poem, which earned him praise and renown from The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, and won him several literary awards.
The 64-chapter epic poem was divided into seven “books” and stood apart from other larger-than-life pieces of work because of the distinctive style and structure employed by Walcott.
The characters and parts of the storyline parallel the equally epic, The Iliad, by ancient Greek writer Homer.
The Times Review chose the book as one of its “Best Books of 1990” and in 1992 it earned Walcott the distinction of being the second Caribbean man to win the Nobel Prize For Literature.
(Saint John Perse of Guadeloupe in 1960 and VS Naipaul of Trinidad and Tobago won it in 2001.)
Also in a distinguished academic career, Walcott taught at the University of Boston, The University of Alberta and The University of Essex.
Among his many commendations, Walcott was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Knight of the Order of Saint Lucia.
On March 17, Derek Walcott died at his home at Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia. He was 87 years old.
“The sigh of history rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.”
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Renato Samala, MD
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Why Didn’t The FBI And DHS Produce A Threat Report Ahead of The Capitol Insurrection?
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When law enforcement failed to anticipate that pro-Trump supporters would devolve into a violent mob they fell victim to what one expert calls “the invisible obvious.” He said it was hard for authorities to see that people who looked like them could want to commit this kind of unconstitutional violence.
In late December, the New York Police Department sent a packet of material to the U.S. Capitol Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was full of what’s known as raw intelligence — bits and pieces of information that turned up by scraping various social media sites. It all indicated that there would likely be violence when lawmakers certified the presidential election on Jan. 6.
NYPD sent the information to Washington under the assumption it would be folded into a formal intelligence bulletin by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The FBI’s version is known as a Joint Intelligence Bulletin. DHS produces a Threat Assessment. These reports are typically written as a matter of course ahead of high profile events. Local law enforcement see them as actionable intelligence; an early warning system to help them prepare for incoming threats.
And yet, for last week’s deadly attack on the Capitol, an event the president himself had promised would be “wild,” no formal report was ever released.
A DHS Intelligence and Analysis spokesperson confirmed to NPR that the agency didn’t produce any threat assessment about the possibility of violence on Jan. 6. The FBI confirmed it didn’t produce one either. Instead DHS provided a report about the “heightened threat environment during the 2020-2021 election season, including the extent to which the political transition and political polarization are contributing to the mobilization of individuals to commit violence,” the DHS spokesperson said.
“I was surprised that we didn’t receive any information” about Jan. 6, Mike Sena, president of the National Fusion Center Association, told NPR. “We received a number of reports but they were all regarding events all around the election cycle, you know, information sharing.”
The federal government created fusion centers after the 9/11 attacks to improve communication and intelligence sharing among local and federal law enforcement officials. There are 80 of them across the country and one of their key responsibilities is to disseminate these kinds of intelligence bulletins.
The bulletins are considered a finished product — a synthesis of validated and analyzed intelligence that helps local law enforcement make informed decisions.
Some FBI officials have said that the bureau and DHS didn’t produce a bulletin for Jan. 6 out of concern that doing so might run afoul of First Amendment free speech protections which allow people to protest and assemble peacefully.
But, three law enforcement officials told NPR that didn’t stop DHS and the FBI from issuing intelligence bulletins ahead of mostly peaceful demonstrations in Portland, Ore., after the killing of George Floyd this past spring or before Black Lives Matter marches in Washington in early June, or in anticipation of an annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America.
Given all the Sturm und Drang ahead of the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to count the electoral voters and all the threats on social media weeks ahead of a pro-Trump rally that morning, it struck Sena and other local law enforcement officials who spoke to NPR as strange that there wasn’t a DHS/FBI report on what to expect. Threatening and planning violence isn’t protected First Amendment speech.
The FBI revealed this week that its field office in Norfolk, Va., had indeed uncovered intelligence that might have helped the U.S. Capitol Police decide how to deploy its forces.
One law enforcement official confirmed to NPR that Norfolk FBI officials had found specific threats against members of Congress, an exchange of maps of the tunnel system under the Capitol complex, and gathering places in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and South Carolina where extremists were meeting before convoying up to Washington. (The Washington Post first reported the existence of the Norfolk FBI warning.)
The problem was that the threats they uncovered hadn’t gone through any rigorous analysis process. “They seem to have only had a couple or single sourcing,” said R.P. Eddy, a former American counterterrorism official and diplomat who now runs Ergo, a private intelligence firm. “So, if you were a consumer of that intelligence and that’s all you saw… you’d say, oh, it’s just one source. You know, I’m not so sure I’m going to invest 2 million dollars into extra overtime and get a bunch of new gear for my troops.”
NPR spoke with three FBI Special Agents in Charge around the country and four current and former DHS officials who all agreed that Jan. 6 was a fast-moving event that was hard to anticipate. But they also said a specific threat assessment from the FBI and DHS in the weeks before might well have persuaded Capitol Police and others to beef up security.
Eddy said if there wasn’t an intelligence bulletin ahead of the pro-Trump rally, that was a problem. “If the reality is that… neither FBI nor DHS did a threat assessment for January 6, that was blinking red, if that’s indeed the fact then that’s absolutely a failure of intelligence… and weird,” he said.
The head of the U.S. Capitol Police told reporters last week that he had no intelligence that suggested there would be a storming of the Capitol. DHS and FBI officials told NPR that what he hadn’t seen was a specific Threat Assessment report or Intelligence Bulletin from DHS and the FBI. A raw intelligence report a day before an event just isn’t the same thing.
‘The invisible obvious’
Last week, Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, told reporters that the FBI was working closely with its partners and there was no indication Jan. 6 events would turn so horribly violent. D’Antuono reversed himself this week after it became public that the Norfolk field office had indeed provided intelligence about a possible assault on the Capitol the day before the rally was set to start.
Local law enforcement partners who spoke to NPR said they felt blindsided by events because they only had a general intelligence report about unrest during the election season with which to work. Typically, raw intelligence, which is what the NYPD and Norfolk FBI provided, needs to be vetted and analyzed before it is actionable. NPR reached out to U.S. Capitol Police asking if a federal intelligence brief about Jan. 6 would have changed their planning and has not heard back.
The Intelligence and Analysis office at DHS is responsible for producing these threat assessments and they often work in concert with the FBI. The I&A office, as it is known, has had staffing and operations problems for months, ever since the former FBI agent who ran the division, Brian Murphy, was removed from the job in August after media reports that he was compiling dossiers on journalists and protesters in Portland, Ore. Among other things, the dossiers made note of which journalists were publishing leaked documents.
The acting homeland security secretary at the time, Chad Wolf, ordered the intelligence office to stop collecting the information on journalists and said there would be an investigation into the matter. A short time later, Murphy filed a whistleblower complaint in which he alleged that he had been told to stop reporting on Russian threats to the U.S. election in his threat assessments. He said he was told it would “make President Trump look bad.” His whistleblower case is still pending.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf resigned this week, just days after the storming of the capitol and a little over a week before the inauguration.
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Murphy was replaced in the fall by a longtime member of the department’s general counsel’s office. He was a lawyer and didn’t have an analysis background. What that meant, officials said, was that one of the department’s key missions — disseminating actionable threat information out to local law enforcement — was hobbled. This week, Acting Director Wolf announced that he would also be leaving.
Against that backdrop, instead of a specific intelligence report focused on Jan. 6, the I&A office produced something more general about demonstrations, according to a DHS spokesperson.
The Fusion Center Association’s Sena remembers seeing that report and other local law enforcement officials contacted by NPR said they only recall that back in December there was a bulletin that focused on domestic extremists who might mobilize and create violence “in the coming months.” It didn’t focus on the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress and it didn’t indicate that Capitol Hill could be a target.
Some security specialists said they didn’t think an intelligence report would have made much of a difference. “It was perfectly obvious, if you read the newspaper that there was going to be a big rally, that the president was talking about… be wild, and that the focus was going to be the Capitol, where they were having a certification vote,” said former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. “It didn’t take rocket science to see if there was a realistic foreseeable risk to the Capitol and you would enhance the security.”
The threat was so out in the open, Chertoff said, you didn’t need the threat analysis to know what was going to happen.
A specific warning finally came from federal authorities the day before the riot at the Capitol. After the FBI field office in Virginia issued that explicit internal warning quoting an online threat that cited specific violence and an assault on the Capitol, officials convened a conference call with local law enforcement to discuss it. But by then it was too late. Less than 24 hours later, a mob would descend on the Capitol.
By the time a warning finally came from an FBI field office in Virginia, it was too late. Less than 24 hours later, a mob would descend on the U.S. Capitol.
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Eddy says in hindsight he believes the problem was something he calls “the invisible obvious” — things that sit right in front of us that we don’t notice. “The reason that they are invisible to us… gets to our biases,” he said. “The situation here, I’m unfortunately quite sure we’re going to find, that it was very hard for these decision makers and these analysts to realize that people who look just like them could want to commit this kind of unconstitutional violence and could literally try to and want to kill them.”
This was supposed to be a pro-Trump rally, until it wasn’t.
“Foe look differently, foe act differently, say different things,” Eddy said. “They don’t have the same bumper stickers; they don’t have the same yellow flag of ‘Don’t Tread on Me.’ It was hard for them to see that the law and order hierarchy in which they were born and bred… where they got their paycheck was inciting the mob that was going to commit the violence that was indeed the foe, not the friend.”
On Sunday, the FBI formally warned local law enforcement that armed protests were being planned in all 50 state houses and the U.S. Capitol. The warning said an unidentified group was calling on others to help them “storm” state, local and federal courthouses should Donald Trump be removed as president before Inauguration Day. In Washington, the Secretary of the Army announced as many as 20,000 National Guard are expected to be deployed with guns.
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Robert MacIntyre
Perry County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 38 years of experience
Newport, PA 17074
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, Family and Personal Injury
Dickinson School of Law
Robert B. MacIntyre, Esquire, focuses on criminal law, family law and civil litigation. Mr. MacIntyre brings 32 years of diverse legal experience to the Perry County. Mr. MacIntyre has handled more than 175 criminal jury trial cases and thousands of other criminal matters throughout central Pennsylvania and beyond. Through his experience with violent crime and domestic violence, Mr. MacIntyre is looking to assist crime and domestic violence victims seek justice through the civil side of the court system. Mr. MacIntyre has been able to secure monetary compensation on behalf of victims. His criminal experience ranges from defending...
Robert B. MacIntyre
Perry County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 38 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Devon M. Jacob
Cumberland County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 18 years of experience
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Widener University School of Law - Harrisburg
Devon M. Jacob is a national civil rights attorney, who, since 2002, has been successfully litigating federal cases. His primary practice is focused on civil rights, wrongful death, police brutality, wrongful incarceration, and unlawful organ harvesting. Mr. Jacob routinely handles complex federal litigation, involving serious injury or death, with exposures in excess of $1 million. Mr. Jacob is routinely contacted by persons seeking legal representation who cannot find lawyers who are willing to litigate against the government, or who are willing to take on the difficult ‘right to life’ wrongful death cases. Moreover, Mr. Jacob is routinely contacted...
Shawn Patrick McLaughlin
(866) 464-5297 176 Cumberland Parkway
Civil Rights, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Shawn P. McLaughlin is a graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a graduate of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
In law school, Attorney McLaughlin served on the board of Regent University Law Review.Attorney Shawn McLaughlin of Trinity Law concentrates his practice in personal injury, Social Security Disability, employment law and civil litigation, and handles such cases in Adams, Dauphin, Lancaster, and York County, Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Fennick
York County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer
(717) 714-3286 1423 E Market St
York, PA 17403
Civil Rights, Education, Estate Planning and Family
Mr. Fennick practices in a number of areas, with a concentration in education law, particularly special education and charter schools. He engages in litigation, family law, contract drafting and interpretation, and wills and trusts.
Mr. Fennick is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, and all Pennsylvania State Courts.
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Christopher A. Sarno
Lancaster County, PA Civil Rights Attorney
(717) 299-7101 408 W. Chestnut St
Lancaster, PA 17603
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and Real Estate
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Chris A. Sarno, Esq. is a trial attorney who practices in the areas of civil litigation and criminal defense. Chris began his career as a law clerk to President Judge Joseph C. Madenspacher of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas. Next, he became an Assistant Public Defender. After which he then joined the District Attorney’s Office where he focused on prosecuting felony sex offenses, serious physical abuse of children and child homicide cases.
Chris has tried many cases both as a prosecutor and defense attorney. He enjoys trial work the most and always looks forward to getting into the courtroom....
Sharon Rose Lopez
Lancaster County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 26 years of experience
(717) 299-6300 35 E Orange Street
Lancaster, PA 17602-2801
Civil Rights and Employment
Joshua Bruno Bodene
Cumberland County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, Estate Planning and Family
Josh Bodene, Esq. is a criminal defense attorney with specific interest in the areas of firearms law and civil liberties.
He is passionate about protecting the rights that our forefathers sacrificed so much to secure, especially those found in the Bill of Rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.
With more than a decade of practicing a wide variety of types of cases, Josh stands ready to help, especially in cases involving government intrusion.
Josh is past president and current member of Lititz Fire Company and worships at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Timothy Salvatore
York County, PA Civil Rights Attorney
(800) 509-1011 110 N. George St., 3rd Flr.
Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Andrew S. Abramson
Montgomery County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 31 years of experience
(267) 470-4742 790 Penllyn Blue Bell Pike
Blue Bell, PA 19422
Civil Rights, Arbitration & Mediation and Employment
Temple University Beasley School of Law and The George Washington University Law School
Andrew S. Abramson has been practicing law since 1989. In 1995 Mr. Abramson realized a life long dream to start his own law firm whree he concentrates his practice in employment law, helping employees fight unfair practices by their employers such as discrimination based upon age, race, sex, religion and national origin, sexual harassment, overtime and unpaid wage disputes and violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mr. Abramson also represents clients in unemployment compensation claims, severance agreements, executive employment contracts and disability and pension benefit claims. Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Abramson was employed by a large...
Benjamin Folkman
Montgomery County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 39 years of experience
(215) 561-4848 1021 W. 8th Ave
King of Prussia , PA 19406
Civil Rights, Employment, Legal Malpractice and Personal Injury
Ben Folkman, licensed to practice law in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, D.C., started Folkman Law Offices, P.C. in 1998. Ben is extremely client-focused and works diligently to ensure all client's needs are met. A highly experienced litigator, Ben is certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as well as a Board Certified Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Ben has been named a New Jersey Super Lawyer for the last ten years and a Top Lawyer in SJ Magazine for the last eight years.
Joel Aaron Ready
Berks County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 4 years of experience
(610) 926-7875 8500 Allentown Pike
Blandon, PA 19510
Civil Rights, Business, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
Regent University School of Law
I am a litigation attorney practicing primarily in the Reading area, and the editor of www.SCOPAreview.com, a website providing coverage of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In my free time, I enjoy creating media, watching classic movies and everything about college football. During my law school career, I worked for Justice McClanahan of the Virginia Supreme Court, helped author an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States, obtained Regent Law’s “Eagle Award” for the top class grade from a former US Attorney-General on the law of war, and graduated in the top 10 of my class....
Andrew Ritchie Rehmeyer
Centre County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(814) 343-9860 1317 North Atherton Street
State College, PA 16803
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
"Andrew Rehmeyer is a partner at the law firm of Rehmeyer & Allatt. In 2012 and again 2013, Andrew was recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star. Before becoming a partner at Rehmeyer & Allatt, Andrew Rehmeyer gained exponential and valuable experience by working at a mid-sized litigation firm in the Philadelphia area representing insurance companies, individuals and law enforcement personnel in a variety of complex civil litigation matters. Andrew Rehmeyer has obtained favorable verdicts on behalf of his clients including a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving a wrongful death action, insurance bad faith claims, breach of...
Lawrence J. Moran
Lackawanna County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 44 years of experience
(570) 346-2097 116 N Washington Ave
Scranton, PA 18503
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and Personal Injury
John A. Gallagher
Chester County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 29 years of experience
(610) 647-5027 5 Great Valley Parkway
Malvern, PA 19355
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Business and Employment
New England Law | Boston
I am an employment lawyer helping individuals in Chester County, Montgomery County, Delaware County and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am President of Gallagher Law Group, LLC. We handle all types of employment related claims, such as for wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, disability benefits, unemployment benefits, Family and Medical Leave, Americans With Disabilities, wage and overtime claims, whistleblower claims, etc. We are devoted to prompt and vigorous prosecution of employment discrimination claims and employment retaliation claims. We focus on prompt and extensive communication with our clients so that they know exactly what is going on in their...
Brent Wieand
Chester County, PA Civil Rights Attorney
(484) 263-9947 101 Lindenwood Drive
Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brent Wieand is based in Philadelphia and represents plaintiffs in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is known as a tenacious fighter for the rights of injury victims. Mr. Wieand has been named as a Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in 2013, 2014 and 2015. If you have questions about a case or your rights following an accident, call him today for a free consultation.
Michael Anthony Walker
(610) 279-3769 17 East Airy Street
Norristown, PA 19401
Free ConsultationCivil Rights
Michael A. Walker, Esq., is a sought after litigator with more than 15 years of experience. Michael focuses his practice in Civil Rights, Discrimination, Criminal Defense, Real Estate and Personal Injury. With hundreds of hours logged in court Michael has been honored by the National Black Lawyers Association and the National Trial Lawyers association as a Top 100 Black Litigator and a top 100 litigator in Pennsylvania .
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Harold M. Goldner
(215) 542-4900 5 Valley Square
Civil Rights, Business and Employment
Mr. Goldner’s practice is devoted to relieving sources of conflict and stress in the workplace. He handles employment discrimination claims on behalf of both employees and employers from filing of claims through trial, verdict and appeal. He prepares human resources policies and procedures for employers as well as offering training to employers and even fellow lawyers on employment claim avoidance. He drafts and interprets restrictive covenants and other professional contracts both on behalf of those businesses seeking to secure their assets and for employees looking to make career changes, and enforces and defends these contracts in state and Federal courts....
Ronald David Ashby
Delaware County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 43 years of experience
(610) 565-2200 210 W Baltimore Avenue
Media, PA 19063
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Business, DUI & DWI and Divorce
Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
Michael J. Cammarano Jr.
Berks County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 10 years of experience
(610) 375-3320 219 E. Lancaster Ave.
Shillington, PA 19607
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, Education and Landlord Tenant
Sean McDonough
Lackawanna County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer
(570) 347-1011 75 Glenmaura National Blvd
Moosic, PA 18507
Civil Rights, Business, Elder and Landlord Tenant
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Sean P. McDonough is a 1983 graduate (cum laude) of the University of Scranton and a 1986 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law. Upon graduation from law school, he entered the private practice of law with the firm of Dougherty, Leventhal & Price, a regional litigation law firm. He has been a partner with the firm since 1993. Over the years, Mr. McDonough has concentrated his practice in the areas of personal injury litigation; he has also represented governmental entities and officials in federal civil rights and employment lawsuits throughout Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania. Mr. McDonough has appeared in front...
Julian G. Allatt
Centre County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 13 years of experience
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Julian Allatt is a dedicated criminal defense attorney and partner at Rehmeyer & Allatt, a law firm in State College, PA. He is experienced in representing clients charged with minor summary offenses, DUI and minor drug possession cases, to violent felonies including armed robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, attempted murder and related offenses. Additionally, Julian has extensive experience representing clients charged with the possession and distribution of controlled substances in prosecutions commenced by county district attorney’s offices as well as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He is a highly experienced and respected courtroom advocate who prides himself in his ability...
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Nicholas S. Mattise
(570) 344-1266 240 Penn Ave
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
Margaret M Boyce-Furey
(940) 940-1683 600 W. Germantown Pike
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Graduate of Temple University,B. A. 1967, J. D. 1970 General Practice since 1975, emphasis on litigation, including accident,injury, employment,workers'compensation, commercial, contracts & civil rights. Also, trusts & estates, probate, real estate, corporation, partnership , criminal representation, family law, divorce, custody, adoption,support, protection from abuse, social security disability, Former Assistant City Solicitor & Common Pleas Court Law Clerk, Philadelphia.
Norman Perlberger
(610) 664-2440 Two Bala Plaza
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Appeals, Business and Employment
Jonathan Noble
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Appeals, Divorce and Family
Robert Englert
Clinton County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 14 years of experience
(888) 973-3529 333 North Vesper Street
Lock Haven, PA 17745
Civil Rights, Employment, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Pennsylvania State University - University Park and University of Pennsylvania Law School
Kevin Mark Wray
Delaware County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 16 years of experience
200 West Front
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Juvenile
Steven C. Feinstein
Chester County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer
(610) 864-4854 107 Wayne Court
West Chester, PA 19380
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Appeals, Consumer and Personal Injury
Steven has handled a wide array of legal matters over his more than 30 years of experience in law. Steven is a Wharton School of Business and Villanova Law graduate and considers himself to be a general practice lawyer, with emphasis in handling matters related to insurance, insurance coverage, and bad faith. He has expanded the rights of insureds in multiple jurisdictions. The hundreds of these kinds of cases that he has handled over the years has led him to be considered one of the leading experts in this area of law in Pennsylvania.
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Daniel McGarrigle
(610) 566-3010 117-119 North Olive Street
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Appeals, Criminal Defense and White Collar Crime
Shannon K. McDonald
Chester County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 9 years of experience
(267) 702-0648 27 S. Darlington St.
Civil Rights, Appeals, Business and Criminal Defense
Shannon K. McDonald is an experienced appeals and defense attorney with understanding and knowledge of diverse areas of the law and dealing with diverse groups of clients. She has worked for businesses, trial courts, for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and as a defense lawyer in an appeals clinic. While working with the ACLU Shannon worked on civil liberties cases such as the right to associate with family and freedom of speech in schools. She has also assisted on contract disputes, business disputes, and business formation. Among other criminal appellate cases Shannon has worked on federal Habeas Corpus cases,...
Dave Frankel
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Civil Rights, Education and Juvenile
Most people in the Philadelphia area remember Dave as the morning weatherman on Channel 6-ABC. Dave's broadcasting career spanned four decades and included Emmy® awards for his work as a reporter and news writer. Dave has been a news anchor, investigative reporter, and contributor to the ESPN newsmagazine Outside the Lines. Dave began his legal career at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads in Philadelphia. As an attorney, he has represented broadcasters and other creative professionals, negotiating their contracts at every level of the industry, from local news to national networks. As a civil litigator, Dave serves clients in government and business, as...
John Stone Bagby Jr
Chester County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 41 years of experience
(610) 889-1550 43 Leopard Road
Paoli Executive Green II, Suite 301
Paoli, PA 19301
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Administrative, Appeals and Business
As founder and principal of Bagby & Associates, LLC, John Bagby has over thirty years of experience in federal and state courts throughout the region. He is directly responsible for the firm’s client relationships, including the supervision of all aspects of the firm’s professional services. A graduate of the University of Virginia and the Dickinson School of Law, John has prepared and tried complex, multiple party litigation throughout the country. He currently represents individuals, businesses, and corporate entities in complex business matters and litigation. His practice has been varied, with an emphasis on technical and engineering issues in the area...
James Robert Elliott
Lackawanna County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 24 years of experience
(570) 342-8200 142 South Main Ave
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Landlord Tenant
Lorrie McKinley
238 West Miner Street
Brian Scott Chacker
Philadelphia County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 22 years of experience
(877) 577-5796 1731 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Insurance Claims, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Brian S. Chacker concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury, premises liability and medical malpractice litigation, as well as all aspects of police brutality, civil right claims and prisoner injury law. He received his Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chacker was listed as a Rising Star in the December, 2005 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Mr. Chacker is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Gabriel Zalman Levin
Philadelphia County, PA Civil Rights Lawyer with 19 years of experience
(215) 825-5183 1500 John F. Kennedy Blvd
Attorney Gabriel Levin is known as a tenacious fighter who protects his client's interests as though they were his own; he has tried hundreds of cases and handled all types of personal injury matters and prides himself on helping victims. Every case is meticulously prepared for trial. Trying cases to juries is what Mr. Levin enjoys the most. Clients know that Gabriel Levin is a very responsive attorney, keeps client fully informed, and always gets back to them in a timely manner. Mr. Levin has continuously been named as a Super Lawyer and was also named to the...
Edward F. Chacker
(215) 567-7955 1731 Spring Garden St
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
The University of Toledo College of Law
A past Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association (1999) and former President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, Edward Chacker is recognized as one of the outstanding trial lawyers in Pennsylvania. Mr. Chacker has a well-earned reputation for handling his clients with concern, and he is capable of both negotiating an excellent settlement and trying the case to verdict. Mr. Chacker also lectures frequently, with a special emphasis on trial techniques. Read more at https://gayandchacker.com/personal-injury-lawsuits/
Stephen Stallings
Allegheny County, PA Civil Rights Attorney with 28 years of experience
(412) 322-7777 310 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, Health Care and White Collar Crime
Stephen S. Stallings is an experienced trial lawyer with over two decades of public and private experience providing counsel in False Claims Act/qui tam matters, white collar defense, commercial and securities litigation, FCPA, corporate compliance and internal investigations. He frequently serves as lead trial counsel in complex federal cases.
Mr. Stallings served for over seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted fraud and public corruption matters through investigation, indictment, trial and appeal in the U.S. Attorney's Offices for the Southern District of Florida in Miami and the Western District of...
Brian Fishman
(267) 758-2228 211 North 13th Street
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Brian M. Fishman is a trial attorney based in Philadelphia, PA. He is the founder and Managing Partner of The Fishman Firm, LLC. His primary focus is criminal defense. He represents individuals accused of all types of crimes--robbery, burglary, sex offenses, drug charges, firearm offenses, assault, homicide, DUI, violations of PFAs--in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks and Chester counties as well as New Jersey and Federal Court. He also handles Personal Injury matters--car accidents, slip & falls, medical malpractice, SEPTA accidents & Civil Rights Violations--excessive force, police brutality, false arrest and malicious prosecution. Brian is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania...
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1 What is the Corporate Veil?
2 Circumstances in which courts may lift the corporate veil
3 Statutory provisions
4 Under Other Statutes
5 Under Judicial Interpretation
6 Doctrine’s Applicability
7 Piercing the Corporate Veil
7.1 To Determine the Character of the Company
7.2 To Protect Revenue or Tax
7.3 If trying to avoid a Legal Obligation
7.4 Forming Subsidiaries to act as Agents
7.5 A company formed for fraud or improper conduct or to defeat the law
8 Subject of the doctrine
9 Identity of the Corporate after lifting of Corporate Veil
10 Leading case laws on Lifting a Corporate Veil
10.1 Macura Vs. Northern assurance company Ltd8
10.2 Lee vs. Lee Air farming9
10.3 Industrial equity vs. Blackburn10
12 Endnotes
13 Vani Parashar
What is the Corporate Veil?
Lifting of the corporate veil means disregarding the corporate personality and looking behind the real person who is responsible for the control of the company. In easy words, where fraudulent and dishonest use is made of the legal entity, the individuals concerned will not be allowed to take shelter behind the corporate entity. In this aspect, the court will break through the corporate shell and apply the principle of what is known as “lifting or piercing through the corporate veil.”
It refers to the situation where a shareholder is held liable for its corporation’s debts despite the rule of limited liability and separate personality. The veil doctrine is invoked when shareholders blur the distinction between the corporation and the shareholders. A company or corporation can only act through human agents that compose it.
There are two existing theories for the lifting of the corporate veil.
Alter- ego or other self-theory
Instrumentality theory
The alter ego theory considers if there is a distinctive nature of boundaries between the corporation and its shareholders.
The instrumentality theory, on the other hand, examines the use of a corporation by its owners in ways that benefit the owner rather than the corporation. It is up to the court to decide on which theory to apply or make a combination of the two doctrines.
Circumstances in which courts may lift the corporate veil
The conditions under which the courts may pierce through the corporate veil can be classified under the following two heads:
Statutory provisions
Section 5 of the Companies Act defines the individual person committing a wrong or an illegal act to be held liable in respect of offences as ‘officer who is in default’. This section gives a list of officers who shall be liable to punishment or penalty under the expression ‘officer who is in default’ which includes a managing director or a whole-time director.
Section 45 – Reduction of membership below statutory minimum: This section provides that if the members of a company are reduced below seven in the case of a public company and the company continues to carry on business for more than six months.
Under Other Statutes
Besides the Act, directors and other officers of the company may be held personally liable under the provisions of other statutes. For example, under the Income-tax Act, 1962 where any private company is wound-up and if tax arrears of the company in respect of any income of any previous year cannot be recovered, every person who was director of that company at any time during the relevant previous year shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of tax. Similarly, under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973, the directors and other officers may be proceeded individually or jointly for violation of the Act.
Under Judicial Interpretation
Though initially court using the principle and the concept of a separate entity and a district corporate personality refused to lift the corporate veil, however, with the growth of corporations and the increasing conflict between companies and its various stakeholders, courts have adopted a pragmatic approach and lifted the corporate veil.
Doctrine’s Applicability
The doctrine is very much applicable in Indian Law. It can be traced to Common Law, as Indian Laws are heavily reliant on Common Law. In Life Insurance Corporation of India v. Escorts Ltd, 1the Supreme Court held that “While it is firmly established ever since in Solomon v. Solomon that a company is an independent and legal personality distinct from the individuals who are its members, the corporate veil may be lifted, the corporate personality may be ignored and the individual members recognized for who they are in certain exceptional circumstance”
There are various instances where the courts of the country have pierced through the corporate veil. It can be done due to provisions in the various statutes or to prevent fraud and misrepresentation or evasion of taxing provisions or a beneficent statute is sought to be escaped or where associated companies are inextricably connected as to be, in reality, part of.
The concept of lifting the corporate veil is a very dynamic concept. The veil of corporate
personality, even though not lifted sometimes, is becoming more and more a transparent form of ensuring smooth business practices in modern jurisprudence.
Scenarios under which the Courts consider piercing or lifting the corporate veil are as below:
To Determine the Character of the Company
There are cases where the Courts need to understand if the company is an enemy or friend. In such cases, the Courts adopt the test of control. The Courts usually avoid piercing the corporate veil, unless the public interest is in jeopardy. However, to ascertain if a company is an enemy company, the Court might choose to do so.
To Protect Revenue or Tax
In matters concerning evasion or circumvention of taxes, duties, etc., the Court might disregard the corporate entity.
If trying to avoid a Legal Obligation
Sometimes the members of a company can create another company/subsidiary company in order to avoid certain legal obligations. In such cases, piercing the corporate veil allows the Courts to understand the real transactions.
Forming Subsidiaries to act as Agents
Sometimes, the basis of the formation of a company is to act as an agent or trustee of its members or of another company. In such cases, the company loses its individuality in favour of its principal. Also, the principal is liable for the acts of such a company.
A company formed for fraud or improper conduct or to defeat the law
In cases where a company is formed for some illegal or improper purposes like defeating the law, the Courts might decide to lift or pierce the corporate veil.
Subject of the doctrine
The doctrine of lifting/ piercing the corporate veil has been the subject of drastic change. Though this doctrine was primarily applied in cases of tax evasion and non-compliance of the provisions of the Companies Act, however, the Courts have broadened the concept and applied the same in the following scenarios:
Where group companies/companies have been used to perpetuate a fraud or illegality, as in Delhi Development Authority v. Skipper Construction. 2
Where execution proceedings have been initiated, the Court always has the power of lifting the corporate veil which is used as mere cloaks where a device is employed and the properties have been acquired fictitiously in the name of other persons for the purpose of committing illegalities or for defrauding others, so as to enable it to pass appropriate orders to do justice between the parties concerned, as in Formosa Plastic Corporation Ltd. v. Ashok Chauhan. 3
Where business realities of the situation require the veil to be pierced, as in DHN Food Distributors v. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council. 4
Where there is the involvement of industrial law and human rights and also where the requirement of justice so requires, as in Kapila Hingorani v. State of Bihar. 5
Where associated companies are inextricably connected as to be in reality part of one concern, as in Life Insurance Corporation v. Escorts. 6
Identity of the Corporate after lifting of Corporate Veil
In the case of the State of U.P. and Ors. v. Renusagar Power Co. and Ors7, the Court held that a holding company and subsidiaries are incorporated companies, and, in this context, each has a separate legal entity. Each has a separate corporate veil. But that does not mean that the holding company and the subsidiary company within it all constitute one company. However, once the corporate veil is lifted it appears that the associated/ subsidiary companies are inextricably connected as to be, in reality, part of one concern.
It is relevant to point out that ‘lifting of the veil’ by the Court does not change the treatment afforded to such involved companies by stakeholders not a party to the proceeding in which the corporate veil is lifted. While the corporate veil was lifted in Renusagar (supra), its companies, namely, Hindalco Industries Ltd. and Renusagar Power Co. Ltd. continued to have a separate legal existence in respect of continuity and succession after the judgement of the Court was passed. Thus, even though the doctrine of corporate veil is applied, the separate identity of the company from its directors is not totally discarded.
Leading case laws on Lifting a Corporate Veil
Macura Vs. Northern assurance company Ltd8
It was decided by the jury that insurers will not be held liable under the contract for insurance on any property that was insured by the plaintiff but which was owned by the company in which the plaintiff has all the paid shares. The House of Lords held that only the company can have a separate legal owner of the property and not the plaintiff have an insurable interest. The plaintiff being a shareholder did not have any insurable interest in the property as he was the only shareholder of the company.
Lee vs. Lee Air farming9
It was held by Privy Council that Lee is a separate entity from the company which was controlled by Lee who would be an employee of the company so the wife of Lee can claim compensation for his death under the workmen compensation act
Industrial equity vs. Blackburn10
The high court held that principle operates to prevent the holding company being treated as wholly owned and subsidiary profits if it’s own. Therefore it can be said that there is the highest authority for the separate entity concept.
A company refers to a legal person which has been given personification by law. It acts not according to its own idea of being an artificial person but according to the people behind the operations of the corporation. This veil when overlooked to understand the true nature and real beneficiaries of a company it is called lifting of Corporate Veil. This doctrine has primarily emerged to strike a balance between the needs of corporate independence and public interest. However, a rule of caution must be adopted by the courts in applying this doctrine. Though the horizons are expanding, it can’t be applied in every situation. The act of piercing the corporate veil until now remains one of the most controversial subjects in corporate law. There are categories such as fraud, agency, sham or facade, unfairness and group enterprises, which are believed to be the most peculiar basis under which the Law Courts would pierce the corporate veil. But these categories are just guidelines and by no means far from being exhaustive.
1. [1986] 59 Comp. Cas. 548
2. (2000) 10 SCC 130
3. 1999 (1) AD (Delhi)
4. (1976) 1 WLR 852
5. (2003) 6 SCC 1
7. (1988) 4 SCC 59
8. [1925] AC 619
9. [1960] UKPC 33
10. (1977) 137 CLR 567
Vani Parashar
Student, Amity University NOIDA
Vani Parashar is a 3rd-year law student at Amity University, Noida. As a law student, She has taken part in different fields like youth parliaments, debates, MUNs and event organisation. She is a well-rounded individual who lives with passion, dedication and grace and this is what sets her apart from anybody else.
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Increase in Violent Crime in US Brings Attention, Theories
Latest report shows rise in robberies, murders. But the FBI says it is still too early to know if years of falling crime rates are coming to an end. Transcript of radio broadcast:
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
Crime rates in the United States have been dropping for a number of years. Rates of violent crime have fallen to their lowest levels since the nineteen seventies. President Bush noted this in his declaration in April for National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
But this week, a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation offered new evidence that violent crime may be on the rise. Early numbers for the first half of the year show violent crime was up three and seven-tenths percent over the same period last year.
The F.B.I. reported earlier that violent crime increased more than two percent in all of two thousand five. That was the largest increase in fifteen years.
The new report says the number of robberies nationwide increased nine and seven-tenths percent between January and June of this year. And there were seven percent more arson fires compared to the first half of last year.
The number of murders increased almost one and one-half percent. Other violent offenses were also up more than one percent. But the F.B.I. says the number of rapes decreased, though by less than one-tenth of one percent.
The report shows that violent crime rose nationwide, especially in cities with populations between half a million and a million. But the largest increase was in the West. Violent crime in that part of the country rose almost five percent. Northeastern states had the smallest increase. It was three percent over the same period last year.
While violent crime increased nationally, most property crimes fell in the first half of the year. In all, property crime decreased more than two and one-half percent
The information in the F.B.I. report comes from more than eleven thousand law enforcement agencies.
Researchers from the Justice Department are studying a number of cities to look for reasons why violent crime is up nationally.
Experts suggest a number of possible reasons. These include too many illegal guns and not enough law enforcement officers on the streets of American cities.
Also blamed are reductions in federal money for local law enforcement agencies over the past ten years. Yet local agencies have more duties since the attacks of September eleventh, two thousand one. Now they are expected to fight terrorism in addition to traditional crime.
At the federal level, the F.B.I. and other agencies that often help local officers investigate crimes have seen their duties change as well.
But other researchers believe an increase in young males and other population changes have played a part in the rise in violent crime. And some point to increases in the spread of street gangs.
In any case, the F.B.I. notes that in the years leading up to two thousand five, violent crime kept falling. So officials say it is still too early to say if new trends are developing.
IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English was written by Brianna Blake. I'm Steve Ember.
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Share this Story: Ontario judge who wore Trump hat in court suspended without pay for 30 days
Ontario judge who wore Trump hat in court suspended without pay for 30 days
TORONTO — An Ontario judge who wore a hat in court bearing Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan has been suspended without pay after an oversight body ruled his behaviour constituted a “single aberrant and inexplicable act of judicial misconduct.”
In a decision released Tuesday, the Ontario Judicial Council said it struggled to reconcile Justice Bernd Zabel’s actions with his stellar record as a judge, and found his conduct warranted the most serious reprimand possible short of removing him from the bench.
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“Justice Zabel’s conduct that day gave rise to a perception by many that he was a Trump supporter and that he agreed with Trump’s views and policies. In doing so, he violated a fundamental principle of judicial ethics and, particularly in view of the controversy surrounding Trump’s campaign, engaged in serious misconduct,” the council panel wrote.
“His conduct on Nov. 9, 2016 was completely at odds with the exemplary judge he has been for the past 27 years. We are satisfied that Justice Zabel does not hold any of the discriminatory views that the complainants attribute to Donald Trump,” it said.
The council received 81 complaints about the incident, including several it said expressed concerns that people from vulnerable communities would fear they would not be treated fairly by a judge who supported Trump. This, because of the U.S. president’s “many well-publicized statements perceived to indicate misogynistic, racist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and homophobic views,” it said.
However, the council said, “we are satisfied that members of vulnerable groups need have no fear about the treatment they would receive from Justice Zabel.”
Zabel will be suspended for 30 days. The Ontario Court of Justice said in January that Zabel, who is based in Hamilton, was no longer being assigned cases.
At his hearing last month, Zabel said he meant to lighten the mood by wearing a baseball cap with the Trump slogan while walking into court on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day after Trump won the U.S. election.
He testified that it was only after his actions made headlines that he realized some believed he was showing support for the controversial American president and his policies.
Zabel wore the hat while walking into a courtroom and said it was “just in celebration of a historic night in the United States,” according to an agreed statement of facts. He then took it off and placed it on the dais until the break, when he took it back to his office, the document says.
When asked about the hat’s disappearance later, Zabel quipped that he had taken it off because it had angered other judges who “all voted for Hillary,” according to the agreed statement of facts. “I was the only Trump supporter up there, but that’s OK,” he said.
Zabel later apologized publicly for his behaviour, calling it a “lapse in judgment.”
The judge testified at his hearing that he meant to say he was marking an unprecedented historic event rather than celebrating Trump’s victory, and was simply “gloating” at having predicted the outcome of the election better than his colleagues.
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Share this Story: Chile court orders seizure of $1.6 million from Pinochet
Chile court orders seizure of $1.6 million from Pinochet
FILE - This March 10, 1998 file photo, shows former Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Supreme Court announced Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, it has ordered the seizure of $1.6 million from the assets of the late dictator. Photo by SANTIAGO LLANQUIN /AP
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered the seizure of more than $1.6 million from the assets of the late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
The top court also sentenced three former military officers to four years in prison for embezzlement of public funds in a case involving Pinochet, but allowed them to remain free under conditional liberty.
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The court said the money cannot remain with Pinochet’s family because it comes from an illegal origin.
The dictator’s loyalists often overlooked his bloody human rights record and praised him for a supposedly austere, corruption-free government.
But he lost many of his closest allies after allegations of hidden wealth were revealed in 2004 by a U.S Senate committee investigating money laundering by the Riggs Bank of Washington.
Other accounts were later discovered in Europe and the Caribbean.
Pinochet and his family always said that his money came from savings, donations and investments. But an academic study ordered by Chile’s Supreme Court determined that the dictator accumulated $21 million before he died and that only $3 million of it was justified by his military salary.
Chile’s government estimates that 3,095 people were killed during Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship. Pinochet died under house arrest in 2006, without ever being tried on charges of human rights violations and illegal enrichment.
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Share this Story: Nationals OF Robles returns from quarantine
Nationals OF Robles returns from quarantine
Washington Nationals center fielder Victor Robles returned from quarantine and still hopes to be ready for Opening Day on Thursday against the visiting New York Yankees.
Robles, 23, rejoined the team Saturday and participated in an intra-squad game the following day. He had spent 14 days in isolation after coming into contact with a coronavirus-afflicted teammate.
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“Absolutely,” Robles said through an interpreter when asked about playing in the opener, per Yahoo Sports. “I think I have the ability and the youth that helps me get ready quickly. I think the team brought enough things for me to work on where I feel like I’m definitely going to be able to be ready for Opening Day, if possible.”
Manager Dave Martinez sounded less certain on Saturday, saying the defending World Series champions would be “very careful” with Robles.
In his first full season in the majors, Robles batted .255 with 17 homers, 65 RBIs and 28 stolen bases in 155 games in 2019.
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Share this Story: No. 15 WVU tops VCU behind Culver's 23 points
No. 15 WVU tops VCU behind Culver's 23 points
Derek Culver collected 23 points and 15 rebounds to lift No. 15 West Virginia to a 78-66 victory over Virginia Commonwealth on Thursday in the semifinals of the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic in Sioux Falls, S.D.
West Virginia junior Sean McNeil scored 16 points to match his career-high total set on Wednesday in the Mountaineers’ 79-71 win over South Dakota State.
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Oscar Tshiebwe recorded 11 points and 16 rebounds for West Virginia (2-0), which faces Western Kentucky (2-0) in the championship game on Friday afternoon. The Hilltoppers advanced to the final with a 75-69 victory over Memphis on Thursday afternoon.
Sophomore Miles McBride followed up his career-high 23-point performance versus the Jackrabbits with 12 points on Thursday.
VCU sophomore Nah’Shon Hyland scored 13 points on Thursday, one day after posting a career-high 23 in the Rams’ 85-69 win over Utah State. Junior Vince Williams Jr. followed a personal-best 15 points versus the Aggies with 11 more for Virginia Commonwealth (1-1), which will tangle with Memphis on Friday.
McNeil sandwiched 3-pointers around Taz Sherman’s bid from beyond the arc to boost West Virginia’s advantage to 54-42 with 13:14 to play. The Mountaineers began to work the interior before Hyland made a pair of layups to spark an 8-1 run for Virginia Commonwealth.
The Rams, however, were unable to trim the deficit to under nine points the rest of the way.
West Virginia bolted out of the blocks by scoring the game’s first 13 points, with Culver making four free throws and two layups to highlight the surge.
McNeil’s 3-pointer pushed the Mountaineers’ lead to 24-9 before Virginia Commonwealth answered with an 18-5 run to pull within two points with 5:03 to play in the first half. Williams Jr. keyed that run with seven straight points, including a 3-pointer.
Culver stopped that run with a three-point play and a layup before McNeil drained another 3-pointer to send West Virginia on its way to a 42-33 lead at intermission. The Rams didn’t help themselves by shooting 1-for-10 from 3-point range in the half.
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Fintech Fridays EP36: Techfins with Michael King, Lansdowne Chair in Finance, Gustavson School of Business at UVic
NCFA Canada | Aug 9, 2019
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Aug 23: Techfins with Michael R. King, PhD CFA EP36
GUEST: MICHAEL R. KING, PhD CFA, Lansdowne Chair in Finance, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, (Linkedin)
HOST: Manseeb Khan, Fintech Friday's show host
BIO: Professor Michael R. King is the Lansdowne Chair in Finance at University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business. Prior to joining UVic, he held the Tangerine Chair in Finance at Western University’s Ivey Business School (2011-2019), where he co-founded Canada’s first FinTech research centre (the Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab). Before joining academia, he worked in investment banking in Zurich, New York and London from 1990-1998 (Credit Suisse, RBC Dominion Securities) and central banking in Ottawa and Basel from 2001-2011 (Bank of Canada, Bank for International Settlements). Michael completed his PhD at the London School of Economics in 2001 and his CFA designation in 1999. He has taught finance to undergraduates, MBAs and executives. His research focuses on FinTech, banking, international financial markets, and corporate finance.
About this episode: On this episode of NCFA's Fintech Friday's Podcast, our host Manseeb Khan sits down with Prof. Michael R. King PhD CFA, Lansdowne Chair in Finance at University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business. They chat about transformational fintech, big tech vs techfins and fintech 3.0. Enjoy!
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Transcription of Interview
Intro: Welcome fintech Friday's a weekly podcast brought to you by the National Crowdfunding and Fintech Association of Canada and partners.Covering all things fintech block chain be AI and alternative finance.
Manseeb Khan : Hey Everybody Manseeb Khan here. Thank you for tuning in to another fantastical episode of the FinTech Friday podcast, Fantastical is now in the Oxford Dictionary. It's not. I'm just kidding. I really want it to be. I mean, fantastical. I love using that word. But this week, today, I'm very, very thrilled. I've been sent a message to all my friends of how excited I am for this episode. I got Michael King. Michael, thank you so much for sitting down today.
Michael King : It's great to be with you, man. Thank you for having me on FinTech Friday.
Manseeb Khan : Awesome. Michael, could you just for the five or six people that may not know who you are and may not share the same level excitement that I am currently sharing? Could you tell us a little bit of who you are, a little bit of your background?
Michael King : Okay, great. Yeah. So, I'm a university professor out on the West Coast at the University of Victoria has kept this in school business. This is my third act when it comes to my career. I did my first decade was in investment banking and trading in New York, London, where I got to see what things look like on the private sector side. My second act in the in the 1990s was in the 2000s was with US Central Banking with the Bank of Canada in Ottawa and also with Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, where I was there during the financial crisis and got to see how regulators look at the world. And since 2011, I've been in academia. I was at Ivey School of Business at Western University, and back in 2016, I was approached to co-found a fintech research center with my colleague J.P. Varian. And we've been following fintech avidly since then. And then I'm actually in the process of writing a book on fintech called FinTech Explain, which should be out later in the year.
Manseeb Khan : That's incredible of why I can't wait for that book. So, could you talk a little bit more of the traditional versus the transformational views of fintech?
Michael King : Yeah, I mean, I as somebody who's been coming at this from the banking side, from the financial services side for a long time, I shared the same skepticism as most people did that fintech is just the application of technology to financial services. Banks have been doing that for decades, ever since they made the transatlantic cable, the telex, the fax machine and the A.T.M. So, what's so new about fintech? And it really started to dawn on me, you know, as I was writing my book, that there's really two views about fintech. And there's one view that it's evolutionary. And this is the sort of traditional view that we're using technology to reduce costs and to automate back office and digitize a lot of processes. But there's also a transformational view, and that's more of a viewing fintech as a reason, a revolution that's coming out of, you know, the application of technologies in many different industries, consumer products and cars, automation and that back to fintech is really redesigning or reimagining financial services as part of a larger product offering. So, the traditional view is very product centric. We're going to offer customers a loan. We're going to offer them a wealth management product. We're going to offer them a means of payment. And that's kind of the way that traditional financial intermediaries are set up. If you look at the big banks there, they have divisions with names like capital markets, personal and commercial banking, and insurance. And people in those divisions tend to have titles that sort of say what they do. Mostly focused on the product. But when you start looking at a number of these new marketplaces, these multi sided platforms that are being set up and in particular by a techfins like Ali Baba and Tencent you see that they're looking at this really from the customer's point of view. And it's very customer centric. They're saying, what does the customer want? What's their pain point and how can we provide them with, you know, a great experience? And that great experience may be social networking and maybe ecommerce and maybe gaming, but there is typically a financial service product that makes its way in there somewhere. And so financial service products are being bundled along with other customer products in a new and imaginative ways. And that's where I think the real revolution, or the transformation is taking place right now.
Manseeb Khan : I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, I'm just explaining what fintech is. A lot of you know, a lot of people may think, oh, yeah, it's a very product focused thing. This is just okay, you know what? We are just going to digitize the loans. We're just going to digitize mortgages. We're just going to digitize X, Y and Z payment method. It's very product focused and a kind of I mean, it's a little heartbreaking because. FinTech, it's so much more, right? It has the capability. I mean, you've been hit on the fact that you're having tech companies like Apple that recently released a credit card. These guys are very customer focused, customer centric, right. Because there is around. We've recently had on the on the show a stat that there's 2 billion people that are under serviced and you're having fintech companies come in and service is under serviced, under banked individuals. Its very customer focused, is very good. What do the people want? How do we build a product around the people? Not a product for the people or like a product that the people who just give it to them.
Michael King : Yeah, I'm. And Manseeb. I don't want to say that all. But these two types, traditional and transformational fintech, they kind of co-exist in this ecosystem. And you look at some of the startups that we have here in Canada and abroad and really, they're focused entirely on the customer and on how to make that experience great and simple and less costly. Or as he pointed out there, they're trying to serve customers that have been ignored or underserved or under banked. And that's true both in the United States but also in emerging markets, places like Kenya and Africa. But there are a lot of fintech that are basically just trying to automate what's already out there. And you know, I would say that There is a twist on the existing business model. But, you know, if you look at balance sheet lending online, that's pretty much the same thing as what banks have been doing for a long time. And if you look at electronic banking, well, we've had digital banks since the 1990s, and that's not particularly new. It just may be a better experience that they're getting now.
Manseeb Khan : Yeah. No, I couldn't agree with you more. So, could you talk a little bit more of the main differences between fintech and techfin and essentially like our data? And like, you know, just like the contrast and I guess the similarities between the two?
Michael King : Yeah. This term tech fin, actually, I only heard it about a couple of years ago and I got curious about it. I wondered where does this term come from? They've basically just taken fintech and turned it on its head. It turns out that it was first used by Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, back in 2016, to describe his company Ant financial. Where Ant financial is the formerly known as Ali Pay and was spun off prior to Ali Baba's IPO on the US stock market in 2014. And he said Tech fins are basically technology companies that are trying to provide financial services to underserved customers. Jack Ma, he kind of is critical of the existing financial system, probably looking at his home market in China, which was very undeveloped. It's all state-owned banks and state-owned enterprises. So, keeping that in mind, he said, you know, a lot of these fin techs are simply using technology to make a profit by selling financial products and services to customers. And tech fins are really trying to help people that are under banks, whether it's small businesses, whether it's in emerging market countries or whether it's some individual customers. Now, tech fins are really that term is really stuck for Ali Baba and Tencent in their financial service arms. When we go to North America, we tend to use the term big tech, where big tech is Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The big U.S. headquartered technology companies that are also moving into financial services slowly but surely.
Manseeb Khan : So, should fintech’s be afraid of the big tech companies and the techfin companies, or should they see this more as an opportunity of, you know what? Hey, now that we have these bigger tech players coming into our space, should we start creating partnerships or should we be a little bit more averse to them?
Michael King : Yeah, you've hit it. You've hit it right on the nail there because it can be these tech fans in the big tech are a real threat to incumbent financial intermediaries such as banks, insurance companies, wealth management. But they could also be an enormous opportunity for fintech who are partnering with them. I know on one-year earlier podcasts back in September, you had Paul Schulte also talking about Alibaba, Tencent, and Wal-Mart in India. And what we've seen there is that these companies are really opened to partnering and helping other fintech to basically provide their customers, their users and their ecosystem with the products and services that they need. So, I would say that tech fins and big tech do represent a threat to incumbents, but I think they also represent an opportunity for partnerships with startups in fintech.
Manseeb Khan : Yeah, I mean, but if you have the financial incumbents adopting the mindset of like, you know what? Hey, let's start transitioning from the traditional view of how we see fintech into something transformative. Then like the partnerships are just going to be astounding, right? Like if we have just one of one of the big five banks partnering up with Apple, you know what? We're to start backing Apple into the credit services or just whatever the case may be, that in and of itself, they'll be very, very interesting to see.
Michael King : Yeah, it's become a really fascinating landscape because there's a lot of things going on. And as you point out, some of the big banks are really forward looking. They've really caught on to this kind of customer centric point of view. I'd highlight Royal Bank of Canada at home here at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs in the United States. They those big players are recognizing that these partnerships with these fintech can really deliver a great experience to their customers. It can give them an edge over other incumbents. And it's the way of the future. In particular, with the development of these marketplaces. No bank is going to want to be on a dropdown list on Amazon when it comes to offering a mortgage or a loan. But that seems to be at least from looking at what's happening in China in some other countries. That seems to be the direction we're going, where it's coming very. You know, banks backed loans and mortgages were very commodities, financial products. And it's going to become even worse if these ecosystems come between a bank and their customer. So, some of these banks are developing these marketplaces themselves or they're partnering up. And that's, I think, the way to go. And you mentioned Goldman Sachs is actually backing Apple with their credit card yet to be launched. It was announced with a lot of fanfare, but it's not out there yet, but it's a retail credit card. MasterCard and Apple have said specifically, we do not want your data. And Goldman Sachs has said data privacy is going to be key to our customer offering. Right. They seem to be taking a swipe at Facebook and at Google and their ad-based business models. So just showing that you can't just lump all these big players, big tech, and thin tech fans together into the same bucket. They're really pursuing different strategies.
Manseeb Khan : Of course. I mean, because now you're seeing how the consumer and just, I mean, not only our audience, but just like everybody else is starting to realize how important their data is and how powerful their data is. Right now, you're seeing how there's been this really big push for digital identity and digital privacy of just kind of, you know, hey, I should be able to pick and choose what and how much of what of information I get to give out to companies like Facebook, to Apple or to any of the companies. And the fact that Apple is taking a swipe and taking a stance of like, hey, you know what, we don't really, we don't want your data. We want you to be in charge of your data as much as you can. And that's kind of helping build that, I guess, like future brand equity.
Michael King : Yeah. Ownership of data is going to be central to competitive advantage of any kind of financial service company or non-financial service company. But customer trust in how you treat their data. Maintaining privacy and ensuring that you're a good custodian of that data is also going to be central to claim financial services. So, I think most people agree that more data that the competitive advantage, the big tech companies like Facebook and Apple is really they get to see so much of what customers are doing online and understand them in better ways. Amazon is certainly using that data to try and understand, hey, what kind of new products do our customers want? And it can be a great benefit to consumers if by understanding this data they can provide you with a product that you didn't even know you wanted. But on the flip side, if they go around and they sell it and they monetize it and there is a cyber hack or breach where your identity is stolen. That is a nightmare scenario and one that consumers, regulators, everyone is focused on.
Manseeb Khan : Yeah, that's definitely a very scary, scary situation of getting all of our data hacked. I mean, I mean, speaking of Apple and just the big five banks, this is slowly but surely moving towards open banking, which has been a theme on the show time and time again. This is like I'm a huge advocate for it. I mean like open banking it's a very bright future. It's a very exciting future, because now with Apple announcing their credit card, that's just one of the first of many steps towards, hey, you're looking for a mortgage. Well, you know what? Hey. Amazon actually has amazing rates on mortgages in Waterloo. So, once you get a mortgage to Amazon, right. You don't have to go through TD or RBC or anybody else. You can get it from a tech company. Right. Like in the next five to 10 to 15 years, getting a car loan from Facebook is not going to sound as crazy as it is today.
Michael King : Yeah. And I think open banking is really it's coming. It's coming to Canada. It's already presents in Europe, the U.K. and in some ways, it's coming into the United States. But it's inevitable that we are going to own our own data and have control over it. And that whether it's held by a bank, whether it's helped by a social media company or by a utility, could be your Rogers could be your phone company. That data belongs to us. And we should be paid or at least given service for the access to that data. I think that forward looking companies are now recognizing that they've been able to use it as without compensating us for it. But at the end of the day, competition in the marketplace is going to lead people to focus on the ones that are best custodians and provide the best service. And I think bringing incisive that of that data is going to help consumers. You mentioned also that, you know, Apple is trying to really distance itself from that ad base, business models of Google and Facebook. It's going to be interesting to see how they have to pivot to address all the concerns that consumers have, although a lot of people seem to be favoring convenience over security when it comes to those to their data. By the way, a big shot up for one of Canada's best fintech companies, secure key. I think they in the realm of digital identity, are doing a fantastic job and really leading in terms of looking after consumers.
Manseeb Khan : Awesome shout out to secure key, you did mention a really good point of view. You know, it should be really interesting to see how Apple is going to pivot. I mean, you know, convenience over security. I mean, that's just kind of what that has been the norm for. I mean, forever now. Right. No one like when it comes to terms of services, everyone really laughs because no one's really reading them. I don't I'm in this space and I don't I don't either. I don't like any app that I download. I'm like, screw it. I'll be fine. I'm not going to whatever. I'll be OK. I'll have I'm not that crazy yet. But, you know, it should be really interesting to see how in the future companies not only like Apple, but all the big tech companies, how are they going to monetize or what does this pivot going to kind of look like? Because right now, the landscape has been very like ad focus. AD revenue focus. Right. That's what you're seeing. That's how traditional media has been. When it comes to TV and newspapers. That's now how you're seeing Facebook and Instagram and all these other social media platforms make money. It should be really interesting to see how the heck are these companies going to make money in the future if they're not selling me ads?
Michael King : Yeah. And I think Facebook, most recent announcement about its it's backing a stable coin, a digital cryptocurrency called Libra is a really fascinating look into potentially where they're going to see some more revenues in the future. As you know, and probably your listeners already know, they launched they announced this this plan to use this coin. That's basically going to be backed by. It's going to be held in by a consortium of companies at arm's length from Facebook announced with initially 27 partners. Not a single bank was in the initial group of partners, although they do envisage having banks and other companies there later. They did have a ride sharing on, you know, food companies as well as Visa, MasterCard and other kind of consumer products are there. But it's going to make payments, electronic payments free using WhatsApp and Facebook messenger. So, then the question is, if you're offering me something for free, how can you make money off of it? Clearly, by seeing all the ID that the spending payments is such a rich place to find out customer insights. You know, they must be believing that by seeing all that spending, they're going to be able to. On financial services where they make money from that, right?
Manseeb Khan : I mean, like you said, right. Like right now, they're not partnered up with any banks or anything based on our spending habits and based on where we're sending money, where we're receiving money, they're just going to add more and more players to the Libra ecosystem, right?
Michael King : Yeah, they will. If they've said they're going to basically expand it to at least 100 partners. And by the way, when you say that payments are free. We're talking about cross-border payments. So, there may not be a charge for actually sending the money, but there is a foreign exchange conversion. And typically, you know, PayPal and others, they add a two to three percent charge when converting currencies. Not to mention making a bid ask spread on that foreign exchange transaction. And that can be that can add up when it's billions or trillions of dollars of volume that can create a lot of profit for whoever is managing it.
Manseeb Khan : Yeah. It should be really interesting to see how Facebook handles that. And on top of that differentiates it from that. Right. Because if they're going to if they're going to still charge that 2 to 3 percent charge fee, it should be interesting to see how they kind of market it and how they kind of present it to the customers of like, oh, yeah, yeah. You want some money to Kenya for sure X amount of charge, but we'll try to like jazz it up.
Michael King : Well, it's instant and it's easy and it's convenient. So, you know, most people probably wouldn't think much about paying like 2 percent on a as a service fee.
Manseeb Khan : Yes. No, I actually agree with you. I like to throw it you what are you mostly excited about when it comes to I mean, like everything that we kind of talked about, what are you most excited about and what should I guess the audience and everybody keep in mind or keep top of mind when we're looking at Apple and all these big tech companies moving into financial services?
Michael King : What I'm most excited about is what this means for us as consumers or as customers and whether it's individuals or retail or it could be small business. I think we're going to just have a much better experience when doing our living, our digital or e-commerce lives and as well as offline in the physical commerce world. We're going to see that financial services are going to sort of fade into the background. They're going to not become front and center like the way or the way they are now. Nobody wakes up in the morning saying, hey, I can't wait to go to my bank, you know, pay those fees, or engaged with that individual and the bank. Most people would rather get on with their lives. They want to focus on their spending. They want to focus on their travel, their savings, meeting their friends. And I think financial services are going to become just the way that Jack Mind and Ant financial, they talk about it. They say it's just like tap water. You turn on the tap and water come out. You don't have to worry about where the water is. Is it clean? What's the source? It's available when you need it. You probably don't turn on your light and ask yourself, well, is this Ontario Hydro That's providing this electricity to me or who is. Where's this coming from? You just assume that the electricity is available. And I think that's what's going to happen with financial services. So, we're going to have a reimagined experience. It's focused on us. I would say that institutional markets, institutional clients have been getting a much better service for decades. And now it's the retail consumer and the small businesses turn. That's what fintech is going to deliver to us.
Manseeb Khan : Yeah. That's. That should be really exciting. I can't I can't wait for that future. Michael, is there anything else you want to share with the audience before I let you go?
Michael King : Yeah, I would say that the model that we're seeing. I mean, we've talked about big tech. We talked about tech fins. There are some really interesting fintech companies that are actually building up marketplaces very similar to what we're seeing. You may have seen that Borrowell, for example, as has pivoted from being a platform providing loans to consumers to now being a basically a financial marketplace, offering at least products from 40 or more third parties. That's kind of the way that we're these multi sided business models are really going to become much more prevalent. I think we're going to get away from having individuals fintechs and seeing instead collaboration between them to offer us a variety of products and services. So, I don't know whether people call that fintech 3.0 or 4.0. I'm losing track, but I do think that this is a fast-moving industry and there's lots of innovation going on.
Manseeb Khan : Yeah, no, I'm super excited to see the future of fintech and for it to be just as background as turning the latter turning on the tap. Michael, thank you so much for sitting down with me today. What would the best way for the audience to either reach out to you personally if they have any more questions about the book, if they want to pick your brain out? If you have a new research paper like this through email, Snapchat, Twitter,
Michael King : They say they can certainly find me on LinkedIn, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or to email me at michaelking@uvic.ca. And once the book's out, I'll set up a Web site as. To add to advertising, to share the content with people for free.
Manseeb Khan : Perfect, can't wait to have you on when the book is officially launched. Michael, again. Thank you so much for joining me today and can't wait to have you on next.
Michael King : Thanks, Manseeb.
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In 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and, again, in 2016, history was made . . . and lived! The Nemean Games were reborn.
On June 26-28, 2020, they will happen again. Come and become a part of History.
The ancient Greeks celebrated festivals at Nemea that were part of the cycle of games at Delphi, Isthmia, and (best known today) Olympia. At each one of these four sites in rotation, for a brief period each year, wars and hostilities were suspended by a sacred truce, and all Greeks — Spartans and Athenians, Corinthians and Argives, Macedonians, and Cretans — gathered in recognition of their common humanity. This impulse toward peace — albeit limited to a few days each year — was the first in the history of mankind on an organized, regular, and international scale. Thus, the ancient festivals at Nemea, Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia are the direct ancestors of today's Olympic games as well as of the United Nations.
The Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games (which now has more than 1000 members from around the world) was founded in the belief that there is today scope and perhaps even the need for the average person — regardless of ethnicity, language, religion, gender, age, or athletic ability — to participate in an international athletic festival. And so it happened in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. More than 4800 people from 120 different countries, ranging in age from 6 to 96, have added their footprints to those of ages long gone.
No records were kept and no medals were awarded. Families with picnics on the slopes of the stadium were as much a part of the festival as the runners. Races were organized by gender and age, and were interspersed with music and dances. All the participants ran barefoot and in ancient tunics which they put on in the ancient locker room. And they entered the stadium through the same tunnel where athletes passed in the 4th century B.C. They started from the same stone line and with the same starting mechanism, and the winners received the same initial tokens of victory — a ribbon tied around the head and a palm branch. At the end of the day the victors received the same crown of wild celery that was the ephemeral symbol of the victory at the ancient Nemean Games. But all the participants were rewarded with feet sore from contact with the same earth where ancient feet ran more than 2,300 years ago — and by the knowledge that they had been in direct physical contact with an ancient idea, an ancient spirit, that still lives at the earth of Nemea.
The Seventh Nemead will take place on June 27, 2020, and all who would share in that idea and that spirit are invited to participate.
If you would like to help that idea live by becoming a member of the Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games, please send the attached application form with membership dues in the form of a cheque or money order for €15. (or the equivalent).
Further information is available in Greece by phoning: (30) 27460-24125; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Abu Dhabi Choral Group Brings ‘Nostalgia' to the Arts Center
The performance represents a global collaboration of 48 of Abu Dhabi Choral Group’s top artists from 15 different countries.
Abu Dhabi Choral Group (ADCG), the longest running amateur music group in the UAE, will perform Nostalgia, an online show featuring their greatest hits, at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) on Monday, December 14 at 8pm (UAE time, GMT +4). This is the third collaboration, following the success of Quarantania Mania in June this year and FOOTLOOSE! The Musical the year before. The highly anticipated show highlights The Arts Center’s support for the UAE’s arts and culture scene.
The livestream of ADCG’s Nostalgia will feature 48 of their top members from 15 countries, who have played a large role in building the group’s reputation and large fan base. They will perform popular songs from favorite ADCG shows including 9-to-5 and Legally Blonde, which has enthralled UAE audiences and left an indelible mark on Abu Dhabi theater over the past decade.
The Arts Center’s ongoing relationship with ADCG is rooted in our commitment to the community and to weaving the Arts Center into the fabric of the UAE’s art and culture scene. A fan favorite, ADCG brings joy and light to people around the UAE. They also speak to the importance of participating in the arts as a central way that people from so many diverse places -- including members of the NYUAD community -- can create a sense of home in the UAE. As NYUAD celebrates its 10-year anniversary, this nostalgic look back at the past decade of ADCG shows helps us to reflect upon these valued and meaningful relationships.
Executive Artistic Director at The Arts Center at NYUAD Bill Bragin
With Nostalgia, we’ve threaded together a variety of our favourite numbers that bring back great memories from ADCG’s past. It promises to take the audience on an emotional journey back in time to when live performances were a possibility and a joy. We contacted previous musical directors and choreographers to lead the ensemble, and rehearsals have been held over the last three months on Zoom. Members chose to reprise their favourite songs and many of these digitally-mastered performances include original archived footage from the original ADCG performances. ADCG cannot wait to be able to bring live music and theatre to audiences again in the future.
Chairperson of ADCG and Head Musical Director for Nostalgia Caroline Kelly
Established in 1977 and in its 43rd season, ADCG is the longest-running amateur music group in the UAE. The community-driven group includes artists from the large expat population in Abu Dhabi, from more than 15 nationalities, with talents ranging from first-time performers to seasoned veterans. It has staged over 75 shows and performs two shows a year with a musical revue in the fall and a fully-staged musical in the spring. Its shows include FOOTLOOSE! The Musical (2019) The Addams Family (2016), Legally Blonde The Musical (2015), Curtains (2014), The Wedding Singer (2013), Once Upon a Mattress (2012), Urinetown (2011), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (2010), Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (2009) and Cole Porter’s Anything Goes (2008).
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NYU Abu Dhabi is the first comprehensive liberal arts and science campus in the Middle East to be operated abroad by a major American research university. NYU Abu Dhabi has integrated a highly-selective liberal arts, engineering and science curriculum with a world center for advanced research and scholarship enabling its students to succeed in an increasingly interdependent world and advance cooperation and progress on humanity’s shared challenges. NYU Abu Dhabi’s high-achieving students have come from 115 nations and speak over 115 languages. Together, NYU's campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai form the backbone of a unique global university, giving faculty and students opportunities to experience varied learning environments and immersion in other cultures at one or more of the numerous study-abroad sites NYU maintains on six continents.
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DNFSB: Moving fissile materials, operations from Y-12 building improves nuclear safety, reduces risk
Posted at 12:44 pm October 7, 2018
Building 9204-2 (Beta 2) is pictured above at center at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Part of Building 9204-2E (Beta 2E) is pictured in the top left. (Photo courtesy Consolidated Nuclear Security)
Nuclear materials and operations have been removed from an old building at the Y-12 National Security Complex, and that improves safety and reduces the risk to workers and the public, a federal safety board said.
The building, 9204-2, or Beta 2, is on the west side of Y-12. It’s one of nine buildings at the 811-acre site that once used machines known as calutrons to enrich uranium for atomic bombs as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II. It’s now used to produce lithium for nuclear weapons.
In an early September report, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said Consolidated Nuclear Security and the National Nuclear Security Administration Production Office had officially downgraded Building 9204-2. It had been a category two hazard, but it is now less than category three. It’s considered non-nuclear.
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Ray Smith receives DOE Gold Medal Award for helping to create national park
Posted at 12:04 pm November 21, 2017
D. Ray Smith, Y-12 National Security Complex historian, left, received a U.S. Department of Energy Gold Medal Award on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, for his role in helping to create the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge. The award was presented to Smith by retired Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, DOE under secretary for nuclear security and administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. (Photo courtesy NNSA)
Note: This story was updated at 4:05 p.m.
D. Ray Smith, Y-12 National Security Complex historian, received a U.S. Department of Energy Gold Medal Award on Monday for his role in helping to create the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge.
The award was presented to Smith by retired Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, DOE under secretary for nuclear security and administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Smith is retiring this month. He previously told Oak Ridge Today that he would retire November 22.
Established in November 2015, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park is a unique three-site park that includes Oak Ridge; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Manhattan Project was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic weapons during World War II. Among other activities, Oak Ridge built uranium enrichment facilities for the Manhattan Project at Y-12 and the former K-25 site, and the city had the pilot facility for plutonium production at the Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was then known as X-10. [Read more…]
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First year: More than 80,000 visit three Manhattan Project Park sites in 2016
The late Bill Wilcox by the International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge. (Courtesy of Friends of the International Friendship Bell via Atomic Heritage Foundation)
Note: This story was last updated at 12 p.m. Dec. 8.
More than 80,000 people have visited the three sites of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge, according to a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.
Besides Oak Ridge, the park includes Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
In Oak Ridge, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park has a volunteer or ranger at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge when the museum is open. The park also has activities. For example, there is a program on secrecy, security, and spies at the Oak Ridge Turnpike Gatehouse in west Oak Ridge on Saturday, December 17. And the park, in partnership with the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, will be featuring a Parks in Focus photography exhibit during the month of December. The photography exhibit is located in the Imagination Gallery at the museum located at 461 West Outer Drive.
Also, a virtual tour of the K-25 Building can be found at the new K-25 Virtual Museum website. And from March to November, admission to AMSE includes a three-hour bus tour of the Oak Ridge Reservation, including the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, New Bethel Church at ORNL, the visitor overlook at the East Tennessee Technology Park (former home to the K-25 gaseous diffusion building), and Y-12 New Hope History Center. [Read more…]
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Rescheduled: Learn about volunteering in the Manhattan Project National Park on Tuesday
Posted at 10:56 am January 25, 2016
You can learn more about volunteering for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge, during a meeting at the Midtown Community Center from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. National Park Service employees are pictured above. (Submitted photo)
You can learn more about volunteering for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge, during a meeting at the Midtown Community Center on Tuesday.
The meeting was rescheduled from this past Thursday to this coming Tuesday (January 26) because of snow last week.
The information session on volunteer opportunities will be hosted by the Manhattan Project National Historical Park-Oak Ridge. It’s scheduled from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday at the Midtown Community Center at 102 Robertsville Road in Oak Ridge.
The new park, which also includes Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, was formally established on November 10, 2015, in a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C. The signing ceremony featured U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. [Read more…]
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Council to receive briefing on Manhattan Project park from Park Service on Tuesday
Niki Nicholas
The Oak Ridge City Council will receive a briefing on the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park on Tuesday.
The briefing by Niki Nicholas, superintendent of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, will be during a Tuesday evening work session on January 21. It will follow a special 6 p.m. City Council meeting for boards and commissions elections in the Oak Ridge Municipal Building Courtroom. (See the work session agenda here. See the special meeting agenda here.)
There will also be an orientation session next week for those interested in volunteering for the new park, which includes Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. That orientation session starts at 10 a.m. Thursday, January 21, at the Midtown Community Center at 102 Robertsville Road. [Read more…]
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Learn about volunteering in the Manhattan Project National Park on Thursday
You can learn more about volunteering for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge, during a meeting at the Midtown Community Center from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. National Park Service employees are pictured above. (Submitted photo)
You can learn more about volunteering for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge, during a meeting at the Midtown Community Center on Thursday.
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park-Oak Ridge will host a volunteer opportunities information session starting at 10 a.m. Thursday. It’s scheduled to last until 12 p.m.
The new park, which also includes Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, was formally established on November 10, 2015, in a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C. The signing ceremony featured U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic bombs during World War II. [Read more…]
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Photos: Oak Ridge celebrates new national park
Posted at 9:58 pm November 12, 2015
Ed Westcott, left, the official government photographer in Oak Ridge during World War II, is pictured above with National Park Service staff members during a celebration of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This post was last updated at 8:05 a.m. Nov. 13.
Oak Ridge residents and officials celebrated the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park on Thursday, two days after the park was formally established in a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C. Here are photos of Thursday’s celebration at Oak Ridge High School and Jackson Square by John Huotari of Oak Ridge Today.
We will add captions to the photos as we can.
The new park includes Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to build the world’s first atomic weapons in World War II, before Germany could. The new park is the first of its type to commemorate the Manhattan Project, which is considered one of the top scientific achievements of the 20th century.
The new park includes four buildings in Oak Ridge: the Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the footprint of the former K-25 Building at East Tennessee Technology Park, and Building 9731 and Building 9204-3, or Beta-3, at Y-12 National Security Complex. The Alexander Inn, which is not a U.S. Department of Energy building, is also eligible for inclusion.
See a story on the establishment of the park on Tuesday here, and see a story on Thursday’s celebration here.
From left above at a celebration for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, are Colin Colverson, Oak Ridge Reservation lead for the park in the DOE Oak Ridge Office; Tracy Atkins, project manager for the agreement between DOE and the National Park Service; and Oak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
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Oak Ridge celebrates new national park
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The iconic “War Ends” photo is recreated in part on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, with a “Park Opens” photo that celebrates the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Oak Ridge. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was last updated at 8:20 a.m. Nov. 13.
Federal officials established the new national park that includes Oak Ridge on Tuesday. Oak Ridge residents celebrated on Thursday.
The new park, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, commemorates the Manhattan Project. That was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic weapons during World War II, before Germany could.
Oak Ridge was the main production site for the Manhattan Project, and uranium enriched at the Y-12 National Security Complex fueled the first atomic bomb used in wartime. It was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, shortly before the war ended. [Read more…]
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Manhattan Project Park formally established in DC ceremony
Posted at 11:20 am November 10, 2015
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz shortly after they signed a memorandum of agreement and created the 409th park in the National Park System, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The park was authorized by Congress in December 2014. The park will have three sites in Los Alamos, New Mexico; Hanford, Washington; and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The ceremony took place at the South Interior Building in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2015. (NPS Photo by Anthony DeYoung.)
Note: This story was last updated at 9 a.m. Nov. 11.
After more than a decade of work, the U.S. Department of Energy and Department of Interior formally established the Manhattan Project National Historical Park on Tuesday. The new park, which includes Oak Ridge, commemorates one of the signature scientific achievements of the 20th century. It was formally established when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz signed a memorandum of agreement, or MOA, in Washington, D.C.
The unique, three-site Manhattan Project National Historical Park includes Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. It’s the nation’s 409th park.
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic bombs during World War II—before Germany could. It was an unprecedented national program, a world-changing event that harnessed the atom, and the largest industrial project ever, employing 130,000 people at just the three park sites. Whole cities and gigantic industrial plants were built in just a few short years, and Oak Ridge quickly swelled to a population of 75,000. Plants like the B Reactor at Hanford, the world’s first large-scale plutonium production reactor, were built in 11 months, still considered a marvelous feat today. The Manhattan Project is credited with helping to end World War II through its creation of the two atomic bombs dropped over Japan in August 1945.
During Tuesday’s ceremony, officials said the Manhattan Project was a groundbreaking scientific and engineering achievement that helped end the war, ushered in the nuclear age and new discoveries, and determined how the Cold War would be fought. But it also raised important moral questions about the devastating consequences of nuclear weapons. Officials vowed to tell all sides of the story during the signing ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning.
“You can trust us with this story,” National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said. “We will be fair to all.” [Read more…]
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Y-12, ORNL tours offered Nov. 12 to celebrate new Manhattan Project Park
Posted at 3:36 pm November 5, 2015
A previous public bus tour of the U.S. Department of Energy’s facilities in Oak Ridge. (File photo courtesy DOE/Lynn Freeny)
Public bus tours will be offered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex on Thursday, November 12, as part of the celebration of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The new park, which is still being set up, includes Oak Ridge.
The special-access tours at ORNL and Y-12 are part of other planned activities in Oak Ridge, and they will include a peek inside Y-12’s Building 9731 and 9204-3 (Beta 3) and ORNL’s historic Graphite Reactor.
Y-12 and Clinton Laboratories—the wartime name for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory—were constructed as part of the Manhattan Project in 1943. The Y-12 Plant provided the Uranium-235 needed for Little Boy, the world’s first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The historic Graphite Reactor at X-10 (now ORNL) proved that plutonium could be produced in a uranium reactor on an industrial scale. These facilities will eventually become a part of the Oak Ridge location of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. [Read more…]
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Atomic Heritage meets with Japanese mayors to discuss Manhattan Project park
AHF President Cindy Kelly with Nagasaki Mayor Tomahisa Taue on her right and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on her left. (Photo by AHF)
The Atomic Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit organization that worked for 15 years to create a Manhattan Project national park, met with the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month to discuss how the story of the atomic bomb will be interpreted.
The meeting, which was held at the Institute of International Education at the United Nations Plaza in New York City, marked a “positive first step in opening a dialogue with the Japanese, whose input will be important to the interpretation of the new park,” a press release said. In addition to the two mayors, the Atomic Heritage Foundation also met with Japanese local government officials.
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first nuclear weapons during World War II. The Manhattan Project National Historical Park will include Oak Ridge; Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Hanford, Washington.
The meeting in New York City on Friday, May 1, began with opening remarks from Nagasaki Mayor Tomahisa Taue and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, who described the suffering of those affected by the atomic bombing, a press release said. They expressed hope that interpretation of the new Manhattan Project Park would not end with the dropping of the bomb but also “focus on what happened under the mushroom cloud.”
The United States dropped one bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, and a second over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Japan surrendered a few days later. Uranium for the first weapon, code-named “Little Boy,” was enriched at federal sites in Oak Ridge. [Read more…]
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Planning for national park, Park Service tours Jackson Square, K-25, ORNL, Y-12
Vic Knox (Photo by D. Ray Smith)
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Planning for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park has started, and federal officials this week toured Jackson Square, the former K-25 site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Stops included the Alexander Inn, Chapel on the Hill, the former K-25 Building site, the Graphite Reactor at ORNL, and two buildings at Y-12: Building 9731, a pilot plant, and Building 9204-3, also known as Beta 3.
“Several of those sites are just amazing,” said Vic Knox, associate director of park planning, facilities, and lands for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. “They seem like they are just the way they were in 1943. It seems like they take you back in time.”
Oak Ridge was built as part of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret federal program to build the world’s fist atomic weapons during World War II. Besides Oak Ridge, the new national park includes Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington. [Read more…]
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Bernard J. Beaudoin ’62
Bernard J. Beaudoin ’62 died on September 14, 2017, in Tampa, Florida.
(The following was published in the Journal Tribune, September 2017:)
SANFORD — Bernard J. (“Bernie”) Beaudoin, 77, of Overland Park, Kansas, and Tampa, Florida, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, at St. Joseph’s Hospital North in Tampa.
Bernie was born in Sanford, Maine on June 22, 1940, to Esdras and Laurentine (Hamel) Beaudoin. He graduated as valedictorian of St. Ignatius High School in Sanford in 1958.
He attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and received a degree in physics in 1962. He went on to receive his BS in electrical engineering in 1963 and an MBA in 1965, both from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On his birthday in 1963, he married his high school sweetheart, Jeannine Ross, and shared 54 years of marriage. Together they raised three children in Holliston, Massachusetts and Overland Park, Kansas.
He spent his entire 40-year career in the electric utility industry working for New England Electric and Kansas City Power & Light. At KCP&L, he held the positions of CFO and President before retiring as Chairman and CEO in 2003. In addition, he served his community as chairman of the board of Saint Joseph’s Health Center in Kansas City ending his 10-year term in 2000, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Parkinson’s research.
Bernie was a devout Catholic and devoted husband, father, and grandfather. In 1992, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease but did not let that stop his passion for work, family and life. An avid fly fisherman, he fished the streams and rivers of Alaska, Canada, and Chile, among many others. He loved being with his wife and best friend, Jeannine, on their many travels including trips to France and Italy. He greatly enjoyed making sand castles with his four grandchildren on the beaches of Florida and California. In 2013, he and Jeanine relocated from Kansas City to Tampa Bay.
Bernie was predeceased by his brother, Dr. Raymond Beaudoin, and sisters Rita Morin and Claire Tarpinian.
Bernie is survived by his wife, Jeannine (Ross); his sisters Juliette Welch and Marthe Anne Haubert; his three children and their spouses, Cathleen Jonas and husband Bruce of Lutz, Florida, Anthony Beaudoin and wife Laura of Rolling Hills Estates, California, and Stephen Beaudoin and wife Lauren of Dolores, Colorado; and his four grandchildren, Serena & Arielle Jonas in Florida and Isabelle & Colton Beaudoin in California.
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$100,000 Pledged to Endow Entomology Professorship
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has an independent entomology department thanks in large measure to Horace S. Telford, a retired member of the WSU faculty who petitioned the university for its creation almost a half century ago.
Now his three living children wish to honor him by establishing the Horace and Vilma Telford Family Distinguished Professorship in Entomology. Charles H. Telford, Redmond; Carol Ann Telford Butler, Hagatna, Guam; and Vivian Telford Anderson, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., have pledged $100,000 to endow the position.
The family intends to make additional gifts of $150,000 to qualify it for a $250,000 match in accordance with the state’s Distinguished Professorship Matching Grant Program. The match will establish the position.
Telford, who will celebrate his 91st birthday in December, has wanted to give something to the university. He said, “My children suggested the distinguished professorship.”
Horace and his twin brother Horton were born in Lincoln, Idaho, near Idaho Falls, on Dec. 16, 1909. Their father, John, was a farm advisor, accountant, sheepherder and farmer. Their mother, Anna, was one of the area’s first registered nurses as well as being a housewife.
Telford’s early interest in natural history and insects followed him to college. After earning an associate of arts degree at Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, Calif., in 1931, he enrolled at the University of Utah where he received a bachelor’s of science in zoology in 1933. He completed a master’s of science in entomology at the University of Minnesota three years later and a doctorate in entomology at the same university in 1941.
He started his career in 1934 in Salt Lake where he worked briefly as a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and later as a research biologist at the Michigan Institute for Fisheries Research.
After the Idaho native completed his doctorate in entomology at the University of Minnesota in 1937, he did extension work there until taking a position in the entomology department at North Dakota State in 1940.
He moved into the private sector in 1944, taking a job at Dr. Hess & Clark, Inc., in Ashland, Ohio. There he made the important discovery that DDT accumulates in body fat and milk. He returned to academia in 1947 when he accepted a position as an associate professor of entomology at Washington State.
In the early 1950’s Telford petitioned the university to unite entomology faculty in the department of zoology with entomologists scattered across the state working for the College of Agriculture into a single unit within the College of Agriculture. When his petition was granted, he was named the department’s first chair, a position he held from 1952 to 1968. During those years, the department grew from seven to 25 faculty.
Telford retired from WSU in 1975 but continued to teach part-time into the next decade at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. He also secured a grant from the Brazilian government to do research and serve as a consultant at the Federal University of Parana for one year.
He married his late wife Vilma in Seattle in 1958. They had met when she had come to Washington to take a job as an extension agent in the Colfax office. She died in 1998 at the age of 89. “She kept everything going,” he said.
Telford lives in Pullman and enjoys visits from his children and grandchildren.
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Beyonce! Hillary! India revels in a very big wedding
In a season of big Indian weddings, the Wednesday marriage of the scions of two billionaire families might be the biggest of them all. The bride, Isha Ambani, is the Ivy League-educated daughter of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, thought to be India’s richest man. Forbes estimates his net worth at over $43 billion. The groom, Anand Piramal, is the relative pauper. His father, industrialist Ajay Piramal, is thought to be worth $10 billion.
The wedding is being held in Mumbai on Wednesday but festivities began weeks ago, starting in September with an engagement party at a lakeside Italian palace. Over the weekend, thousands attended pre-wedding parties at a 16th century palace in the Indian desert city of Udaipur, where videos shot by partiers showed Hillary Clinton dancing with Shah Rukh Khan, one of India’s biggest movie stars, as former US Secretary of State John Kerry danced just a few feet away. A highlight was a performance by Beyonce, who sang “Crazy In Love,” among other hits, with a band backing her up and a series of costume changes that included at least one India-inspired outfit. “Beyonce Lights Up Udaipur,” the Times of India shouted in a Tuesday headline.
Indian weddings are famously elaborate, driving many families into debt with expectations that they invite hundreds or thousands of people, and arranging professional song-and-dance shows. Among India’s rich, weddings are displays of almost unimaginable wealth, with guests flown in on chartered jets from around the world and celebrities paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for brief appearances. In 2004, a daughter of Indian steel baron Lakshmi Mittal held her engagement party at Versailles.
The Indian media noted that the actual Ambani wedding, in Mumbai, was expected to be a relatively small affair, with just 600 or so people in attendance. More parties will follow the marriage ceremony. Antilla, the Ambanis’ 27-story Mumbai home, has been strung with lights for the wedding, looking like a small skyscraper at night. The family is said to have reserved hundreds of hotel rooms for their guests. Indian grooms traditionally ride to their weddings on horses, but Piramal arrived at the Ambani home in a classic Rolls Royce, with marching bands playing in the procession and scowling bodyguards scattered through the crowds.
Near the family home, Mumbai resident Kashyap Sompura said he was not bothered by the extravagance. “People, even when they don’t have money, they take loans and do lavish weddings,” said Sompura, 50. For someone of Ambani’s wealth, “I don’t think there is anything wrong with him sparing money for that.” Mukesh Ambani controls the conglomerate Reliance Industries, which has businesses ranging from petroleum to chemicals to mobile phones. The Piramal family businesses include pharmaceuticals and real estate.
The competitiveness of India’s wintertime wedding season is growing more extreme, according to Archana Dalmia, a social activist in New Delhi. “A farmer might commit suicide because he can’t save enough money to get his daughter married,” she said. The wedding of Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and American singer Nick Jonas earlier this month – which included palace parties, lots of celebrities, an appearance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and fawning coverage – has been quickly overshadowed by the Ambani festivities.
While opulence has always been a feature of Indian weddings, families used to hand down bridal saris as heirlooms. No more, Dalmia said. “This generation is very different. Priyanka Chopra will never be able to wear it again and she won’t be able to pass it down,” Dalmia said.-AP
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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 Episode 9: Release Date And Details
The Handmaid’s Tale season 3 episode 8 was a pretty good episode and had a lot of details in it. Before we are here to talk about episode 9, but, before that, let us talk about the previous episode. Before we begin, I have to warn you that we will be entering spoiler territory here and if you don’t want to get spoiled then click away.
Episode 8 of The Handmaid’s Tale was released on July 10, at midnight. ET, 11 p.m. July 9 CT. The Hulu official description reads “June and the rest of the Handmaids shun Ofmatthew, and both are pushed to their limit at the hands of Aunt Lydia, who reflects on her life and relationships before the rise of Gilead.”
In the recent episode, we saw Matthew admitting to June that she sold her out for talking to the McKenzies’ Martha Francis at the food market. This caused Lydia to execute Francis and also the McKenzies to take Hannah and leave in the night. In the eighth episode, we will see what will be happening after June’s attack on Ofmatthew. In the episode, we will also see what kind of trouble June might get in for attacking a pregnant handmaid and rest of the handmaid’s reaction to Ofmatthew’s betrayal. Moreover, the promo reveals that the handmaids Ofmatthew and blaming her for Francis’ death.
We will also see how Aunt Lydia’s life was before Gilead’s rise to power. In the clip we can, we can see that Aunt Lydia out on a date with somebody and they are discussing her career as a teacher. She also tells how she works to help children and how fond of the man she is talking to. There will be a lot of violence in the eighth episode, and in a clip, we saw that bloody Aunt Lydia was screaming “no” while a handmaid falls on the ground which is a near a guard’s dead body. As for the release date for episode 9, it will be releasing on 17 July.
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Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76
Written by Jimmy Rustling
(CNN) Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76.
Considered by many to be the world’s greatest living scientist, Hawking was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark “A Brief History of Time,” which has sold more than 10 million copies.
With fellow physicist Roger Penrose, Hawwking merged Einstein’s theory of relativity with quantum theory to suggest that space and time would begin with the Big Bang and end in black holes. Hawking also discovered that black holes were not completely black but emit radiation and would likely eventually evaporate and disappear.
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“A star just went out in the cosmos,” Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, wrote on Twitter. “We have lost an amazing human being.”
Hawking suffered from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which is usually fatal within a few years. He was diagnosed in 1963, when he was 21, and doctors initially gave him only a few years to live.
The disease left Hawking paralyzed and using a wheelchair for mobility. He was able to move only a few fingers on one hand and was completely dependent on others or on technology for virtually everything — bathing, dressing, eating, even speech.
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Hawking used a speech synthesizer that allowed him to speak in a computerized voice with an American accent.
“I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many,” he wrote on his website.
“I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope.”
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Cosmologist Stephen Hawking on October 10, 1979, in Princeton, New Jersey.
Hawking was married twice. He and his first wife, Jane Wilde, wed when he was still a graduate student and remained together for 30 years before divorcing in 1995. Hawking was later married for 11 years to Elaine Mason, one of his former nurses.
Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on what an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 — the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
In an exclusive interview with CNN in October 2008, Hawking said that if humans can survive the next 200 years and learn to live in space, then our future will be bright.
“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space,” Hawking told CNN’s Becky Anderson.
“It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next 100 years, let alone next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.”
At Cambridge, he held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics — the prestigious post previously held by Sir Isaac Newton, widely considered one of the greatest scientists in modern history — for 30 years until 2009.
Yet Hawking once said if he had the chance to meet either Newton or Marilyn Monroe, he would opt for the movie star.
After stepping down, Hawking continued to work at the university as director of research at the Institute for Theoretical Cosmology. The following year, he co-authored “The Grand Design” with Leonard Mlodinow.
After the book was published in 2010, Hawking told CNN that science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
“Gravity and quantum theory caused universes to be created spontaneously out of nothing,” Hawking said in 2010. “God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.”
“Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion,” he added.
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Hawking became a hero to math and science geeks and a pop-culture figure, guest-starring as himself on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “The Simpsons.” His life was dramatized in the 2014 movie, “The Theory of Everything.”
He had at least 12 honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. A CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, is considered a major honor for a British citizen and is one rank below knighthood.
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Despite being a British citizen he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US’s highest civilian honor, in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
In September 2016, Hawking joined 375 “concerned” scientists in penning an open letter criticizing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, citing the threat of climate change and blasting his push for the US to leave the Paris accord.
Fellow scientists hailed Hawking for his work and influence in the field.
“His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake,” tweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson. “But it’s not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure.”
Hawking leaves behind three children and three grandchildren. “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today,” Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement. “He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world.”
“He once said, ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ We will miss him forever.”
Clarification: A previous version of this story described Hawking as being “wheelchair-bound.” We’ve updated the language to avoid the cliché and to note that wheelchairs increase mobility for their users.
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Sociology’s Long, Coven ’13 Present Teacher Evaluation Research
by Olivia Drake • March 14, 2014
Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Long and Rebecca Coven ’13 presented their research on teacher evaluations at a press conference held by the Connecticut Education Association March 6 in Hartford, Conn.
When Rebecca Coven ’13 decided to dedicate herself to the arduous task of completing a senior honors thesis, she was concerned that no one would ever read her work beyond the few professors grading it. So she was excited to have the opportunity to conduct relevant, timely research on teacher evaluations in the state of Connecticut, and share her findings at a press conference held in Hartford March 6 by the state’s largest teachers union.
Together with her advisor, Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Long, Coven spent her senior year conducting a review of a teacher evaluation pilot program run by the Connecticut Education Association in the Hamden, Conn. public schools. The CEA, which was looking to promote an alternative model of teacher evaluation to the one embraced by the state Board of Education in guidelines passed in June 2012, asked Long to conduct the external review of the pilot. Long invited Coven to help conduct the review as part of her senior honors thesis. Coven’s interest in education reform was sparked when she took Long’s Sociology of Education course during her sophomore year. She served as Long’s research assistant, collaborating with him on a study about the impact of increased instruction time on the achievement gap, including an apprenticeship in the Quantitative Analysis Center the summer after her junior year.
Coven’s thesis, titled, “No Teacher Left Behind: A Look at Alternative Systems of Educator Evaluation,” can be read on WesScholar here.
“It was exciting to know that my senior thesis would be read by other people, and was relevant to an important education debate going on in Connecticut,” said Coven.
Long Writes, Speaks on the Impact of Class Time on Children’s Learning
by Lauren Rubenstein • January 25, 2013
The Hartford Courant on Dec. 7 published an op-ed by Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Long about a new pilot program in Connecticut and four other states to increase time that children spend in school. Long responded skeptically to the program, writing that past experiments with increased learning time have shown mixed results, and are an expensive, unproven way to improve student learning. At a time when Connecticut school districts face increasingly tight budgets, the state should focus on reform efforts backed by research, Long writes.
On Dec. 20, Long also participated in a discussion on the impact of increased class time on learning outcomes on WNPR’s Where We Live.
5 Questions With . . . Sociology’s Daniel Long on Education Reform
by Lauren Rubenstein • March 6, 2012
Daniel Long, assistant professor of sociology, studies education in the U.S. and abroad. In February, he was invited to testify before the Connecticut General Assembly’s Education Committee about education reform plans.
In this issue of The Wesleyan Connection we ask 5 Questions of Daniel Long, assistant professor of sociology.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has made education reform a major priority this year. He has proposed a sweeping package of reforms, including overhauling teacher tenure, increasing Education Cost Sharing grants to struggling districts, funding more preschool slots for low-income children, and requiring districts to contribute additional money for students to attend charter schools.
Q: Connecticut suffers from the highest black/white and poor/non-poor achievement gap in the country. What can be done to address this?
A: In Connecticut—as well as nationwide—longitudinal studies have shown that the achievement gap is constant or decreases during the months that children are enrolled in school, meaning black and white and poor and non-poor students learn at the same rate while in school. But the gaps are quite large before students enter school, and expand during the summer. To address this, many have suggested increasing the time kids spend in school, and offering academic enrichment activities to poor and minority students during the summer. Experimental studies have also shown that really high-quality early childhood education—which includes small class sizes, great teachers, social workers who support parents, and adequate health services—can make a big difference. Unfortunately, many early childhood education programs, such as Head Start, don’t meet these standards. The Perry Preschool Project in Michigan and the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York are examples of really effective programs.
Q: Governor Malloy seeks to boost funding for charter schools, requiring municipalities to provide an additional $1,000 per student. Do you think this is a good use of taxpayer money?
A: No, I don’t. On average, students perform equal or worse in charter schools than in public schools. Connecticut’s charter schools do a little better than the national average—in part,
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Fmr Atlanta Housewife Nene Will get ‘New’ Face; Claims she seems in her 20s now!
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It’s not exactly clear what she did, but the changes to her appearance are subtle but very noticeable.
We’re not sure if she looks in her 20s, but she definitely looks a lot younger.
Here’s the new face, what do you think:
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Violent Protests in India Turn Deadly After Guru’s Rape Conviction – The New York Times
Linda Summer From the world, Uncategorized August 26, 2017
NEW DELHI — At least 30 people were killed Friday when violent clashes spread across northern India after a popular spiritual guru was convicted of rape and his followers flooded the streets, smashing cars, torching buses and attacking police officers.
More than 200 people were also injured in the clashes, which began in the city of Panchkula and quickly spread, according to local authorities.
The spiritual leader, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh — known as “the guru of bling” — has millions of followers. The Indian authorities had anticipated trouble ahead of a verdict.
A judge found Mr. Singh guilty of two counts of rape in a 15-year-old case in which two women said they were attacked at the headquarters of his sect. Mr. Singh, dressed in long white shirt and dhoti — a garment worn by Hindu men that wraps around both legs — was taken into custody after the verdict. His sentence will be announced next week.
Thousands of his followers, who were already gathered near the court in Panchkula and near the headquarters of his sect in Sirsa awaiting the verdict, poured into the streets brandishing sticks and hurling rocks upon hearing news of his conviction.
Videos show the crowd toppling television news vans and other vehicles as the police responded with water cannons.
For the past several days, police reinforcements had been bused into the northern Indian state of Haryana where the core of Mr. Singh’s supporters live. The army was put on standby in anticipation of violence. On Friday, text messaging and mobile internet services were cut off in the area in an attempt to avert mob mayhem.
Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana state, appealed for peace in a televised statement.
“Nobody is above the law,” Mr. Khattar said, vowing that “action will be taken against those who will take law in their own hands.”
Mr. Khattar, who visited some of the people injured in the violence at a hospital, confirmed that 30 people had been killed, and noted that some had died from police gunshot wounds.
Violence also was reported in the neighboring states of Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi. In New Delhi, about 150 miles south of the center of the violence, several empty buses and train coaches were set afire.
Before the verdict was announced, Mr. Singh drove to the court house, escorted by a convoy of supporters who traveled from his ashram in Sirsa to Panchkula in hundreds of vehicles.
Riot police officers were deployed along the roads, and in at least two towns, the army was called to assist the police.
Mr. Singh’s eccentric personality has attracted a cultlike following. The self-styled “godman” is known for a flashy life and flamboyant dress. He often drives an oversized motorcycle and has made several films and music albums.
Mr. Singh broadcasts video, images and messages to his 3.75 million Twitter followers almost daily, and describes himself in his profile as a ”Spiritual Saint/Philanthropist/Versatile Singer/Allrounder/Sportsperson/Film Director/Actor/Art Director/Music Director/ Writer/Lyricist/Autobiographer/DOP.”
The Dera Sacha Sauda sect that Mr. Singh leads claims to have a worldwide following of 60 million people and is described on its website as a “Social Welfare & Spiritual Organization that preaches and practices humanitarianism and selfless services to others.”
It extols meditation, urges followers not to consume alcohol and encourages vegetarianism.
Like other large religious sects in India, Dera Sacha Sauda wields power. Local politicians regularly visit the sect’s headquarters, eager to offer support to Mr. Singh to help nurture their own political ambitions.
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Mr. Singh enjoys political patronage from several local politicians, including Mr. Khattar and other ministers of the Haryana state government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also has offered support for the guru. In a 2014 tweet, Mr. Modi applauded his group’s efforts to take part in a campaign by the government to clean up the streets. During the most recent election, Mr. Modi also made mention of Dera Sacha Sauda and thanked the group for its contribution to the country.
Mr. Modi denounced Friday’s deadly violence in a series of tweets and appealed for peace.
The instances of violence today are deeply distressing. I strongly condemn the violence & urge everyone to maintain peace.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 25, 2017
This is not the first time a guru and his followers have been at the center of violence in the northern Haryana state of India.
In 2014, another guru and his followers were engaged in a weeklong standoff with the police at a heavily fortified compound.
Mr. Singh could face up to seven years in prison for the rape conviction. He also is under investigation for the murder of a journalist who first brought the rape allegations against him to light.
Utsav Singh Bains, an advocate for sexual assault victims, said that several women had accused Mr. Singh of rape, but only two came forward to file charges against him.
“Their families were attacked and they faced constant threat,” Mr. Bains said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/asia/dealy-protests-indian-guru-rape-conviction.html
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Capreol grinch destroys Christmas display
Ian Campbell CTV News Northern Ontario Videojournalist
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Thieves made off with 12 100-foot heavy-duty extension cords at some point within the last few days and they cut the Christmas tree lights in the town park to get to them. Damage to the display is extensive and it's going to leave volunteers with little time to try and replace everything. Nov.30/20 (Ian Campbell/CTV News Northern Ontario)
SUDBURY -- A Christmas grinch appears to have struck the Greater Sudbury community of Capreol.
Thieves made off with 12 100-foot heavy-duty extension cords at some point within the last few days and they cut the Christmas tree lights in the town park to get to them.
Damage to the display is extensive and it's going to leave volunteers with little time to try and replace everything.
"I'm really upset, I'm angry, like I say it's so disheartening because we all love our community and we all work together as a team, it's not a one-man show, it's many, many people," said Natalie Labbee, the coordinator of the Capreol Santa Claus Parade.
They've been going door-to-door, speaking with neighbours and business owners in hopes of finding someone with CCTV footage.
Volunteer Brandon Currie, who works at the CN Yard, was one of the residents who had spent dozens of hours trying to get the display ready.
"We started seeing some lights on the ground and stuff like this so started putting stuff together real quick, we also heard on the news of some stuff happening in the Valley and stuff happening so it hit home really quick.," said Currie.
"The part that's really upsetting to me and questionable is they're going to put all these hours again to make this happen and what if someone does it again? How are we going to prevent this from happening so that all of our Christmas cheer is not ruined once again for our community between now and Xmas?" asked Labbee.
One of the town's former "eyes in the sky" can be seen from the park but the camera hasn't been operational for years.
Organizers have filed a police report.
In the meantime donations continue to come in from other community members who have been reaching out to see if they can help these volunteers recoup some of the costs.
Ward 7 Councillor Mike Jakubo says he was heartbroken to learn of the destruction.
"It's a matter of community support right and community awareness to know - there are people that do live in the area that I know will be additionally attentive to things going on around the park and like I say the businesses in the area will also be very attentive."
The theft comes just days after another incident at the local school bus yard where parts were stolen from one of the buses.
The Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS) says its Community Response Unit is investigating both incidents.
In the meantime, the volunteers undeterred, say they will go ahead with their COVID Christmas plans in hopes of providing some sort of merry holiday to the residents of Capreol.
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by Sophie Wilson | Book Recommendations, Book Review
Catherine Cooper’s upcoming debut novel The Chalet is so gripping and compelling I couldn’t put it down, and I finished it in under 24 hours! This engrossing novel is set in the French Alps and unfolds around a body going missing on the ski slopes in 1998. Fast forward to 2018, and there are four guests staying in a chalet at the same ski resort, not realising that they’re intricately connected to the missing body and trapped amongst a murder plot.
From the end of the first chapter I was hooked into the plot and mesmerised by the vivid detail of the setting – it’s amazing to see how Cooper has drawn memory and appreciation from her own experiences on the ski slopes in the French Alps as the setting is so detailed and perfectly described. Her experience as a journalist specialising in travel and as an avid skier herself shines through the descriptions on the page. The fact that the book begins going back and forth between the past and the present with the perspectives of Cameron and Ria is exciting, I found myself continuously asking this series of questions: ‘What is the connection?’; ‘Do these two characters know each other?’; ‘What’s going to happen?’. Those questions became more pressing and continued to grow along with the many additional perspectives from other characters from both the past and present as we now had stories from Hugo, Louisa, Will, Adam and a mysterious child’s perspective, who at first seems so detached from the main plot whilst at the same time seems so obviously involved. It was this multitude of perspectives from these characters that I thoroughly enjoyed along with the multiple ongoing storylines and plots – Cooper definitely succeeded in expressing individual intentions, emotions and experiences amongst her many characters.
The character I connected with the most was Louisa, the fact that she was a university student who desperately wanted to fit in with her boyfriend and his brother on their ski holiday was somewhat relatable as she struggled to learn to ski (I myself have no experience at all of skiing). I warmed to her quite quickly and I really felt sympathy for her as her life began to take a tragic turn – I think it is extremely important to mention that this book deals with a lot of adult themes other than murder which is something that should be taken into account by any reader to avoid any discomfort. These strong elements of tragedy spurred me on until the end: I had to know what happened; I had to know where each character ended up; I had to know how the characters were connected and how their stories weaved together.
The twisting turns of the plot and the intense gradual realisations of the truth were riveting and because of this, I literally couldn’t tear myself away from the book! Interestingly, thriller books are never my go-to, however, after reading this book I can say I have definitely changed my opinion and I look forward to reading more of this genre and style. The strong elements of adrenaline and tension orchestrated by Cooper made reading the book an encapsulating and enjoyable experience and I really look forward to Cooper’s second novel, The Retreat, which is being published in 2021.
I would hugely recommend this book to any reader who loves an absorbing thriller and thrives from an unexpected plot twist! Cooper has greatly used her experiences and knowledge to her advantage by writing an immersive and mesmerising novel. The Chalet is scheduled for publication in November 2020 and I really look forward to its reception as I unexpectedly became so engrossed in this novel and I think many other readers will too.
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Remaining major sporting events of 2016 – what not to miss
Even though the Olympic Games have ended, there are still some sports events worth watching or even attending this fall and winter. Therefore, here is a selection of the most interesting events that will take place around the world, the following months.
World Cup of Hockey, 17th September – 1st October
Eight teams – Team Canada, Team Czech Republic, Team Finland, Team Russia, Team Sweden, Team USA, Team Europe and Team North America – will compete in a best-on-best international hockey championship – a two-week tournament, featuring more than 150 of the best players in the NHL. All tournament games will be played at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs.
More info at: https://www.nhl.com
Chicago Marathon, 9th October
On race day, runners from all 50 states and more than 100 countries will set out to reach the finish line in Grant Park. Besides the fact that running is known to be very healthy, you can also help the ones in need, by running for a charity. The 2016 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Charity Program has more than 170 official charities. Every charitable organization allows its team of runners the unique opportunity to make their Marathon experience more meaningful by not only accomplishing a personal goal on race day, but by contributing to a larger mission and giving back to a worthy cause.
More info at: https://www.chicagomarathon.com
ATP World Tour Finals, London, 14th -20th November
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals features only the world’s best eight qualified singles players and doubles teams as they battle it out for the last title of the season. Players compete for Emirates ATP Rankings points throughout the season in a bid to earn one of the eight coveted berths. Played using a round-robin format at The O2 in London, each participant plays three matches as they compete for a berth in the knockout semi-finals and beyond. An undefeated champion earns 1,500 Emirates ATP Rankings points. Total prize money offered is US$7.5 million.
More info at: http://www.barclaysatpworldtourfinals.com/
World Short Course Championships, 6th – 11th December
In December 2016, Windsor (Canada) will welcome up to 1,000 of the world’s top swimmers from over 175 countries, to compete in the 13th edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), for 46 gold medals over 6 days.
More info at: http://finawindsor2016.com/
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Kuwait’s telcos launch new mobile technologies
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The roll-out of fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G LTE) networks across Kuwait is expected to offer a boost to the mobile market. While the average revenue per user (ARPU) remains among the highest in the region, it has nonetheless been falling in recent years.
Zain, the largest operator as measured by market share, has joined forces with Chinese giant Huawei to expand and enhance its 4G LTE network, while Wataniya moves to achieve nationwide coverage for its network, and VIVA continues with its 4G LTE expansion strategy, backed by new financing that will help with infrastructure and deployment expenses.
Although costly infrastructure is often cited as a stumbling block in 4G LTE development, Kuwait’s smaller geographic area and well-established telecommunications industry will allow operators to avoid some of these hurdles in the development of affordable 4G LTE services.
Strong market potential
Kuwait has in some respects been viewed as a telecommunications innovator in the Gulf and was the first GCC country to license a second mobile operator, Wataniya, in 1999. Today Zain and Wataniya have a presence across a host of countries in the Middle East and Africa, although both are under increased pressure domestically following the entrance of VIVA in 2008. The rise in competition has squeezed profit margins, but statistics suggest Kuwait remains an attractive market.
According to the World Cellular Information Service, mobile subscriptions in Kuwait are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 7% over the next five years, supported by population and GDP growth, as well as a rise in data usage. Although Kuwait’s ARPU fell below $30 for the first time in 2013, according to Informa Telecoms and Media, it remains the second-highest in the region behind Qatar.
Mobile penetration reached 176% at the end of 2011, according to Business Monitor International, which predicted penetration will hit 190% by 2016, owing in large part to the common consumer practice of holding more than one SIM card.
Telcos in Kuwait also benefit from a relatively under-developed fixed-line broadband market, which means consumers often choose to forgo a fixed connection in favour of a mobile option. According to Informa Telecoms and Media research, household broadband penetration stands at 45%.
4G LTE opportunities
While Kuwait lags in the fixed broadband market, it offers relatively advanced mobile data services. In October 2012 the Ministry of Communications granted formal approval for telecoms companies to roll out 4G LTE networks. Zain launched its network in November 2012, followed by VIVA this past March. Wataniya, meanwhile, has taken a slightly more circumspect approach, offering 4G LTE service in selected areas as of July 2013, with plans to expand its network across the country by 2014.
Consumers have eagerly embraced faster, smoother mobile internet services on smart phones and tablets. Zain reported that 10% of its customers in Kuwait had migrated to 4G LTE as of November, while company-wide the telco saw its data revenues rise by 22% for the first three quarters of 2013. Data now accounts for 28% of the firm’s revenues in Kuwait.
Zain recently announced plans to launch a commercial LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network in Kuwait in 2014, which will eventually deliver speeds of up to 300 Mbps, double what is possible on existing LTE networks.
Meanwhile, VIVA obtained $270m in financing from the National Bank of Kuwait Group in June 2013, to expand its 4G LTE network and upgrade services. The telco also added five new store outlets to its network in late 2013, in an effort to reach more customers.
Building 4G LTE networks is often costly – Wataniya, for example, spent $350m to upgrade to an LTE network. But with a total land area of just 17,820 km, and a well-established telecoms sector that was one of the first to launch 4G LTE technologies in the Gulf, Kuwait is better-positioned to embrace the latest mobile innovations than larger nations with less-developed infrastructure.
Also helping growth is the competitive pricing of 4G LTE data plans. Zain offers a 30GB 4G LTE plan for KD16 ($56.70) per month, and 80GB for KD24 ($85.04), or $1.89 and $1.06 per GB, respectively, substantially lower than the global average of $4.86 per GB, according to research firm GSMA Intelligence.
The affordability and availability of these new technologies, coupled with a push among all three companies to expand 4G LTE offerings, should ensure a rise in the number of data customers, although the pricing may mean growth in profits will be modest.
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Mark Bedingham, CEO and President, Singapore Myanmar Investco
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How would you compare the appetite of foreign investors interested in Myanmar before and after the 2015 elections?
MARK BEDINGHAM: Most Asian businesses had little hesitation prior to the elections. If there was any hesitation, it was more about avoiding any complications caused by the US sanctions. These investors were fully committed to entering Myanmar but just didn’t want to make any mistakes in doing so.
On the other hand, Western companies were much more sensitive and needed to be convinced that the structures that had been put in place were not going to cause issues. In general, the newly elected government and the removal of some of the sanctions truly gave investors permission to invest.
However, again, Asian companies were never sitting on the sidelines, but it was the Western companies that really received the go-ahead to invest. Of course, for both parties there was certainly a degree of caution, but it wasn’t necessarily about one or another political party being elected; it was more about investors not knowing exactly what the outcome of the election result would be.
Investor incentive has been bolstered by the Asia Development Bank predicting economic growth above 8% for the next couple of years, the highest rate in Asia. The growth will trickle down into consumer spending as income levels of 54m people continue to expand, evidence of this growth is already apparent in fast-moving consumer goods consumption patterns. Further evidence of investor appetite is seen in approved foreign investment figures, which increased by more than 18% to $9.5bn in FY 2015/16.
What are your thoughts on the impact of the recently updated US “specially designated nationals” (SDN) list?
BEDINGHAM: I think the most important update is the lifting of restrictions on the use of ports and airports. The problem with the SDN system is that it’s completely opaque. People that are put on the list don’t necessarily do “xyz” but have been assessed to do “xyz”. To get taken off the list, it’s not a matter of “if you do such-and-such”. On a broader level, the issue is that many of the people that have the money and resources to transform the country are on this list.
In the next five to 10 years, how do you see the trade dynamic developing?
BEDINGHAM: What Myanmar can certainly do is look towards energy as being a primary export product going forward. In the future I see the government having to make difficult decisions with regards to the way that it interacts with some non-governmental organisations. However, despite its drawbacks, coal would considerably boost the country’s power generation. Similarly, hydropower plants are another method of unlocking the country’s energy potential, and the potential here is potentially transformative for the country and its energy trade.
I also believe that agricultural processing is one of the catalysts that this country can use to propel itself into the future. The sheer variety of environment and potential that the country has in agriculture cannot be ignored, but to tap this, it must develop value-added processing to its portfolio. If you look across the border at China, you can see how they did things. They have the roads and the power necessary for agricultural processing. This has transformed their ability to develop impoverished regions. Similarly, if you look at what they did in Vietnam with original equipment manufacturing, it’s a similar story. The way this can be accomplished is through ensuring that the relevant infrastructure is developed – namely, power and transport.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Among the foremost musical figures of our time, Vladimir Ashkenazy was born in Gorky in 1937. He began playing the piano at the age of six and was accepted at the Central Music School at the age of eight. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, having studied with Lev Oborin. He won second prize in the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955, first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 1956, and joint first prize with John Ogdon in the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Since then, he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world.
Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past 20 years. Formerly Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (1998–2003) and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (2004–7), from 2009 to 2013 he has served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, collaborating on a number of exciting projects including composer festivals, major recording projects and international touring activities. His final concerts, in November 2013, featured Britten’s War Requiem.
Alongside these positions, Ashkenazy has continued his longstanding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra of which he was appointed Conductor Laureate in 2000. In addition to his performances with the orchestra in London and around the UK each season, he appears with them worldwide – including tours throughout Europe and South America in 2014 – and has developed landmark projects such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich under Stalin in 2003 (a project which he also took to Cologne, New York, Vienna and Moscow) and Rachmaninov Revisited in 2002 at Lincoln Center, New York.
Ashkenazy also holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra, with which he tours each year, and Conductor Laureate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He maintains strong links with a number of other major orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra (of which he was formerly Principal Guest Conductor) and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Chief Conductor and Music Director 1988–96), as well as making guest appearances with many other major orchestras around the world.
Featuring an extensive repertoire that ranges from Bach to Bartók, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Decca discography comprises a vast number of recordings, many of which have been crowned with prizes. He received Grammy® awards among others for Beethoven’s Piano Concertos with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti (1973), for Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Itzhak Perlman (1978), a Ravel programme of solo works (1985) and Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues (1999).
To mark his 70th birthday in 2007, Decca issued a number of CDs and DVDs – both newly recorded and reissued from Ashkenazy’s enormous Decca discography – which embrace his work as one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation as well as over 25 years as a conductor. A programme of music for two pianos by Debussy and Ravel, recorded with his son Vovka Ashkenazy, was released in 2009; 2010 saw the release of Bach’s Six Partitas, which Vladimir Ashkenazy has recorded for the first time. A disc featuring Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No. 1 and his Variations on a Theme of Chopin was issued in 2011, followed by another acclaimed piano duo recording – this one of Russian works – with Vovka Ashkenazy. A disc of lesser-known Rachmaninov solo works appeared in February 2013, with August bringing a new recording of Rachmaninov piano trios with violinist Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay and cellist Mats Lidström. Further releases in 2013, marking Ashkenazy’s 50th anniversary as an exclusive Decca artist, included a 50-CD “original jacket collection” of his key recordings as pianist and conductor, a 2-CD selection entitled “The Art of Ashkenazy” and digital-only anthologies of Chopin and favourite encores.
2014 already saw the release of the album “Walking in the Air”, in which Vladimir Ashkenazy (joined by Vovka Ashkenazy for two-piano works) plays music by his longtime friend Howard Blake – including pieces dedicated to the pianist – as well as an 11-CD set containing Rachmaninov’s complete works for piano. The release of a solo Bach album, in which Ashkenazy plays works including the French Overture and the Italian Concerto, is scheduled for October 2014.
Ashkenazy has also been involved in several television projects, such as Music After Mao, filmed in Shanghai in 1979, and Ashkenazy in Moscow – a series of programmes marking his first visit in 1989 to the country of his birth since leaving the USSR in the 1960s. He has developed educational programmes with NHK TV including the 1999 Superteachers, in which he works with inner-city London school children, and in 2003–4 a documentary based around his Prokofiev and Shostakovich under Stalin project.
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Jennings: Interactive Case Study: Email Performance, Lists and Staffing
Jeanne Jennings
When I was in graduate school, we did a lot of case study learning – and I loved it! Now that I’m an adjunct professor (Hoya Saxa!) I use case studies with my students. And when Bill asked me to lead a discussion on Only Influencers, I thought it might be fun to do a case study with the group. So here’s the deal…
I’ve written the simple case study below just for Only Influencers. The details are compiled from actual experiences with my consulting clients. Read it this week and make some notes – next week, when I am moderating the Only Influencers list, will be your chance to weigh in with thoughts and recommendations.
If this works as it does with my classes we should have an interesting discussion of the pros and cons of different solutions to the various issues presented in the case study. Even better – when Bill publishes the discussion, we’ll have a treasure trove of ideas to help future marketers address the challenges presented here.
One more thing to remember about case studies: there are no right or wrong answers. The key to success is to support whatever recommendations you make, either with industry information, data provided in the case study itself or things you’ve seen in your own personal experience.
And now without further ado…
Olive Street Toys (OST), a toy company in the United States, sells through third-party retailers as well as direct-to-consumers via their website. They’re a profitable company and they are contemplating the role that email marketing should play in their future.
The internal email champions see email as critical to success in their future and are advocating for email to receive a larger portion of the marketing budget. Others believe that email is past its prime and that funding should be moved from email marketing into other channels, most notably social media and programmatic. All agree that the company can’t totally walk away from email, because it keeps the brand and its products top of mind for consumers (many of whom will buy from retainers rather than direct from OST).
Another thing that both groups agree on is the lackluster performance of their email marketing program in 2018. In order for the email marketing team to maintain or expand its current level of funding, the issues need to be addressed. Three key areas of concern are:
Email Staffing
There are three key time periods for toy companies like OST: Pre-Easter, Pre-Summer and Pre-Christmas. These are the times when site traffic, email list growth, and sales peak.
OST spent the beginning of 2018 revamping its website; with much fanfare the new OliveStreetToys.com was launched in August of 2018. In reality it was more of a tweaking of the existing rather than a complete redesign.
The consulting firm they hired focused on the home page, adding a hero banner at the top, lengthening the page to showcase more products and incorporating blocks to hold third-party display advertising (an additional revenue stream for OST). They also moved some of the previously above-the-fold items to the bottom, just above the footer. This included the money-back guarantee, the ‘sign-up for email’ box and the social media links. Here’s what the email sign-up looks like today:
Email diagnostic metrics are below industry benchmarks and have been trending downward all through 2018.
OST’s email team analyzed performance and found that roughly 30% of the list didn’t open nor click on an email in 2018; they were completely dormant. There are three schools of thought on how to handle these subscribers:
Stop sending to them altogether
Continue to send to them but cut back on frequency – only send during the key periods of the year (pre-Easter, pre-Summer, pre-Christmas)
Continue to send to them at the same frequency they receive email now
OST sends a weekly email newsletter to the entire list; there are two versions of it. The first version is sent to the ‘full record’ people; the toys and games included in it are customized to match the ages of the children they buy for. The content team is very proud of this version and it takes a significant amount of time to put together. This version generates average revenue of $0.52 for each email sent.
The second version has a curated assortment of toys and games; the content team makes sure that toys and games for all the major age groups are included in each issue. This version generates average revenue of $0.58 for each email sent.
OST also sends automated email messages which are triggered by recipient behavior. So far they have invested in the following:
To improve performance they are considering:
Using dynamic content to customize all their cart abandonment emails.
Adding automated browse abandonment emails to the mix.
Offering an automated ‘gift ideas’ email to be sent before children’s birthdays (would need to collect children’s birthdays from subscribers).
Starting a blog that talks about parenting issues and including links to articles published there in the weekly email newsletter.
Doubling their frequency to twice-a-week during key periods (pre-Easter, pre-Summer, pre-Christmas).
Doubling their frequency to twice-a-week all year round.
The main source for adding new subscribers to the email list is the Website; while most people sign-up for email when they purchase online, OST is used to seeing a lot of simple sign-ups from visitors who don’t necessarily buy or who sign-up and then buy later.
List growth has decreased in the second half of 2018 and the team at OST is concerned. The CEO sent out a call for ideas to the entire company and the executive committee is now deciding how to proceed. Here’s the short list of the tactics they are considering:
Third-party list rental: add money to the budget to rent third-party lists on a monthly basis (twice-a-month in key time periods) for promotion.
List append: gather all the names and postal addresses in the database that don’t have an email address and have the missing data appended to the file (this was done a few years ago and grew the list significantly, but the number of records missing an email address is now much smaller).
Partner Share: approach retail partners and offer a swap; we’ll give them email addresses they don’t have from our house file if they give us the same number of email addresses that we don’t have from their house files.
Incentive: offer website visitors a $5- or $10-off coupon for signing up for email.
Children: set up a system to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) and begin asking children to sign-up for email (currently sign-ups are asked for their year of birth and emails are only collected from those who are 14 or older).
On the email list there are four types of records:
Full records: until the August redesign, the email sign-up was two pages. The first page asked for an email address, first name and last name and year of birth; the second page asked for the birthdays of children the subscriber bought toys for. For roughly 25% of the list, OST has all this information.
Partial records with birth year: this group is comprised of people who completed the first page of the pre-August sign-up, providing email address, first and last name and birth year. It comprises roughly 35% of the list.
Partial without birth year: this group is roughly 30% of the list; most of these are email addresses which were appended to names in the database.
Email-only records: this group is the balance of the list, roughly 10%. Many of these have been acquired since the August redesign, but some were on the list before that and no one quite knows where they came from. They do have birth year but no other information is included with the email address.
In the case study we reference the email team, but in reality there is only one person dedicated to email at OST. He is an email marketing specialist, and he works with the rest of the marketing team to get the email messages out. He manages the email calendar, uses the WYSIWYG to build the email messages, segments the list as needed before each send, gets all the approvals needed, quality assures each email before it is sent, hits the send button and provides performance reporting to the executive team.
The balance of the marketing team consists of marketing managers and a Vice President; their primary expertise lies in merchandising and partnering with retailers, none of them have direct response experience. There are no copywriters, photographers, designers or coders on staff; that work is outsourced as needed. There was a director of marketing but the person left and the position hasn’t been filled.
While the email marketing specialist manages the content calendar for the newsletter, he doesn’t decide what goes in each issue. The content is dictated to him from the marketing managers and then it’s his job to search the assets database for images and product descriptions. Sometimes the managers get the information for each issue to him in a timely manner; sometimes they don’t. All of the managers who designated content for an issue have to review and approve it before it’s sent. Often there are changes in products to be featured. Sometimes managers don’t look at the email until an hour before it’s to be sent, which can cause last-minute fire drills.
The email specialist is the only one who has access to the marketing automation software, so he also handles set-up of all automated programs. The executive team has been disappointed in his performance as of late. They have read that A/B split testing is important and would like him to do more of it. They would also like to see him be more proactive about coming up with and implementing ideas to boost performance.
One member of the executive team read an article about deliverability and is concerned that OST emails may not be getting to the inbox; he asked the email marketing specialist to look into it about 2 months ago but the email marketing specialist says he’s been too busy.
The executive team is considering:
Outsourcing the entire email function to an agency. It seems like this will solve all the issues mentioned here, but the concern is that the cost will be prohibitive
Bringing in a consultant to assess the situation and make recommendations. Again, the cost is a concern.
Hiring a second email marketing specialist and splitting the current job into two, perhaps with each specialist handling the weekly email every-other-week.
Hiring a manager or director of email marketing to manage the email marketing specialist. But the concern here is that there wouldn’t be enough high-level work to keep this new hire busy.
Decentralizing the email process and eliminating the email marketing specialist position. In this scenario, the marketing managers would take turns getting the weekly email out and split up other responsibilities.
What would you recommend that OST do with regard to email performance, lists and staffing? Which of the ideas they’re considering should they follow-through on? Are there other things they should consider?
Make your notes and prepare your case. We’ll be discussing this case study on the Only Influencers list the week of January 7th. Happy New Year!
Jeanne Jennings is a recognized expert in the email marketing industry and a consultant who helps medium- to enterprise-sized organizations make their email marketing efforts more effective and more profitable.
She is Founder and Chief Strategist at Email Optimization Shop, a boutique consultancy focused on optimizing bottom-line email marketing performance with strategic testing.
She is also General Manager of the Only Influencers community of email marketing professionals and Chair of the annual Email Innovations Summit in Las Vegas.
Her client list includes B2B, B2C, government and non-profit clients including AARP, Capital One, Consumer Reports, Hasbro, Museum of Science: Boston, National Education Association (NEA), New York Times, UPS, US General Services Administration (GSA), and Verizon.
Jeanne is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, teaching digital marketing to students earning their Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications from the School of Continuing Studies. She also leads industry as well as private workshops on email marketing topics.
Her book, The Email Marketing Kit: The Ultimate Email Marketer’s Bible, was published by SitePoint; she is a regular contributor to her own Email Optimization Shop blog as well as the Only Influencers blog.
Jeanne is based in Washington, DC, she earned her MBA from Georgetown University (Hoya Saxa!), and she is an avid hockey fan (Let’s Go Caps!).
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‘The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season’ Is Another Welcome Addition To Fans’ Collections
Courtesy: Paramount/CBS/CBS Home Entertainment
The 1960s is one of the greatest eras of the television industry. It was during this great age that American audiences were treated to what has since become some of the most memorable television series of all time over just three networks. ABC had Bewitched, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Batman. NBC had Star Trek, Bonanza and Get Smart. CBS meanwhile was the real powerhouse, turning out The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies and so many other major hit series. Thanks to a partnership between Paramount and CBS Home Video, many of those classic series have recently been released and re-issued on DVD and Blu-ray, either in part or in whole in recent years. Nearly 40 years after the series was canceled as part of what has since become known as “the rural purge,” fans of The Beverly Hillbillies finally started getting proper, official releases of that award-winning series with the release of the series’ second season. Almost five months after its release, Season Three got its first-ever official release. Seasons Four and One would follow in 2014 and 16 respectively, and now on Oct. 2, Season Five finally will make its DVD debut thanks to that partnership between CBS and Paramount. The fifth season of The Beverly Hillbillies is another enjoyable offering for audiences. That is due in part to the work of the series’ writers. This will be discussed shortly. The work of the series’ cast is just as notable as that of the show’s writers, and will be discussed a little bit later. The set’s average price rounds out its most important elements. Each element is important in its own way to the set’s presentation, as will be pointed out here. All things considered, they make The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season another welcome addition to the home library of any of this classic series’ fans.
The first-ever release of The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season is a welcome addition to the home library of any of the classic series’ fans. That is even with the release being a bare-bones set lacking any bonus features. Even with that lack, it still proves a success overall. That is due in no small part to the work of the series’ writers, as is evidenced throughout the season’s 30-episode run. Right from the season’s outset, audiences get a nonstop laugh riot as Jethro tries to install a party line for Granny, so that she can be nosy. It’s obvious in watching this episode, that it played a distinct influence in so many telephone jokes used in another of series creator Paul Henning’s series, Green Acres. What makes this episode so entertaining is that it is still just as relevant today as it was way back in its debut on Sept. 14, 1966. Every neighborhood, whether rich or not, has that one person who is a busybody and thinks that he or she just has to be all up in everybody’s business except for their own. The result offers plenty of laughs. The season’s Christmas episode, “The Christmas Present” is another wonderful example of why the writers’ work is still deserving of kudos to this day. The Clampetts turn Christmas on its ear this time as they end up selling Mrs. Drysdale’s clothes; clothes that she was going to donate. Of course, the Clampetts don’t know that she was going to donate the clothes. Their whole purpose is to use the money to buy a present for her, so obviously, the comedy of errors (of sorts) that happens as a result offers its own share of laughs. “Super Hawg,” which comes late in the season’s run, is yet another fun, original offering from the series’ writers this season. This time out, the Clampetts discover a hippo for the first time and mistake it for a giant pig. Of course, it just so happens that it’s in the Drysdales’ back yard because they are using it for another of Mr. Drysdale’s many schemes. On a side note, one can’t help but think many of the same people who wrote for The Beverly Hillbillies must have written for Bewitched considering that Darrin’s boss, Larry Tate always had some scheme up his sleeve, and was very much like Mr. Drysdale in terms of his personality. Getting back on track, the episodes noted here are just a few examples of what makes this season’s writing so enjoyable. Even among the seemingly endless stream of stories centered on Granny trying to marry off Ellie May, Jethro trying to get a girl, and Jed having to play peacemaker in it all, there is still some originality this time. One could cite the laugh riot episodes, “The Flying Saucer,” (which played on the B-movies of the time, and was also very similar to a certain episode of another hit CBS show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) “Jed in Politics” and “Granny Retires” as three more examples of that continued originality. When all of the episodes noted here are coupled with the rest of the season’s episodes, it becomes clear why the writers behind The Beverly Hillbillies deserve their own share of credit in this season. Of course their work is only some of the work that deserves praise. The cast’s work on screen deserves its own share of credit, too.
The cast’s work on camera, even despite some of the recurring story lines, shows why the series continued to be a leader on television even five seasons in. Case in point here is Buddy Ebsen’s handling of Jed in ‘The Indians Are Coming.’ This episode, which came about halfway through Season Five, is one that clearly was so politically incorrect that there’s no way it would ever be on television today. The episode sees Granny concerned that Native Americans want to take over the Clampett’s land back in the Ozarks, when in reality the issue is just a minor land dispute. Jed, always having to play peace keeper, has to try to convince Granny that there is nothing to be concerned about. His straight-man persona, set against Granny’s manic, close-minded character, makes for one of those classic odd-couple performances that makes classic television in general so beloved. As the episode progresses, Mr. Drysdale, in his own uneducated mindset, dresses up as a Native American Chief to greet the two Native Americans who have come to Beverly Hills to discuss the land boundary issue. Raymond Bailey (Vertigo, Tarantula, Picnic) does a spectacular job here displaying how close-minded and uneducated Americans of European descent were about Native Americans and their culture. Sadly, many Americans are still somewhat uneducated and close-minded about Native Americans to this day. To that end, Drysdale’s presence in this moment is another of those moments that is just as relevant today as it was in its original presentation.
A little earlier in the season’s run, a marketing scheme from Mr. Drysdale in “The Flying Saucer” leads to another outstanding performance from the series’ cast. This time, Drysdale has hired a group of height-challenged (is that the correct term to use?) Italians to pose as aliens for yet another of his marketing schemes to promote his band. Of course, being that the scheme is under wraps, Granny and Jethro (Irene Ryan – The Woman on the Beach, Petticoat Junction, Will You Stop! and Max Baer, Jr. – Macon County Line, The Wild McCullochs, Ode To Billy Joe) believe that the trio really is from another world. Baer’s reaction, taking his suitcase out to the front of the Clampett mansion, waiting to be “picked up” is another of those classic moments because he really believes that other aliens are on the way to Earth. Ryan’s take on Daisy/Grandma is equally entertaining as she is rather scared. Again, there is that contrast of personalities. The juxtaposition of Jethro and Granny’s reactions ensures audiences’ engagement, and again shows the continued talent of the series’ cast, give seasons into the show’s run. It’s just one more example of the cast’s talent this season. “Jed in Politics” is yet another example of that continued talent, as is “The Soup Contest” and “The Dahlia Feud.” Between all of these noted episodes and those not noted here, it is clear from the season’s premiere to its finale, that the cast offers audiences just as much to appreciate as the show’s writers. When the two elements are coupled, they form a solid foundation for The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season. When one takes into consideration this season’s average price point, it proves to be money well-spent.
Using prices from Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Amazon, the set’s average price point comes to $21.48. The most affordable price seems (at the time of this posting) to be from Amazon, at $20.59. Considering that the set is a bare-bones presentation that lacks any bonus features, one might think that even $21.48 is a little expensive. But taking into consideration the enjoyment that all 30 episodes offer audiences, that lack of bonus material can actually be overlooked. What’s more, the very fact that audiences are presented with 30 episodes (instead of the current standard of 12-13 episodes presented in today’s shows), that leads to nearly 12 hours of enjoyment for audiences of all ages. That enjoyment will lead audiences to agree that even without any bonus material to compliment the episodes, that noted average price of almost $22 is in fact actually quite affordable and worth paying in the end. Keeping all of this in mind, that affordable price point, set alongside the entertaining writing and acting, makes The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season another enjoyable addition to the home library of any of this classic series’ fans. More information on this and other titles from CBS Home Entertainment is available online now at:
Website: http://cbshomeentertainment.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cbshomeentertainment
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CBSHE
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Tag Archives: Danny Wimer Presents
2017 Rock On The Range Festival Lineup Announced
Courtesy: Danny Wimmer Presents/AEG Live
The lineup for the 2017 Rock on the Range Festival has been announced, and once again it has proven to be quite the collection of acts.
The three-day festival will be headlined by Metallica, Soundgarden and Korn. It will feature more than 50 bands over the course of that time along with some of the country’s top comics at the festival’s Rock on the Range Rolling Rock Comedy Tent.
The lineup for the 2017 Rock on the Range Festival includes: Metallica, Soundgarden, Korn, The Offspring, Volbeat, Primus, Bush, Chevelle, Papa Roach, Seether, Coheed & Cambria, Alter Bridge, The Pretty Reckless, Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, Amon Amarth, Pierce The Veil, Sum 41, Skillet, Dillinger Escape Plan, In Flames, Gojira, Biffy Clyro, Motionless In White, Nothing More, Beartooth, Starset, Every Time I Die, The Story So Far, Deafheaven, Zakk Sabbath, Rival Sons, The Amity Affliction, Attila, Norma Jean, Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, I Prevail, Turnstile, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Red Fang, Dorothy, Kyng, Radkey, As Lions, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Sylar, Fire From The Gods, Badflower, Wage War, Goodbye June, Cover Your Tracks, DED, Bleeker, Royal Republic, Mother Feather, Aeges and One Less Reason.
Rock on the Range—fueled by Monster Energy—is billed as America’s largest and most acclaimed rock festival. The festival will also feature in 2017 “The Music Experience,” art installations, and unique on-site activities over the course of the festival’s three days.
Tickets for the 2016 festival sold out more than two months in advance of the festival. It marked the fourth consecutive year the festival has sold out in advance.
Weekend Field, new Weekend Field VIP, Weekend Stadium and a limited number of Weekend Stadium 4-packs are available now for purchase. A layaway option is also available for concert-goers. That option allows audiences to split the cost of their ticket/ticket packages into four separate monthly payments.
Fans can get a pre-sale password for Weekend Field VIP, Weekend Field GA, Weekend Stadium GA and Weekend Stadium GA 4-packs on the official Rock on the Range website, Facebook page and Twitter page. The ticket prices are listed below.
Weekend Field VIP: starting at $349.50* + fees
Weekend Field GA: starting at $199.50* + fees
Weekend Stadium GA: starting at $99.50* + fees
Weekend Stadium GA Ticket 4-Pack: $380.00 + fees
* Phase One prices listed
*** Ticket prices automatically move to the next price level once the allotment sells out ***
General on-sale for tickets is Friday, Dec. 2 at 10 a.m. EST. Tickets will be available online at the festival’s website, at Ticketmaster locations and the MAPFRE Stadium box office.
Audiences who want an even more special concert experience can purchase the new Uber Ranger Camping Package. The package includes amenities for four people such as luxury RV on a double campsite at the Ohio Expo North Campground (May 18 – 21), a dedicated concierge with golf cart shuttle, 4 Weekend VIP Field Admission Tickets, a backstage tour, access to the stadium club (with catered lunch and dinner), access to the Side Stage Viewing Platform, access to the VIP Lounge and more. More information on the new Uber Ranger Camping Package is available here.
Rock on The Range celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2016. More than 120,000 people attended the festival from around the world. As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, Columbus, OH mayor Andrew J. Ginther and the Columbus, OH city council presented festival organizers with awards of recognition. A resolution was also announced from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners acknowledging the festival’s economic impact on the city.
The commissioners pointed out in their resolution pointed out the festival brought in more than $140 million for the city over the course of its ten years in the city.
Rock on the Range is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, AEG Live and MAPFRE Stadium. It is supported by Monster Energy, Bud Light and Zippo. They and other partners will feature interactive experiences, meet & greets, and other special fan engagement opportunities throughout the festival.
More information on the 2017 Rock on the Range Festival is available online now at:
Website: http://www.RockontheRange.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rockontherange
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rockontherange
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News | Social Affairs
Report Card Uncovers Failures in Aboriginal Child Protection
The New South Wales government is failing to appropriately support Aboriginal children and families, according to a report card released to mark the 11th anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations.
Luke Michael | 13 February 2019 at 4:55 pm
AbSec, the NSW peak body for Aboriginal children and families, reported that the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) was failing in five out of seven measures for Aboriginal kids receiving child protection.
Looking at the most recent FACS data between 30 June 2016 and 30 June 2017, the group found the number of Aboriginal children reported at risk of significant harm rose by 6.7 per cent, Aboriginal children in out of home care rose by 2.6 per cent, while Aboriginal children receiving an intensive support service fell by 3 per cent.
On anniversary #Apology11 we must reflect on our past but also confront the shameful reality of our present. I acknowledge the lived experiences of our families who remain impacted by not only by past but contemporary experiences of child removal. #StopForcedAdoption @AbSecNSW
— Natalie QATSICPP (@CEOQATSICPP) February 13, 2019
Most positively, Aboriginal children entering out-of-home-care decreased by 19.7 per cent. But Paul Gray, acting CEO at AbSec, said he remained concerned.
“While many will no doubt welcome this, there needs to be greater clarity and transparency to understand what is behind this reduction,” Gray said.
“Overall, the findings are worrying and need to be considered and assessed. As it shows that there is still a lot of work to be done to address the gaps in the system.”
The report card’s release marks the 11th anniversary of then-prime minister Kevin Rudd’s National Apology to the Stolen Generations on 13 February 2008.
Today, from sunrise to sunset, the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag will fly next to the national flag, above Parliament House, to mark the anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations on 13 February, 2008.
#NationalApology #Sorry pic.twitter.com/yiPdX1yIik
— Australian Parliament House (@Aust_Parliament) February 12, 2019
FACS secretary Michael Coutts-Trotter also offered an apology in line with the federal government in 2017.
“In looking to the future we need to understand how we arrived at where we are today and ensure that we do not repeat the past injustices earlier performed against Aboriginal people,” Coutts-Trotter said.
“As an agency, FACS has a significant role in protecting children and young people and we are committed to doing our very best to influence and improve the long-term outcomes for Aboriginal children in NSW.”
The NSW government came under fire in November last year for attempting to reform child protection and adoption laws so that a birth parent would have a two year period to be reinstated as the primary carer before FACS was allowed to search for an alternative permanent home.
Indigenous groups warned this would result in a second stolen generation, by making it easier for Aboriginal children to be adopted out of the care and protection system and placed with a brand new family.
AbSec said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were now over 10 times more likely to be removed from their families than non-Indigenous children with the number of Aboriginal children in the out-of-home-care system increasing every year.
Gray said the experiences of stolen generation survivors showed forced removal and separation from family, community and culture not only lasted throughout a lifetime, but also impacted the lives of their children and grandchildren.
AbSec has called for the establishment of an Aboriginal child and family commission to provide leadership and support for the system’s work with Indigenous people, by directing investment to community designed and delivered support services, and improving transparency and accountability.
We’re at the rally to #StopForcedAdoption @ Hyde Park. @June_Oscar is speaking both in her role as Social Justice Commissioner & as an Aboriginal grandmother. “We’re black women, we don’t give up & we’re strong.” She calls for family support & services co-designed with community. pic.twitter.com/aI83fENLUK
— AbSec (@AbSecNSW) February 13, 2019
“Unless governments pursue a new approach, the number of Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care is expected to triple over the next 20 years,” Gray said.
“We are calling on governments to put an immediate end to the old failed policies of permanent removal, and to embrace our solutions, Aboriginal-led solutions, as part of a rights-based Aboriginal child and family system.
“This was the promise of action within the apology, and it is long past due.”
The report comes a day ahead of the expected release of the federal government’s annual Closing the Gap report, and follows Queensland becoming the first state to release a whole-of-government report card on closing the gap.
Queensland’s report was described as a “reality check”, after Indigenous Queensland men were found on average to die almost eight years earlier than non-Indigenous men.
Luke Michael | Journalist | @luke_michael96
Luke Michael is a journalist at Pro Bono News covering the social sector.
Tags : AbSec, apology, FACS, Indigenous Children, Stolen Generation,
Specialist disability accommodation – Pipeline of supply
Di Winkler
Vaccines, villains and victories
Audette Exel
Helping the ‘missing middle’ access legal help
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Thousands march in Peru against US-backed mining project
By Armando Cruz
On Friday, February 10, thousands of Peruvians participated in the “Gran Marcha Nacional por el Agua,” or “Great National March for Water,” in downtown Lima. The event was a major protest against “Conga,” a huge gold and copper mining project put together by US mining giant Newmont and Buenaventura, the Peruvian-based mining company.
The two companies have put together the project, a $5 billion expansion of the notorious Yanacocha gold mine in the northern Peruvian region of Cajamarca, which, if it goes ahead, would be the biggest single mining investment ever in Peru.
Yanacocha is one of the biggest gold mines in the world, and its profits are critical for the country’s revenues—Peru is the world’s fourth largest exporter of minerals.
Since its presentation to the public, the Conga project has provoked a substantial degree of concern from both the local population and environmental organizations who fear the destruction and pollution of natural water resources, including rivers and lakes upon which thousands of peasants and locals depend.
The implementation of the Conga project requires making use of the headwaters of five rivers (Jadibamba, Chugurmayo, Chirimayo, Chaillhuagón and Pachachaca) and, above all, five lagoons (Perol, Azul, Chica, Mala and Empedrada), which will have to be totally drained so they can be used as dumps for contaminated waste. Yanacocha itself was a lagoon 20 years ago, before it was emptied and used for mining operations.
The march was organized as an inter-provincial journey from all the areas that would suffer the consequences of the project. Over the course of eight days, caravans of buses brought peasants, workers and members of political groups opposing Yanacocha from the province of Cajamarca (which is where Conga would be implemented), making stops in major cities for rallies and bringing along more participants.
Leading the march were the region’s political leaders: Gregorio Santos, regional president of Cajamarca; Wilfredo Saavedra, leader of the Defense Front of Cajamarca; and Marco Arana, leader of the political party Land and Liberty. Last November, they took part in a political stand-off with the central government of President Ollanta Humala after they refused to negotiate a deal giving a green light to the project. The failure of the deal forced Humala (just five months from his inauguration) to replace key members of his cabinet with hard-liners (see “Peruvian crisis shifts Humala government to the right” [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/peru-d15.shtml]).
Despite the evident shift to the right by Humala and the militarization of his government (he replaced the former civilian prime minister with a right-wing ex-army man), the organizers of the march deliberately set out to increase illusions that Humala can be “convinced” to “fulfill his promises” and go back to the populist and nationalist demagogy and pro-regional positions that resulted in his substantial victory in Peru’s rural regions in last year’s elections.
This orientation was made abundantly clear when the organizers joined hands with congressmen from Gana Peru—the coalition of “left” parties allied with Humala’s own Nationalist Party—which decided to distance itself from Humala during last November’s crisis and declared its “opposition” to his pro-big-business stance. Cajamarca’s regional leaders’ aim was to convince workers and youth who feel betrayed by Humala that by supporting this “left” part of his government, he can be “pressured” toward a more progressive path.
However, the day of the march, the predominant feeling among the protesters was that Humala is a traitor who had deceived them with false promises.
From the early morning of February 10, crowds began to come to the Plaza 2 de Mayo in downtown Lima. By 2 p.m., the attendance was massive. As with other large-scale demonstrations in Lima, the march attracted myriads of social and political groups that claim to represent workers, students and peasants from all the country’s corners along with assorted NGOs and left-wing political parties.
Throughout the afternoon, a sea of people carrying banners and placards began to march down avenues Nicolas de Pierola, Garcilazo de la Vega, Bolivia, Paseo de la Republica, Grau and Colmena chanting slogans opposing the Conga mining project and denouncing Humala as a traitor.
Wherever the march went, walls along the streets were sprayed with slogans such as “Conga doesn’t go” and “Humala traitor.” Police presence was heavy, although no violent incidents occurred.
The organizers’ original plan was to march to Congress carrying a manifesto asking for an end to the Conga project, recognition of the “human right to water” and the “prohibition of mining activities at the headwaters of river basins,” among other things.
This was another indication that the organizers are trying to feed illusions in a “peaceful,” parliamentary solution to the conflict. Nevertheless, this plan was thwarted when a line of policemen blocked the entrance to Abancay Avenue leading to the Congress building. Marchers then turned to the San Martin Square, where a rally was held in front of a large stage, complete with banners and huge speakers.
There, the organizers, Cajamarca’s regional leaders and the “left” congressmen from Gana Peru, repeated the same slogans: “Humala, fulfill your promises,” “Down with mining interests”; and, as is common with this type of protest, the organizers claimed that the root of all evil, including Conga, lies with “neo-liberal” economic policies.
No one said, of course, that the source of the problem is capitalism, which Humala is defending with the same methods as his predecessors, promoting the interests of the mining conglomerates at the expense of the masses of poor and working people.
The organizers, Arana, Saavedra and Santos, declared that if Congress doesn’t adopt the march’s proposals, a nationwide day-long strike was under consideration. Such a protest action won’t affect the government’s policy, and—just as with the march—would be utilized by its organizers to steer workers and young people toward a political dead end.
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Rare plant of the month: June 2017
On June 7, 2017 June 7, 2017 By LucyIn Uncategorized
Lathyrus belinensis
Lathyrus belinensis Copyright: R Parsons
In this instalment of our series, which looks at reasons why we need to be aware of the importance of conserving the rare plants that grow in our gardens in the UK and Ireland, we explore Lathyrus belinensis, a plant with a significant history of discovery, loss and an important place in plant breeding.
Lathyrus belinensis is a yellow and orange-flowered species which may hold the key to the holy grail of the plant breeding world – a truly yellow sweet pea. You may recognise it from the cover of the 2016 Plant Heritage Directory.
The discovery of the plant, in a graveyard close to the village of Belin, led to it being recognised as a new species and subsequently named Lathyrus belinensis (Maxted & Goyder 1988).
Original site of L. belinensis growing on hillside. Copyright N Maxted
Closely related to L. odoratus (sweet pea), L. belinensis was found in 1987, in the Turkish province of Antalya, by Ayse Kitiki (Aegean Agricultural Research Institute), Bob Allkin (RBG, Kew) and Nigel Maxted (University of Birmingham) during a research trip, involving locating significant crop wild relative (CWR) species. Dr Maxted was then based at the University of Southampton which housed the Vicieae database project and seedbank.
The single population was found growing alongside a new road, but upon returning to the site in 2010, Nigel found that the original location had been completely destroyed and although some plants were still found in the area, the richest area within the site had been lost.
Nigel Maxted wrote:
Police station and excavated hillside. Copyright N Maxted
The type population was found over an area of only 2 km2 and although the species was published in 1988, no further populations have been reported. The only known population is found adjacent to a new main road that carries holiday traffic along the coast in an area ripe for tourism development and is in an area that was being planted with conifers at the time of original collection. On returning to the site in 2010 it was found that the original type location had been completely destroyed by earthworks associated with the building of a new police station. Although some plants were still found in the area and seed is held ex situ, the richest area within the site had been lost. In part to draw attention to the need for active in situ conservation of L belinensis it has been recently assessed using the IUCN Red List Criteria and found to be Critically Endangered – the most highly threatened category. The species has real economic potential as a CWR donor yet it is near extinction in the wild. (Maxted 2012)
Remaining population of 30 plants. Copyright N Maxted
Nigel returned to Belin in May this year (2017) to find a small group of only 30 plants still in situ, near the police station and widened road.
Crop wild relatives are the wild ‘cousins’ of our cultivated plants and crops. They are important because they contain useful genetic diversity, some of which is not present in cultivated crops and therefore may have significant resistance to disease and other pathogens. According to Poulter et al (2003), an unexpected benefit from L. belinensis, is that hybrid material has been found to resist Powdery Mildew a problem disease for Sweet Pea growers in hot, dry conditions.
In 1993, Roger Parsons, National Collection Holder of Lathyrus, received seed collected in Belin from the University of Southampton seedbank and passed the species to former National Collection Holder, the late Sylvia Norton. Although the seed is listed in several seed catalogues, it no longer appears in the RHS Plant Finder, the true species having been last listed in 1998.
‘Goldmine’ is a cultivar name used in the trade for L. belinensis. However it is currently wrongly listed as L. odoratus ‘Goldmine’ in some catalogues, demonstrating how unregulated commercial naming of plants, that are not food crops, can create confusion in the industry.
Roger Parsons writes:
What makes this species so special is that it is very closely related to the Sweet Pea, L. odoratus, and has genes for yellow flower pigment. Producing a yellow Sweet Pea has long been one of the holy grails for plant breeders. Lathyrus species very rarely hybridise and the few successes have involved techniques such as stylar amputation and embryo rescue. A team in New Zealand were able to successfully cross the old-fashioned Sweet Pea ‘Mrs Collier’ with the Belin Pea (Hammett et al 1994) and the F1 hybrid has been described as L. x hammettii. Although self-sterile, this hybrid produced pollen which was back-crossed and later crossed with other Sweet Peas. Over a period of time, a succession of crosses using hybrid material has resulted in new cultivars of Sweet Pea with interesting or novel characters (Edwards 2014). The elusive yellow is still awaited but a pure yellow cultivar with L. belinensis form is one step in that direction.
Deviation from L. belinensis. Copyright R Parsons
L. belinensis has real economic potential as a parent plant and having been assessed as critically endangered using IUCN Red List Criteria, it is expressly important that it’s being safely held in National Plant Collections, such as Roger Parson’s. National Plant Collections are valuable resources for protecting species and cultivars that hold genetically diverse material for plant breeding. Plants which are valuable for economic or ‘utilitarian’ reasons, for example, those with the ability to produce offspring with ground-breaking characteristics, or that can significantly combat disease and climate change, or which contain useful chemicals or are super attractive to a particular insect.
N. Maxted & D.J. Goyder 1988 A new species of Lathyrus sect. Lathyrus from Turkey. Kew Bulletin 43(4): 711-713
R. Poulter, L. Harvey & D.J. Burritt 2003 Qualitative resistance to powdery mildew in hybrid sweet peas. Euphytica 133: 349-358
N. Maxted 2012 Lathyrus belinensis: a CWR discovered and almost lost. Crop Wild Relative 8: 44
K.R.W. Hammett, B.G. Murray, K.R. Markham & I.C. Hallett 1994 Interspecific hybrization between Lathyrus odoratus and L. belinensis. Int.J.Plant Sci. 155(6): 763-771
D. Edwards 2014 Developing a yellow Sweet Pea. New Plantsman 13(4):252-4
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How Bill Gates Pulled Off the Swift Common Core Revolution
In a remarkable job of reporting, Lyndsey Layton of the Washington Post describes the creation of the Common Core standards. Two men–Gene Wilhoit and David Coleman–went to see Bill Gates in 2008 to ask him to underwrite national standards. He agreed, and within two years, the standards were written and adopted by almost every state in the nation. -- Diane Ravitch
June 8, 2014 Lyndsey Layton Washington Post
Bill Gates sat down with The Post’s Lyndsey Layton in March to defend the Gates Foundation’s pervasive presence in education and its support of the Common Core. Here is the full, sometimes tense, interview., Washington Post
The pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public-school classroom in America. By early 2008, many of the nation’s top politicians and education leaders had lined up in support.
But that wasn’t enough. The duo needed money — tens of millions of dollars, at least — and they needed a champion who could overcome the politics that had thwarted every previous attempt to institute national standards.
So they turned to the richest man in the world.
On a summer day in 2008, Gene Wilhoit, director of a national group of state school chiefs, and David Coleman, an emerging evangelist for the standards movement, spent hours in Bill Gates’s sleek headquarters near Seattle, trying to persuade him and his wife, Melinda, to turn their idea into reality.
Coleman and Wilhoit told the Gateses that academic standards varied so wildly between states that high school diplomas had lost all meaning, that as many as 40 percent of college freshmen needed remedial classes and that U.S. students were falling behind their foreign competitors.
The pair also argued that a fragmented education system stifled innovation because textbook publishers and software developers were catering to a large number of small markets instead of exploring breakthrough products. That seemed to resonate with the man who led the creation of the world’s dominant computer operating system.
“Can you do this?” Wilhoit recalled being asked. “Is there any proof that states are serious about this, because they haven’t been in the past?”
Wilhoit responded that he and Coleman could make no guarantees but that “we were going to give it the best shot we could.”
After the meeting, weeks passed with no word. Then Wilhoit got a call: Gates was in.
What followed was one of the swiftest and most remarkable shifts in education policy in U.S. history.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation didn’t just bankroll the development of what became known as the Common Core State Standards. With more than $200 million, the foundation also built political support across the country, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes.
Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states’ rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration.
The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — groups that have clashed in the past but became vocal backers of the standards.
Money flowed to policy groups on the right and left, funding research by scholars of varying political persuasions who promoted the idea of common standards. Liberals at the Center for American Progress and conservatives affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council who routinely disagree on nearly every issue accepted Gates money and found common ground on the Common Core.
One 2009 study, conducted by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute with a $959,116 Gates grant, described the proposed standards as being “very, very strong” and “clearly superior” to many existing state standards.
Gates money went to state and local groups, as well, to help influence policymakers and civic leaders. And the idea found a major booster in President Obama, whose new administration was populated by former Gates Foundation staffers and associates. The administration designed a special contest using economic stimulus funds to reward states that accepted the standards.
The result was astounding: Within just two years of the 2008 Seattle meeting, 45 states and the District of Columbia had fully adopted the Common Core State Standards.
The math standards require students to learn multiple ways to solve problems and explain how they got their answers, while the English standards emphasize nonfiction and expect students to use evidence to back up oral and written arguments. The standards are not a curriculum but skills that students should acquire at each grade. How they are taught and materials used are decisions left to states and school districts.
The standards have become so pervasive that they also quickly spread through private Catholic schools. About 100 of 176 Catholic dioceses have adopted the standards because it is increasingly difficult to buy classroom materials and send teachers to professional development programs that are not influenced by the Common Core, Catholic educators said.
And yet, because of the way education policy is generally decided, the Common Core was instituted in many states without a single vote taken by an elected lawmaker. Kentucky even adopted the standards before the final draft had been made public.
States were responding to a “common belief system supported by widespread investments,” according to one former Gates employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing the foundation.
The movement grew so quickly and with so little public notice that opposition was initially almost nonexistent. That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states. In some circles, Common Core became known derisively as “Obamacore.”
Since then, anti-Common Core sentiment has intensified, to the extent that it has become a litmus test in the Republican Party ahead of the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination process. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, whose nonprofit Foundation for Excellence in Education has received about $5.2 million from the Gates Foundation since 2010, is one of the Common Core’s most vocal supporters. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who, like Bush, is a potential Republican presidential candidate, led a repeal of the standards in his state. In the past week, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R), a former advocate of the standards, signed a law pulling her state out, days after South Carolina’s Republican governor, Nikki Haley, did the same.
Some liberals are angry, too, with a few teacher groups questioning Gates’s influence and motives. Critics say Microsoft stands to benefit from the Common Core’s embrace of technology and data — a charge Gates vehemently rejects.
A group calling itself the “Badass Teachers Association,” citing opposition to what it considers market-based education reform, plans a June 26 protest outside the Gates Foundation’s headquarters in Seattle.
In an interview, Gates said his role is to fund the research and development of new tools, such as the Common Core, and offer them to decision-makers who are trying to improve education for millions of Americans. It’s up to the government to decide which tools to use, but someone has to invest in their creation, he said.
“The country as a whole has a huge problem that low-income kids get less good education than suburban kids get,” Gates said. “And that is a huge challenge. . . . Education can get better. Some people may not believe that. Education can change. We can do better.”
“There’s a lot of work that’s gone into making these [standards] good,” Gates continued. “I wish there was a lot of competition, in terms of [other] people who put tens of millions of dollars into how reading and writing could be improved, how math could be improved.”
Referring to opinion polls, he noted that most teachers like the Common Core standards and that those who are most familiar with them are the most positive.
Gates grew irritated in the interview when the political backlash against the standards was mentioned.
“These are not political things,” he said. “These are where people are trying to apply expertise to say, ‘Is this a way of making education better?’ ”
“At the end of the day, I don’t think wanting education to be better is a right-wing or left-wing thing,” Gates said. “We fund people to look into things. We don’t fund people to say, ‘Okay, we’ll pay you this if you say you like the Common Core.’ ”
Whether the Common Core will deliver on its promise is an open question.
Tom Loveless, a former Harvard professor who is an education policy expert at the Brookings Institution, said the Common Core was “built on a shaky theory.” He said he has found no correlation between quality standards and higher student achievement.
“Everyone who developed standards in the past has had a theory that standards will raise achievement, and that’s not happened,” Loveless said.
Jay P. Greene, head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, says the Gates Foundation’s overall dominance in education policy has subtly muffled dissent.
“Really rich guys can come up with ideas that they think are great, but there is a danger that everyone will tell them they’re great, even if they’re not,” Greene said.
Common Core’s first win
The first victory for Common Core advocates came on a snowy evening in Kentucky in February 2010, when the state’s top education officials voted unanimously to accept the standards.
“There was no dissent,” said Terry Holliday, Kentucky’s education commissioner. “We had punch and cookies to celebrate.”
It was not by chance that Kentucky went first.
The state enjoyed a direct connection to the Common Core backers — Wilhoit, who had made the personal appeal to Bill and Melinda Gates during that pivotal 2008 meeting, is a former Kentucky education commissioner.
Kentucky was also in the market for new standards. Alarmed that as many as 80 percent of community college students were taking remedial classes, lawmakers had recently passed a bill that required Kentucky to write new, better K-12 standards and tests.
“All of our consultants and our college professors had reviewed the Common Core standards, and they really liked them,” Holliday said. “And there was no cost. We didn’t have any money to do this work, and here we were, able to tap into this national work and get the benefits of the best minds in the country.”
“Without the Gates money,” Holliday added, “we wouldn’t have been able to do this.”
Over time, at least $15 million in Gates money was directed both to the state — to train teachers in Common Core practices and purchase classroom materials — and to on-the-ground advocacy and business groups to help build public support.
Armed with $476,553 from Gates, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce’s foundation produced a seven-minute video about the value and impact of the Common Core, a tool kit to guide employers in how to talk about its benefits with their employees, a list of key facts that could be stuffed into paycheck envelopes, and other promotional materials written by consultants.
The tool kit provided a sample e-mail that could be sent to workers describing “some exciting new developments underway in our schools” that “hold great promise for creating a more highly skilled workforce and for giving our students, community and state a better foundation on which to build a strong economic future.”
The chamber also recruited a prominent Louisville stockbroker to head a coalition of 75 company executives across the state who lent their names to ads placed in business publications that supported the Common Core.
“The notion that the business community was behind this, those seeds were planted across the state, and that reaped a nice harvest in terms of public opinion,” said David Adkisson, president and chief executive of the Kentucky chamber.
The foundation run by the National Education Association received $501,580 in 2013 to help put the Common Core in place in Kentucky.
Gates-backed groups built such strong support for the Common Core that critics, few and far between, were overwhelmed.
“They have so much money to throw around, they can impact the Kentucky Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, they can impact both the AFT and the NEA,” said Brent McKim, president of the teachers union in Jefferson County, Ky., whose early complaint that the standards were too numerous to be taught well earned him a rebuke by Holliday.
The foundation’s backing was crucial in other states, as well. Starting in 2009, it had begun ramping up its grant-giving to local nonprofit organizations and other Common Core advocates.
The foundation, for instance, gave more than $5 million to the University of North Carolina-affiliated Hunt Institute, led by the state’s former four-term Democratic governor, Jim Hunt, to advocate for the Common Core in statehouses around the country.
The grant was the institute’s largest source of income in 2009, more than 10 times the size of its next largest donation.
With the Gates money, the Hunt Institute coordinated more than a dozen organizations — many of them also Gates grantees — including the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, National Council of La Raza, the Council of Chief State School Officers, National Governors Association, Achieve and the two national teachers unions.
The Hunt Institute held weekly conference calls between the players that were directed by Stefanie Sanford, who was in charge of policy and advocacy at the Gates Foundation. They talked about which states needed shoring up, the best person to respond to questions or criticisms and who needed to travel to which state capital to testify, according to those familiar with the conversations.
The Hunt Institute spent $437,000 to hire GMMB, a strategic communications firm owned by Jim Margolis, a top Democratic strategist and veteran of both of Obama’s presidential campaigns. GMMB conducted polling around standards, developed fact sheets, identified language that would be effective in winning support and prepared talking points, among other efforts.
The groups organized by Hunt developed a “messaging tool kit” that included sample letters to the editor, op-ed pieces that could be tailored to individuals depending on whether they were teachers, parents, business executives or civil rights leaders.
Later in the process, Gates and other foundations would pay for mock legislative hearings for classroom teachers, training educators on how to respond to questions from lawmakers.
The speed of adoption by the states was staggering by normal standards. A process that typically can take five years was collapsed into a matter of months.
“You had dozens of states adopting before the standards even existed, with little or no discussion, coverage or controversy,” said Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, which has received $4 million from the Gates Foundation since 2007 to study education policy, including the Common Core. “People weren’t paying attention. We were in the middle of an economic meltdown and the health-care fight, and states saw a chance to have a crack at a couple of million bucks if they made some promises.”
The decision by the Gates Foundation to simultaneously pay for the standards and their promotion is a departure from the way philanthropies typically operate, said Sarah Reckhow, an expert in philanthropy and education policy at Michigan State University.
“Usually, there’s a pilot test — something is tried on a small scale, outside researchers see if it works, and then it’s promoted on a broader scale,” Reckhow said. “That didn’t happen with the Common Core. Instead, they aligned the research with the advocacy. . . . At the end of the day, it’s going to be the states and local districts that pay for this.”
Working hand in hand
While the Gates Foundation created the burst of momentum behind the Common Core, the Obama administration picked up the cause and helped push states to act quickly.
There was so much cross-pollination between the foundation and the administration, it is difficult to determine the degree to which one may have influenced the other.
Several top players in Obama’s Education Department who shaped the administration’s policies came either straight from the Gates Foundation in 2009 or from organizations that received heavy funding from the foundation.
Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.
As secretary, Duncan named as his chief of staff Margot Rogers, a top Gates official he got to know through that grant. He also hired James Shelton, a program officer at the foundation, to serve first as his head of innovation and most recently as the deputy secretary, responsible for a wide array of federal policy decisions.
Duncan and his team leveraged stimulus money to reward states that adopted common standards.
They created Race to the Top, a $4.3 billion contest for education grants. Under the contest rules, states that adopted high standards stood the best chance of winning. It was a clever way around federal laws that prohibit Washington from interfering in what takes place in classrooms. It was also a tantalizing incentive for cash-strapped states.
Heading the effort for Duncan was Joanne Weiss, previously the chief operating officer of the Gates-backed NewSchools Venture Fund.
As Race to the Top was being drafted, the administration and the Gates-led effort were in close coordination.
An early version highlighted the Common Core standards by name, saying that states that embraced those specific standards would be better positioned to win federal money. That worried Wilhoit, who feared that some states would consider that unwanted — and possibly illegal — interference from Washington. He took up the matter with Weiss.
“I told her to take it out, that we didn’t want the federal government involvement,” said Wilhoit, who was executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. “Those kinds of things cause people to be real suspicious.”
The words “Common Core” were deleted.
The administration said states could develop their own “college and career ready” standards, as long as their public universities verified that those standards would prepare high school graduates for college-level work.
Still, most states eyeing Race to the Top money opted for the easiest route and signed onto the Common Core.
The Gates Foundation gave $2.7 million to help 24 states write their Race to the Top application, which ran an average of 300 pages, with as much as 500 pages for an appendix that included Gates-funded research.
Applications for the first round of Race to the Top were due in January 2010, even though the final draft of the Common Core wasn’t released until six months later. To get around this, the U.S. Department of Education told states they could apply as long as they promised they would officially adopt standards by August.
Now six years into his quest, Gates finds himself in an uncomfortable place — countering critics on the left and right who question whether the Common Core will have any impact or negative effects, whether it represents government intrusion, and whether the new policy will benefit technology firms such as Microsoft.
Gates is disdainful of the rhetoric from opponents. He sees himself as a technocrat trying to foster solutions to a profound social problem — gaping inequalities in U.S. public education — by investing in promising new ideas.
Education lacks research and development, compared with other areas such as medicine and computer science. As a result, there is a paucity of information about methods of instruction that work.
“The guys who search for oil, they spend a lot of money researching new tools,” Gates said. “Medicine — they spend a lot of money finding new tools. Software is a very R and D-oriented industry. The funding, in general, of what works in education . . . is tiny. It’s the lowest in this field than any field of human endeavor. Yet you could argue it should be the highest.”
Gates is devoting some of his fortune to correct that. Since 1999, the Gates Foundation has spent approximately $3.4 billion on an array of measures to try to improve K-12 public education, with mixed results.
It spent about $650 million on a program to replace large urban high schools with smaller schools, on the theory that students at risk of dropping out would be more likely to stay in schools where they forged closer bonds with teachers and other students. That led to a modest increase in graduation rates, an outcome that underwhelmed Gates and prompted the foundation to pull the plug.
Gates has said that one of the benefits of common standards would be to open the classroom to digital learning, making it easier for software developers — including Microsoft — to develop new products for the country’s 15,000 school districts.
In February, Microsoft announced that it was joining Pearson, the world’s largest educational publisher, to load Pearson’s Common Core classroom materials on Microsoft’s tablet, the Surface. That product allows Microsoft to compete for school district spending with Apple, whose iPad is the dominant tablet in classrooms.
Gates dismissed any suggestion that he is motivated by self-interest.
“I believe in the Common Core because of its substance and what it will do to improve education,” he said. “And that’s the only reason I believe in the Common Core.”
Bill and Melinda Gates, Obama and Arne Duncan are parents of school-age children, although none of those children attend schools that use the Common Core standards. The Gates and Obama children attend private schools, while Duncan’s children go to public school in Virginia, one of four states that never adopted the Common Core.
Still, Gates said he wants his children to know a “superset” of the Common Core standards — everything in the standards and beyond.
“This is about giving money away,” he said of his support for the standards. “This is philanthropy. This is trying to make sure students have the kind of opportunity I had . . . and it’s almost outrageous to say otherwise, in my view.”
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Free Virtual Capitol Building Haunting Tours This Year
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Every year around Halloween the ghosts of the New York Capital Building are put on display for all to see...or actually just hear about. As far as I know, nobody has actually seen one of the ghosts on a tour.
Well, due to the coronavirus pandemic the usual ghost tour of the Capitol Building has been canceled. However this year they are offering a free online tour that will explore the haunting, the legends, folklore, and tales of unexplained occurrences connected to the historic state Capitol.
New York State Office of General Services announced that the virtual tours will happen the three Thursdays leading up to Halloween. Each video will be at 1:00 pm and will remain up on the website for everyone to watch. Here's the link for the virtual tours. empirestateplaza.ny.gov/virtual-visit.
The schedule for the three virtual tours will explore three legends of the Capitol building. According to the Troy Record here's this year's schedule.
The Fire of 1911 – 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15
On March 29, 1911, a tragic fire swept through the New York State Capitol. The tour will explore the fire and how it contributed to stories of unexplained occurrences in the years after. Find out about the fate of the night watchman who patrolled the statehouse on that tragic night.
Creepy Capitol Carvings – 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22,
The New York State Capitol is known for its intricate hand-carved detail completed by hundreds of stone carvers throughout the building’s 32 years of construction. In this tour, people will discover the inspiration behind some of the carvings, the differences between grotesques and gargoyles, and the mystery behind the carved “secret demon” hidden among the walls.
Legends of the Capitol Halls – 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29
The New York State Capitol is the picture-perfect setting for a scary story. Throughout the years, Capitol employees and visitors have reported unexplained occurrences throughout the building. This tour will focus on the legends and lore of the Capitol — including the two U.S. presidents who visited after their deaths.
Since there won't be actual in-person tours this year, this will have to be the next best thing. So turn out the lights, snuggle up to the computer and learn the creepy history of the New York Capital Building.
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QUARRY SCHOOL
W A U K E S H A , W I S C O N S I N
Boyd-Lehnerer
THE BOYD-LEHNERER STORY
By Alice McCombe Block, March 14, 2001
This article is written by Alice McCombe Block, who lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her husband, John Block. Much of Alice’s knowledge about her family’s history comes from her mother, Charlotte Boyd McCombe who wrote for The Landmark in the 1960s.
The 150-year-old, two-story limestone house located the Busse Rd., not far from Interstate 94, has a story to tell. Some chapters are connected to my family, the Boyd-Lehnerer Family.
In 1880, my great-grandparents, John and Janet Boyd, purchased a 140 acre farm from William and Wilhemina Hembd. (Location is in the NW Quarter of Section 26 and the SW Quarter of Section 23, Township of Pewaukee.) The farm was built on the site of a former sawmill and chair factory which was powered by Pewaukee River water. Across the road there was a small village of log cabins known as Bucknerville. By the early 20th century, all that remained was the millrace, the dam site and a very old small house which can be seen in the picture behind the big stone house. The oldest house was constructed of hand-hewn boards and plastered on the inside with mud and twigs. There was an unusual French-styled brick oven in the kitchen. A fire was built in the oven until the bricks were hot. Then the coals were removed and the bread was put in to bake. Could the house have been built by an early settler with the French name of Beau? Our family found six small maple chairs in the loft of this old house. Possibly these chairs were made in the local chair factory. Today, two of those chairs sit in our Corvallis, Oregon livingroom.
John and Janet Boyd were first cousins, children of immigrant brothers, James and Thomas Boyd who came from the Parish of Slamanan, Sterlingshire, Scotland in 1846 and 1849 respectively. They followed an older brother McNair Boyd who came in 1842 and settled near Prospect Hill. Descendants of Thomas Boyd continue to live in the area today. James Boyd’s son John, born June 22, 1849, and Thomas’ daughter Janet, born May 12, 1850, were married March 11, 1873 in Prospect Hill. I have a prize possession: Janet’s three-piece olive green silk wedding dress complete with tassels and a bustle.
My grandfather, James Thomas Boyd, born March 30, 1876, was named for his two grandfathers. His sister, Jessie May, was born April 1, 1880. About eight months later, the parents bought the Hembd Farm and resettled with their two young children. John Lehnerer came as the hired man.
Now the drama thickens. On October 30, 1881, small Jessie May died from pneumonia. I have a poem of lament written by one of her grieving parents. There is a small stone in the far NE corner of Prairie Home Cemetery marking her grave. On December 5, 1881, John Boyd, at age 32, was stricken with a ruptured appendix and died a sudden and painful death. He was buried next to his infant daughter. His wife, Janet, left with a 5 year old son and a 140 acre farm, did the most practical thing a woman could do in those days, she married her hired man, John Lehnerer on December 18, 1883. His family also came from the New Berlin area. He and Janet along with hired help, worked hard to earn a living and paid off the farm mortgage.
Grandpa Lehnerer, as he was known by my mother and her siblings, was a good grandfather and a steward of the land. He practiced crop rotation. In the early years, wheat was the main crop, requiring much hand labor. Quantities of potatoes were also raised and sold door to door to Milwaukee customers. The Lehnerers always kept a productive garden and a bountiful apple orchard with many varieties. Mother claimed there were very few wormy apples prior to the advent of pesticide sprays. The farm supported chickens, hogs and a mixed breed herd of milk cows. Grandpas Lehnerer liked horses and usually kept four or five before he acquired his first car. An interesting fact: in 1925, he traded one horse, two heifers and $400 to Davies Brothers for a new Model T Ford coupe.
When my grandfather, James Thomas Boyd married Lucy Miller, a former teacher at the Quarry School, September 5, 1900, he was given 33 acres from his father’s estate on the north side of the Pewaukee River. Lucy’s brother, Henry Miller, who was a master carpenter, built the house and barn (originally with a cupola). Later about 20 more acres were added to the farm. It was a struggle to make a living on limited acreage. This is the place where my mother and her two sisters and brother were born and raised. Over the years the family raised turkeys, chickens, Shropshire sheep, Chester White pigs and a fine herd of Guernsey dairy cows. Most profitable was honey production and market gardening during the Depression years. The current farm owner, Jean Jones, sends yearly Christmas Greetings to all I-94 travelers with a lighted display on the roof of the old honey house.
Janet Boyd Lehnerer died from breast cancer on May 12, 1923. John continued to work the farm with hired help until 1938. His hired man, Joe Leitinger, purchased the farm. Even though it was reasonably priced, James and Lucy Boyd were cautious about taking on a mortgage during Depression times. Grandpa Lehnerer lived his remaining years with his brother George, who had been a builder of many barns, with cupolas, around Waukesha County. John died at age 85 on February 14, 1943.
It should be noted for posterity that three Indian mounds were once visible in a field along the Busse Road on the Boyd-Lehnerer Farm in the early 20th Century. Every spring, as the fields were turned by horse and plow, fine specimens of Indian arrowheads were uncovered. My grandfather had an amazing collection!! Today, subdivision ranch homes are located on top of those once sacred mounds.
Until the 1960’s, only the peaceful Pewaukee River flowed through this once Indian campground and later farm land. Today, I-94 traffic roars day and night through these same lands. It is called progress!!
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Rodney Mills says:
Is there a book available of Quarry School by Alice McCombe Block. I attended the school 1950 to 1953. I would like to purchase one if available.
Rod Mills
Hi, Rod — As best as we can recall, Alice wrote this essay just for us here at the school. (The only other place it could have appeared is possibly in the Waukesha Landmark publication of the Historical Society, but I don’t think so.)
If you have stories from your time in this neighborhood, we are eager to post them to share here.
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FATS WALLER …
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano, and whose best-known compositions, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “Honeysuckle Rose”, were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999.
Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of 11 children (five survived childhood) born to Adeline Locket Waller and Reverend Edward Martin Waller in New York City.
He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father’s church four years later.
His mother instructed him as a youth. At the age of 14 he was playing the organ at Harlem’s Lincoln Theater and within 12 months he had composed his first rag. Waller’s first piano solos (“Muscle Shoals Blues” and “Birmingham Blues”) were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.
He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson.
Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters.[citation needed] In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson’s “Carolina Shout”, a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.
Waller ultimately became one of the most popular performers of his era, finding critical and commercial success in his homeland and in Europe. He was also a prolific songwriter and many songs he wrote or co-wrote are still popular, such as “Honeysuckle Rose”, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “Squeeze Me”.
Fellow pianist and composer Oscar Levant dubbed Waller “the black Horowitz”. Waller is believed to have composed many novelty tunes in the 1920s and 1930s and sold them for relatively small sums, the attributions of which, on becoming widely known, went only to a later composer and lyricist.
Standards alternatively and sometimes controversially attributed to Waller include “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby”.
Biographer Barry Singer conjectured that this jazz classic was written by Waller and lyricist Andy Razaf, and provides a description of the sale given by Waller to the NY Post in 1929—for $500, to a white songwriter, ultimately for use in a financially successful show (consistent with Jimmy McHugh’s contributions first to Harry Delmar’s Revels, 1927, and then to Blackbirds, 1928).
He further supports the conjecture, noting that early handwritten manuscripts in the Dana Library Institute of Jazz Studies of “Spreadin’ Rhythm Around” (Jimmy McHugh ©1935) are in Waller’s hand.
Jazz historian P.S. Machlin comments that the Singer conjecture has “considerable [historical] justification”.
Waller’s son Maurice wrote in his 1977 biography of his father that Waller had once complained on hearing the song, and came from upstairs to admonish him never to play it in his hearing because he had had to sell it when he needed money.
Maurice Waller’s biography similarly notes his father’s objections to hearing “On the Sunny Side of the Street” playing on the radio.
Waller recorded “I Can’t Give You…” in 1938, playing the tune but making fun of the lyrics; the recording was with Adelaide Hall who had introduced the song to the world at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in 1928.
The anonymous sleeve notes on the 1960 RCA Victor album Handful of Keys state that Waller copyrighted over 400 songs, many of which co-written with his closest collaborator Andy Razaf.
Razaf described his partner as “the soul of melody… a man who made the piano sing… both big in body and in mind… known for his generosity… a bubbling bundle of joy”.
Gene Sedric, a clarinetist who played with Waller on some of his 1930s recordings, is quoted in these same sleeve notes recalling Waller’s recording technique with considerable admiration: “Fats was the most relaxed man I ever saw in a studio, and so he made everybody else relaxed.
After a balance had been taken, we’d just need one take to make a side, unless it was a kind of difficult number.”
Waller played with many performers, from Nathaniel Shilkret and Gene Austin, to Erskine Tate, Fletcher Henderson, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers and Adelaide Hall, but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, “Fats Waller and his Rhythm”.
His playing once put him at risk of injury. Waller was kidnapped in Chicago leaving a performance in 1926. Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by Al Capone.
Waller was ordered inside the building, and found a party in full swing. Gun to his back, he was pushed towards a piano, and told to play. A terrified Waller realized he was the “surprise guest” at Capone’s birthday party, and took comfort that the gangsters did not intend to kill him.
It is rumored that Waller stayed at the Hawthorne Inn for three days and left very drunk, extremely tired, and had earned thousands of dollars in cash from Capone and other party-goers as tips.
In 1926, Waller began his recording association with the Victor Talking Machine Company/RCA Victor, his principal record company for the rest of his life, with the organ solos “St. Louis Blues” and his own composition, “Lenox Avenue Blues”.
Although he recorded with various groups, including Morris’s Hot Babes (1927), Fats Waller’s Buddies (1929) (one of the earliest multiracial groups to record), and McKinney’s Cotton Pickers (1929), his most important contribution to the Harlem stride piano tradition was a series of solo recordings of his own compositions: “Handful of Keys”, “Smashing Thirds”, “Numb Fumblin'”, and “Valentine Stomp” (1929).
After sessions with Ted Lewis (1931), Jack Teagarden (1931) and Billy Banks’ Rhythmakers (1932), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.
This six-piece group usually included Herman Autrey (sometimes replaced by Bill Coleman or John “Bugs” Hamilton), Gene Sedric or Rudy Powell, and Al Casey.
Waller wrote “Squeeze Me” (1919), “Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now”, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” (1929), “Blue Turning Grey Over You”, “I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling” (1929), “Honeysuckle Rose” (1929) and “Jitterbug Waltz” (1942). He composed stride piano display pieces such as “Handful of Keys”, “Valentine Stomp” and “Viper’s Drag”.
He enjoyed success touring the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1930s. He appeared in one of the first BBC television broadcasts.
While in Britain, Waller also recorded a number of songs for EMI on their Compton Theatre organ located in their Abbey Road Studios in St John’s Wood. He appeared in several feature films and short subject films, most notably Stormy Weather in 1943, which was released July 21, just months before his death.
For the hit Broadway show Hot Chocolates, he and Razaf wrote “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” (1929), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong.
Waller performed Bach organ pieces for small groups on occasion. Waller influenced many pre-bebop jazz pianists; Count Basie and Erroll Garner have both reanimated his hit songs. In addition to his playing, Waller was known for his many quips during his performances.
Between 1926 and the end of 1927, Waller recorded a series of pipe organ solo records. These represent the first time syncopated jazz compositions were performed on a full-sized church organ.
Waller contracted pneumonia and died on a cross-country train trip near Kansas City, Missouri, on December 15, 1943. His final recording session was with an interracial group in Detroit, Michigan, that included white trumpeter Don Hirleman.
Waller was returning to New York City from Los Angeles, after the smash success of Stormy Weather, and after a successful engagement at the Zanzibar Room, during which he had fallen ill.
More than 4,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem, which prompted Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who delivered the eulogy, to say that Fats Waller “always played to a packed house.”
Afterwards he was cremated and his ashes were scattered, from an airplane piloted by an unidentified World War black aviator, over Harlem.
One of his surviving relatives is former Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket and current Baltimore Ravens wideout Darren Waller, who is Fats’ paternal great-grandson.
Sources WIKIPEDIA
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RCA INSPIRATION TO RELEASE NEW MUSIC FROM THE VOICES OF FIRE CHOIR, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PHARRELL WILLIAMS’ I AM OTHER
(Nashville, TN) – November 23, 2020 – RCA Inspiration, one of the premiere labels in Gospel and inspirational music, announces a record deal with Voices of Fire, to release new music from the new choir, in partnership with Pharrell Williams’ company i am OTHER. The newly-formed choir stars on the Netflix docuseries “Voices of Fire,” led by Williams’ uncle Bishop Ezekiel Williams. The docuseries debuted on the streamer Friday November 20th and Williams serves as an executive producer on the project. The Voices of Fire choir will record its first full-length album, to be released by RCA Inspiration in partnership with i am OTHER at a future date.
Bringing together a diverse lineup of the best new talent in their hometown community, the “Voices of Fire” Netflix series documents the journey of forming this new choir as Bishop Ezekiel Williams, Pharrell Williams, and a team of other influential gospel leaders lead a search for fresh voices in the Hampton Roads, VA region. Bishop Ezekiel Williams, a well-respected faith and musical leader in the area, teams up with a core group of gospel leaders with the mission to build one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs, spotlighting talent of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, and their varied backstories.
Phil Thornton, SVP and General Manager of RCA Inspiration, says: “As a Virginia native myself, I am thrilled for RCA Inspiration to partner with i am OTHER and introduce the new music of Voices of Fire. Choir has continued to be a longstanding cornerstone for Gospel music around the world and influence for countless artists through the years, and I look forward to showcasing the incredible group of talent in this choir.”
Bishop Ezekiel Williams says: “It is surreal to know that good things truly do come to those who wait, and that dreams and desires really do come true. I look forward to bringing more than 40 years of musical experience to the table and collaborating with equally talented artists, as we craft a symphony of voices that will stretch the musicalities of Voices of Fire. I sincerely believe that, through Gospel music, this project will touch, influence, and change the lives of individuals from all walks of life.”
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Church of England moves towards ordaining women
Posted on May 23, 2010 by particularkev
Over the weekend, the Church of England introduced draft legislation putting the country’s Anglican communion on the fast track to allowing women’s ordination, reports Catholic News Agency.
On Saturday, May 8, the Church of England’s revision committee published a 142-page review in favor of draft proposals that support women being consecrated as bishops and priests.
According to Reuters, the church’s revision committee also proposed safeguards for more traditional parishes who have expressed opposition to ordaining women, including the right to request that a male bishop perform blessings and ordinations. However, the committee proposals did not meet the requests by these parishes for new dioceses or a special class of bishops.
“After much discussion the Committee rejected proposals aimed at fundamentally changing the approach of the legislation for those unable to receive the ministry of female bishops,” wrote Church of England officials in a statement Monday.
The draft proposals will now go forward for debate at the Church’s General Synod, in July in York, Northern England. If passed, the Church of England will hold the same position on female ordination as the Anglican Communion in the United States and New Zealand.
Monday’s statement also clarified that the “earliest that the legislation could achieve final approval in Synod (when two-thirds majorities in each of the Houses of Bishops, Clergy and Laity will be required) is 2012, following which parliamentary approval and the Royal Assent would be needed.”
The statement added that “2014 remains the earliest realistic date when the first women might be consecrated as bishops.”
This move is likely to increase interest among traditionalist Anglicans in the Pope’s recent invitation for Church of England members to become Catholic. Last November, the Holy Father released “Anglicanorum coetibus,” a motu propio which offered Vatican guidelines for Anglican groups to enter into communion with the Catholic Church.
The Sunday Telegraph in Britain reported on May 2 that several Anglican bishops recently met with Vatican officials to discuss the process of converting to Catholicism.
Despite the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams reportedly urging them not to leave the Church of England, several bishops are looking to break from the Anglican Communion over their opposition to the introduction of women bishops and priests.
According to the British paper, Bishops John Broadhurst, Keith Newton and Andrew Burnham, from the Dioceses of Fulham, Richborough and Ebbsfleet respectively, all met with senior Vatican officials last week.
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First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church
Posted on November 8, 2009 by particularkev
By Hilary White
ROME, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that is a surprise to no one, the UK branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest of the groups that broke away from the mainstream Anglican Church over the ordination of woman and the latter’s support for active homosexuality, has been the first to formally accept the offer of Pope Benedict to enter into communion with the Catholic Church en masse.
Although the TAC is not large, being made up of only 20 or so parishes, the vote by the group to accept the invitation is expected to be a strong symbolic blow to the mainstream Anglican Church in its motherland of Britain, where it has been a leader in the acceptance of woman clergy and homosexuality. It is widely acknowledged that the Vatican’s decision to extend its hand to traditionalist Anglicans comes in response to repeated requests, made public last year, by the TAC.
In a surprise announcement on October 20, the Vatican said that a document was being prepared that would create “personal ordinariates” that will allow “traditionalist” Anglicans to come into the Catholic Church in groups while retaining their liturgical and pastoral traditions, including the possibility of a married clergy. William Cardinal Levada, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the move had come in response to many requests from Anglicans around the world, clergy, laity and bishops, who objected to the growing acceptance of homosexuality in Anglicanism, especially in North America and Britain.
The website of the TAC in the UK reported last week, “This Assembly, representing the Traditional Anglican Communion in Great Britain, offers its joyful thanks to Pope Benedict XVI for his forthcoming Apostolic Constitution allowing the corporate reunion of Anglicans with the Holy See, and requests the Primate and College of Bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion to take the steps necessary to implement this Constitution.”
The leadership of the Traditional Anglican Community in Canada told LSN in an interview late last month that the life and family issues are a major factor in the attraction of the Catholic Church. Bishop Carl Reid of the Traditional Anglican Communion in Canada, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), “When it comes to issues of morality, especially family and pro-life, our membership is very strongly on the same page as are Roman Catholics.”
The pope’s offer to Anglicans who adhere to traditionally Christian moral doctrine has infuriated the left in both the secular and religious worlds. Benedict XVI has been attacked most recently by former Catholic theologian and notorious opponent of Catholic moral teaching, Hans Kung, as well as innumerable journalists and editors who see the move as the Vatican turning back the ecclesial clock towards a pre-1960s traditional style. Kung accused Benedict, his former university colleague, of ecclesiastical “piracy” and said that the move undermines the decades-long work of “ecumenical dialogue.”
John Allen, the leading American “liberal” Catholic journalist in Rome, gave a more sedate analysis, saying that the invitation to the Anglicans who are in agreement on the nature of truth, doctrine and biblical inerrancy, is indeed part of the pope’s greater plan to combat the growing secularist “dictatorship of relativism” that the pontiff has warned is undermining the very structure of our civilization.
“Benedict XVI is opening the door to … traditionalist Anglicans in part because whatever else they may be, they are among the Christians least prone to end up, in the memorable phrase of Jacques Maritain, ‘kneeling before the world,’ meaning sold out to secularism,” Allen wrote in a column today.
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, an American priest-blogger with connections inside the Vatican, has commented that with this decision (one that was fought by many bishops in his own Church), the pope has earned the title, “Pope of unity.”
The Anglicans who may take advantage of the new “canonical structure,” Zhusldorf wrote, “are Christians who are separated from clear unity with the Church. Pope Benedict stresses the importance of his role as Pope as being one of promoting unity. It is not just that they a Christians who tend to agree with him. They are separated. He is trying to reintegrate them.”
“If we are going to fight the dictatorship of relativism,” Fr. Zuhlsdorf continued, “we need a strong Catholic identity. If we are going to evangelize, we need a strong Catholic identity. If we are going to engage in true ecumenism, we need a strong Catholic identity. Liturgy is the key component in his ‘Marshall Plan’ for the Church.”
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Conservative Anglicans officially form new church group
Posted on June 27, 2009 by particularkev
Leaders who defected from the Episcopal Church completed the formation of a conservative branch of Anglicanism in North America Monday by ratifying the constitution of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), reports Charisma News Online.
The document was signed during ACNA’s Inaugural Provincial Assembly, which drew some 800 participants to Bedford, Texas, this week. Pittsburg Bishop Robert Duncan, who on Wednesday will be installed as the group’s first archbishop, said the formation of ACNA reflects a return to orthodox Christianity that is happening both within the 77 million-member Anglican Communion and beyond.
“Our God is up to something very big, both with us and with others,” Duncan said Monday. “The Father truly is drawing His children together again in a surprising and sovereign move of the Holy Spirit. He is again re-forming His church.”
On Tuesday, Saddleback pastor Rick Warren addressed the assembly, encouraging them to love one another but not the world’s values, the Associated Press reported. Other non-Anglican participants include Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church, the Rev. Samuel Nafzger of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, and Bishop Kevin Vann of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas. The assembly ends on Thursday.
The formation of ACNA, said to represent some 100,000 Anglicans in 700 parishes, is the latest response to liberal moves within the Episcopal Church that culminated with the ordination of an openly gay bishop in 2003. Since then, roughly 200 congregations have left what had been the only U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, ACNA leaders report.
Most of the defectors, including several charismatic parishes, have aligned with conservative dioceses in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America, where Anglicanism is experiencing the most growth.
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IRAQ: FLEEING CHRISTIANS FACE NEW HARDSHIPS IN TURKEY
Posted on November 15, 2008 by particularkev
As renewed violence in Mosul halts return, refugees wait in Turkish legal limbo.
ISTANBUL, November 14 (Compass Direct News) – In this Turkish city’s working-class neighborhood of Kurtulus, Arabic can be heard on the streets, signs are printed in the Arabic alphabet and Iraqis congregate in tea shops.
In 99-percent Muslim Turkey, most of these Iraqis are not Muslims. And they are not in Turkey by choice. They are Christian refugees who fled their homeland to escape the murderous violence that increasingly has been directed at them.
It is hard to tell how many of Mosul’s refugees from the recent wave of attacks have made their way to Istanbul, but finding these residents here is not hard. A middle-aged Iraqi refugee who fled Mosul five months ago now attends a Syrian Orthodox Church in the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Tarlabasi, where gypsies, transvestites, and immigrants from Turkey’s east live in hopes of a better life in Istanbul.
Declining to give his name, the refugee said there is no future for Christians in Iraq and that nearly everyone he knew there wanted to leave the country. He said the only hope for Iraqi Christians is for Western countries to open their doors to Christian Iraqi refugees.
“We don’t have hope,” he said. “If these doors aren’t opened, we will be killed.”
Since October, violence in Mosul has pushed more than 12,000 Christians from their homes and left more than two dozen dead, according to U.N. and Christian organizations. In the face of Mosul violence, Iraqi Christians flee to Turkey before settling permanently in another country, usually in a place where their family has gone out before them.
Christian Sisters Killed
Weeks after the mass exodus of Mosul Christians to surrounding villages, Turkey and other nations, around one-third of families reportedly have returned due to the presence of 35,000 army and police and the Iraqi government offering cash grants of up to $800.
But those returning Christians were shaken again on Wednesday (Nov. 12), when Islamic militants stormed into the house of two Syrian Catholic sisters, Lamia’a Sabih and Wala’a Saloha, killing them and severely injuring their mother. They then bombed their house and detonated a second explosive when the police arrived, which killed three more.
The Christian family had recently returned after having fled Mosul. Many believe this attack will deter other Christians from returning to Mosul, and there are reports of Christians again leaving the area.
There has been a steady exodus of Christians from Iraq since the first Gulf War in 1991. The church in Iraq dates from the beginning of Christianity, but the population has plummeted by 50 percent in the last 20 years. The outflow of Iraqi Christians spiked in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion.
Although Iraq as a whole has seen a dramatic decrease in violence due to last year’s surge in U.S. troops, the flight of Christians to Turkey has grown. One-third of the 18,000 refugees who registered in Turkey last year are from Iraq. In Syria, an estimated 40 percent of the 1.2 million Iraqis who have fled Iraq are Christians, though they make up only about 3 percent of Iraq’s population.
Monsignor Francois Yakan, the 50-year-old leader of the Chaldean Church in Turkey, said all Iraqi refugees are undergoing hardships regardless of religion, but that the situation is especially difficult for Christians since there is less support for them in Turkey.
“Muslims have the same difficulty as Christians, but there are more foundations to assist them,” he said. “The government notices Muslim immigrants, but nobody pays attention to us.”
Yakan travels to other countries to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi Christians, trying to marshal the support of government and church leaders – last week he traveled to France, Romania and Germany. If Western governments don’t wake up to this crisis, he said, the results could be catastrophic.
“People don’t know the plight of Iraqi Christians. They have no government, no soldiers, and no power,” he said. “Christianity in Iraq is ending. Why aren’t they noticing this?”
Strangers in Strange Land
The unnamed Iraqi refugee in Tarlabasi said not even pleas from Iraqi priests can make them stay.
“The church in Iraq can’t stop the people from leaving because they can’t guarantee their security,” he said.
He came to Istanbul with his family but still has an adult son and daughter in the city. He hopes to join his brother in the United States soon.
A group of Iraqi refugees at a tea shop in the Kurtulus area of Istanbul interrupted their card game to talk to Compass of their troubled lives.
“We can’t find any work,” said Baghdad-born Iraqi Jalal Toma, who acted as the translator for the group. He pointed to a young man at the table and said, “He works moving boxes and carrying things, and they pay him half as much as a Turk for a day’s work.”
All of the men are Chaldean Christians, a Catholic Eastern-rite church whose historical homeland is in northern Iraq, and came from Mosul in recent months. They are chronically under-employed and rely on financial help from family members abroad to make ends meet.
They had to flee their homes at a moment’s notice, taking along their families but leaving behind their cars, houses and most of their possessions. The men hope to join family members who live in foreign countries, but they harbor few hopes that they can ever return to Iraq again.
Offering Relief
Work is scarce for refugees and hard to come by legally in Turkey. To survive, most Iraqi Christians rely on money from families abroad or the handful of local church charities that struggle to keep up with the overwhelming volume of refugees, such as the Istanbul Interparish Migrant Program, an ecumenical umbrella group that unites the city’s parishes to assist migrants and asylum seekers.
Another such charity is Kasdar, the Chaldean-Assyrian-Syriac Humanitarian, Social and Cultural Organization, run by Yakan, the Chaldean Church leader in Turkey.
He launched Kasdar two years ago to provide a safety net for Christian refugees who live in Turkey’s legal limbo. Kasdar assists all Christians regardless of denomination or faith tradition and has 16 volunteers from an equally diverse background.
Yakan sees thousands of refugees pass through Istanbul each year. Most of them are Chaldean, and he knows of 60-70 people who fled due to the recent October violence in Mosul. He travels constantly to visit Chaldean refugees scattered throughout the country.
When refugees first arrive in Turkey, they must register with the United Nations as asylum seekers. The Turkish police then assign them to one of 35 cities to live in as they wait to receive official refugee status. These Christians face the biggest hardships since they don’t have access to the same social resources as refugees in Istanbul, said Metin Corabatir, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman in Turkey.
“The Chaldean population faces problems in Turkey, especially due to the policy of resettling them to satellite cities,” said Corabatir. “The Chaldeans in Istanbul have NGOs [Non-Governmental Organizations] and churches to help them, but in satellite cities there is no church or community to help them.”
Most refugees send their children to school at a local center run by Caritas, a Catholic confederation of relief, development and social service organizations. Here, Iraq children receive education and lessons in basic vocational skills.
The wait for legal status can be as short as a few months or a couple of years. But complicated circumstances can push back the wait to five years, 10 years, or even 17 years – as it is now for a man who fled during the first Gulf War, Yakan of the Chaldean Church said.
Another church leader who has helped Christian refugees is 70-year-old Monsignor Yusuf Sag, vicar general of the Syrian Catholic Church in Turkey. His 350-person congregation assembles packets of clothes and food for the refugees.
Many who come to Sag also seek medical help. He has connections with doctors throughout the city, both Muslim and Christian, who offer basic treatment to refugees free of charge. Sag said he tries to help all who come to him, without asking them of their denomination or even their religion.
“Their situation is not a Christian problem, but a human problem,” he said.
Often Iraqi Christians work illegally, where they are vulnerable to extortion. Refugee workers in Istanbul said registered asylum seekers can work legally, but it is not uncommon for employers to garnish their wages or withhold them completely, with the foreigners getting little protection from police.
The Turkish government charges a refugee a residence tax of US$460 a year and will not allow them to leave the country until it is paid, making them remain in the country even longer. With all these hurdles to finding stable employment, many Iraqi refugees are never too far from homelessness.
“There was a family we found living on the streets – a husband, wife and two children,” Yakan said. “They have lived in Istanbul for six months and couldn’t even afford to pay rent.”
His foundation found the family an apartment and assisted them with rent, but they only have enough resources to help for two months.
Kasdar gave similar assistance to 54 families in October. But the organization can only help for a few months at a time and assist the most vulnerable refugees.
Report from Compass Direct News
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CENTRAL INTERIOR ASSEMBLY SAYS ‘YES’ TO SAME-SEX BLESSINGS
The assembly of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) has requested its bishop, Gordon Light, to allow clergy whose conscience permits to bless civilly-married gay couples where at least one party is baptized. The assembly passed the motion when it met Oct. 17 to 19, reports Anglican Journal.
A notice of a similar motion was filed at the synod of the diocese of Ontario but was declared out of order by the diocesan bishop, George Bruce, who acted on the advice of the diocesan chancellor (legal advisor). The ruling was appealed at the synod held Oct. 16 to 18 but was upheld by a majority vote of delegates.
At the APCI assembly, Bishop Light gave concurrence to the motion but suspended any action pending consultations with the Canadian house of bishops, which meets Oct. 27 to 31 to discuss, among others, how best to respond to renewed proposals for moratoria on the blessing of same-sex unions, the ordination of persons living in same-sex unions to the episcopate, and cross-border interventions.
Since the 2007 General Synod four dioceses have already passed similar motions – Ottawa, Montreal, Niagara, and Huron. The diocesan synod of New Westminster approved same-sex blessings in 2002.
Of the 50 clergy and lay delegates at the APCI assembly, 36 voted yes (72 per cent), 10 voted no (20 per cent), and four (8 per cent) abstained. APCI is composed of 18 parishes (including 35 congregations) which was constituted after the former diocese of Cariboo closed its diocesan office in 2001 because of financial pressures surrounding lawsuits about abuse at the St. George’s Indian Residential School in Lytton, B.C.
“We had a very respectful discussion. All voices were heard,” said Rev. Susan Hermanson, rector of St. Peter’s Anglican church in Williams Lake, who moved the motion. She said that approval of the motion “allows us to accept gays and lesbians fully as part of our family and, as in all families, we can disagree with one another and still be part of the family.”
In a telephone interview, she added that the motion was also meant to “take a reading” of where APCI was on the issue. She noted that in 2000, the diocesan synod of Cariboo had approved a motion affirming the full inclusion of gay and lesbian couples in the life of the church. Since then, parishes have been discussing and studying the issue further, she said. “We have, in fact, been discussing this issue for the last 30 years now,” she said.
In her written background and explanation, Ms. Hermanson noted that APCI “is a diverse community and therefore respects and honours those who, because of their theological position or as a matter of conscience, cannot agree with the blessing of same-sex unions.”
Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings believe that homosexuality is contrary to scripture and to Anglican teaching. To date, 14 of about 2,800 congregations have left the Canadian Anglican church over theological disagreements over homosexuality. These churches have joined a group called the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) and placed themselves under the episcopal oversight of the primate of the Southern Cone, Archbishop Gregory Venables.
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UK TRADITIONAL WING OF ANGLICANS TO LEAVE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
There are effectively two religions being practised in the Church of England, a leader of the evangelical or traditionally Protestant wing of the Anglican Church said this week, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com. On one side are the theologically ultra-liberal leadership who support not only women’s ordination but homosexuality, while on the other are those who hold to traditionally Christian and biblical principles.
The Rev. Rod Thomas was speaking to the annual conference of the Reform movement in London this week. Thomas said that at least twenty-five parishes, representing up to 3000 practising Anglicans in the UK, are already seeking alternate oversight from bishops not associated with the ultra-liberal theological trends that dominate the Church of England.
“We are actively going to take forward the agenda of alternative episcopal oversight. We are no longer able to sit back and wait to see what happens,” Rev. Thomas said.
“The most radical scenario which I don’t discount, but neither am I saying we are pressing for, is where you have a shortlist of names and ask overseas persons to consecrate them so they cater for individuals in this country.”
The Reform movement was founded in 1993 to oppose the ordination of women as clergy in the Church of England and represents the established Church’s traditional protestant or “evangelical” wing.
Thomas urged support from Reform Anglicans for the Fellowship of the Confessing Anglicans, a body set up by the bishops who attended this summer’s Global Anglican Futures Conference in Jerusalem.
Thomas said that the group believes in remaining within an “an Episcopal church for good theological and pragmatic reasons.”
“However, where the teaching and actions of a bishop promote an unbiblical way of thinking, then we simply have to look elsewhere for a bishop.
“If we fail to do this then our congregations will not see us taking New Testament teaching seriously and the process of accommodation will continue,” he said.
This summer’s Lambeth Conference issued instructions for Anglican congregations not to continue to seek “cross-border” oversight from bishops outside traditional Anglican episcopal boundaries.
Meanwhile traditionally Christian congregations in the US are winning their cases in courts to retain their parish properties while at the same time removing themselves from oversight by the Episcopal Church of the US (ECUSA). In the Diocese of Virginia this week, a judge ruled that a parcel of land given by Christ the Redeemer Episcopal Church was properly deeded to Truro Church, a traditional church, and that the diocese has no claim to it. The diocese has recently lost three times in lawsuits to retain some dozen church properties.
Conservative Anglican writer and commentator David Virtue wrote, “The Anglican Communion is coming apart at the seams while Dr. Rowan Williams tells a London reporter that he admires the atheist [Dr. Richard] Dawkins.” Dr. Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, was reported to have recently said about Dawkins, “There’s something about his swashbuckling side which is endearing. I invited atheism’s high priest and his wife to a Lambeth Palace party last year. They were absolutely delightful.”
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INDIA: HINDUS IN ORISSA MAYHEM HELP PROTECT CHRISTIANS
Posted on September 6, 2008 by particularkev
Another inflammatory funeral procession planned for Sunday, in spite of ban.
BHUBANESWAR, September 5 (Compass Direct News) – Asserting that most area Hindus are tolerant and peaceable, victims of ongoing anti-Christian violence in the eastern state of Orissa blamed the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP) and other extremist groups for the terror of the past two weeks.
“The mobs that attacked our parishes and institutions were largely composed of extremists from the VHP and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal,” said Bishop Sarat Chandra Nayak of the Behrampore Catholic diocese.
At least four parishes, a presbytery and a youth hostel were destroyed in Munniguda town in Rayagada district under the Behrampore diocese in the spate of violence that began following the killing of a VHP leader, Laxmanananda Saraswati, and four of his associates in Kandhamal district on August 23. Christian leaders say more than 100 lives have been lost and thousands of houses, churches and institutions damaged or destroyed in the violence.
The state government attributed the assassination of the VHP leader and his associates to Maoists who have since claimed responsibility for the murders, but the Hindu extremist groups continue to blame Christians.
Asked if he condemned the violence on Christians, VHP Orissa State President Gauri Prasad Rath told Compass that he categorically did not.
“You should ask me to condemn the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and his associates with AK-47s by Christians,” he said.
While the Global Council of Indian Christians says more than 100 people have been killed in the violence, the Kandhamal District Collector’s Office told Compass that the death toll is only 14 people. The office reports 22,685 people are in relief camps in Kandhamal. The same office has also reported that 2,400 buildings have been destroyed in the mayhem, though Christian leaders believe the total is much higher.
Hindus Protected Christians
Father Mathew Puthyadam, a Catholic priest in Phulbani town in Kandhamal district, told Compass that local Hindu families gave him shelter.
As mob of around 4,000 people was carrying the body of Saraswati in a procession outside his church on the night of August 24, he said, he first sought shelter with Christians.
“When the mob was destroying my parish [Christ the King Church], I went to the house of parish workers nearby and hid in a broken bathroom,” Fr. Puthyadam said. “The mob somehow came to know that the house belonged to Christians, and they launched an attack on it. They beat up the two boys who live there, but they managed to escape. Thankfully, they did not come to the bathroom.”
About an hour after the mob left, Fr. Puthyadam came out to the street to see if it was safe for him to leave.
“A Hindu lady told me some extremists were still roaming around,” he said. “She asked me to hide in her kitchen and gave me food to eat.”
Later, Fr. Puthyadam fled to a forest, and finally came to the Archbishop’s House in the state capital, Bhubaneswar.
“Many among the mob were goons and thieves who were seemingly led by extremist groups,” he recalled, saying he felt he had gotten a “second life” as he could have been killed.
Another priest who managed to reach Bhubaneswar after a seven-day journey from Onjamundi village in Kandhamal district praised local Hindu families for protecting him.
“On the evening of August 25, a mob of 300 people who were armed with pistols, chisels and sticks, started burning houses and churches,” said Father Laxmikant Pradhan, a Catholic priest. “We could see thick smoke rising from all around. But Hindu families in the village asked Fr. Prabodha Kumar, my associate, and I to hide in their homes.”
Ravindranath Pradhan, a 45-year-old former soldier of the Indian Army, told Compass that VHP supporters attacked Christian houses in his village of Gadragaon in the Rupagaon area of Kandhamal.
“We know the attackers – they are from the VHP,” he said. “We have named them in our police complaint.”
Pradhan and 113 others reached Bhubaneswar on August 28 after walking for four days from Gadragaon. The homeless Christians were given shelter in a YMCA center in the capital city.
Creating a Rift
Some Orissa locals believe the extremists meant to create a rift between Christian missionaries and lower-caste tribal peoples known as “Other Backward Classes” (OBCs).
Prabhu Kalyan Mahapatra, a local Hindu and freelance journalist, told Compass that he did not think the violence was the result of what media are portraying as a Hindu-Christian “clash.”
In Kandhamal, there are OBCs who are lower castes but not “outcasts,” Mahapatra said, noting that the OBCs were mainly traders, while Dalits and tribal peoples were laborers and the poorest of the poor. He said the OBCs exploited Dalit and tribal people.
“However, Christian missionaries provided education to Dalits and tribals, which was not liked by the OBCs for obvious reasons,” he said, pointing out that several people from Dalit and tribal backgrounds had risen to become bureaucrats and members of parliament because of education provided by Christian institutions. “And the VHP took advantage of the situation and created a rift between OBCs and Christian missionaries.”
Mahapatra said that locals’ tolerance for Christian converts made Hindu-Christian conflict an unlikely reason for the violence. A Christian convert, Madhusudan Das, was recognized by the people of all local communities as the “father of modern Orissa,” he said.
Das, a lawyer, social reformer and patriot, worked for the political, social and economical uplift of people of eastern India, especially Orissa, and contributed numerous articles and poems both in Oriya and English.
“If the people of these communities respect a convert [Das], how can you say the Hindus of Orissa are not tolerant?” he asked.
Mahapatra explained how the VHP extended Saraswati’s funeral procession to incite violence.
“The funeral was taken from Saraswati’s ashram [religious center] in Jalespeta to his other ashram in Chakapada in Kandhamal, covering around 134 kilometers, when the distance between the two ashrams is merely 70 kilometers,” he said.
The attacks on Christians began during the funeral procession, he added.
New Tensions Feared
The Orissa government yesterday put a ban on rally planned by the VHP to take the ashes of Saraswati in another public procession throughout Orissa villages beginning on Sunday (September 7), according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
The ban was announced by the state government in hearing of a petition filed by Archbishop Raphael Cheenath from Orissa in the Supreme Court of India. The state government, however, fears fresh trouble on Sunday, as it is believed that the VHP may still go ahead with the processions.
“The state government has decided to rush additional force to the riot-affected areas in view of VHP’s proposed ‘kalas puja’ [worship of the remains of a deceased] of slain Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati,” reported The Indian Express newspaper today.
According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India, mobs led by extremist groups are “roaming in Kandhamal and threatening the Christians to ‘reconvert’ or face death.”
Christians from various denominations will fast and pray for the Christians in Orissa on Sunday.
The VHP and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, a partner of the ruling government led by the Biju Janata Dal party, continue to blame Christians for the killing of Saraswati and four others in spite of the Maoist claim of responsibility for the assassination.
Saraswati allegedly incited the attacks on Christians and their property in Kandhamal during last Christmas season. The violence lasted for more than a week beginning December 24, and killed at least four Christians and burned 730 houses and 95 churches.
The 2007 attacks were allegedly carried out mainly by VHP extremists under the pretext of avenging an alleged attack on Saraswati by local Christians. Hundreds of Christians were displaced by the violence in Kandhamal, and many are still in various relief camps set up by the state government.
Christians make up 2.4 percent of Orissa’s population, or 897,861 of the total 3.7 million people.
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Nuclear famine: Interview with Ira Helfand
tags: abolition, Helfand, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, IPPNW, nuclear disarmament, nuclear famine
by IPPNW
Ira Helfand, an emergency physician from Northampton, Massachusetts, has been writing and speaking about the medical consequences of nuclear war on behalf of IPPNW and its US affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility, since the 1980s. For the past three years, he has been working with climate scientists Alan Robock, O. B. Toon, and others to help document the health and environmental disaster that would ensue from a range of possible nuclear wars.
We asked Ira to describe the work on which he is now engaged and to reflect on his career of nuclear abolition activism.
What is climate science telling us about the nature of nuclear weapons that we didn’t already know, and why is it important for people to understand what these findings reveal about the consequences of regional nuclear war?
The recent investigations into the climate effects of nuclear explosions provide two extremely important lessons. First, we’ve always known at some level that a nuclear war between the US and Russia would be a catastrophe. But Professors Robock and Toon and their colleagues but have shown that a war with those massive arsenals would be a civilization-ending disaster. Their recent work has vindicated the “nuclear winter” studies of the 1980s, and has shown that the effects would be even worse than predicted and would last longer.
Rapid global temperature drops averaging 8 degrees centigrade would last for 10 years. The cooling in the critical agricultural areas in the interior regions of North America and Eurasia would be even more extreme — perhaps -25 degrees. Temperature drops of this scale would make the Earth as cold as it was during the last ice age. There is no doubt that a climate disruption of this magnitude would not be compatible with human civilization. Agriculture would stop and the vast majority human beings would starve to death.
This has immense implications, since it means that the US and Russia are threatening not just themselves but everyone currently living on Earth, and all of their children and descendants.
The second lesson, which is the relatively new and unexpected part, is that even a more limited nuclear war — for example, one between India and Pakistan using just 100 warheads — would create significant worldwide climate disruption. The effects would not be as intense, but there would still be significant disruption: a sudden global cooling; a dangerous loss of protective atmospheric ozone; and decreases in precipitation. While the net effect would not be the total collapse of agriculture, we would see an unprecedented drop in crop production in the world’s most crucial farm belts.
You’ve been trying to fill in a missing piece of the research for a couple of years now, and are finally able to do so because of a grant from the Swiss government. What’s the project about and why is it important?
Up until now, we’ve only been able to speculate about the large decline in agricultural production, mainly by extrapolating from the historical record of droughts and earlier climate events that have disrupted food production and distribution. No one has done focused research to calculate actual declines in agricultural output for specific crops as an outcome of nuclear-war-induced climate effects. What we’re doing now is examining just that question so that we can get some hard numbers. Two groups are working independently to determine how great a decline in agricultural production would result from a regional nuclear war in South Asia.
At the conclusion of this study, we expect that the implications will be that much more concrete and harder to ignore by world leaders who continue to act as though their nuclear policies do not place the entire world in real jeopardy. This is an unacceptable public health threat to which world leaders do not pay enough attention. We also want this information to reach a very broad public audience, especially in democracies where the people have the ultimate responsibility for the policies of their governments.
Once we have reliable scientific estimates, we’ll use the data to generate equally reliable conclusions about the consequences to public health and nutrition, and more rigorous projections of the numbers of people who would be harmed. We want to have much more certainty about this, because our “back of the envelope” estimates are that a billion people could die from a nuclear famine caused by no more than 100 Hiroshima-size bombs.
Do governments and policy makers take this science seriously, or is it outweighed by political considerations?
If people made their decisions based on the science, nuclear weapons would have been gone long ago and we also would have changed our energy policies. Other issues intrude. But the piece that we as physicians can contribute is the science. Part of our task has been to figure out how to get our message out as broadly as possible. The fact that the Swiss government is supporting this new study is a very positive development. In fact, a growing number of countries, including Switzerland, Norway, Austria, and others are making efforts to raise the profile of the nuclear issue throughout the international community, which is an enormously important development.
You’ve been at this work — educating the public and policy makers about the effects of nuclear weapons and the medical and environmental consequences of nuclear war — ever since the 1980s. What motivates you to keep at it?
Two things: a belief that we can succeed in saving the human race — not that I’m sure we will succeed, but that it’s a real possibility. The other is just a sense of moral imperative. Knowing the danger, I find it impossible not to work on this issue.
How would you assess the progress we’ve made since the end of the Cold War? Are we closer to ending the nuclear threat than we were 10 or 20 years ago?
Looking back historically, IPPNW and its affiliates played an enormous role during the Cold War. Gorbachev says quite explicitly in his memoirs that physicians changed his mind about nuclear weapons. This shows that physicians and other activists can have an effect.
There was a period of time in the 1990s when it was hard to make progress; people just didn’t want to hear about nuclear weapons, and conveniently assumed that the problem went away with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, India and Pakistan have tested nuclear weapons and built their own arsenals; North Korea has done the same; we have gone through a terrible and costly invasion and occupation of Iraq based on groundless claims that it had weapons of mass destruction; and many people worry about the prospects of a terrorist group acquiring a nuclear weapon. The issue may not get the level of attention it received in the 1980s, but it is definitely back on the public’s mind.
We also have, in the person of Barack Obama, a leader who says he’s committed to eliminating nuclear weapons. While we haven’t seen as much progress as we’d hoped for after those early speeches, we do have the goal of a world without nuclear weapons on the record. President Obama himself, as we’ve learned from his early writing, was influenced by the work of physicians and scientists.
So yes, we have made progress and are poised to make more. Recent events in the Middle East remind us that historical change, which seems difficult to bring about, can unfold quickly.
In both good and bad directions, right?
People tend to act as though nuclear war can’t happen; yet we’ve come very close on at least five occasions since 1979 that we know about. We need to inform people about the precariousness of our situation — how bad a nuclear war would be and how possible it is.
Is fear or hope the more powerful message?
The fear and hope messages are both essential. There’s a kernel of truth in the idea that you shouldn’t make people too afraid to act. But fear is an important determinant of human behavior, and where the danger is this imminent there is good reason to be afraid. But there is also hope that we can prevent this catastrophe, so we need to emphasize both and strike the right balance.
What do you think it’s going to take to finally abolish nuclear weapons and to ensure that humanity will survive its own most destructive invention?
We’ll need the leadership of at least one government leader to move the situation forward — a visionary figure to play the role Gorbachev played in the 1980s, to put abolition on the global agenda and really work for it. If such an initiative were to be taken up seriously by President Obama, things would move very quickly, despite the opposition. If either the US or Russia made this their top priority, other nuclear-weapon states would fall into place. Whatever pressure can be brought to bear on these leaders is to the good, whether from within the US and Russia or pressure from other governments. Our best strategy would be to generate such pressure from every possible direction.
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After reading this book Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA [I will be regurgitating much of it], I find it fascinating just how much of the nuclear weapons issue, i.e. how we arrived at the present state of affairs, is bound up with the history of the CIA. An agency that for most of its span has pursued a reckless, often unfruitful course (esp. in terms of “blowback”) of covert action, while doing little in the way of actual intelligence-gathering.
The author shows how pretty much up until the advent of the U-2 (and even after) we had no accurate assessments of the Soviet Union, what they had, what their capabilities were, the size of their nuclear arsenal, etc. That Eisenhower had hinged his whole national security strategy on nuclear weapons and covert action, which Kennedy then took up eagerly, and without a functioning intelligence agency we essentially overestimated our adversary. . . and now what to do with all these nukes?
At times also we underestimated: Just a month before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA was reporting that the “establishment on Cuban soil of Soviet nuclear striking forces which could be used against the US would be incompatible with Soviet policy”. Meanwhile, sites which had been under construction for months appeared suddenly on reconnaissance photographs: U-2 flyovers had been banned intermittently for the sake of political expediency and appearances – worry over what a potential shoot-down incident could do to US-Soviet relations.
So I find the intrusion of political considerations especially salient. The fact that, when Kennedy agreed to remove our obsolete missile sites in Turkey in Italy in return for withdrawal of nukes from Cuba, they did not want it made public, thinking only of their credibility at home. And it’s a shame that the issue of nuclear war has fallen off the map so much since the late 70s/early 80s, apart from the occasional speculation about the location of unaccounted-for materials in the aftermath of the collapse of 1991, the possibility of terrorists acquiring a “dirty bomb”.
As you note, if we had relied upon true intelligence – which is pure science, information, humanity might never have to deal with the existence of these weapons today. And this is why I respond with some sense of your “moral imperative”. In essence I just do not want to accept a world in which humanity aims so low, in which the policies of the USA for decades practically invite criticism and retribution. Ideas like the need for nuclear arms, the need for prohibitions/criminalization of some non-dangerous drugs, the notion that defense spending is more important than exploration of space, which seem so irrational and counter-intuitive but could so easily be changed with an adequate force of will from progressive-thinking elements of society.
And yet, very recent developments have shown that classic protest-style movements are again viable. That change can happen fast. An opportunity for a nobler course on the most pressing issues facing mankind is in our destiny.
Though there is that hope, I want to emphasize the differing types of power involved. The point is that the nuclear option has always been tied in with a defense/security establishment that operates extra-legally, in secret and with an unlimited budget. It is not accountable to the citizens of a democratic society, or even its elected members of Congress. How can we oppose a source of major power without being able to identify it? If as one country we think we can flaunt and abuse the artifice of the United Nations, what a precedent we are setting. At times our most maligned enemies– people like Gaddafi, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad, were often our most prescient critics of this double standard.
It is lamentable that the real danger is not adequately stated, or is outright ignored. The incidents you mention where nuclear confrontations have been avoided. These are obscure facts to most people, but I am not beyond knowing about, for instance, Stanislav Petrov. I find it interesting that we have fewer of our own heroes in the realm of disarmament. We have seemed far less willing to take the initiative to avert thermonuclear disaster than other nations. Krushchev proved the more honest actor with integrity during the Crisis. We are afraid maybe, and somehow need these nukes to prop up our damaged sense of national credibility. . . Perhaps our leaders are just blind or allergic to truth–
We not only weren’t sure about the USSR and its intentions, we had no idea, and very few to no sources inside its leadership. Meanwhile the CIA’s own operations were penetrated and compromised again and again, out of sheer ineptitude. How many bombers, tanks, missiles in the USSR; mostly guesstimates and a lot of them plainly fake intelligence or disinformation. A shameful history indeed, which would soon include domestic spying, something explicitly prohibited by its charter. . .
The entire Cold War, and its gross inflation of the defense budget. . . debacles like Korea and Vietnam, all an unnecessary fluke or bluff– because from what I understand the leaders of the USSR never really intended to militarily threaten the United States, and in fact greatly feared such a confrontation, and had mostly abandoned their aspirations to world domination in favor of peaceful coexistence.
I grant that valuable technology and human achievements have come out of this competition between nations. Among them the double-edged sword of nuclear power, spaceflight, and so on. But they are nothing if we cannot even live in harmony, with truth, and without the sacrifice of countless lives over pointless ideological disagreement.
As an extreme side note, how intriguing are claims about UFOs being attracted to our nuclear weapons sites, the idea that extraterrestrials are concerned about our development as a species.
Until such a time as our spiritual course and the failure of certain institutions can be corrected, this is absolutely important work.
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Bridging the Gap in Football Rivalries
by Morgan LaMere | Feb. 19, 2020
illustration by Juho Choi
You’re back home for the holidays with your family; it’s late and most of the house is quiet when you suddenly hear the familiar roar from down the hall: “YES. GO, GO, GO! LET’S GO -insert team name here-!”
It’s likely that you’ve heard this sort of passion-fueled call at some point in the past from a sports enthusiast relative and it gets even more common during the Super Bowl season. While seen across most popular sports, this sort of excitement and dedication is most commonly seen for American football.
According to Statista, 70 percent of people in the U.S. consider themselves fans of pro football, with a viewership of 98.2 million during the 2019 Super Bowl. During that year, an estimated $14.8 billion was spent on consumer products related to the Super Bowl alone.
To many, football is America's sport. With that title comes countless viewing parties, tailgates and rivalries. What is it that drives fans of the sport to such fervent loyalty and creates rivalries between teams that capture millions of fans and can last for decades?
Fan Loyalty
Being a loyal fan means different things to different people, but there’s usually a common theme among how fans find their team. Thomas Mays is a longtime Buffalo Bills fan and a Rochester local.
“I’ve been a fan for over 30 years now. I grew up down in Jamestown in the heart of Bills country,” Mays said.
Due to its close proximity to Buffalo, Rochester has a vibrant fan community featured by the Facebook group "Rochester Bills Backers," which has over 12,000 members including Mays.
Jon Burlew is another lifelong Bills fan, even though he currently lives in Kentucky. While not initially one, he got the chance to meet the Bills quarterback in elementary school and has followed them ever since.
“We moved out and continued to be fans,” Burlew said. “My family, boys and wife are all Bills fans.”
As was the case with Rob Keiser, a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, the team you follow is often decided for you at a young age.
"I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, it’s really your only option,” he said. “It’s part of your DNA growing up.”
“It’s really your only option. It’s part of your DNA growing up.”
According to Keiser, football and the culture surrounding it is a big part of his life and he attributes a lot to his wife for supporting that interest.
“I wait for the schedule to come out every April to plot potential road trips,” he said. “That’s okay if that’s what you enjoy, as long as you still find balance.”
What team you support doesn’t have to be decided by where you grew up; some are born without a local team and pick one up based on TV and others follow a specific player between teams.
This is how Pearse Lehmann, president of the RIT Football Club, began following his current team — the Baltimore Ravens.
“I became a fan ... when [Brett] Farve retired,” Lehmann said. “I just liked the way they played football.”
“I just liked the way they played football.”
According to Burlew, he and other Bills fans want to be associated and find pride with the “doing it the right way” mentality; working blue-collar jobs and fighting the good fight.
With many fans stressing the importance of fan loyalty to the culture of football, there are bound to be conflicts between opposing fan bases and it’s these rivalries that help make football what it is.
Football Rivalries
For Mays, his team's rivalry is as simple as finally beating the New England Patriots.
“[We keep] getting our butts kicked by them,” Mays said. “I live for the day that we start owning them like we used to.”
While rivalries can change over the years, the current archrival for the Bills are the Patriots. For years, New England has dominated the American Football Conference (AFC) East, a division of the National Football League. Each division has their own teams, competitions and subsequently their own intense rivalries.
“New England dominated [the AFC East] for so long, it created that rivalry,” Burlew added.
Fierce rivalries such as these are frequently caused by both proximity and how often you play that team.
“You play those teams two times a year, but you develop this hatred in a fun way,” Keiser said. “There’s a lot of good-natured ribbing, but now with the advent of social media, sometimes it’s taken too far.”
Keiser attributes this negative connotation of rivalries to people hiding behind computer screens, but that it’s mostly good-natured fun during games.
While seeming like intense competition for bragging rights and ultimate victory over an archnemesis, rivalries also serve to bring fans together.
“I think it lends to good conversations, and you meet a lot of people,” Keiser stated. “People connect via their sports teams, you walk through an airport and wear a team sweatshirt, you get attention.”
Despite the friendly undertones, rivalries are still fierce. When those big games come up that define seasons, it’s all hands on deck.
For Lehman, Ravens' fans had to be invested when the Steelers game came on. No matter how poorly a season may be going for a team, there’s always a chance when it comes to rivals.
The same goes for the other team as well; the Steelers had a huge win against the Ravens in 2008 for the AFC championship game to go to the Super Bowl.
“It was a ruckus; the stadium felt like it was shaking,” Keiser said.
Games and rivalries like these put emphasis and impact into each and every moment, inspiring and drawing in a nation of fans.
For Burlew, it goes back to beating the other team and how we frame those games. For rivalries that go back decades, these are big deals and long-lasting stories.
“It’s us against them, it’s good versus evil,” he said. “That’s what a good rivalry is, backstories and side stories, things that make that matchup even more exciting and a reward if the [right team] wins.”
Intertwined together, strong fan loyalties and the rivalries they cause are the backbones of football culture in America. While sometimes tense at the surface, rivalries are bridges that form bonds and create stories between mutual fans of the sport.
“My oldest brother married a girl from Boston; her family were huge Patriots fans, and we don’t communicate a whole lot during the football season,” Burlew joked. “It’s been fun, especially these last few years.”
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Applying for Federal Funding to Help Commercialize Discoveries
Each year, the federal government offers about $2.5 billion in funding to help small businesses bring new innovations to market — including those originating from public research institutions like the University of Minnesota. The complex applications for such funding, however, can be challenging to understand and to navigate.
The MN-SBIR program aims to shed light on the process. The program assists seed, early stage, emerging and existing firms of up to 500 employees in accessing federal funding through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. The office provides confidential, one-on-one guidance and advice in business development and technology commercialization to help those applying for SBIR or STTR grants or contract. For University researchers, these funding sources can provide much needed funds to help bring cutting-edge discoveries beyond the lab and toward commercialization.
“SBIR and STTR funding supports research and development in science and technology across the spectrum of disciplines,” said Pat Dillon, director of MN-SBIR. “These federal funding sources, often in addition to angel investment or venture capital, but not necessarily, will help startups and small businesses continue to develop the technology and move it towards commercialization."
Dillon will hold a series of free office hours at the U’s Office for Technology Commercialization to help those interested in the programs learn how to get started on drafting and submitting a competitive proposal. She invites U researchers interested in starting a company based on their discoveries to attend, along with researchers and executives from existing U startups. Small business leaders interested in commercializing University-developed technologies are also welcome.
All office hours will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. in 280 McNamara Alumni Center. Contact Pat Dillon at pdillon@mhta.org to reserve a time on one of the following dates:
MN-SBIR is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Department of Employment and Economic Development and the Minnesota High Tech Association.
Kevin Coss
Kevin is a writer with the Office of the Vice President for Research.
coss@umn.edu
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Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
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On March 9, 1918, the ascendant Bolshevik Party formally changes its name to the All-Russian Communist Party. It was neither the first nor the last time the party would alter its name to reflect a slight change in allegiance or direction; however, it was the birth of the Communist Party as it is remembered to history. With this change, the cadre that had brought down both Czar Nicolas II and the Provisional Government that followed his abdication announced itself to the world as a communist government, and it would unilaterally rule the emerging Union of Soviet Socialists Republics until 1991.
The Bolsheviks—Russian for “members of the majority”—had been the more aggressive faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, pushing for a more militant membership and explicitly endorsing the nationalization of land. Despite the exile of their leader, Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks supplied much of the manpower and intellectual fervor behind the February Revolution of 1917, which forced the abdication of the czar. As workers across the country organized themselves into political units known as soviets, the Bolsheviks’ support was more fervent and more widespread than that of the Provisional Government, which they eyed with distrust. Acting through the Petrograd Soviet, the Bolsheviks rose against this government in the October Revolution, quickly seizing the Winter Palace and arresting most of the cabinet.
As revolution spread throughout Russia, the Bolsheviks acted quickly. They withdrew Russia from World War I, the stresses of which are often cited as a major cause of the revolution. They also began seizing and redistributing imperial lands. By early 1918, factories had been turned over the soviets, private property had officially been abolished, and Russia had become the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, soon to be the largest constituent republic of the USSR. It was a stunning victory for Lenin, the forces of Russian socialism, and Marxists around the world. In keeping with the Marxist axiom that communism would inevitably replace capitalism by means of socialism, the Bolshevik Party rebranded as the Communist Party.
READ MORE: How Are Socialism and Communism Different?
For the rest of the Soviet Union’s existence, the leadership of the party and the leadership of the nation were one and the same. Under this leadership, the USSR became one of the two great economic and military powers of the world, sacrificing more of its people than all other Allied nations combined in World War II and emerging as the only serious competitor to the American juggernaut. Communist rule was notorious for authoritarian rule, the imprisonment of political dissidents, and the stifling of dissent, particularly under Lenin’s successor, Joseph Stalin.
Author truexPosted on November 6, 2019 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, March 09, Russia, Topics
Armistice Day: World War I ends
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
On June 28, 1914, in an event that is widely regarded as sparking the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, was shot to death with his wife by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Ferdinand had been inspecting his uncle’s imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite the threat of Serbian nationalists who wanted these Austro-Hungarian possessions to join newly independent Serbia. Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the problem of Slavic nationalism once and for all. However, as Russia supported Serbia, an Austro-Hungarian declaration of war was delayed until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention.
READ MORE: Outbreak of World War I
On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the tenuous peace between Europe’s great powers collapsed. On July 29, Austro-Hungarian forces began to shell the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Russia, Serbia’s ally, ordered a troop mobilization against Austria-Hungary. France, allied with Russia, began to mobilize on August 1. France and Germany declared war against each other on August 3. After crossing through neutral Luxembourg, the German army invaded Belgium on the night of August 3-4, prompting Great Britain, Belgium’s ally, to declare war against Germany.
For the most part, the people of Europe greeted the outbreak of war with jubilation. Most patriotically assumed that their country would be victorious within months. Of the initial belligerents, Germany was most prepared for the outbreak of hostilities, and its military leaders had formatted a sophisticated military strategy known as the “Schlieffen Plan,” which envisioned the conquest of France through a great arcing offensive through Belgium and into northern France. Russia, slow to mobilize, was to be kept occupied by Austro-Hungarian forces while Germany attacked France.
The Schlieffen Plan was nearly successful, but in early September the French rallied and halted the German advance at the bloody Battle of the Marne near Paris. By the end of 1914, well over a million soldiers of various nationalities had been killed on the battlefields of Europe, and neither for the Allies nor the Central Powers was a final victory in sight. On the western front—the battle line that stretched across northern France and Belgium—the combatants settled down in the trenches for a terrible war of attrition.
READ MORE: Life in the Trenches of World War I
In 1915, the Allies attempted to break the stalemate with an amphibious invasion of Turkey, which had joined the Central Powers in October 1914, but after heavy bloodshed the Allies were forced to retreat in early 1916. The year 1916 saw great offensives by Germany and Britain along the western front, but neither side accomplished a decisive victory. In the east, Germany was more successful, and the disorganized Russian army suffered terrible losses, spurring the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917. By the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks had seized power in Russia and immediately set about negotiating peace with Germany. In 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies’ favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918.
READ MORE: Why World War I Ended With an Armistice Instead of a Surrender
World War I was known as the “war to end all wars” because of the great slaughter and destruction it caused. Unfortunately, the peace treaty that officially ended the conflict—the Treaty of Versailles of 1919—forced punitive terms on Germany that destabilized Europe and laid the groundwork for World War II.
Author truexPosted on March 10, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, November 11, Topics, World War I
Lawrence of Arabia captures Damascus
A combined Arab and British force captures Damascus from the Turks during World War I, completing the liberation of Arabia. An instrumental commander in the Allied campaign was T.E. Lawrence, a legendary British soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia.
Lawrence, an Oxford-educated Arabist born in Tremadoc, Wales, began working for the British army as an intelligence officer in Egypt in 1914. He spent more than a year in Cairo, processing intelligence information. In 1916, he accompanied a British diplomat to Arabia, where Hussein ibn Ali, the emir of Mecca, had proclaimed a revolt against Turkish rule. Lawrence convinced his superiors to aid Hussein’s rebellion, and he was sent to join the Arabian army of Hussein’s son Faisal as a liaison officer.
Under Lawrence’s guidance, the Arabians launched an effective guerrilla war against the Turkish lines. He proved a gifted military strategist and was greatly admired by the Bedouin people of Arabia. In July 1917, Arabian forces captured Aqaba near the Sinai and joined the British march on Jerusalem. Lawrence was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In November, he was captured by the Turks while reconnoitering behind enemy lines in Arab dress and was tortured and sexually abused before escaping. He rejoined his army, which slowly worked its way north to Damascus. The Syrian capital fell on October 1, 1918.
Arabia was liberated, but Lawrence’s hope that the peninsula would be united as a single nation was dashed when Arabian factionalism came to the fore after Damascus. Lawrence, exhausted and disillusioned, left for England. Feeling that Britain had exacerbated the rivalries between the Arabian groups, he appeared before King George V and politely refused the medals offered to him.
After the war, he lobbied hard for independence for Arab countries and appeared at the Paris peace conference in Arab robes. He later wrote a monumental war memoir, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) under an assumed name to escape his fame and acquire material for a new book. Discharged from the RAF in 1935, he was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident a few months later.
Author truexPosted on March 3, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, Middle East, October 01, T.E. Lawrence, Topics
American pilots engage in first dogfight over the western front
Six days after being assigned for the first time to the western front, two American pilots from the U.S. First Aero Squadron engage in America’s first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft. In a battle fought almost directly over the Allied Squadron Aerodome at Toul, France, U.S. fliers Douglas Campbell and Alan Winslow succeeded in shooting down two German two-seaters. By the end of May, Campbell had shot down five enemy aircraft, making him the first American to qualify as a “flying ace” in World War I.
The First Aero Squadron, organized in 1914 after the outbreak of World War I, undertook its first combat mission on March 19, 1917, in support of the 7,000 U.S. troops that invaded Mexico to capture Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. Despite numerous mechanical and navigational problems, the American fliers flew hundreds of scouting missions for U.S. Brigadier General John J. Pershing and gained important experience that would later be used over the battlefields of Europe in World War I.
Author truexPosted on March 3, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, April 14, Topics, World War I
Vladimir Lenin shot
After speaking at a factory in Moscow, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot twice by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin was seriously wounded but survived the attack. The assassination attempt set off a wave of reprisals by the Bolsheviks against the Social Revolutionaries and other political opponents. Thousands were executed as Russia fell deeper into civil war.
Born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in 1870, Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander III. He studied law and took up practice in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), where he associated with revolutionary Marxist circles. In 1895, he helped organize Marxist groups in the capital into the “Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class,” which attempted to enlist workers to the Marxist cause. In December 1895, Lenin and the other leaders of the Union were arrested. Lenin was jailed for a year and then exiled to Siberia for a term of three years.
After the end of his exile, in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. It was during this time that he adopted the pseudonym Lenin. In 1902, he published a pamphlet titled What Is to Be Done? which argued that only a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries could bring socialism to Russia. In 1903, he met with other Russian Marxists in London and established the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP). However, from the start there was a split between Lenin’s Bolsheviks (Majoritarians), who advocated militarism, and the Mensheviks (Minoritarians), who advocated a democratic movement toward socialism. These two groups increasingly opposed each other within the framework of the RSDWP, and Lenin made the split official at a 1912 conference of the Bolshevik Party.
After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Lenin returned to Russia. The revolution, which consisted mainly of strikes throughout the Russian empire, came to an end when Nicholas II promised reforms, including the adoption of a Russian constitution and the establishment of an elected legislature. However, once order was restored, the czar nullified most of these reforms, and in 1907 Lenin was again forced into exile.
Lenin opposed World War I, which began in 1914, as an imperialistic conflict and called on proletariat soldiers to turn their guns on the capitalist leaders who sent them down into the murderous trenches. For Russia, World War I was an unprecedented disaster: Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war. Meanwhile, the economy was hopelessly disrupted by the costly war effort, and in March 1917 riots and strikes broke out in Petrograd over the scarcity of food. Demoralized army troops joined the strikers, and on March 15 Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, ending centuries of czarist rule. In the aftermath of the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar), power was shared between the ineffectual Provincial Government and the soviets, or “councils,” of soldiers’ and workers’ committees.
After the outbreak of the February Revolution, German authorities allowed Lenin and his lieutenants to cross Germany en route from Switzerland to Sweden in a sealed railway car. Berlin hoped (correctly) that the return of the anti-war Socialists to Russia would undermine the Russian war effort, which was continuing under the Provincial Government. Lenin called for the overthrow of the Provincial Government by the soviets, and he was condemned as a “German agent” by the government’s leaders. In July, he was forced to flee to Finland, but his call for “peace, land, and bread” met with increasing popular support, and the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd soviet. In October, Lenin secretly returned to Petrograd, and on November 7 the Bolshevik-led Red Guards deposed the Provisional Government and proclaimed soviet rule.
Lenin became the virtual dictator of the world’s first Marxist state. His government made peace with Germany, nationalized industry, and distributed land but beginning in 1918, had to fight a devastating civil war against czarist forces. In 1920, the czarists were defeated, and in 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established. Upon Lenin’s death in early 1924, his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin. Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. After a struggle of succession, fellow revolutionary Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
READ MORE: 9 Things You May Not Know About Vladimir Lenin
Author truexPosted on February 9, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, August 30, Russia, Topics
Second Battle of the Somme ends
During World War I, the Second Battle of the Somme, the first major German offensive in more than a year, ends on the western front.
On March 21, 1918, a major offensive against Allied positions in the Somme River region of France began with five hours of bombardment from more than 9,000 pieces of German artillery. The poorly prepared British Fifth Army was rapidly overwhelmed and forced into retreat. For a week, the Germans pushed toward Paris, shelling the city from a distance of 80 miles with their “Big Bertha” cannons. However, the poorly supplied German troops soon became exhausted, and the Allies halted the German advance as French artillery knocked out the German guns besieging Paris. On April 2, U.S. General John J. Pershing sent American troops down into the trenches to help defend Paris and repulse the German offensive. It was the first major deployment of U.S. troops in World War I. Several thousand American troops fought alongside the British and French in the Second Battle of Somme.
By the time the Somme offensive ended on April 4, the Germans had advanced almost 40 miles, inflicted some 200,000 casualties, and captured 70,000 prisoners and more than 1,000 Allied guns. However, the Germans suffered nearly as many casualties as their enemies and lacked the fresh reserves and supply boost the Allies enjoyed following the American entrance into the fighting.
Author truexPosted on February 9, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, April 04, Topics, World War I
RAF founded
On April 1, 1918, the Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry.
In April 1911, eight years after Americans Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first flight of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft, an air battalion of the British army’s Royal Engineers was formed at Larkhill in Wiltshire. The battalion consisted of aircraft, airship, balloon, and man-carrying kite companies. In December 1911, the British navy formed the Royal Naval Flying School at Eastchurch, Kent. In May 1912, both were absorbed into the newly created Royal Flying Corps, which established a new flying school at Upavon, Wiltshire, and formed new airplane squadrons. In July 1914, the specialized requirements of the navy led to the creation of RNAS.
One month later, on August 4, Britain declared war on Germany and entered World War I. At the time, the RFC had 84 aircraft, and the RNAS had 71 aircraft and seven airships. Later that month, four RFC squadrons were deployed to France to support the British Expeditionary Force. During the next two years, Germany took the lead in air strategy with technologies like the manual machine gun, and England suffered bombing raids and frustration in the skies against German flying aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, “The Red Baron.” Repeated German air raids led British military planners to push for the creation of a separate air ministry, which would carry out strategic bombing against Germany. On April 1, 1918, the RAF was formed along with a female branch of the service, the Women’s Royal Air Force. That day, Bristol F.2B fighters of the 22nd Squadron carried out the first official missions of the RAF.
By the war’s end, in November 1918, the RAF had gained air superiority along the western front. The strength of the RAF in November 1918 was nearly 300,000 officers and airmen, and more than 22,000 aircraft. At the outbreak of World War II, in September 1939, the operational strength of the RAF in Europe had diminished to about 2,000 aircraft.
In June 1940, the Western democracies of continental Europe fell to Germany one by one, leaving Britain alone in its resistance to Nazi Germany. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler planned an invasion of Britain and in July 1940 ordered his powerful air force–the Luftwaffe–to destroy British ports along the coast in preparation. The outnumbered RAF fliers put up a fierce resistance in the opening weeks of the Battle of Britain, leading the Luftwaffe commanders to place destruction of the British air fleet at the forefront of the German offensive. If the Germans succeeded in wiping out the RAF, they could begin their invasion as scheduled in the fall.
During the next three months, however, the RAF successfully resisted the massive German air invasion, relying on radar technology, more maneuverable aircraft, and exceptional bravery. For every British plane shot down, two Luftwaffe warplanes were destroyed. In October, Hitler delayed the German invasion indefinitely, and in May 1941 the Battle of Britain came to an end. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said of the RAF pilots, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
By the war’s end in 1945, the strength of the RAF was nearly one million personnel. Later, this number was reduced and stabilized at about 150,000 men and women.
Author truexPosted on February 9, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, April 01, Great Britain, Topics
Battle of Belleau Wood begins
The first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War I begins in Belleau Wood, northwest of the Paris-to-Metz road.
In late May 1918, the third German offensive of the year penetrated the Western Front to within 45 miles of Paris. U.S. forces under General John J. Pershing helped halt the German advance, and on June 6, Pershing ordered a counteroffensive to drive the Germans out of Belleau Wood. U.S. Marines under General James Harbord and Allied forces led the attack against the four German divisions positioned in the woods and by the end of the first day suffered more than 1,000 casualties.
For the next three weeks, the Marines, backed by U.S. Army artillery, launched many attacks into the forested area, but German General Erich Ludendorff was determined to deny the Americans a victory. Ludendorff continually brought up reinforcements from the rear, and the Germans attacked the U.S. forces with machine guns, artillery, and gas. Finally, on June 26, the Americans prevailed but at the cost of nearly 10,000 dead, wounded, or missing in action.
Author truexPosted on February 9, 2010 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, June 06, Topics, World War I
Second Battle of the Marne begins with final German offensive
On July 15, 1918, near the Marne River in the Champagne region of France, the Germans begin what would be their final offensive push of World War I. Dubbed the Second Battle of the Marne, the conflict ended several days later in a major victory for the Allies.
The German general Erich Ludendorff, convinced that an attack in Flanders, the region stretching from northern France into Belgium, was the best route to a German victory in the war, decided to launch a sizeable diversionary attack further south in order to lure Allied troops away from the main event. The resulting attack at the Marne, launched on the back of the German capture of the strategically important Chemin des Dames ridge near the Aisne River on May 27, 1918, was the latest stage of a major German offensive—dubbed the Kaiserschlacht, or the “kaiser’s battle”—masterminded by Ludendorff during the spring of 1918.
On the morning of July 15, then, 23 divisions of the German 1st and 3rd Armies attacked the French 4th Army east of Reims, while 17 divisions of the 7th Army, assisted by the 9th Army, attacked the French 6th Army to the west of the city. The dual attack was Ludendorff’s attempt to divide and conquer the French forces, which were joined by 85,000 U.S. troops as well as a portion of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), most of which were located in Flanders.
When the Germans began their advance after an initial artillery bombardment, however, they found that the French had set up a line of false trenches, manned by only a few defenders. The real front line of trenches lay further on, and had scarcely been touched by the bombardment. This deceptive strategy had been put in place by the French commander-in-chief, Philippe Pétain.
As a German officer, Rudolf Binding, wrote in his diary of the July 15 attack, the French “put up no resistance in front…they had neither infantry nor artillery in this forward battle-zone…Our guns bombarded empty trenches; our gas-shells gassed empty artillery positions….The barrage, which was to have preceded and protected [the attacking German troops] went right on somewhere over the enemy’s rear positions, while in front the first real line of resistance was not yet carried.” As the Germans approached the “real” Allied front lines, they were met with a fierce barrage of French and American fire. Trapped and surrounded, the Germans suffered heavy casualties, setting the Allies up for the major counter-attack they would launch on July 18.
Author truexPosted on November 16, 2009 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, July 15, Topics, World War I, World War I Battles
German flying ace, “Red Baron,” killed in action
In the well-trafficked skies above the Somme River in France, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as the Red Baron,” is killed by Allied fire on April 21, 1918.
Richthofen, the son of a Prussian nobleman, switched from the German army to the Imperial Air Service in 1915. By 1916, he was terrorizing the skies over the Western Front in an Albatross biplane, downing 15 enemy planes by the end of the year, including one piloted by British flying ace Major Lanoe Hawker. In 1917, Richthofen surpassed all flying-ace records on both sides of the Western Front and began using a Fokker triplane, painted entirely red in tribute to his old cavalry regiment. Although only used during the last eight months of his career, it was this aircraft with which Richthofen was most commonly associated and that led to an enduring English nickname for the German pilot—the Red Baron.
On April 21, 1918, with 80 victories under his belt, Richthofen led his squadron of triplanes deep into Allied territory in France on a search for British observation aircraft. The flight drew the attention of an Allied squadron led by Canadian Royal Air Force pilot Captain Arthur Roy Brown. As Richthofen pursued a plane piloted by Brown’s compatriot, Wilfred R. May, the Red Baron ventured too far into enemy territory and too low to the ground. Two miles behind the Allied lines, just as Brown caught up with Richthofen and fired on him, the chase passed over an Australian machine-gun battery, whose riflemen opened fire. Richthofen was hit in the torso; though he managed to land his plane alongside the road from Corbie to Bray, near Sailley-le-Sac, he was dead by the time Australian troops reached him. Brown is often given credit for downing Richthofen from the air, though some claimed it was actually an Australian gunner on the ground who fired the fatal shot; debate continues to this day.
Manfred von Richthofen was buried by the Allies in a small military cemetery in Bertangles, France, with full military honors. He was 25 years old at the time of his death. His body was later moved to a larger cemetery at Fricourt. In 1925, it was moved again, at the behest of his brother, Karl Bolko, this time to Berlin, where he was buried at Invaliden Cemetery in a large state funeral. In a time of wooden and fabric aircraft, when 20 air victories ensured a pilot legendary status, the Red Baron downed 80 enemy aircraft and went down in history as one of the greatest heroes to emerge from World War I on either side of the conflict.
Author truexPosted on November 16, 2009 Categories History, Misc, This Day in HistoryTags 1918, Aircraft, April 21, Topics, World War I
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Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury Battle to Disputed 12-Round Split Draw
By Eric Ramos
Esther Lin/Showtime
The power and strength of Deontay Wilder couldn’t keep Tyson Fury down.
The talented boxer from England came back from two knockdowns, one in the 12th, to remain unbeaten with a split-decision draw against Deontay Wilder Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
“I got down put down with some good shots,” said Fury. “I showed good heart to get back up.
I came here tonight and fought my heart out.”
The judges scored the bout 115-111 for Wilder, 114-112 for Fury and 113-113.
In the post-fight press conference, a reporter asked Fury how did he get up from the knockdowns. Fury simply said, “I don’t know.”
“I got a good fighting spirit and you know, I never say die,” said Fury. “Even in the 12th round when I got knocked down heavy, I got back and probably won the round. I fought back and wobbled him a little bit.”
Wilder, the Alabama native, dropped Fury with a right hand in the ninth but Fury stormed back and managed to continue to outbox Wilder. Fury seemed to frustrate Wilder with his elusiveness and effective 1-2 combinations.
“I was rushing my punches,” said Wilder. “That’s something I usually don’t do. I was forcing my punches, instead of sitting back, being patient and waiting for it.”
With fatigue starting to set in on both fighters in the 12th round, Wilder found an opening and hit Fury with a hard right hand, followed by a brutal left that sent Fury to the canvas. Amazingly, Fury got up while Wilder celebrated, thinking it was over.
“We poured our hearts out tonight,” said Wilder. We’re both warriors. When you have a great fight, we give each other all we’ve got. At the end of the fight, that’s what it’s all about.”
Both fighters said they are willing to make the rematch happen during the post-fight interview in the ring.
“I would love for it to be my next fight,” said Wilder. “Let’s give the fans what they want to see. It was a great fight and let’s do it again. It doesn’t matter to me where we do it.”
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News / At least 27 dead in Baghdad bomb attacks
At least 27 dead in Baghdad bomb attacks
4:09 PM, 30 May 2017
Iraqi security forces and civilians inspect the site of a deadly bomb attack, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 30, 2017. Another bomb exploded outside a popular ice cream shop in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad just after midnight on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, hospital and police officials said.
At least 27 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in two bombings in Baghdad, security and medical officials said today.
In the first attack, a suicide bomber struck near a popular ice cream shop overnight, killing 16 people.
In the second, a car bomb exploded near one of the capital’s main bridges this morning, killing 11, the officials said.
The Islamic State group issued a statement claiming the first attack, identifying the bomber as an Iraqi who blew up an explosives-rigged vehicle targeting Shiite Muslims.
IS considers members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority – including the women and children who were victims of the ice cream shop blast – to be heretics and thus legitimate targets for attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the second attack, but IS carries out frequent car bombings targeting civilians in the Iraqi capital.
The blasts, which come just a few days into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, highlight the danger posed by jihadists even as security forces have dealt them a string of battlefield defeats.
IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes have since regained much of the territory they lost and are now fighting to retake the last jihadist-held areas in second city Mosul.
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International / Will get back jobs from India and China: Trump
Will get back jobs from India and China: Trump
5:47 PM, 22 Feb 2016
File photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Photo-AP/PTI
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that countries like China and India are taking away jobs from the US and vowed to bring them back for Americans.
Trump made the remarks while predicting that he will earn a “tremendous amount” of support from African-Americans.
“You are seeing the stories when African-American leaders are saying, ‘my people really like Trump’ because I am going to bring jobs back from China, from Mexico, Japan and Vietnam and India…and all these places that are taking our jobs and I’am going to bring back jobs,”
“I’m going to do great with the African-Americans. African-American youth is 58 per cent unemployed. African- Americans in their prime are substantially worse off than the whites in their prime, and it’s a very sad situation,” the 69-year-old said.
Trump is known for being critical of countries like China, Mexico and Japan in many of his speeches, and had last month said India is “doing great” but no one talks about it.
Trump has a number of real estate interests in India.
His remarks on Sunday came after his emphatic victory in the South Carolina primary.
It gave him two wins and one second-place finish in the first three primaries. Trump also predicted that the presidential contest will be between him and Hillary Clinton and they will bring out the “greatest turnout” in US history.
“Frankly, if she (Clinton) gets indicted, that’s the only way she’s going to be stopped. I think it’s going to be Hillary and myself,” Trump said.
” If it’s Hillary against me, that is going to be a tremendous turnout. I am going to win,”
Donald Trump, also a former reality TV star, said he expects to win enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July.
Trump also laid out his own road map to general election victory, pinpointing two states — Michigan and New York — that he said he would sweep into the Republican column.
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Empowering the Women’s Vote
By Jan Howard
Curator Happenings
The RISD Museum is proud to participate in this non-partisan initiative of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), which uses design to encourage civic engagement. Every four years since 2000, the AIGA has asked its members to create posters to get out the vote through its program Design for Democracy.
This year’s campaign includes a set of posters recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Constitution’s 19th Amendment, which gave some American women the right to vote. While the 19th Amendment was an important milestone, it was not until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that all American women’s right to vote was protected, and yet voter suppression continues today.
This initiative’s organizers—Kelly Salchow MacArthur (RISD MFA 2003, Graphic Design), Nancy Skolos (RISD faculty, Graphic Design), and Frances Yllana (AIGA, Design for Democracy)—chose the title “Empowering the Women’s Vote,” recognizing “the complications and inequities that plagued women’s suffrage.” See their complete introduction to the project, a timeline on the fight for voting rights, and many of the posters in the catalogue. This initiative is cosponsored by the League of Women Voters, which is celebrating its 100th year “of ensuring democracy works for the people, by the people, all the people.” For information about what is on the ballot in your area, visit their website VOTE411.org.
A small selection of posters is currently on view in the RISD Museum’s Chace Lobby, and all are available for download, printing, and distribution at AIGA Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote.
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March of the White Elephants
The Real Legacy of the FIFA World Cup
This film debunks the conventional wisdom that staging a World Cup in compliance with the FIFA model delivers sustainable benefits to the population of the host country. It reveals the real legacy of the FIFA World Cup - state...
This film debunks the conventional wisdom that staging a World Cup in compliance with the FIFA model delivers sustainable benefits to the population of the host country. It reveals the real legacy of the FIFA World Cup - state of the art stadiums that were built to stage a four-week tournament will stand idle for decades to come, soaking up funds needed for health, housing and education.
Filmed primarily during the high energy protests against the FIFA 2104 WC in Brazil, the story tracks a left wing journalist who is upset about how his country has been abused, and through his eyes we move between the streets and the commentry of those close to the inner workings of the FIFA machine. We also go back to South Africa to get direct testimony from social activists who make it clear that they believe that FIFA is a modern day parasite abusing football in South Africa, Brazil and many other countires.
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Hacksaw Ridge And Shuri Castle WWII Sites – Okinawa, Japan
Doss on top of Maeda Escarpment (Hacksaw ridge) on 4 May 1945. Wiki photo
Date: July 21, 2019Author: salsaworldtraveler 8 Comments
Earlier this year I saw the movie Hacksaw Ridge on an otherwise unmemorable flight. The movie recounts the story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector and WWII combat medic whose actions on Maeda Escarpment (Hacksaw Ridge) earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
On a trip to Tokyo for Sakura season I made a detour to Okinawa for a weekend visit with my nephew who had been based there with the Marine Corps for almost three years. On his day off he showed me around Naha and southern Okinawa.
With my “little nephew,” 6’5″ SSgt Evan Polley, USMC at the viewing tower on top of the WWII Underground Japanese Navy Headquarters.
Being a WWII buff in younger days and with my interest piqued by the movie, I requested that we include sites of some of the fighting during the Battle of Okinawa, 1 April 1945 – 21 June 1945. This was the bloodiest and the last major land battle in the Pacific Theater. We were able to visit Shuri Castle, Hacksaw Ridge, and the Japanese Naval Underground Headquarters which by car are all within minutes of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture.
Here are other posts about a truly spectacular trip to Japan:
United Airlines Polaris Lounge, Chicago, Il – Lounge Review
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Flight Review – Japan Airlines 777-300 Economy Class, Tokyo, Japan (HND) to Naha (Okinawa), Japan (OKA)
Hacksaw Ridge And Shuri Castle WWII Battle Site – Okinawa, Japan
Japanese World War II Underground Naval Headquarters Tour
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Hacksaw Ridge – The Movie
The movie was released in 2016. It documents Doss’ upbringing in Lynchburg, VA as a devout Seventh-day Adventist and his military service in WWII. Despite refusing to kill or carry a weapon because of his religion and having a draft deferment due to working in a shipyard, Doss volunteered for military duty shortly after the United States entered WWII. In 1942, he became a medic assigned to 2nd Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 307th Regiment, 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army.
Doss’ religious beliefs make him an outcast among his fellow soldiers. They abuse him physically and mentally. This treatment persists until the 1st Battalion lands on Okinawa in 1945 and relieves another unit that had been trying unsuccessfully to dislodge Japanese forces on Maeda Escarpment. Japanese positions there posed a serious threat to American troops tasked with clearing the southern part of Okinawa where the bulk of the Japanese defenses were concentrated.
Maeda Escarpment (Hacksaw Ridge). U.S. troops would have had this perspective as they approached from the north.
Doss’ company uses cargo nets, ropes and ladders to ascend the sheer face of the ridge. Troops establish a foothold on top, but a ferocious Japanese counterattack drives them off the ridge the following day. Doss and many wounded are left on the battlefield. He is able to locate and treat many then lower them by rope to U.S. troops below.
The following day the attack resumes only after Doss completes his sabbath prayers. Again the fighting is fierce and bloody. Doss is wounded in close-quarters fighting when a Japanese soldier hurls a grenade at Doss and several companions. He bicycle kicks the grenade in mid air but it explodes nearby sending shrapnel into his leg. The wounds result in Doss being evacuated from the battle. The men and officers praise Doss for his courage and perseverance.
The movie was riveting but also raised questions. How could Doss move around in what must have been a fairly small area with little cover and lower wounded on ropes without being spotted and killed? How did he have the strength to belay around 75 wounded down a sheer cliff that looked to be more than 50′ high? Why didn’t anyone go up to help Doss? I thought seeing Hacksaw Ridge in person might answer some of those questions.
The True Story of Desmond Doss
On October 12, 1945, President Harry Truman presented Corporal Doss with the Medal of Honor at a ceremony at the White House. The citation dated November 1, 1945, describes Doss’ service on Okinawa:
G.O. No.: 97, November 1, 1945.
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of The Congress the MEDAL OF HONOR to
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS DESMOND T. DOSS
for service as set forth in the following
Citation: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, United States Army, Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division. Near Urasoe-Mura, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 29 April – 21 May 1945. He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Private First Class Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying them one by one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On 2 May, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and two days later he treated four men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave’s mouth, where he dressed his comrades’ wounds before making four separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On 5 May, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small-arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Private First Class Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On 21 May, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited five hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Private First Class Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers’ return, he was again struck, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Private First Class Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.
This chart depicts U.S. amphibious landings and principal lines of advance during the Battle of Okinawa.
Shuri Castle, Naha and Maeda Escarpment are on the southwest coast of Okinawa.
It turns out that the Medal of Honor wasn’t Doss’ first decoration for valor. In 1944, while serving on Guam and in the Philippines, Doss earned two Bronze Star Medals for exceptional courage in aiding wounded soldiers under fire. The actions for which Doss received those medals no doubt elevated his status with his fellow soldiers. Contrary to the movie, by the time his unit arrived on Okinawa, Doss was probably held in very high esteem.
Exploring Hacksaw Ridge
With the help of GPS, Evan located Hacksaw Ridge in a residential Naha suburb. It was only about a 15-minute drive from the center of the city. Our route brought us to the ridge from the north, the same general direction as the U. S. troops in 1945.
Maeda Escarpment now looks like any other small hill. Towering shear cliffs depicted in the movie are covered by thick vegetation. There are no signs on the street marking the site and its historical significance.
Maeda Escarpment in 2019
Before visiting I didn’t know that Maeda Escarpment is also the location of Urasoe Castle. The castle served as the capital of the medieval Okinawan principality of Chuzan until the unification of Okinawa and the Ryuku Islands into the Ryuku Kingdom in the 15th century. After unification, Shuri Castle was built and served as the seat of government.
Urasoe Castle ruins on the western end of Maeda Escarpment. The castle had been destroyed and abandoned centuries ago. Part of the north side of the ridge is also dotted with many ancient tombs some of which are visible in the second photo just below the top of the ridge on the left.
We parked in one of the few on-street parking spots and looked for a way up. We reached the top by following a small road near the castle ruins. Visitors can also access the top via narrow trails hidden among trees and bushes on the northern slope. There is no charge to visit this site.
Getting on top only increased my curiosity. The ridge is several hundred yards long and runs roughly east and west. It is fairly flat on top. At its widest point, Hacksaw Ridge is no more than 150 or so yards wide.
Vegetation has been removed so it is easy to walk around on top of Hacksaw Ridge. During the Battle of Okinawa, days of artillery, naval and aerial bombardment would have removed all vegetation.
How could anyone have been able to move around and lower injured soldiers down a cliff without being spotted?
Looking to the west along the length of the ridge. Only a handful of visitors were present.
The only mention of Doss was on one small sign explaining his heroics.
The sign marks the alleged point where Doss lowered the wounded.
Seeing this sign cleared up one of my questions. The Americans scaled the cliff at the eastern end, pivoted, and attacked to the west along the length of the ridge. I had the impression from the movie that the attack was a frontal assault across the width of the ridge.
The only other information I saw about the fighting in WWII was a sign related to the Japanese defenders.
Little evidence of the Japanese defensive positions remains.
Perhaps ruins from the castle complex or the entrance to a cave.
Even with vegetation in full bloom, Maeda Escarpment has excellent views of the surrounding terrain. During the Battle of Okinawa, control of this location would have been a prime objective for both armies. In the decades since the war, those views would have probably made the escarpment a prime objective of real estate developers. The presence of ancient Urasoe Castle and various tombs may be what has kept Hacksaw Ridge from becoming a housing development.
Northwest view from Hacksaw Ridge – Naha and the East China Sea.
Visiting Hacksaw Ridge answered some of my questions. Doss was able to save so many of his comrades because the battle progressed along the length of the ridge. Hacksaw Ridge looks to be around one-half mile long or slightly longer. The Japanese were apparently dug in around the castle ruins at the western end and the Americans ascended the escarpment at the eastern end. The battlefield was several hundred yards deep giving Doss the ability to maintain some distance from Japanese troops and find cover for his movements.
The cliff where Doss lowered the wounded is no more than 30′ to 40′ high. Lowering men by hand on a rope would have been a tough task but not as difficult as it appeared in the movie. I still do not know why one or two others did not go up to assist Doss at least with lowering the wounded he recovered. After all Doss was saving their buddies. Perhaps someone did and that part of the story has been lost to history. On the other hand, if the situation was so dangerous that no one else even dared to venture to the top, that makes Doss’ actions all the more extraordinary.
Before getting to Hacksaw Ridge, our first stop was Shuri Castle. Shuri Castle was constructed in the 15th century to serve as the seat of government of the newly formed Ryuku Kingdom. The Ryuku Kingdom lasted until 1879 when it was involuntarily incorporated into Japan as Okinawa prefecture.
I’m no expert on the relationship between Okinawa and Japan; however, to this day, neither the Okinawans or the Japanese seem to consider Okinawans to be completely Japanese. During the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, Japanese troops executed many locals and forced many others, including boys and women, to join Japanese units to participate in the fighting.
The Shuri Castle complex covers a large area. Access to much of the grounds is free. Admission to the main palaces costs about $7.50/adult. Parking in underground lots is $3. Parking in nearby private lots is slightly more expensive.
Here is information on the admission price, location, hours of operation, and access options from Naha. This information is current as of August 2019.
During the WWII Battle of Okinawa, Shuri Castle was one of the focal points of the Shuri Line, the heavily defended Japanese defensive wall that stretched across the southern part of the island. The Japanese Army established its headquarters in a labyrinth built under the castle.
With Evan in front of Seiden Palace at Shuri Castle.
Beginning on 25 May 1945, an American battleship, the USS Mississippi, shelled Shuri Castle for three days straight. The shelling forced the Japanese to retreat and relocate their headquarters. Troops from the 1st Marine Division secured the castle on 29 May 1945.
The castle complex was almost totally destroyed in the fighting. After the war, the site was used as a university campus. Reconstruction of the walls and citadels began in 1992.
The grounds are large and beautifully landscaped. One could have a nice time here even without paying to enter the area of the main palaces. Here is a map of the grounds.
Naha view from the castle walls.
I did not see information on the fighting displayed at the castle. Nevertheless, visiting the castle provided great views and much interesting information on the history and culture of the Ryuku Kingdom.
Have you been to Okinawa or visited any other sites of combat in the Pacific Theater of WWII?
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Steve Tolbert says:
My spouse was born in Okinawa in 1956. Her mother was a survivor of the Battle of Okinawa during WW2 and was seriously wounded when she was shot by a GI. She survived and is still alive. I used to travel to Tokyo frequently for business but I have never been to Okinawa. Your descriptions make me want to take my spouse back for a visit.
salsaworldtraveler says:
Your mother-in-law was part of history. Thankfully she survived. I hope you and your spouse visit Okinawa. I think it would be a very memorable and enjoyable trip. Thank you very much for reading my post and leaving an inspiring comment.
I remember this post and admire just how much work you put into it. I had not seen the movie and felt incompetent to comment.
Please shank your nephew’s hand for me and thank him sincerely for his service!!
I will do that GP. He is back in the States now.
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Dedicated to the support of Sarasota and Manatee counties' local arts community since its inception in 1962, over 260 dedicated volunteers work to ensure that the ever changing inventory is filled to the brim with such amazing finds as Baccarat crystal, Tiffany silver, Gucci handbags, fine jewelry, men's/women's clothing, high-end furniture and oriental rugs. Awarding more than $8 million dollars in grants and scholarships, we invite you to come see how "Together We Can Make a Difference."
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Online Filmmaker Q&A: “The Willoughbys” Director Kris Pearn
Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Director Kris Pearn is expected to participate in an online Q&A.
Instead of running away from home, frustrated siblings Tim (Will Forte), Jane (Alessia Cara) and the Barnabys (Seán Cullen) use their ingenuity to achieve independence in The Willoughbys. The source of their troubles is parents (Martin Short and Jane Krakowski) who twirl each other around in evening gloves and three-piece suits, too love-struck and self-centered to give their kids proper attention. Convinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family.
Watch The Willoughbys on Netflix then join us for a fun and educational Q&A with director, co-writer, and executive producer Kris Pearn to learn about the making of this offbeat and wickedly funny adaptation of the 2008 novel by acclaimed author Lois Lowry. Kris will also be doing some live drawing that participants can follow along with at home.
Recommended for ages 7 and up. The film is rated PG for rude humor and some thematic elements.
This special event, hosted by SFFILM Education, has been put together with children, parents, and teachers in mind. It is also free and open to the public. Attendees who RSVP for this event will be sent a link via email one day in advance to register for the online session, which will be conducted with Zoom. We recommend that you download and install Zoom on your computer or mobile device in advance, and set yourself up with a free account. Attendees will have a chance to participate in the Q&A by sending in questions privately to our moderator. Registration closes around one hour before the start of the event — be sure to register early!
Writer/director Kris Pearn
Kris Pearn was born and raised in Canada. After graduating from Sheridan College, Kris has spent most of his life making cartoons for both film and television. His credits include Open Season, Surf’s Up, Arthur Christmas, Shaun the Sheep, Pirates: Band of Misfits, and Home, to name a few. He was Head of Story on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and co-directed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. He has most recently written and directed the Netflix animated feature The Willoughbys, based on the novel by Lois Lowry. Kris has been nominated for several Annie Awards, teaches when possible, and has given a Ted Talk called “The Optimistic Opportunity of Failure.” He still loves to draw.
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Risky Road Etiquette: States with the Rudest Drivers
Rude drivers aren’t just pains in the neck during your daily commute. They also can be major safety threats to everyone on the road.
For many, the experience of driving creates a feeling of anonymity. Protected inside the pod-like confines of our car, we may begin viewing the world outside as an observer, rather than as a participant. This detachment can embolden drivers to behave more aggressively or impolitely towards other drivers than they would in another social situation.
Unfortunately, rude driving behavior and aggression towards other drivers are ubiquitous in America. A staggering 80 percent of all drivers in the United States reported at least one incident of significant aggression, anger, or road rage towards another driver over a one-year period, according to a recent study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
While drivers may not feel particularly accountable for behaving impolitely towards others, some forms of rude driving behavior can be extremely dangerous. Honking to express annoyance may be one thing, but it’s quite another to angrily tailgate a car, truck, or motorcycle, or to run a red light in utter disregard of oncoming traffic.
The data scientists at Insurify, an insurance quotes comparison website, were eager to investigate patterns in rude driving behavior that are on the more dangerous (and illegal) end of the spectrum. Curious to find whether there are regional differences in these extreme behaviors, Insurify’s data scientists turned to their database and ranked each state based on its share of ill-behaved drivers.
How rude are America’s drivers, on average? An average of 29.6 per 1,000 drivers were cited for one or more infractions categorized as “rude.” The most polite states were Kentucky, Mississippi, and Vermont, each with between 10 and 17 drivers per 1,000 cited for one or more rude driving behaviors.
Seeing red… and driving right through it: Failure to stop for a red light is the most common offense in rude drivers across the United States. On the other hand, street racing is the least common and occurs 90 percent less frequently.
Regional differences: Across America, states with the highest proportions of these incredibly rude drivers tend not to be clustered in one particular region of the country. The rudest states are evenly spread from East to West, with the exception of Southwestern states.
More police officers, more citations? Not according to the data. Using data from the FBI and Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Insurify’s data scientists calculated the correlation between the density of police officers in each state and citation rates for these rude driving behaviors. They found that a higher proportion of police officers to drivers does not correspond with a higher proportion of drivers receiving citations for any of these rude driving behaviors.
In order to determine the states with the rudest drivers, the data science team at Insurify, referred to its database of over 2 million insurance applications.
Drivers disclose information such as their age and driving history, including past accidents and driving infractions. Insurify’s data scientists classified the following driving violations as the most extreme forms of rude driving: failure to yield violations (failure to yield the right of way, failure to yield to a pedestrian), failure to stop violations (failure to stop for a red light, school bus, or stop sign), improper backing, passing where prohibited, tailgating, street racing, and hit-and-runs.
For each state, Insurify’s data scientists calculated the proportion of drivers with one or more of these violations on their record. The states with the highest proportion of those drivers were ranked as the states with the rudest drivers.
The 10 States with the Rudest Drivers
10. Wisconsin
Drivers cited for rude driving behavior: 38.9 out of 1,000
Wisconsin ranks tenth in the nation for the rudest drivers. Failure to yield the right of way and passing violations are both significantly higher than the national average in Wisconsin: drivers in the Badger State are 2.16 times more likely than average to commit a failure to yield violation and 98.4 percent more likely to commit a passing violation. Rates of tailgating and hit-and-runs in Wisconsin are also high, at 50.7 and 44.4 percent higher than the national average, respectively.
9. Hawaii
In spite of its reputation as an island paradise with a more relaxed pace of living than the continental states, Hawaii has some of the rudest drivers. Pedestrians, in particular, should beware of rude drivers in the Aloha State, as Hawaii sees more than twice as many citations for failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. It seems that Hawaiian drivers seem much more interested in getting to their destination than treating crossing pedestrians courteously (or lawfully). Tailgating in Hawaii also occurs frequently—50 percent more often, in fact, than the national average.
8. Iowa
Iowa has the eighth-rudest drivers in the nation, according to our analysis. In particular, Iowan drivers commit hit-and-runs at very high rates. Hit-and-runs in Iowa are 2.98 times more frequent than the national average. Failure to stop for a red light and failure to yield the right of way also occur frequently among Iowan drivers, at 68.3 and 29.7 percent higher than average, respectively. Yet, tailgating in Iowa occurs 64 percent less frequently than average.
7. Delaware
Seventh in the nation for the rudest drivers, Delaware is home to a significant proportion of drivers who engage in improper passing (58.6 percent more frequently than the national average), and running reds (54.7 percent higher than the national average). This may not be surprising to Delawareans, given that the AAA Mid-Atlantic found that arrests related to aggressive driving, including many of the rude driving behaviors identified in the present study, have increased nearly 10 percent from 2014 to 2019.
6. Ohio
Drivers in Ohio are some of the rudest in the nation. In particular, Ohioan drivers are much less likely to own up to an accident than drivers from other states: hit-and-run violations occur 2.14 times more frequently in Ohio than average. Tailgating and failure to yield violations also occur more frequently than average in the Buckeye State, with this violation occurring 68.3 percent and 58.7 percent more frequently than the national average, respectively.
5. Georgia
Ranked fifth in the country for the rudest drivers, Georgia has a particularly bad case of tailgating. Tailgating citations are 3.25 times more frequent in the Peach State than the national average. Failure to yield the right of way and passing violations are more common than average in Georgia, at 84.0 and 64.7 percent higher than the national average, respectively.
4. New York
We weren’t surprised to find New York on this list. New Yorkers are especially negligent when it comes to ensuring pedestrian safety; drivers in the Empire State fail to yield the right of way to pedestrians 6.15 times more often than the national average. New York drivers also tend to blow through red lights relatively frequently, with 47 percent more drivers receiving a citation for running a red light than the national average.
3. Wyoming
Wyoming has the third-rudest drivers in the nation, with 45.9 out of every 1,000 drivers engaging in the most extreme rude driving behaviors. Drivers in Wyoming have some of the highest rates of hit-and-runs in America; these violations occur 3.6 times more often than the national average. Failure to yield to a pedestrian is also a significant problem in Wyoming, occurring 72.90 percent more often than the national average. Tailgating and failure to yield the right of way occur significantly more frequently than average in the Cowboy State, with drivers in this state committing these offenses 37.8 and 32.1 percent more often than the national average, respectively.
2. Idaho
Ranking number two on the list is Idaho, with the second-highest share of rude drivers in the nation. Rates of tailgating are incredibly high in this state, at 4.89 times the national average. Failure to yield violations are also much more common in this state than in others; drivers in the Gem State are 2.6 times as likely than average to commit a failure to yield to a pedestrian violation and 2.07 times as likely to fail to yield the right of way to another driver.
1. Virginia
Virginia is the state with the rudest drivers, according to Insurify’s analysis. With 64 percent more rude drivers than the national average, this should come as no surprise. Rates of tailgating are much higher than in other states, at 2.44 times the national average. Hit-and-runs, some of the most egregious driver behavior, occur 2.06 times as frequently in Virginia than in the average state. In addition, Virginian drivers fail to yield the right of way to other drivers more than twice as frequently than in other states. Failure to yield the right of way to pedestrians and failure to stop for a red light are also particularly frequent, at 32.1 percent and 22.8 percent higher than the national average, respectively.
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Posted February 1st, 2007
Appreciating Gifts of Securities
After a dip last summer, the stock market rebounded in the fall and has reached record highs in the new year. As a result, many donors may feel more confident in the state of the economy and in their own financial circumstances. Indeed, net household wealth reached a record level in 2006, approaching $54 trillion. But how will this greater sense of security translate to the charitable giving world? The best guess as to what can be expected in the next few months might be gathered by looking at the past.
The Roaring ’90s
In the mid-1990s, investment markets were growing rapidly as the economy recovered from the recession that clouded the early 1990s. In a landmark moment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 5,000 for the first time in November 1995, and the Dow was predicted to reach 10,000 by the year 2000.
A growing number of individuals felt jubilant about the surge in stock prices. But that optimism was tempered by lingering doubts about whether those levels could be maintained. Many felt that a stock market correction was not merely a possibility on the distant horizon but a certainty for the near future.
A correction and recovery
Despite a number of overvalued stocks, the market continued to march upward in the 1990s. Exceeding most experts’ predictions, the Dow first closed above the 10,000 mark on March 29, 1999, and reached its highest point of 11,722 on January 14, 2000.
The market upswing of the second half of the 1990s resulted in a positive effect on charitable giving. When the Dow was at its highest, gifts of appreciated securities, in particular, became increasingly popular for a broad group of donors. As a consequence, many development officers took it upon themselves to become more familiar with a variety of gift planning strategies that feature special benefits when funded with appreciated, low-yielding securities.
But things soon changed. After reaching its peak, the Dow experienced a significant correction, eventually falling below 7,300 in October 2002.
After the stock market retreated from its high point, the number of gifts of securities from living donors dropped off dramatically in 2003. Soon bequest receipts began to show slower growth or declines as well in large part due to lower investment asset values weighing on the size of residuary estates.
Last fall, the Dow and other stock indexes began trading at the highest level seen in years and soon may be reaching new highs in addition to the Dow trading above the 12,500 level in January 2007. In this environment, many charitable organizations may see renewed interest from donors in gifts funded with appreciated securities. Unfortunately, some fund-raising executives, particularly those new to the field, may be “rusty” or completely unfamiliar with both basic and more advanced planning strategies utilizing securities.
Why donors appreciate gifts of securities
The combined tax savings of the charitable deduction and avoidance of capital gains tax may attract donors to gifts of appreciated securities. Gifts of publicly-held stocks and bonds that have been held for more than a year (long-term) offer the greatest benefits.
Some have speculated that the lower income and capital gains tax rates brought about by tax law changes might reduce the attractiveness of gifts of appreciated assets. While it is true that donors will not receive the same level of savings that were available during the last period of record high market valuations, consider the situation of tax-payers planning gifts under the current rules. For them, the additional capital gains saved by “giving a paper profit” that has never been taxed continues to hold great appeal. In fact, some major donors may be surprised to discover that they may be able to give more today at a lower after-tax cost!
A case in point
Consider a donor who gave a $10,000 check to charity in the past when he or she was subject to the highest ordinary income tax rate of 39.6%. The after-tax cost of making the gift was $6,040 ($10,000 – $3,960), assuming it could all be deducted in the year of the gift. Under current tax rates given the highest marginal tax bracket of 35%, the after-tax cost of the cash gift has increased by $460 to $6,500 ($10,000 – $3,500).
Suppose the donor identifies a highly appreciated stock that had been purchased for $1,000 and is currently valued at $11,000. The after-tax cost of the gift is determined by subtracting the tax savings from the charitable deduction and the capital gains tax that is avoided. Here’s how the numbers work:
From an accounting standpoint, the cost of this $11,000 gift is lower than a $10,000 cash gift. Obviously, the exact savings will depend on the donor’s tax bracket, basis in the security, and other factors. State taxes can in some cases affect the after-tax cost of cash and property gifts as well. This example serves as an illustration of the attractiveness of gifts of appropriate appreciated assets as compared to cash. Our current environment may thus lead an even broader group of donors to consider gifts of appreciated assets.
Beyond outright gifts
In addition to their appeal for funding outright gifts, appreciated securities can also be an attractive choice for funding a variety of deferred gifts such as gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. While income tax deductions are based on a percentage of the full value of the assets contributed, capital gains tax on long-term appreciated property is partially avoided and/or delayed at the time of the gift. On the other hand, distributions from these arrangements that are categorized as long-term capital gain or qualified dividends are likely to be taxed at 15% rather than at rates as high as 35% on other sources of income.
Some planned giving donors who had previously established a bequest or other simple remainder gift may wish to consider a life income gift in addition to or in place of the original charitable bequest. Those who already have charitable remainder unitrusts may want to add them or fund additional gift annuities as the case may be.
With reduced estate taxes for most individuals, current tax and income planning may be increasingly important. For example, donors who had previously included a charity in their wills for $25,000 may find that a charitable gift annuity funded with appreciated securities can provide attractive payments for life and create current income and capital gains tax savings as well.
A number of other planning strategies exist that help meet personal and philanthropic goals using gifts of appreciated assets, but charities must inform the donor and advisors about them or this opportunity may be lost. The Sharpe Gift Planning Matrix™ (at right) can be of assistance in identifying those potential donors.
Generally speaking, prospects for outright gifts of securities will tend to fall across the top of the Matrix, as such gifts are tied to wealth and not necessarily to the age of a donor. While most prospects for gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts for life will be found in the C1 and C2 boxes, younger persons of means may wish to fund a trust for a term-of-years or for the life of an older loved one. Charitable gift annuities for the life of the donor and/or spouse will primarily be funded with appreciated assets by those in the C1, C2, and C3 boxes. Gift annuities funded for persons other than the donor or spouse will not normally be funded with appreciated assets, as doing so would result in immediate realization of a portion of the capital gain.
Communicating the benefits of giving appreciated assets at this time will be a key component of successful programs. Consider providing your constituents information that explains the opportunities available to them through a gift of appreciated securities.
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Global Quickies: Skirts, Racists, and Unhappy Arrests
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right Front National, has suggested the deadly virus Ebola could solve the global “population explosion” and by extension Europe’s “immigration problem”. For more on racists and the European Parliament elections, check out this article.
Hundreds of male students across 27 schools in the city of Nantes turned up to school in skirts to protest sexism. The boys were taking part in the “Lift the Skirt” campaign, which was thought up by the students and backed by the education ministry.
NEPAL (From Robert)
Triple amputee overcomes challenges to become TV host in Nepal. Kamala Shrestha has only been in the presenter’s chair six months but is already proving to be a natural talent.
Police arrested six young men and women who made a Youtube video dancing and lip-synching to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy”. Iran state media called the video “vulgar”. The dancers have been released, but could still face charges. The director of the video might still be in custody.
President Michelle Bachelet took a first step toward legalizing abortion in rape cases, in situations where the fetus is not viable or the pregnancy threatens the woman’s life. Chile, El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua are the only Latin American countries that still hold a full ban on all abortions.
The first legally recognized Atheist Organization of the Balkans, Middle East and among all Muslim-majority countries, has been founded in Istanbul, Turkey. Their aim is to advocate against religious prejudice, oppression and fundamentalism, and to promote the basic human and civil right to believe or not believe in a positive, educated and constructive manner.
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Born and raised in Mexico City, Daniela has finally decided to abdicate her post as an armchair skeptic and start doing some skeptical activism. She is currently living in Spain after having lived in the US, Brazil and Italy. You can also find her blogging in Spanish at esceptica.org.
Daniela,
Man Jean-Marie Le Pen is sick. Hate mongers like him shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near public office.
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Washington’s Undiscovered Feminists
by Jasmine M. Pulido
I’m not sure if I’m a feminist.
I like to think I am. But what I am finding is that there are too many words in the social justice lexicon where the definition is different depending on who you are talking to. “Feminism” is a word that continues to change as our culture becomes more aware of its own social constructs. Its meaning bends as more diverse voices are allowed to weigh in on the subject.
I held this small doubt quietly in my mind, hoping to learn something new as I listened this past Saturday to Mayumi Tsutakawa speak at a presentation called “Washington’s Undiscovered Feminists.” It was an event hosted virtually by the Seattle Public Library and sponsored by Humanities Washington. For this event, Tsutakawa personally selected five women in arts and journalism from the 1920s and ‘30s she felt had gone “unsung.” She highlighted in great detail their impactful societal contributions in commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage.
There was certainly more to learn about myself in the identities of these Pacific Northwest women. Tsutakawa herself is a writer, activist, speaker, and artist with a long list of personal actions she’s taken in the name of racial and social justice, including but not limited to: participating in the 1972 Anti-Kingdome protests and the March for Low-Income Housing in the International District; founding member of “Seattle Third World Women”; UW Asian Student Coalition President; Seattle Times writer covering the early feminist movement in Washington State; primary reporter for the Washington Women’s Conference in Ellensburg and the National Women’s Conference in Houston in 1977; and co-editing two anthologies of Women of Color writers (including The Forbidden Stitch, the first national Asian American Women’s Anthology). Through Tsutakawa’s accomplishments, I got to see a modern-day, living example of how far and wide activism can go in just one person’s lifetime. Her list of accomplishments just keeps on running. Tsutakawa plans to research what her own mother was doing during the same timeline of the five women she covered in her presentation.
The most interesting fact I learned was that in 1883, Washington was the fifth state in the country to give women the right to vote. Washington had only been incorporated into the United States for 20 years with a population of only 1,000 people at the time. Additionally, the four states to approve women’s suffrage were not the states you would expect. They weren’t urban metropolises. They were all western states — Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming respectively. Tsutakawa didn’t explain why this might be, but instead pointed out her own curiosity in discovering this for herself.
Tsutakawa chose the five women in her presentation with clear purpose. They were all of different backgrounds. Imogen Cunningham was a white photographer, Priscilla Chong Jue was a Chinese American fiber artist and gallery shop owner, Vi Hilbert was a Native American tribal elder of the Upper Skagit and a Lushootseed language preservationist, Anna Louise Strong was a white activist and radical journalist, and Ruby Bishop was a legendary African American jazz singer and musician. For me, it was important for me to see that Women of Color were able to occupy spaces despite multiple marginalizations even back then. Breaking barriers was happening then just as it continues to happen now.
What I found both curious and inspiring about Tsutakawa’s detailed rundown of her “women warriors” was the diverse range of talents and roles each of these women held at any one period of time outside the traditional roles of mother, spouse, daughter, and friend. While Ruby Bishop considered her nighttime music to be her primary career, she also learned at various times in her life the skills to be a Boeing B17 mechanic and draftsman, a beautician, and a court reporter. At 80 years old, Priscilla Chong Jue helped design and execute floats and costumes for the University District parade while also enjoying ice skating and Hawaiʻian dancing. Besides translating her oral understanding of language to reading and writing, Vi Hilbert was also an electric welder, a hairdresser, and a secretary at Children’s Orthopedic hospital. Anna Louise Strong was also a rock climber, a Seattle School Board member (who was later recalled as the only woman on the Board), and authored 30 books. These women were multipotentialites with a passionate thirst for lifelong learning and growth. As a rock climber, dog groomer/trainer, small business entrepreneur, writer, activist, and community organizer myself, I certainly related strongly to these women’s stories and sentiments.
There was no indication that Tsutakawa’s women asked for or even wanted recognition for their work. While Tsutakawa described them as “pioneers, pathfinders, and breakers of stereotypes,” what I heard in their stories was that these were women who were feminists simply by choosing to exist in the way they wanted. They didn’t limit themselves based on the rules the patriarchy had set for them. Imogen Cunningham, for example, divorced her husband after he asked her to wait for him instead of moving to New York to accept her job at Vanity Fair. After publishing three books, Vi Hilbert decided to open her own publishing house to continue making volumes of native language books. Despite being recalled from her position on the Seattle School Board as its only woman member, Anna Louise Strong didn’t let others’ views of her deter her from speaking out in forceful essays and impassioned articles.
Their names aren’t as famous as their male counterparts. Their prestige goes mostly unwritten in our local history. But they made inroads for the women to come after them by their sheer determination to go after what they wanted. They were feminists not because they shouted into the megaphone on the frontlines of protest — although that too is a potent version of feminism — but because they sought joy, progress, and joy in their progress. They embraced certain inalienable rights — “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” — despite it not being spelled out for them in any official document. They didn’t wait for permission. Nor forgiveness. They just did.
That’s pretty badass.
Am I a feminist? According to Tsutakawa’s conclusion, one interacts with feminism differently based on our own lived experiences. It is a range of political, social, and personal movements intertwined within itself. If I think about it within this context my self-perception shifts. If there is room for me to show up as I am, in whatever complexity and nuance that I embody, with a drive to pursue what brings me joy despite societal limitations … then yes, I am a feminist. Through and through. What about you?
Jasmine Pulido is a Filipinx American writer in Seattle, WA. You can find her blog at “Shameless Jas,” where she discusses all the topics people are too ashamed to talk about, alongside unapologetically airing anything else on her mind. She enjoys forest bathing, nerdy topics, and racial-social justice. Jasmine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology with an emphasis on ecology, behavior, and evolution and a minor in psychology from the University of California San Diego.
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St. John of the Cross was born in 1542 in central Spain. With the death of his father when he was only three years old, his mother and two brothers struggled to survive. Learning of this an uncle, who was a priest, took them in and looked after them. John was a very good student and at age 15 was admitted to the university where he pursued theology. He felt called to the priesthood and planned to become a Carmelite friar, but was uneasy with what he perceived as laxity in the order. A year before his ordination, while he was thinking of perhaps leaving the Carmelites and joining the Carthusians, he met St. Teresa of Avila. Teresa and John had a “meeting of the minds,” and Teresa convinced John to work with her for the reform of their order. While Teresa led the reform of the women Carmelites, John worked in establishing reform monasteries for men.
As you can imagine Teresa and John met many obstacles in their attempt to reform their order. “Who are these two goodie goodies to tell us how to live?” The order as a whole didn’t appreciate their efforts, and resisted them rather vigorously. At one point John’s own order abducted him from the church where he was serving, they blindfolded him, and brought him to one of their monasteries where he was placed in solitary confinement, with little light, no change of clothing, and very poor food. At regular intervals he was beaten and pressured into denying his efforts of reforming the order. You can see why they were in need of reform.
John’s cell measured 6’ x 10’, there was no heat, and there was only one tiny window high up near the ceiling. Yet in that darkness, cold, and desolation, his love and faith became his fire and light. In that tiny cell he had nothing left but God and God brought John his greatest joys. After nine months John escaped by unscrewing the lock on his door and sneaking past the guard. Taking only the poetry he had written on scraps of paper. He climbed out a window using a rope made from strips of blankets. With no idea of where he was he followed a dog who led him to a nearby town. He hid in a convent infirmary where he read his poetry to the nuns.
Eventually John and Teresa were allowed to work freely at reforming the Carmelites. John was asked if he harbored any hatred or ill will for those who had kidnapped him and beaten him. Emphatically he answered saying, “no” also adding, “Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love.” Adding further he said, “When God the Father didn’t find love in the human race, He put love in the human race, in the Incarnation of His son. Then, He found love; he found love in His son Jesus and in all who had become part of His body.”
This line, “Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love,” speaks of our Gospel today. Jesus I think is partial to images taken from the business world. He uses investment, risk, and return as a model for the spiritual life. The men who received 5 and 2 talents invested them, they were willing to risk, they put their money (talents) out into the world and in return they saw their money grow. The man who kept his (money) talent buried saw no such return, and is called wicked and lazy.
God is a giver. He exists in gift form; He is the one who gives. If we want God’s life in us to grow we must be conformed to his way of being and that means giving.
Where there is no love, put love, risk it.
Where there is no hope, put hope, risk it.
Where there is no faith, put faith, risk it.
Where there is no joy, put joy, risk it.
Where there is no life, put life, risk it.
The men with the five and two talents invested in the world, they risked, and they saw their money double. The man with one talent clung to it, he was not willing to put it out into the world and as a result it was taken away. Spiritually speaking he withered. Divine life (love, hope, faith, joy, peace, etc.) cannot be clung to, it must be given away, it must be risked on the world. Instead of filling ourselves up with all these good things we empty ourselves as soon as we receive. And in the measure we give it away it will grow within us. If we give a lot we will receive a lot. In the very act of sharing our faith, hope, love, joy, peace, etc. we find our own faith, hope, love, joy, and peace increasing and growing stronger.
Divine life is planted within us at Baptism; it’s supported by Holy Orders and Marriage, it’s nourished by the Eucharist and strengthened by Reconciliation. Within us we have this bank of Divine life, a bank to be drawn on, to plant, to invest, to put in places where there is none. St. John of the Cross put his faith, hope, and love into a community where he found very little but this act of giving/risking gave a return of riches. The divine life is no private matter it’s meant to be shared. Let us be like the first two servants putting love where there is no love, putting divine life where there is no divine life and drawing back a fortune with the Lord saying to us at the end, “Well done my good and faithful servant come share your master’s joy.”
Let us be great Saints,
Fr. Christopher J. Ankley
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This essay also appeared in the The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Stuff, The Guardian Comment Is Free, and Veterans Today.
Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry mobile phones.
If the National Security Agency required us to notify it whenever we made a new friend, the nation would rebel. Yet we notify Facebook Inc. (FB) If the Federal Bureau of Investigation demanded copies of all our conversations and correspondence, it would be laughed at. Yet we provide copies of our e-mail toGoogle Inc. (GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) or whoever our mail host is; we provide copies of our text messages to Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), AT&T Inc. (T) and Sprint Corp. (S); and we provide copies of other conversations to Twitter Inc., Facebook, LinkedIn (LNKD) Corp. or whatever other site is hosting them.
The primary business model of the Internet is built on mass surveillance, and our government’s intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data. Understanding how we got here is critical to understanding how we undo the damage.
Computers and networks inherently produce data, and our constant interactions with them allow corporations to collect an enormous amount of intensely personal data about us as we go about our daily lives. Sometimes we produce this data inadvertently simply by using our phones, credit cards, computers and other devices. Sometimes we give corporations this data directly on Google, Facebook, Apple Inc.’s iCloud and so on in exchange for whatever free or cheap service we receive from the Internet in return.
The NSA is also in the business of spying on everyone, and it has realized it’s far easier to collect all thedata from these corporations rather than from us directly. In some cases, the NSA asks for this data nicely. In other cases, it makes use of subtle threats or overt pressure. If that doesn’t work, it uses tools like national security letters.
The result is a corporate-government surveillance partnership, one that allows both the government and corporations to get away with things they couldn’t otherwise.
There are two types of laws in the U.S., each designed to constrain a different type of power: constitutional law, which places limitations on government, and regulatory law, which constrains corporations. Historically, these two areas have largely remained separate, but today each group has learned how to use the other’s laws to bypass their own restrictions. The government uses corporations to get around its limits, and corporations use the government to get around their limits.
This partnership manifests itself in various ways. The government uses corporations to circumvent its prohibitions against eavesdropping domestically on its citizens. Corporations rely on the government to ensure that they have unfettered use of the data they collect.
Here’s an example: It would be reasonable for our government to debate the circumstances under which corporations can collect and use our data, and to provide for protections against misuse. But if the government is using that very data for its own surveillance purposes, it has an incentive to oppose any laws to limit data collection. And because corporations see no need to give consumers any choice in this matter—because it would only reduce their profits—the market isn’t going to protect consumers, either.
Our elected officials are often supported, endorsed and funded by these corporations as well, setting up an incestuous relationship between corporations, lawmakers and the intelligence community.
The losers are us, the people, who are left with no one to stand up for our interests. Our elected government, which is supposed to be responsible to us, is not. And corporations, which in a market economy are supposed to be responsive to our needs, are not. What we have now is death to privacy—and that’s very dangerous to democracy and liberty.
Challenging Power
The simple answer is to blame consumers, who shouldn’t use mobile phones, credit cards, banks or the Internet if they don’t want to be tracked. But that argument deliberately ignores the reality of today’s world. Everything we do involves computers, even if we’re not using them directly. And by their nature, computers produce tracking data. We can’t go back to a world where we don’t use computers, the Internet or social networking. We have no choice but to share our personal information with these corporations, because that’s how our world works today.
Curbing the power of the corporate-private surveillance partnership requires limitations on both what corporations can do with the data we choose to give them and restrictions on how and when the government can demand access to that data. Because both of these changes go against the interests of corporations and the government, we have to demand them as citizens and voters. We can lobby our government to operate more transparently—disclosing the opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would be a good start—and hold our lawmakers accountable when it doesn’t. But it’s not going to be easy. There are strong interests doing their best to ensure that the steady stream of data keeps flowing.
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Jul. 11, 2017 3:19 pm
Photos of CSC’s new headquarters
We got an inside look at the state-of-the-art facility — green roof and all.
By Shabria Davis / contributor
CSC HQ.
(Photo courtesy of CSC/Jim Graham)
After 17 years in its previous location, business services company CSC recently opened a new global headquarters in Wilmington.
The relocation comes just weeks after the company’s major rebrand. The new brand identity is prevalent throughout the 40-acre campus.
“Having everyone physically together will create better unity and better communication, allowing the team to work better together,” CSC President Rod Ward III said in an interview with Technical.ly following a ribbon-cutting ceremony held last month. “The new headquarters fits with the team work-culture.”
CSC HQ. (Photo courtesy of CSC/Jim Graham)
Located at the corner of Lancaster Pike and Centerville Road, the 148,000-square-foot facility is home to nearly 650 employees, including the chief executive and those who work in the marketing, finance, operations, legal and IT departments. The corporation also purchased the Marvel Building (located across the street), where 250 employees from the sales team and digital brand services division are based.
During a tour of the elaborate complex, led by CSC’s Brandy Chieffi, we got an in-depth look at the space. Here are some of the unique features:
Flexible workspaces: Each employee has a sit-stand desk. There are also semi-closed work pods, open collaboration units (which are named after the cities and states where CSC offices are located), and outdoor seating.
Fully equipped fitness center and exercise room: The facility, which is free of charge to employees, is open before, during and after work hours, as well as on weekends. Fun fact: More than 500 employees signed up for the fitness center within the first 48 hours of operation.
Multiple dining options: Employees can dine in the multi-level cafeteria, which offers healthy food choices, a pizza oven, deli, salad bar and grab-and-go options. Additionally each floor contains a social cafe, equipped with a refrigerator and microwave.
Roof top garden: The green roof is both environmentally friendly and helps with heating/cooling expenses.
History time line and memorabilia wall: A hallway in the facility contains a time line that documents major events in CSC history.
“Our vision was to create a signature, best-in-class, global headquarters campus that will serve CSC for at least the next 20 years,” headquarters project leader Scott Malfitano said in a statement. “We have worked to incorporate ‘green’ elements and preserve open space while also focusing on the health and happiness of our — our most important asset — and we think we’ve achieved that. This is an accomplishment we hope our people, the community, and the state can be proud of.”
Malfitano and the rest of the CSC team, seemed to get what they wished for. While addressing the audience during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Gov. John Carney praised the organization for its recent successes and the positive impact CSC has had on the community.
“This building is unbelievable,” said Carney. “When CSC is successful, Delaware is successful. When Delaware is successful, CSC is successful.”
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The Massive Racketeering Suit Against Big Tobacco
The Massive Racketeering Suit Against Big Tobacco:
The District Judge's RICO Ruling, and Why It Is Likely to Be Reversed
By ANTHONY J. SEBOK
anthony.sebok@brooklaw.edu
United States v. Philip Morris et al. is a massive civil racketeering suit now being tried in Washington D.C. The suit is yet one more battle in a bizarre and hard fought legal war between Big Tobacco and its enemies. In it, the Department of Justice seeks a court order telling the tobacco companies to "disgorge" (that is, pay to the government) $280 billion dollars in allegedly ill-gotten profits.
In my last column, I recounted the suit's history -- emphasizing the bizarre combination of events that led the Bush Administration Justice Department to embrace an unusual suit begun by the Clinton Administration's Justice Department.
The suit's premise is that the entire tobacco industry has operated a criminal enterprise that could be held liable under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), a law usually associated with businesses owned by men like Tony Soprano. (The tobacco companies adamantly deny any RICO violations, however.)
Some may applaud the suit simply because the ox that is getting gored is the tobacco industry - which, evidence has shown, took money from consumers by concealing the dangers of smoking. But I will argue that the suit sets a dangerous precedent - one that won't be limited to Big Tobacco.
With this suit, the government is attempting to reshape the law to expand its already tremendous power. And once this expanded power is established - if indeed it is - it can be turned on virtually any corporation or organization. For this reason, the Supreme Court may well take an interest in this case.
An Unusual Rationale for a Civil Suit: Prevention of Future Wrongdoing
As I explained in my prior column, the Justice Department technically is pursuing injunctive relief here - that is, it is seeking a court order. But in this instance, the order sought is tantamount to damages. Rather than seeking an order to, say, desegregate a school, or stop an illegal practice, the government is asking for an order telling Big Tobacco to disgorge millions in profits.
This suit is very odd. Ordinarily, the government might seek to get money out of Big Tobacco by bringing a criminal case, hoping to get a fine, and along the way, to deter future criminal violations. Or, if the government was cheated out of money, it could bring a civil suit seeking to get that money back as a damages award - and, again, to deter future violations along the way. Here, though, the government is doing something very different.
Here, the government is not bringing a criminal case. Nor is it bringing a civil suit on the theory that it has suffered. Instead, it is invoked a special section of RICO that allows it to sue to protect others from the future wrongdoing of a party who has violated RICO.
Specifically, that section instructs the federal courts that they may issue injunctive relief in order to "prevent and restrain" future violations of RICO. Can this relief be ordered in this situation?
For several reasons, Big Tobacco argues the answer is no.
One Big Tobacco Argument: The Alleged Wrongdoing Is All In the Past
First, the tobacco companies argue that all the wrongdoing of which they are accused occurred years in the past - and thus, there is no future wrongdoing to "prevent and restrain."
They tobacco companies have therefore asked the court to dismiss the suit on the ground that the Justice Department's complaint, as a matter of law, fails to state a valid civil claim. The Justice Department has retorted, however, that this is an issue of fact - not law. It is a matter of fact, it says, whether the evidence suggests that Big Tobacco will engage in racketeering in the future.
(Big Tobacco also argues, similarly, that the money the government is demanding cannot be connected with any credible risk of future RICO wrongdoing. And the government responds, similarly, that the connection is a factual issue.)
A Second Big Tobacco Argument: The Statute Doesn't Allow This Remedy
Big Tobacco also argues that a disgorgement order is not among the injunctive remedies the statute envisions. And it's true that the statute gives a few examples of the kinds of orders it contemplates - and a disgorgement order is not among them.
The statute, in fact, provides in its text examples of the kind of injunctive relief it does envision: The court could order defendants to "divest" themselves of enterprises which could be used for future RICO violations. The court could issue an order "prohibit[ing]" defendants from engaging in the same "type" of endeavors that had been part of the criminal enterprise. Or, the court could order the "dissolution or reorganization" of enterprises that had been involved in racketeering.
To support its point, Big Tobacco cited two key precedents. The first was the 1995 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in United States v. Carson. The second was the 2003 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Richard v. Hoechst.
In Carson, the government sued to recover money paid to a union official who had been convicted in a parallel criminal RICO action. It argued that the official had gotten the money as a result of his past racketeering activities, so if the money wasn't disgorged, he would benefit from his past wrongdoing. And it argued that the statute allowed a court order of disgorgement.
But the Second Circuit disagreed. It held that the section of RICO that allows the government to seek injunctive relief can be used only to prevent future wrongdoing, not to prevent unjust enrichment.
Why Judge Kessler Rejected Big Tobacco's Second Argument
Judge Kessler, who sits on the D.C. District Court, was not bound by the Second Circuit decision; the higher court that oversees her District is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Accordingly, Judge Kessler was free to disagree with Carson - and, indeed, she did.
In support of her decision, she noted that Congress never ruled out a disgorgement order. She also noted that disgorgement is permitted under federal securities law, which - like the relevant RICO section -- contains a vague reference to injunctive relief. She also reasoned that a disgorgement order - by deterring other wrongdoers--fits the statute's mandate that future violations be "prevented and restrained."
At Big Tobacco's request, Judge Kessler certified her decision for immediate review by the D.C. Circuit. Typically, appeals in the federal system occur at the end of a case. But a district judge can certify a question for interlocutory review - that is, review in the middle of a case.
Why did Judge Kessler do so here? Doubtless, because she rightly sees this question as very important - for it's the heart of the case. If the $280 billion disgorgement remedy is unavailable, the Justice Department's arsenal will be tremendously impoverished.
That remedy is almost the whole ball game. The government could still ask - for example - for injunctions against certain kinds of cigarette advertising. But the impact would pale in comparison to that of a multibillion disgorgement order.
Why the D.C. Circuit Is Likely to Reverse Judge Kessler's Ruling
In my view, it is likely that the D.C. Circuit will agree with the Second Circuit's reasoning in Carson - and disagree with Judge Kessler. That is because Judge Kessler's interpretation of the statute blurs the boundaries between civil RICO and criminal RICO.
In a criminal case, the government can prosecute even if it has not suffered injury. It can also seek whopping fines. And its goal can be not compensation, but incapacitation and deterrence. But in doing all these things, it is restrained by the "reasonable doubt" standard and other protections for criminal defendants.
Here, the government wants the benefit of proceeding criminally without complying with criminal justice standards. It wants to proceed despite lack of injury to itself, as a quasi-prosecutor. It wants to seek a whopping amount that it tantamount to a huge fine. It wants to be able to incapacitate Big Tobacco, and deter anyone else who might contemplate similar violations. And it wants to do all this by a "preponderance of the evidence" - not with evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt."
That should not happen. The criminal/civil line should be preserved here.
This Is Not the Way to, In Effect, Expand Criminal RICO
RICO is already a famously broad law. If Congress wants to expand criminal RICO to give it even more reach than it has now, Congress should say so explicitly. It certainly knows how.
Criminal RICO should not be stretched just to get Big Tobacco. Once that door is opened, it will not be closed again. And the next victim of the Justice Department's "civil" litigation might be a defendant who is less obviously deserving of rough justice. It could be a labor union whose members are innocent workers. It could be a nonprofit that temporarily suffered under corrupt membership. It might be a pharmaceutical company whose management allegedly made a misrepresentation in a submission to the FDA, or a fast food company who claimed that its products could be consumed as part of a healthy diet.
Not every wrongdoing--whether real or imagined--should be criminalized. We need to maintain the distinction between criminal and civil justice, and for this reason the D.C. Circuit must reverse Judge Kessler.
Anthony J. Sebok, a FindLaw columnist, is a Professor at Brooklyn Law School. His other columns on tort issues may be found in the archive of his columns on this site.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 271 › Early & Daniel Co. v. United States
Early & Daniel Co. v. United States, 271 U.S. 140 (1926)
Early & Daniel Co. v. United States
Argued April 30, 1926
Decided May 3, 1926
When a contractor, upon demand of the government, delivers under protest goods in an amount exceeding that which his contract call for at the time, and, the protest being ignored, thereafter accepts without protest the contract price, there is no ground for implying a contract upon the government's part to pay the market price, though higher. P. 271 U. S. 142.
59 Ct.Cls. 932 affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims rejecting a claim for the difference between the contract and market prices of hay delivered to the government.
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a suit against the United States for $22,000, balance due for hay delivered. Appellant made a contract with the government the 31st of July, 1917, by which it agreed to furnish, during the period beginning August 1, 1917, and ending September 30, 1917, such hay as might be required by the government during July and the first half of August of 1917, not to exceed 6,000,000 pounds at 97 1/2 cents per 100 pounds, and such hay as might be required during the last half of August and all of September, 1917, not exceeding 6,000,000 pounds at 95 cents per 100 pounds, to be delivered f.o.b. cars at Newport News, Virginia, subject to call of the government in lots not to exceed 1,000,000 pounds per lot. The
government made calls which the plaintiff filled as follows:
Call No. 1, 500,000 pounds, August 15, 1917.
Call No. 2, 1,050,000 pounds, August 20, 1917.
Call No. 3, 2,000,000 pounds, September 5, 1917.
Call No. 4, 4,450,000 pounds, September 12, 1917.
These calls were all filled without protest, though the later calls were for amounts greater than 1,000,000 pounds. When the final and fifth call was made for 4,000,000 pounds, the appellant objected that the call was for more pounds of hay than the contract allowed for any one call. That objection was not made until it was too late for the defendant to amend the call. The appellant's vice-president then wrote to the government officer in charge that the fifth call was not deemed by the plaintiff to be in accord with the contract, and that the plaintiff did not intend to fill it. Under the terms of the contract, appellant had until November 15th, being three months from the date of the first call, to complete its deliveries. On November 19th, the camp quartermaster wired to the appellant,
"Amount hay on hand will supply needs to December 4th. Require prompt delivery 4,000,000 pounds. Advise at once your action, otherwise must buy in open market."
After further exchange of telegrams, plaintiff sent the following telegram to the camp quartermaster under date of November 21, 1917:
"We will start shipping hay immediately, and in case you need any before arrival, will arrange to have Hiden loan us a supply. Want it distinctly understood that we are doing this under protest, and are going to put the matter up to proper authorities in Washington, and if they rule in our favor, want settlement at fair market price for amount we overfill. Will you wire C. S. Ruttle, General Agent, D.BC. & W. Railway, to furnish equipment immediately as we request for hay to ship to you? Answer. "
The plaintiff delivered under protest the remaining 4,000,000 pounds of hay. Thereafter the plaintiff accepted without protest the sum of $38,000 which was all that was due under the contract. The plaintiff then filed this claim for $22,000 with the Acting Quartermaster General of the United States Army, with the Auditor for the War Department, with the Secretary of War, with the Comptroller of the Treasury, and with the Board of Contract Adjustment, all of whom, in turn, decided that the claim could not be paid.
The appellant had the option of delivering the remainder of the hay under the terms of the contract, or of not delivering it at all, if the contract had been broken. It chose to deliver. It made a protest, but that was ignored by the officers of the government, and when the government tendered the contract price, it was accepted by the appellant, and without protest. Under such circumstances, there is no ground for implying a contract to pay more than the contract price. New York, New Haven & H. R. Co. v. United States, 251 U. S. 123, 251 U. S. 127; Nelson Co. v. United States, 261 U. S. 17, 261 U. S. 23; Willard Sutherland & Co. v. United States, 262 U. S. 489, 262 U. S. 494; Atwater & Co. v. United States, 262 U. S. 495, 262 U. S. 498.
The judgment of the Court of Claims is
Affirmed.
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Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Volume 2 – Julian S. Corbett – Review
9 February 2019 9 February 2019 Thomo the Lost
Back in September 2018 I reviewed Volume 1 of Julian Corbett’s Maritime Operations of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. Volume 2 arrived recently and replaced my reading list for a period of time as I followed the maritime operations from the Genesis of the Russian Baltic Fleet, through the Battle of Tsushima (or as Corbett describes it, the Battle of the Sea of Japan) and which completes with a look at the two Sakhalin expeditions.
So this volume covers:
Genesis of the Baltic Fleet
Cruise of the Smolensk and Peterburg
The Dogger Bank Incident
Situation at Port Arthur to the First Attack on 203-metre hill
The Blockade of Kwangtung
203-metre Hill
Destruction of the Ships at Port Artur and the Torpedo Attack on the Sevastopol
Fall of Port Arthur
Progress of the Baltic Fleet
Japanese Preparations for the Baltic Fleet
Fleet Movements in March and April
Concentration of and the Final Approach of the Baltic Fleet up to Contact
The Battle of the Sea of Japan (Tsushima) in five phases
Admiral Nebogatov’s Surrender
The Sakhalin Expeditions
I will admit that in the past I have tended to stop reading the histories at the climax that is Tsushima so reading the last chapters in this book were well worth the effort.
Adding Corbett to my Kindle copies of Semenoff as well as the works by Hough, and Warner & Warner in particular, I feel I have a good view (at least as good as an historical view can get) of the Maritime side of the Russo-Japanese War (RJW). I will look for further works on the land warfare at the time but I can’t help but wonder if the performance of the Japanese against the Russians during the RJW encouraged the Japanese to take on the Soviets and Mongolians at Khalkin-gol (Nomonhan), a battle that resulted in the Japanese agreeing to a peace with the Soviets and which allowed the Soviets to concentrate on their war with Germany.
Julian Corbett (Later Sir Julian Corbett) wrote the Maritime Operations of the Russo-Japanese War as a confidential publication for the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty War Staff. It was never made available to the general reader until well after Corbett’s death. Corbett composes a picture of the war by writing a continuous narrative that weaves the interrelationship of land and sea events as they affect each other. He examines the political objectives, the geography of the area as well as the naval aspects to tell that story. Because Corbett writes in a continues narratives he is easy to read as well.
Naval Institute Press published a hardback version of Corbett’s work back in 1994. This is the first release of the history in paperback. It is also released in an eBook version (Kindle). As with Volume 1, there are none of the original illustrations that accompanied the 1914/1915 editions of Corbett’s work.
This volume is smaller than the first volume but arguably more exciting. There are 24 chapters in this volume. 11 Appendices and an Index.
For example, on page 404 is Appendix III, which contains a translation of the Instructions for the Vladivostok Squadron sent by Vice-Admiral Stark to Rear-Admiral Baron Shtakelberg at Vladivostok and notes:
I must point out that Japan has not subscribed to the Paris Declaration of the 16th April 1856; and therefore we shall not hesitate to inflict as much damage as possible to the enemy on the sea. Being convinced that during war the Japanese merchant vessels will not think twice about flying the flags of other nationalities, I am forwarding to your Excellency copies of the regulations laid down for Japanese merchant vessels, which may be of use in establishing the actual nationality of vessels stopped by you, of which only valuable prizes captured at no great distance from Vladivostok may be sent to that port; all the remainder must be sent to the bottom without consideration of pity and without hesitation.
This book belongs on any naval historian’s bookshelf, and now that it is available in both paperback and electronic form it is available to a wider reading audience.
As before, as a companion set to Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Vols 1 and 2, look for a copy of The Russo-Japanese War at Sea 1904-5: Volume 1-Port Arthur, the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan and Volume 2: The Battle of Tsushima and the Aftermath by Vladimir Semenoff These works provide a view of the war from the Russian side.
Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Vol 2
Paperback : 486 pages
Publisher: Naval Institute Press (March 15, 2015)
In the same way I did with Volume 1, I highly recommend this work, especially for any naval historian, general reader with an interest in naval or Asian history, or anyone interested in the zenith of the pre-dreadnought period.
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What Eats a Snake in the Rainforest?
••• Anup Shah/Digital Vision/Getty Images
What Do Owls Eat?
By Skip Davis
Many snakes live in the world's tropical rain forest regions and lie in wait to envenom or constrict their prey. However, snakes are not the only predators in the rain forest and some of these predators include snakes in their diets. The list of these of predators include birds, mammals and even other snakes. Small and medium-sized snakes are the usual targets for predators, although large predators such as tigers and crocodiles will hunt any size of snake.
The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird-of-prey species found in a variety of habitats, including rain forests. However, these birds are not usually found in dense forests since much of their predation depends on being able to see their prey on the ground. Snakes are a part of the red-tailed hawk's diet. Usually, red-tailed hawks prey on small- to medium-sized snakes. As a bird-of-prey species, red-tailed hawks have sharp talons and beaks, which allow them to grasp and devour their prey with relative ease.
King Cobra Snake
One of the world's longest venomous snakes, the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a predator of its fellow snakes. This snake's habit of eating other snakes earns it the name “king.” As adults, king cobras grow between 12 to 18 feet in length. These snakes have fangs in their mouths, allowing them to inject venom into their prey. The venom paralyzes the prey, which makes it a non-resistant meal to the king cobra. King cobras live in tropical rain forests throughout Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
Tigers (Panthera genus) are large, carnivorous cats who prey on medium- to large-size snakes. In the rain forest, large snakes include black mambas and pythons. Most tiger species live in rain forest environments in India and Southeast Asia such as the Indochinese, Malayan, South China, Sumatran and Bengal species. Tigers always pounce on prey when their prey turns their back on them. All existing tigers species are endangered in their native habitat due to deforestation and overhunting.
Saltwater Crocodile
The largest existing reptilian species is the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), a native to rain forests and saltwater estuaries in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Some adult saltwater crocodiles grow over 20 feet in length. Young saltwater crocodiles will prey on smaller or medium-sized snakes, while adults pursue larger snake species. Saltwater crocodiles have narrow snouts and their eyes are closer together than other crocodilian species.
Although they are a small-sized mammal, mongooses (Herpestidae genus) are one of the primary predators of the king cobra snake in Africa, India and Southeast Asia. These 2-foot long animals use their quick reflexes to avoid the venom of the king cobra and other venomous snakes. Author Rudyard Kipling immortalized the mongoose's predation of king cobras in his fictional short story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.” Although they are found in various habitats, most mongooses dwell in the treetops of rain forests.
San Francisco State University Department of Geography; Biogeography of Red-tailed Hawk; Jeff Garrigues; 2000
Rochedale State School: King Cobra
San Diego Zoo: Mammals -- Tiger
University of Florida -- Florida Museum of Natural History; Saltwater Crocodile; Adam Britton
National Geographic: Mongoose
Skip Davis has been writing professionally since 2005. His work has appeared in "Southern Literary Magazine," on various websites and in graphic panels at the Jackson Zoological Park in Jackson, Miss. Currently living in Southern California, Davis received his Bachelor of Arts in theater at Belhaven College.
Anup Shah/Digital Vision/Getty Images
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Home of British PM Edward Heath Damaged by Bomb
The London home of the Conservative leader and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Edward Heath is damaged from the impact of a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on December 22, 1974. The attack comes just hours before a Christmas ceasefire is due to come into effect. Heath is not at home at the time of the blast but arrives ten minutes later. His housekeeper, Mrs. Crawford, and her daughter are both in the house at the time but are not injured.
The 21-pound bomb breaks glass, smashes the front door and damages the front room. The only damage to anything valuable is to a painting done in the south of France by Sir Winston Churchill. No one initially admits carrying out the attack but the IRA is immediately suspected.
Witnesses describe seeing a man emerging from a Ford Cortina and throwing what is believed to have been the bomb onto the first floor balcony of the house. Two policemen and a patrol car chase the vehicle as it drives off. The Cortina crashes a few minutes later in Chelsea and several men flee from the vehicle.
The police are fearful that the explosion is a “come‐on” tactic where an initial smaller bomb is followed by a larger one after the first has attracted crowds. They seal off all streets around the house for several hours. Heath’s home is about half a mile from Harrods, in Knightsbridge, where a more powerful bomb had gone off the previous night as Christmas shoppers were being evacuated.
Heath tells waiting reporters that Prime Minister Harold Wilson had sent him a message which was “very much appreciated.” Addressed “Dear Ted,” Wilson says, “This attack will only strengthen our united resolve to bring these things to justice.”
Heath, who had been conducting a carol service at his hometown of Broadstairs, Kent, carrying an overnight bag is driven off by police to an undisclosed location after his arrival at home. He returns later to inspect the damage with bomb squad chief, Commander Robert Huntley.
Heath says the attack will not deter him from traveling to Ulster the following day for talks with security forces and Ulster political leaders as previously scheduled. As Leader of the Opposition, Heath has a Special Branch police bodyguard with him at all times. The house is under “short” police patrol which means there are extra cars and foot patrols in the area but not directly outside the building.
Categories: Irish History, Irish Republican Army, Terrorism | Tags: Broadstairs, Ceasefire, Chelsea, Edward Heath, Ford Cortina, Harold Wilson, Harrods, Irish Republican Army, Kent, Knightsbridge, Leader of the Conservative Party, Leader of the Opposition, London, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Southern France, Special Branch, Ulster, Winston Churchill | Permalink.
Harrods Bombing
A Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) car bomb kills six and injures ninety outside London‘s Harrods department store, a large, upmarket department store in the affluent Knightsbridge district near Buckingham Palace on December 17, 1983. The IRA Army Council claims that it has not authorised the attack and expresses regret for the civilian casualties. After the bombing, the IRA changes its tactic to focus on military targets on the mainland.
Harrods had been the target of an earlier IRA bomb on December 21, 1974 which was placed in the northeast corner of the first floor. There was a very short warning and the store was in the process of being cleared when it exploded. It was also the target of a much smaller IRA bomb almost ten years later, in January 1993, which injured four people.
From 1973 the Provisional IRA has carried out waves of bombing attacks on commercial targets in London and elsewhere in England as part of its “economic war.” The goal is to damage the economy and cause disruption, which would put pressure on the British government to withdraw from Northern Ireland. On December 10, 1983, the IRA carries out its first attack in London in some time when a bomb explodes at the Royal Artillery Barracks, injuring three British soldiers.
One week later, on the afternoon of December 17, IRA members park a car bomb near the side entrance of Harrods, on Hans Crescent. The bomb contains 25 to 30 lbs. of explosives and is set to be detonated by a timer. It is left in a 1972 blue Austin 1300 GT four-door sedan. At 12:44 PM a man using an IRA codeword phones the central London branch of the Samaritans charity. The caller says there is a car bomb outside Harrods and another bomb inside Harrods, and gives the car’s registration plate. According to police, he does not give any other description of the car.
The bomb explodes at about 1:21 PM, as four police officers in a car, an officer on foot and a police dog-handler near the suspect vehicle. Three officers and three bystanders are killed and 90 others are injured, including 14 police officers. The blast damages 24 cars and all five floors on the side of Harrods, sending a shower of glass down onto the street. The police car absorbs much of the blast and this likely prevents further casualties.
Five people die at the scene of the bombing and a sixth later dies in the hospital. The bystanders who die are Philip Geddes (24), a journalist who had heard about the alert and went to the scene, Jasmine Cochrane-Patrick (25) and Kenneth Salvesen (28), a United States citizen. The Metropolitan Police Service officers killed are Sergeant Noel Lane (28) and Constable Jane Arbuthnot (22). A third officer, Inspector Stephen Dodd (34), dies in the hospital from his injuries on December 24. Constable Jon Gordon survives, but loses both legs and part of a hand in the blast.
At the time of the explosion, a second warning call is made by the IRA. The caller says that a bomb has been left in the C&A department store at the east end of Oxford Street. Police clear the area and cordon it off but this claim is found to be false. In the aftermath of the attack, hundreds of extra police and mobile bomb squads are drafted into London. Aleck Craddock, chairman of Harrods, reports that £1 million in turnover has been lost as a result of the bombing. Despite the damage, Harrods re-opens three days later, proclaiming it will not be “defeated by acts of terrorism.” Denis Thatcher, the husband of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, visits the store and tells reporters “no damned Irishman is going to stop me going there.”
Categories: Irish History, Irish Republican Army, Northern Ireland, Terrorism | Tags: Austin 1300, Buckingham Palace, C&A, Car Bomb, Denis Thatcher, England, Government of the United Kingdom, Harrods, IRA Army Council, Journalist, Kenneth Salvesen, Knightsbridge, London, Margaret Thatcher, Metropolitan Police Service, Northern Ireland, Oxford Street, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Royal Artillery Barracks, Samaritans, United States | Permalink.
Birth of Irish Writer Arthur Murphy
Arthur Murphy, Irish writer also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, is born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, on December 27, 1727, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French.
Murphy studies at Saint-Omer in France, and is a gifted student of the Latin and Greek classics. He works as an actor in the theatre, becomes a barrister, a journalist and finally a playwright. He edits Gray’s Inn Journal between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale‘s oldest and dearest friend, he introduces Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He is appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803.
Murphy is known for his translations of Tacitus in 1753, which are still published as late as 1922. He also writes three biographies – Fielding‘s Works (1762), An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson (1792), and Life of David Garrick (1801).
An example of Murphy’s theatrical writings is The Citizen, a farce, first produced at Drury Lane in 1761. Philpot, a wealthy skinflint, has bargained with Sir Jasper Wilding for his son Young Philpot to marry Maria Wilding, and for his daughter Sally to marry Wilding’s son, for settlements and twenty thousand pounds paid to Sir Jasper. Young Philpot has lost a fortune, but borrows money from his father and embarks on an insurance fraud involving shipwrecked goods. Maria plans to marry Beaufort, who loves her. As Young Philpot tries to propose, she convinces him she is half-witted, and he spurns her. In the second act, Philpot senior is visiting Corinna, a lady of loose virtue, but hides under the table when his son calls upon her. He overhears as Young Philpot tells her how he has cajoled the money out of his father. Maria’s brother surprises them, and old Philpot is also discovered, to their mutual shame. In the final scene Sir Jasper with a lawyer obtains Philpot’s signature to the agreements, but meanwhile Maria, an educated girl, shows her strong character to Young Philpot and he again refuses to propose. Having signed away his rights old Philpot offers to marry her, but the lawyer reveals himself as Beaufort, and explains that he has swapped the deeds, so that Philpot has unwittingly signed his agreement for Maria to marry Beaufort.
Murphy is thought to have coined the legal term “wilful misconstruction” whilst representing the Donaldson v. Becket appeal to the House of Lords in 1774 against the perpetual possession of copyright.
Arthur Murphy dies at Knightsbridge, London, on June 18, 1805 and is buried at Hammersmith, London. A biography is written in 1811 by Dr. Jesse Foot. Nathaniel Dance-Holland paints Murphy’s portrait which is thought to now be in the Irish National Portrait Collection.
(Pictured: 1777 portrait of Arthur Murphy by Nathaniel Dance-Holland)
Categories: Irish History, Literature & Poetry | Tags: An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Barrister, Commissioner of Bankruptcy, Copyright, County Roscommon, David Garrick, Donaldson v. Becket, Drury Lane, France, Hammersmith, Henry Fielding, Henry Thrale, House of Lords, Jesse Foot, Knightsbridge, London, Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Saint-Omer, Samuel Johnson, Tacitus | Permalink.
The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park Bombings
The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings occur on July 20, 1982 in London. Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonate two bombs during British military ceremonies in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park, both in Central London.
At 10:40 AM, a nail bomb explodes in the boot of a blue Morris Marina parked on South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park. The bomb comprises 25 lbs. of gelignite and 30 lbs. of nails. It explodes as soldiers of the Household Cavalry, Queen Elizabeth II‘s official bodyguard regiment, are passing. They are taking part in their daily Changing of the Guard procession from their barracks in Knightsbridge to Horse Guards Parade. Three soldiers of the Blues & Royals are killed outright, and another, their standard-bearer, dies from his wounds three days later. The other soldiers in the procession are badly wounded, and a number of civilians were injured. Seven of the regiment’s horses are also killed or had to be euthanised because of their injuries. Explosives experts believe that the Hyde Park bomb is triggered by remote by an IRA member inside the park.
The second attack happens at about 12:55 PM, when a bomb explodes underneath a bandstand in Regent’s Park. Thirty Military bandsmen of the Royal Green Jackets are on the stand performing music from Oliver! to a crowd of 120 people. It is the first in a series of advertised lunchtime concerts there. Six of the bandsmen are killed outright and the rest are wounded. A seventh dies of his wounds on August 1. At least eight civilians are also injured. The bomb had been hidden under the stand some time before and triggered by a timer. Unlike the Hyde Park bomb, it contains no nails and seems to be designed to cause minimal harm to bystanders.
A total of 22 people are detained in hospital as a result of the blasts. The IRA claims responsibility for the attacks by deliberately mirroring Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher‘s words a few months before when Britain entered the Falklands War. They proclaimed that “The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no task or occupational force can put down.” Reacting to the bombing, Thatcher states, “These callous and cowardly crimes have been committed by evil, brutal men who know nothing of democracy. We shall not rest until they are brought to justice.” The bombings have a negative impact on public support in the United States for the Irish republican cause.
In October 1987, 27-year-old Gilbert “Danny” McNamee, from County Armagh, is sentenced at the Old Bailey to 25 years in prison for his role in the Hyde Park bombing and others, despite his plea that he is not guilty. He is released from HM Prison Maze in late 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement.
On May 19, 2013, 61-year-old John Anthony Downey, from County Donegal, is charged with murder in relation to the Hyde Park bomb and intending to cause an explosion likely to endanger life. He appears at the Old Bailey on January 24, 2014 for the beginning of his trial and enters a not guilty plea. On February 25, 2014, it is revealed that Downey’s trial has collapsed after the presiding judge has ruled upon a letter sent by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to Downey in 2007, assuring him that he would not face criminal charges over the attack. Although the assurance is made in error and the police realise the mistake, it is never withdrawn, and the judge rules that therefore the defendant has been misled and prosecuting him would be an abuse of executive power. Downey is one of 187 IRA suspects who receive secret on-the-run letters guaranteeing them unofficial immunity from prosecution.
A memorial marks the spot of the Hyde Park bombing and the troop honours it daily with an eyes-left and salute with drawn swords. A plaque commemorating the victims of the second attack also stands in Regent’s Park.
Categories: Irish History, Irish Republican Army | Tags: Animal Euthanasia, Bandstand, Blues & Royals, British Armed Forces, British Prime Minister, Central London, Changing of the Guard, County Armagh, County Donegal, Falklands War, Gelignite, Gilbert "Danny" McNamee, Good Friday Agreement, HM Prison Maze, Horse Guards Parade, Household Cavalry, Hyde Park, Hyde Park Bombing, Irish Republicanism, Knightsbridge, Legal Immunity, London, Margaret Thatcher, Military Band, Morris Marina, Nail Bomb, Old Bailey, Oliver!, Police Service of Northern Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Queen Elizabeth II, Regent's Park, Regent's Park Bombing, Royal Green Jackets, United States | Permalink.
The Homosexuality Trial of Oscar Wilde
The trial of Oscar Wilde on charges of homosexuality, then considered a crime, begins at the Old Bailey on April 26, 1895.
With a warrant for Wilde’s arrest on charges of sodomy and gross indecency having been issued, Robbie Ross finds Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel, Knightsbridge, with Reginald Turner. Both men advise Wilde to go at once to Dover and try to get a boat to France. His mother advises him to stay and fight. Wilde, lapsing into inaction, can only say, “The train has gone. It’s too late.” Wilde is arrested for “gross indecency” under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, a term meaning homosexual acts not amounting to buggery, an offence under a separate statute. At Wilde’s instruction, Ross and Wilde’s butler force their way into the bedroom and library of 16 Tite Street, packing some personal effects, manuscripts, and letters. Wilde is then imprisoned on remand at HM Prison Holloway where he receives daily visits from his partner, Lord Alfred Douglas.
Events move quickly and his prosecution opens on April 26, 1895. Wilde pleads not guilty. He has already begged Douglas to leave London for Paris, but Douglas complains bitterly, even wanting to give evidence. He is pressed to go and soon flees to the Hotel du Monde. Fearing persecution, Ross and many others also leave the United Kingdom during this time.
Under cross examination by Charles Gill, Wilde is at first hesitant, but then eloquently responds to Gill’s question about the meaning of “the love that dare not speak its name.” Wilde replies, “‘The love that dare not speak its name” in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art, like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as ‘the love that dare not speak its name,’ and on that account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. That it should be so, the world does not understand. The world mocks at it, and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.”
Wilde’s response is counter-productive in a legal sense as it only serves to reinforce the charges of homosexual behaviour. The trial ends with the jury unable to reach a verdict. Wilde’s counsel, Sir Edward Clarke, is finally able to get a magistrate to allow Wilde and his friends to post bail. The Reverend Stewart Headlam puts up most of the £5,000 surety required by the court, having disagreed with Wilde’s treatment by the press and the courts. Wilde is freed from Holloway and, shunning attention, goes into hiding at the house of Ernest and Ada Leverson, two of his firm friends. Edward Carson approaches Frank Lockwood QC, the Solicitor General and asks, “Can we not let up on the fellow now?” Lockwood answers that he would like to do so, but fears that the case has become too politicised to be dropped.
The final trial is presided over by Alfred Wills. On May 25, 1895 Wilde and Alfred Taylor are convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. The judge describes the sentence, the maximum allowed, as “totally inadequate for a case such as this,” and that the case is “the worst case I have ever tried.” Wilde responds, “And I? May I say nothing, my Lord?” but it is drowned out by cries of “Shame” in the courtroom.
Oscar Wilde enters prison on May 25, 1895 and is released on May 18, 1897.
(Pictured: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas)
Categories: Human Rights, Irish History | Tags: Ada Leverson, Alfred Wills, Buggery, Cadogan Hotel, Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, Dover, Edward Carson, France, Frank Lockwood, Gross Indecency, HM Prison Holloway, Homosexuality, Knightsbridge, Lord Alfred Douglas, Michelangelo, Old Bailey, Oscar Wilde, Plato, Reginald Turner, Robbie Ross, Sodomy, Solicitor General for England and Wales, Stewart Headlam, United Kingdom, William Shakespeare | Permalink.
Birth of James Hamilton, First Governor of Northern Ireland
James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, is born in Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, London, on November 30, 1869. Styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, he is a British peer and Unionist politician. He serves as the first Governor of Northern Ireland, a post he holds between 1922 and 1945. He is a great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Hamilton is the eldest son of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, and godson of the Prince of Wales. His mother, Lady Mary Anna, is the fourth daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. He is educated at Eton College and subsequently serves first in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers until 1892 when he joins the 1st Life Guards. He is later transferred as major to the North Irish Horse.
In early 1901 he accompanies his father on a special diplomatic mission to announce the accession of King Edward to the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony.
In the 1900 general election, Hamilton stands successfully as Unionist candidate for Londonderry City, and three years later he becomes Treasurer of the Household, a post he holds until the fall of Arthur Balfour‘s Conservative administration in 1905. After serving for a time as an Opposition whip, Hamilton succeeds his father as third Duke of Abercorn in 1913. In 1922, he is appointed governor of the newly created Northern Ireland. He also serves as Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone from 1917 until his death, having previously been a Deputy Lieutenant for County Donegal. Abercorn proves a popular royal representative in Northern Ireland, and is reappointed to the post in 1928 after completing his first term of office. In 1931, he declines the offer of the governor generalship of Canada, and three years later he is again reappointed governor for a third term. He remains in this capacity until his resignation in July 1945.
Abercorn is made the last non-royal Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick in 1922. In 1928 he becomes a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and is also the recipient of an honorary degree from the Queen’s University Belfast. He receives the Royal Victorian Chain in 1945, the same year he is sworn of the Privy Council.
Abercorn marries Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham, only daughter of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and his wife Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox at St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, on November 1, 1894. They have three daughters and two sons.
Abercorn dies at his London home on September 12, 1953, and is buried at Baronscourt in County Tyrone.
Categories: Irish History, Nobility, Northern Ireland, Politics & Government | Tags: 1st Life Guards, 4th Earl of Lucan, Arthur Balfour, Baronscourt, Charles Bingham, County Donegal, County Tyrone, Denmark, Deputy Lieutenant, Diana, Duke of Abercorn, Eton College, Germany, Governor General of Canada, Governor of Northern Ireland, Honorary Degree, James Hamilton, James Hamilton 2nd Duke of Abercorn, Knightsbridge, Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham, London, Londonderry City, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone, North Irish Horse, Northern Ireland, Opposition, Order of Saint Patrick, Order of the Garter, Piccadilly, Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's University Belfast, Richard Curzon-Howe, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Victorian Chain, Russia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Treasurer of the Household, Unionist, Whip | Permalink.
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Creature Feature: Sawfish
April 14, 2019 by Sea of Change Foundation
By Raquel Gilliland; Sea of Change Intern
Our “Creature Feature” is back again for another week of education and conservation surrounding another mysterious sea creature! This week’s animal has the word “fish” in its’ name, but some people say it looks more like a shark; however, this week’s creature is actually a ray! Our confusing creature of the week is the famous sawfish, or carpenter sharks. There are five species of sawfish, the Queensland sawfish (Pristis clavata), the smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinate), the common/largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis), the narrow sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidate) and the narrowsnout/green sawfish (Pristis zijsron).
Largetooth sawfish
Easily identified by their long flattened nose, or rostrum, they were once abundant throughout the Atlantic Ocean the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Their current conservation status has taken a drastic turn in the past few decades due to habitat loss, bycatch, and overfishing; all five species are now listed as either endangered or critically endangered on the IUNC Red List of Threatened Species. Their long rostrums were prized not just in the recreational fishing community, but also in many ancient cultures and mythology. In what is currently Mexico, the ancient Aztecs depicted the rostrum being used as a weapon/sword and sawfish teeth have been found in Mayan graves. In Panama, sawfish were thought of as powerful spirits that could offer protection against supernatural enemies. They were even used as a modern symbol in WWII on navy ships and submarines.
Although they were once revered, these special rays are facing many challenges to their survival. Sawfish fins are among the most prized and expensive exports for shark fin soup, which is considered a delicacy in many Asian countries, yet adds no taste or health benefits. As with many other sharks and rays, sawfish parts are often advertised as traditional Chinese medicine, but no medical benefits have ever actually been proven. Their teeth are sold and used for cockfighting spurs in Peru and Ecuador. And sadly their rostrums are sold as a novelty item to tourists in many countries.
What’s happening to save these creatures? In 2007, all five species were listed on CITES Appendix I, which prohibited the harvest and trade of all sawfish and their parts. Unfortunately, people are still illegally catching and selling sawfish all over the world, it is easy to identify their rostrums, but difficult to identify their fins in the fish markets.
One of the largest sawfish conservation projects is currently happening in Florida at the Florida Museum of Natural History, which maintains the International Sawfish Encounter Database where people can submit information about a sawfish encounter or sighting, whether it’s alive or a rostrum hung on a wall. Next time you encounter a sawfish get online and let them know! Also get to know your favorite shark/ray conservation team and get involved in any way that you can with donating, becoming involved in local campaigns, and making sustainable lifestyle choices!
Creature Feature: Great Barracuda
February 18, 2019 by Sea of Change Foundation
By Breilly Roy; Sea of Change intern
Welcome to our fifth “Creature Feature!” Each week we briefly introduce you to some fascinating facts about a sea creature, why it is special and unique, and its conservation status. This week’s creature is the star of a song written by the band Heart and has one of the most daunting smiles in the ocean. Any guesses? It’s the great barracuda!
The great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) is known for its long body shape. Having an elongated torso, it looks like an underwater missile. This streamlined body shape allows the fish to move quickly underwater. They have been documented to swim in bursts up to 35 miles per hour! Not only does their speed help them escape hungry predators, but it aids in their hunting. Of course, their ferocious looking mouth also plays a big role in catching prey, though their vicious reputation is unwarranted – as with most sea creatures, if we respect them, they’ll do the same for us.
Unlike most fish, the great barracuda has two sets of teeth. Along the outside of the top jaw sits a row of smaller teeth, and behind them are dagger-like teeth. The bottom jaw houses long, needle-like teeth. Having dentition like this not only prevents the escape of prey, but it allows this top predator to grasp, tear, and cut up its catch before consumption.
As an adult they exhibit a nonsocial lifestyle, often hovering solitarily above coral reefs or wrecks looking for prey and defending their territory. Although, the great barracuda has been known to attack divers, such instances are rare. Some believe it is due to the species being attracted to a shiny object on a diver – so divers are warned to not wear watches or jewelry as a reflection might resemble the silvery fish the barracuda prey on. This species may seem scary, if you keep your distance, you have nothing to fear. The global conservation status of the great barracuda is of least concern according to the IUCN Red List. This species may seem intimidating, but when admired from afar one realizes the barracuda is an amazing fish that plays a vital role in its ecosystem.
Creature Feature: Cuttlefish
By Raquel Gilliland and Breilly Roy; Sea of Change Foundation interns
Welcome to our fourth “Creature Feature!” For those of you joining us for the first time, each week we briefly introduce you to some fascinating facts about a sea creature, why it is special and unique, and its conservation status. This week’s creature is a distant relative of the snail and a master of disguise. Have you figured it out yet? It’s the common cuttlefish!
Cuttlefish belong to the phylum Mollusca which consists of organisms such as snails, clams, scallops, oysters, octopuses, and squid. One common feature of this particular phylum is that all members have/had some form of exoskeleton or shell. As these creatures evolved, some lost their shells. Cuttlefish have the remnants of this body armor, but it is located inside their bodies and is called the “cuttlebone.”
These cephalopods, which means “head foot” in Greek, are unique in that they can camouflage themselves with their environment, much like a chameleon. Unlike the reptile though, the cuttlefish can change not only it’s skin color but it’s texture as well. This expert camouflage is carried out by two different types of specialized cells, papillae cells for texture and chromatophores for color.
Beyond their unique skin, cephalopods are also known for their high intelligence levels. Cuttlefish have brain cells that are similar to humans. Using this information, scientists have learned more about how the human brain operates and hope to apply that knowledge to find cures for diseases.
Thankfully, this species (Sepia officinalis) is considered an organism of least concern according to the IUCN Red List. If their habitat is protected, these creatures should inhabit the oceans for thousands of years to come.
Creature Feature: Hawksbill Turtle
February 4, 2019 by Sea of Change Foundation
Welcome to our third “Creature Feature!” Each week we briefly introduce you to some fascinating facts about a sea creature, why it is special and unique, and its conservation status. This week’s creature is the graceful hawksbill turtle. These underwater reptiles belong to the family Cheloniidae. Turtles in this family are the only known turtles that have front limbs stronger than their back.
Hawksbill turtles can be found throughout the tropical oceans of the world, usually occupying coral reefs. As these animals are predominantly spongivores (they eat sponges), their narrow, pointed beaks, resembling that of a hawk, are a useful tool in removing the invertebrates from clefts in the reef.
In 2015, a hawksbill was found near the Solomon Islands during a night dive, but this was no ordinary reptile as this turtle glowed in the dark! Scientists determined that this female was exhibiting signs of biofluorescence. Unlike bioluminescence, biofluorescence is not a chemical reaction within an organism but rather an organism absorbs light and projects it as a different color.
Sadly, hawksbill turtles are listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List and are decreasing in numbers. Due to their uniquely decorated shells, they are often harvested illegally and sold around the world despite their protection under CITES (Conservation on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
With proper conservation and preservation methods put into practice, such as reducing light pollution, plastic pollution, and nesting beach conservation, this ancient species has the potential to recover its declining populations.
Creature Feature: Thresher Sharks
January 28, 2019 by Sea of Change Foundation
By Raquel Gilliland and Breilly Roy, Sea of Change Foundation interns
Welcome to another “Creature Feature” where we briefly introduce you to some fascinating facts about a sea creature, why it is special and unique, and its conservation status. This week’s creature is the amazing thresher sharks. They belong to the class Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras) comprised of fishes that have skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. The three species of threshers (Alopias spp.) stand out among sharks or elasmobranchs with their unique tail, or caudal fin, that can be as long as their body.
Their habitats are primarily pelagic, meaning open ocean, and they often travel into shallow coastal waters when hunting large schools of fish. They feed mainly on juvenile tuna, bluefish, and mackerel. They use their long tails to slap schools of fish thereby herding and stunning their prey. As with many species of sharks, they are vital apex predators helping to keep our oceans healthy.
According to the IUCN Red List, the common thresher shark is “vulnerable” to extinction with decreasing population trends. These negative trends are most likely due to their low reproductive rate and the effects of overfishing often driven by demand for shark fins for Asian markets and restaurants. In 2017, the common thresher shark was added to CITES Appendix II providing some protection from international trade in its parts including fins.
Given sharks’ vital role in marine ecosystem health and that many shark species are threatened by overfishing and habitat loss, the Sea of Change Foundation supports research that can help protect sharks. In 2017, with our partners Ocean First Institute, ConnectOcean, and the University of Costa Rica – CIMAR, we helped fund and launch the first-ever shark and ray assessments at Las Catalinas, Costa Rica, an area where sharks have likely been overfished. In 2018, the Foundation will continue to support research and conservation in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica focused on sharks and rays.
Please consider supporting the Sea of Change Foundation as we focus our efforts on threatened species and habitats and work to create positive change for the oceans we all love to dive and explore. DONATE HERE. Thank you.
Creature Feature: Long-spined Sea Urchin
Welcome to our new series “Creature Features” where we’ll briefly introduce you to some fascinating facts about a sea creature, why it is special and unique, and its conservation status.
This week’s creature is the long-spined or black sea urchin (Diadema antillarum), a sharp specimen that hides in small crevices along the reef. They belong to the phylum Echinodermata – exclusively marine invertebrates that are characterized by a hard, spiny covering or skin, and that also includes other familiar reef residents such as sea stars, sand dollars and feather stars. They have a test or “shell” with venomous spines that grow as long as 10-12cm. Their ventral (underneath their bodies) scraping mouths were originally described by Aristotle as being lantern-shaped and scientists today still refer to them as “Aristotle’s lantern”.
Their habitats are crevices in coral reefs at depths of 1-10 meters deep. These creatures are nocturnal and feed mainly on algae; and they, in turn, are a favorite food of queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula) that use their powerful jaws to pull out the spines and break the test. The urchins’ role in a healthy reef ecosystem is to graze on algae that otherwise can outcompete corals for limited space to settle and grow. Unfortunately, in the early 1980’s there was a significant die off of long-spined urchins due to disease with 90% of the species being wipe out throughout Florida, the Caribbean and Bermuda from which many reefs in the region are still recovering.
Given that Diadema produce many eggs, their slow recovery from the disease outbreak almost 30 years ago has long puzzled scientists. Recently, researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that when staghorn coral (Acropora cervicorni) – a threatened species on the U.S. Endangered Species List – populations increase, Diadema populations decrease. They theorized that the reason for this could be the aggressive and territorial behavior of the threespot damselfish (Stegastes planifrons) that competes with Diadema for algae grazing patches on the reef. “These damselfish pick up urchins and move them off the coral with their mouths,” said Cramer, a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps and lead author of the study. “Damselfish populations appear to have grown recently as their predators have been overfished, which is one plausible explanation as to why long-spined urchin populations have failed to recover.”
Currently, the global conservation status of these urchins has not been evaluated by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Red List, they have no special status under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and under CITES (the Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species) they are also not protected from collection nor international trade.
Given their vital role in coral reef recovery and resilience, we hope to see populations of important reef grazerscome back in full force. You can learn more about how the Sea of Change Foundation has helped support research to reintroduce long-spine sea urchins to the reefs of the Bahamas, here; Reversing the Decline of Bahamian Coral Reefs – Herbivory Study, 2018.
Please consider supporting the Sea of Change Foundation as we work to create positive change for the oceans we all love to dive and explore. DONATE HERE. Thank you.
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Casual work and ‘a man for all reasons’
(First published 11 February,2011)
Jobs, decent work, casualisation and labour broking. No matter what was said in the State of the Nation Address yesterday, these remain the cardinal points of discussion, not only in the labour movement, but more broadly.
The focus now will be on implementation and how best to really reduce unemployment instead of merely massaging the statistics, and how, indeed, to provide a better life for all. On Wednesday evening, in the unlikely surroundings of the exclusive Cape Town Club, a new group was launched that professed to have answers.
In an air-conditioned ground floor anteroom of the club, its walls bedecked with oil paintings of old South African and US air force fighter aircraft, the Indibano Foundation for Democracy, Innovation and Development formally came into being. News of the launch and the claims made at the launch caused some raised eyebrows in the labour movement – and considerable annoyance.
However, trade unions were, apparently, not invited. Nor, it seemed, were the media, but invitations were sent to various non-governmental organisations, addressed to “Comrade, Sister, Brother, Sir, Madam!”
They stated that the foundation “aims to be the catalyst for critical dialogue about the state of our nation, our continent and our world, a centre for developing innovative solutions to development challenges that we face and, hopefully, for shaking the status quo”.
The invitation was on behalf of foundation trustee Phillip Dexter MP, better known these days as the spokesman for the Lekota faction of the strife-torn Cope and a former treasurer of the SACP and general secretary of the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu). It was sent out by Roscoe Palm, the communications officer for the Cope Youth Movement.
Also present, as trustees, were trade unionists and Cope members Bernard Joseph and Ernest Theron. Joseph, a former Nehawu member and Theron, who lost his vice-presidential position in the Food and Allied Workers’ Union in an internal union feud, have been involved in trying to form a new, independent general union.
A fourth trustee present was Dexter’s current partner and Cope member, Bregje Wijsenbeek. However, Dexter insisted: “This is not a Cope initiative.” It was an initiative open to all and the “flagship project” of the foundation was a “casual workers project (CWP)”.
Other projects were also envisaged, including the production of a “green motor vehicle that will cost just R35 000”. This, said Dexter, was the brainchild of “French entrepreneur Patrick Sagaspe” who arrived at the launch with the Cope MP.
Sagaspe, who did not take part in the discussions, is the chairman and chief executive of Centreville, the holding company of minerals outfit Urafields. Until late last year, Dexter was advertised on the now password-protected Urafields website as the chief executive of Centreville and vice-president of Urafield.
Speaking before the launch, Dexter said he had resigned these positions. He no longer held directorships and shares were held “in my family trust”.
Having last year completed his doctorate in religious studies with a thesis on “a materialist theory of the sacred” Dexter felt he again had the time to devote to help create “a healthy virus to counter the disease of mediocrity”.
Referring to the audience and himself as “we of the Left” and as socialists, he said the first step was the creation of the foundation and the CWP. This project would organise casual workers and supply temporary labour to various sectors of the economy in a way that would maximise the income and benefits to the workers.
Dexter admitted that this was already done on a national scale by the Men at the Side of the Road (MSR), but maintained that the CWP would be different in that it would be a “worker co-operative”.
“Which is what we are in all but name only,” said MSR Tshwane regional manager Peter Skelton.
However, the CWP also aims to establish a trade union for unemployed and casual workers that “will become the biggest union in the land”. Such a union was necessary because casual and unemployed workers had been “abandoned” by existing trade unions.
Responsible for building this union is trustee Thomas Poese, a former labour relations councillor at the German embassy. Poese worked until recently with the Nehawu investment company that Dexter is suing for R30 million for what he says are unpaid bonuses.
Dexter maintained that the trustees had “consulted widely” before the launch and that the concept of the CWP had been canvassed “for many years with people like (businessman and political analyst) Moeletsi Mbeki”. However, MSR director Peter Kratz said yesterday that he had not even heard of the project or the foundation and Mbeki noted that he had “never been party to such discussions”.
Kratz pointed out that MSR shared its experience with anyone interested in the MSR project. He also welcomed “any initiative that may help put more people into work”.
Manene Samela, the general secretary of the National Council of Trade Unions, also welcomed “any good job creation project”, but felt the CWP “seems like re-inventing the wheel”.
He pointed out that organised labour was currently engaged in talks with the government to “tighten up the laws and their implementation” regarding casual labour, so the CWP was “wasting time”.
“It’s a publicity stunt,” said Federation of Unions general secretary Dennis George. “The whole question is being dealt with now and we don’t know yet what the way forward will be.”
Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven pointed out that, far from abandoning casual workers, many unions, especially in the retail sector, actively recruited temporary workers. The establishment of yet another separate union was “divisive” and “like Cope itself, is doomed to fail”.
Most of the critical trade unionists saw the foundation and its projects as a Cope initiative or as a vehicle to provide a “lifeboat” for if and when Cope finally collapsed.
There were also mentions of Dexter’s chequered career, with one retired public sector worker referring to him as “a man for all reasons”.
Tagged: Centreville, COPE, Cosatu, Dennis George, Fedusa, Indibano, Manene Samela, Moeletsi Mbeki, Nactu, Patrick Craven, Patrick Sagaspe, Peter Kratz, Peter Skelton, Phillip Dexter, Roscoe Palm, Thomas Poese, Urafields
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Setting the Table for Admitting Your Expert’s Testimony.
To serve your expert’s testimony up to a jury you must consider and establish the following:
1. Qualifications. You need to know precisely what you are using your expert for,
and then determine if the expert’s scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will help
the trier-of-fact to understand the evidence or to determine a particular fact in issue under Rule
702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. To do this, you need to look at your expert’s qualifications
in each of the following areas:
(a) Education
(b) Background
(c) Experience
(d) Publications
(e) Prior Cases
(f) Certifications/Professional Memberships
Does each of these areas satisfy the evidentiary requirements under the rules of evidence? Look
for prior cases in your jurisdiction if you think there is a question. For example, a psychologist
or chiropractor may not be able to establish medical causation as this is outside of their area of
expertise. Check your local jurisdiction’s law. You may need a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
or a Doctor of Psychiatry instead.
2. Reliability & Reliance. Others will be discussing in greater depth the issues of
admissibility of experts; however, this is something that needs to be addressed before you
commit your money to any expert. Expert scientific testimony is required to establish and
explain the complex causal relationship between an event and the resulting injury or damage. It is also required for matters requiring special expertise in areas such as medicine, engineering, accounting, psychology, economics, statistics, forensic sciences (DNA analysis, handwriting analysis, fingerprinting, tool mark examinations, ballistics, entomology, pathology, etc.).
In evaluating the admissibility of such evidence, the trial court must make some
preliminary determinations when called up by the parties to do so, which are controlled by the rules of evidence. This is the minimum threshold which must be met before the trial court will
allow the jury to consider the evidence. I recommend that you know the law of your jurisdiction and preferences of your trial court:
(a) Frey Test v. Daubert Analysis. In federal court, the Daubert test is
utilized in evaluating the admissibility of evidence. See Daubert v. Merrell Dow
Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993). The Daubert
court specified a non-exhaustive list of factors that may be relevant in assessing the
reliability of scientific evidence, including:
1. Whether the theory or technique can be and has been tested?
2. Whether the theory has been subjected to peer review and publication?
3. Whether there is a known or potential error rate? and
4. Whether the theory has been generally accepted within the relevant field of
study?
Daubert, 509 U.S. at 593–94, 113 S.Ct. 2786; Kubsch v. State, 784 N.E.2d 905, 921 (Ind. 2003). Federal case law interpreting the Federal Rules of Evidence is not binding upon thedetermination of state evidentiary law. Regarding Daubert, the concerns driving coincide with the requirement of Indiana Rule of Evidence 702(b) that the trial court be satisfied of the reliability of the scientific principles involved. However, while Daubert may be instructive and helpful, it is not controlling. State Auto. Ins. Co. v. DMY Realty Co., LLP, 977 N.E.2d 411 (Ind. Ct. App. 2012) (Daubert factors may be helpful in determining whether scientific principles are reliable, but Indiana has not mandated its application).
In order for a witness to qualify as an expert:
1. The subject matter [must be] distinctly related to some scientific field, business
or profession beyond the knowledge of the average lay person; and
2. The witness [must be] shown to have sufficient skill, knowledge or experience
in that area so that the opinion will aid the trier-of-fact.
Bacher v. State, 686 N.E.2d 791, 800 (Ind. 1997). The proponent of expert testimony bears the
burden of establishing the foundation and reliability of the scientific principles and tests upon
which the expert’s testimony is based. McGrew v. State, 682 N.E.2d 1289, 1290 (Ind. 1997).
Once the admissibility of the expert’s opinion is established under Rule 702, “then the accuracy, consistency, and credibility of the expert’s opinions may properly be left to vigorous cross-
examination, presentation of contrary evidence, argument of counsel, and resolution by the trier-of-
fact.” Bennett v. Richmond, 960 N.E.2d 782, 786–87 (Ind. 2012) (quotation omitted).
In determining whether expert testimony is reliable, the trial court acts as a “gatekeeper” to ensure that the expert’s testimony rests on a sufficiently reliable foundation and is relevant to the
issue at hand so that it will assist the trier-of-fact. Wallace v. Meadow Acres Manufactured Hous., Inc., 730 N.E.2d 809, 812 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000), trans. denied. “When faced with a proffer of expert
scientific testimony, the court must make a preliminary assessment of whether the reasoning or methodology underlying the testimony is scientifically valid and whether that reasoning or methodology properly can be applied to the facts in issue.” Hannan v. Pest Control Servs., 734 N.E.2d 674, 679 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000), trans. denied.
Here in Indiana for example, there is no specific test or set of factors which must be considered in order to satisfy Evidence Rule 702(b), but some relevant considerations include whether the theory or technique can be empirically tested, whether it has been subjected to peer review and publication, and whether it has gained widespread acceptance. Id. at 679–80.
Ultimately, deciding whether expert testimony is admissible is a matter within the discretion of the trial court. Wallace, 730 N.E.2d at 812. A trial court’s decision to exclude evidence will be
reversed only if that decision is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances before the Court, or the reasonable, probable and actual deductions to be drawn from the evidence. Id. There is a presumption that the trial court’s decision is correct, and the burden is on the party challenging the decision to persuade the appellate court that the trial court abused its
discretion. Bennett, 960 N.E.2d at 786. Stated another way, a trial court’s determination regarding the admissibility of expert testimony under Rule 702 is discretionary and will be reversed only for abuse of that discretion.
See Bennett , 960 N.E. at 786-787 (held psychologist was qualified to opine that rear-end automobile accident caused motorist to suffer traumatic brain injury); TRW Vehicle Safety Sys., Inc. v. Moore, 936 N.E.2d 201, 216 (Ind. 2010). The Indiana Supreme Court has instructed trial
courts to consider the general principles and general methodology underlying the reliability of an expert’s testimony, leaving the accuracy, consistency, and credibility of the testimony to be determined by the trier-of-fact after testimony has been subjected to the adversarial process at trial. Sears Roebuck & Co. v. Manuilov, 742 N.E.2d 453, 461 (Ind. 2000). By requiring trial courts to be satisfied that expert opinions will assist the fact-finder and that the underlying scientific principles are reliable, Rule 702 guides the admission of expert scientific testimony. Id.
In other words, the general principles and general methodologies underlying the expert’s testimony are to be examined by the trial court, but not every aspect of the expert’s testimony as might occur in federal court under Daubert.
In evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Rule 702, a distinction is sometimes made between expertise that is described as “scientific” as opposed to “technical” in nature. For example, other jurisdictions have analyzed firearms tool mark evidence as something other than
“scientific.” See United States v. Willock, 696 F.Supp.2d 536, 571 (D.Md.2010) (“While … it may be debatable whether [firearms tool mark identification evidence] is ‘science,’ it clearly is
technical or specialized, and therefore within the scope of [Federal Evidence] Rule 702.”).United States v. Glynn, 578 F.Supp.2d 567, 571 (S.D.N.Y.2008) (recognizing Kumho Tire’s applicability to firearm identification evidence); United States v. Monteiro, 407 F.Supp.2d 351, 372 (D.Mass.2006) (“Based on the factors outlined in Daubert and Kumho Tire, the Court concludes that the methodology of firearms identification is sufficiently reliable.”); United States v. Green, 405 F.Supp.2d 104, 118 (D.Mass.2005) (observing that firearms identification is “not traditional science” and that Kumho Tire extends the Daubert standard to the case). Firearm identification evidence straddles the line between testimony based on science and experience. Monteiro, 407 F.Supp.2d at 365.
Firearms tool mark comparison is similar to other observational comparisons of physical characteristics which have been found to be “on the margins of testimony governed by Rule of Evidence 702(b) as expert scientific testimony.” West v. State, 755 N.E.2d 173, 181 (Ind. 2001)(assessing shoeprint comparison and identification). See also Carter, 766 N.E.2d at 381 (describing bite mark identification as “ ‘simply a matter of comparison of items of physical evidence to determine if they are reciprocal’ ”) (quoting Niehaus v. State, 265 Ind. 655, 359 N.E.2d 513, 516 (1977)); McGrew, supra, 682 N.E.2d at 1292 (citing with approval the trial court’s evaluation of hair comparison analysis as “not the traditional scientific evaluation” but
rather “simply a person’s observations under a microscope”).
In order to successfully get expert testimony into evidence, the following foundational
prerequisites must be satisfied:
1. The opinion offered must be one that in fact requires expertise to render it,
2. The witness must be qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience,
training, or education to render such an opinion,
3. The expert testimony must help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or
determine a fact in issue, and
4. The expert testimony must rest upon reliable scientific principles.
In terms of the expert’s qualifications, you need to cover:
1. His education and training that qualifies him to act as an expert,
2. Certifications and testing that he has undergone in his chosen field of expertise,
3. Work experience relevant to his analysis and opinions, and
4. Competence to perform any tests or analysis used.
In establishing the reliability of the underlying scientific principles, you should look firstfor other court decisions which have accepted the methodology as reliable. If there are none, then you will probably need to turn to your own expert and present the court with established texts, journal articles, or other accepted learned treatises in the area in order to persuade the court of its
reliability.
(b) Expert’s experience in similar cases. As mentioned earlier, your expert
may have been put through his paces in earlier cases dealing with the same or similar
topic. Experts often times retain copies of these pleadings to ensure that counsel in later
cases is able to effectively establish the admissibility of their testimony and the reliability
of their analysis. So, check with your expert regarding his past experience.
About Richard A. Cook
Richard Cook graduated from Purdue University in the Economics Honor Program in 1979 and obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1982. Following law school, Richard served as a federal law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division. In 1984, Richard began working as Deputy Prosecutor for the Lake County Prosecutor's Office and from there, served as Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division. There he handled a number of complex criminal matters and jury trials. While there, Richard received the Chief Postal Inspector's Special Award and a letter of commendation from the U.S. Attorney General for his work prosecuting a major money order fraud scheme being perpetrated out of the Indiana State Prison system. Since leaving the U.S. Attorney's office in 1989, Richard has focused primarily on civil work and is currently a member of the firm Yosha Cook & Tisch in Indianapolis. Richard is also a member of the ITLA, IBA and the ABA, as well as, a fellow for the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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Photoplay reviews the films of winter ’58/’59
This post is a part of TMP’s Historical Context series, in which I share excerpts from my collection of vintage magazines.
As every issue did, the January 1959 edition of Photoplay included reviews of the latest film releases. What would a movie mag be without its reviews, after all?
Kim Novak and a feline friend in a promotional shot for ‘Bell, Book and Candle’ (Image via Doctor Macro)
“Get more out of life – go out to a movie,” Photoplay urges readers. “What’s on tonight? You’ve got to go out to see the best! Look for these new pictures at your favorite theater.”
Bell, Book and Candle – “Good”
While Photoplay acknowledges that some parts of this film are hilarious, the reviewer maintains that the stage production was better, and that the story “loses most of its allure on film, because the tone wavers unhappily between comedy and some drama.” Jimmy Stewart’s performance is described as “blue-ribbon,” but Photoplay doesn’t feel that Kim Novak was a good choice for her role.
Home Before Dark – “Excellent”
This film is described as “subdued and believable,” with Jean Simmons’ best performance in a decade. The supporting cast is also praised: “Rhonda Fleming does well as the stepsister and Dan O’Herlihy is excellent as Jean’s stuffed-shirt husband. As an admirer, Efrem Zimbalist scored solidly.”
The Inn of Sixth Happiness – “Excellent”
Photoplay calls this film “a vivid dramatic experience and an inspiring testament to faith.” The magazine also praises Ingrid Bergman’s performance, saying that she’s “at the peak of her great power as an actress” and that her performance “is the crowning glory of the year’s most moving and memorable screen achievement.”
I Want to Live! – “Excellent”
Susan Hayward for ‘I Want to Live!’ (Image via Doctor Macro)
This film’s story, the life of Barbara Graham, is described as “violent, sordid and shocking.” After all, the film does follow “the real life saga of a San Francisco harlot convicted of murder.” Though fuzzy in logic and “vague” (possibly due to censorship), Photoplay praises the power of the film’s story. The editing (by Robert Wise) is also celebrated, as is Susan Hayward’s lead performance, which “will stay with you long after you’ve left the theater.”
The Last Hurrah – “Good”
Photoplay praises this adaptation’s faithful attention to detail when adapting Edwin O’Connor’s “rousing and hilarious” novel. However, the reviewer takes issue with the fact that the film only feels “sporadically alive” and that the story loses its punch on-screen.
My Uncle, Mr. Hulot – “Excellent”
This film is the sequel to Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, and Photoplay thinks that the follow-up is even better than the first. Equal parts “hilarious satire on modern architecture” and screwball comedy with “an uncanny eye and ear for the quirks in human nature.”
Party Girl – “Good”
Party Girl‘s plot may be too formulaic and familiar according to Photoplay, but they do see merit in the film’s “lush” visual elements. The performances are described as unspectacular, with Robert Taylor acting “with his usual competence” and Cyd Charisse only worth watching for her “two torrid dance numbers that are genuine eye-poppers.”
The Restless Years – “Very Good”
Photoplay‘s synopsis of this film makes it sound quite over-dramatic, with lots of characters who all hate each other for different reasons. The mag’s reviewer seems to feel lukewarm about this one, even though they rated it very good. “At least, these teenagers are neither giddy nor delinquent — and that’s refreshing,” the reviewer writes.
Poster for ‘The Roots of Heaven’ (Image via Doctor Macro)
The Roots of Heaven – “Good”
“The year’s most exasperating film” may be a description that makes this one sound great, but Photoplay criticizes the film for “jumping all over the place” and not developing its ideas wholly enough. Good ideas are there, and the film covers topics “that most films wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole,” but in trying to say too much the film doesn’t say enough according to this reviewer.
Separate Tables – “Excellent”
Photoplay‘s reviewer found this film to be very well-adapted from stage to screen. The film is described as “continuously absorbing,” with a stellar performance by Deborah Kerr. “Since her American debut eleven years ago, Miss Kerr has had a few chances to really act. To those still unaware of her true worth, it will be a revelation. […] Magnificent is not a word to be used lightly; on Miss Kerr it fits like a glove.”
Torpedo Run – “Good”
This film is described by the viewer as “protracted but interesting,” moving slowly “from one crisis to another, until the grand slam finale.”
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Home » TV & Movies » Kardashians Filming Last Dinner Scene for ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’
Kardashians Filming Last Dinner Scene for ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’
The ‘KUWTK’ has wrapped filming after fifteen years as Kim, Khloe, Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall, Kylie, and Kris Jenner reunite to shoot the last dinner scene.
AceShowbiz -The Kardashians have filmed their last scene of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians“.
The reality show is set to end after this series and siblings Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, and Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and their mum Kris Jenner, have reunited to film the last dinner scene of the E! programme, after 14 years of being on the air.
Kim shared a video from the set, where she showed her millions of followers herself getting her microphone fitted for the final time. She also showed off the table setting, where each of the family was given a special customised emoji as their place setting.
Back in September (20), it was confirmed “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” will end in 2021.
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Kim wrote in a statement, “It is with heavy hearts that we’ve made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
“After what will be 14 years, 20 seasons, hundreds of episodes and numerous spin-off shows, we are beyond grateful to all of you who’ve watched us for all of these years – through the good times, the bad times, the happiness, the tears, and the many relationships and children. We’ll forever cherish the wonderful memories and countless people we’ve met along the way.”
“Thank you to the thousands of individuals and businesses that have been a part of this experience and, most importantly, a very special thank you to Ryan Seacrest for believing in us, E! for being our partner, and our production team at Bunim/Murray, who’ve spent countless hours documenting our lives.”
“Our last season will air early next year in 2021. Without Keeping Up with The Kardashians, I wouldn’t be where I am today. I am so incredibly grateful to everyone who has watched and supported me and my family these past 14 incredible years.”
“This show made us who we are and I will be forever in debt to everyone who played a role in shaping our careers and changing our lives forever.”
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Nancy Pelosi Says If Donald Trump Isn’t Removed Via 25th Amendment, “Congress May Be Prepared To Move Forward With Impeachment”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office.
If they don’t, she told reporters on Thursday: “Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment. That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus and the American people.”
She added: “While it is only 13 days left, any day can be a horror show.”
Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, but Pelosi did not give a timeline for Pence to respond. “I don’t think it will take long to get an answer from the Vice President,” she said.
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Earlier on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Trump to be removed immediately joining with others in the party who have urged such an action. Some Republicans have as well, including Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who told reporters that “there is no question that America would be better off if the president would resign or be removed from office, and if Mike Pence would conduct a peaceful transition of power over the next 13 days until Joe Biden is sworn in.”
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Under the 25th Amendment, the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet can give a written declaration “that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” Then the vice president would become acting president. The president can challenge the declaration and trigger a process in which Congress would decide the issue. In that case, it would take two-thirds of both houses of Congress to remove the president.
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President-elect Biden has not weighed in on the calls for invoking the 25th Amendment. He told reporters that he would not discuss it on Thursday as he introduced Merrick Garland to be the next attorney general.
Pelosi also said that “accountability is also needed for Republicans in Congress who promoted the extreme conspiracy theories that provoked the violence.”
Trump already has been impeached by the House, but was acquitted in a Senate trial early last year.
Pelosi also called for the resignation of Steven Sund, the chief of Capitol Police, who she said has not called her since the riot at the Capitol.
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Rolling Ray Admitted To Hospital After He Says His Wig Caught On Fire (Video)
BY Christina Calloway
Rolling Ray needs prayers right now after sharing that he was hospitalized for catching fire.
Ray appeared to be in his native city of Washington D.C. where he went live from his hospital bed to let fans know what happened.
His face and scalp appeared burnt and he was seemingly in pain while he gave fans an update on his condition.
“I’m in a hospital. I got burnt,” a solemn Ray shared as comments poured in from people concerned about his health. “My wig caught on fire. I’m at Washington Hospital Center.”
In other videos that captured his live stream, he explained that the fire burnt his “whole skin,” listing off the body parts that were affected including his neck, legs, arms and feet.
He sent love to his fans and asked them to keep him in their prayers. He also thanked a friend named “Mrs. Scorpio” for helping, saying he’d be dead without his friend’s help.
“I’m afraid I’m gonna be ugly for the rest of my life,” an emotional Ray said as he prepared to be admitted to the hospital. It appeared that the medical staff that was assisting Ray was also helping him go live on Instagram. At the end of the video, Ray could be heard asking a staff member to end his live for him.
Details about what caused the fire were not immediately available and it also wasn’t clear if anyone else was hurt but despite the pain he was in, Rolling Ray seemed to be alert and coherent.
Yung Miami made some tweets following Ray’s live, and some fans suggested that she was gloating about what happened to Ray after he made comments about her deceased child’s father.
Her tweets read, “God don’t play about me,” and “always thankful.”
Staying out of their beef, we’re just wishing for a speedy recovery for Rolling Ray. We’ll keep you posted.
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A man raped a teenage girl and tried to kill a four-year-old child he sexually assaulted during a four year campaign of abuse against seven women and children.
William McArthur from Armadale was convicted of subjecting his victims to serious physical and sexual abuse at Edinburgh High Court on Thursday.
The 35-year-old was on trial charged with eleven offences, including the attempted murder of a young girl and three counts of rape.
The offences took place between March 2014 and January 2018 in the Dumfries, Armadale and Grangemouth areas.
McArthur was found guilty of five sexual offences, which include the rape of a woman and a teenage girl, as well as the serious sexual assault of a younger child.
He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of the child, three counts of assault and previously pled guilty to two stalking offences.
An investigation was launched by detectives into McArthur after a the four-year-old girl was found to have sustained serious injuries while in his care at an address in Grangemouth on January 4.
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Channel 4 suffers second annual loss in a row; commissions Drifters series 2
Harvey Pearson 9 May 2014
Broadcaster Channel 4 on Thursday reported its second consecutive annual loss, saying the year of 2013 was always likely to pose challenges.
The ad-funded but not-for-profit broadcaster revealed an annual deficit of £15 million, while revenues remained almost flat at £846 million last year.
Total share of television audience across all group channels slipped from 11.5 per cent to 11, with the main Channel 4 network suffering a decline in audience from 6.6 per cent to 6.1 per cent.
Chief Executive David Abraham said the broadcaster's performance in 2013 could not match the heights created by the London 2012 Paralympics in the previous year. He added that the decline in the network's viewership was partly due to expansion of programming selection by BBC One.
Speaking on the topic, Abraham said, "2013 was always likely to present challenges in terms of matching the heights created by the London 2012 Paralympics."
Dan Brooke, the marketing & communications director for Channel 4, also announced that the network would launch up to half a dozen new iterations of its "Born Risky" campaign that aims to boost viewer perceptions about the channel and the uniqueness of its advertising plan versus rival broadcasters.
Meanwhile, Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Drifters, a comedy written by actress Jessica Knappett, saying it was part of the channel's efforts to forefront female voices.
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The Deeds Campaign: Seven days out and 11 points down
John Hanlon
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Posted: Oct 27, 2009 7:00 AM
With seven days to go until the election, Creigh Deeds is looking at an extremely uphill battle in his quest to become the next Governor of Virginia. As Jillian Bandes recently wrote, a new Washington Post poll has the Republican candidate Robert McDonnell beating Deeds by eleven points in a poll of likely voters. President Obama, who is still popular in Virginia, may be scheduled to campaign for Deeds today but that fact alone can hardly negate the lack of enthusiasm for Deeds and the Democratic infighting that has plagued his campaign for several days.
An article in The Washington Post recently reported on the lack of excitement for a potential Governor Deeds. The article noted that "The campaign now sees its hope in rallying the core, liberal Democratic activists who have so far been uninspired by his candidacy and the broad coalition of minorities, young people and less-engaged voters who led Virginia to support Barack Obama after four decades of backing Republican presidential candidates." That article comes several days after the Post gave a high-profile endorsement of Deeds in an editorial, where in the article praising him, it was noted that Deeds "has run an enormous and possibly fatal political risk by saying bluntly that he would support legislation to raise new taxes dedicated to transportation."
Several days after that endorsement, the campaign found itself in the midst of Democratic infighting. With the Virginia gubernatorial campaign not going well for Deeds, the Post reported on Friday that "Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election." Then, as CNN.com later reported, "A well-known Democratic strategist in Virginia is blasting the White House for placing anonymous quotes in the Washington Post in a pre-emptive effort to blame Creigh Deeds for what might be a loss in the state's upcoming gubernatorial election." The fighting between Democrats on a national level and Democrats on a state level shows how much trouble the Deeds campaign is currently in. If these Democrats thought that their candidate would win, they would spend less time arguing about who is to blame if their candidate loses.
Perhaps, Obama's appearence with Deeds will quiet talk about a rift between the White House and Deeds' campaign (not likely, though) but the infighting shows how off-track Deeds' campaign has gone. At a time when Deeds should be focusing on his campaign, he is talking about his relationship with the sitting president. It is no wonder that the Deeds campaign is now down by double digits in the latest Washington Post poll.
However, even with continued negative news for the Democratic nominee in this campaign, Republicans should not overestimate their prospects. This election is still seven days away and Republicans need to stay motivated and engaged in this campaign.
As Ken Blackwell recently wrote in a Townhall.com article on the subject, "Now is no time for cackling. It’s the time for hard work."
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Living in a Post-Toys “R” Us World: Navigating the Future of Toy Retail
Posted by James Zahn | Aug 13, 2018 | Features | 0
Amid a crowded programming schedule at the San Diego Convention Center on July 21, something a bit different was happening upstairs at Comic-Con International. In a panel moderated by Daniel Pickett (founder, Action Figure Insider), I took the stage alongside Richard Gottlieb (principal and founder, Global Toy Group), Jason Labowitz (co-founder, Entertainment Earth and Bif Bang Pow!) and Steven Anne (category manager, toys/licensing at Walgreens) to discuss the future of toy retail in a world without Toys “R” Us (TRU) in the U.S.
Daniel invited me to take part due to my year-long (so far) deep-dive into the collapse of America’s iconic toy retailer. At this point, we know enough of the “how” and “why” it happened, and no—it wasn’t Amazon or millennials that sent Geoffrey packing. For those in the toy industry, the opinions are varied—from those who mourn the loss of a great partner to those who remember a time when Toys “R” Us may have bullied their vendors for more favorable terms. While we did talk a bit about the demise of TRU to lead off the hour-long panel, the real purpose of our discussion was less about reflection, and more about taking a look at what’s ahead…
Comic-Con may well have been the finest example of two very distinct shopper groups that Toys “R” Us once catered to and that anyone stepping into the ring must be prepared for: parents and collectors—and that means a balancing act for retailers.
Of the panelists on stage, I was the one who is most engaged in the business of reaching families, so a large part of my interest is on keeping abreast of how retailers are connecting with their customers in selection and price. While I do enjoy the collectibles market, that’s an area where Labowitz and Pickett specialize in the online space, and where Anne has managed to attract shoppers with major exclusives by putting “a toy department on every corner.” Gottlieb is a wealth of data, having tracked industry trends for decades.
The overwhelming sentiment is that the toy industry will weather this storm just fine, and as the recent numbers from The NPD Group show, that’s just what’s happening. Still, there’s a lot of business up for grabs, so we’re seeing a diverse array of retailers of all sizes gearing up for a fourth quarter battle, with Walmart, Target, Amazon, JC Penny, Ace Hardware, Kohl’s, and many others expanding their toy offerings. This is in addition to the thousands of independent specialty retailers who have been doing an absolutely phenomenal job of reacting to the changing times and connecting with their communities to build loyal, local followings.
Taking questions from the crowd (sadly, the line was capped and we weren’t able to get to everyone during the panel, though we did field questions in the hallway afterward), many wondered about the much-discussed return of KB Toys and the arrival of Party City’s “Toy City” pop-up locations.
On the KB note, little has been heard since Gottlieb went one-on-one with Ellia Kassoff of Strategic Marks LLC in front of a crowd of industry players at PlayCon in San Francisco back in May. Despite the promise of “400-600 pop-up stores for holiday 2018,” very few concrete answers to audience questions were provided. The overall consensus is that the sudden and unexpected liquidation of Toys “R” Us in March prompted Kassoff’s premature announcement. Having spoken to him myself, I believe that he’s well-intentioned and that his heart is in the right place… but the back-channel talk is that KB Toys likely doesn’t have the funding and infrastructure in place to pull off a 2018 resurrection. Even more concerning is that the name might not hold much value outside of nostalgia. If I called up Peter Panda and asked him to dust off the roller skates, would kids in 2018 care about Child World coming back? Not at all.
The Toy City pop-ups have been met with industry and consumer enthusiasm, bringing toys into the mix alongside Party City’s existing Halloween City locations. On November 1, they’ll flip into full-blown toy store mode and see what happens. My concern is that Spirit Halloween already tried this back in 2009 and didn’t fare well—few even remember the short-lived ToyZam! experiment, in which Spirit became a toy store. I do, and their stores were about as disappointing as Go! Calendars’ Go! Toys & Games seasonal locations. As a parent, what I see in those stores is the experience of a dirty, cluttered mess of dated and overpriced product. While Go! is said to be successful, I feel that their pricing is predatory based on the “convenience” factor of snagging parents and grandparents who might already be at the mall. Should Toy City offer a bright, fairly-priced, well-merchandised experience with great customer service, they could easily mop the floor with the seasonal competition.
FAO Schwarz is also mounting a comeback, and while they haven’t returned to the retail scene just yet, we discussed the March announcement that they’ve partnered with Hudson Group to open toy and candy shops across the U.S. That’s picked-up steam as the location of their first new FAO Schwarz store has been revealed to be at LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B.
Personally, the most exciting thing I’ve seen is happening among the 1,000 or so stores that Target is in the process of not just remodeling—but “reimagining.” Two of those locations (one a Super Target, the other a former Target Greatland) are near me, and the toy departments are impressive. They’ve got a bigger selection, a lower visual profile and ditch the traditional aisle layouts for something more open and diverse. There’s statues of giant LEGO Minifigures and features like you might find in a children’s museum, such as pipes where kids can talk into in one section and kids down the aisle can listen and talk back. It’s bright and engaging and feels fun.
Labowitz has a unique perspective, coming from someone who was not only competing with Toys “R” Us, but also a partner with them on shared exclusives for events such as Comic-Con. He feels that part of filling the void is by going to where the collectors and families are, and that means a more robust presence at live events and conventions across the country. It’s a bit like a traveling circus, but a novel approach that could prove fruitful. His company, Entertainment Earth, became a savior for certain exclusives originally intended for TRU, and their new E.E. Toys line seeks to connect parents and kids through new offerings for kids as young as four.
While the volume of toys sold should continue to rebound, there is still a major void that isn’t in sales. There’s a void in that there is no longer a national toy store in the U.S. There is no place where kids across the country can have that experience of finding more than they could ever dream of under one roof. Where this especially hurts is with smaller companies that may not find the space that TRU once could provide, or for those selling larger merchandise that can’t be merchandised due to a lack of floor space, such as outdoor playsets, bikes, ride-ons. Who will take the risks to fill those gaps? That’s something that no one seems to have an answer for just yet.
Still, the future is bright and the industry is resilient. The Toy Association is already seeing a massive spike in retailer and buyer attendance for this year’s Fall Toy Preview and when all is done, they believe they will see over 300 retail outlets in attendance—a 65% increase over 2017. Kids won’t stop playing, and there will be plenty of places for toys to be bought and sold.
Best known as The Rock Father, James Zahn is a writer, actor, toy aficionado, husband, and father of two young girls, in addition to being a media personality, commentator, adventurer, and overall raconteur. He’s also worked as a brand ambassador and consultant for several toy brands.
Top Photo: Left to Right—Daniel Pickett (Action Figure Insider), Richard Gottlieb (Global Toy Experts), James Zahn (The Rock Father), Jason Labowitz (Entertainment Earth), Steven Anne (Walgreens).
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Mannar is a large town and the main town of Mannar District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. It is governed by an Urban Council. The town is located on Mannar Island which overlooks the Gulf of Mannar. It is also home to the historic Ketheeswaram Temple. The town is known for its baobab trees and for its fort built by the Portuguese in 1560 and later taken by the Dutch in 1658. The town was occupied by LTTE during Sri Lankan Civil War until 2009. The town is on the mainland within the arid and dry zone. It has a high temperature and low rainfall. It is located approximately 300 km away from Colombo.
The options to get to Mannar are rather limited. There is no train service beyond Medawachiya to the Northern parts. On the other hand, it is not possible for the travellers to visit there now because of the numerous checkpoints and the necessity of getting defence ministry clearance for non-residents of the district. There are buses from/to Mannar from/to Colombo, Jaffna, Tallaimannar, Thirukketeeswaram Kovil and Vavuniya.
Ketheeswaram Temple
It is an ancient Hindu Temple located in Mannar. It is believed to have been built around 600 BC. There is no clarity about the time it was builtMany believe that it has been around for at least 2400 years. It is also known as Thirukeetheswaram and it is one of the five Ishwarams dedicated to Lord Shiva. That means that it is one of the five most important Hindu temples in Sri Lanka. It was destroyed by the Portuguese; however it was rebuilt in 1903.
Ram Setu Adams Bridge
Adam’s Bridge is a man-made causeway that was built by limestone shoals. It is approximately 30 km long and it is located between Mannar Island in Sri Lanka and Rameswaram Island in India. The bridge is 1.750.000 years old and the first inhabitants of Sri Lanka date back to around that period. According to a legend, Lord Rama built a bridge called Setubandhanam in order to rescue his wife Seetha from her prison in Sri Lanka where his enemy Ravana kept her captive. According to another myth, Adam used the bridge to reach Adam’s Peak.
Madhu Church Palampiddi
The Madhu Church in Mannar is the centre for pilgrimage and spiritual worship. It attracts million worshippers and non-worshippers every year during the Church’s annual feast. The walls shelter Our Lady of Madhu, a Madonna-and-child statue brought here in 1670 by Catholics. According to local stories, the statue has a reputation for wonders such as protecting against snakebites.
Mannar is famous for Baobab Tree. The tree has a huge trunk which is possible the largest trunk in Sri Lanka. It is 19.5 meters and it is 7.5 tall. It is not a native plant of Sri Lanka but its roots are formed in Africa, Madagascar and Australia. There is no evidence about how this tree found its way into Sri Lanka. Many assume that the tree were introduced by either Arabian traders or by the Portuguese.
Star Fortress
This is a star shaped fortress located right by the causeway to the island and ringed by a moat. It has an imposing Portuguese-Dutch construction. It was built by the Portuguese in 1560, captures by the Dutch in 1658 and the fortress was rebuilt in 1695 by the Dutch. It was added four bastions.
It is a hospitable restaurant and serves good value range of dishes. Meals change between Rs 180 – 300. Address: 42 Grand Bazaar, Mannar Town, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
Colombo Pilawoos
This Asian restaurant serves rice and curries, kotthu and hoppers. Meals change between Rs 140 – 300. Address: Grand Bazaar, Mannar Town, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
Choice Hotel
It is a simple place on a Grand Bazaar alley with friendly service. Main dishes change between Rs 100 -300. Address: Grand Bazaar, Mannar Town, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
Top Cream House
This restaurant is an ordinary eatery with extensive and high quality selection of curries with fresh rotti or string hoppers. Meals start from Rs 50. Address: Grand Bazaar, Mannar Town, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
Shell Coast Resort
This resort features an outdoor swimming pool and stylish guestrooms. It also features an on-site restaurant. Rooms come with rustic Sri Lankan style furnishings, garden views, a mini fridge and a seating area. Guest will find a private beach area and free parking facilities. Other facilities include car rentals, meeting facilities and barbecue facilities. Guests can enjoy Indonesian-style cuisines at on-site restaurant. Address: Uvari, Pesalai, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
The Palmyrah House
The guest house feature free Wi-Fi, an outdoor pool, barbecue and sun terrace. Guests can enjoy a meal at the restaurant. Free private parking is available on site. All rooms are fitted with a private bathroom. There is a 24 hour front desk at the property. The guest house also offers car hire. Address: Thalaimannar Rd, Mannar Island, Viyayadippannai, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
Hotel Juli Reception
The hotel features free Wi-Fi. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Free private parking is available on site. Rooms come with air conditioning and a flat screen TV. Certain rooms come with a seating area and views of the sea or city. There is a 24 hour front desk at the property. The hotel also offers car hire. Address: 298 St Sebastian Church Road, Mannar, Sri Lanka.
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Murderers In California – The Unforgettable True Stories of Compulsive Serial Killers On The West Coast
Discover the stories behind the lingering silent sounds of those who no longer walk above ground in California—a state meant for its beauty, beaches, and bright sun.
By Team Seven
The following is a chapter from the book “California: The Unforgettable True Stories of Compulsive Serial Killers On the West Coast”
Sam Little: The Most Prolific Killer in the U.S.
October 4, 2019: An obese seventy-nine-year-old man sat across from a Texas ranger in the interview room at California State Prison in Los Angeles. He simply looked like an old black man, tired of life, and ruminating about his family and his grandchildren. However, he wasn’t. He was smiling, though not about any grandchildren.
Instead, the Ranger patiently waited for Sam to speak. Sam then grinned, slammed his eyes shut, and the faces of ninety-three women revolved in his mind as if on a carousel. One face halted in his mind. Then he opened his eyes, looked straight ahead at Ranger James Holland, smiled, and talked. “Miami and Los Angeles,” he said, stroking his face. “That’s where I killed the most women.” His eyes sparkled. He was proud of that. And he was famous. They called him “The Most Prolific Killer in the U.S.” ‘Imagine that!’ he thought.
Then Sam Little closed his eyes and the mental carousel of faces again revolved in his mind. One face halted. Looking up, he described a twenty-three-year-old black prostitute lying on the ground outside the warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles. He related how his hands curled around her neck and he squeezed with his right hand while masturbating with the left. Every time he came, he squeezed her neck again. She kicked and screamed—what a nuisance!—so he knocked her out. As he pressed her neck yet again, the unconscious woman’s eyes rolled back and bulged in her head. It’s astonishing how eyes could do that. Her chest instinctively throbbed. Then, all at once, she went limp.
Sam grinned because the woman was dead and he reached orgasm. It was a thrilling experience and he was gratefully tired. He then lay the woman her down on the grass that was growing in the vacant lot alongside the building. It wasn’t always important where he put the bodies—just a tad out of the way so they wouldn’t be noticed too soon. (And he wouldn’t get caught.) Although her body was found, that victim was never identified.
Sam Little never had a permanent residence. His mother was a prostitute who traveled and that’s how he inherited the wanderlust and the lust for insatiable sex. A Honolulu reporter once wrote that he was arrested in eight states for armed robbery, fraud, solicitation, aggravated assault, and rape. He was never properly raised. His father was hardly ever present and his grandmother was left with raising him.
Sam Little’s mother never gave him a decent home in which to live, so, when Sam came into an area, he scouted out all the YMCAs and, of course, the homeless shelters. In 2012, Little was arrested at a homeless shelter in Kentucky, brought to Los Angeles and convicted of the murders of Carol Elford in 1987, Audrey Nelson in 1989, and Guadaloupe Apodaca in 1989. Sam was seventy-four years old when he stayed at the shelter, but investigators didn’t suspect him of the murders of those women when he was at the shelter.
Later, DNA evidence was ordered, and, as a result, Little is serving three life sentences for the triple murders without the possibility of parole. He has been linked to as many as sixty murders of women, but when Sam tells the story, he lays claim to have killed as many as ninety-three women! Sam Little, according to the chief investigator, had a photographic memory.
In 1972, Little claimed he met a transgender woman named Marianne at the Pool Palace in Miami. They didn’t join up at the time, but Marianna was a “bar-hop” who went to a number of bars in the area. She met Little again in a bar in Overtown, Miami. “Can I give you a ride?” he offered. She recognized him, thought that was sweet, and accepted.
He drove her into the driveway of an empty house. Inside his car, he sodomized and strangled her then dragged her body to an old path cloaked with undergrowth. The ground was muddy and water ran into the stream. He rolled her face-down into the mud.
Sam Little intensely disliked being called a rapist. He considered himself just a normal man fulfilling his sexual desires, but mostly preferred being known as a killer. That would make him famous. ‘Women of the streets were easy targets and easy to find, so why not?’ he would ask himself. There was no compunction about it… no reflection. That’s how he got his jollies.
The year 1974 found him in Knoxville, Tennessee. He said her name was “Martha,” and Martha was an epileptic, but also a drug addict. After Sam assaulted Martha until he reached orgasm, he then dumped her body in the woods, which was discovered by hunters the following year. Sam found it fun to engage in sex with disabled people.
The death was ruled an accidental overdose originally, but changed in 2012, when Little described her accurately, including the location of her body. He also said she had a nine-year-old son and a teenage daughter. Her full name was Martha Cunningham.
Detectives researched their cold cases and realized that Little’s slaughtering spree spread from 1973 to 2005. The Texas ranger who interviewed Little told the viewers of the TV show 60 Minutes about this murderer whom he called, “wicked smart… like genius.”
Little recalled details about each murder. In Miami in 1976, he stated that he killed Miriam Chapman near some arches on the beach and up the way from “a Baptist Church that needed white-washing.” The police located the arches, but the church was no longer there.
In 1982, a couple was cleaning out some underbrush from the backyard of their newly-purchased home on Magnolia Street in Macon, Georgia. Suddenly, their rakes hit something hard. It was brown and protruded from the earth. Thinking it was a rock, they grabbed and pulled until they pried it loose. It was a human arm bone. Next, they found a skull. Horrified, the couple called the police. The skeletal remains were removed and taken to the coroner’s office where a DNA analysis was conducted.
The forensic examiner who examined the skeleton discovered signs of excessive bruising. Sam didn’t get his sexual urges satisfied by Fredonia Smith that day, though. She was a tough fighter. At the trial, Eddie Smith, her brother, muttered, “I just want to put my hands around his neck and squeeze, and let him see how it feels.” Smith didn’t find out about the cruel, cold-hearted killer until thirty years later. Fredonia, they said, died in 1977.
A court in Ocala, Florida, finally heard the case of Sam Little when detectives determined that he killed a beautiful black woman, Rosie Hill, a twenty-one-year-old light-skinned black woman. He met her in a bar in 1982. She was wearing a white-flowered dress and her hair was coifed in an attractive hair-do. They left together. August 16 was the last time she was seen alive. Her remains were discovered outside a hog pen. Rosie was nude from the waist down.
In 2018, Sergeant Michael Mongeluzzo drove to Odessa, Texas, seeking information on Rosie Hill. Little was being temporarily held there while giving evidence on his murders of countless women across the country. Rosie Hill’s gruesome murder had never been solved until then. After questioning, Mongeluzzo confronted him with the evidence. Little then admitted to killing Hill, then smiled and said, “God put me on this earth to do it.”
He also told Holland about a woman in North Little Rock, Arkansas. “She had buck teeth. She had gaps between her teeth everywhere.” Then Little’s face lit up, he smiled broadly, proud of having strangled the young woman and relived the gruesome event like it happened yesterday. “You know she’s fighting for her life and I’m fighting for my pleasure!”
Julia Critchfield loved to dance and sing at Chris’s Lounge in Gulfport, Mississippi. She was a divorcee who lived with her four children in a trailer park. Julia had left her husband because he abused her and the children and she hoped for a better prospect. One Saturday night, two male friends drove her over to Chris’s. On January 21, 1978, she never came home. Her children called the police, but there had been no report as to her whereabouts.
The next day, Mark Tubbs and a friend were driving their dirt bikes through an old dirt pit in a wooded area of Saucier, Mississippi—twenty miles away. Mark spotted Julia’s nude body with a black dress draped over it. He raced to the police department and they sent out forensic investigators.
Julia had been thrown off a cliff into a pit and there were indents of fingers around her throat. She had been brutally strangled. The police questioned Critchfield’s male companions who had been at Chris’s Lounge with her, but both had alibis.
An eyewitness reported she had left with a heavy-set man in his fifties. Julia’s daughter, Blair, at first had thought her father committed the murder, but she was wrong. Sam Little had.
And what’s more, he remembered it. So did another one of Julia’s daughters—June. Her mother used to call her “June bug,” she told the police. “I used to pray to her and she would say, ‘I’m okay. Things are so much better. Be happy. I’ll see you one day.”
In June of 1981, Sam Little was in Ohio. He was familiar with the area, as he had been raised there by his grandmother. In Cincinnati, he singled out a thirty-two-year-old woman by the name of Annie Lee Stewart. After he had pleasured himself, he strangled her, stashed her in the back seat of his car, and drove to Grove City. He disposed of her body behind some apartments. He was indicted for Stewart’s murder in 2018, when he confessed to it.
Investigators had also found a body on a Cincinnati hillside in 1982. Using his photographic memory, Sam told Cincinnati Police Detective Kelly Best, “I hear you want to talk about the girl by the highway sign or the billboard.” He went on to explain that he raped her in the front seat of his car, then dragged her to the back seat where he raped her again.
Sam Little drew her picture with colored pencils and showed it to Best. He said they called her “Jane Doe,” because they never established her identity. Sam said he thought perhaps her name was “Alberta.” She wore a wig, glasses, and a very dark-skinned black woman. As the decomposed remains had a similar appearance and displayed the same M.O. that Little used, “a certain ‘neck type,’ slender, elegant, and easy to strangle.” This indictment didn’t occur until 2018.
In relating about a woman he met in New Orleans, Sam said, “She was pretty… honey-colored skin… She was tall for a woman—about five eight or five nine. She had a beautiful shape and… uh… friendly.” Then he described how he led her to a park, knocked her out and raped her. After that, he dragged her molested body into the water. “That’s the only one I drowned.” Sam continued speaking in a very matter-of-fact way about the woman. Little showed Ranger James Holland her picture, and scribbled with a crayon, while Holland watched: “Woooo… That’s what she said when she saw my car.” Little was driving a Lincoln Continental Mark III at the time. This murder occurred in the Fall of 1982. The woman has never been identified.
Sam Little was in Mississippi in 1982. He often went there to sell some of his stolen goods—clothing and jewelry. In the evening, he chatted with the guys at a bar in Pascagoula. They told him about a motel on Oak Street in which a number of young prostitutes lived. ‘That’s ideal,’ he thought. No family would be around to protect them.
Melinda “Mindy” LaPree lived at that motel. Sam spotted her in the parking lot. She was a light-skinned African-American with a baby face and a winning smile. ‘Perfect!’ he thought. Prostitutes made ideal targets for him, as they would always willingly climb in his car. Mindy did that, and Sam drove a little further along until he saw a cemetery.
Sam was comfortable in cemeteries, having once worked at a cemetery as a young man. The dead never bothered him, and the deaths of his victims did not either. At the cemetery which was in Gautier, Mississippi, he coaxed LaPree out of the back seat, then sucker-punched her. He was already getting an erection at the mere thought of thrusting his penis into her tender body, so he pulled her over behind a tombstone and thrust himself into her until he orgasmed. Then he put his hands around her throat, but she came to. She thrashed her head back and forth and tried to force him off, but she was no match for this man. When she stopped moving, he left her dead body there.
They found Mindy’s body in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina had wreaked its devastation on Mississippi. Some of the police files were missing after the hurricane, but Sergeant Darren Versiga was able to get related reports from Florida and Oklahoma.
Investigators engaged the aid of an anthropologist as well as the forensic team to determine the cause of death. They affirmed she’d been raped and strangled. There was no DNA evidence, but Sergeant Versiga collected written records from the other two states. Upon examining the documents, the district attorney didn’t take the case to court. There simply wasn’t enough evidence to connect Little with this murder, although everyone suspected Little did it. In his 2019 interview with the Texas ranger, Sam Little confessed he had murdered her.
Sam Little liked to drive to the Gulfport, Mississippi area when he took joy rides across the South. In 1992, he came upon an exciting nightspot called the Flamingo Club. Alice “Tina” Taylor was there one night at the bar. She was a twenty-seven-year-old with an elegant face. Her good friend, Tracy Lynn Johnson, nineteen, was with her. Johnson was so attractive she could easily win a beauty contest, according to Sam.
Little pulled into the parking lot and invited the two beauties in his car. They climbed in and giggled. Having intercourse with two women might be an exciting experience, after all. Little then stopped along a road near an abandoned site where old tires were stored. Tina and Tracy were puzzled. Little knocked both of them out. Next, he dragged Tina into the site, pulled down his jeans, and raped her repeatedly. It was a wonderful thrill feeling her warm vagina, so he pumped and pumped until he orgasmed. Then he started to strangle her but she became conscious and tried to heave her body up, but it wasn’t possible. After a few more attempts, she fell back. Sam then dragged her body further into the dump and put some tires over it.
Returning to his car, he pulled off Route 49 and drove on to a dirt road. Then he dragged Tracy out of his car. He rested from his prior encounter, and—when he regained his energy—he raped her too. As per his profile, Little leaves no witnesses, so he grasped Tracy around the neck and squeezed. She didn’t become conscious, but it was clear she suffocated. Little could feel the life leaving her body as it fell back limp. Sam raped her in his back seat. After the assault, he threw her in the tire lot, too. December 7, 1982 was the last day anyone saw Tracy and Tina alive.
In 1996, Little was cruising around Louisiana. In the city of Opelousas, he spotted a very cute-looking black woman, Melissa Thomas, on the street. Sam invited her in his car, and they drove to the Little Zion Baptist Church. As per his style, he knocked her out and raped her. Then he strangled her and dragged the body toward the graveyard there. The dead were her companions for thirteen years.
Melissa’s parents were despondent over the loss, which had been reported back in 1996, and Melissa’s sister, Dr. Emma Thomas, tried unsuccessfully to comfort them. That was to no avail, she told the police. They both died “of a broken heart,” Emma said.
Sam Little was being held in custody temporarily in Texas when Emma found out about him. He remembered Melissa. Of her, Melissa’s sister said, “I still have questions as to why. It’s a scar that was opened, but it won’t be a deep wound as it was before.” When she spoke about dear Melissa, Emma elaborated, “If you knew her, she always put a smile on your face and it was never a dull moment.” Little was indicted on this murder in 2018.
This family then had some sense of closure. Closure, however, doesn’t matter to a heartless killer. They don’t care about the families of the victims any more than they care about the victims.
Serial killers have no remorse. That is a human trait Sam Little never experienced. Instead, he grinned and laughed a lot and came across like he was bragging about his conquests.
While the Opelousas detectives were investigating the murder of Anna Steward, the police from Houma, Louisiana, made contact with the Texas ranger. Did Little have anything to do with the deaths of two middle-aged women there? Little didn’t just prey upon young girls—he preyed upon anyone with a vagina and a neck.
Daisy McGuire, who was forty when she disappeared, was found in an empty lot near Magnolia Street in Opelousas in 1996.
Dorothy Richards was fifty-five when she disappeared and her strangled corpse was found in a nearby town in 1984, thrown haphazardly in a grassy area near Woodland Ranch Road.
Investigators from Houma County verified that he murdered both Daisy and Dorothy because he stated details about the sites that weren’t in the newspapers or released to the press.
The smiling killer sometimes teased Ranger Holland when he described his crimes in Texas. Texas still had the death penalty and Sam wanted that waived. When Little considered confessing to the killings of anyone in Texas, he begged Holland to approach the district attorney, Robert Bland, and convince him to waive the death penalty first. Holland did so in those cases.
Bland cooperated and sent a letter to that effect to Sam Little. Before the TV cameras, he waved the letter and smiled broadly. By promising even more confessions, Sam Little assiduously avoided the death penalty in Texas. He squeezed the life out of every single one of the Texas girls he listed, but he himself didn’t want to die.
Little was then transported to Wise County, Texas, and confessed to sixty-five murders, while Holland brought him pizzas and Dr. Pepper’s to keep him talking. His victims, he said, were “broke and homeless and they walked right into my spider web.”
One such unfortunate woman was Denise Brothers, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of two boys, Damien and Dustin. Denise was divorced from a man who abused her, but leaped into marriage once again—with a drug addict. After she, too, became addicted, she plodded the streets of Odessa, Texas, turning tricks in order to support her habit.
Sam sought out hapless women like her on the street and would coax them into his car. In 1994, he drove Denise to a field off a side street, beat her unmercifully and left her there, broken and bleeding. Her body was found a month later. Evidence indicated that Sam had tried to rape her, but Brothers was a feisty woman and fought him off. You can’t win them all.
Sam will spend the rest of his life in prison, as he was successfully convicted of eight murders and serving his sentence without the possibility of parole.
There were more confirmed killings, but authorities lacked sufficient evidence to pursue those further.
Little claimed to have slaughtered ninety-three women.
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Pakistan presses UNESCO against India over Occupied Kashmir
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has called upon UNESCO to press Indian government to restore fundamental rights of people of Jammu and Kashmir and resolve this international dispute as per UN resolutions.
While delivering Pakistan’s national statement at 40th session of UNESCO General Conference being held in Paris, Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood drew world’s attention towards dangerous trends where intellectual, moral and legal basis for maintaining global peace is eroding and education and cultural values being undermined.
The minister said over eight million Kashmiris had been locked down under curfew for more than hundred days with their basic human rights and fundamental freedoms being trampled with impunity. The minister also expressed dismay at the decision of India’s highest court, which virtually condoned the destruction of centuries old Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.
Pakistan called upon India to come out of its denial about the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir, and reminded it of UN Secretary General’s statement of 8 August 2019 which reaffirmed that UN's position on Kashmir is governed by the UN Charter and applicable Security Council resolutions.
China also condemned and rejected Indian attempts to categorize Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh as their integral part.
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Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki)
The Vermilion Darter is a federally endangered species that is restricted to seven miles of a single stream in the Black Warrior River System. This species has a wide range of spawning habitats, including gravel substrate and vegetation over silt. This may be the only endangered species in the Southeast that is also a city mascot.
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USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 2019. Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki) 5-year: review and summary. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 2010. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; designation of critical habitat for the Vermilion Darter, final rule. Federal Register 75:75913-75931.
Kuhajda, B.R., and R.A. Stiles. 2009. Etheostoma chermocki – Vermilion Darter, p. 15-16. In: The Desperate Dozen: Southeastern Freshwater Fishes on the Brink. B. R. Kuhajda, A. L. George, and J. D. Williams (eds.). Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings 51:10-30.
Khudamrongsawat, J., L.S. Heath, H.E. Heath, and P.M. Harris. 2007. Microsatellite DNA primers for the endangered vermilion darter, Etheostoma chermocki, and cross‐species amplification in other darters (Percidae: Etheostoma). Molecular ecology notes, 7(5), 811-813.
Khudamrongsawat, J. 2007. Comparative study of life history and population structure of the endangered Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki) and its sister species, the Warrior Darter (E. bellator). Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Khudamrongsawat, J., and B.R. Kuhajda. 2007. Life history of the Warrior Darter (Etheostoma bellator) and comparison with the endangered Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki). Journal of Freshwater Ecology 22:241-248.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2007. Recovery plan for the Vermilion Darter, Etheostoma chermocki. Atlanta, Georgia.
Khudamrongsawat, J., D.A. Arrington, B.R. Kuhajda, and A.L. Rypel. 2005. Life history of the endangered Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki) endemic to the Black Warrior River system, Alabama. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 20:469-477.
Stiles, R., and P. D. Blanchard. 2003. Status survey of the Vermilion Darter, Etheostoma chermocki, populations in the Turkey Creek watershed, Jefferson County, Alabama. Report to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 2001. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; final rule to list the Vermilion Darter as endangered. Federal Register 66:59367-59373.
Blanco, C. C., and R. L. Mayden. 1999. Use of habitat models for predicting the abundance and distribution of Vermilion Darters (Etheostoma chermocki) in the Turkey Creek drainage basin. Final Report to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi.
Blanco, C.C., and R.L. Mayden. 1997. Threatened fishes of the world: Etheostoma chermocki Boschung, Mayden & Tomelleri, 1992 (Percidea). Environmental biology of fishes, 50(3), 274-274.
Blanco, C.C., and R.L. Mayden. 1997. Status of the Vermilion Darter, Etheostoma chermocki, in Turkey Creek, Jefferson County, Alabama, 1996-1997. Final Report to Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Montgomery, Alabama and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi.
Blanco, C. C., B. R. Kuhajda, and R. L. Mayden. 1995. Status survey of the Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki) in Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Locust Fork, Black Warrior River drainage in Jefferson County, Alabama. Final Report to Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Montgomery, Alabama, and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 1994. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; animal candidate review for listing as endangered or threatened species. Federal Register 59:58982-59028.
Boschung, H. T., R. L. Mayden, and J. R. Tomelleri. 1992. Etheostoma chermocki, a new species of darter (Teleostei, Percidae) from the Black Warrior River drainage of Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 13:11-20.
Bailey, R. M., and D. A. Etnier. 1988. Comments on the subgenera of darters (Percidae) with descriptions of two new species of Etheostoma (Ulocentra) from southeastern United States. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 175:1-48.
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“Celebrate, Commemorate and Collaborate”: Inspiring women leading the way in NGOs
Dr. Nor Anisa Hanan, O.P. Jade, 27 Feb 2018
Celebrate, Commemorate and Collaborate: World NGO Day is celebrated every year on 27 February.
Observed on 27 February annually, across the globe, #WorldNGODay is the day to celebrate NGOs (non-government organisations) and recognise them for the incredible work and effort they have contributed to the society. This international calendar day also hopes to encourage a greater symbiosis between NGOs and both the public and private sector—as the world gets together to “Celebrate, Commemorate and Collaborate”.
As the World NGO Day is just days shy of March—let us also prep ourselves for the International Women’s Day, which falls on 8 March. With that, MIMS Today’s editorial desk has identified four outstanding women in healthcare who have made tremendous impact in NGOs—leading the way—as they spearhead greater efforts and press for progress.
1. Dr Fauziah Hasan
Dr Fauziah was awarded the 'Serikandi Al-Azwar' (Iron Angel) award and RM5,000 cash by the Terengganu government for her participation in the 'Women's Boat to Gaza' (WBG). Photo credit: Bernama/Malay Mail Online
Dr Fauziah has been very actively involved in humanitarian activities, starting with Malaysian Medical Relief Society MERCY Malaysia, where she was a Treasurer from 2000 to 2006. She has participated in numerous missions—namely Kosovo (1999), Maluku Indonesia (2000), Afghanistan (2001 – 2003), Aceh (2005), Pakistan (2005) and Gaza (2009).
She was then active in Aqsa Syarif, a Malaysian humanitarian NGO in support of the Palestinians, which became an agency under the umbrella of Humanitarian Care Malaysia (MyCARE), in 2015. Dr Fauziah was Deputy Chairperson of Aqsa Syarif from 2010, and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of MyCARE.
Since 2011, she has been the Advisor of Rose2Rose (R2R), another agency of MyCARE, which focuses on empowering women and children. She has led its campaign to care for the many unfortunate women and children in Palestine, Syria and Rohingya, and another mission to Gaza in 2012.
In 2016, her story made headlines as she was Malaysia's sole representative in the “Women's Boat to Gaza” (WBG) mission—where their humanitarian ship, Zaytouna-Oliva was illegally detained by the Israeli authorities.
She is currently a Consultant at Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.
2. Dr Christina Ng Van Tze
Dr Christina at the launch of EMPOWERED’s 6th annual Colorectal Cancer Awareness, Screening and Treatment Project, in 2016. Photo credit: EMPOWERED
Dr Christina Ng is the founder and president of EMPOWERED, The Cancer Advocacy Society of Malaysia.
Through her work in EMPOWERED, Dr Ng has been known for being passionate in fighting for under-resourced communities. She has been awarded for her continuous efforts in channeling equal access to life-saving colorectal screening and treatment programs for under-privileged Malaysians which has reached over 100,000 Malaysians who fit the criteria.
In 2007, Dr Ng launched her book entitled ‘My Journal’—with the aim to empower and educate patients on chemotherapy for cancer. The publication is available in four languages (English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil) to allow access to Malaysians from of various ethnic backgrounds. Over 10,000 copies have been freely distributed to government hospitals with cancer centres.
Then, Dr Ng launched a public awareness campaign in 2016—highlighting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer with active participation by the medical industry, other private industries, medical schools, oncology and genetic experts, as well as other NGOs.
Dr Ng is currently a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Onco Life Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
“I feel honoured to have the opportunity to speak to Dr Ng – and be able to listen to her journey, her passion and commitment towards what she does,” expresses our writer, Dr Nor Anisa Hanan (right), seen here posing for a picture with Dr Christina Ng.
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3. Matron Fadzilah Abd Hamid
Matron Fadzilah giving a keynote speech to officiate the outreach programme named POSITHIV on 11 November 2017 at Rumah Solehah by the UTAR Corporate Communication final year students from the Faculty of Creative Industries. Photo credit: UTAR
Matron Fadzilah is the full-time caregiver at Rumah Solehah—a shelter for HIV-positive women, who have been shunned by their families and society. Matron Fadzilah was among the first to set up the shelter on behalf of the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia back in 1998.
In the 20 years that the shelter has been operational, she has taken care of over 300 women with HIV—providing assistance, not only with their basic needs, but also helping them to find meaning again in their life. As one of the first shelters of its kind, it was not an easy start. With limited funds, the shelter was not well equipped initially. Nonetheless, throughout the years and with increasing awareness, the shelter has managed to stand on its own and are now taking in children with HIV as well.
Living in a shared home, the residents have their own problems, while fights and altercations are often inevitable. Matron Fadzilah took it upon herself to nurture, teach and discipline them with tough love. What presents as the ultimate challenge is that the residents come and go—so, the cycle will repeat whenever new residents move in.
Matron Fadzilah flipping through the photo albums, reminiscing some of the nostalgic moments. Photo credit: Matron Fadzilah Abd Hamid
Forever grateful: A little note of “Thank You” – expressing gratitude, appreciation and admiration – brings a warm glow of joy to her heart. Photo credit: Matron Fadzilah Abd Hamid
Before running Rumah Solehah, Matron Fadzilah was a public health nurse where she worked in rural areas in Malaysia—teaching about health and nutrition. She also specialised in maternal and obstetric health—and treating patients sometimes meant having to hop on helicopters and sampans to get to them during an emergency. Matron Fadzilah’s 30 years of travelling state to state has eventually led her to realise that drug use was becoming a problem in rural communities—and along with it came a rise in HIV cases.
Matron Fadzilah jumped at the opportunity when the Ministry of Health (MOH) asked her to start a rehabilitation shelter for HIV-positive sex workers in Kuala Lumpur. She took up a counselling course in the UK in 1994, before returning to Malaysia to do some research on the life of the sex workers. However, the project was not approved by the parliament. Hence, she decided to start on her own—marking the humble beginnings of Rumah Solehah.
4. Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood
Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood is the recipient of many national and international awards for her cause, the most recent being the Merdeka Award 2015 – for outstanding contribution to the development of humanitarian and international emergency relief. Photo credit: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood is well known to be the founder of the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (MERCY Malaysia), where she was the president from 1999 to 2009. She was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist before being involved in humanitarian work full time.
During a MERCY Malaysia mission in 2003, Dr Jemilah was shot in the hip while on the way to deliver medical supplies to a children’s hospital in Iraq. The bullet had gone through her friend, Dr Baba and a thick Reader's Digest book before hitting her hip. She then stitched herself up, left the bullet in, and got Dr Baba on the operating table—crying and wondering if she has made a grave mistake dragging her team from MERCY Malaysia through a war-torn country. Soon after, she performed an emergency C-section on a badly anaemic patient and successfully delivered a healthy baby boy—all while still having the bullet in her leg! In that mission, two people died, while two other doctors were injured.
From 2009 to 2011, Dr Jemilah was in charge of the humanitarian branch of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York City, where she directed her efforts toward reproductive health, gender-based violence, and emergency population data. In May 2014, Dr Jemilah was appointed to head the World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat at the United Nations Office, for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) headquarters in New York.
Since January 2016, Dr Jemilah has served as Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). MIMS
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Home News Goleta Celebrates 10 years as a Recognized City
Goleta Celebrates 10 years as a Recognized City
By: Katelyn Stefani
Photo by Irene Wang
The City of Goleta celebrated its 10th birthday with an event on Feb. 12 at the Goleta Valley Community Center on Hollister Avenue. The free event welcomed everyone to come out and celebrate the City of Goleta. The celebration included music from the local schools Goleta Valley Junior High Band, the Dos Pueblos Jazz Band and San Marcos High School Madrigal Singers. The party was celebrated by screening a slide show of pictures, a historical display of the city, kid-friendly activities and cake for everyone to enjoy.
“The event was hugely successful,” Public Information Officer Valerie Kushnerov said. “The community auditorium was packed with lots of people of different ages to celebrate and listen to good music.”
Many people who came out to attend the event greatly enjoyed it so much that the party lasted until about 3:45 pm. The music was still playing and people did not feel any rush to go home. People joined together in celebration and had a good time honoring the City of Goleta’s 10th Anniversary.
“On a scale of one through 10, I would say it was a nine and a half. The room was just about full of people and overflowing out the door and people got to hear a lot of tremendous music,” said Goleta Mayor Ed Easton.
Each month the city hosts a different theme to spread awareness about the variety of aspects of life in Goleta. For the month of February, on Feb. 14 there will be an online network event called “Next Door: Know Your Neighbor, Love Your Neighbor.” According to Kushnerov, it will be like a Facebook for neighbors, allowing people to interact with each other in an online forum. The neighborhoods will be mapped out and people can talk with one another as a way to get to know the people in their neighborhood and community.
“It will allow people to interact with communication on a micro level,” Kushnerov said. “It is an exciting event and such a great resource to have so people can exchange and share general information about emergency contacts, find babysitters, and for people to get to know their neighbors.”
“If it helps people talk to their neighbors about a problem they see or questions they have then it will be a good thing,” said Easton. The mayor also cited crime-prevention as a benefit of this online network, seeing it as a place to report crime when residents are unsure of what to do. “People often see crimes but don’t have a place to report them so it can only benefit our community.”
The City of Goleta wants to encourage a much more “engaged, vibrant, and happy, well-adjusted community” for its citizens, according to Kushnerov. The City Chamber of Commerce is also hosting an open house event next month on March 8 and later in April will be a celebration for Earth Day.
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