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Holocaust Remembrance Day: RO president warns of danger of resurfacing anti-Semitic attitudes
The danger of xenophobic and anti-Semitic attitudes resurfacing is “always present,” Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said on January 27, at a ceremony to decorate Roma survivors of the Holocaust and several organizations.
“These developments represent a frontal attack against the rule of law and democratic principles, and this is why the counterattack needs to be firm and in agreement with European values,” Iohannis said.
“Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the entire world condemns this unparalleled tragedy, and honors the memory of those who were the victims of the Holocaust. This huge genocide project was not only about Jews and Roma, it was about all of us. As Yehuda Bauer accurately described it, it was 'a total rebellion' against Western civilization and the concept of human being,” the president said.
The president argued that “only by cultivating memory we can keep alive the drama of the Jews and the Roma and take responsibility for a history drawn with thick lines, a painful past we neither ignore not hide, but are aware of with all responsibility.”
President Iohannis said he would continue to advocate in favor of preserving the memory of the Holocaust and combating anti-Semitism.
“Romania has understood the size of the horrors, took responsibility for this dark part and undertook specific steps regarding the memory of the Holocaust, consolidating the Holocaust education and research, combating extremism, anti-Semitism and intolerance, and strengthening the legislation in this area,” Iohannis said, saying that the organizations he decorated had a determining role in this “significant progress of the Romanian state.”
In its 15 years of activity, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania has promoted the knowledge about the genocide, defended the memory of the victims and contributed to discouraging anti-Semitic and racist incidents, the president said.
Furthermore, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania “dedicated itself completely to promoting and defending the interests, culture and traditions of the Jewish community in Romania, encouraging the respect towards diversity and the dialogue between religions.”
At the same time, the Memorial Museum of the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania is “a space for commemorating and remembrance. Because of the valuable efforts of this organization, the drama of the Romanian Jews under the Hortist occupation is, today, better known to the wide public,” the president said.
He explained that in 1942, approximately 25,000 Roma were deported in Transnistria, among them a large number of women and children. Of those deported, 11,000 died, most of them because of hunger, cold, and precarious medical care.
The president also said the education about Holocaust is a national priority.
“We should not stop here, because the danger of xenophobic and anti-Semitic attitudes resurfacing is always present. Jewish cemeteries are vandalized, public actors claim the supremacy of certain races, the monstrosities of the Holocaust are relativized publicly, detestable criminals from our history are praised, and Roma citizens are not rarely humiliated or discriminated. […] We need even more education because it is the only firm commitment that we will defend, in the future, with all our strength, democracy, and individual rights and liberties,” Iohannis said.
The president said Europe is not yet cured of the diseases of anti-Semitism and extremism and argued in favor of reflecting on the past in order to ensure “the building of today’s society on healthy foundations.”
(Photo: Presidency.ro)
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Roush Fenway Places Two Drivers in Inaugural XFINITY Series Chase
Wallace and Reed to race for NASCAR XFINITY Series Championship
Joliet, Ill. (Sept. 17, 2016) – Roush Fenway Racing has placed drivers Bubba Wallace and Ryan Reed into the inaugural 12-driver Chase for the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) Championship. Both Wallace and Reed will have the opportunity to defend Roush Fenway’s 2015 XFINITY Series Championship that was won by Chris Buescher. In addition, both will vie to bring home the organization’s sixth NXS Championship and its fourth in the last six seasons.
“We are certainly pleased to have both of our guys in the running for the XFINITY Championship,” said team owner Jack Roush. “Both Ryan and Bubba have shown improvement during this season and we’ll do our best to ensure that we put them in race cars that are capable of competing over the next seven weeks for this championship.”
The seven-race NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase kicks off next week at Kentucky Speedway. At the conclusion of the first three Chase races (Kentucky, Dover and Charlotte), four drivers will be eliminated from championship contention. The field of eight championship contenders will again be trimmed after three more races (Kansas, Texas and Phoenix), with four contenders racing for the championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 19.
Roush Fenway Fords have won a combined 40 races at the seven Chase tracks, including 19 at Kentucky, Dover and Charlotte. Roush Fenway has led nearly 7,000 laps combined at the remaining seven tracks on the schedule. Wallace posted top-five finishes at both Kentucky and Dover earlier this season, including a runner-up finish at the Monster Mile.
Greg Biffle brought home Roush Fenway’s first NXS Championship in 2002. Carl Edwards drove a Roush Fenway Ford to the championship in 2007, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. posted back-to-back NXS Championships in 2011 and 2012. Buescher became the fourth Roush Fenway driver to win the NXS Championship with his dominant performance in 2015.
Roush Fenway Racing is the winningest team in NASCAR history, fielding multiple teams in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series competition with drivers Greg Biffle, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Trevor Bayne, Ryan Reed, Chris Buescher and Bubba Wallace. Now in its 29th season, Roush Fenway is a leader in driver development, having launched the careers for many of the top drivers in the sport. Off-track, Roush Fenway is a leader in NASCAR marketing solutions, pioneering motorsport’s first team-focused TV show and producing multiple award-winning digital and experiential marketing campaigns. Roush Fenway is co-owned by Jack Roush, the winningest team owner in NASCAR history and Fenway Sports Group, parent company of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and English Premier League’s Liverpool F.C. Visit RoushFenway.com, circle on Google+, become a fan on Facebook and Instagram and follow on Twitter at @roushfenway.
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Lymph Stasis
Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Waldemar L. Olszewski
Published October 12, 2020 by CRC Press
Published April 11, 2019 by CRC Press
Published June 4, 2019 by CRC Press
Lymph Stasis: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
First published 1991. Lymph Stasis: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment provides a reintroduction to the lymphatic system and its primary disease-lymph stasis-to practitioners who treat patients with lymph stasis of the limbs. Topics discussed include an introduction to the lymphatic system in man, the structure of lymphatics and the mechanism of lymph formation based on animal and human studies, chemical and cellular composition of lymph in humans, pathological factors affecting lymph flow, treatment of lymphedema, and clinical studies on antibiotic penetration to tissue fluid and lymph. Angiologists, vascular surgeons, dermatologists, radiologists, and nuclear medicine specialists are among those physicians who will find a wealth of useful information in this book.
INTRODUCTION. Lymphology and the Lymphatic System. STRUCTURE OF LYMPHATICS, LYMPH FORMATION AND FLOW. Structure of Initial and Collecting Lymphatic Vessels. Interstitial Edema-Preventing Mechanisms. Dynamics of Lymph Formation and Its Modification. Influence of Autonomic Nerves on Lymph Flow. Lymph Pressure and Flow in Limbs. Dermal Lymph and Lymphatics. Pulmonary Lymph and Lymphatics. Gastrointestinal Lymphatics. CHEMICAL AND CELLULAR COMPOSITION OF LYMPH. Chemistry of Lymph. Cells in Lymph. PATHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING LYMPH FLOW. Injury of Lymphatics. Lymphangitis. Lymph Stasis After Lymph Node Dissection. Lymphatic Spread of Cancer. Thoracic Duct: Conditions Affecting Function. Pathophysiology of Lymphatic Insufficiency and Principles of Treatment. CLINICAL PICTURE OF LYMPH STASIS IN LIMBS. Clinical Picture of Lymphedema. Histological and Ultrastructural Evaluation of the Crural Lymph Nodes in Primary Lymphedema of the Lower Limbs. Malformations of the Lymphatic System. DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES. Radionuclide Lymphography. Computerized Tomography, Xeroradiography, Lymphography and Xerolymphography in Diagnosis of Lymph Stasis. Indirect Lymphangiography. Volumetry of Limbs. Diagnosis of Lymphatic Invasion by Tumors. TREATMENT OF LYMPHEDEMA. Conservative Treatment of Lymphedema. Postmastectomy Lymphedema-Medical Therapy Using Intermittent Compression and a Pressure Gradient Prosthesis. Heating and Bandaging in the Treatment of Chronic Lymphedema of the Extremities. Pharmacological Treatment of Lymph Stasis. Surgical Lympho-Venous Anastomoses for Treatment of Lymphedema. A Technique of Lymphatic Vessel-Vein Anastomosis for the Treatment of Lymphedema of Limbs. Microsurgical Autologous Lymph-Vessel Grafting. The Autologous Vein Grafts in Reconstructive Microsurgery for Lymph Stasis. Drug Penetration to Peripheral Lymph in Man. Endolymphatic Therapy. Collection of Peripheral Lymph in Man.
Waldemar L. Olszewski, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Department of Surgical Research and Transplantology at the Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Olszewski graduated from the Medical Faculty, Medical Academy in Warsaw, receiving his M.D. degree in 1954 and Ph.D. degree in 1962. He obtained his surgical training in the Surgical Division, Warsaw City Hospital and then Department of Surgery, Medical Academy, Warsaw. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Medical Academy and the Medical Research Center from 1962 to 1968 and as Associate Professor from 1968 to 1978. In 1978 he became Professor of Surgery. From 1962 to 1975 he was Deputy Director of the Department of Surgical Research, Medical Research Center and in 1975 he assumed the position of Director. Since 1974 he has been associated with the Laboratory of Hematology and Lymphology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, in Oslo, Norway., Dr. Olszewski was a Research Fellow at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London from 1962 to 1963 and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1968 and 1969. Dr. Olszewski is a member of the European Society for Surgical Research, International Lymphological Society, International Microsurgical Society, and the International Transplantation Society. He served as President of the European Society for Surgical Research from 1977 to 1978 and as a member of the Executive Committee until 1982. He was elected President of the International Society of Lymphology for the term 1989–1993. He is Associate Editor of Lymphology, Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Chirurgie, Transplant International, Angiology International , and Immunologia Polska. He is also Honorary Member of the Brazilian Vascular Society and the Korean Medical Association. Recently he founded the Polish-Japanese Surgical Society, and started cooperation in treatment of lymphedema with the National Lymphedema Network of America and Thanjavur University, India., Dr. Olszewski is the author of more than 250 papers on lymph and lymphoid tissue, transplantation immunology, vascular problems, and has been the author or editor of 6 books, among them Handbook of Microsurgery, Peripheral Lymph: Formation and Immune Function , and In vivo Immune Cell Migration. His major clinical interests relate to vascular and lymphatic surgery, and research interests in the physiology of the lymphoid organs and immunoregulation., Thomas H. Adair, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, Knut Aukland, M.D. Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, James A. Barrowman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, Rüdiger G. H. Baumeister, M.D. Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Joseph Beninson, M.D. Director, Leg Ulcer Clinic and Peripheral Vascular Disease, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, Tom Bergan, M.D. Professor and Chief, Department of Microbiology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Josef Bruna, M.D. Professor, Department of Radiology, Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Corradino Campisi, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of General and Emergency, Surgery — Microsurgery Unit, University of Genoa School of Medicine and Surgery, Genoa, Italy, Ian Carr, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, A. Castenholz, M.D. Professor, Department of Human Biology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, Ti-Sheng Chang, M.D. Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Ninth Peoples’ Hospital, Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China, Robert V. Cluzan, M.D. Head, Lymphology Unit, Hôpital Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France, Mario Degni, M.D. Professor, Department of Surgery, Pontìficia Universidade, Católica de Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Allan E. Dumont, M.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, Arfinn Engeset, M.D. Det Norske Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Ethel Földi, M.D. Medical Chief Superintendent, Földi Clinic, Hinterzarten, Germany, Michael Földi, M.D. Director, Földi-Klinik and Földi-Schulen, Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, Germany, Umberto Fox, M.D. Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Ji-Liang Gan, M.D. Department of Plastic Surgery, Ninth Peoples’ Hospital, Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China, Peter Hirnle, M.D. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Alf Kolbenstvedt, M.D. Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Sanford E. Leeds, M.D. Associate Chief, Department of Experimental Surgery, Mount Zion Medical Center of the University of California San Francisco, California, Hans Henrik Lien, M.D. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Michael T. Lotze, M.D. Professor of Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Associate Director for Surgical Oncology, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Noel G. McHale, Ph.D. Reader in Physiology, School of Biomedical Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, Jean-Pierre Montani, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, Walter Montorsi, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, L. Mosca, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Moriya Ohkuma, M.D. Professor, Department of Dermatology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Waldemar L. Olszewski, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Department of Surgical Research and Transplantology, Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Laboratory for Hematology and Lymphology, Oslo, Norway, Hugo Partsch, M.D. Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, Wilhelminen Hospital, Vienna, Austria, Alain M. Pecking. M.D. Head, Nuclear Medicine, René Huguenin Center, Saint Cloud, France, Carl Fredrik Petlund, M.D. Department of Physical Medicine, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Norman M. Pettigrew, M.D. Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Neil B. Piller, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Nursing Studies and Department of Primary Health Care, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, Australia, Rolf K. Reed, M.D. Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Giuliano Romagnoli, M.D. Department of Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Wilhelm Schneider, M.D. Department of Dermatology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, E. Trabucchi, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Herman N. Uhley, M.D. Associate Chief, Department of Medicine, Mount Zion Medical Center of the University of California, San Francisco, California, Terence P. Wade, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, Charles L. Witte, M.D. Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, Marlys H. Witte, M.D. Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
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New Publication: Path of No Path
M. Editor | April 5, 2009
The Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Seminary for Shin Buddhist Ministry and Buddhist Research, and the Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research both at Berkeley, announced the publication of the second of three volumes titled, “Path of No Path—Contemporary Studies in Pure Land Buddhism.â€
This volume honors the late Dr. Roger Corless, professor emeritus of Duke University, who brought to heart a new perspective to the study of Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism in particular. Dr. Richard Payne, IBS Dean and the Yehan Numata Professor for Buddhist Studies, is the editor.
The articles in the book cover a range of topics, from the practice of the Pure Land to its historical transmission and its contemporary interpretation.
Contributors of the book are as follows: Harvey B. Aronson, a psychotherapist in Houston, Texas; Gordon B. Bermant, lecturer at University of Pennsylvania and former President of BCA; Alfred Bloom, Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawaii and former Dean of IBS; Ruben L.F. Habito, Southern Methodist University; Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union; Charles B. Jones, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.; Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.; Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Charles S. Perbish, Utah State University; James H. Sanford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kenneth K.Tanaka, Musashino University, Tokyo and former professor at IBS.
The first volume titled “Shin Buddhism Historical, Textual, and Interpretive Studies,†was published in 2007 with Dr. Payne as editor. The volume honors the late Rev. Dr., Yehan Numata, founder of the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai and the Numata Center, Berkeley. The book commemorates the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Numata Endowment at the IBS.
Contributing writers from worldwide are as follows: John P. Keenan, Middlebury College, Vermont; Whalen Lai, University of California, Davis; T. Griffith Foulk, University of Michigan; Katerine K. Vaelasco, IBS/GTU graduate; Bruno Levin, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, Germany; Allan A. Andrew, University of Vermont; Hartmut O. Rotermund, Ecole Pratique dis Hautes Etude, Paris; Habbito, SMU; Roger Corless, Duke University. Minor L. Rogers and Ann T. Rogers, Washington and Lee University, Vermont; Joyu Chiba, President Emeritus of Ryukoku University, Kyoto; and Tetsuden Kashima, University of Washington. Payne and Tanaka also contributed to the volume.
More information on the Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies may be found on the IBS Webpage.
Books are available at the BCA Bookstore, 2140 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA.
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Port of Seattle to Let Tent City 5 Move Onto Property in Interbay
The authorized tent city has been happily settled in Interbay for almost two years.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:40pm
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An aerial view of the Tsubota site in Interbay, where Tent City 5 will likely move in November 2017. Screenshot via Port of Seattle
On Tuesday, the Port of Seattle commissioners voted to allow Tent City 5 to move onto a piece of property in Interbay, thus enabling the authorized homeless village to remain in its neighborhood of nearly two years.
City rules require that authorized homeless encampments move every one or two years, per the 2015 legislation by which Mayor Ed Murray and the Seattle City Council created the city’s first three city-sponsored encampments in Ballard and Rainier Valley, as well as Interbay, where Tent City 5 has been located at 3234 17th Ave W. since 2015. As we reported previously, many of the campers who live inside tents on raised platforms at TC5 used to sleep on sidewalks or in cars.
Campers and their supporters have been lobbying the Port for months to let TC5 use some its land, so that campers won’t have to relocate to a completely new neighborhood. In July, advocates with the District 7 Neighborhood Action Council (NAC) told us they were talking to the Port about a specific site in Interbay, though they did not reveal its location. The Port Commission heard from stakeholders at meetings on July 25 and August 8. They also received briefings this year from local homeless services providers and from representatives of Seattle and King County governments.
At Tuesday’s vote in favor of allowing TC5 to use the land, all those efforts bore fruit.
It was the “best and happiest meeting I have been to about anything since Nikkita’s campaign launch,” said NACtivist Carol Isaac afterward, referring to mayoral candidate Nikkita Oliver.
A press release from the Port said that its “doing its part to address the regions’ homelessness crisis.” A maximum of 80 residents in up to 35 tiny structures, plus some tents, can stay on the property, located at 1601 15th Ave W. and formerly owned by Tsubota Steel, for one to two years, starting in November of this year. The release says the City of Seattle will hold two additional public meetings on TC5’s placement.
According to the Port, less than 18,000 square feet of the 149,634-square-foot Tsubota property will be leased for TC5, and it’s the city’s responsibility to prepare the site and provide utilities, including electricity, water, “sewerage” and draining, recycling, garbage disposal, porta-toilets, and possibly showers. Management of TC5 is contracted by the city to the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), and the camp is also administered by the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE). A Community Advisory Committee (CAC) will meet monthly to review how things are going with the camp and the neighborhood. A copy of the draft lease is available here.
As we reported previously, when evaluated by the Seattle Human Services Department (HSD) earlier this year, Seattle’s city-authorized encampments got high marks for sheltering homeless people and, to a lesser degree, for moving them into permanent housing. “The City-permitted encampments have met and exceeded the contracted performance measures,” read the evaluation, released in June. “The model is successfully serving people who have been living outside in greenbelts, on the streets, in cars and in hazardous situations.” In addition, the report says, crime hasn’t spiked near encampments, and neighbors have warmed to them over time.
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Tokyu 8090 & 8590 Serieses – Oimachi Line
Part of the Tokyu 8090 & 8590 Serieses pack
As with the Tokyu 1000 Series pack, all the dependencies are either included in this pack or are avaible on the DLS, except for the pantographs wich must be downloaded from Rizky’s website (they’re included in the freeware EMU packs).
Tranquility on the Oimachi Line (and on the Denentoshi Line too)…
Reformed into 13x 5-car sets, both 8090 and 8590 Series trains entered service on the Oimachi Line in 2006, replacing ther relatives, the 8000 and 8500 Series set, wich were later resold to third-sector railways (Izukyuko, Nagaden…) or abroad (to Indonesia).
At the same time, a new livery based on orange and yellow was introduced for Oimachi Line trains, to help distinguish them from Denentoshi and Toyoko Line trains. The most notable fetaure of this livery were the front “graduated” orange/yellow line, wich became the icon of the Line, and the Oimachi Line’s own logo, wich is composed by a large arrow (the Oimachi Line itself) crossing several other smaller ones (the rest of Tokyu’s network), a representation of the Line’s route and function.
The two Denentoshi Line 10-car sets were also still running trouble-free on their line.
When the Fukutoshin Line opened in 2013 and trough-services began on both sides of the Toyoko Line, Tokyu introduced an upgraded variant of the 5050 Series: the 5050-4000 Series, wich entered service in the same year, displacing 9000 Series sets to the Oimachi Line, in turn replacing in turn all the 8090 and 8590 Series trains already in service on the line, wich were all retired by late 2013.
Fast forward to 2019, the last two 8590 Series trains in service on the Denentoshi Line were replaced by Tokyu’s 2020 Series (named after the summer Olympics), introduced a year earlier.
The last 8590 Series train was retired on the 27th of February 2019.
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Home/News/Peruvian President calls for national dialogue
Peruvian President calls for national dialogue
By IANS| Published: 28th November 2020 11:48 am IST
Lima, Nov 28 : Peru’s President Francisco Sagasti has called on all social and political sectors to start a process of national dialogue to overcome the socio-economic and political challenges the country is currently facing.
“It is time to start a process of inclusive national dialogue, open to all, in what could serve as the basis for future constitutional change,” Xinhua news agency quoted Sagasti as saying on Friday.
The remarks were made during his official tour of the city of Huaura, 147 km north of the capital Lima.
Various social and political sectors have been demanding a new Constitution to replace the current one dating from 1993, he noted.
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“It is up to us, as a transitional and emergency government, to simply create the conditions for this to happen; we cannot, at such a critical moment, go further,” he said.
Peru has just emerged from a political crisis caused by allegations of corruption against former presidents, and is also dealing with the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Sagasti, who assumed presidency on November 16, has the mandate to lead the country until July 28, 2021, following the ouster of his predecessors — Martin Vizcarra and Manuel Merino — amid a power struggle between the legislative and executive branches.
His successor will be decided following the presidential election due in April next year.
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Home/News/World/Sikh-Americans hold protest rallies in US cities against farm laws in India
Sikh-Americans hold protest rallies in US cities against farm laws in India
By Sameer| Published: 7th December 2020 2:23 pm IST
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Washington: Hundreds of Sikh-Americans have held peaceful protest rallies in several cities across the US in support of the Indian farmers who have been protesting against the new agricultural reforms in India.
A large car caravan of protesters from various parts of California blocked the traffic on the Bay Bridge on Saturday as they moved towards the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, while several hundreds gathered in downtown Indianapolis.
The protesters at both the places demanded the new laws be repealed, saying they would push Indian farmers towards poverty and give the corporate sectors a monopoly.
“Farmers are the soul of any nation. We must protect our soul. People around the world, including many cities in the US and Canada, have come together to dispose of the bills that will open India’s agricultural market to the private sector; allowing major corporations to take over independent farming communities and dilute crops’ market value,” said Indiana-based Gurinder Singh Khalsa.
Khalsa was one of the organisers of the rally in downtown Indianapolis attended by nearly 500 Sikh Americans from various parts of Indiana.
Thousands of farmers are protesting on various borders of Delhi since November 26, seeking repeal of three farm laws enacted in September.
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A day earlier, there was a gathering of Sikh-Americans in Chicago and a protest rally in front of the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. Another one is planned on Sunday.
“No Farmers, No Food” and “Save the farmers” were the commonly-sighted posters at these peaceful protest rallies.
“This is a peaceful protest and should serve as a loud and clear message to the Indian government. We must support our farmers,” said Amandeep Singh Hundal in Indian.
“This is not a request to Indian government, rather a demand to take all three bills back,” said another Sikh leader Darshan Singh Darar.
The protest in Bay Area was organised by the Jakara Movement, a California-based grassroots organisation which seeks to strengthen community engagement and build empowerment by focusing on issues of civic engagement, education, health, and social justice.
Organisers said the caravan protest taking place on Sunday in the Bay Area – along with similar recent protests in New York, Houston, Michigan, Chicago, and Washington, DC – was meant as a show of solidarity, as Sikhs around the world urge international condemnation of the farm bills.
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“Without farmers, there is no food. Without farming, there is no livelihood for the millions of people in Punjab who have relied on farming as a source of income for generations.
“These issues are deeply intertwined, and we will raise our voices to ensure that the families from Punjab who are putting their lives on the line to protest in Delhi can do so without facing threats from the Indian government,” said Naindeep Singh, executive director of the Jakara Movement.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and several other states have been protesting for the last eleven days at the borders of Delhi against three farm laws.
Dubbing these laws as “anti-farmer”, these farmers claim that the newly enacted legislations would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big corporations.
However, the government has maintained that the new laws will bring farmers better opportunities and usher in new technologies in agriculture.
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Emory Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Program Overview
Goizueta Business School (GBS) is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.
The school is considered to be one of the top business schools in the United States. In the US News and World Report’s 2021 Best Business Schools Rankings, the school was named the 22nd best business school in North America.
Goizueta Key Statistics
Entering Full-Time Two Year MBA: 160-180
GMAT (80%) Range: 640-740
Average Work Experience: 6 Years
Rolling Admissions: No
Women: 30%
International Students: 28%
US Ethnic Minorities: 13%
Goizueta Important Dates
Round 1 Deadline: September 23, 2020
Round 2 Deadline: January 13, 2021
Round 3 Deadline: March 17, 2021
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Like the rest of the nation, Twin Cities residents were stunned on April 4, 1968, to learn that Martin Luther King Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent civil rights leader, had been assassinated in Memphis.
Black residents in the community felt a combination of sorrow, frustration and anger.
“I could hardly believe a man who had been preaching love and patience could be assassinated,” recalled Josie Johnson, who was acting president of the Minneapolis Urban League at the time.
“We were traumatized,” Spike Moss, 72, a longtime local black activist, said Tuesday. “Women and children were crying and wailing. I didn’t think I would survive that day.”
Some 300 people jammed the Sabathani Baptist Church in south Minneapolis that night. Five hundred people, many from the University of Minnesota, marched on City Hall the next day, and 5,000 turned out for events on Sunday, including 3,000 who marched through the streets of Minneapolis.
“The city was in an uproar,” recalled Ron Edwards, who was vice chair of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission. “We were being called on to try to keep the lid on the city. It was the end of the world as far as people were concerned.”
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington DC, August 28, 1963. United Press International (UPI) file photo.
Gary Hines, now the music director for the Grammy-winning Sounds of Blackness, was a 15-year-old student at Minneapolis Central High School, where he was leader of a group called DECOY, Determined Ebony Council of Youth.
“There was anger and frustration,” he said. “The last time I had witnessed and felt that level of outrage was when four girls were killed in Birmingham,” the infamous bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by white supremacists in 1963.
Edwards, Moss and Hines all recalled fires being set in the city as the anger spread. Moss remembers Molotov cocktails being thrown. He remembered when a local black man, Clarence Underwood, 27, declared: “They just killed our King, they just killed our leader.” Underwood then went out and shot and killed the first white man he saw, John Frank Murray, 25, on the North Side.
There were reports of whites firing into the cars of black people.
Hines said he joined black patrols, which paired a young person with an older person, who went through black neighborhoods trying to calm distressed youth.
One night, he drove with Minneapolis Lakers basketball player Bob Williams. Another night he drove with Harry Davis, one of the most prominent black figures in Minneapolis, who was later the DFL’s unsuccessful candidate for mayor.
“We can’t swallow the bitter pill of hatred with revenge,” Davis declared at a news conference in Mayor Arthur Naftalin’s office.
City leaders were anxious, recalled Edwards, who attended a Civil Rights Commission meeting at 1:30 a.m. at City Hall only hours after the shooting.
“Things were so tenuous, General Mills chartered a DC-8 and flew a significant number of African-Americans to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend King’s funeral,” said Edwards. He said he joined Josie Johnson, civil rights activist Nellie Stone Johnson and Curtis Chivers, of the Minneapolis Spokesman newspaper, on the trip.
Fifty years later, some of the activists of that era express despair that the goals of equality for which King gave his life have not been achieved.
“I feel America is going backward,” Moss said. “Its racism is more emboldened than it was in the 1950s.”
Bill English is consulting project director of the Northside Job Creation Team in Minneapolis. Fifty years ago, he was director of the Sabathani Youth Center, and addressed the gathering at the church, acknowledging their anger, but urging people to remain nonviolent.
Today, he says, things aren’t much better. English, 81, cited local racial disparities and the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin; Philando Castile; and Stephon Clark in Sacramento; the prosecution of Mohamed Noor, the Somali police officer, for killing Justine Ruszczyk Damond, when white officers were not prosecuted in the local shooting of Jamar Clark.
“I am tired of commemorating the [King] assassination because we are almost as bad off now as we were then,” he said.
Staff researcher John Wareham contributed to this report.
Randy Furst is a Star Tribune general assignment reporter covering a range of issues, including tenants rights, minority rights, American Indian rights and police accountability.
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January 3: This Day In History
January 3, 2014 – Segment 1
Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the point in the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, the day Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon, and the day Stephen Austin received a grant of land in Texas from Mexico.
Perihelion, the point in the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date.
1431 – Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
1541: On this date, de Soto visits the main CHICKASAW town. He wants to visit Caluca, and he gets guides and interpreters from the CHICKASAW.
1653 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
1852: The ship Thetis arrives in Hawaii with 175 Chinese field workers bound to serve for five years at $3 per month
1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
1870 : Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.
1879: U.S.Army Captain Henry Wessells at Fort Robinson, in northwestern Nebraska, receives orders from General Sheridan and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz which states that Dull Knife and his CHEYENNEs return to their reservation.
1917: Wobbly Tom Mooney tried in San Francisco for Preparedness Day bombing
1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
1924 : A precious treasure was found located near Luxor, Egypt, where King Tut’s tomb was discovered two years prior. This special object was a stone sarcophagus, which contained a mummy inside of Pharaoh Tutankhamen of Egypt.
1925 : Following his election as the Italian leader in 1922 Benito Mussolini the leader of the National Fascist Party in 1925 he declares he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy ending elections
1931: In a familiar scene during the Great Depression, some 500 farmers, black and white, their crops ruined by a long drought, march into downtown England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families, warning they would take it by force if necessary. Town fathers frantically contacted the Red Cross; each family went home with two weeks’ rations
1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1935: Ethiopia asks League of Nations to guarantee peace with Italy.
1940 : Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra records the would-be hit “Southland Shuffle” for Bluebird Records. The famed Billy May was featured as the trumpet player on the album
1941: WWI – 5,000 Prisoners are taken by Australian troops during a major assault on Italian forces at Bardia.
1947: The NAACP report issued on this date in 1947 called 1946 “one of the grimmest years” in NAACP history. The report blasted the nation’s lack of response to the wave of lynchings and reports of horrendous crimes against Black veterans. There were reports of veterans murdered with blowtorches and having their eyes gouged out.
1949 : The Colgate Theatre was born, and a series of productions entitled by the same name (Colgate Theatre) were put on. Television adaptations of radio shows such as Vic and Sade and Mr. and Mrs. North were also created. Colgate Theatre is located on the Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. This company still puts on quite a few productions.
1949: The Supreme Court rules against the closed shop, a labor-management agreement that only union members can be hired and must remain members to continue on the job
1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1959 : Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America. A new U.S. flag of 13 stripes and 39 stars waved in the air.
1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
1961 : The relationship between United States and Cuba rapidly deteriorated and President Dwight D. Eisenhower closed the American Embassy that was located in Havana, Cuba. No longer did the United States and Cuba have diplomatic relations.
1961: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was elected Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee
1962 : Prime Minister , the leader of Cuba at this time, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Other official leaders of Cuba’s communist regime of this time were thrown out as well. He was thrown out for violating a large number of the Roman Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law.
1965 : Thousands of antigovernment demonstrators in Saigon clash with government marines and police over concern that American influence in South Vietnam was increasing.
1966: North Carolina attorney, Floyd B. McKissick, was named National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
1966: Robert C. Henry assumed the office of mayor of Springfield, OH. Henry was Ohio’s first Black mayor.
1969: After being re-elected to a second term, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was seated by Congress
1969 : A new album by John Lennon called Two Virgins featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the nude are confiscated at Newark Airport and are not allowed to be sold in the US , also vice squad officers closed down a record store in Chicago displaying the Album due to it being considered pornographic
1971: Cave paintings, dated to 6,000 BC, are discovered in the Uweinat Mountains, Egypt.
1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
1977 : Apple Computer is incorporated 6 months after Apple had begun selling it’s Apple I personal computer kit for $666.66 created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
1980 : The new president of Afghanistan leader defends the Soviet invasion and coup last week stating Soviet troops are defending his country “against outside threats”.
1981: AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development employees Mike Hammer and Mark Pearlman are assassinated in El Salvador along with a Peasant Workers’ Union leader with whom they were working on a land reform program
1984: The Rev. Jesse Jackson secured the release of Black Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman on this date in 1984. One month earlier, Goodman was shot down over Damascus, Syria, and was held hostage.
1985: Leontyne Price, world-renowned opera singer, made her historic last performance at the Metropolitan Opera as “Aida”
1993 : US President George Bush, and Russian Boris Yeltsin, have signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty Start II – in Moscow which will cut the number of nuclear warheads they have by between 3,000 and 3,500.
1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
2008: Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus
2009 : Following the US government loan to GM Chrysler recieves $4bn loan to stop the company being forced into bankrupcy
2013 : Batasuna, the Basque nationalist party has announce that it would shut down operation in the country of France. The party was banned from Spain in 2003.
1793 – Lucretia Mott, American activist (d. 1880)
1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator and author (d. 1973)
1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist and author (d. 1973)
1934 – Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer and civil servant
1945 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas)
1946 – John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures)
1946 – Cissy King, American singer and dancer
1947 – Zulema, American singer-songwriter (Faith Hope and Charity) (d. 2013)
1954 – Ross the Boss, American guitarist and songwriter (The Dictators, Manowar, and Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom)
Sources: The People History; Wikipedia List of Historical Anniversaries; This Day in Women’s History; This Day in Jewish History; This Day in African History;History.com; History Orb; Yenoba; Phil Konstantin’s North American Indian History; and This Day in Music
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A look back at Post Road Pub in Plover: From root beer stand to last call
Caitlin Shuda
PLOVER – Bob Rutkowski has very fond memories of his time at the bar most recently known as Post Road Pub. It’s where he met his wife, Nancy. They have been married for 55 years and live in Stevens Point.
“It all started right there,” Rutkowski said. “We know several other couples who met there, too. There are a lot of memories about that place.”
About 250 friends, family and customers attended a former customer appreciation event for the nearly 70-year-old Plover bar in September. It was built by Albert and Bette Zurawski in 1949, and remained in the family until January 2018, when the state took over ownership.
The building will be razed early next year to accommodate changes for Post Road that include a four-lane divided roadway, and bicycle and pedestrian accommodations, said Kevin Kujawa, project development engineer for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's north-central region.
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Rutkowski said the customer appreciation event was a great way to see many old friends and catch up on what they're doing with their lives.
Albert and Bette’s son, Al Zurawski, said guests came to honor his mom and dad, who died in 2008 and 2014, respectively, and his sister, Bonnie, who died in 1997. Everyone shared memories from their time at the bar, including many who said Albert and Bette were like second parents, Al said.
“It was a family atmosphere,” Al said, calling the bar an “institution” and the last bar of its kind in Plover. “We would make Christmas dinners for the single people, or for those who lost their spouses. They were family. You kind of adopt people.”
History: From root beer stand to last call
The doors to the business first opened in 1949 as a root beer stand called Al’s Drive In. Albert and Bette built the root beer stand after they married in 1946.
The couple had four sons, Alan, Mark, Kurt and Kevin, and one daughter, Bonnie. The family lived in a house they built behind the business, which eventually became Al & Bette’s Bar in the early 1960s, serving beer and wine.
In 1965, Albert and Bette leased the building to Tom and Mary Ann Milianowski, who ran it as Tom and Mary Ann's bar for about five years. Then, in 1970, Bonnie and Al returned to the family business and started the Zodiac Bar.
"(Bonnie) was the one that came up with the name of the bar," Al said. "I didn't like it at first but then it grew on me."
An article in the April 19, 1972, issue of the Stevens Point Journal reported the struggle beer bar owners faced when state law lowered the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. The new law allowed 18-year-olds to drink liquor when they previously could only drink wine or beer. The Zurawskis’ bar was one of many beer bars whose business suffered.
In the article, Bette Zurawski was one of about 150 beer bar operators who traveled to Madison to talk to Wisconsin's Gov. Patrick J. Lucey about the law.
“A prognosis of death is hard to face,” said Bette, who was quoted in the article. “We need something to give us hope to exist.”
About three or four years later, Zodiac Bar got its liquor license, Al said.
In the early 1980s, Bonnie ran the business with the new name Sneaker's Bar, then in September 1990, it became Post Road Pub and operated under that name until October 2018.
Kevin and Mary Tepp, who most recently operated Post Road Pub and leased the space for just over 15 years, opened Hometown Bar in October at the former Custer’s Pit Stop, 2310 Custer Road in Custer.
'Without the customers, it’s just a building.'
The family helped out at the bar throughout the years. Al said he remembers growing up in the bar and helping by sweeping and moping the floors and by sorting bottles — they had to sort the pop bottles from the beer bottles and then sort based on labels and colors. The bottles then were sent out to be washed and refilled, Al said. They were not disposable.
Al began working at the bar when he was 17 years old and said it was intimidating to serve 25- to 30-year-olds at the bar.
He remembers picking up orange juice and a bottle of vodka to make screwdrivers and having no idea what drinks people would order. After a while, he said, you learned what people wanted and adjusted. He also purchased a bartender’s book to help figure out how to mix drinks.
Al said he also remembers there would be bar fights from time to time. He said there were times when groups from Wisconsin Rapids and Stevens Point would fight. But, usually, if someone started trouble at the bar he could round up enough regulars to get everyone in line.
“You had to stand your ground. They will control the bar if you don’t control it,” he said.
He learned that control from Bette.
“Mom would not tolerate bar fights or any foul language,” he said. “She was tough. In that way, she was tougher than Dad.”
The history and memories of the business all came down to Albert and Bette,” Al said.
“They had nothing when they started. It took a lot of guts to build that root beer stand,” he said. “It’s all about the people. Without the customers, it’s just a building.”
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Top Courses to Study in Canada for International Students to Get Jobs
Posted on February 21, 2018 May 26, 2020 By Tanmoy Ray
Posted in Career Guidance, College Admission Guidance, MBA, Study Abroad, Under GraduateTagged Career Guidance, Foreign MBA, Job Search, Jobs Abroad, MS in Canada, Study Abroad, Study in Canada
Canada is one of the most sought-after countries for studying abroad – both undergrad and graduate studies. With relaxed post-study work (PGWPP) and immigration schemes, Canada attracts several international students from all across the globe. Additionally, schemes like Express Entry also make Canada an attractive destination. However, local degree and local experience always make it easier to get settled and get jobs in Canada. In this post, we will look at the Top Courses to Study in Canada for International Students to Get Jobs.
The number of international students at Canadian universities has risen by 11% in 2017 (Source: Times Higher Education). Canada offers quality education and globally recognized degrees. It’s a great country to live in. The country provides a safe, economically stable and multicultural society.
The job prospects after studying in Canada are excellent. The Canadian universities boast of having more than 5000 global tie-ups. The course curriculum in Canada is very industry oriented. Hence, more than 90% of the graduates get employed in less than six months after finishing their studies in Canada. Know more about Study in Canada – Academic Calendar, Top Universities & Colleges and Top Business Schools.
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Last but not least, Canada also offers unique scenic beauty. Canada is a large country and borders three oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, and the Arctic). There is something for everyone in Canada, including outdoor & indoor activities.
Now we will look into the top subject streams (Skill Level A) to study in Canada for job and immigration prospects.
Source: Govt. of Canada (Immigration & Citizenship)
MBA has always been one of the top courses to study abroad. The majority of abroad MBA aspirants eye for international work experience, and particularly a decent job in the study abroad destination.
MBA degrees are no doubt very costly unless you are attending an MBA program at the Seth Kadodimal Business School or Rose Valley University (read MBA vs MS Business Analytics vs MS Data Science for the context). So, it’s only wise to look for international employment to recover your investments. Know more about MBA in Canada – requirements, costs, top business schools, and scholarships.
No that often the post-MBA job categories get listed on the skill shortage occupation lists in foreign countries. However, things are changing now. Management Consulting, Banking, Investment Finance jobs are now under the skill shortage category in Canada. In fact, management consulting job is also there on the skills shortage list of Australia. MBA graduates with specialization in Big Data or Analytics are also in extreme demand due to the increasing digitalization, automation, and big data boom.
An MBA degree gives you broader career opportunities and exposure to a diversified business network, new skills and knowledge, and a holistic overview of the business world. Almost 40% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies possess an MBA degree. MBA degree has been one of the most sought-after degrees for around the last five decades. Read more about the value of the new-age MBA degrees in India and abroad.
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Countries like US, UK, Singapore etc. might be more popular among the Indian students for pursuing an MBA abroad. But, Canada is slowly gaining a lot of interest and popularity among the abroad MBA aspirants. The costs of pursuing an MBA in Canada are lesser than in other countries. Additionally, the post-study work scheme after completing their MBA under PGWPP (Post-graduation Work Permit Program) is also a great incentive. Know more about MBA in Canada.
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Computer science & engineering graduates and software/IT professionals are always highly sought after anywhere in the world, including Canada. IT project managers and software engineers have turned out to be among the top 10 most in-demand occupations in Canada in 2018. Read more about costs, requirements, and top universities for Masters (MS) in Computer Science in Canada.
Some of the most in-demand job functions are:
Information systems analysts and consultants
Database analysts and data administrators
Software engineers and designers
Computer programmers and interactive media developers
Web designers and developers
Dev-Op & Cyber Security Professionals
Canada’s tech industry boasts 488,000 IT professionals, who work in diverse fields ranging from project management to software development, to data analysis, to information security. In the last year, the number of jobs in the tech field grew by 11,500, making it one of the fastest-growing sectors in Canada.
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The IT industry offers some of the most competitive salaries in the country. The median annual salary is $81,500, up from $76,000 last year. Know more about IT & Tech Jobs in Canada.
Finance always plays a vital role in a nation’s economy. With a degree in Finance, you will have an excellent understanding of the functions and applications of financial markets. Economics is another subject with great career scopes. You will learn about forecasting economy (GDP) and contribute to the monetary policies. Finance and Economics allow you to develop a wide range of transferable skills besides skills in core domain.
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The most sought-after job functions are:
Top Bachelor Degrees for Job Prospects (Source: Monster)
Core Engineering & Engineering Management
Core engineering & technology remains a candidate-driven field. The number of engineering jobs has grown steadily and added 7,050 new jobs in 2017 in Canada.
Central Canada (Ontario and Quebec) are currently the best job markets for engineers, likely due to their strong manufacturing presence. Almost one-third of the new jobs were created in or around Toronto. Following Toronto and Montreal, Edmonton and Calgary are the next strongest markets.
Engineers with skills in AutoCAD, CATIA or other industry-standard CAD software are like gold-dust these days in Canada. The median annual salary for engineering graduates in Canada is $81,700, which represents a significant increase from the median of $72,000 last year. The lowest-earning 10% of engineers make about $51,100. The top 10% of earners make $112,300. Know more about Engineering jobs in Canada.
Topmost on-demand categories are:
Electrical-Electronics
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Physical & Earth Sciences and Renewable Energy
Students from Earth Sciences background and related fields are also in high demand in Canada right now. The same goes for jobs in the renewable energy sector in Canada.
Energy is essential for economic growth and has got a huge role to play in the environment. With the depletion of fossil fuel and climate change, renewable energy careers are gaining more popularity. The energy industry is considered as highly capital intensive and currently playing a key role in job generation in Canada.
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Some of the top subjects to study are:
Medical Physics & Nanotechnology
Geoscience & Oceanography
Oil & Petroleum Engineering
Geo-informatics
Renewable energy is an important source of energy in Canada, as the country generates the majority of its electricity from hydroelectric dams. Canada has been in a fortunate position, as it has an abundant amount of biomass products available (mainly from the forestry industry). Hence, apart from wind energy and solar energy, Canada is actively investing in the bio-energy sector as well. Consequently, this is also creating excellent career opportunities for students from forestry and biotechnology backgrounds.
Agricultural Science & Forestry
The increase in the global population has been causing several problems including climate change, global warming, and food security. Agricultural Science can play a key role in solving those problems. Therefore, like India and other foreign countries, the job prospects of agricultural science & forestry are excellent in Canada. Typical job positions include agricultural scientists, agronomists, forestry consultants, and agricultural consultants.
Biosciences, Medicine & Healthcare
As long as there is life on our planet, the importance of medicine, biological sciences, biotechnology, and pharmacy will always be there.
The field of life and biological sciences is broad, interdisciplinary and exciting. The field demands a lot of tenacity and perseverance. Since you will be dealing with the most complex machine in the universe (human body), you need to be highly qualified and skilled. Additionally, it’s a research-oriented field. So, more often than not, a Ph.D. is mandatory.
The most in-demand job categories in Canada are:
Medicine (Specialist Physicians) and Dentistry
Read: Best Masters in Biotechnology and Life Science Programs in Canada
With the rise of digital media, social networking sites, and online marketing, the demand for skilled professionals in those areas is also increasing exponentially. New age career paths like digital marketing and digital & interactive design are taking over the traditional ones. Additionally, technology and banking sectors are also actively looking for creative talent like UX/UI design.
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The top sought-after job functions are:
Visual Effects & Animation
Creative & Graphic Design
Learn more about PR, Communication & Advertising Jobs in India & Abroad.
Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science & Analytics
Apart from creating huge noise, the big data boom has also triggered a great demand for quantitative and analytics professionals. Maths and analytics are used in various sectors that include financial services, retail, FMCG, healthcare, travel, media etc. Recently, unconventional sectors like education, manufacturing, and sports are also implementing the innovative use of analytics to get a competitive edge.
Actuarial Science Careers & Jobs
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Masters in Business Analytics in Canada: Top Schools, Jobs & Salaries
Psychology & Human Resources
Employers are always looking keen to recruit talented and skilled workers. But, hiring and remuneration of such professionals is always a challenge for companies worldwide. That is why companies put extra effort in skill upgrading and training of their existing employees. This puts the counseling psychologists, career advisers, industrial psychologists and HR professionals in great demand globally. Industrial (and organizational) psychology generally focuses on individuals and their relationships at the workplace, which includes job analysis, employee safety, employee training, job performance measurement, and employee hiring systems.
Other Subjects for Job & Immigration Prospects in Canada
Architecture (Urban & Landscape Architects)
Hospitality (Accommodation & Restaurant Managers)
Education (Teachers and Education Counsellors)
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Author: Tanmoy Ray
I am a Career Adviser & MS Admission Consultant. Additionally, I also manage online marketing at Stoodnt. I did my Masters from the UK (Aston University) and have worked at the University of Oxford (UK), Utrecht University (Netherlands), University of New South Wales (Australia) and MeetUniversity (India).
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Yasmin Levy & The Klezmatics
Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 8pm
The Klezmatics
In Partnership with the Washington Jewish Music Festival
Two wellsprings of Jewish music come together in one amazing evening! This culturally and sonically rich lineup pays homage to traditional Jewish music from around the world. World music singer Yasmin Levy, born in Jerusalem, is best known as a Ladino singer. Ladino is an archaic form of Spanish with strong ties to Sephardic Jewish culture. Levy sings in modern Spanish as well, often adding flamenco, Turkish, and Persian flair to her interpretations. The Grammy-winning Klezmatics are superstars of the klezmer world. They erupted out of New York City’s East Village in 1986 and revitalized the genre. They have released nine albums of wild, spiritual, provocative, reflective, and ecstatically danceable music.
Yasmin Levy’s father, Yitzhak Levy, was born in Turkey in 1919 and worked as both a composer and cantor. After the creation of the state of Israel, he was appointed head of the Ladino department at Israel’s national radio station.
The world-renowned Klezmatics have performed in over 20 countries.
The Klezmatics’ work was featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner’s A Dybbuk and It’s An Undoing World.
This concert will run approximately 140 minutes with intermission.
This performance is part of Strathmore’s Windows to the World series of international performances. Check out the full line-up and join the Global Voices Club.
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The Good Sea Monster
On an island of rocks out in the ocean lived a sea monster. His head was large, and when he opened his mouth it looked like a cave.
It had been said that he was so huge that he could swallow a ship, and that on stormy nights he sat on the rocks and the flashing of his eyes could be seen for miles around.
The sailors spoke of him with fear and trembling, but, as you can see, the sea monster had really been a friend to them, showing them the rock in the storm by flashing his eyes; but because he looked so hideous all who beheld him thought he must be a cruel monster.
One night there was a terrible storm, and the monster went out into the ocean to see if any ship was wrecked in the night, and, if possible, help anyone that was floating about.
He found one little boy floating about on a plank. His name was Ko-Ko, and when he saw the sea monster he was afraid, but when Ko-Ko saw that the monster did not try to harm him he climbed on the monster’s back and he took him to the rocky island. Then the monster went back into the sea and Ko-Ko wondered if he were to be left alone. But after a while the monster returned and opened his mouth very wide.
Ko-Ko ran when he saw the huge mouth, for he thought the monster intended to swallow him, but as the monster did not follow him Ko-Ko went back.
The monster opened his mouth again, and Ko-Ko asked, “Do you want me to go inside?” and the monster nodded his head.
“It must be for my own good,” said Ko-Ko, “for he could easily swallow me if he wished, without waiting for me to walk in.”
So Ko-Ko walked into the big mouth and down a dark passage, but what the monster wanted him to do he could not think. He could see very faintly now, and after a while he saw a stove, a chair, and a table. “I will take these out,” said Ko-Ko, “for I am sure I can use them.”
He took them to a cave on the island, and when he returned the monster was gone; but he soon returned, and again he opened his mouth.
Ko-Ko walked in this time without waiting, and he found boxes and barrels of food, which he stored away in the cave. When Ko-Ko had removed everything the sea monster lay down and went to sleep.
Ko-Ko cooked his dinner and then he awoke the monster and said, “Dinner is ready,” but the monster shook his head and plunged into the ocean. He soon returned with his mouth full of fish. Then Ko-Ko knew that the monster had brought all the things from the sunken ship for him, and he began to wish that the monster could talk, for he no longer feared him.
“I wish you could talk,” Ko-Ko said.
“I can,” the monster replied. “No one ever wished it before. An old witch changed me into a monster and put me on this island, where no one could reach me, and the only way I can be restored to my original form is for someone to wish it.”
“I wish it,” said Ko-Ko.
“You have had your wish,” said the monster, “and I can talk; but for me to become a man someone else must wish it.”
The monster and Ko-Ko lived for a long time on the island. He took Ko-Ko for long rides on his back, and when the waves were too high and Ko-Ko was afraid the monster would open his mouth and Ko-Ko would crawl inside and be brought back safe to the island.
One night, after a storm, Ko-Ko saw something floating on the water, and he jumped on the monster’s back and they swam out to it.
It proved to be a little girl, about Ko-Ko’s age, who had been on one of the wrecked vessels, and they brought her to the island.
At first she was afraid of the monster, but when she learned that he had saved Ko-Ko as well as her and brought them all their food she became as fond of him as Ko-Ko was.
“I wish he were a man,” she said one day, as she sat on his back with Ko-Ko, ready for a sail. Splash went both children into the water, and there in place of the sea monster was an old man. He caught the children in his arms and brought them to the shore.
“But what will we do for food, now that you are a man?” asked Ko-Ko.
“We shall want for nothing now,” replied the old man. “I am a sea-god and can do many things, now that I have my own form again. We will change this island into a beautiful garden, and when the little girl and you are grown up and married you shall have a castle, and all the sea-gods and nymphs will care for you. You will never want for anything again. “I will take you out on the ocean on the backs of my dolphins.”
Ko-Ko and the little girl lived on the enchanted island, and all the things that the old sea-god promised came true.
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Deadly twin blasts in Kabul have resulted in the deaths of at least 29 people including 9 journalists in the region. This is the second such similar attack to take place..
Deadly twin blasts in Kabul have resulted in the deaths of at least 29 people including 9 journalists in the region. This is the second such similar attack to take place in Kabul in April 2018.
Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan is one of the most unstable nations in the world. Much of its economy and its infrastructure are in ruins and the nation relies heavily on foreign aid. The region is home to multiple terror groups such as ISIS, Taliban, al Qaeda and Daesh.
This chronic instability has forced many citizens to become refugees. The region is plagued by multiple terror attacks. Kabul is regularly shaken by suicide bomb attacks. Within the first half of 2017, reports have suggested that terror attacks had resulted in the deaths of at least 1,662 people.
In the first two months of 2018, the terror attacks in Afghanistan by the Taliban increased exponentially. On 29th January 2018, explosions and gunfire erupted near the main military academy in Kabul, as officials and witnesses feared insurgents had entered another heavily guarded compound. In the same month, an ambulance packed with explosives killed at least 100 people. The Taliban took responsibility for the attacks.
In April 2018, a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has resulted in the deaths of at least 57 people. In addition, there was another bombing at Baghlan, resulting in the deaths of at least 6 people. Both the bombings occurred at places where voter registration was taking place. At least a hundred people were injured. The elections are slated to take place in October 2018.
At least 29 people have died in a coordinated double suicide bombing at Kabul. During the second attack, a bomber disguised as a cameraman detonated the bomb and killed at least 9 journalists as a result. This included a senior AFP photographer as well. The second attack was geared at targeting people who would respond to help the wounded from the first bombing.
In addition, at least 45 people were wounded in the attacks. Four officers were among those who were killed. The first blast took place at around at 8 a.m. local time in the Shashdarak area of the city, where the US embassy and Afghan government buildings are located, prompting journalists to rush to the scene. AFP later confirmed that its senior photographer, Shah Marai, had also been killed during the attack.
US Ambassador John Bass condemned the attack. "I condemn today's terrible Kabul attack (and) reaffirm our commitment (to) stand with the Afghan people in their fight for peace (and) security across Afghanistan. We mourn for those murdered, including the brave journalists who stand for truth in the face of violence," he wrote on Twitter.
In 2017, it was reported that Afghanistan has become the second deadliest country for journalists. In 2016, 13 journalists were killed during their line of duty. "This increase in violence against journalists has turned Afghanistan into the second most dangerous country for journalists in the world, after Syria," Najib Sharifi, chairman of the committee said at the time.
The attack comes just a day after India and China announced that the countries would jointly work on an economic project in Afghanistan. India has heavily invested in developing the infrastructure in Afghanistan and has helped with nation-building initiatives.
The attack comes just weeks after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani put forth an extraordinary offer to bring peace to the region. He said that he would move to officially recognize the Taliban as a legitimate political group in the region. He also asked the group to come to the negotiating table with any “precondition”. The group, meanwhile, has noted that it wants to directly negotiate with the US administration.
Our assessment is that the increased number of violent attacks comes during a period where the government has reached out to the Taliban in an effort to bring forth peace. If the government is in the near future able to negotiate an agreement with the Taliban, ISIS still remains a looming threat to Kabul. Can nation-building efforts by countries like India, China or the US help during such a tumultuous period in the country?
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December 11, 2020 By Coventry Talking Newspaper editor Leave a Comment
As reported on the Coventry Council website today
Coventry has acquired £1.3m to support the ones most in need. Part of the government’s covid winter grant scheme.
The money will go to support people in a wide variety of ways, including free school meals for eligible children over the Christmas holidays.
The grants will help families and individuals with essentials such as food, energy and water bills. The money has been given to the Council to spend in the best ways for the city.
A working group has been set up and details on how families and individuals can apply are on the Council website on our Coronavirus web pages.
The winter grant scheme is available to support families and individuals with access to food, energy, water bills and other essential items. The aim is to give vulnerable households peace of mind in the run up to Christmas and over the Winter months during the pandemic by helping those who need it to have food on the table and other essentials, so every child will be warm and well-fed this Winter.
The scheme will run through until 31 March 2021. If you require support please contact the Council on 08085 834333 where you will receive support with making an application.
The money could also help people with things such as repairs for boilers and ovens, although it could not be used for expenses such as rent.
There is a particular emphasis on children, with free school meals at Christmas and the February half-term and grants to support schools with additional warm clothing for pupils because of the need for greater ventilation in classrooms during the pandemic.
Cllr David Welsh, Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities said: “COVID has affected all our lives, and a lot of families are struggling financially. This grant money will go to help those who need that extra bit of support this winter.
“It will give them the security of knowing there are warm meals and clothing for their children and it will help keep people healthy and safe in what we know will, be a difficult winter for so many in our city.
“We are now in the process of identifying the best way to make sure that families and single people who need our help know what’s available.
“We already have excellent partnerships in place with advice agencies, and community organisations are already working with benefits and customer service advisers, so we are well placed to ensure this funding is used effectively.
“We will be announcing details very soon and I would urge anyone who needs some extra help to apply as soon as possible.”
Cllr Kevin Maton, Cabinet Member for Education and Skills, said: “Our schools have done a fantastic job throughout the pandemic, continuing to provide lessons and bringing in new measures to keep all the children safe.
“This money will help to support that work through essentials such as warm clothing. Something as simple as a fleece or a woolly hat could help children beat off winter illnesses and prevent the spread of germs and so help us battle coronavirus.
“We are delighted that schools will also be able to support children through free school meals in the holidays. This is always an expensive and difficult time of year for a lot of families and this will help to take a little bit of the stress away.”
The money has been distributed to local authorities based on population size and levels of deprivation in the local area.
The Council is making the claims process as straightforward as possible and is working with a range of partners to deliver the grants, including Schools and the Coventry Food Network.
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Speaker Dogara calls for early Budget Submission to National Assembly
As President Muhammadu Buhari signs the 2019 budget into law, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has explained that the executive and the National Assembly will continue to work on areas that need improvement so that better implementation of the law can be achieved.
He spoke at the Presidential Villa where he joined other state functionaries to witnessed the signing of the budget.
Speaking on some issues raised by the president on adjustments made by the National Assembly on the document, he said both arms of government are focused on ensuring that the budget meets the needs of Nigerians.
He said, “The issues he (President Buhari) was raising concerning certain reductions that were made in the budget and some subheads increases were made and that such reductions made it a bit difficult for some of those projects to be implemented.
But he said it is an ongoing process and will have discussion with the leadership the National Assembly to see what they will be able to do to in other to put that behind them and then execute whatever critical projects that suffered some form of hurt in the process of passing the project in the National Assembly.”
Hon Dogara also added that the issue of timeline of the budget was also mentioned by the President, who he quoted as saying he will align the appropriation time to be like that of the private sector which is from January to December.
“What I heard him say is the issue of aligning the appropriation from January to December just like the case in the private sector. I think that can really be achieved but it must start with the early and timely submission of the budget to the National Assembly from the executive. A situation where the budget is submitted in December, even if you shut down the entire National Assembly, we will not be able to achieve the January deadline,” he stated.
He added, “Going forward, this is a collective exercise. The budget is a law and being a law, it falls within the purview by constitution and design of the National Assembly to make the law. In most cases, it is the National Assembly that decides how federally generated receipts should be expended and the National Assembly took that decision and we are glad that the president has signed it into law.”
The speaker reiterated that the job of the National Assembly is not to agree with the executive, as there is any congress in the world that does that.
“By the constitution and design, the executive informs us what they intend to do and the representatives of the people in National Assembly decides what is priority since they represent the people. It is going to be a nutty area but we will continue to define the relationship between the executive and the legislature. Whether it is Britain or US, where it is, there is always a strain, this issue of budget, because it deals with high stakes-distributional issues as to who gets what, which part of Nigeria gets this and that, so it will continually be an issue.
“We should not be defined by those issues. Rather, we should define those issues by forming consensus that is the part to progress and we will continue to do that.”
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Team Novo Nordisk Motivated for Results at Tour of California
Race: Tour of California (14 – 20 May 2017)
Total Distance: 926.8 kilometers (575.9 miles)
Race Class: WT
As an American-registered team, the prestigious Tour of California stands out as one of the most important races on Team Novo Nordisk’s calendar. The race is the only World Tour event taking place on home soil, so when the world’s first all-diabetes professional cycling team lines up in Sacramento on Sunday, May 14th, its squad is looking for results.
In last year’s race, Javier Megias finished 14th overall while teammate Martijn Verschoor sprinted to fifth on Stage 1 beating out the likes of Peter Sagan, Niccolo Bonifazio, Mark Cavendish and Alexander Kristoff. In previous years, Charles Planet wore the Amgen Breakaway from Cancer Most Courageous Rider Jersey and former Team Novo Nordisk teammate Kevin De Mesmaeker scored a podium finish when he took third on Stage 4 (2015).
In its 12th edition, the Tour of California will test riders with more than 9,100 meters (approximately 30,000 feet) of climbing over seven stages. Seventeen teams, including 12 World Tour squads, will compete across 926.8 kilometers (575.9 miles). Team Novo Nordisk’s roster for the race includes Romain Gioux (FRA), Joonas Henttala (FIN), David Lozano (ESP), Javier Megias (ESP), Andrea Peron (ITA), Charles Planet (FRA), Martijn Verschoor (NED) and Chris Williams (AUS). The 30-year-old Gioux is making his Tour of California debut.
“We are racing our fourth Tour of California and most our riders have raced here before. This means they have better knowledge of the race and better prepared for the competition,” Team Novo Nordisk’s General Manager Vassili Davidenko said. “Now that it is a World Tour race, it will be tougher, but we still expect some surprises from the pro continental and continental teams. We have planned our entire season around this race and designed our programs specifically so the riders arrive in California with top form. We are ready for a tough race.”
Team Novo Nordisk’s David Lozano, who has raced in the past four editions of the race, said that the Tour of California is one of his favorite races of the season because of the big roads and nice landscapes. Yet the 28-year-old Spaniard realizes this year’s edition comes with new challenges.
“For the team, this is one of the most important races of the season; you might even say it’s the most important race. We are an American team, and this is the biggest American race. That adds a lot of pressure,” Lozano said. “One of the reasons I love this race is that it’s the opposite of European races with wider roads and smooth pavement, but now there are more World Tour teams and shorter stages, which means a totally different race. The pace will be high every day and teams will have to play with more ambitious strategies.”
Stage 1 kicks off on Sunday, May 14th with a 167.4-km race around Sacramento in what should be a sprint finish in front of California’s Capitol Building.
Team Novo Nordisk Roster Amgen Tour of California (May 14-20):
Romain Gioux (French), Joonas Henttala (Finnish), David Lozano (Spanish), Javier Megias (Spanish), Andrea Peron (Italian), Charles Planet (French), Martijn Verschoor (Dutch), Chris Williams (Australian).
Sport Directors: Lionel Marie (French), Massimo Podenzana (Italian).
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Arizona State University Cardinals College Pros
Bird Gang Member Provides Guidance To Fellow Sun Devils
Jordan Hamm Posted March 20, 2015 at 12:46 pm
For college football players entering the NFL Draft, the month of March means being picked, prodded, examined, interviewed and tested by potential employers. The pressure must be suffocating; one bad run, one bad interview, one bad day can change a draftee’s future, draft rank, and salary.
Marion Grice knows that all too well.
The former Arizona State running back with a nose for the end zone, 39 touchdowns in 23 games, went through the pre-draft gauntlet just one year ago. The decorated playmaker was knocked out of his last three collegiate games, including the 2013 Pac-12 championship and Holliday Bowl, due to an ankle injury.
Grice had to prove his durability to his potential suitors, and that his injury was a small blip on the radar.
“(My pre-draft process) was stressful,” Grice said. “Coming off the injury…I had to set my Pro Day back to a private Pro Day, and I felt like I did good. My intentions were to make sure I caught someone’s eye and I did that.”
The San Diego Chargers selected Grice in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
While on the practice squad in late September, he had an option, and took it…with the Arizona Cardinals. He had the ability to stay with the Chargers or join another roster, and he decided to return to the state that put him on the map.
In his rookie year with the Birds, he rushed for 42 yards and two touchdowns, including a touchdown in the Cardinals playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers.
The Sun Devil and member of the Bird Gang now returned to Tempe, hoping to provide guidance for the “little guys” he affectionately calls the Sun Devil seniors and potential draftees preparing for this year’s upcoming draft.
“I told them to be more confident,” Grice said. “You know you’re going to be nervous, but you have to play through it. The more confident (you are), the better performance you will have.”
He hopes to share advice on how to help your stock on the field, but also wanted to share what it means to be an NFL player beyond the pylon.
“It’s all business, and you need to keep a positive mindset. That’s why I feel like a lot of guys Coach Graham helps keep a positive mindset and (you need) to stay with the process.”
Now, Grice stands with his feet under him as an NFL player. He took advantage as a junior college transfer and ran his way into the ASU record books. He took advantage when his fellow birds in the Cardinals’ battered backfield went down and showed what he could do with limited time with a playbook for his current employer. With a season under his belt, he’s ready for another opportunity, an expanded role in the NFL, to come and take advantage.
“I feel like I’m about to come out and be myself. Come out like my senior year, I came out strong…I was comfortable, so that’s what I feel like now. I’m more comfortable, I’m getting stronger and faster,” Grice said. “I’m looking forward to this camp and showing everyone what I can do.”
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Itzhak Perlman – multiple Grammy-winning violinist
Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman has performed for both Barack Obama and The Queen in a glittering career which has seen him pick up no fewer than 16 Grammy Awards. You can both buy and sell Itzhak Perlman tickets on StubHub.
A favourite of Barack Obama
Born in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in 1945, Itzhak Perlman first picked up the violin aged just three and by his mid-teens was studying the instrument at New York’s prestigious Juilliard School. He first caught U.S. attention when he appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958 and five years later, he played Carnegie Hall for the first time. His reputation as a musical maestro grew throughout the following two decades and led to stints in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, a teaching post at Brooklyn College and numerous film and TV work. He’s provided music for the soundtracks of "Schindler’s List" and "Memoirs of a Geisha", collaborated with the likes of Isaac Stern, Jessye Norman and "Yo-Yo Ma and performed for the Queen at the 2007 White House state dinner and "Barack Obama at his Presidential inauguration. In 2019 his fascinating life story was explored in the feature-length documentary "Itzhak". If you haven’t yet seen the man with no fewer than 16 Grammys to his name, then take a look at the various Itzhak Perlman tickets currently on offer at StubHub.
Effortless technique, gorgeous tone, energetic stage presence
Despite having entered his seventies, Itzhak Perlman shows no signs of slowing down and regularly takes to the stage at prestigious concert halls, such as Boston’s Symphony Hall, Chicago’s Civic Opera House and Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Perlman still continues to perform alongside various illustrious orchestras too, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in 2019 shared the stage with pianist Evgeny Kissin for a series of sold-out shows. Fans should look forward to hearing the virtuoso violinist delve into his classical repertoire, with concertos by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Elgar particular favourites. Blessed with an effortless playing technique, a gorgeous tone and intonation and an energetic stage presence, Perlman is also keen to give audiences value for money, often performing lengthy encores once his scheduled programming has come to an end. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see one of the classical music scene’s most celebrated violinists and check out the range of Itzhak Perlman tickets now available on StubHub.
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449 – Strategic Serialized Email Series – Part 2 – Strategy
As the Strategic Serialized Email Series continues, Andre talks about the magic of autoresponders, how to keep your emails relevant, and how to make people look forward to your next email.
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What is the strategy?
Podcast highlights:
01:06 – Choose your own adventure
02:42 – Autoresponders vs. broadcasts
05:44 – Making emails magical
06:23 – Emails as story
10:07 – Autoresponders explained
12:03 – An action step for listeners
14:01 – Leave your audience wanting more
15:25 – Summing it up
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James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. You’ve arrived at episode 2 of a multi-part podcast series. In fact, I’m speaking with my special expert guest Andre Chaperon on the topic of strategic serialized emails. Welcome back, Andre.
Andre: It’s great to be back.
James: In our last episode, we were talking about the goal of emails. We talked about rigging your system for relevancy. If you haven’t listened to that episode, please go back and listen to that because it will really get you in tune with what we’re talking about on today’s episode. Today, we are digging right into some strategy for your emails and how you should be looking at them as an overview.
So when you sat down and thought about your email strategy Andre, what sort of things come to mind?
Andre: OK. So the strategy for me is about achieving the goal or making that goal relevant. So we spoke about the goal already, which for me is relevancy. So the whole strategic part of it is about delivering on that. So one of the things that I guess I’m most famous for is the way that I structure the emails and the way that I kind of verbalize it is choose your own adventure. So choose your own adventure allows you to be super relevant because people self-select and depending on their behavior, they get sent to different types of emails. So it keeps that relevancy super high. I don’t know, I’m guessing people understand the whole choose-your-own-adventure model.
James: Well certainly my audience are definitely familiar with the product chooser, which is the way that on my website, I’ve been able to funnel people into the right part of the website fairly quickly, and I learned a lot about that from a conversion expert. You’re doing the same thing with your emails.
You talked in the previous episode about how you rigged that up with the first email system you’re using but it was a little bit difficult and that modern email systems will give you the ability to control where people end up based on what links they’re clicking on and what other things they’ve already purchased or not purchased or where they’ve been in your system, and you can now very, very clearly trigger different sequences. From what I understand about your overall strategy, you still really like having a high percentage of autoresponders versus broadcasts. Is that right?
Autoresponder versus Broadcast
Andre: Yes. So that’s part of the strategic approach because I think it’s near enough impossible to be relevant all the time when you’re sending out a broadcast because there’s no automation involved. Automation is an amazing thing when you rig it this way because you can get your people better reading your stuff to self-select what’s most relevant to them and what interests them and then they ignore other parts. Trying to do that using broadcasts, good luck. That’s never going to happen.
James: I agree with you. It’s definitely challenging and certainly, the way we’ve approached it is we segment our main broadcast by topic. So we have website topic, traffic topic, business topic. So for starters, we’re excluding certain audiences from the broadcasts. So that’s something you could automate or do manually. The second part is I guess we do what I call long line fishing. We send a weekly digest, which has all the content and multiple links.
I know that breaks many rules that are out there in the email world, sending multiple links in an email, heaven forbid, and they’ll click on the one or two topics that might interest them. Much in the same way I receive emails from the Huffington Post or surfing sites. I’ll usually click on one or two of the links out of the seven, or eight, or 10 things on offer.
So if we’re going to go down that news approach, which I’ve been doing with OwnTheRaceCourse, that’s one way to do it. But that being said, I’m still using a heck of a lot of automation in my business too. I’ve got all sorts of structured training programs that roll out. I’ve got automated follow ups for people who buy things, I’ve got automated follow ups for people who don’t buy things, but we’re thinking about it, and I’ve got automated follow ups for people who used to buy things but then stopped buying things to find out what’s happening. And of course we chase people up if they start disengaging with things where we can measure their engagement.
So I’m a huge fan of email automation when done right, and I use it in my business too. So this is really the core workhorse for your business, isn’t it, these email soldiers out there, working away 24/7?
Andre: Yeah. So I would think that 90% to 95% of all the emails that go out from our system are the automated ones, and then just 5% or 10% are manual broadcasts, much like you do them. I have a pretty good idea of who I’m going to send that broadcast to. So it’s almost never to the entire list.
James: I think the thing you really do, and we’re going to drop the hammer home on this, is you serialize your emails. You’re actually creating story-based emails and you even coined a phrase that the whole industry uses now, soap opera sequences. I know we’re going to go deeper on the tactics of that in our next module, module number three on this episode series, but right now, just as an overview, tell us about soap opera sequences. What does it actually mean? And also, while we’re at it, we should probably explain what an autoresponder is, just in case someone doesn’t know what that means.
“Autoresponder, or broadcast?”
The story component
Andre: Yeah, OK. So let me address these few things. First of all, I’m assuming everybody knows what choose your own adventure is, but just to dumb it down, it’s back in the days when I was young, I used to read these books, these choose-your-own-adventure books. You read the stories. So that’s the story component, and then it gets to a page, should you go left or should you go further into the forest? Turn to page 26 to go left or page 17 to go forward.
So that’s how I first was exposed to the whole choose-your-own-adventure thing, and I thought it was magical because I didn’t know what was going to happen and I felt that I was being a part of what that outcome was going to be, whether I was going to die or live, if it was some sort of adventure book.
So that’s what got my mind around the whole choose-your-own-adventure thing. And then many million years later, I applied that to email. So that’s that component. So the story component is it needs to be some sort of narrative that plays out over multiple emails and at certain points like you mentioned, you can get people the opportunity to click one link, or two links, or five links or whatever.
There’s a company worth following called fool.com, The Motley Fool, and they do some pretty good emails. They’re a finance company, or they have a financial newsletter. Because that’s a very, very broad subject, there’s different reasons why their audience is reading their stuff. They can’t presume too much so that very first email that you get when you subscribe to whatever their free newsletter thing is, the very first one, this email basically has something like four links.
So there’s a setup, there’s like some context, “Thanks for subscribing to the Fool. So we can better customize the experience that we’re going to send to you, let us know of these four categories that you’re most interested in.” And each category has a person that they’ve set up that’s basically the face behind that category.
So if you’re here for investment, Joanna is our investment lady in this picture here. If you’re here for retirement purposes, Jonathan is your guy. Based on what you click on, that’s going to rig the entire system. All the emails that are going to come to you later on are going to be based on that self selecting. So that’s how they’re making their emails relevant from the get go in a very broad market. So that’s essentially what it is.
And then perhaps different to everybody else is I’ll tell these stories that will play out over multiple emails. There’s a few reasons why I do that, and we can go into that, but yeah. If you just imagine watching your favorite episode of Lost, or 24, or my new favorite now called Billions, each episode plays out, there’s a cliffhanger at the end, you can’t wait to find out what”s going to happen next, and then it ends. It just breaks rapport and that’s the end of it. There’s all these emotions that you want to find out what’s going to happen next. If you really stop and think about, all the stuff that’s happening in your head, there’s a way to that using email.
So then they’re looking forward to the next email, which is like the next episode. And that next email can be the next day or can be a few days later. You get to choose when that email goes out.
What is an autoresponder?
You asked me to describe what an autoresponder is. So an autoresponder is basically an automated system where you can stack up emails, email one, email two, email three, and you can tell the system how many days is the gap in between each email. So email one go out now, email two go out one day later, email three go out two days after email two. It’s the sequential series of emails that go out automatically based on a time and format that you select. So that’s probably the most basic level.
The cool thing with that is you now get to control the entire story, the whole narrative for when somebody adds themselves to that autoresponder to whenever it ends, if it ever ends, you get to control the context of the conversation. That’s how you can build that relationship with an audience very quickly without all these random broadcast emails.
Broadcast emails, basically it’s the opposite to that. You’re writing the email, you have to manually write that email, click the send button, tag it to the whole list, and that email will then go out. But that’s it. It’s a one-off. If somebody subscribes to your email list a day after, they don’t get that email. And if that was a really, really amazing badass email, they’re never going to see that because they joined after the fact.
So I’m very careful how I rig my system so that I’ll curate the context and that attraction in the beginning, so then by the time people do get exposed to any broadcast emails that I send out, I know there were the certain point in their life cycle that they know who I am and I’m not the strange person that they’ve just subscribed to my list, and now they’re getting some promotional email for some random product from somebody else. That’s a massive disconnect.
James: Great. Very good example of choose your own adventure. You talked about what those soap operas look like. I know we’re going to go more into those tactics later. You’ve given a good definition of a broadcast.
“The power of self-selection”
Utilizing autoresponders
I guess just some technical stuff here, I suppose if you’ve been sending out amazing broadcasts, it would be nice to go through your database and see which ones had good responses and think about how you might re-incorporate those back into some kind of automated system. Would that be an action step for someone listening to this series perhaps under utilizing autoresponders?
Andre: Yes. Yes. Exactly that. So certain emails are just going to resonate better than other emails. So I’m always aware that whenever I send out a broadcast email, whether it’s to the entire list, which is very rare, or just to a certain segment of that list, I’ll be aware of how that email is resonating with that group of people.
Sometimes, emails, the whole angle or the hook or the subject line tied in with what you just said just hits home for them and they hit reply, and you could just tell that that email has an impact on them. But sometimes, other emails are less effective. But you try your best. Every single email that you send out is never going to be the best, amazing thing ever. It’s just about trying to be relevant all the time. And every now and then, when you get this amazing one, you can then re-incorporate that into the system as an automated thing.
James: Right. You talked about this cliffhanger, and I know you’ve referred to them as open and nested loops. I think that’s the expression people would be used to hearing now that you’ve propagated it in the market.
Andre: Yeah.
James: It basically means it’s almost impossible to unsubscribe from that email sequence because you don’t want to miss out on what’s coming down the track.
Andre: Yeah. So I guess on the most basic level, an open loop is just where you start something, where you mention something, and you don’t actually tie it up. You don’t tell the whole story. You just break it up and that’s the end, and it keeps people hanging. “I want to know what’s going to happen next.”
TV has done this really well for many, many years. I mean even listening to the most basic broadcasting on TV now, like for us, we listen to the BBC news whenever it comes on. Although I’m not a fan of the news, but whenever they do start, they’ll mention all the topics right on the very first few seconds. Typically, the last one is the one that you really want to hear about, and then it will sequentially go through the list, and now you’re kind of stuck there waiting through all these irrelevant news that’s irrelevant to you because you want to hear that last piece. So I guess that kind of demonstrates what I’m saying.
James: They’ll get the juiciest headlines. What is this expression, “If it bleeds, it leads.” And they’ll hold off delivering that until they’re ready so they can get that appetizing revenue.
“Emails your customers can’t wait for”
When to broadcast
In fact, one good reason to send broadcast as part of your strategy is when you have launches, right?
Andre: Right. Yes.
James: And we’re going to cover some launch tactics in the next episode. So that’s pretty much a good wrap as to the strategy. We talked about why this strategy is effective. We’ve talked about what some of the important elements are about choose your own adventure, about having a good mix of autoresponders there, healthy ratio compared to broadcasts, about story-based marketing and using all that drama and suspense, and open and nested loops. We’ve talked about the soap opera sequences and how this really is the silent sales machine in the background when you get it rigged up properly, to use Andre’s words.
In the next session, we’re going to talk about tactics. In fact, remind me Andre to share with our listeners the tactic that you told me on how to actually write these soap opera emails on your computer, the easiest, possible way that are so simple and I still use to this day. So we’ll get to that soon. Andre, thanks for sharing this. Remember to check out Andre’s website at Autoresponder Madness, and we’ll be back for part three of this amazing strategic serialized email series. Thanks Andre for sharing this stuff.
Andre: You’re welcome.
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Imagine a world without a world paper money catalogue, with no specialist paper money dealers, no shows featuring foreign paper money, and certainly no internet to instantly link collectors and dealers across the globe. That barren scene was the world of 50 years ago. But scattered across Europe, North America and Asia were men and women who were fascinated by the paper money that had become the main medium of exchange in the 20th century, replacing the coins that has been the staple of exchange for more than two millennia. Some of these early collectors were in contact with each other; others were not. However, efforts by them and others like them over the past half a century have seen the hobby of collecting world paper money grow from being a minor offshoot of coin collecting into the substantial branch of numismatics it is today.
The International Bank Note Society takes this opportunity to recognize these pioneers of the hobby. The IBNS Board determined to establish a Hall of Fame to honor these men and women. The process, it was hoped, would foster an appreciation of the historical development of the pastime we all follow with varying levels of passion.
The first selection of inductees to the Hall of Fame was made in 2010. The inaugural inductees into the IBNS Hall of Fame, in alphabetical order, are: Yasha Beresiner, Joseph Boling, Michael Crabb, Ruth Hill, Dr. Arnold Keller, King On Mao, Colin Narbeth, Dr. Albert Pick and Neil Shafer. They helped lay the foundations on which the hobby is built. As world paper money collecting is a relatively new pastime, especially when compared with coin or stamp collecting, many of the hobby’s earliest champions and benefactors are still with us. Sadly, some are not.
Several of those being honored this year were instrumental in the formation of IBNS, without which the hobby would be far poorer today. Others contributed through the spread of knowledge of banknotes to fellow collectors through books and catalogues. Some have helped build the institutional structure that underpins the hobby and enables collectors to meet and trade. All have given greatly of their time and effort and have earned the lasting gratitude of fellow collectors.
The IBNS Board has selected three individuals to join the Hall of Fame for 2011: author and broadcaster Gene Hessler, leading dealer and researcher Mel Steinberg and dealer and publisher Pam West. Together they represent major influences on our hobby in recent decades.
Following is a very brief outline of the work of the induces to the IBNS Hall of Fame. The year mentioned relates to when they were inaugurated into the IBNS Hall of Fame
George J Sten (2017)
was without doubt a true pioneer in the study of world paper money. His single-volume Encyclopedia of World Paper Money published in 1965 was a tremendous step forward into the understanding of what it was to collect world currencies.
Ward D. Smith (2016)
Elected to the IBNS Hall of Fame in the Pioneer Category is deceased member Ward D. Smith from California. He was a very early and eminent researcher and collector of Chinese paper money.
John Sandrock (2015)
John Sandrock (Charter Member 0026) from the United States of America was a pioneer in the hobby of paper money collecting and his devotion was stellar.
Fred Philipson (2014)
Fred Philipson was sometimes called “a father of English paper money collecting.” Fred was with the IBNS at its inception.
Weldon D. "Burt" Burson (2014)
The very epitome of a world banknote collecting legend, Weldon did what no one else was capable of doing by physically handling, conserving and bringing order to the most challenging monetary union in the world, West African States.
Dr. Walter Loeb (2012)
Dr. Walter Loeb was the co-founder of the IBNS and its first president, then Vice-President until his death in 1968.
Pam West (2011)
Pam West is a paper money dealer, publisher of award-winning books on paper money, entrepreneur and for 30 years the driving force behind the London Chapter of the IBNS.
Michael Vort-Ronald (2017)
has written and self-published numerous books on Australian banknotes and related items. He also established the only private Banking and Currency Museum in Australia which operated from 1988 to 2008 and won ten regional tourism awards.
Trevor Wilkin (2016)
Trevor Wilkin from Australia has been described as “one of the most interesting, most knowledgeable and most trustworthy banknote dealers in the world.” His banknote expertise and historical perspective are refreshing and always spot on accurate.
Milt Blackburn (2015)
Milt Blackburn (Life Member 18) from British Columbia, Canada is best described as a true “gentleman” and has been a highly respected banknote dealer for over 30 years.
Arthur C "Art" Matz (2014)
Charter Member of IBNS #0022-C, Art is nominated for his long work in running the Latin America Paper Money Society (LANSA), founded in 1973.
Peter Symes (2012)
Peter Symes has been a prolific contributor to the Journal for 10 years, in addition to editing the Journal between 2008 and 2010 and being IBNS President twice between 2005 to 2012.
Gene Hessler (2011)
Gene Hessler, the author of five major books on paper money, an award winning author of more than 350 articles on numismatics and a well-known broadcaster and lecturer on the topic.
Yasha Beresiner (2010)
A lawyer by training and a dealer in collectables by choice, Yasha was an early member of IBNS (he is Life Member No. 2), founder of the Latin American Paper Money Society, a past director of IBNS and editor of The IBNS Journal for several years in the early 1970s.
Howard Daniel III (2017)
is a most notable numismatic researcher and ambassador, specializing in the the currencies of Southeast Asia. Always willing to share his time and knowledge with anyone he has for many years focused on attracting young members into the hobby.
Milan Alusic (2016)
Milan Alusic died in 2015 at age 90 as IBNS Secretary Emeritus and Director for Life. He was one of the last of a core group of numismatists from Racine, Wisconsin,
Jimmie Lawrence (2015)
An extraordinary banknote collector from Johannesburg, South Africa, he helped found the IBNS in 1961 and served as one if its early presidents for almost a decade.
Amon G Carter Jr. (2014)
A worldwide banknote collector of legendary magnitude who was IBNS Life Member #5, Amon Carter’s continuing impact on world banknote collecting cannot be overstated.
Dwight Musser (2012)
Dwight Musser was a pioneer working in the late 1950s and early 1960s especially with notgeld and other kinds of notes aimed at getting collectors interested.
Mel Steinberg (2011)
Mel Steinberg, who passed away October 2010, was among the major world paper money dealers for more
than 30 years.
Joseph Boling (2010)
Mike Crabb (2010)
Ruth Hill (2010)
King On Mao (2010)
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Chris Buerck
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville
Participants in Big Brothers Big Sisters featured in May art exhibit.
Come see the youngest artists on display at the May First Thursday Art Walk with the BIG Art Project, a collaboration between Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville and artist Olasubomi Bashorun of Drafts By Ola galleries.
Wanting to share his passion with the younger generation, the artist invited mentoring matches from Big Brothers Big Sisters into his studio to paint with him recently. Each Big Brother and Big Sister and each Little Brother and Little Sister were provided a canvas and paint. While Ola led a lesson on painting a specific piece, the novice artists were encouraged to create their own image.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville is a one-to-one mentoring organization that pairs children facing adversity with caring adults who spend time with them two to four times a month. The matches go on outings and occasionally are invited to these one-of-a-kind experiences.
“Relationships are built on making memories, and we are delighted to partner with Ola to create the opportunity for our Bigs and Littles to step outside of their comfort zones and tap into their creativity,” said Chris Buerck, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville.
Ola, who has graced Clarksville with several delightful works including the Starry Night Over Clarksville mural at 420 Madison Street and a new piece at Hey Noli on Second Street, said introducing children to the art world can provide an important outlet for them.
“Sometimes painting or just creating art can help you express emotions you otherwise don’t know how to explain, especially as a child,” Ola said. “Putting their heart and thoughts on canvas can help them work through adversity and challenges and prevent those emotions from building up and exploding.”
In an extension of the show, a group of Clarksville High School seniors will also exhibit at the gallery for the Art Walk, creating a multi-generational experience with artists ranging from under 10 years old to those in their 30s.
The BIG Art Project will be on display from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2, during the monthly Downtown Art Walk. Stop by Drafts By Olasubomi at 128 N 2nd Street (the Regions Bank Building) to admire the artistic talents found at all ages in Clarksville.
About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville: Since 1975, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville has provided children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships. Big Brothers Big Sisters ensures that the children in its program achieve measurable outcomes, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships. Learn more atwww.bbbsclarksville.org
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Lunar Eclipse 2020: Date, Time, Significance And More of July 5 Chandra Grahan
Lunar Eclipse 2020: Date, time, all you need to know about Chandra Grahan on July 5th
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By Cheena Khanna On Jul 2, 2020
It’s the eclipse season! We have witnessed the first penumbral Lunar Eclipse 2020 on January 10. It was soon followed by the one on June 5-6. We have also seen an annular solar eclipse on June 21 that ended with a spectacular ring of fire. We now have the third on July 5, 2020. But sadly this penumbral lunar eclipse will not be seen in India as it will take place in the day time here.
What is a penumbral lunar eclipse?
The lunar eclipse is of three kinds: total, partial, and penumbral. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when Moon, Sun, and Earth are not perfectly aligned with each other. The Moon passes through, the outer part of the shadow cast by the Earth or the penumbra.
Here is all you need to know about the Thunder Moon lunar eclipse:
What is Thunder Moon Eclipse?:
The full moon in July is called the ‘Buck Moon’ according to The Maine Farmer’s Almanac that first published Indian names for the full moons back in the 1930s. It is also nicknamed as the ‘Thunder Moon’. This is because it is the time when thunderstorms occur frequently. As the penumbral eclipse is taking place on the full moon night, of July 5 it is being called the Thunder Moon Eclipse. NASA says the moon will appear full for nearly three days around the eclipse. So from Friday evening right into Monday morning enjoy the full moon in the sky.
Chandra Grahan Time and Visibility:
The total duration of the eclipse will be of two hours and 45 minutes. It will begin at 8.37 am on July 5, enter its maximum phase at 9:59 am and conclude at 11.22 am.
* The first contact with the penumbra: 8:38 am
* Maximum impact of the eclipse: 9:59 am
* Last contact with the penumbra: 11:21 am
The penumbral lunar eclipse of July 5 will be observed in much of North and South America and Africa. Unfortunately, it won’t be visible from India as it will take place during the broad daylight. You can watch the online live stream to get a glimpse of the celestial event.
Dos and Don’t during Lunar Eclipse in 2020:
1. Unlike Solar Eclipse, you can watch Lunar Eclipse with bare eyes.
2. It is believed by many in India that one should avoid consuming food during the time the lunar eclipse.
3. As per the religious beliefs, many people in India don’t worship or visit the temple during this time.
4. Cooking during the Chandra Grahan period is also prohibited.
Negative Effect of Lunar Eclipse 5 July 2020 will be seen on these 4 Zodiac Signs:
Gemini: You need to have extra precaution when it comes to physical and mental health. You can face respiratory issues along with mental health problems. Avoid talking about anything that can easily trigger your peace of mind.
Libra: You will deviate from spiritual awakening. Try to do mediation every morning for 10 to 15 minutes. Don’t indulge in arguments with your partner as it can have a lasting impression.
Scorpio: Serious issues like an accident ailing health can hit Scorpions. Financially too it is the worst time for you as money issues might arise. It is also the period of trying to maintain peace and harmony in the workplace.
Aquarius: People born under the Aquarius sign may face trouble for more than 6 months. Your child will face setbacks in his career and job. If you are in a relationship then there will be differences along the way.
Sutak period
July 5 penumbral lunar eclipse will not be visible in India.
Therefore the Sutak period will not be considered here.
Sutak period is considered inauspicious time, during which no auspicious work of any kind is carried out.
The Sutak period begins 9 hours before the lunar eclipse and 12 hours before the solar eclipse.
The next penumbral lunar eclipses of the year will take place on November 30, 2020.
Also Read: Solar Eclipse 2020 Date, Time, When & where to watch the spectacular Ring Of Fire
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Seun | May 8, 2020 May 26, 2018 | Festival Reviews
Now in its 12th year, Slam Dunk Festival attracts rock, emo, punk, metal, ska and fans of everything in-between to the centre of Leeds on a bank holiday weekend to watch 8 stages worth of fantastic music.
First up on the gloriously sunny Saturday was Australian rock band The Faim who by the size of the crowd already has a huge following with a lot of the audience singing the songs back to them. An impressive set that certainly left the festival goes wanting more.
Walking around the site you could see such a mix of bands and there was never a dull moment with nothing to see. I quickly popped into the O2 Academy to see Brutality Will Prevail and I could hear singing but there was no singer on the stage… finally I found him in the middle of the venue with a circle pit in fill force around him. After making his way back onto the stage, he was very quickly off again and into the crowd where he crowd surfed all the way to the back of the room and around to the front again. So much energy and passion, they were great to watch.
One of the highlights of the day was getting to see Save Ferris on stage again in the UK after nearly 7 years away and I can honestly say they were worth the wait. Monique Powell is an incredible performer and had every single person hanging on her every word, she was funny, talented and put on one of the best shows of the day with music that just makes you want to dance!
Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes have never ever disappointed as a performer and are always an amazing addition to the Slam Dunk line-up. Filling the O2 Arena he strutted onto the stage with a confidence that comes from experience and although some parts of his performance are well known now, it makes it exciting for the audience. He always gets into the crowd through song 3 and song 4 is always the female-only crowd surfing song which is always popular! So many women take the opportunity to crowd-surf in a safe space, something that Frank is very passionate about since having a daughter and always speaks out about the treatment of women at gigs.
I decided to go and watch the smaller stage where Californian Ska punks Reel Big Fish were headlining and I’m so glad I did; the ska party band were on form and lit the stage on fire. Opening with “Everyone else is an asshole” they got the whole crowd singing, dancing and sure that they had made the right decision to come and see RBF. With a fantastic 16 song setlist they showed that despite the fact they have been around forever and that they have often changed band members, they will always hit the stage with high energy and enthusiasm that comes with loving what they do. In between their own original songs, they threw in a few great covers and finished on a spectacular cover of A-ha’s “Take on Me”. I don’t think they could have ended this brilliant festival any better and everyone left that stage on a real high, although possibly a little hoarse from singing along!
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SLAM DUNK 2018 IN LEEDS
OVER AT IN PICTURES:
BBC MUSIC’S BIGGEST WEEKEND – DAY TWO // SCONE PALACE, PERTH
THIS IS TOMORROW FESTIVAL – DAY TWO // SPILLERS WHARF, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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How Much Is Enough?: Discussing the Marvel Cinematic Universe ›
How Much Is Enough?: Discussing the Marvel Cinematic Universe
How long until the superhero bubble bursts?
Tanner David Harris
For close to a whole decade, Marvel Studios has been releasing a tidal wave of cinema related to their iconic characters. Kicking off with the first Iron Man in 2008, we've seen no less than fourteen films, six television series, and a wealth of tie-in material. And there's even more to come, with projects featuring some of Marvel's lesser-known properties like Squirrel Girl, Cloak & Dagger, and Damage Control getting the royal treatment.
I, for one, love what Marvel is doing. I love seeing some of my favorite characters being brought to life, the stories I know adapted, and the whole concept being brought into the mainstream via the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even so, I have to ask: how much is enough? How much more of this stuff are we going to get until the proverbial bubble bursts?
The reason all this Marvel media keeps coming is because, as previously mentioned, we love it, and people keep shelling out their own money to come and see the latest film. And it's consistently quality entertainment, with even the "worse" Marvel films like Thor: The Dark World and The Incredible Hulk doing well commercially and critically. By extension, it's making a lot of money for Marvel and their parent company Disney. As long as the money and audience remains, there's no reason to stop making these movies... From a business standpoint, that is.
But the other thing to keep in mind is that this is an entertainment business, and as such is a business that deals with people both internally and externally. Many of the actors whose characters make up the foundation of the MCU time is just about up. Chris Hemsworth's and Chris Evans' contracts are set to expire after Avengers: Infinity War, and Robert Downy Jr. has repeatedly gone on record saying that he is tried of being Tony Stark. Of course there's always the option of recasting another actor, but many of these actors embody these characters much in the same way Harrison Ford is the only Han Solo, or how Johnny Depp will always be Jack Sparrow.
Another point of concern is story-wise. As more layers are added to the franchise through new movies and shows, it's a wonder that it hasn't become so complicated at this point. Yet given its sheer scope, it's going to be quite a task to avoid contradictions and unnecessary retcons (I'm looking at you, X-Men). Given that the venture hasn't collapsed in on itself is certainly a good sign, but how long will this consistency uphold? The next several installments will perhaps give us some indication.
I love the MCU, but that doesn't stop me from having some minor concerns. I have faith that Marvel will continue to delivery on quality superhero smash-up action, but how much is enough? Only time will tell.
But until that day... Excelsior, my friends.
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General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne1
M, #40401, b. 20 September 1885, d. 25 September 1970
General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne was born on 20 September 1885.2 He was the son of Augustus Thorne and Mary Frances Nicol.2 He married Hon. Margaret Douglas-Pennant, daughter of Colonel Hon. George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai and Gertrude Jessy Glynne, on 29 July 1909 at Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London, EnglandG.3,2 He died on 25 September 1970 at age 85.2
General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne usually went by his middle name of Andrew.1 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)1 He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.)1 He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.)2 He gained the rank of General in the Grenadier Guards.1 He was awarded the Companion, Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) and two bars.1 He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.)1 He lived at Knowl Hill House, Reading, Berkshire, EnglandG.1
Children of General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne and Hon. Margaret Douglas-Pennant
Mary Diana Thorne2 b. 1 Jun 1910, d. 14 Jul 1982
Major George Thorne+2 b. 1 Jul 1912
Captain Andrew Thorne+3 b. 1 Jul 1912, d. 8 Sep 1991
Lt.-Col. Sir Peter Francis Thorne+3 b. 6 Aug 1914, d. 16 Mar 2004
Margaret Helen Thorne+3 b. 17 Jan 1917, d. 1986
Pansy Constance Thorne+3 b. 16 Dec 1921, d. 9 Aug 1996
[S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
Hon. Margaret Douglas-Pennant1
F, #40402, b. 1886, d. 23 October 1967
Hon. Margaret Douglas-Pennant was born in 1886. She was the daughter of Colonel Hon. George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai and Gertrude Jessy Glynne. She married General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne, son of Augustus Thorne and Mary Frances Nicol, on 29 July 1909 at Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London, EnglandG.1,2 She died on 23 October 1967.1
From 29 July 1909, her married name became Thorne.1
Children of Hon. Margaret Douglas-Pennant and General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne
Lt.-Col. Sir Peter Francis Thorne+ b. 6 Aug 1914, d. 16 Mar 2004
Pansy Constance Thorne+ b. 16 Dec 1921, d. 9 Aug 1996
Hon. William Thomas FitzWilliam1
M, #40403, b. 7 October 1846, d. 23 March 1896
Hon. William Thomas FitzWilliam was born on 7 October 1846. He was the son of William Thomas Spencer Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam and Lady Frances Harriet Douglas. He married Elgiva Mary Kinglake, daughter of John Hamilton Kinglake, on 21 December 1876. He died on 23 March 1896 at age 49.
He lived at Altvalton Hall, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG.1
Child of Hon. William Thomas FitzWilliam and Elgiva Mary Kinglake
Elgiva Mary Kathorn Fitzwilliam+1 d. 24 Apr 1963
Olive Dorothea Plunket
F, #40404, d. 14 December 1975
Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam1
Olive Dorothea Plunket was the daughter of Most Rev. Hon. Benjamin John Plunket and Dorothea Hester Butler.2,3 She married William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, son of William Charles de Meuron FitzWilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam and Lady Maud Frederica Elizabeth Dundas, on 19 April 1933.4 She died on 14 December 1975.4
She was appointed Officer, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (O.St.J.)4 From 19 April 1933, her married name became Wentworth-Fitzwilliam.
Child of Olive Dorothea Plunket and William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam
Lady Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Wentworth-Fitzwilliam+ b. 24 Jan 1935
[S300] Michael Rhodes, "re: Ernest Fawbert Collection," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 8 February. Hereinafter cited as "re: Ernest Fawbert Collection."
Lady Mary FitzWilliam1
F, #40405, b. circa 1851, d. 1 July 1921
Last Edited=4 Jul 2010
Lady Mary FitzWilliam was born circa 1851. She was the daughter of William Thomas Spencer Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam and Lady Frances Harriet Douglas.1 She married Hon. Hugh le Despenser Boscawen, son of Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth and Mary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton, Baroness le Despenser, on 23 May 1872.1 She died on 1 July 1921.1
Her married name became Boscawen.
John Hamilton Kinglake1
M, #40406, d. May 1898
John Hamilton Kinglake was the son of unknown Kinglake.2 He died in May 1898.1
He lived at Wilton House, Taunton, Somerset, EnglandG.
Child of John Hamilton Kinglake
Elgiva Mary Kinglake+ d. 2 Dec 1888
[S214] Honours List, The London Gazette, London, U.K., 23 September 1898. Hereinafter cited as London Gazette.
[S3444] David Radcliffe, "re: Bettesworth Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Bettesworth Family."
Sir William Charles FitzWilliam1
M, #40407, b. 31 March 1848, d. 17 April 1925
Sir William Charles FitzWilliam was born on 31 March 1848. He was the son of William Thomas Spencer Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam and Lady Frances Harriet Douglas. He married Constance Anne Brocklehurst, daughter of Henry Brocklehurst and Anne Fielden, on 31 October 1882.1 He died on 17 April 1925 at age 77.1
Child of Sir William Charles FitzWilliam and Constance Anne Brocklehurst
Eric Spencer FitzWilliam, 9th Earl Fitzwilliam b. 4 Dec 1883, d. 3 Apr 1952
Margaret Mary FitzWilliam
F, #40408, b. circa 1843, d. 9 February 1844
Margaret Mary FitzWilliam was born circa 1843. She was the daughter of William Thomas Spencer Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam and Lady Frances Harriet Douglas. She died on 9 February 1844, as an infant.
James Thorne Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar1
M, #40409, b. 10 March 1949
James Thorne Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar was born on 10 March 1949.1 He is the son of John Francis Hervey Erskine, 13th Earl of Mar and Pansy Constance Thorne.1 He married Mary Kirk, daughter of Dougal McDougal Kirk, on 23 March 1974.1
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, EnglandG.1 He held the office of Page of Honour to HM Queen Elizabeth II between 1962 and 1963.1 He was a community service volunteer between 1967 and 1968 at York, Yorkshire, EnglandG.1 He was educated at Moray College of Education, Morayshire, ScotlandG.1 He was educated at Inverness College, Inverness, Inverness-shire, ScotlandG.1 He was a community worker between 1971 and 1973 at Richmond Carigmillar Parish Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandG.1 He was a senior social worker with the Family and Community Service, Sheffield District Council between 1973 and 1976.1 He was a social worker between 1976 and 1987.1 He gained the rank of Pilot Officer in 1979 in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.1 He gained the rank of Flying Officer between 1982 and 1986 in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.1 He was a building technician between 1989 and 1991.1 He succeeded as the 16th Earl of Kellie [S., 1619] on 22 December 1993.2 He succeeded as the 14th Earl of Mar [S., 1565] on 22 December 1993.2 He succeeded as the 16th Baron Erskine of Dirletowne [S., 1604] on 22 December 1993.2 He succeeded as the 16th Viscount of Fentoun, [S., 1619] on 22 December 1993.2 He succeeded as the 16th Lord Dirletoun [S., 1619] on 22 December 1993.2 He succeeded as the 16th Viscount of Fentoun [S., 1606] on 22 December 1993.2 He was created Baron Erskine of Alloa Tower, of Alloa in Clackmannanshire [U.K. Life Peer] on 19 April 2000.3 He lived in 2003 at Hilton Farm, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, ScotlandG.1
[S134] Heraldic Media Ltd., online http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/, Patrick Cracoft-Brennan (Cracroft Peerage Database v5.2), downloaded 1 November 2006.
Hon. Alexander David Erskine1
M, #40410, b. 26 October 1952
Hon. Alexander David Erskine was born on 26 October 1952.2 He is the son of John Francis Hervey Erskine, 13th Earl of Mar and Pansy Constance Thorne.1,2 He married Katherine Shawford Capel, daughter of Thomas Clark Capel and Lucy Katherine Shawford McDouall, in 1977.1
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, EnglandG.2 He graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)2 He lived in 2003 at 5 The Grove, Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG.2
Children of Hon. Alexander David Erskine and Katherine Shawford Capel
Alexander Capel Erskine2 b. 1979
Isabel Katherine Erskine2 b. 1982
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Best of 2020: Five Clutter-Breaking ZEE5 Shows and Films
With a line-up of exciting, diverse and progressive originals, ZEE5 owned the OTT space and how
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With theatres staying shut and people working from home, 2020 was the year when Indians took to OTT platforms like never before. One platform which ensured that there was no dearth of great content to binge-watch all year round was ZEE5.
With a line-up of exciting, diverse and progressive originals, ZEE5 owned the OTT space and how. From thrillers to love stories to heart-warming dramas, the streaming platform offered a variety of content catering to different types of viewers.
Here’s our pick of 5 of the most clutter-breaking shows and films that streamed on ZEE5 in 2020.
Churails
Pakistani show Churails, that tells the story of four women taking on patriarchy, was one of the best shows to have come out this year. This 10-episode series won all around praise for its powerful subject and the way it was treated. The performance of the four leads - Sarwat Gilani, Mehar Bano, Nimra Bucha and Yasra Rizvi - was unanimously appreciated. Churails was directed by Asim Abbasi.
Abhay 2
With Kunal Kemmu playing the titular character of Special Task Force cop Abhay Pratap Singh, this hugely popular ZEE5 original returned in a darker and edgier avatar this year. From the storyline to the thrill quotient, everything was several notches higher this time round. Along with Kunal’s brilliant act, the series also saw some terrific performances from Chunky Pandey, Bidita Bag and Ram Kapoor. It was directed by Ken Ghosh.
Chintu Ka Birthday
What happens when an Indian family stuck in war-torn Iraq decides to celebrate the birthday of their youngest son Chintu? This absolutely warm and adorable film tells you this interesting story. Chintu Ka Birthday has been directed by Devanshu Singh and Satyanshu Singh. The film boasts of wonderful performances by Vinay Pathak, Tillotama Shome, Vedant Chibber and Seema Pahwa.
Released as a film as well as a show, this Bejoy Nambiar directorial stood out for its compelling story of rage and revenge. The best part about Taish is that the narrative has been treated differently in each format, which is why as a viewer you’re hooked, whether you watch it as a film or a show. Taish has an elaborate cast that includes Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Kriti Kharbanda, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Harshvardhan Rane and Abhimanyu Singh, and each member has delivered a memorable performance.
Based on the complex subject of Naxalism, Naxalbari is a powerful and hard-hitting show that makes for terrific viewing. This 8-episode series has been directed by Partho Mitra and is packed with just the right amount of suspense, tension and thrills. The show is powered by excellent performances coming from Rajeev Khandelwal, Tina Datta, Shakti Anand, Satyadeep Misra and Sreejita De. The suprise package of Naxalbari has got to be Aamir Ali whose character is a game-changer.
ZEE5 has clearly upped the ante when it comes to delivering top quality original content. No wonder, it has become India’s favourite entertainment destination.
While the above 5 made it to our Best of 2020 list, let us know in the comments which ZEE5 films and shows you couldn’t stop binge-watching.
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PM to Attend Art of Living Event; Fine Can Be Paid Till Friday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will attend inaugural function of the three-day World Culture Festival
Updated: 11 Mar 2016, 3:50 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will attend the inaugural function of the three-day World Culture Festival being organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art Of Living (AoL) foundation.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. (Photo Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons)
AOL Has Time Till Friday to Pay Initial Fine
AOL foundation has time till Friday to give initial environmental compensation of Rs.5 crore for holding its World Culture Festival on Yamuna flood plains, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said on Thursday.
AOL Softening Its Stance On Paying Fine
The site where World Culture Festival will take place. (Photo: The Quint)
Spiritual Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s comments in the morning that he would not pay Rs.5 crore fine slapped by the NGT and was prepared to go jail if the court wanted him to, triggered speculation about the course likely to be adopted by AoL.
However, after a hearing at NGT during the day (Thursday), AoL said that things were changing every moment and they have time to comply with the tribunal’s order.
The organisation appeared to be softening its stance after initially saying that it will not pay the fine.
“We have lot of time as the event is beginning tomorrow (Friday) evening. Things are changing every moment. We are focusing on things to make the event successful,” Akshama Nath, counsel for Art of Living (AoL) told IANS when asked if the foundation was willing to pay the fine.
In a related development, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking to block the holding of three-day event which will have performances from artists of different countries.
The apex court also asked PIL petitioner Anil Kumar to approach the NGT as it was a specialised forum to address the issue and refused to hear the plea mentioned by a counsel in the post lunch sitting of the court.
Weather Office’s Predictions Giving Anxious Moments to Organisers
Preparations for spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s World Culture Festival underway in New Delhi on March 8, 2016.
The weather office’s prediction of heavy rains for Saturday gave anxious moments to the organisers who were giving final touches to their preparation for the event that will conclude on Sunday.
“Heavy rain very likely at isolated places over Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi,” said an official announcement for March 12 (Saturday) by the India Meteorological Department.
A Wrap Up of New Developments
The NGT had on Wednesday imposed an initial fine of Rs.5 crore on AoL headed by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and said it should be held liable for restoration of “damage caused to environment, ecology, biodiversity and aquatic life of the river”.
A day later, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said in a TV interview that he will not mind going to jail if the court wants him to.
Asked if he would go to jail for refusing to pay the fine for the three-day World Culture Festival here, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said: “Yes, I will.”
“The structure created for the event is temporary and will be dismantled after the event. We wanted to create awareness about Yamuna through this event,” he added.
During its brief hearing on Thursday, the NGT asked the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) if they had issued directions to AoL for the event in accordance with its Wednesday’s order.
DPCC said in its reply that “directions will be issued soon after the expert committee completes the inspection of the site”.
The expert committee comprising senior officials from Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Ministry of Water Resources and DPCC inspected the Yamuna flood plains on Thursday.
“The Art of Living has not got the permission from the department of Water resources, Delhi Police, department of fire control and safety for the event. We will move the application in the tribunal regarding the safety of the stage and the venue tomorrow (Friday) morning if required,” Sanjay Parikh told reporters after the hearing.
Parikh is counsel of Manoj Misra of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan which filed a petition with the NGT against holding of the festival.
In Goa, Congress demanded an apology from Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for use of army in making pontoon bridges on Yamuna.
In its order on Wednesday, the NGT had also imposed a fine of Rs.5 lakh on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Rs.1 lakh on the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) for failing to discharge their duties.
(With inputs from IANS)
Published: 11 Mar 2016, 3:40 AM IST
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SEED Group Partners with German Blockchain and Cybersecurity Specialist Ubirch to Accelerate the UAE’s Digital Transformation Journey
Cologne, Germany, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 26 November 2020 - SEED Group, a company of the Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, has partnered with the German blockchain and cybersecurity specialist Ubirch to drive the digital transformation journey of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the wider Middle East region. Through this partnership, SEED Group will facilitate Ubirch to expand its business portfolio in the region by offering it an effective platform to reach potential customers and market its products and services in an efficient manner.
A stable UAE base will allow Ubirch to be a part of one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and stay in close proximity to prospective clients based out of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia regions. SEED Group will act as a springboard for Ubirch and help it address many of the pressing issues in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, blockchain, FinTech, and cryptocurrency while establishing it as the leading technology player in the region.
Hisham Al Gurg, CEO of SEED Group and The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, said, “As the UAE focuses on building a digital future, our new partnership with Ubirch opens new avenues not only for the German start-up but also for the economy of the Emirates and the wider region. Local businesses, which are looking for trustworthy data security solutions and infallible IoT architecture, stand to benefit from this partnership.”
“SEED Group is always eager to join hands with high-growth technology companies that are disrupting the corporate ecosystem with their cutting-edge products and this partnership is another strong step in that direction. We are delighted to have Ubirch on board and act as a facilitator in propagating their ground-breaking solutions in our region,” added Mr. Al Gurg.
Founded in 2014, Cologne-headquartered Ubirch ensures the trustworthiness of data by using robust cryptography and innovative blockchain technology. Ubirch seals data certificates at the source and anchors them into the blockchain. Thus, data created by any physical asset becomes immutable, non-repudiable, and verifiable beyond system boundaries – closing the trust gap between the physical and digital world.
Karim H. Attia, co-CEO of Ubirch, said, “The cybersecurity and IoT market is developing at a breathtaking pace and we see enormous business potential in the MENA Region. We feel honored to be the chosen partner of the SEED Group in Dubai to introduce German digital innovation strength to the Arabic cybersecurity market and are very excited to launch our blockchain-based cybersecurity solution “Made in Germany” to the Emirates and wider region.”
Globally, the IoT sector is booming and offers a fair chance of growth to disruptors like Ubirch. The number of IoT devices, which form the core of smart living solutions, is expected to cross 50 billion globally by the end of this year.
Technology company Cisco estimates that the number of IoT devices will be three times as high as the United Nation’s predicted 8 billion global population, by 2021. Hewlett-Packard, meanwhile, said that 70 percent of the IoT devices are vulnerable to hacking, clearly pointing towards having more companies like Ubirch.
About Ubirch GmbH
Ubirch is the specialist in blockchain-based cybersecurity technology with locations in Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Tel Aviv, and Dubai. The team consists of experienced specialists in cryptography, blockchain and data-driven business models. With robust cryptography and innovative blockchain technology, Ubirch makes data trustworthy and shortens the time to market of data-driven business models.
Ubirch technology – deployable as software or on SIM-cards – is aimed primarily at customers in the manufacturing industry, smart cities, insurance, healthcare, energy supply, and logistics segments. Further information is available at www.ubirch.com.
About SEED Group
Over the past 16 years, SEED Group has formed strategic alliances with leading global companies representing diverse regions and industries. These companies have propelled their business interests and goals in the Middle East and North Africa region through the support and strong base of regional connections of the SEED Group. The Group’s goal is to create mutually beneficial partnerships with multinational organisations and to accelerate their sustainable market entry and presence within the MENA region. SEED Group has been a key point in the success of all its partners in the region helping them reach their target customers and accelerate their businesses. The Private Office was established by Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum to directly invest in or assist potential business opportunities in the region, which meet The Private Office’s criteria. For more information, visit www.seedgroup.com.
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Shirley Arlene Dubetz
Apr 8, 2020 at 12:01 AM Apr 8, 2020 at 1:29 PM
Shirley Arlene Dubetz passed away on Thursday, April 2 at the age of 92.
Shirley was the daughter of Roy and Lucille (Reamer) Robb. She was born in Alliance Ohio on November 4, 1927, and had two sisters, both deceased, Beverly Keen and Elsie Roush. She attended Mount Union College and received her law degree from William McKinley School of Law. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar Association in August of 1954. Shirley was a member of the American Bar Association and the Portage County Bar Association. She was the first practicing female attorney in Portage County and practiced actively for more than 60 years. She also completed graduate coursework at Kent State University, where in 1991, she established the Shirley Robb Dubetz Endowed Scholarship in Political Science.
Shirley married Michael Dubetz in 1955, and lived in Rootstown Ohio until 1992, when she moved to Kent, Ohio. She is survived by her five children, Nancy Dubetz (husband Marcelo) of New York City, Paul Dubetz (wife Victoria) of Aurora; (Michael Dubetz Jr. (wife Lori) of Littleton, Colorado; Dianne Anderson (husband James) of Hudson and Mary Wallace (husband Peter) of Aurora. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Shirley was active in a number of organizations over the years, serving as a member of Business and Professional Women, Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University, University Women of Kent State University, Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, the KSU President’s Club and the Emeriti Faculty of Kent State University, where she served as president from 1990-1991. Her husband Michael was a professor in the speech department at KSU and retired in 1980.
Shirley was a passionate golfer and world traveler having visited five continents. Until this year, she enjoyed spending the winter months on Singer Island in Florida. Like her father Roy, she was also an avid sports fan, faithfully following her favorite baseball, football and basketball teams. Recently, she moved to Danbury Senior Living in Hudson, where her greatest pleasures were spending time with her children and her wonderful, long-time friend Earl Kilchenman. A ceremony celebrating her life will be announced at a future time. In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations to the Roy E. Robb Scholarship at the University of Mount Union, Office of Advancement, 1972 Clark Avenue, Alliance, OH 44601.
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Smile Australia, you're on Google's candid camera
By Asher Moses
August 5, 2008 — 10.01pm
Google today launches its controversial Street View mapping tool in Australia amid a backlash against the feature by privacy activists around the world.
Street View, accessed from http://maps.google.com.au/help/maps/streetview/, lets people explore the country at ground level for the first time with little more than a computer and an internet connection.
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Google-branded Holden Astra cars with roof-mounted cameras began traversing our streets about November last year, taking tens of millions of detailed panoramic street-level photos.
Most Australian coastal cities and many regional and outback towns are covered but there are some notable omissions, such as Uluru.
Google Maps product manager Andrew Foster said more images would be added to Street View in the coming months as they are processed by Google.
Street View was launched in the US in May last year and has since expanded to parts of France and Italy. Google's camera-equipped cars have also been spotted in New Zealand, Britain, Germany, Spain, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Japan, Switzerland and Norway.
"Our ambition is to be a world map," said Lars Rasmussen, Google Australia's engineer and one of the original creators of Google Maps.
Google expects tourists, home seekers, students and armchair explorers to embrace Street View in their research. The feature has already been praised by Tourism Australia, the Real Estate Institute of Australia and the Australian Geography Teachers Association.
Many of the original photographs that were part of the US Street View launch were taken down following privacy concerns. They include a woman in a G-string, a man striding into an adult bookshop and a man relieving himself on a pavement.
Since then, Google has developed technology to blur faces and number plates in the Street View photos, although it acknowledges the automated process is not foolproof. Privacy conscious users who notice any potentially invasive images on Street View can report them to Google using an online form.
A US couple is suing Google for invasion of privacy because photos of their home, located on a private road, appeared on Street View. In court documents filed in its defence, Google claimed that "even in today's desert, complete privacy does not exist".
Google Australia spokesman Rob Shilkin said the quote had been taken out of context and no Australian private roads would be visible on Street View.
To assuage local privacy concerns, Google demonstrated Street View for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, the Australian Privacy Foundation and various welfare groups for homeless people.
The privacy commissioner, Karen Curtis, said she would continue to monitor Street View but those with concerns could first contact Google and then her office directly.
Dan Svantesson, co-chairman of the privacy foundation's internet subcommittee and a law professor at Bond University, applauded Google for developing the blurring technology but said its effectiveness would only be apparent after Street View went live today.
He said he was concerned that the link to the form for users to report privacy concerns with individual images wasn't visible enough. And even with the blurring technology, cars and people - particularly those in small towns or neighbourhoods - could still be identified from other features.
At a technology industry lunch in May, Google evangelist and internet pioneer Vint Cerf said that "nothing you do ever goes away and nothing you do ever escapes notice ... there isn't any privacy, get over it", the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
The US National Legal and Policy centre responded by releasing a dossier of information about an unnamed Google executive - later revealed to be co-founder Larry Page - including their address and route to work, using information compiled only from Street View images in 30 minutes.
"Perhaps in Google's world, privacy does not exist, but in the real world individual privacy is fundamentally important and is being chipped away bit by bit every day by companies like Google," NLPC chairman Ken Boehm said.
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Artist Ai Weiwei stages silent protest against Julian Assange extradition
Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has staged a silent protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because “all the words we want to say are already there”.
Assange’s case has attracted the support of high-profile figures including fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, actor Pamela Anderson, and rapper MIA, who have spoken out in various forms for the Free Assange campaign.
The former journalist is fighting being sent to the US on charges relating to leaks of classified documents exposing war crimes and abuse.
Outside the Old Bailey in London, where his ongoing trial is taking place, Weiwei told the PA news agency Assange represents “a core value of why we are free”.
Julian Assange’s father John Shipton with artist Ai Weiwei after a silent protest outside the Old Bailey in London (Victoria Jones/PA)
Weiwei, who knows Assange personally and has visited him at the Ecuadorian embassy and HMP Belmarsh high security prison in London, said: “It’s getting more and more difficult for him.
“He is prepared to fight, but this is not fair to him.”
“Free him, let him be a free man,” he added.
“He truly represents a core value of why we are free – because we have freedom of the press.
“We have to have that, to protect that value, otherwise who knows what’s going to happen.”
When asked why he chose to protest silently, Weiwei said: “I think all the words we want to say are already there. To add anything, it’s just repeating.
“We need a lot of protesting, and it can take any form. I’m an artist, if I cannot use my art, it’s very limited, then I’d rather just be silent.”
Assange’s father, John Shipton, who was also protesting outside court, said Weiwei’s support for his son gives his cause “international meaning”.
“Ai Weiwei is an artist of gigantic international standing, he stands alongside Julian to give the fight international meaning,” he said.
“Really, he’s a tremendous man, I’ve known him for a few years now, we met at Belmarsh together, and he’s got a wonderfully steady nerve, you’d like him alongside you in any situation.”
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W.355, Aesop, Fables; Fables of Aesop Translated by Laurentius Valla; Distichs of Cato; Book of Proverbs; Book of Ecclesiastes
Written in Italy in the fifteenth century, this manuscript contains a collection of Latin moralizing texts. The first section is only partially preserved but contains some of Aesop's fables in Latin. Aesop (ca. 620 – 564) was a Greek fabulist about whom we know very little, other than excerpts about his life found in later sources such as Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. Although numerous fables are attributed to Aesop, it is more likely that his reputation as a storyteller led to many later fables being attributed to him retroactively (Lefkowitz 3). The second text in the manuscript is also comprised of Aesop's fables but, as the rubric indicates, this is a specific translation completed by Italian humanist Lorenzo (Laurentius) Valla (1407-1457) in 1438. From the dedication in another manuscript (Palermo, Biblioteca Comunale 2Qqc79) we know that Valla completed the translation for Ferrante, the son of the Alfonso of Arragon (also called Alfonso II, King of Naples from 1494-1495). The third text contains some of the so-called "Distichs of Cato," a collection of proverbial wisdom written in Latin. In the medieval and renaissance periods it was erroneously attributed to the Roman statesman Cato the Elder (234–149 BCE) and sometimes even his great-grandson Cato the Younger (95-46 BCE). The text, however, was most likely composed in the third or fourth century CE by an anonymous author sometimes referred to as Dionysius Cato. The final two texts in the manuscript are canonical wisdom books from the Old Testament--the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes. The Book of Proverbs is prefaced by a letter (or prologue) from St. Jerome to Bishops (later Saints) Chromatius and Heliodorus, all of whom lived in the late fourth century CE. In the letter Jerome dedicates his translation of the Book of Solomon (otherwise known as Proverbs) from Greek into Latin to the two Italian clergymen, with whom he retained an ongoing correspondence.
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Cannabis is linked to a greater risk of schizophrenia. Why isn’t that part of the legalisation debate?
Sophie Vreeburg | Guest writer
We’ve heard a lot about the social benefits a law change would bring, but precious little on the mental health risks it could also pose, writes Sophie Vreeburg.
Read a response to this column by psychopharmacologist Suresh Muthukumaraswamy here.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article made the claim that cannabis can cause schizophrenia. Cannabis has not been proven to cause schizophrenia; rather, there is evidence of a link between some types of heavy usage and a higher risk of developing schizophrenia. The Spinoff regrets the error.
Like every New Zealander who is enrolled to vote, several weeks ago I received an Electoral Commission envelope in the mail. In it was a letter asking me if my enrolment details were correct, some general guidance on voting, and two brochures: one on the End of Life Choice Referendum and the other on the Cannabis Legislation and Control Referendum.
For many, a quick flick through these brochures could be the extent of their research on the proposed changes to cannabis law; others may have delved further into the pros and cons of legalisation on sites such as The Spinoff. Still, no matter how much attention a voter has paid to the issue, it’s likely they’ve seen no mention at all of one incredibly important factor: the link between cannabis and schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a form of psychotic illness which affects the way we think. It is characterised by a loss or re-interpretation of reality through delusions, hallucinations, and other bizarre thinking. Episodes of the illness are referred to as psychosis. Research shows a significant connection between schizophrenia and Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical component responsible for cannabis’s psychological effects. This form of schizophrenia is also known as cannabis-induced psychosis.
There is no evidence that cannabis can cause schizophrenia. There is, however, significant evidence that, in some situations, heavy use of high potency cannabis can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia.
According to Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric research at the Institute of Psychiatry at London’s Kings College, the risk of schizophrenia increases with the potency of the cannabis used: “if the risk of schizophrenia for the general population is about 1%, the evidence is that, if you take ordinary cannabis, it is 2%; if you smoke regularly you might push it up to 4%; and if you smoke ‘skunk’ (high-strength cannabis) every day you push it up to 8%”. Evidence shows the risk is concentrated in users of high strength cannabis in adolescence; it should be noted here that the proposed law would set an age limit of 20 to use or purchase cannabis.
Auckland University psychiatry professor Graham Mellsop has further found that the proportion of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia is significantly higher in instances of prolonged illicit substance abuse than in prolonged alcohol abuse.
So why are the links between cannabis and schizophrenia not a greater talking point in this referendum?
One of the most significant factors in favour of legalisation is the criminalisation of Māori, particularly rangatahi (youth), as a result of cannabis possession. Studies show that Māori are 1.8 times more likely than non-Māori to face legal consequences of their cannabis use. While legalisation would reduce the criminalisation of Māori, it should be noted that Māori would still be at a significantly increased risk of developing cannabis-induced psychosis or schizophrenia due to high rates of usage among Māori.
If the referendum passes, the resulting legislation will establish a Cannabis Regulatory Authority that will in turn set limits on THC. We already know that the strength of cannabis available in New Zealand has increased significantly over the last 30 years. Remember those figures from Robin Murray – that 8% of users of high-potency cannabis (or around 8000 out of every 100,000) will develop schizophrenia? In an email to me, Brendan Kelly, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College in Dublin, made an important point: all 100,000 of those users are at risk:
“Yes, 8,000 of them will actually develop schizophrenia, but the problem is, it is not possible to pick out which 8,000 that will be. So, all are at risk. [High strength] cannabis multiplies the risk of schizophrenia eight-fold. That is a huge multiplication of risk.”
Commercial pressure not only spurs widespread accessibility of cannabis but can also pressure producers into developing strains with an ever-higher THC content. The UK in particular has had considerable issues with “skunk” cannabis, which naturally contain higher levels of THC. This high-potency cannabis contains approximately 14% THC.
In New Zealand, there is evidence that high potency cannabis use increases the rate of schizophrenia in those genetically predisposed to its onset by approximately five or six times compared to non-users. At this stage, the government has suggested unadulterated cannabis available for commercial sale would have an initial maximum potency of 15% THC – higher than the potency shown to increase the risk of schizophrenia in UK users. Evidently, this presents a significant risk to uninformed users and to those genetically predisposed to schizophrenia.
The significance of this medical evidence can be boiled down to one simple principle: informed consent. Just as those who are being treated in the healthcare system have the right to give informed consent, those who are voting in the referendum are entitled to be informed of the link between cannabis and schizophrenia.
It is evident voters are currently not adequately informed. Not only is there no reference to the link between cannabis and schizophrenia in the referendum material recently mailed to New Zealand voters, the public debate has tended to gloss over the health risks of cannabis in favour of the social benefits of legalisation. At the same time, it is unlikely that many people will read through all 65 pages of the bill to understand the full extent of the legalisation before they vote yes or no. So can they say they are truly giving informed consent?
Under the proposed law, a cannabis product label would have to include the amount of THC it contained. While that information is valuable, it’s largely ineffective if users are unaware of the psychiatric effects of particular levels of THC. Should cannabis be legalised as a result of the referendum, the government must acknowledge there is a risk that some users may develop cannabis-induced psychosis, and that the risk is particularly acute for those users who are ill-informed about the effects of THC or who have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia. Just as cigarette packets carry graphic warnings of the effects of smoking, cannabis users should have the right to know that “cannabis use can increase the risk of schizophrenia”.
Sophie Vreeburg is a fourth year law student at the University of Auckland, the co-director of the Equal Justice Project and a student representative on the Auckland District Law Society Mental Health and Disability Committee. She is passionate about mental health advocacy and issues surrounding access to justice.
Anthony Rogers assisted in the editing of this article. He is a senior barrister and former member of the Auckland District Law Society Mental Health and Disability Committee who specialises in criminal law, traffic accident prosecutions, parole hearings and Mental Health Act applications. He has extensive experience working with clients exposed to the psychiatric effects of cannabis consumption.
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Historic Hotel Stratford added to list of Simmons-owned downtown Alton properties
Riley Newton, riley.newton@thetelegraph.com
Updated 4:02 pm CST, Friday, November 16, 2018
The former Hotel Stratford, built in 1909 and opened as the Illini Hotel, has apparently been purchased by local attorney John Simmons. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 and closed in late 2011.
The former Hotel Stratford, built in 1909 and opened as the Illini Hotel, has apparently been purchased by local attorney John Simmons. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in
John Badman | The Telegraph
ALTON — The historic Hotel Stratford building in downtown Alton is the latest long-empty property purchased by attorney and philanthropist John Simmons.
He closed on the property, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Friday.
Alton Mayor Brant Walker on Friday called the news of the sale “wonderful.”
“It’s just wonderful that John (Simmons) has control of that property. What a great way to start the holiday season,” Walker said. “The Grand and the Stratford, that’s terrific.”
When reached for comment Friday, Roger Lewis, executive assistant to Simmons, confirmed the sale and said the property had been under contract for a while.
Simmons has been involved in multiple business deals in the last couple of years in Alton, the latest being the Grand Theatre. He announced upcoming plans for the Grand earlier this week, stating at a “What’s Up Downtown” open forum that he hopes to have something — details about which are still scarce — completed in the very near feature.
The Stratford opened in 1909 as the Illini Hotel. Referred to as the “greatest improvement in property in the city of Alton” at one time, it was renamed the Hotel Stratford in 1925.
It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in January of 2000. The hotel fell into a state of disrepair, and it closed in late 2011. Several businesses still maintain offices in the building.
Reporter Scott Cousins contributed to this story.
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Search to replace Adams drags on
By David Warner
Yorkshire are taking longer than was at first expected to appoint a captain to replace Chris Adams, who backed out of the post a fortnight after agreeing to take on the job.
Chief executive Stewart Regan was last week optimistic that a new captain would be in place within a few days. But yesterday he admitted that the selection process "could take a bit of time yet".
"We are still having telephone conversations, negotiations and discussions with third parties," he said.
"There are people who are interested in the post and once we have identified the main candidates we will enter into some fairly detailed negotiations. We are making progress but it is slow work."
One of the problems Yorkshire could be experiencing is availability, because most top players on the domestic scene are now under contract for next season and any one of them could find difficulty in gaining their release.
Yorkshire would still like the captain to take on the additional role of director of professional cricket but if he not happy with that then the club will make a separate appointment.
David Byas has still not said whether he will accept the new post of director of cricket development and Yorkshire have still not resolved the issue surrounding leading batsman Anthony McGrath, who wants to leave the club.
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Most Britons fail to make a will
Updated: 11:26 EST, 23 May 2008
More than half the British adult population have not yet made a will, according to a new survey published today.
Making a will: Most of us aren't bothering
The poll found 55% of Britons did not have a will and were risking their money and possessions not going to whom they want when they die.
It also revealed almost half of adults expected their family to pay for their funeral, although many have not considered planning a ceremony or setting aside money for one.
Anyone who has assets worth more than £5,000 must go through probate, which establishes the authenticity of a will.
Professional administrators charge as much as 4% of a person's total worth for the service.
But if a will is not made, intestacy (meaning there is no valid will) rules apply about who gets what from the deceased.
A long-term partner could be left with nothing while children and other family would still benefit but only according to a list of priority based on their relationship to the deceased.
AXA Sun Life Direct, which today published a booklet giving advice about wills and arranging funerals, commissioned the ICM survey of 1,007 adults in June.
The poll also found one in five over-45s have not made a will.
More than a third, 36%, who had thought about making a will or pre-planing a funeral were spurred into action by a particular event.
About 20% wanted to be buried or have their ashes interred in a churchyard, while only 3% wanted an eco-burial.
Three quarters of people (75%) said they wanted people to wear bright clothes at their funeral.
Only 35% had made provision for the costs through insurance or a pre-paid plan - although most did not expect the state to pick up the tab.
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State: Rensselaer County exec obstructed nursing home inspection
County Executive Steve McLaughlin says he wanted proof inspectors were virus-free
Bethany Bump
July 24, 2020 Updated: July 24, 2020 7:45 p.m.
Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin (Will Waldron/Times Union)
Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
An attempt by state health inspectors to survey the Rensselaer County-run nursing home this week led to a blowup between County Executive Steve McLaughlin and state and federal health officials.
State Department of Health spokesman Gary Holmes said the department sent surveyors to the Van Rensselaer Manor for a surprise inspection Monday at the request of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which had ordered the inspection following a report from the nursing home of four new suspected cases of coronavirus.
The inspectors were stopped mid-survey, he said, after McLaughlin showed up and insisted they conduct the survey under supervision. Holmes said this isn’t standard practice.
“We don’t do that for the same reason we don’t announce we’re coming beforehand,” Holmes said. “We want to observe conditions as they are.”
After some back and forth, the inspectors decided to leave, he said.
McLaughlin, who went on Facebook Live Thursday afternoon and fumed about the incident, said he was concerned the inspectors posed a danger to residents since he didn’t know if they had the virus or not.
“I don’t want anybody roaming free throughout the building,” he said. “You want to talk to our employees? Absolutely fine. Use a conference room.”
Holmes said state health inspectors are tested weekly for the virus and are not allowed out on surveys if they are positive. They also wear personal protective equipment while inside the facilities, he said.
“DOH surveillance teams have done more than 1,300 inspections — every single nursing home and adult care facility in the state at least once — and our teams have not encountered the type of resistance we witnessed at Van Rensselaer Manor, not once, but twice this week,” Holmes said in an email.
“Obstructing the DOH surveyors from doing their job then questioning their integrity is an affront to the agency’s professionalism,” he continued. “We enforce strong infection control practices to save lives. It’s unfathomable that County Executive McLaughlin would stand in the way of the process of protecting residents.”
McLaughlin is a frequent critic of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. His Facebook Live briefings throughout the pandemic include heavy criticisms of the governor, and he has not been shy about defying the state’s reopening orders. In particular, he has taken Cuomo to task for his handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. Earlier this month, he defied state guidelines and allowed visitation to resume at the county nursing home before the state had given the official the go-ahead.
McLaughlin sent a letter to state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker on Monday outlining his concerns over the attempted inspection, and told him “our invitation to NYSDOH to tour or inspect the facility stands but ask that any such visit be an accompanied one.”
During his Thursday broadcast, McLaughlin also criticized a “bureaucratic clown” from CMS who he says tried to get him “on record” as having denied health inspectors access to the facility. He claimed the official drove up to the facility Thursday morning, at which point they got into a "pretty long argument."
CMS did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
The inspection finally moved forward Thursday, according to county operations director Rich Crist, after counsel for the state Health Department assured county officials their inspectors had tested negative for COVID-19.
McLaughlin, however, suggested during his Facebook broadcast that the department may have lied.
“I don’t trust this administration, that’s the bottom line,” he said. “So I don’t know if somebody down at DOH didn’t just type up a letter saying, ‘Oh, yes, these three people have been tested.’ ”
Holmes confirmed Thursday that the inspection was completed, but said he was not aware of the results.
On Friday, Crist said an employee at the facility had tested positive, but said they don’t work with patients or the public. To date, the nursing home has had six employees and one resident test positive for the virus.
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Bethany Bump writes about all things health, including state and local health policy, addiction and mental health for the Times Union. She has previously covered education, business and local governments, and won awards for her coverage of health care and addiction issues. Bump joined the Times Union in 2015, after a four-year stretch at The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, N.Y. She graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2011, with a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science. Contact her at (518) 454-5387 or bbump@timesunion.com or on twitter @bethanybump.
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A tale of Zorro and Little St. Jeff's
Kathleen Parker
Aug. 3, 2019 Updated: Aug. 3, 2019 4:17 p.m.
Kathleen Parker. (Washington Post)
The more we learn, the more Jeffrey Epstein resembles an evil comic book character for the developmentally arrested intellectual — the charming-but-lurid mastermind with a plot to take over the world by impregnating scores of women on a remote desert estate.
Last Wednesday, The New York Times reported that the financier/convicted sex offender/philanthropist — and now accused sex trafficker — is also a "transhumanist," who had big plans for humankind. Epstein apparently told one scientist that he hoped to seed the human race with his own DNA by impregnating 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch, named "Zorro."
Transhumanism is the theory that the human population can be enhanced through technologies such as artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Or eugenics by any other name. Epstein seems to have believed that he was that rare breed that ought to be replicated.
The carriers of Epstein's apparently rarefied spermatozoa wouldn't be the younger, underage sexual partners he allegedly prefers. Instead, according to the Times' reporting, his maternal vehicles would be adult women whose intellectual qualifications would have been established through academic achievement.
For salon dinners he hosted at his Manhattan manse, Epstein often invited scientists as well as a sampling of attractive, accomplished women. Some of the scientists theorized that the women were being vetted as potential candidates for Epstein's very special black book, according to the Times.
One can only imagine the conversations at such soirees: So, Penelope, what do you think of transhumanism? Oh, you do? And how do you like the desert air?
The male invitees weren't your run-of-the-mill scientists but were some of the most renowned, innovative minds in research and academia. Among them was Steven Pinker, the Harvard cognitive psychologist and popular science author, who seems to have seen through Epstein, calling him an "intellectual imposter." Pinker told the Times that Epstein would abruptly shift topics and make juvenile remarks. To the layman's eye, such behavior suggests a purposeful deflection when the topic at hand is reaching a point beyond the speaker's comfort range.
Others on Epstein's guest lists apparently were seduced by his charm and intellect, as well as his wealth, which he reportedly dangled as bait for funding-starved researchers. He was generous, often donating to a variety of interests and causes, including the Clinton Foundation. But he wasn't convinced that helping the starving masses was productive in the right sense, arguing that providing food and health care to the poor would only heighten the risk of overpopulation.
Pinker, who said he was present when Epstein floated this idea at a gathering at Harvard, dissented, arguing that the evidence points to the contrary. Gods don't like to be contradicted and Pinker was thereafter told he'd been "voted off the island" and banished from future gatherings.
Speaking of which, Epstein's private island in the Caribbean — which he dubs "Little St. Jeff's" — is of renewed interest thanks to an NBC News report last week. Apparently, a blue-and-white striped, block-shaped building on it bears no resemblance to the octagonally shaped design that had been approved for a music hall, according to permit records.
What the structure does resemble, however, is a pharaoh's headdress. Might this have been intended as a mausoleum for Epstein's remains? That is, other than his head and penis, which he reportedly wished to have frozen. Also a fan of cryogenics, believing that frozen human parts and bodies could be resurrected in the future, Epstein is no ordinary bloke. Indeed, he is a perversely tragic figure.
Burdened with supra-human fantasies and the means to explore them, it seems that Epstein became lost in his own fable. Wandering the skies in his private jet, enamored of his own mind and image, he forgot that he was merely mortal and may have flown too close to the sun. Confined now to a jail cell (with further punishment perhaps to come) — and removed from his luxurious kingdom, his freedom and the company of luminaries who suffused his ego with admiration — his suffering must be immense.
And so richly deserved.
kathleenparker@ washpost. com.
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Iron mining near Wrigley in 1939
PHOTO: TN State Library and Archives
Here are 4 interesting things about Hickman County history:
1. When most people think of a place named for chewing gum millionaire William Wrigley, most think of Wrigley Field in Chicago.
There is a also small community in Hickman County named for him. In the 1920s, Wrigley was one of the investors in the Tennessee Products Corporation, which owned and operated coal, iron and phosphate mines and factories in Chattanooga, Rockwood, Whitwell, Rockdale and other places.
Wrigley, in Hickman County, was one of the Tennessee Products Corp.’s “company towns.” It was named for William Wrigley, the owner of the chewing gum company and an investor for Tennessee Products. The main thing produced at the Tennessee Products’ Wrigley operation was charcoal.
Pearl and Roy Acuff on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry
PHOTO: Country Music Foundation
2. Sarah Cannon is the most famous person to ever come from Hickman County. But most people knew her by her stage name — Minnie Pearl.
Cannon went to Ward-Belmont College in Nashville–a finishing school for young ladies. But she had a bubbly personality and a great sense of humor, and soon she became an actress. The Minnie Pearl character became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry starting in 1940. Today the very mention of the word, “HOW-DEE!” brings to mind the woman from Hickman County.
1818 Melish map
3. Hickman County is one of several Tennessee counties that moved its county seat. As you can see from this 1818 map (on the right), Hickman County originally covered quite a bit of area, and Vernon was its the first county seat.
After several other counties were carved out of Hickman County, a new town called Centerville was created that was more centrally located, and the courthouse was moved there.
The Lee and Gould Furnace
4. In Hickman County’s early days, iron manufacturing was a big part of the economy. Today you can see a small remnant of this at the Lee and Gould Furnace (also known as the Sugar Hill Furnace.) This can be found just off I-40, near the community known as Only, Tennessee (see photo on the left).
County seat: Centerville
Population (2015 estimate): 24,363
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Here is an article in the June 12, 1927, Nashville Tennessean about the Hickman County community of Wrigley:
According to the article, how many jobs existed because of the Tennessee Products operation in Wrigley?
“Tennessee Products once owned a large part of Tennessee” — column in Tennessee Magazine
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"The Pact" went on sale today and coauthor @markdag spoke to https://t.co/fdV4RnsUPw about his impressions of @Cody_Nolove and Maddux Maple. pic.twitter.com/5IFti0EOH9
— UFC News (@UFCNews) May 8, 2018
MATT PARRINO: What did you learn about Cody Garbrandt throughout the process of the book?
MARK DAGOSTINO: He’s such a great guy. He really tries hard at everything he does. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone so driven. I’ve interviewed a lot of people and he has this drive about him and this desire to be great. He’s obviously applied that to the top of where he can go in life and in the UFC. And now he’s really applying it to life. He has so much focus on his wife and his son. He wants to be a world championship dad now. He wants to be the father that he never had. To see somebody to be able to elevate their life that way is an awesome story. It’s what I’m all about with the books I do. All I want to tell are inspiring stories.
PARRINO: There’s a great juxtaposition between Cody the fighter and Cody the caring, compassionate mentor and friend. Did that impress you about Garbrandt?
It’s the story of what does it take to get out of a bad situation. Wherever you’re at, whatever your background is like, what does it take to sort of escape that trap of where you are and where people expect you to be? It’s almost like the universe connected (Cody) with Maddux, and connected him with the people that he needed to sort of find a new path in life and get out of that cycle of violence that he was in.
DAGOSTINO: It was totally unique. There was something about Maddux that touched him. He saw something familiar in him, something brotherly in him and he cared about this kid and saw early on how they could inspire each other. It obviously caught so many people’s attention. And when you really dig into it and really dig into Cody’s background the way I was allowed to, you just see this incredible story. And again, it’s the story of what does it take to get out of a bad situation. Wherever you’re at, whatever your background is like, what does it take to sort of escape that trap of where you are and where people expect you to be.
Everybody expected that he would wind up working in the coal mine or wind up in jail like his dad. This was real stuff. These were the expectations on him. Between his mom and her dedication to allowing her boys to wrestle - that takes a lot of dedication – she was driving them all over the place. To his uncle who turned into a great role model and father figure in a lot of ways, and a great coach. And then his own connections in life that he just wanted to be a better person. There’s just something to having that focus and drive. It’s almost like the universe connected him with Maddux, and connected him with the people that he needed to sort of find a new path in life and get out of that cycle of violence that he was in. And then focus it on something positive like UFC. It was an inspiring journey that he was open and willing – for lack of a better word – to show some love for this kid.
To open up his heart to this kid and family, that actually opened him up to a whole other side of life. It set him on a different path than just being the fighter or just being the cocky kid or talented fighter that he is. I was inspired by it and it’s why I signed on for the book. I don’t think you have to be a UFC fan to get this story and to understand it. I think there’s something just awesome here that we can all be inspired by and get pumped up about – to use Cody's language. When you really get into this story and you see how far he was able to go in a short period of time, he’s still a young guy. You see how far he was able to go from really being at a point in life where he could have just wound up selling drugs or going to jail. You see how far he was able to come in a five-year period after meeting Maddux and getting dedicated to the sport. It’s inspiring. You can be in a totally different place in your life five years from now. And what an incredible story that is and how can you not get excited about that?
PARRINO: One major theme that emerged from the book to me was how critical every decision we make in life can be. Cody’s decision to reach out to Maddux or keep fighting changed the course of his life. It’s these little decisions in life that can change everything, right?
DAGOSTINO: That’s really true. I’ve done quite a few books now and with people from very different walks of life than Cody. These similar themes pop up in a lot of these books. People who get to the top, people who are very successful have made these little decisions along the way that help guide them along the path. Usually the decisions are something good. They’re thinking above and beyond themselves, they’re helping somebody else, and they’re really listening to the messages that they’re getting, either from a mentor or in this case his brother (Zach Garbrandt), in a huge way. People are listening and paying attention to those moments when they can do something. Cody has the power to help this kid and his family. He didn’t know how he was gonna do it – it could have just been raising money doing a local fight. He didn’t know what it was gonna be, but he decided to do it.
Just making that decision led to this whole inspirational path for both of them. It’s a huge takeaway and it’s something I think about more and more in my life. Where are the little decisions and the little turning points that led me either to the right place, someplace I want to go, or when you go the other way and you ignore those things. They can lead you down the wrong path. Cody was fortunate enough for some reason to really pay attention in these moments. Look where it led him. The fact that he’s a dad now. I was with him the day after they found out they were having a baby – before they told anyone. He was just over the moon. He was just bursting at the seams. He wanted to tell everybody. He was so proud and so happy and so excited to be thinking about this future and actually being a dad.
He took the negative thing that his dad wasn’t around – his dad was in prison. And when his dad was around he wasn’t a very good guy. And we didn’t even get into some of the harder aspects of that in the book. He took that negativity and flipped it on its head and said, ‘OK. I’m not going to be that.’ He used a negative to drive something positive in his life. That’s such a lesson and such a takeaway for me. I really hope people get it because I actually think about these things now after working on this story. Looking at how drastically he was able to turn his life around – I look at it in my own life. I don’t have anything that drastic of a turnaround but we all have stuff that we’d like to do better and improve in our lives. Like you said, there are so many takeaways from Cody’s story that we can all learn from. That’s an extraordinary thing for somebody so young.
There might be an athlete who’s been around for 20 or 30 years that might have some perspective to share. Somebody who’s been in whatever business they’re in – a businessman or CEO who’s been around for 30, 40 years finally has some lessons to share. Cody lived hard and lived fast and had lessons to share now that I think are really important and that will resonate with people.
PARRINO: Is there any specific story or moment that you go to first when thinking about this book and project with Cody Garbrandt?
A story about a 20-year-old fighter befriending a 5-year-old kid and how they inspired each other. It’s completely unique.
DAGOSTINO: I think it’s this unusual friendship – this unusual thing where he was able to bond with a kid. He was able to bond with someone younger than him and with a family that was different from his own. I think there is something really incredible there. Oddly enough, I think a lot of us can learn a lot from kids. Kids are tough, they’re smart and pure instinct. Every one of us knows stories where some kid will say something and it seems really profound or really wise.
I think there’s something there and we should pay attention to kids a little more often. It really is his ability to bond with a kid who was five years old when they met. And look where it led them. He’s outside of his comfort zone and way beyond anything someone would expect him to do. Even if he was a professional and at a different point and thinking about giving back. It wasn’t about that; it was before that. It was before he was a big deal and before he was anything. It really made such a difference in this kid's life and that made a difference in Cody’s life.
So to me it’s that bond and unique thing they share that’s unusual. It’s an unusual story. You don’t hear about a guy in his early 20s taking any kind of mentor position with kids. That, to me, just set up a story that’s unlike any other out there. You just don’t hear it. You hear about a great coach taking on a kid or a great coach with a new student going for the championship. These relationships develop between a young fighter and a maybe an old fighter who’s been in the business for 40 years and finally finds life for a new fighter that comes along. You don’t hear this story.
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Report on Redress: The Japanese American Internment
Eric K. Yamamoto and Liann Ebesugawa
How does a country repair its harm to a vulnerable minority targeted during times of national fear because of race? How did the United States redress its then popular yet unconstitutional WWII ... More
How does a country repair its harm to a vulnerable minority targeted during times of national fear because of race? How did the United States redress its then popular yet unconstitutional WWII incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans in desolate barbed wire prisons without charges, hearings, or bona fide evidence of military necessity? In response to a Congressional inquiry, political lobbying, and lawsuits, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 directed the President to apologize and authorized over one billion dollars in reparations. Congress also created a fund to educate the public about the government’s false assertion of “national security” to restrict civil liberties. Some considered redress a tremendous victory — rewriting history and personal healing. Others questioned reparations for one U.S. group but not others. Japanese American Redress served as a catalyst for reparations movements worldwide. This paper examines its genesis, legal implementation, and apparent effects. It also explores wide-ranging political mobilization and social meanings of redress and “unfinished business”. Reparations cannot be measured by laws alone. Diverse communities must engage contested questions of history, justice, and belonging. Reparations claims face often unforeseen benefits and limitations. The paper concludes with these “lessons learned” to date.Less
Report on Redress : The Japanese American Internment
Eric K. YamamotoLiann Ebesugawa
How does a country repair its harm to a vulnerable minority targeted during times of national fear because of race? How did the United States redress its then popular yet unconstitutional WWII incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans in desolate barbed wire prisons without charges, hearings, or bona fide evidence of military necessity? In response to a Congressional inquiry, political lobbying, and lawsuits, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 directed the President to apologize and authorized over one billion dollars in reparations. Congress also created a fund to educate the public about the government’s false assertion of “national security” to restrict civil liberties. Some considered redress a tremendous victory — rewriting history and personal healing. Others questioned reparations for one U.S. group but not others. Japanese American Redress served as a catalyst for reparations movements worldwide. This paper examines its genesis, legal implementation, and apparent effects. It also explores wide-ranging political mobilization and social meanings of redress and “unfinished business”. Reparations cannot be measured by laws alone. Diverse communities must engage contested questions of history, justice, and belonging. Reparations claims face often unforeseen benefits and limitations. The paper concludes with these “lessons learned” to date.
Keywords: United States, World War II, Japanese Americans, Civil Liberties Act, reparations movements
Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism
Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright (eds)
Religion, Buddhism
This book is a sequel to The Zen Canon, which began to explore the variety of influential texts in the history of Zen Buddhism. In Zen Classics that exploration is continued by shifting the focus ... More
This book is a sequel to The Zen Canon, which began to explore the variety of influential texts in the history of Zen Buddhism. In Zen Classics that exploration is continued by shifting the focus from the Chinese origins of Zen to the other East Asian cultures where the Zen tradition came to fruition in subsequent eras. Scholars researching Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Zen literature have been invited to survey a single work or genre of works that, because of its power and influence, has helped shape the Zen tradition and cause it to be what it is today. The essays offer careful historical studies of texts that have earned the right to be called classics. The texts are taken from different cultures and different historical periods and fall into a variety of Zen genres.Less
Zen Classics : Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism
This book is a sequel to The Zen Canon, which began to explore the variety of influential texts in the history of Zen Buddhism. In Zen Classics that exploration is continued by shifting the focus from the Chinese origins of Zen to the other East Asian cultures where the Zen tradition came to fruition in subsequent eras. Scholars researching Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Zen literature have been invited to survey a single work or genre of works that, because of its power and influence, has helped shape the Zen tradition and cause it to be what it is today. The essays offer careful historical studies of texts that have earned the right to be called classics. The texts are taken from different cultures and different historical periods and fall into a variety of Zen genres.
Keywords: Zen Buddhism, Chinese literature, Korean literature, Japanese literature
Everyday Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito
Philosophy, Aesthetics
Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone ... More
Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the last two centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. This book aims to correct this neglect by revealing how our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments can exert a powerful influence on the state of the world and the quality of life. By analyzing a wide range of contemporary examples from our aesthetic interactions with nature, the environment, and everyday objects, as well as precedents in 18th century British aesthetics, 19th century American landscape appreciation, and Japanese culture, this book illustrates the complex nature of seemingly simple and innocuous aesthetic responses. The issues discussed include the inadequacy of art-centered aesthetics, diverse modes of practicing everyday aesthetics, the environmental ramifications of our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments, green aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of the distinctive characteristics of objects and phenomena, responses to various manifestations of transience, and the aesthetic experience of moral values. The discussion of each issue explores the complex nature of everyday aesthetics, as well as the power of the aesthetic, by illuminating its serious moral, political, existential, and environmental implications that are often unrecognized.Less
Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the last two centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. This book aims to correct this neglect by revealing how our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments can exert a powerful influence on the state of the world and the quality of life. By analyzing a wide range of contemporary examples from our aesthetic interactions with nature, the environment, and everyday objects, as well as precedents in 18th century British aesthetics, 19th century American landscape appreciation, and Japanese culture, this book illustrates the complex nature of seemingly simple and innocuous aesthetic responses. The issues discussed include the inadequacy of art-centered aesthetics, diverse modes of practicing everyday aesthetics, the environmental ramifications of our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments, green aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of the distinctive characteristics of objects and phenomena, responses to various manifestations of transience, and the aesthetic experience of moral values. The discussion of each issue explores the complex nature of everyday aesthetics, as well as the power of the aesthetic, by illuminating its serious moral, political, existential, and environmental implications that are often unrecognized.
Keywords: art-centered aesthetics, power of the aesthetic, green aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, 18th century British aesthetics, American landscape appreciation, moral-aesthetic judgments, transience, distinctive characteristics
Facsimile of the 1814 Xylograph of the Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō
Mark L. Blum
in The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho
This is a facsimile (in Japanese) of the 1814 xylograph of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō on Pure Land school of Buddhism upon which the translation in Part II is based. Appendix A gives a concordance ... More
This is a facsimile (in Japanese) of the 1814 xylograph of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō on Pure Land school of Buddhism upon which the translation in Part II is based. Appendix A gives a concordance between the pages of the translation and those of the facsimile.Less
This is a facsimile (in Japanese) of the 1814 xylograph of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō on Pure Land school of Buddhism upon which the translation in Part II is based. Appendix A gives a concordance between the pages of the translation and those of the facsimile.
Keywords: Buddhism, Buddhist history, Genrushō, Gyōnen, Japanese text, Pure Land school of Buddhism, translations
Colophon to the Bunka Edition
This is a facsimile (in Japanese) of the 1814 xylograph of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō on Pure Land school of Buddhism upon which the translation in Part II is based, Appendix A gives a concordance ... More
This is a facsimile (in Japanese) of the 1814 xylograph of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō on Pure Land school of Buddhism upon which the translation in Part II is based, Appendix A gives a concordance between the pages of the translation and those of the facsimile.Less
This is a facsimile (in Japanese) of the 1814 xylograph of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō on Pure Land school of Buddhism upon which the translation in Part II is based, Appendix A gives a concordance between the pages of the translation and those of the facsimile.
Did Dogen Go to China?
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the diverse writings of Dōgen (1200-1253), the founder of Sōtō (C. Ts’ao-tung) Zen Buddhism in Japan. Dōgen is especially known for introducing to ... More
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the diverse writings of Dōgen (1200-1253), the founder of Sōtō (C. Ts’ao-tung) Zen Buddhism in Japan. Dōgen is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that he discovered in China. The context of Dōgen’s travels to and reflections on China are reconstructed by means of a critical look at traditional sources both by and about Dōgen. While many studies emphasize the unique features of Dōgen’s Japanese influences versus traditional Chinese models, this book calls attention to the fusion of Chinese and Japanese elements in Dōgen’s religious vision. It reveals many new materials and insights into Dōgen’s main writings, including the multiple editions of the Shōbōgenzō, and how and when this seminal text was created by Dōgen and edited and interpreted by his disciples. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive approach to the master’s life works and an understanding of the overall career trajectory of one of the most important figures in the history of Buddhism and Asian religious thought.Less
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the diverse writings of Dōgen (1200-1253), the founder of Sōtō (C. Ts’ao-tung) Zen Buddhism in Japan. Dōgen is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that he discovered in China. The context of Dōgen’s travels to and reflections on China are reconstructed by means of a critical look at traditional sources both by and about Dōgen. While many studies emphasize the unique features of Dōgen’s Japanese influences versus traditional Chinese models, this book calls attention to the fusion of Chinese and Japanese elements in Dōgen’s religious vision. It reveals many new materials and insights into Dōgen’s main writings, including the multiple editions of the Shōbōgenzō, and how and when this seminal text was created by Dōgen and edited and interpreted by his disciples. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive approach to the master’s life works and an understanding of the overall career trajectory of one of the most important figures in the history of Buddhism and Asian religious thought.
Keywords: Zen Buddhism, Daruma School, Dōgen, Eihei shingi, Eihei kōroku, Japanese Buddhism, Ju-ching, Shōbōgenzō, Shōbōgenzō zuimonki, Sōtō Zen
Japanese Law
Hiroshi Oda
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232185.001.1
Law, Comparative Law
This text contains the latest edition of this book. It covers the basis of the Japanese legal system, the civil code, business related laws, and other laws including criminal law and procedure, and ... More
This text contains the latest edition of this book. It covers the basis of the Japanese legal system, the civil code, business related laws, and other laws including criminal law and procedure, and foreign relations law. Since the last edition, Japanese law has undergone major reform all of which is reflected in the new text. In particular, the new edition covers the new company law and the Financial Products Trading Law, both of which have been completely overhauled. After the ‘lost decade’ following the collapse of the ‘bubble economy’ in 1990, Japan has gone through a major reform — deregulation or ‘regulatory reform’. Accordingly, major changes took place in almost every area of law. There was a large-scale ‘Justice System Reform’ which encompassed various changes in the court system, the introduction of lay assessors in the criminal procedure, a new law school system, etc. Company law, which was embodied in the Commercial Code, was completely overhauled under a different concept and became a separate law — the Company Law of 2005. Securities and Exchange Law was replaced by the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law in 2006. Even the Civil Code, which had remained more or less unchanged (except for family and succession) since the late 19th century, has gone through significant changes. Certainly there are many positive results coming out of these reforms, but also there have been some doubtful changes. Thee outcome of the reforms of the past decade is yet to be assessed. These changes and their impact are covered in this book.Less
This text contains the latest edition of this book. It covers the basis of the Japanese legal system, the civil code, business related laws, and other laws including criminal law and procedure, and foreign relations law. Since the last edition, Japanese law has undergone major reform all of which is reflected in the new text. In particular, the new edition covers the new company law and the Financial Products Trading Law, both of which have been completely overhauled. After the ‘lost decade’ following the collapse of the ‘bubble economy’ in 1990, Japan has gone through a major reform — deregulation or ‘regulatory reform’. Accordingly, major changes took place in almost every area of law. There was a large-scale ‘Justice System Reform’ which encompassed various changes in the court system, the introduction of lay assessors in the criminal procedure, a new law school system, etc. Company law, which was embodied in the Commercial Code, was completely overhauled under a different concept and became a separate law — the Company Law of 2005. Securities and Exchange Law was replaced by the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law in 2006. Even the Civil Code, which had remained more or less unchanged (except for family and succession) since the late 19th century, has gone through significant changes. Certainly there are many positive results coming out of these reforms, but also there have been some doubtful changes. Thee outcome of the reforms of the past decade is yet to be assessed. These changes and their impact are covered in this book.
Keywords: Japanese legal system, civil code, Financial Products Trading Law, bubble economy, deregulation, Justice System Reform, Commercial Code
Kamikaze, 1943–5
Peter Hill
in Making Sense of Suicide Missions
This chapter discusses the ‘Kamikaze’, which refers to all premeditated suicide missions (SMs) conducted by the Japanese military from October 1944 to August 1945. During this period, over 3,000 ... More
This chapter discusses the ‘Kamikaze’, which refers to all premeditated suicide missions (SMs) conducted by the Japanese military from October 1944 to August 1945. During this period, over 3,000 Japanese army and navy pilots died attempting to crash their planes into Allied ships. Smaller numbers died manning weapons that were specifically designed for missions which ordered no hope of survival for their operators. Kamikaze precedents, types of SMs, effectiveness of the Kamikaze, demographic data on participants, cultural factors, Japanese traditions of voluntary death, military training, and life in the days before departure are discussed.Less
This chapter discusses the ‘Kamikaze’, which refers to all premeditated suicide missions (SMs) conducted by the Japanese military from October 1944 to August 1945. During this period, over 3,000 Japanese army and navy pilots died attempting to crash their planes into Allied ships. Smaller numbers died manning weapons that were specifically designed for missions which ordered no hope of survival for their operators. Kamikaze precedents, types of SMs, effectiveness of the Kamikaze, demographic data on participants, cultural factors, Japanese traditions of voluntary death, military training, and life in the days before departure are discussed.
Keywords: Kamikaze, Japanese military, World War II, pilots
Visions of Awakening Space and Time: D=ogen and the Lotus Sutra
Taigen Dan Leighton
As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a ... More
As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. This book explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dōgen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Sōtō Zen tradition, which currently enjoys popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. The book traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, Myoe, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ryokan. But the main focus is Eihei Dōgen, whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. Dōgen's use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahnullynullna vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. The book argues that Dōgen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of Dōgen's worldview and its implications can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahnullynullna concepts and practices.Less
Visions of Awakening Space and Time : D=ogen and the Lotus Sutra
As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. This book explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dōgen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Sōtō Zen tradition, which currently enjoys popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. The book traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, Myoe, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ryokan. But the main focus is Eihei Dōgen, whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. Dōgen's use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahnullynullna vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. The book argues that Dōgen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of Dōgen's worldview and its implications can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahnullynullna concepts and practices.
Keywords: Zen Buddhism, Eihei Dōgen, Japanese Sōtō Zen, The Lotus Sutra, bodhisattvas, Lotus teaching, Buddha, Sutra, Mahnullynullna, spiritual awakening
Recovering from Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan
D. Hugh Whittaker and Robert E. Cole (eds)
Business and Management, Innovation
How did Japan fall from challenger to US hegemonic leadership in the high tech industries in the 1980s to stumbling giant by the turn of the last century? What did it do about it? This book examines ... More
How did Japan fall from challenger to US hegemonic leadership in the high tech industries in the 1980s to stumbling giant by the turn of the last century? What did it do about it? This book examines the challenges faced by Japan's high tech companies through successful emulation of some of their key practices by foreign competitors and the emergence of new competitive models linked to open innovation and modular production. High tech companies were slow to respond, relying at first on formulae which had worked in the past, but in a new environment, some of these traditional strengths had now become sources of weakness. Stability and success, moreover, had decreased their appetite for risk. Early in the new century, however, there were signs of a more concerted response, which opened up past practices to scrutiny and modification through selective learning and adaptation of the new models. The MOT (management of technology) movement provided a vehicle for this change. It was linked, in turn, to efforts to change the national innovation system, giving universities a more central role and encouraging spin-offs and startups. The book features contributions from scholars and practitioners who have distinctive insights into the nature of these challenges and responses. It includes introductory and concluding chapters with a discussion of knowledge management implications, a ‘reformed’ Japanese model, and a possible dual innovation system.Less
Recovering from Success : Innovation and Technology Management in Japan
How did Japan fall from challenger to US hegemonic leadership in the high tech industries in the 1980s to stumbling giant by the turn of the last century? What did it do about it? This book examines the challenges faced by Japan's high tech companies through successful emulation of some of their key practices by foreign competitors and the emergence of new competitive models linked to open innovation and modular production. High tech companies were slow to respond, relying at first on formulae which had worked in the past, but in a new environment, some of these traditional strengths had now become sources of weakness. Stability and success, moreover, had decreased their appetite for risk. Early in the new century, however, there were signs of a more concerted response, which opened up past practices to scrutiny and modification through selective learning and adaptation of the new models. The MOT (management of technology) movement provided a vehicle for this change. It was linked, in turn, to efforts to change the national innovation system, giving universities a more central role and encouraging spin-offs and startups. The book features contributions from scholars and practitioners who have distinctive insights into the nature of these challenges and responses. It includes introductory and concluding chapters with a discussion of knowledge management implications, a ‘reformed’ Japanese model, and a possible dual innovation system.
Keywords: Japanese innovation system, competitive challenges, MOT movement, high tech, universities, knowledge management, reformed Japanese model, dual innovation system
The Evolving Diversity of the Corporate Landscape
Masahiko Aoki
in Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognition, Governance, and Institutional Rules
Business and Management, Corporate Governance and Accountability, Strategy
This chapter first depicts an increasing diversity of Japanese corporations in which a non-traditional mode, characterized by market monitoring of relational employment, becomes emergent side-by-side ... More
This chapter first depicts an increasing diversity of Japanese corporations in which a non-traditional mode, characterized by market monitoring of relational employment, becomes emergent side-by-side with other modes as complements. This mode is interpreted as indicating the increasing essentiality of workers' cognitive assets in corporate cognitive systems, and it is argued that similar phenomena are evolving in other developed economies as well, modifying traditional national models. The chapter discusses the economic merits, social consequences, and political agendas associated with this emergent diversity in the global corporate landscape. Particularly it calls for the re-definition of the role of financial intermediaries and markets as infrastructures complementary to diverse corporate organizations as opposed to being their omnipotent principals.Less
This chapter first depicts an increasing diversity of Japanese corporations in which a non-traditional mode, characterized by market monitoring of relational employment, becomes emergent side-by-side with other modes as complements. This mode is interpreted as indicating the increasing essentiality of workers' cognitive assets in corporate cognitive systems, and it is argued that similar phenomena are evolving in other developed economies as well, modifying traditional national models. The chapter discusses the economic merits, social consequences, and political agendas associated with this emergent diversity in the global corporate landscape. Particularly it calls for the re-definition of the role of financial intermediaries and markets as infrastructures complementary to diverse corporate organizations as opposed to being their omnipotent principals.
Keywords: Japanese corporations, diversity, corporate landscape, varieties of capitalism
The Determinants of the Cost of Capital: Case Study Evidence
Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh
in Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870-1913 and Today
Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
This chapter conducts a case study of spreads on sovereign bonds issued by Japan and Russia, two countries that introduced the gold standard in 1897. It is shown that Japanese spreads were relatively ... More
This chapter conducts a case study of spreads on sovereign bonds issued by Japan and Russia, two countries that introduced the gold standard in 1897. It is shown that Japanese spreads were relatively unaffected by the establishment of some of Japan’s most important institutions, including the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution in 1889, which explicitly guaranteed the protection of property rights and the rule of law. The only institutional reform that led to an immediate improvement in Japan’s ‘credit rating’ was the adoption of the gold standard. Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905) and its successful outcome had a far more visible impact on spreads than most institutional reforms. The chapter also conducts a case study of the British-Dutch interest differential around the Glorious Revolution. It shows that developments regarding war and peace had a far greater impact on borrowing costs than institutional reforms.Less
Paolo MauroNathan SussmanYishay Yafeh
This chapter conducts a case study of spreads on sovereign bonds issued by Japan and Russia, two countries that introduced the gold standard in 1897. It is shown that Japanese spreads were relatively unaffected by the establishment of some of Japan’s most important institutions, including the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution in 1889, which explicitly guaranteed the protection of property rights and the rule of law. The only institutional reform that led to an immediate improvement in Japan’s ‘credit rating’ was the adoption of the gold standard. Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905) and its successful outcome had a far more visible impact on spreads than most institutional reforms. The chapter also conducts a case study of the British-Dutch interest differential around the Glorious Revolution. It shows that developments regarding war and peace had a far greater impact on borrowing costs than institutional reforms.
Keywords: gold standard, Russia, Japan, Meiji, property rights, reforms, institutions, Glorious Revolution, Russo-Japanese war
Carrying Out the Research
in Corporate Governance: What Can Be Learned From Japan?
The reason for the confusion over how Japanese corporate governance works in practice is that up until now, there has been a lack of inquiry and analysis which is ‘close to the action’, in other ... More
The reason for the confusion over how Japanese corporate governance works in practice is that up until now, there has been a lack of inquiry and analysis which is ‘close to the action’, in other words, research that draws directly on the actual, everyday socio-economic actions and interactions of businesspeople and other company participants. This chapter addresses this problem by conducting a detailed study on fourteen different Japanese companies. The companies studied, how the research was carried out, and the strengths and weaknesses of the approach adopted are discussed.Less
The reason for the confusion over how Japanese corporate governance works in practice is that up until now, there has been a lack of inquiry and analysis which is ‘close to the action’, in other words, research that draws directly on the actual, everyday socio-economic actions and interactions of businesspeople and other company participants. This chapter addresses this problem by conducting a detailed study on fourteen different Japanese companies. The companies studied, how the research was carried out, and the strengths and weaknesses of the approach adopted are discussed.
Keywords: Japanese corporate governance, data collection, data analysis, Japanese companies
Young‐Iob Chung
in Korea under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation
Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This concluding chapter summarizes the records of capital formation and economic transformation during the 70-year period, and examines the net gains and losses of Korea's path between 1876 and 1945 ... More
This concluding chapter summarizes the records of capital formation and economic transformation during the 70-year period, and examines the net gains and losses of Korea's path between 1876 and 1945 for Koreans. It considers certain scenarios that may have occurred if history took a different turn from what actually took place. For instance, what would have been the prospects for capital formation, economic development, and structural change for Korea had Japan not colonized it? Was it worthwhile for Koreans to have substantial capital formation and speedier economic development and transformation under Japanese colonial rule? The findings in this study go beyond Koreans and their economy under Japanese rule; Japanese imperialism and colonial rule of Korea obviously had major economic and political implications on Japan and Japanese.Less
This concluding chapter summarizes the records of capital formation and economic transformation during the 70-year period, and examines the net gains and losses of Korea's path between 1876 and 1945 for Koreans. It considers certain scenarios that may have occurred if history took a different turn from what actually took place. For instance, what would have been the prospects for capital formation, economic development, and structural change for Korea had Japan not colonized it? Was it worthwhile for Koreans to have substantial capital formation and speedier economic development and transformation under Japanese colonial rule? The findings in this study go beyond Koreans and their economy under Japanese rule; Japanese imperialism and colonial rule of Korea obviously had major economic and political implications on Japan and Japanese.
Keywords: net gains, net losses, independent state, Japanese imperialism, colonial rule
The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy
Federico Varese
Political Science, Russian Politics
This book researches the question of what the Russian Mafia is, and challenges widely held views of its nature. It charts the emergence of the Russian Mafia in the context of the transition to the ... More
This book researches the question of what the Russian Mafia is, and challenges widely held views of its nature. It charts the emergence of the Russian Mafia in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection, and pervasive corruption. The ability of the Russian State to define property rights and protect contracts is compared with the services offered by fragments of the state apparatus, private security firms, ethnic crime groups, the Cossacks and the Russian Mafia. Past criminal traditions, rituals, and norms have been resuscitated by the modern Russian Mafia to forge a powerful new identity and compete in a crowded market for protection. The book draws on and reports from undercover police operations, in-depth interviews conducted over several years with the victims of the Mafia, criminals, and officials, and documents from the Gulag archives. It also provides a comparative study, making references to other mafia in other countries (the Japanese Yakuza, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, American–Italian Mafia and the Hong Kong Triads). The book has an introduction and conclusion and between these is arranged in three parts: I. The Transition to the Market and Protection in Russia (three chapters); II. Private protection in Perm (two chapters investigating the emergence and operation of the mafia in the city of Perm); and III. The Russian Mafia (three chapters).Less
The Russian Mafia : Private Protection in a New Market Economy
This book researches the question of what the Russian Mafia is, and challenges widely held views of its nature. It charts the emergence of the Russian Mafia in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection, and pervasive corruption. The ability of the Russian State to define property rights and protect contracts is compared with the services offered by fragments of the state apparatus, private security firms, ethnic crime groups, the Cossacks and the Russian Mafia. Past criminal traditions, rituals, and norms have been resuscitated by the modern Russian Mafia to forge a powerful new identity and compete in a crowded market for protection. The book draws on and reports from undercover police operations, in-depth interviews conducted over several years with the victims of the Mafia, criminals, and officials, and documents from the Gulag archives. It also provides a comparative study, making references to other mafia in other countries (the Japanese Yakuza, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, American–Italian Mafia and the Hong Kong Triads). The book has an introduction and conclusion and between these is arranged in three parts: I. The Transition to the Market and Protection in Russia (three chapters); II. Private protection in Perm (two chapters investigating the emergence and operation of the mafia in the city of Perm); and III. The Russian Mafia (three chapters).
Keywords: American–Italian Mafia, comparative study, Cossacks, criminal traditions, ethnic crime groups, Hong Kong Triads, Japanese Yakuza, mafia, private security firms, property rights, protection of contracts, Russia, Russian Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, transition to the market, transitional economy
Mobilization of Savings for Investment
This chapter examines the mobilization of the savings/resources of both foreign and domestic sources for investment in both the public and private sectors. The foreign sources of resources/savings ... More
This chapter examines the mobilization of the savings/resources of both foreign and domestic sources for investment in both the public and private sectors. The foreign sources of resources/savings examined are foreign direct investment, Japanese government grants, and foreign loans, which were largely supplied by Japan, in addition to the savings of both the Japanese and Koreans in Korea. The domestic savings examined are the sources of owners' equity and loans of financial institutions, which may be traced to the savings of both Japanese and Koreans. These have increased over time partly due to the enforcement of the government savings policy. The credit policies of the financial institutions are examined, which directed the mobilized savings to certain targeted industries under the government's guidance. Other facets of mobilization of savings for investment analyzed include: Who supplied the most resources/savings for investment, and to what extent? Who were the borrowers and in what sectors? What were the terms of loans? Who financed them? These analyses may provide insight to capital formation and motives for financing investment in Korea.Less
This chapter examines the mobilization of the savings/resources of both foreign and domestic sources for investment in both the public and private sectors. The foreign sources of resources/savings examined are foreign direct investment, Japanese government grants, and foreign loans, which were largely supplied by Japan, in addition to the savings of both the Japanese and Koreans in Korea. The domestic savings examined are the sources of owners' equity and loans of financial institutions, which may be traced to the savings of both Japanese and Koreans. These have increased over time partly due to the enforcement of the government savings policy. The credit policies of the financial institutions are examined, which directed the mobilized savings to certain targeted industries under the government's guidance. Other facets of mobilization of savings for investment analyzed include: Who supplied the most resources/savings for investment, and to what extent? Who were the borrowers and in what sectors? What were the terms of loans? Who financed them? These analyses may provide insight to capital formation and motives for financing investment in Korea.
Keywords: resources, savings, Japanese government grants, foreign direct investment, foreign loans, domestic loans, credit policies, savings policy
Economic Growth and Structural Changes
This chapter analyzes the impact of investment on Korea's economic growth and structural changes relative to aggregate production — which is measured in terms of gross domestic product — during the ... More
This chapter analyzes the impact of investment on Korea's economic growth and structural changes relative to aggregate production — which is measured in terms of gross domestic product — during the 40 years of Japanese rule. This is followed by an assessment of structural changes in industry, mining, transportation, communications, commerce, finance, agriculture, forestry, and fishing, together with changes in industrial and agricultural organizations, which transformed the Korean economy from agrarian to semi-industrial. This chapter also analyzes the rise of the modern sector, the expansion of businesses, the monopolistic tendency in the industrial sector, changes in the make-up of land ownership, the rise in the scale of landholding, the enlargement of land tenancy, and the worsening status of working farmers, which affected both income and wealth distribution in Korea. The type of goods produced in the manufacturing is examined, particularly between the heavy, chemical, and light industries; the extent of “manufactured goods”; and the rise of the service sectors. The increased volume and changing patterns of foreign trade are also assessed, including the kinds of goods and services traded, Japanese dominance over the Korean economy, and Korea's economic dependency on Japan.Less
This chapter analyzes the impact of investment on Korea's economic growth and structural changes relative to aggregate production — which is measured in terms of gross domestic product — during the 40 years of Japanese rule. This is followed by an assessment of structural changes in industry, mining, transportation, communications, commerce, finance, agriculture, forestry, and fishing, together with changes in industrial and agricultural organizations, which transformed the Korean economy from agrarian to semi-industrial. This chapter also analyzes the rise of the modern sector, the expansion of businesses, the monopolistic tendency in the industrial sector, changes in the make-up of land ownership, the rise in the scale of landholding, the enlargement of land tenancy, and the worsening status of working farmers, which affected both income and wealth distribution in Korea. The type of goods produced in the manufacturing is examined, particularly between the heavy, chemical, and light industries; the extent of “manufactured goods”; and the rise of the service sectors. The increased volume and changing patterns of foreign trade are also assessed, including the kinds of goods and services traded, Japanese dominance over the Korean economy, and Korea's economic dependency on Japan.
Keywords: aggregate production, structural changes, modern sector, land ownership, land tenancy, foreign trade, Japanese dominance, economic dependency, income distribution, wealth distribution
Conclusions and reflections: Emergent models
D. Hugh Whittaker and Robert E. Cole
in Recovering from Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan
This chapter attempts to tease out the implications of the individual chapters for the future of innovation and MOT in Japan, beginning with problems in the Japanese ‘knowledge-creating’ company ... More
This chapter attempts to tease out the implications of the individual chapters for the future of innovation and MOT in Japan, beginning with problems in the Japanese ‘knowledge-creating’ company model. The strengths of this model are also its weaknesses. In particular, Japanese companies have had difficulties in accessing external tacit knowledge and global knowledge networks. The emergence of a ‘dual innovation system’ is considered, which consists of a ‘reformed Japanese/large firm model’ and a ‘nascent network model’, both lying between closed and open innovation system model poles. Eight features of the former are identified. Policy, on the other hand, has become oriented toward promoting the latter, with limited success. Relations and tensions between the two are discussed.Less
D. Hugh WhittakerRobert E. Cole
This chapter attempts to tease out the implications of the individual chapters for the future of innovation and MOT in Japan, beginning with problems in the Japanese ‘knowledge-creating’ company model. The strengths of this model are also its weaknesses. In particular, Japanese companies have had difficulties in accessing external tacit knowledge and global knowledge networks. The emergence of a ‘dual innovation system’ is considered, which consists of a ‘reformed Japanese/large firm model’ and a ‘nascent network model’, both lying between closed and open innovation system model poles. Eight features of the former are identified. Policy, on the other hand, has become oriented toward promoting the latter, with limited success. Relations and tensions between the two are discussed.
Keywords: MOT, Japanese innovation system, knowledge management, global knowledge networks, dual innovation system, reformed Japanese/large firm model, nascent network model
Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Mari Sako
in Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company - Japanese Labour
Business and Management, International Business
This concluding chapter summarizes the key themes of the book. The Strategy-Structure-Institutions (SSI) Framework is used to derive specific propositions, and predict the future of Japanese firms ... More
This concluding chapter summarizes the key themes of the book. The Strategy-Structure-Institutions (SSI) Framework is used to derive specific propositions, and predict the future of Japanese firms and unions. The framework exhibits a relatively high degree of variety as it highlights the importance of the interaction of strategy and structure on both sides of industry to accommodate considerable variations within a sector. It is also used to explore some broader comparative implications in specific advanced economies, including Germany and the United States.Less
This concluding chapter summarizes the key themes of the book. The Strategy-Structure-Institutions (SSI) Framework is used to derive specific propositions, and predict the future of Japanese firms and unions. The framework exhibits a relatively high degree of variety as it highlights the importance of the interaction of strategy and structure on both sides of industry to accommodate considerable variations within a sector. It is also used to explore some broader comparative implications in specific advanced economies, including Germany and the United States.
Keywords: Japanese firms, Japanese unions, comparative analysis, Germany
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Birds of Prey of Australia - A Field Guide 3ed.
Author(s): Stephen Debus
Provides a field guide to Australia's iconic raptors and a handbook of our current knowledge. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult birds to identify. This fully updated Third Edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of Prey of Australia contains two sections: a field guide with distribution maps, detailed illustrations and information on identification; and a handbook which includes an overview of the current knowledge about raptors, including their biology, ecology and behaviour. An illustrated section on difficult-to-distinguish species pairs is also included, along with new photographs. Birds of Prey of Australia will appeal to a wide range of readers, including ornithologists, raptor biologists, birdwatchers, wildlife rescuers/carers, raptor rehabilitators, zookeepers, naturalists, bushwalkers, ecological consultants, fauna authorities, park rangers, state forestry personnel and students.
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Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction
Peter Decherney
Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. It recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison’s trust to create the handful of companies that have dominated global screens and imaginations for over 100 years. It reveals that the elements taken to be a natural part of the Hollywood experience—stars, genre-driven storytelling, blockbuster franchises—are the product of cultural, political, and commercial forces. The challenges of new technologies, including sound, home video, and computer graphics, are explored and Hollywood’s responses to World War II, independent film movements, and regulations imposed by Washington are also examined.
Keywords: cinema, classical Hollywood cinema, computer graphics, digital, Walt Disney, film, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, studio system
Peter Decherney, author Professor of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Chef Daniel Boulud Joins Marina Bay Sands Roster
by Michael Browne
Oct 22, 2009 1:00am
During a luncheon held at his New York City flagship restaurant Daniel, it was announced that Chef Daniel Boulud will be one of six world-renowned chefs featured at the highly anticipated Marina Bay Sands resort complex in Singapore when it opens next year.
Chef Boulud, whose Daniel was recently awarded the prestigious three-star designation from the Michelin Guide, said he looks forward to spending time in Singapore when he brings a new version of his New York restaurant, DB Bistro Moderne, to Marina Bay Sands.
Boulud is the first to be publicly announced as a celebrity chef at Marina Bay Sands; in total, according to Las Vegas Sands Corp. president Michael Leven, there will be six celebrity chef restaurants in the complex.
When completed, the three-towered Marina Bay Sands will feature approximately 2,500 hotel rooms, a rooftop Sands SkyPark covering the length of four football fields, a casino, entertainment venues and an 800,000-square-foot retail complex.
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Sustainable Transport Wins from New Ride-Hailing and Electric Scooters Innovations
Words by Amy Brown
The lines between car sharing and electric scooter firms are becoming increasingly blurred as they cross-fertilize expertise and innovation, making the big winner sustainable transport. That’s good news for business, transport users and the climate, with the transportation sector as the number one cause of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S., according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“Micro-mobility” in the form of electric scooters and electric bikes that are ideal for short trips, especially in traffic-dense urban areas, is the latest trend in sustainable transport. Everyone, it seems, wants to be part of it - even the companies that are traditionally tied to the automobile.
San Francisco-based electric scooter startup Lime recently announced it would make its operations in Seattle the largest free-floating car-sharing network in a U.S. city. And last month, a pair of Uber executives joined electric scooter startup Bird, citing the potential to take transportation to the next level by pioneering “Rideshare 2.0” technologies in order to solve ongoing transportation problems.
Uber, for its part, last month purchased Jump, a dockless electric bicycle sharing company, and is now using Jump to add electric scooter sharing to its portfolio of services. At TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that the company expects electric bicycles and scooters to become the future of urban transportation. He said a decade from now, ride-hailing will be less than 50 percent of all Uber’s business.
“Today, 40 percent of car trips are less than two miles long,” Bird Executive Travis VanderZanden told The Washington Post earlier this year. “Our goal is to replace as many of those trips as possible so we can get cars off the road and curb traffic and greenhouse gas emissions.”
A broad menu of transport options
Lime argues that its new car-sharing business is still very much rooted in its mission to reduce car use. There is evidence that car-sharing does reduce the number of cars on the road. A 2016 study by car-sharing firm Car2Go found that it led to a 6 to 16 percent drop in the number of miles the average household traveled by car. In Seattle, the report noted, each new Car2G0 vehicle added corresponded with a reduction of three to 10 private vehicles, either because people sold their cars or decided against buying them.
Lime’s car-sharing business launched last week with 50 vehicles on city streets. By 2019, the company says it aims to have 1,500 cars in Seattle. Lime CEO Toby Sun told Bloomberg the primary reasons for the move into car-sharing are to serve “long-distance, higher terrain and bad weather.”
While Lyft and Uber are moving in the opposite direction—shifting from cars to now including bikes and scooters—the main impetus for all the companies is to offer users a full menu of transport options, which can only be good from a sustainable transport perspective.
Rise of scooters unprecedented
Judging from a recent nationwide survey, this is precisely what people want. The survey, “The Micromobility Revolution: The Introduction and Adoption of Electric Scooters in the United States,” found widespread support for the dockless electric scooters—70 percent of respondents like these new services—and evidence this new form of transportation can address transit equity issues.
Polling 7,000 users across 11 U.S. cities, the study found that adoption was “accelerating faster than ever,” due to both the proliferation of smartphones and the general uptick in new mobility options.
In fact, the adoption rate is exponentially higher than other shared mobility options. In 2013, more than a dozen years after car-sharing services like Zipcar were first introduced, roughly 2 to 3 percent of the over-18 population had used such a service. In contrast, scooters, which have been active in the U.S. for less than a year, have already registered a 3.6 percent adoption rate, according to the study.
In addition to a growing adoption rate, electric scooters have also been embraced faster and more widely by populations not traditionally well-served by transit startups. The survey found a higher rate of adoption among lower-income groups compared to other micro-mobility services. Since dockless services require fewer infrastructure investments, they offer a more affordable way to expand transit access.
And transit firms are taking note, promoting their vehicles as means for cities to create more equitable public transportation systems. Bird, a scooter startup, recently announced a plan to subsidize rides for low-income users.
Steering innovation with the right regulation
These new modes of transport often outrun the ability of cities to study and regulate them, requiring better coordination between public and private sectors, as well as added incentives to steer riders towards shared systems. Regulating app-based mobility services was the focus of a recent roundtable held by the International Transport Forum, looking at congestion both on roads and the curb.
“In order to create an ecosystem that can ensure the success of a virtuous cycle between these new modes and established public transit, government needs to lead,” wrote Gabe Klein, Co-Founder of CityFi, an urban change management firm, in Forbes. “City government should be at the forefront of shaping the rollout of these systems in collaborative, co-creative ways.”
As Klein sees it, “This is not an either/or choice between regulation or innovation. In truth, clear regulation can help scale up innovation.”
Image credit: Mike Licht/Flickr
Based in southwest Florida, Amy has written about sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line for over 20 years, specializing in sustainability reporting, policy papers and research reports for multinational clients in pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, ICT, tourism and other sectors. She also writes for Ethical Corporation and is a contributor to Creating a Culture of Integrity: Business Ethics for the 21st Century. Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.
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MAN Offers Hygienic Protective Barrier to Shield Drivers from Coronavirus Infection
MAN Truck & Bus is now offering a hygienic protective barrier that can be retrofitted on board its city buses, intercity buses and coaches.
MAN Offers Factory-fit or Retrofitted Protective Screen for New Lion's City Bus
Aiming to provide the best possible protection to stop drivers contracting the coronavirus or other infections, MAN Truck & Bus is now offering a hygienic protective barrier that can be retrofitted on city buses, intercity buses and coaches. “The safety of drivers is a priority close to our hearts. Ultimately, they’re the ones who are out there day after day to keep the transport system running,” explains Heinz Kiess, Head of Product Marketing Bus at MAN Truck & Bus. “The ceiling-high screen keeps the driver’s cab separate from the passenger area, protecting both drivers and passengers.”
Precautions will need to be taken to protect bus company employees, especially once the current spacing and sanitation rules are gradually relaxed. “Front-door boarding is still prohibited and the front rows are still off-limits on many buses. As soon as these are reopened to passengers, the driver will automatically be re-exposed to much more contact with new people, whether to answer their questions or sell tickets,” Kiess adds.
For the new MAN Lion’s City generation, the protective screen for the driver’s workplace can either be installed as a factory-fit or retrofitted as part of MAN’s After Sales service. Customers can choose between a fully sealed version and a version with an access point for ticketing.
“We’ve seen growing demand for these in the city bus market. But we’ve also received enquiries for all other vehicles operated by our customers, such as intercity buses. We can install these quickly at the MAN Bus Modification Center in Plauen, Germany.”
The bus modification experts also perform custom retrofits for models from the existing Lion’s City generation. In addition, they can convert the barrier behind the driver’s workplace into a partition on board MAN Lion’s Coach and Neoplan Tourliner coach models. The tall dividing screen is made of shatter-resistant polycarbonate and installed with an aluminium section, while the bottom panel is made of satin glass.
“The MAN Bus Modification Center, which specialises in bespoke, practical solutions, has a particularly important role to play – especially now in the midst of this crisis,” Kiess emphasises.
The first retrofits have already been completed in Plauen, including a hygienic safety solution for VfL Wolfsburg’s MAN Lion’s Coach L. “This makes VfL Wolfsburg the first German Bundesliga club to have installed a coronavirus protection system on board its team bus.”
MAN has also retrofitted dividing screens to the two Lion’s City E models being field-tested by Hamburg mass transit operators Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH). “As a result, these electric buses aren’t just zero-emission vehicles – they’ll also have enhanced coronavirus protection while they’re out servicing their routes,” Kiess says.
In addition and as a matter of course, recommended regional, national and international hygiene and distancing rules stipulated or recommended by the relevant authorities should be adhered to in buses as well.
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Showdown Looms Over Pirated-Media Directory
Swedish Prosecutors Target
Organizers of Pirate Bay,
A Huge File-Sharing Guide
By Aaron O. Patrick and Sarah McBride
Jan. 11, 2008 12:01 am ET
One of Hollywood's biggest foes is about to be called on the carpet. After years of steering Web surfers to free entertainment, the organizers of a massive directory of pirated movies, music and software in Sweden could finally face serious legal repercussions.
Based on evidence collected in a 2006 raid on the offices of The Pirate Bay, Swedish prosecutors say that by the end of January they expect to charge the individuals who operate the file-sharing service with conspiracy to breach copyrights.
While Sweden might seem to be an unlikely harbor for pirates of any kind, weak copyright laws, lax enforcement, high broadband penetration and general antipathy toward the entertainment industry have made it a file-sharing free-for-all. Last year, 43% of the people participating in a survey by Sweden's biggest phone company said they planned to download music during the year. A pro-piracy political party has more members than the Greens.
The prosecutors' move comes after years of complaints from Hollywood executives and U.S. government officials. U.S. Embassy officials have described Sweden as home to the "worst Internet piracy in the world," and the Motion Picture Association of America has been fighting to shutter Pirate Bay's site for years.
Sweden, which enjoys some of the world's fastest Internet speeds, strengthened its laws in 2005 to make online theft of movies a crime. But its efforts to crack down have had little success so far. In 2006, shortly after Swedish Justice Department representatives visiting Washington received a stern lecture from U.S. officials about the alleged damage being caused by Pirate Bay, Swedish police raided the site's offices and shut it down.
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Germany, France Report Slow Growth in 1st Quarter
By Matt Marshall and Douglas LavinStaff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal
June 6, 1997 12:01 am ET
BONN -- Germany and France, Europe's two largest economies, reported sluggish first-quarter growth, making it unlikely that economic expansion will cure their budget and unemployment woes anytime soon.
In Germany, gross domestic product grew by 1.4% compared with a year earlier, the government said. In France, GDP expanded 1% over the same period, the government reported. Germany's GDP also was up 0.5% over the last quarter of 1996, while France's economy grew by 0.2%. (GDP is the measure of a nation's output of goods and services, minus income from investments abroad.)
Both economies experienced a boom in exports because of the strong dollar, which increases the price competitiveness of German and French products in overseas markets. But sluggish retail sales -- attributed to high unemployment and economic uncertainty -- held back the expansion.
Domestic consumption is particularly important because both countries rely heavily on sales taxes to finance their budgets. An upturn in spending could go a long way in helping the countries meet the Maastricht treaty's strict fiscal criteria for economic and monetary union.
Weak Domestic Demand
"The message is very similar in the two economies," says Christopher Potts, chief economist at Cheuvreux de Virieu, a Paris brokerage house. "That's the problem in Europe. Your two engines of growth, France and Germany, have very little domestic demand." Economists expect slow growth in the first half in both countries, but anticipate expansion of at least 2% for the full year.
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Ruman Gamba Shows Dag Wirén More Than a One-Hit Wonder
Aug 8th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
Tags: CD Review, Chandos, contemporary classical music, Dag Wirén, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestral music, Ruman Gamba
I think it must be frustrating to be a one-hit wonder — especially in the field of classical music. Swedish composer Dag Wirén wrote five symphonies, three concertos, five string quartets, nine film scores, several ballets. Yet most orchestras only program one of his works — the Serenade for Strings.
The work was dashed off quickly, and in a good performance, that sense of spontaneity comes through. Ruman Gamba and Iceland Symphony Orchestra give the Serenade a good performance.
Gamba uses the full orchestral string section. The work is often recorded with a chamber orchestra, and the difference in sound is noteworthy. While still light and breezy, the substance of the string sound makes it seem less of a throwaway piece. And — for those of us who’ve heard the Serenade too often — it offers a fresh take on this classic.
The Sinfonietta, Op. 7a started life as part of Wiren’s second symphony. The symphony was withdrawn, and two of the movements were reworked into the Sinfonietta. It’s an intense, compact work that with a strong sense of drama. Wiren’s melodies may have echoes of Grieg and Scandinavia, but they’re faint. The Sinfonietta seems to lean more towards Prokofiev than Nielsen.
Wiren withdrew his first symphony and completely rewrote his second. He seemed to hit his stride with Symphony No. 3. Wiren handles his material with confidence. The themes are memorable, and the entire work seems to flow organically from start to finish. There are a few passages where I could tell this was the same person who composed the Serenade. But I could also tell this was a composer who had grown in mastery.
Also included is Wiren’s 1957 Divertimento. It’s a more substantial work than the title suggests.
Ruman Gamba writes, “I was surprised that the music of Wirén was just as unknown [in Sweden] as it was in the UK… Convinced that Wirén must have composed some other fine music [than the Serenade], I had the opportunity to suggest his Third Symphony for a concert… a performance which persuaded me to think about a whole CD of his music.”
Gamba was right. Wiren did compose some other fine music.
Dag Wirén: Orchestral Works
Symphony No. 3, Op. 20; Serenade, Op. 11; Divertimento, Op. 29; Sinfonietta, Op. 7a in C major
Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Ruman Gamba, conductor
Chandos CHSA 5194
Classical Interviews – Arthur Zanin
Jan 15th, 2021 | By WTJU
Charlottesville Symphony’s Principal Trumpet, Arthur Zanin, spoke with WTJU about discovering their orchestral passion, the versatility of the trumpet, and the significance of music in education. For more on Arthur Zanin, visit:arthurzanin.com For more on the Charlottesville Symphony, visit: cvillesymphony.org How I found the Orchestra The Different Sounds of the Trumpet Practicing for Trumpet The […]
#ClassicsaDay #Classical1921 Week 2
Jan 15th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
Tags: #Classical1921, #ClassicsaDay, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederick Delius, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Igor Stravinsky, Twitter
What better way to celebrate a new year than with a look back? In this case, the Classics a Day team decided to go back 100 years. For January 2021 the challenge is to post works that were completed in or recordings released in 1921. It turns out there was quite a lot going on […]
“L’Homme Arme” showcases Renaissance masters
Tags: Andrew McAnerney, ATMA, Studio de music ancienne de Montreal
This is a release I’ve long been waiting for. In the early Renaissance, the Burgundian folk song L’Homme Armé (The Armed Man) was used by many composers of the period. This album does what I’ve always wanted to do — bring together several of those settings to compare side-by-side. It’s an album of great beauty […]
Eric Coates Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 continues to entertain
Tags: BBC Philharmonic, CD Review, Chandos, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Eric Coates, John Wilson, Orchestral music
This release picks up where the first volume left off. It’s another collection of wonderful music by Eric Coates. Coates’ output was fairly consistent. it’s instantly appealing, modest in scope, and always effective in entertaining the listener. This release includes popular favorites such as “London Bridge,” and “Calling All Workers.” The cornerstones of the program […]
New Jazz Adds – 1/12/2021
Jan 13th, 2021 | By Dave Rogers
New Jazz Adds – 1/12/2021 Craig Brenner – Passages (Self-produced): “Craig Brenner explores the jazzy side of blues and boogie woogie piano. Called “a fine and funky pianist” by Living Blues, Craig has received multiple Indiana Arts Commission grants and he has been voted “Best Musician” in Bloomington, IN, in the Bloomington Independent; Craig & The Crawdads has […]
New Blues News – 1/12/2021
New Blues News – 1/12/2021 John Fusco & The X-Road Riders – John The Revelator (Self-produced): “More than three decades after a teenaged Fusco ran away from his New England home to Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta — returning with a semi-autobiographical screenplay called Crossroads (and an unlikely discovery as a Hollywood screenwriter) — the […]
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The Latest: Statistics show higher death toll in Britain
A man wearing a protection mask as he pass the subway sign ‘Theresienwiese’, the Oktoberfest beer festival area, in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Bavarian state governor Markus Soeder and Munich mayor Dieter Reiter announced at a news conference that the Oktoberfest is cancelled this year because the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
TOP OF THE HOUR:
— WHO warns rush to ease virus rules could cause resurgence.
— Britain’s virus death toll is higher than what the government reported, according to official statistics.
— Paris police arrest nine people in unrest in suburbs.
— Sweden’s state alcohol monopoly says liquor meant for consumption doesn’t work as sanitizer.
LONDON — Official statistics show that at least 1,500 more people with the new coronavirus have died in Britain than the 16,500 whose deaths have been announced by the government.
The Office for National Statistics says that 1,043 deaths in nursing homes in England and Wales up to April 10 involved COVID-19, with 826 of those deaths recorded in the final week of that period. More than 500 other people died in hospices and private homes.
Those are not included in the U.K. government’s daily total, which only includes deaths in hospitals.
The figures show that the total number of deaths in the week to April 10 — 18,516 — was the highest weekly total in 20 years. About a third of all deaths involved the coronavirus.
The British government is under pressure to include nursing-home deaths in its daily coronavirus figures amid fears the number is being underreported.
Liz Kendall, social care spokeswoman for the opposition Labour Party, said “these awful figures are only scratching the surface of the emerging crisis in social care, because they are already 11 days out of date.”
PARIS — Paris police are facing a modest uptick of unrest in the oft-troubled suburbs of the now locked-down French capital, making a small number of arrests after fires were set and fireworks lobbed to shatter the calm imposed by stay-home measures to counter the coronavirus.
A scattering of vehicle and trash-can blazes and firework explosions on successive nights on the outskirts of Paris this week have so far been far milder than previous outbreaks of violence. But the renewed tensions are also a reminder of policing difficulties that have long simmered in troubled neighborhoods of the city, before the virus lockdown forced most people indoors.
Paris police said officers arrested nine people in two suburbs overnight Tuesday. They were suspected of either possessing fireworks or gathering together to commit violence.
A possible trigger for the flare-up appears to have been a traffic accident this past weekend involving a police car and a motorcyclist who was injured. Police reported that projectiles were thrown at officers following the crash on Saturday evening.
The lockdown in place since March 17 has been particularly tough for families jammed together in small apartments in the poorer Paris suburbs. The stay-home orders and police patrols to enforce them have also disrupted underground economies centered around drug-dealing and other crime in unruly projects.
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s state alcohol monopoly that runs a chain of liquor stores says it has put up signs in its shops to tell patrons that vodka, gin and other spirits meant for consumption doesn’t work as hand sanitizer.
A spokeswoman for Systembolaget, Therese Elmgren, told Sweden TT news agency that they had received questions from customers — both in shops and online — after which they decided to put up the signs stating that strong alcoholic beverages don’t work as sanitizer.
“It needs to have a higher percentage,” Elmgren said.
Systembolaget was created to minimize alcohol-related problems. The stores that are found throughout Sweden, sell alcoholic beverages that contain more than 3.5% alcohol by volume. One must be above the age of 20 to buy there.
MADRID — New deaths attributed to the new coronavirus in Spain are slightly up again on Tuesday, with 430 fatalities that bring the total death toll to 21,282 from a 4-week low of 399 daily deaths on Monday.
Spain is reporting nearly 4,000 new infections to a total of 204,178, a 2% day-to-day increase in line with the average for the past four days, health ministry data shows.
The government is assessing already how to roll back one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, starting from next Monday by allowing children to go out onto the streets for brief periods. Spain’s center-left Cabinet is discussing details on how the measure will be implemented during Tuesday’s weekly meeting.
An 8-week survey of 30,000 households that will be tested for the new virus is also expected to roll out on April 27, allowing authorities to gauge what’s the level of immunization beyond hospitals and nursing homes, where testing has focused during the peak of the pandemic.
Authorities are also deciding on Monday on price caps for face masks, gloves, hand sanitizers and other protective equipment that has been in short supply.
According to a government special order issued on Sunday, the aim with controlling prices is for citizens to access in “non-abusive” economic conditions to the material that experts see as key to controlling future contagion.
BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister says it’s not yet possible to say when restrictions on travel in Europe and beyond will be loosened and a normal summer vacation season with full beach bars won’t be possible this year.
Germany is currently warning against nonessential tourist travel anywhere abroad. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas acknowledged Tuesday that the issue is becoming “increasingly pressing” because many people are asking what the situation will be in the summer. The government will consider it at the end of the month.
Maas noted that “international aviation is grounded, many countries have entry bans and bans on going out — those are not conditions under which one can have a relaxing vacation.”
He said “no one needs to be under any illusions” because efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic will continue to limit freedom of movement.
Maas said that “it won’t be possible to have a normal vacation season with full beach bars and full mountain huts this summer — that would not be responsible.”
SINGAPORE — Singapore has announced it would extend its lockdown by another four weeks after a sharp upsurge in cases in recent days.
The city-state reported 1,111 new cases earlier Tuesday to take its total to 9,125, the highest in Southeast Asia. Foreign workers staying in crowded dormitories account for nearly 80% of infections.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said most of the new cases were due to aggressive testing of workers in the dorms, including those who are asymptomatic. Lee said in a televised speech that the clusters in the dorms have remained largely contained but circuit-breaker measures, that shut down nonessential businesses and schools until May 4, will be prolonged till June 1 until infections ease.
Lee said the government would shut more workplaces so that only the most essential services will stay open. Lee said the “short-term pain” is crucial to stamp out the virus, and pledged to provide further help for businesses and workers.
MILAN — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday confirmed that Italy can start reopening on May 4, but he doused any hopes of a total loosening of some of the strictest lockdown measures in a western democracy.
“Many citizens are tired of the efforts that have been made so far and would like a significant loosening of these measures, or even their total abolition,” Conte said in a Facebook post, adding that “a decision of that kind would be irresponsible.”
Conte indicated that moves to relax the restrictions would be announced by the end of the week, and that they would take into account the different circumstances among regions.
Italy’s north, hardest-hit by the virus and the country’s economic engine, has been straining to restart industry after a shutdown of nonessential manufacturing on March 26 — even as some have received permission to reopen with a much-reduced workforce in recent days.
Veneto regional governor Luca Zaia estimates as much as 40% of companies are already working in the region. Conte pointed out that the regions still were not able to keep up with some necessities for a reopening, including masks and gloves, noting that the government had supplied 110 million masks in addition to 3,000 ventilators to hospitals. “It is too easy to say, ‘let’s open everything,” Conte said.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Any person in Denmark who has been or will be hospitalized for more than one day with or without COVID-19 symptoms, and staff and residents at retirement homes and facilities for people with mental health issues, will be tested under new guidelines released Tuesday.
“In this situation, it is very important that there is increased awareness to avoid infection in the population,” the Danish Health Authority said, saying “the spread of infection has been greatly reduced, and we have therefore started to open up the society gradually.”
On Monday, hair salons, tattoo parlors, physiotherapists, among others, were able to reopen their business after some classes were allowed to return to school last week. Zoological gardens and animal parks said they have been allowed to reopen on May 1.
Across the Baltic Sea, Lithuania has extended its lockdown until May 11 with virtually no help for business and fears that the Baltic country might see a repeat of the 2009 nosediving of the gross domestic product when there was a dip of minus 15%.
PRAGUE — The Czech Republic is launching a comprehensive study with a goal to determine the number of undetected infections with the coronavirus in its population.
Health Minister Adam Vojtech says some 27,000 people across the country will be tested in the next two weeks, starting on Thursday.
The study will be conducted in different parts of the Czech Republic where the epidemic is at different stages on people aged 18 – 89. In the capital of Prague and the second largest city of Brno, children also will be included.
The samples of the population tested will include volunteers as well a selected group suffering from chronic diseases.
A significant number of people infected with the coronavirus suffer no or only mild symptoms, but there is concern that they might unwittingly spread the virus to others. At the same time, those people are expected to be immune to COVID-19 in the future.
The results that will be known in early May should help authorities to adjust the plans to gradually relax restrictive measures imposed to contain the pandemic.
The Czech Republic has 6,914 tested positive for the coronavirus, 196 have died, according to Health Ministry figures.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s professional baseball league has decided to begin its new season on May 5, initially without fans, following a postponement over the coronavirus.
The Korea Baseball Organization made the announcement after a board meeting on Tuesday while teams began their preseason exhibition games in empty stadiums.
The league says fans will be barred from games until the risk of infections are gone.
The league plans to maintain a 144-game regular season schedule, but it has decided scrap its all-star game and shorten the first round of the playoffs from a best-of-five to best-of-three series.
The KBO says it could shorten its regular season if infections erupt. The league will advise players to wear face masks in locker rooms and require them to download smartphone apps to report their daily health status to league officials.
South Korea on Tuesday reported 9 new infections of the coronavirus and one more death, bringing its totals to 10,683 cases and 237 deaths. The country’s caseload has slowed from early March when it was reporting around 500 fresh cases a day.
YANGON, Myanmar — A car used by the World Health Organization to transport swab samples to be tested for the COVID-19 virus has been attacked in western Myanmar, killing the driver and wounding a passenger.
The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported Tuesday that the vehicle bearing a U.N. license plate was attacked in Rakhine State en route to Yangon late Monday afternoon.
Rakhine has been the scene of bitter fighting between the government and the Arakan Army, an ethnic guerrilla group fighting for autonomy in Rakhine State. Each side blamed the other for the Monday attack.
The newspaper account said the driver and the passenger, a health worker, were taken to a nearby hospital. The father of the driver, 28-year-old Pyae Sone Win Mg, said his son died Tuesday morning.
BERLIN — This year’s Oktoberfest in Munich has been called off because of the coronavirus pandemic. The cancellation of the world-famous annual celebration of beer, which was supposed to run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, underlines expectations that the way back to normal life will be very long.
The Oktoberfest typically draws about 6 million visitors every year to the packed festival grounds in Bavaria’s capital.
Bavarian governor Markus Soeder said after meeting Munich’s mayor Tuesday: “We agreed that the risk is simply too high.” He added that “you can neither keep your distance nor work with facial protection” at the Oktoberfest.
Soeder noted that the festival attracts visitors from around the world, raising concerns about bringing new infections to Bavaria.
Mayor Dieter Reiter said that “it is an emotionally difficult moment and of course it is also an economically difficult moment for our city.”
As it stands, major events with large audiences are banned in Germany until at least the end of August. The country has taken the first steps toward loosening its shutdown, allowing small nonessential shops to start opening this week, but it remains unclear when bars and restaurants will be able to welcome customers again.
The Oktoberfest has previously been canceled during the two world wars; at a time of hyperinflation in Germany in 1923; and because of cholera outbreaks in 1854 and 1873, German news agency dpa reported.
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Louisiana Moves One Step Closer to Creating A New Unconstitutional Sentence for Children Who Were Sentenced to Life Without Parole
The Louisiana legislature is currently contemplating how to deal with the inconvenience of the U.S. Supreme Court throwing out death sentences of 300 people who committed crimes as children. Historically, Louisiana only had two sentences for murder convictions: Death by lethal injection or death by any other cause while confined to a prison cage. The latter applied even to second-degree murder, as there was no parole statute, and life without parole (known as “the other death penalty”) was mandatory, even on children.
Various bills have gone through committees on both the House and the Senate to create a Life with parole sentence, one that might apply to the 300 “Miller Kids” incarcerated in Louisiana. None of the proposals have a term of years, and the only debate is over how long until a child is eligible for an initial evaluation by the parole board. Unfortunately, the majority of legislators appear far from grasping the U.S. Supreme Court’s straightforward decisions in Graham v. Florida and Miller v. Alabama, pointing out the obvious: children’s minds are not fully developed, this is a mitigating factor, thus it becomes cruel and unusual punishment to sentence them to the harshest penalties.
Even before the infamous (and now debunked) 1990s “Super-Predator” theory of Northeastern criminologist John Fox and Princeton professor John DiIulio, America’s punitive nature trailed behind the standards of other nations. Whether born of the Puritans, slave ownership, Native American eradication and land theft, somehow America has ridden the type of cruel streak that could lynch Emmet Till, at age 14. By the time the Clinton Administration sought to one-up the Reagan/Bush Administrations, putting police officers in schools and hashing out school discipline in courts and child prisons (rather than the Vice Principal’s office), they completed the bipartisan incarceration nation. A generation later, Fox and DiIulio wrote an amicus brief in Miller v. Alabama, saying they were wrong. But too little, too late.
Louisiana was content to allow their 300 Miller Kids, now 294 men and six women ranging in age from 23 to 75, to die in prison despite these cruel and unusual sentences. A third of them have been incarcerated for twice as long as they lived before prison. One man, Henry Montgomery, who has been in Angola State Penitentiary since the time President Kennedy was assassinated, challenged this decision. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that their previous decision applied retroactively, these unconstitutional sentences need to be thrown out, and these children need sentences with a “meaningful opportunity for release.”
Louisiana, America’s prison capital, has so many people languishing in prison, the spiraling medical costs will likely bankrupt the state. Various instruments have been created and face constant amendment to migrate older people, often past the point of self-reliance, onto some other care provider. Medical parole (Over 60 years old, with over 10 years confined) and the current parole law for Lifers (“20/45”) exclude people with crimes of violence.
Louisiana has little experience with parole releases and parole-eligible sentences. Hardly any criminal attorneys (defense and prosecution) have experience dealing with a range of sentencing for a capital crime. If the state pursued lethal injection, those attorneys had two options: death by the needle or death in the cage. The Miller Kids’ sentences, once the death penalty was outlawed for children, became an automatic Other Death Penalty. Only 3% of people released from prison are from parole. [“Good Time Parole” is different, by merely converting credits earned from good behavior into a parole term rather than an actual sentence reduction, as in many other states.]
To illustrate the relevant nature of state-by-state standards, consider the advocacy of Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (LCCR), the children’s public defender in New Orleans, where 69 of the Miller Kids were convicted and sentenced (while 26 are in nearby Jefferson Parish). LCCR supported a bill (SB 127) that would allow a child’s first parole board review after 35 years, a term far beyond any reasonable number across America and across the world.
VOTE testified against SB 127, pointing out the obvious: Seeing a parole board at 50 is not a “meaningful opportunity for release.” This one-size-fits-all approach, even harsher than the adult “20/45” law, would likely eliminate any opportunity for someone to be self-sustaining after release. And considering the forced diet and paltry health care of prison, such a sentence would practically serve as another Medical Parole option.
A reasonable sentence would be to first review children’s cases when their minds are fully developed. As the experts who weighed in on Miller v. Alabama pointed out, this is generally about 25 years old. An initial parole hearing after 10 years would arrive at that point (with practically all such people entering the prison system at 15-17 years old.) Regardless of whether any judge, prosecutor, or legislator wishes these people to have hope or to live a hopeless existence, it is strategically intelligent to review someone after 10 years.
Parole boards are consistently conservative creations of elected governors. They live in trepidation that someone released will be on the six o’clock news for doing something terrible. They spend a matter of minutes in the presence of the person they are to re-judge. They (hopefully) read discipline reports, victim impact statements, and possibly letters of support from family, educators, and clergy. They want to know, ‘if we let you out next year, where will you live? How will you support yourself? What does your future look like?’ Only a strong sense of security will provide the basis for voting yes- and serious convictions require a unanimous vote. Hopefully they know that people with the longer sentences for more serious convictions have the lowest recidivism rates, yet it will never be “zero.”
After ten years, the parole board can first put a person on their radar. Enough time has passed where they have settled into roles within the incarcerated community. Considering as they came in as children, there is a chance they have been robbed, beaten up, raped, or stabbed. They may have spent excessive time in solitary confinement, dating back to when they were teenagers- even where the prison officials are trying to protect them. They have been getting steady advice to bulk up and keep a look out.
After ten years, the parole board can learn if any physical or psychiatric medical conditions are present, and if they are being treated. The board can understand what, if any, support they have on the Outside- including grandparents who may not have long to live or children now entering middle school with an incarcerated parent. The board can learn about someone’s skill development, vocational and academic learning, and what job they may be holding down in the prison.
After ten years, the board can provide some guidance as to what it might take for this person to get out someday. And they may see them in another year, another five years, or make up their mind that this sadistic person has behaved in a violent manner that is truly disturbing. When they see the person again, they can check in again.
SB 127 passed out of committee to the Senate floor, without any amendments or reductions that some advocates quietly sought, and passed the full chamber, 25-8. It is now in the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice. A week later (in that House Committee), LCCR came out against HB 264, a mirror bill to SB 127 that called for the same 35 years. LCCR supported HB 554, a bill ultimately amended to 25 years before eligibility for murder, 20 years for crimes other than murder, and 15 years for sentences other than Life. VOTE opposed them both.
Yesterday, both House bills came to the full chamber for debate. When Rep. Mack was asked where he got the 35 years as a basis for review, he responded: “from me.” An attempt to amend that bill down to 25 years failed. HB 264 passed 75-19, so now each chamber has passed a 35 years till parole bill. When the 25 years bill came up (HB 554), it promptly failed, with only 33 people voting for it.
VOTE opposes 35 years to review, 20 years to review, and anything resembling the “20/45” law for adults. There is no bill that allows for a numerical sentence, and none of these proposals actually reflect that youth is a mitigating factor, and a “meaningful opportunity for release” cannot be satisfied by a rare release in one’s senior years. The nonpartisan American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code calls for a ten-year review for juveniles on Life sentences. Nationally, adults sentenced to Life in 1991 were expected to serve an average of 21 years before release. That average spiked to 29 years by 1997. For adults.
Furthermore, these bills call for an expert evaluation by someone who has expertise in adolescent brain development. When do they propose this happen? At age 50? It is difficult to conceive of what this evaluation will reveal, other than that this person, approaching “senior” status, has been formatively developing in a prison environment. They have spent over two-thirds of their existence in a cage, cell block, or work field. They may have early-stage Alzheimer’s and any number of other adult ailments that have little to do with their adolescent development. Any expert that comes in to evaluate a 50 year old will have no child or young adult to compare to, so have little evidence to comment on development.
The other day I spoke with G.T., a man who killed someone at sixteen (not in Louisiana). His first parole date was at 22, and he was released at 28. Now at 32, after finishing a dual degree in college, getting married and having his first child- he struggles to find work and stave off depression. The discrimination he faces will not go anywhere, regardless of his disposition and work ethic. He is still serving his sentence, and will be until death.
Many people who, if they were convicted in Louisiana, would have been one of these Miller Kids. Yet in a legal system that requires plea bargains to stay afloat, with underfunded indigent defense, backlogged prosecutors, and clogged courtrooms handing down ultra punishment, something reasonable must be on the table to plead guilty. Giving someone an option of 20, 30, or 60 years to serve (along with a set parole eligibility and final release date), gives someone an option to not contest the conviction.
If Louisiana adopts the likely proposal, many of the Miller Kids will contest their sentences. Replacing one unconstitutionally excessive mandatory sentence for murder convictions with another excessive mandatory sentence (regardless of the facts or level of involvement). This will result in additional litigation. If these sentences are imposed without proper experts and the right to address the court, it will result in litigation. Those who plead guilty to life without parole because they were threatened with the (now unconstitutional) death penalty should probably be considering a motion to withdraw plea and vacate their convictions. Furthermore, some defendants will seek judges to reduce their sentence down to the Manslaughter range. State v. Craig (LA 1976) allows that when a sentence is no longer available, a reduction to the next most serious crime is appropriate.
Up until 1976, the state of Louisiana would either execute someone or, if they had a Life sentence, let them out after 10 years of good behavior. And then the prison boom began, finding us now in a state where over 10% of the people in prison are likely to die behind bars; 73% of them are Black. If Louisiana were not so behind the common American standards, they would know dozens of people who, when given an opportunity, were able to grow into positive and productive people. In other states, despite all the challenges that accompany life with a serious conviction, many of such grown men and women are mentors to troubled youth who need advice from those who have been through similar trials and tribulations. They are parents and hard workers, giving back to the community rather than being a drain on resources in prison until shuffled into an elderly home.
Considering it is increasingly rare to find a politician without a family member struggling with addiction, we know that criminal justice issues and challenging situations strike at us all. What we the people, and our media, need to ask our public leaders is how they responded to their own impacted families. Did they call the police on their daughter when they found the drugs? Did they urge the prosecutor to seek a maximum sentence on their stole something? If not, explain why not?
It is understandable to want to throw away the key, especially when the defendant is someone else’s kid. But ultimately, we are one large family, one community, and need to find the delicate balance between accountability, punishment, rehabilitation, forgiveness, and grace. Some mothers visit two sons, one in a prison and another in a graveyard, and embody this seeming (yet fabricated) distinction between perpetrators and victims. If, and when, we see our responses to violence as addressing the problems within our own family, we will find it easier to address situations the Louisiana Legislature is struggling to resolve on our behalf.
Recap of Reentry Week: Major updates in housing, employment, voting rights, and a political prisoner comes home.
Over 100,000 people were released from prison during the first annual Reentry Week. While much of the focus was on government agencies improving their awareness of challenges we face, a few directly impacted people and organizations were given an opportunity to talk about solutions. From New Orleans to Los Angeles to the White House, formerly incarcerated people are living testimonies to the maxim: People closest to the problem are closest to the solution.
VOTE's Norris Henderson and Bruce Reilly meet with HUD's Lourdes Castro Ramirez.
New Orleans’ new housing policy gets national recognition
Reentry Week Monday: Voice of the Ex-Offender (VOTE) joined our allies Stand With Dignity, the Vera Institute of Justice, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, and Southeast Louisiana Legal Services to educate HUD’s Deputy Secretary, Lourdes Castro Ramirez, about the importance of our revolutionary public housing policy that allows people to reunite with families despite having a past criminal conviction. VOTE's Norris Henderson and Bruce Reilly, along with members of Stand With Dignity, expressed the historical implications of HUD's current exclusion policies, the comprehensive oppressive impact, and how we came together to make our proposal happen.
It is important for top government officials to understand the typical genesis of social justice reforms. Some know from their experiences, and some also forget. First, impacted people complain amongst each other and start to vocalize and submit their requests and petitions for policy change. They are ignored. They start to organize, understanding that they are not the only one, focus on the government official or agency as a target, and amass their data, their stories, their coalitions and their strategies. After several years, the agency starts to understand that the status quo they had been enforcing is hurting, not helping, the community. Then a reform begins to take shape, at times whittled down from the directly impacted people’s original needs.
When the reform is announced and embraced, all too often the impacted people are either left behind or relegated to props for a politician or policy makers. The work by impacted people in the criminal justice sphere is beginning to be seen as irreplaceable by allies who fight for our cause. This strange schism would likely not exist except for the dearth of convicted people working at many organizations that fight for the rights of convicted people. Ultimately, we need to forge those bonds more tightly, and the most effective way would be for their staffs, particularly senior leadership, to be at least 50% people with conviction histories.
The current tone, exemplified by Deputy Castro Rodriguez, is positive. It is important to remain in this space of collaboration, and continue forward in tackling deeply rooted dilemmas constructed through mass incarceration. 17,000 people were released on Monday.
Norris Henderson is a leading voice in the Louisiana statehouse.
A huge step forward for Ban the Box in Louisiana
Reentry Week Tuesday: Louisiana’s House of Representatives passed HB 266, a bill that Bans the Box on all state job applications. Some powerful testimony helped politicians understand the overall dilemma of life with a criminal record: We are expected to work and live peacefully, but this requires a society that will accept us. The bill is now in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and a hearing should be held Wednesday at 9:30am at the Statehouse in Baton Rouge. VOTE will be there with many others, reinforcing how essential it is for the state to send a positive message to job seekers, and lead the way in providing opportunities. 17,000 people were released on Tuesday.
Voting Rights: A 150 Year Struggle Continues
Reentry Week Wednesday: the Louisiana House of Representatives contradicted their actions from just a day before, and went against the principles of rehabilitation, reentry, and assimilation by maintaining disenfranchisement for 70,000 people on probation and parole in our communities. “Nay” votes included nineteen people from the Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, and Capital Region of Louisiana, i.e. the most impacted areas of the state, including Orleans representatives Raymond Garofalo, Stephanie Hilferty, and Christopher Leopold. Had fourteen of those people voted in favor, the state would have sent another positive message: People who want to be part of civil society are welcome to do so.
Louisiana, for now, leaves in place the structural legacy of slavery, at a time when there is a legal and legislative battle to tear down the monuments of Rebel leaders, led by a grassroots coalition #TakeEmDownNOLA. Whereas slavery was not entirely abolished after the Civil War (instead requiring a conviction to enslave someone under the 13th Amendment), directly impacted people were without real voting rights for a century. None of this had even a hope of changing- until now. Of all the dastardly tactics to deny voting rights (Literacy test, Understanding obscure clauses of the Constitution test, poll taxes, whether your Grandfather could vote, or plain old violence and intimidation), disenfranchisement based on convictions is the last overt barrier to protecting citizenship for all. We are fourteen votes away.
Our work to extend voting rights to everyone in the community extends beyond Louisiana. On Friday, Virginia’s governor decided to stop creating a civic death sentence in their state, and restore voting rights to 200,000 people who have completed all prison, probation and parole. Today, the GOP lawmakers in Virginia publicly announced they are hiring a lawyer to challenge this determination in court. This illustrates the problem of when the fundamental element of a democracy, voting rights, has turned into a partisan battle.
Virginia’s governor, as former Democratic Party chairman, and friend of the Clintons, likely expected this outcome. Fortunately, the Governor will need to defend his decision on non-partisan legal grounds; although if there is a chance to rule on the issue simply based on his authority to act (without getting into the merits of the action), the court would likely take such an easy out. Similarly, because civic death sentence is so out of line with modern American values, the GOP lawyer is likely to focus on the Governor’s authority rather than the merits of his decision.
Dorsey Nunn, FICPFM President, fighting for the full restoration of our civil and human rights.
Our people speaking truth to power in the White House
Reentry Week Wednesday: the White House announced its Champions of Change, ten people on the ground who are paving the way with hard work in different arenas. Among this group of leaders is Dorsey Nunn, a true leader among leaders. Dorsey is the only formerly incarcerated person serving as the executive director of a law firm (Legal Services for Prisoners with Children), and he has so much credibility he needs no law degree. He is a co-founder of All of Us or None (the group who started the Ban the Box movement), and president of the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM), which began when directly impacted leaders began to consolidate their efforts from around the nation.
Dorsey dropped the proverbial mic in the White House days before President Obama literally did. Drawing strength from his “Homies,” he kept it real, particularly pointing out the misguided trend of reserving reentry and rehabilitation only for the so-called “first time non-violent offenders.” His inspirational message included the power of informal education gained in prison from elders, writers such as Fanon, Orwell, Ellison, and in the Black Panther Party newspapers.
Dorsey also let Congress know that their proposed Fair Chance Act (for employment) should include Banning the Box for contractors doing business with the federal government. Especially as FICPFM and allies already pushed the President to sign an executive order banning the box in federal government, this is the natural next step. It would serve as a legitimate blow to structural discrimination and structural racism. In Dorsey Nunn’s parting words:
“If you can see me as an asset instead of a liability or a disabled person, then maybe you will invest in me in a different way. I don’t think y’all see me for who I am, I think y’all see me for what you need to do with me, instead of thinking about what you might do with me.”
See the entire panel below, with Dorsey Nunn beginning at 1:55.
The Federal government makes moves on housing policy
Reentry Week Wednesday: Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California unveiled the Fair Chance at Housing Act of 2016. This addresses the discrimination people face with entry to public housing programs and the quickness for which they are evicted. This is legislation FICPFM has been calling for since releasing the 2013 report, “Communities, Evictions, and Criminal Convictions.” Rather than addressing these problems one by one, as VOTE has done in New Orleans, a federal program should be reformed at the source.
“The current harsh policies for housing assistance are a direct result of the harmful and ineffective legacies of the War on Drugs and the War on Crime,” Waters said. “Far too many Americans now carry a criminal record that limits their opportunities throughout life, despite the fact that they have successfully rehabilitated or taken great strides to change their lives. In particular, it has restricted access to housing assistance, which is a critical part of the rehabilitation and reentry process.”
This is a bill that every reformer in Congress needs to embrace, as HUD’s mission is to address the housing dilemmas of low-income communities. The Fair Chance at Housing Act directly builds upon the agency’s growing awareness that the stratification of families due to convictions was a failure. By pushing people from low-income communities, people became widgets for corrections budgets rather than employment, housing, or education budgets. After prison, we were placed in limbo for decades- and society may finally be prepared to turn the corner, turn us from ‘widgets’ into people, from problems into assets, and whittle away at the structural disparities created during the past five decades of a militarized Drug War.
17,000 people were released on Wednesday.
Reentry Week Thursday: HUD held a massive webinar attended by people all over the nation; so many people logged on, even this writer could not log on. They discussed the need to focus on reentry problems, and highlighted the work in New Orleans as an important step. This is huge. It validates the work of so many people who were formerly dismissed as disgruntled activists. People who never received a penny for all the writing, the testimony, the organizing, even the all-night vigil we held to reinforce the reality that we are going to sleep somewhere, regardless of where we are allowed. It also highlights the sad reality that the jails do not turn people away, we also make room for more cages, and society has been using cages as a costly method of dealing with homelessness, joblessness, mental illness, and addiction. Costly both in dollars and in lives.
17,000 people were released on Thursday.
One Man’s Reentry: Gary Tyler leaves Death Row far behind
Reentry Week Friday: Gary Tyler became one of roughly 17,000 people released on that day. Gary was sentenced to death after, at age 16, his all-black school bus came under attack by an all-white mob opposing forced integration in 1974. Gary’s legal case is extraordinarily typical in explaining the too long, and too narrow, path to release from a wrongful conviction. A path that most wrongfully convicted people can never complete.
Gary was sentenced to life without parole after his death sentence was considered unconstitutional. When his mandatory life without parole sentence was also recently considered unconstitutional, a new opportunity arose to resentence Gary, and at this point he had amassed international support as a political prisoner. The evidence didn’t actually add up in his case, but first we had to decide killing children was cruel and unusual. Then we had to decide mandatory sentences to die in prison, for children, did not take into account our children’s underdeveloped brains and that youth should be a mitigating factor in sentencing. Instead, this concept of the “Super Predator” has arisen with a false belief that young people who do wrong prove that evil is in their hearts, that we are born this way.
Louisiana is in the process of creating a new sentence for the 299 other people, like Gary Tyler, who need a new sentence. Last week at the legislature, VOTE testified in opposition to a bill that would set parole eligibility, for those sentenced to a Life sentence, at 35 years. This is far too high, out of step with the rest of the nation, and does not create the “meaningful opportunity for release” mandated by Miller v. Alabama.
Meanwhile, in another room, VOTE testified in support of closing the loophole on adult Life parole eligibility. The current law known as 20/45, requires people to be 45 years old with 20 years behind bars to be eligible for parole. This is a law first drafted by the Angola Special Civics Project, the precursor to VOTE. The loophole, however, is that people younger than 25 would end up serving more than 20 years prior to eligibility. It only makes the case that 35 years, for children, is far too much. If 35 years becomes the law of Louisiana, there will certainly be further litigation claiming this is unconstitutional. All this to say only 3% of people leave prison on parole.
Like many wrongfully convicted people before him, Gary pled guilty to manslaughter and a sentence he has long since completed. People seeking to contact Gary Tyler can reach out to VOTE through our website or P.O. Box, and we will forward correspondence.
Reentry Week continues every week, until everyone comes home
There are 100 million people with convictions, and most were sentenced to probation rather than prison. Today, another 17,000 sons and daughters were released from incarceration while many thousands more were convicted. We represent all ethnicities, religions, neighborhoods, and a range of political beliefs. All of us are struggling with a lifetime of discrimination and exclusion, regardless of what we did in the past and who we are today.
If law enforcement ever focuses on, for example, the prevalence of ‘white-on-white crime,’ along with the concentrated use of drugs in college dorms by people age 18-25 (i.e. the dominant age group of people entering the criminal justice system), then we can have a genuine conversation about the criminal justice system in a way that avoids the nation’s historic struggle with racism. Until that time however, convictions are a proxy for race, and discrimination resembles the same things fought for over the past century. This is true whether people are aware of it or not.
It is not only people with convictions who need education. We must educate the disconnected public, including policy makers, about our abilities, our families, our hurdles, achievements, and dreams. We don’t have the big microphones, and as Dorsey said: he may not be back in the White House again. So he, FICPFM, VOTE and others travel to these spaces and do what we can to provide this education.
Mass incarceration is gutting our nation from the inside, bankrupting us morally, politically, and financially; and history will likely place the American gulag and corresponding Drug War into a space of errors and evils, sitting alongside slavery, Jim Crow, female disenfranchisement, Native American genocide, and Japanese-American internment camps.
In the words of Franz Fanon, “the peasant doesn’t have to talk about the truth, the peasant is the truth.” And we are trying to educate others through our words, deeds, and mere presence. Reentry.
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Home › National Album Day › Ultravox - Vienna: 40th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
Ultravox - Vienna: 40th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
Label: Chrysalis Records
Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’ album was originally released in July 1980, their first with Midge Ure on vocals/guitar. Produced by legendary German producer Conny Plank (Neu!, Kraftwerk), it reached number 3 in the UK album chart and top ten in Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.
The album contains 4 UK Top 40 singles; All Stood Still, Passing Strangers and Sleepwalk (which was recently reissued as part of Record Store Day 2020) and the title track ‘Vienna’ which reached No.2 in the UK and Top 10 in seven countries around the world. The single went on to sell over half a million copies in the UK.
This new 6 Disc box set contains 66 tracks, 44 are previously unreleased recordings or mixes. CD’s 1 to 5 contain the original 1980 album production master, a new stereo mix by Steven Wilson, A-sides, B-sides and live tracks, 2CDs of previously unreleased cassette rehearsals and a newly mixed concert from St. Albans in 1980. The DVD (Audio Only) contains a new 5.1 Surround Sound Mix of the Album/B-sides by Steven Wilson along with 24/96 Hi-Res audio of the new mixes and the original 1980 Master/B-sides.
The vinyl album contains 4 UK Top 40 singles; All Stood Still, Passing Strangers and Sleepwalk (which was recently reissued as part of Record Store Day 2020) and the title track ‘Vienna’ which reached No.2 in the UK and Top 10 in seven countries around the world. The single went on to sell over half a million copies in the UK. This new vinyl edition has been mastered and cut at half-speed by Alchemy Mastering using the original 1980 production tapes. The second bonus vinyl includes single versions and b-sides from the 4 singles released from the album, including a previously commercially unreleased US Promo Edit of Vienna, which is exclusive to this edition.
1. Astradyne
2. New Europeans
3. Private Lives
4. Passing Strangers
5. Sleepwalk
6. Mr X
7. Western Promise
8. Vienna
9. All Stood Still
10. Waiting
11. Face To Face (Live in St Albans 16/8/80)
12. King's Lead Hat (Live at The Lyceum 17/8/80)
13. Vienna (US Promotional Edit)
14. Passionate Reply
15. Herr X
16. All Stood Still (Single Version)
17. Alles Klar
18. Keep Talking (Cassette Recording During Rehearsals)
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The Dark Side of the Renaissance: Beauty and Terror
The Renaissance was a dangerous time to challenge long standing orthodox beliefs and practices in western Christendom. Lutherans and Huguenots were persecuted, Galileo was subjected the Inquisition and house arrest for years. Leonardo da Vinci feared arrest by the thought police of a corrupt papacy in the 15th and 16th C. Slavery and the slave trade were commonplace in many parts of Christian Europe. The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Islamic army in 1453 struck fear into the Christian European kingdoms. The persecution of thousands of women condemned and executed as witches happened during the Renaissance
This class will be delivered face-to-face at WEA Sydney. Enrolling students need to ensure they have read the current COVID-19 Safety Guidance that WEA Sydney has put in place before enrolling.
Challenges to Catholic Church Orthodoxy, Protestant reformers including Martin Luther, Scientists including Galileo and the responses of the Inquisition
Constant warfare in the Papal States of Italy, political intrigue with France, Spain and England, the German and Italian kingdoms, the role of significant Italian families including the Medici and their involvement in politics, warfare and the patronage of the painting, sculpture and architecture
Slavery and the slave trade, violence, persecution of witches and the march of Islam after 1453
Explain the discrepancy between the “beauty” and the “terror” of the Renaissance across two centuries of late mediaeval and early modern history in Europe.
Evaluate the key role of key role of scientists, artists, politicians, popes and power brokers in the Renaissance period.
Appreciate some of the key aspects of the legacy of the Renaissance period in relation to 2021.
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<p>The Renaissance was a dangerous time to challenge long standing orthodox beliefs and practices in western Christendom. Lutherans and Huguenots were persecuted, Galileo was subjected the Inquisition
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There is a lot of crap going on in PF – Scott
8 March 2016 22:09
There decision by the ruling PF to endorse commerce minister Margaret Mwanakatwe as parliamentary candidate for Lusaka Central Constituency has angered former vice-president Dr Guy Scott.
And Dr Scott says he will not go to the end of the world defending the PF for doing things which are contrary to what the people of Zambia want.
In an interview, Dr Scott said there was a lot of crap going on in his party, where Rupiah Banda was using his influence to push his agenda.
Dr Scott wondered what was so special about Mwanakatwe for the party to bend rules for her.
“What is she? Is she a central committee member? I think she has been made a member of the central committee, which is actually contrary to the rule. Our party rule is that you have to be a member for two and a half years to become member of the central committee; so what you are seeing here is obviously the [Rupiah] Banda push. This is Banda demanding payment for his electoral support last year and he is pushing his people,” Dr Scott said.
“So if she is now throwing her weight around, you can see there is a lot of potential for conflict in there. For example, what am I supposed to say? ‘Oh no please give me the seat?’ I haven’t been treated in a dignified way, so do I respond in a dignified way?”
He said some PF members who are close to President Edgar Lungu were bullying and frustrating others.
“These are the kinds of things that some of these people who are new to the game are not alert to. They think you can just bully and push anybody around just because you are in the central committee or you are in the so-called presidency office. How can they say ‘we have taken your seat’ and given someone who has nothing to do with PF ever, as far as I am aware? Maybe in MMD, she had something,” Dr Scott said.
“My complaint is can you explain to me what basis Mrs Mwanakatwe, or whatever her name is, the well-dressed banker in Bauleni, very elegant, saying, ‘Vote for me’? Apparently, there is a squabble going on in the central committee between the people who support me and realise that PF wouldn’t even be in power if I had not campaigned for it five times, and the people who think we are going to get rid of Scott because he is an embarrassment. There is just a lot of crap going on.”
Crap mean, something of extremely poor quality, nonsense, unwanted articles; rubbish or excrement, which in local language is matuvi.
He warned that there would be confusion and differences within PF in the next two to three weeks arising from adoptions.
“If it is worth having a fight about it, then good luck but I am not going to go in there on my knees and say ‘can you get this lady out of my constituency before she embarrasses herself’. She met me in Parliament the other day and said, ‘I am still waiting for your blessing’: am I a priest to give out blessings? The issue of whether I want to stand is my business; maybe I even want to put an application without wanting to stand,” Dr Scott said.
“It seems Margaret is more important than me that I don’t even have to be told as a courtesy. I was not told this, she came and told me herself. She actually came here about two weeks ago and said ‘I want your blessing’. I said ‘blessings for what?’ She said, ‘For me contesting Lusaka Central’. I said, ‘listen, I can’t support you to contest Lusaka Central because there are all kinds of people, councillors and so forth that I feel are priority over you when it comes to considering that’.”
He also dispelled reports that his wife was interested in contesting the Lusaka Central seat.
“I don’t think Charlotte can stand. She has her professional work. She left the UN when I became vice-president. She lost her career job, but I don’t think she can stand,” Dr Scott said.
He also warned that confusion could soon start in Munali Constituency between PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri who has declared interest to stand and gender minister Prof Nkandu Luo – the incumbent MP – who has also announced that she still has the energy to continue.
“We have other cases where somebody is being sidelined. Talking about Munali, first of all, Mumbi was originally given Munali to keep the seat warm for Nkandu Luo. When we went for it in 2001, Michael [Sata] said he wanted Nkandu Luo there and she said she was too busy, she had some work or something. So we took Mumbi Phiri and I helped her until we held the seat. Five years later, Nkandu Luo wanted the seat or agreed to take the seat. We said ‘sorry’ to Mumbi Phiri and we gave her a nice job in Kenya,” Dr Scott said.
And the former vice-president warned that the PF would be humiliated in the August elections if it continued tolerating things that seem normal to the party but unacceptable to the Zambians.
“We have been trying to separate the outsiders’ perceptions of Zimbabwe, from being the perception of Zambia because they mix the two. They get confused,” Dr Scott said.
“You have to be very careful if you are going to start tossing tear gas around and charging people at the drop of a heart because you can lose that reputation which affects all kinds of things. If they won’t look after you when you are in the country, are you going to invest in a country where they cannot look after your money?”
He said it was difficult for him to leave the ruling party because he helped build it, but said he would not go to the end of the world defending wrong things.
“PF is not something that I can just walk away from, it is like my own baby – 10 years of really quite difficult campaigning without resources, without most things that people tell you would need. It is very difficult to just quit something. You always hope things can recover, but I can’t go to the end of the world for the PF if it is doing a lot of things that we are against,” Dr Scott said.
He said it was a pity that the PF was targeting the UPND.
“It’s obvious that the UPND is being targeted, only a child cannot see that and I think it’s a pity. You can spoil a country’s reputation very quickly. This is the perception we have been trying to separate from, because we are confusing the people outside. This is going to lead to a lot of trouble, that is my instinct about it. I am writing a letter to Davis Chama, the secretary general of the party, and I intend to first of all alert him that this grade 12 business, I deeply disapprove of it. This is going back to colonial time when we had voters roll for whites and the voters roll for blacks,” Dr Scott said.
“It’s almost tempting to form a party called the ‘Under-12s’ because you would have more members than anybody else. Most of you don’t have a grade 12. Practically, I did my exams outside in Zimbababwe and I haven’t kept the certificate. So I have had to write to Cambridge office that keeps the results from the 1950s. They will come. But I am very averse participating in a discriminatory election. Maybe there is someone out there with a grade eight or nine certificate who can beat me but they will not get a chance.”
He said the drafter of the amended Constitution did not do a good job.
“The lawyers who drew up the constitution amendment, they are great snobs. They think they are the most educated people. So they basically started putting all sorts of qualifications. But you can imagine how many people don’t have a connection to get the certificates from Cambridge,” said Dr Scott.
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It's all about capturing that moment in time
Photographer Jessica Tysinger turned hobby into a career
Drew Bracken
Corespondent
BLUE ROCK – For Jessica Tysinger, her husband Shane and her staff at Power Portraits, it’s about capturing that moment in time – “to create that piece of history.”
“We want parents to actually take their portraits out of their envelopes,” she said, “and proudly display their child’s portraits. It’s amazing what it can do for a child’s self-esteem when parents have pictures of their kids throughout their home.
“Children dream of being superstars,” she continued, “and moms and dads are so proud. So we want to give them a ‘powerful’ portrait they can’t help but display in their home. So when their children walk by it daily, they’re reminded of just how important they are.”
Jessica (Johnson) Tysinger grew up in Blue Rock, graduated from Philo High School in 1998, then graduated from MATC (now Zane State) with an associate of applied science degree.
“I always liked taking pictures,” she recalled, “and growing up I was interested in art, but I never pursued it. I took some basic photography courses in 4-H and entered an art contest for the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I scored high enough for admission to their program. However, I earned a two-year scholarship for MATC and attended there.”
Her photography business started in March 2015 under the name JL Photography. “It was really just a hobby at that time and didn’t have a specific focus,” she noted.
Then in 2016 she was asked to photograph a few sports leagues. That started her thinking. She began to realize there was a need for youth sports photography. So she went to Tennessee to receive training specifically for sports and school photography.
“After that,” she recalled, “our business took a turn in the youth sports direction and that quickly became our niche. In July of 2016, we re-branded to Power Portraits.”
The word power in the name, by the way, Tysinger explained, “came from our niche being sports.”
But really, there’s so much more to Power Portraits. Among other things, since 2018 it’s also become the home of Santa’s Storybook Workshop.
"Children have an opportunity to spend an hour with Santa in his workshop for a private, interactive photography experience," she said. "They help Santa paint toys, decorate his Christmas tree, speak to the elves at the North Pole and so much more. Then we hand-create fine art images for family keepsakes.”
“I’ve never experienced anything like this place," said customer Scottie Marchessault. “My kids didn’t really notice the camera. They were having way too much fun."
“Our community has supported us enormously,” Tysinger responded, “and for that we’re grateful.”
Plus, she concluded, “it’s so neat to be able to watch these children grow up year after year.”
Power Portraits is located at 5970 Rockville Road. For more information, call 740-819-4555 or log on www.powerportraitsonline.com.
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25th June 2019 – Global leaders in the communications, lighting, infrastructure and device manufacturing industries announce that they have formed the Light Communications Alliance (LCA) to promote new wireless technologies enabling Light Communications (LC). They will establish and advocate the use of standards for this emerging industry.
Light Communications technologies complement and enhance 5G wireless communications and other radio frequency technologies such as Wi-Fi. By utilising its greater available spectrum, light can be used to deliver larger amounts of data at faster speeds and with greater security.
The LCA is an open, non-profit association of members who aim to promote Light Communications technology with a consistent, focused and concise approach. The LCA will highlight the benefits, use cases and timelines for Light Communications adoption. The organisation will align innovative leaders across the industries that light and communications touches, defining standards for education, communication, and interoperability.
The founding members of the LCA are Nokia, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du), LEDVANCE, Liberty Global, Lucibel, Orange, pureLiFi, LiFi Research & Development Centre, Velmenni, Zero.1, CEA Leti, and Institut Mines-Télécom.
Light Communication technologies include Light Fidelity (LiFi) and Optical Camera Communications (OCC) both of which have been attracting increased attention over recent years within several industries, such as smart cities and homes, industry 4.0 and manufacturing environments, as well as retail and tourism.
Global Market Insights predicts that the LiFi market will be worth $75 billion by 2025, creating broad, far-reaching opportunities for the related industries to benefit from Visible Light Communications.
LiFi offers a fully networked, bi-directional mobile communication solution using light, which has the potential to deliver massive bandwidth and higher speeds for short-range wireless communications. It can be integrated easily alongside traditional wireless technology such as Wi-Fi and can enhance these networks with greater speeds and security. LiFi can be deployed in various environments, both professional and domestic, including smart offices, smart transport, industry 4.0 and in the smart gigabit connected home of the future.
Optical Camera Communications (OCC), has the potential to create value-added services by using the light for both broadcast communications and indoor positioning in environments such as office buildings, convention centres, and parking lots.
LC technologies can offer thousands of additional channels for secure high-speed communications. LC provides faster more reliable connections, as well as greater security because light can be contained, for example inside buildings.
The LCA is open to membership from all industries spanning both light and communications including chip manufacturers, OEMs, network operators, lighting manufacturers, and light communications innovators.
To learn more about the LCA, visit: www.LightCommunications.org
We create the technology to connect the world. We develop and deliver the industry’s only end-to-end portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing that is available globally. Our customers include communications service providers whose combined networks support 6.1 billion subscriptions, as well as enterprises in the private and public sector that use our network portfolio to increase productivity and enrich lives.
Through our research teams, including the world-renowned Nokia Bell Labs, we are leading the world to adopt end-to-end 5G networks that are faster, more secure and capable of revolutionizing lives, economies and societies. Nokia adheres to the highest ethical business standards as we create technology with social purpose, quality and integrity. nokia.com
pureLiFi
pureLiFi is a Light Communications company that was founded by Prof. Harald Haas and Dr Mostafa Afgani in 2012 as a spin out of the University of Edinburgh. pureLiFi offers both LiFi systems and Gigabit LiFi light antennas to OEM’s for integration. The company formed in response to the exponential growth in global demand for wireless bandwidth. pureLiFi has grown its international customer base with more than 130 deployments of LiFi in over 24 countries. The firm has also secured international partnerships with organisations such as Cisco, Wipro and O2 Telefonica.
For more information, please visit the website: http://www.pureLiFi.com
Zero.1 is a Hardware and Software provider specialises in Optical Camera Communication founded in 2016. Through its unique driver any LED can become compatible, a simple app downloadable on the IOS and Android Store will allow camera of mobiles devices to receive OCC signal, Zero.1 provides Cloud and services associated such as but not limited to, Indoor positioning system, localisation based services, geolocalised information’s, crowd management and data analytics etc.
For more information, please visit the website: https://www.zero1.zone
With offices in more than 50 countries and business activities in more than 140 countries, LEDVANCE is one of the world’s leading general lighting providers for professional users and end consumers. In North America, LEDVANCE LLC offers a wide range of SYLVANIA LED luminaires for various applications, intelligent lighting products for Smart Homes and Buildings, one of the largest LED lamps portfolios in the industry, and traditional light sources. The SYLVANIA brand leadership is a result of over 100 years of lighting experience and paves the way for future success.
Further information can be found at www.sylvania.com
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) is a vibrant and multiple award-winning telecommunications service provider in the United Arab Emirates serving 9 million individual customers with its mobile, fixedline, broadband internet, and Home services over its 4G LTE network. du also caters to over 100,000 UAE businesses with its vast range of ICT and managed services.
For more information, please visit the website www.du.com
Velmenni
Velmenni has been working on LiFi Technology for the past 5 years. It has achieved multiple research and development milestone within Optical Wireless Communication including development of Optical Wireless Mesh Network. Today, Velmenni’s main focus is on optimisation of speed, efficiency and seamless connectivity within the LiFi domain. Having held successful runs of LiFi technology in multiple locations, we’re presently conducting pilot projects to utilise bidirectional Light Communication in diverse industrial conditions. The goal remains to integrate LiFi and Wi-Fi to create impeccable, efficient and productive networks.
For more information, please visit the website: www.velmenni.com
LUCIBEL is an innovative French group that designs and manufactures in France new generation LED lighting products and solutions. LUCIBEL is also a pioneer in the development and marketing of LiFi, a light internet access solution co-developed with its pureLiFi partner in Scotland.
For more information, please visit the website www.lucibel.io
LiFi Research & Development Centre (LiFi R&D Centre)
The LiFi R&D Centre translates internationally leading fundamental research to high technology readiness levels and conducts research in collaboration with, and on behalf of industry. It aims to accelerate society’s adoption of LiFi and emerging wireless technology through engagement with major industrial partners, to fully harness the commercial and innovative potential of LiFi, and to help establish a major new LiFi industry. The LiFi R&D Centre includes 40 researchers including three academics.
For more information, please visit the website: https://www.lifi-centre.com
Institut Mines-Télécom is a public institution dedicated to higher education and research for innovation in the fields of engineering and digital technology. Always tuned in to the economic world, it combines high academic and scientific legitimacy with close business relations and a unique positioning in 3 major transformations of the 21st century: Digital Affairs, Energy and Ecology, and Industry. Its training and research for innovation are conducted in the Mines and Télécom Graduate Schools under the supervision of the Minister for Industry and Electronic Communications, in two subsidiaries and in institutions that are associate partners or under contract. Institut Mines-Télécom is a founding member of the Industry of the Future Alliance. It has two Carnot labels for the quality of its research partnerships. Every year, around one hundred startup companies leave its incubators.
For more information, please visit the website: https://www.imt.fr
Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) is the world’s largest international TV and broadband company, with operations in 10 European countries under the consumer brands Virgin Media, Unitymedia, Telenet and UPC. We invest in the infrastructure and digital platforms that empower our customers to make the most of the video, internet and communications revolution. Our substantial scale and commitment to innovation enable us to develop market-leading products delivered through next-generation networks that connect 21 million customers subscribing to 45 million TV, broadband internet and telephony services. We also
serve 6 million mobile subscribers and offer Wi-Fi service through 12 million access points across our footprint.
In addition, Liberty Global owns 50% of VodafoneZiggo, a joint venture in the Netherlands with 4 million customers subscribing to 10 million fixed-line and 5 million mobile services, as well as significant investments in ITV, All3Media, ITI Neovision, Casa Systems, LionsGate, the Formula E racing series and several regional sports networks. https://www.libertyglobal.com
Leti, a technology research institute at CEA Tech, pioneers micro and nanotechnologies, tailoring differentiating applicative solutions that ensure competitiveness in a wide range of markets. Leti developed a high-speed bi-directional LiFi solution successfully transferred to Luciom, where each LED lamp can connect up to 15 users to the Internet. Leti is also conducting cutting-edge research on LED sources combined with advanced wireless communication processing targeting very high throughput LiFi systems.
For more information, please visit the website: http://www.leti-cea.com/cea-tech/leti/english
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Total 911 is the world's only magazine dedicated to the Porsche 911; the only Porsche with over 40 years of history and a worldwide following of keen enthusiasts. This high-quality magazine is written and produced by true Porsche fans, and offers in-depth, exciting features on all models of 911 – from the classics of the 1960s, through the wild Turbos of the 1970s, right up to today's sophisticated supercars.
“Singer and Total 911 have grown up together over the last ten years and two hundred issues” I’m incredibly proud to be taking the helm as guest editor of Total 911 for this milestone 200th issue. As the magazine embarks on the road to the next hundred issues, Singer’s second decade is underway. These significant moments often cause us to look back and here at Singer HQ in California I’ve been doing a little of that, as around me our phenomenal team completes the latest cars. In 2003 I restored and modified a 1969 911E in Bahama yellow as an intensely personal mission, and then I drove the sh*t out of it every day around Los Angeles and the Hollywood hills. In 2012 I was humbled by the offer to have the…
Porsche advances development of climate-neutral eFuels Key development with Siemens Energy sees construction of world’s first eFuels plant Porsche has announced an exciting new project with Siemens Energy and a host of other international companies in the development of synthetic eFuels fit for its sports cars with combustion engines. Zuffenhausen says that the pilot project is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making climate-neutral eFuels, and is seen as a huge, positive step in protecting the life of its traditional sports cars – including the 911 – amid a government-led drive to force electric-powered vehicles onto the global agenda. The eFuels plant will be based in Chile, strategically chosen for its excellent climate conditions for wind power, which will be used to create renewable methanol that can be converted…
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Last month in Total 911 issue No.199, I discussed my experiences racing at the 1968 and 1969 24 Hours of Daytona. In 1969, I was officially a Works Porsche Driver. That year at Daytona, I partnered with Vic Elford in piloting a 908 LH (long-tail). Vic had put us on pole, but it was not to be, and we were out by the halfway point. We weren’t alone in our ill-fated attempt at securing victory for Porsche, as all five factory 908s were forced out with mechanical issues. This month, I will take you back almost 51 years in time to the legendary battle of the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona. The January 1970 race marked the debut of the JW Automotive team’s remarkable Gulf Porsche 917Ks (above). As I mentioned…
A different kind of virus Dear Sir, You might recall my dad, Adrian Gammon, had a letter published in your magazine earlier this year regarding wrapping cars versus painting them. Well, since that letter was published he bought a very early Speed yellow Boxster 3.2 S and a very early (’98) Guards red 996.1 Carrera with cable throttle. This spate of buying has led me to believe we might be dealing with another case of car-owner virus here – what do you think? It was his birthday recently so I decided to go ahead with a diagnosis as the theme of his birthday card – I’m sure the card design will resonate with your readers. The card was just intended to give him a bit of a laugh, really… something we could…
Scott Gardner Job title Workshop manager Place of work Porsche Centre Bournemouth, UK Time at Porsche 14 years Jerry from Down Under here with a 2005 997.1 C2 Coupe. I’d like to say I’ve been enjoying Total 911 for many years. There are copies of your lovely magazine scattered all over our home! Keep up the good work. I have a question for you: my 997 has done 130,000 kilometres with a perfect Porsche service history. Upon startup I am getting smoke, this is both on a hot and cold startup. It seems to be intermittent but lately it’s more frequent. Oil consumption is okay, there is no build up in the exhaust pipe of oil, and after replacing coils and plugs over a recent weekend, the plugs were nice and clean. Now I know many people will…
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“ What’s quite remarkable about 911s is they suit off-road use. It’s part of their genius,” so says 911 rally and motorsport specialist Richard Tuthill, while giving the Parallax white Porsche in front of us a final checkover pre-photography. As is well known, for as long as the 911 has been driven for the purpose of recreation, it has also done so for racing – be it road or rally. We’ve documented the 911’s rich history in rallying many times in this magazine, which was borne out of Peter Falk (more on him on page 50) and Herbert Linge’s thrilling assault on the 1965 Monte Carlo rally in a near-stock 911S, winning their class and finishing 5th overall. Porsche’s decorated legacy over rough terrain in the 45 years since includes notable…
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FELIX DE WELDON (1907-2003) Considered the last great master of sculpture, Felix de Weldon was responsible for creating the most recognizable monument of the 20th Century, the Iwo Jima War Memorial, which is the largest bronze sculpture in the world to date. With more than two thousand public monuments, de Weldon was the most prolific monumental sculptor in history and the only sculptor in history with monuments on every continent. De Weldon was Commissioner of Fine Arts under five Presidents and he completed thirty-three monuments in Washington, DC alone, while his closest competitor completed only three.
His love for humanity and understanding of the human condition prompted many organizations to seek his works. He created national monuments, such as the International Red Cross Monument, which is a statement to the selfless actions of people who crossed borders to change lives. He also sculpted the International AIDS Monument to commemorate the lives lost to that terrible disease. His love for humankind and empathy toward suffering inspired him to create the Peace Monument, a sculpture dedicated to the dream of a world without war.
Original Limited Edition Lithograph with graphite ink on BFK Rives cream color paper, 2001. Edition Size: 150, plus proofs. Paper Size: 44" x 30." Signed & numbered in pencil. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Certificate of Authenticity included.
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Friends find unique way to include classmate in a longstanding Grand Island tradition
by: Melanie Orlins
GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB)–A long-time tradition is happening early tomorrow morning on Grand Island.
Car parades have become popular during the pandemic… but this car parade has been going on for more than 45 years.
Starting tomorrow at 5 o’clock in the morning, the senior class at Grand Island High School will drive their cars through neighborhoods, honking their horns, to celebrate their graduation.
But, one senior won’t be able to participate in person.
Ben Richard has been in the hospital for the past 3 weeks.
He was in a serious car accident on the 290 the day before Mother’s Day.
Ben was a passenger in a car that skidded on black ice.
He was ejected from the vehicle and had emergency spine surgery.
Tomorrow, he’ll be watching by his computer.
But Ben’s father says his classmates are making sure to include him in a special way.
“He’s got some very, very close friends that are so caring and look out for him via Face time and that they wanted to bring him along with him. So, they got his permission and they actually are making a couple of huge fat heads… you know the kind you see the sports players on the wall? So they took his senior picture and they’re blowing it up and they’re going to bring ben along virtually and with a couple of fat heads hanging out to be seen!” said Jeff Richard.
Ben has a long road to recovery.
Besides the spinal cord injury, he injured his back and fractured his skull.
Right now, he doesn’t have any use of his muscles below his knees… but his father says he is a warrior and is working hard to get it back.
You can donate to Ben’s medical expenses on his “GoFundMe” page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/viking-love-for-ben-richard
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Sheriff: Man taken to ECMC after deputies respond to attempted break-in on Christmas Eve
by Evan Anstey / Dec 28, 2020
GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Erie County Sheriff's Office says someone tried to get into someone's home on Grand Island this past Christmas Eve, but it wasn't Santa Claus.
Around 9 p.m., deputies responded to an apartment complex on Blackmond Rd.
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Muncy, Bellinger lead Dodgers to 7-6 win, sweep of Pirates
by: By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Max Muncy singled home the tying run in the fifth inning and the go-ahead run in the seventh, boosting the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 Sunday for a three-game sweep.
Rich Hill made his season debut after recovering from a sprained right knee and allowed five runs – just one earned – and five hits in six innings. Hill struck out six, walked none and retired his last 13 batters as the Dodgers rallied from a 5-1 deficit.
Cody Bellinger hit his 14th homer, matching Albert Pujols (2006), Alex Rodriguez (2007) and Christian Yelich (this year) for the most home runs before the end of the season’s first full month. Bellinger had three RBIs and leads the major leagues with a .427 average and 36 RBIs.
Los Angeles has won four straight overall and seven in a row at home, improving to an NL-best 19-11. The Pirates have lost eight consecutive games overall and 14 of their last 16 against the Dodgers.
Pittsburgh’s Melky Cabrera had four hits, including first multi-homer game since July 2015 and the fifth of his career.
Julio Urías (2-1) allowed one run in two innings, and Kenley Jansen pitched in an out of trouble in the ninth for his 10th save in 11 chances. Adam Frazier walked with two outs and Cabrera doubled, but Gregory Polanco struck out.
A day after getting the Pirates’ attention when he bumped into catcher Francisco Cervelli when scoring a run, Muncy had three hits.
Bellinger’s fourth-inning homer started the comeback. Corey Seager hit a two-run double in the fifth and scored the tying run on Muncy’s single.
Muncy singled over the outstretched glove of shortstop Cole Tucker against Richard Rodríguez (0-2) in the seventh, and Bellinger greeted left-hander Francisco Liriano with an RBI single for a 7-5 lead. Josh Bell had a run-scoring single against Urías in the eighth.
Bellinger’s 44 hits are a Dodgers record before May, one more than Rafael Furcal in 2008.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: LHP Caleb Ferguson was placed on the 10-day injured list after straining his left oblique muscle Saturday.
Pirates: RHP Jordan Lyles (2-105 ERA) opens a two-game series Tuesday at Texas
Dodgers: RHP Kenta Maeda (3-2) starts at San Francisco on Monday after giving up a season-high six earned runs against the Chicago Cubs in his last outing.
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The Latest: Sato wins 2nd Indy 500 as race ends under yellow
The Borg-Warner Trophy complete with a checkered flag mask, is displayed outside of the Pagoda before the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Indianapolis.(AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
The Latest from the Indianapolis 500, which was delayed from Memorial Day weekend because of COVID-19:
Takuma Sato has won his second Indianapolis 500 after Spencer Pigot crashed heavily exiting Turn 4, bringing out the caution with five laps remaining and forcing what had been a thrilling race to end under caution.
After dominating most of the race, Scott Dixon had been chasing Sato for about 15 laps and was starting to bite into a gap that had emerged in lapped traffic. But the race ended when Pigot spun into the outside wall, then crossed back across the track and slammed into the safety tires that guard the entrance to pit lane.
Pigot exited the car but was helped onto a stretcher. His car was left in pieces across the front stretch.
Dixon pulled up alongside Sato with Graham Rahal, his teammate, on the other side to finish third.
Alexander Rossi will want to forget all about this year’s Indianapolis 500.
The winner of the 100th edition of the race spent the early stages dueling with Scott Dixon for the lead. But he was forced to play catch-up when he was told to pit late and missed pit lane, then was penalized and sent to the back of the field later when he bumped another car on the release from his stall following another stop.
Rossi was trying to aggressively work back to the front when he got loose and hit the outside wall. That brought out a caution with 53 laps remaining, putting pit strategy front and center for the rest of the field.
It’s been the Scott Dixon-Alexander Rossi show at the Indianapolis 500, though plenty of crashes behind them have provided an exciting subplot to “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”
The latest involved Spanish youngster Alex Palou, who got out of the groove and slapped the wall in the short chute between Turns 1 and 2. Palou was running in the top 10 when he crashed.
The timing of the crash creates some fuel intrigue. Teams can make it about 30 laps on each green-flag run before needing to pit. There were just under 80 laps to go when Palou brought out the caution flag.
Scott Dixon has dominated the first half of the Indianapolis 500, much as the five-time IndyCar champion and 2008 race winner has dominated the rest of the season for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Dalton Kellett brought out a caution before the midway point when he hit the wall hard. That erased about a lead of about 10 seconds that Dixon had built over the course of a long green-flag run. But after the field cycled through pit stops, Dixon found himself at the sharp end of the field once again.
When the race went to green, Conor Daly and Oliver Askew were involved in a heavy wreck deep in the field. Askew was visibly shaken as he climbed out of the car, sitting on the tub for several minutes to catch his breath.
The story of the second quarter of the Indianapolis 500 has been miscues on pit road.
Alexander Rossi was challenging race leader Scott Dixon when he came out of Turn 4 too hot and missed the entry to pit lane. Sage Karam lost a lot of time when he locked up his tires and missed his stall on pit road. Rookie driver Rinus VeeKay also lost several seconds when he stalled leaving his pit, then he was penalized for hitting a team member.
The most intriguing part of the race so far has been pit strategy. Several of the Team Penske drivers are on a completely different strategy from the leaders, including the defending winner Simon Pagenaud. They are hoping that strategy may help overcome what appears to be a gap between Honda and their own Chevrolet engines.
Marcus Ericsson got into some turbulent air while running near the front of the Indy 500 and slapped the outer wall in Turn 2, bringing out the second caution flag on the hot, sunny day in Indianapolis.
Scott Dixon had led the first 28 laps before taking the field down pit road for the first set of stops. He was still in first after the stop with Takuma Sato, Alexander Rossi and Marco Andretti close behind.
The weather could play a factor in the race. It is much warmer than it typically is during the race in May.
James Davison has brought out the first caution flag of the Indianapolis 500 when he made contact with the wall in the opening laps and his right front tire turned into a ball of fire.
Davison was able to exit the car without any problem. His car was still smoking as it was lifted onto a flatbed truck.
Scott Dixon went immediately to the front when the green flag dropped, passing pole sitter Marco Andretti heading into Turn 1. Ryan Hunter-Reay also was on the move in the opening laps as Honda flexed the muscle it has shown all month.
Marco Andretti has led the field to the green flag for the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500, the familiar field of 33 roaring down the canyon-like front stretch of empty seats at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The warm-ups found Andretti following the IndyCar two-seater driven by his grandfather and 1969 winner Mario Andretti with his father and team owner Michael Andretti in the second seat. It was the first time that the three generations of the family were on the track at the Brickyard at the same time.
The call to start the engines was delivered by Roger Penske, whose family purchased the speedway along with the IndyCar Series. He promised that fans would be “back home again in Indiana” in 2021.
The countdown is on to the start of the Indy 500, which was delayed from its traditional date in May because of the coronavirus pandemic and will be run without fans for the first time in its 104 editions.
New track owner Roger Penske, whose team has four cars in the field, and IndyCar executives have tried to create an entertaining prerace show for broadcaster NBC. But the build up to “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” is still somewhat eerie without the 250,000-plus fans who typically show up inside the Brickyard.
Driver introductions took place with the voice of the public address announcer echoing off the empty stands. There also will be no military parade or balloon release, two staples of race day. But there will be Jim Cornelison singing “Back Home Again in Indiana” and the Air Force’s famed Thunderbirds performing a flyover.
More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/apf-AutoRacing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Elizabeth Smart says she was sexually assaulted on flight
Posted: Feb 7, 2020 / 05:35 AM CST / Updated: Feb 7, 2020 / 06:15 AM CST
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart said Thursday that she was sexually assaulted on an airplane last year while she was sleeping.
Smart, now a 32-year-old mother of three, referenced her kidnapping from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 in describing her reaction to the attack to “CBS News This Morning.” She said she was asleep during a flight when the man next to her began rubbing her inner thigh with his hand.
“The last time someone touched me without my say-so was when I was kidnapped, and I froze,” she said.
She said the man said nothing. Smart later reported the attack to authorities and said she wants to prevent the man from preying on others.
Smart’s spokesman, Chris Thomas, said Thursday the attack happened July 19 on a Delta Air Lines flight from Philadelphia to Atlanta.
He said it’s being investigated by the FBI and Delta.
“I called up my husband and I was like, ‘Do I just have a big badge on my forehead that says ‘Easy Prey’ or ’Victim?’” Smart told CBS. “Because I’m sick of it.”
Smart wasn’t available for an interview Thursday, Thomas said.
In 2002, Smart was held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted for nine months before she was rescued. After last year’s flight, she said she began training in self-defense, and now runs a program to train other women and girls.
Delta spokesman Anthony Black emailed a company statement that said Delta is cooperating with the investigation.
“Following her flight, Elizabeth Smart contacted Delta and shared that another passenger had acted inappropriately towards her,” the statement said. “We took the matter seriously and have continued to cooperate with Ms. Smart and the appropriate authorities as the matter is investigated. Delta does not tolerate passenger misconduct towards other customers or Delta employees.”
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Barker said she could not confirm or deny that an investigation exists.
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Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2020Solidarity Project Approaches Aid in a New Way
by Andrea Whittle
Sabelo Mlangeni, “Identity” Bongani Tshabalala, 2011.
The photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has harnessed the power of the poster in the past few years. Through his foundation, Between Bridges, he has used mass-produced imagery to campaign against Brexit, promote international understanding, and raise awareness for LGBT rights. Now, he’s turning his sights toward the artistic communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with a new project called 2020Solidarity.
Rather than selling limited-edition prints of his photographs to funnel money to a particular cause (something many photographers have been doing, through platforms like Dream Sequence Editions and Pictures for Elmhurst) Tillmans decided to utilize his resources to supply various creative organizations with a valuable fundraising tool: a cost-free, potentially endless supply of highly covetable posters.
He reached out to artists around the world, and more than forty and counting (including Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Jacolby Satterwhite and Elizabeth Peyton) shared images that Tillmans and his team will print and ship to any organization in need, free of charge, to be used as an incentive for crowdfunding campaigns.
Each poster will be priced at 50 pounds, euros, or dollars, depending on the country in which it is being sold. The price hits a happy medium, Tillmans said, speaking on the phone from his home in Berlin. “Fifty euros is substantial enough to really help, to make a difference, and low enough for people who would otherwise have gone out on a Saturday night to maybe spend that money to support their community,” he added.
The Between Bridges website serves as an index for all of the organizations selling the prints, linking to the sites for New York’s Visuals AIDS, which utilizes art to fight aids and support HIV-positive artists; Hospital Rooms, a London-based organization that outfits healthcare facilities with site-specific artwork; Siegessäule, a German LGBTQ community magazine, and many others. Additional organizations will be added as time goes on.
Tillmans says the participating artists weren’t given a theme to stick to, but that many of the works ended up having a sensuous feel. Nicole Eisenman’s piece depicts a couple entwined with their faces resting against a table strewn with wine glasses, imploring the viewer in all caps to “NEVER FORGET KISSING IN BARS.” Spyros Rennt’s photograph shows men in a casual, semi-clothed, slightly sweaty embrace. An image from Betty Tompkins’s Sex Paintings series takes on new meaning in the age of hyper-vigilant handwashing and face-touching paranoia.
“I think it’s because the focus was also very much on supporting what we are missing,” Tillmans said. “What, of course, is very much at the center of this is that we’re not allowed to touch each other, we’re not allowed to be close to each other, except maybe for your partner, if there is one.” (The photograph he chose from his own studio is a quiet, sunlit still life in soothing shades of green and grey.)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Still Life (Bühnenbild), 2020.
Nicole Eisenman, Never Forget Kissing in Bars, 2020.
The project raised more than 130,000 euros across 12 participating organizations in the first week, and Tillmans plans to keep the project going and evolving as long as pandemic continues. “It will run as long as it needs,” he said. “We’re going to change the posters and of course there will be the great incentive to ‘try and catch them all.’”
Although the best way to support your local arts scene is to show up, that’s obviously not an option right now. And the fact that support had already been dwindling before lockdowns went into effect makes these essential organizations even more vulnerable. “Audiences are the lifeblood of most art forms and art spaces,” Tillmans said. “And there has been an undermining of that already in recent years by, I guess, platforms like Instagram, or in general the internet—people feel like they can consume the arts at the ease of their tablet or screen. And I think when we feel what it’s like to go to a gallery, to an artist’s space, to a dance performance, to see three dimensional art ... how different and how rewarding that is. Then, we understand the importance of these places.”
When it comes to making a difference—whether by donating the amount for a poster or chipping in in other ways—we’re in a crucial moment. “This is a time that really matters,” he added. “Because we don’t want to wake up in a city that is much depleted of what we love.”
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Commentary OpinionRELIGION OF PEACE?
In defense of the phrase 'radical Islam'
Exclusive: Michael Brown rebuts CNN columnist over terror-war semantics
By Michael Brown
Published November 25, 2015 at 6:58pm
In an opinion piece posted on CNN.com, Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter commended President Obama and Hillary Clinton for refusing to use the term "radical Islam," claiming instead that they are right to simply label it "terrorism."
He is quite wrong, both in his overall thesis and in the specific points he raises in support.
McWhorter, who also teaches American studies, philosophy and music history, claims that it is "at heart, childish" for Republicans to chide Obama and Clinton for their semantic choices, stating plainly that these critics "need to get out of the sandbox" and attributing their criticisms to "testosterone and boys being boys."
As for Islam, he assures us that it is a religion of peace, reminding us that it was George W. Bush who previously emphasized this point. (To my knowledge, no one claims that President Bush was a scholar of Islam.)
As for the term "radical Islam," he argues that the adjective "radical" functions only "as a kind of decoration," thereby failing to make the point that not all Islam is dangerous and murderous. In the same way, he writes, in the sentence "I'm thinking about one of those juicy steaks," the person who hears those words will be thinking "about steak, not steaks with the particular quality of being juicy."
But that is hardly a decisive argument. If I were to say, "Adults don't drive toy cars," one would hardly surmise that a person hearing that sentence would think I was speaking against cars in general. Instead, to speak against toy cars is not to speak against all cars, just as to speak against radical Islam is not to speak against all Muslims.
More importantly, McWhorter states that when our leaders criticize "radical Islam," the Muslim world in general hears that as a criticism of Islam itself, not as a criticism of a particular expression of Islam.
But if we avoid reckless statements and are careful in our communication, the Muslim world will ultimately understand that our war is only against those who have declared war on us.
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As for Islam being a "religion of peace," was it a religion of peace during Muhammad's warring years, which marked the culmination of his career? Was it a religion of peace during its expansionist conquests of Jerusalem, Egypt, Damascus, Cyprus, Armenia, Andalusia, Granada (Spain), all within a century of Muhammad's death?
Was it a religion of peace during its near genocide of Middle Eastern and North African Christians during the last century of its so-called Golden Age?
Is this the description of a religion of peace? "The Holy War, as it is known in Islamic Jurisprudence, is basically an offensive war. This is the duty of Muslims in every age when the needed military power becomes available to them. This is the phase in which the meaning of Holy War has taken its final form. Thus the apostle of God said: 'I was commanded to fight the people until they believe in God and his message. ...'" (Citing Egyptian scholar Dr. Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti from his book "Jurisprudence in Muhammad's Biography," p. 174.)
In 1786, when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, then the ambassador of Tripoli, to discuss the terrorizing of American ships in the Mediterranean by Muslim pirates, Adja claimed that "it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them [i.e., the infidels] wherever they could be found, to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise." (This is from the report of Jefferson and Adams to the Continental Congress.)
Examples like this could be multiplied ad infinitum, ad nauseam, all illustrating the point that it is a myth to speak of Islam, in general, as "religion of peace."
To be sure, as I have often stated, there are millions of Muslims who truly believe Islam is a religion of peace and who can point to other texts and historical examples to buttress their claim. But it cannot be denied that for millions of other Muslims, from the earliest days of Islamic history and right until today, Islam is a religion of the sword, and these Muslims have plenty of sacred texts to buttress their claim.
That's why it is no surprise that a recent survey indicated that no less than 57 percent of Arab citizens of Israel say that they are faithfully represented by the Islamic Movement, a newly outlawed, clearly radical, violence-inciting group, while 18.2 percent of Muslim Arabs say that ISIS isn't a terrorist group.
Do all of them not understand Islam?
The real problem, however, is that McWhorter can find no good reason to identify radical Islam as such, feeling confident that to do so is counterproductive.
He thus fails to realize that if you cannot identify your enemy, you cannot defeat your enemy, and if you do not understand the driving ideology of a highly ideologized movement, you cannot combat it.
To simply label Islamic terrorists as "terrorists" is to fail to understand who they are, how they operate, the keys to their success and the keys to their defeat.
Professor McWhorter should get past the cheap accusations against Republicans, move beyond defense of the Democrats and re-evaluate his position. In the words of Sun Tzu in his "Art of War," "If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
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ESIL Kraków-Leiden Symposium
Exploring the Frontiers of International Law in Cyberspace
Symposium Venue
The Conference will be held on 15 May 2020 in the new buildings of the Jagiellonian University Law Faculty. More information on Conference venue will be provided in due course.
The Leiden event will take place in November 2020 at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University.
About the Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University is the oldest higher education institution in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded on 12 May 1364 by the Polish king Casimir the Great and marked its 650th anniversary in 2014.
Since its very beginning, the Jagiellonian University has been an international institution. Poles, Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Germans, Czechs, Swiss, English, Dutch, French, Spaniards, Italians, and even Tatars studied here in the old days. Some of the Jagiellonian University students and academics have been major historical figures, including world famous scholars, such as Nicolaus Copernicus or Karol Olszewski, as well as Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II.
The Faculty of Law always held a prominent position within the University and was home to the most eminent scholars of public international law. Stanisław of Skarbimierz (Stanislaus de Scarbimiria) and Paweł Włodkowic (Paulus Vladimiri), who wrote about the law of war and the rights of pagan nations long before Gentili and Vitoria, were both Rectors of the Kraków Academy (as the University was called in the 15th century). In more recent times, the Chair of Public International Law was held by such prominent scholars of international law as Ludwik Ehrlich and Stanisław Nahlik.
About Leiden University
Leiden University has a long and outstanding tradition in the field of public international law.
The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School, continues this tradition by hosting more than 30 scholars from all over the world. Together they explore the frontiers of public international law.
The Grotius Centre, which has offices in Leiden as well as in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice, further continues this tradition by offering a wide range of general and specialised courses in the field of public international law at Bachelor’s and Master’s level.
By studying and teaching public international law, the Grotius Centre contributes to the dissemination of knowledge about public international law, inspired by Leiden University’s motto: Praesidium Libertatis.
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Yaya-Toure.com is a fansite devoted to professional Cote d'Ivoire's footballer who currently plays for English Premier League club Manchester City, Yaya Toure.
Pogba: I play like Yaya Toure
The midfielder has been studying the Manchester City midfielder amongst a number of other players in his position in a bid to improve his game
Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has likened his playing style to that of Manchester City star Yaya Toure.
The France international signed a new contract with the Serie A champions until 2019 on Friday, having become a key figure for club and country since arriving in Turin after leaving Manchester United on a free transfer two years ago.
Juve boss Massimiliano Allegri said over the weekend that Pogba still has lots of work to do to become one of the best players in the world and he has responded by revealing how he studies many of the game’s finest players in his position.
“I think there are lots of players still better than me, but it’s not up to me to worry about this sort of comparison,” he told Fifa.com. “I try to do my job and be the best I possibly can.
“There are lots of midfielders I admire and watching them helps me improve. I could mention, for example, Yaya Toure, who has a similar size and physique to me but more experience. We have more or less the same playing style, even if he’s a bit more attacking than me.”
Pogba featured at his first World Cup in Brazil earlier this year, playing a key role as France made the quarter-finals before bowing out to eventual winners Germany.
Les Bleus coach Didier Deschamps is one of two midfield greats to have worked with Pogba – ex-Juve boss Antonio Conte the other – and the former Manchester United prodigy feels both both have aided his development.
“I’ve progressed with both of them. Didier Deschamps, for example, knows me very well and knows how to manage me,” he added.
“He helps me improve every day, whether it’s in training or in a match.
“He gives me the desire to give my best. He always gives me good advice and he’s very honest with me. As a player, you really appreciate getting trust and encouragement from your coach.
“What he tells me most is to, ‘stay focused and keep things simple’, the way he used to do so well.”
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There’s A New Facebook Page To Share Info About Face Masking
I'm a pretty big fan of Dr. Nirav Shah's fan page on Facebook. In fact, when it was first started, it was a breath of fresh internet air because most people were just there looking for info, and asking questions. Naturally as time went on, it became a bit more intense as people's feelings about the virus became more divided.
From my personal perspective, I don't give a rat's behind about politics, and will continue to do things that make me and others feel safe. But if someone wants to do the opposite, I'm no one's babysitter or moral compass, so you go ahead an be you. But on the other hand, there should be resources for people to make their own judgement call.
The page is called Maine: No Mask, No Service. It's a place where people can share info about different locations that are being very diligent about mask wearing. Gov. Mills, much to the dismay of many around the state, recently made masks mandatory, and gave business the right to refuse entry to anyone not wearing one.
A lot of folks have been using Dr. Shah's fan page as a place to talk about places that are either right on top of the masking game, or also spots that may be a little on the loosey-goosey side. It makes sense that this subject finally got it's own page, and maybe some of the heated conversations that happen on Dr. Shah's page can chill out.
Again, I'm not here to place any judgement in either direction. I do my thing, and expect you'll do yours. But one thing we can all agree on, believe it or not, is that we all want the virus gone as quickly as possible. So hopefully, we all do our part to try and stop the spread. Besides, I want to eat indoors again again someday. Not today, but someday.
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Shortlist announced for the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize
Submitted by amy on January 11, 2011 - 3:36pm
This morning, we joined the crowd at the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction news conference at Toronto's famed King Eddy hotel. This Prize commemorates Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in the field of literary non-fiction. The prize is awarded "to the author whose book best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style, and a subtlety of thought and perception." The Prize consists of $25,000 for the winner and $2,000 for each of the runners up.
The ever-gracious Noreen Taylor welcomed everyone to the news conference and announced that the jury, Neil Bissoondath, Eva-Marie Kröller and David Macfarlane had read 153 Canadian-authored books while forming this shortlist. Juror David Macfarlane announced the finalists:
Stevie Cameron for On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women. The jury notes, "On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women is a powerful investigation into one of Canada's most horrific crimes. With characteristic thoroughness, Stevie Cameron reveals not only the nightmarish events at the Pickton farm, but also their larger social context."
Charles Foran for Mordecai: The Life & Times. The jury notes, "Mordecai: The Life and Times meets the immense challenge of writing about one of Canada's most talented and controversial authors. Charles Foran has created a rich and compelling portrait of the man and his times."
Ross King for Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. The jury notes, "Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven is a fresh and immediately authoritative study of a Canadian cultural icon. Ross King's accomplishment is to place the historic details of the Group's working lives into an international context."
George Sipos for The Geography of Arrival: A Memoir. The jury notes, "The Geography of Arrival is a lyrical memoir of an immigrant family's daily lives in London, Ontario. George Sipos takes us on a journey through physical and emotional geographies, and makes the ordinary extraordinary."
Merrily Weisbord for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das. The jury notes, "The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamal Das is an idiosyncratic account of an unusual cross-cultural friendship between a Canadian documentary filmmaker and a celebrated, controversial Indian poet. Merrily Weisbord successfully captures the contradictory complexity of their dialogue."
Congratulations to all the shortlisted writers and readers, enjoy this fantastic non-fiction reading list! The winner will be announced on February 14, 2011.
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The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Series, with Max and Monique Nemni
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Submitted by Grace on April 23, 2012 - 6:57am
This year marks the twelfth iteration of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. The prize rewards the year's finest book tackling a political subject of interest to Canadian readers.
This year, Open Book speaks to each of the five finalists as the April 25 announcement approaches. Be sure to visit our site and catch all of the interviews!
Husband and wife team Max and Monique Nemni won the 2006 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for the first instalment of their Trudeau biography, Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944. Their hotly anticipated continuation, Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965 (McClelland & Stewart), is shortlisted for this year's award. The Nemnis, who are both retired university professors, were close to Trudeau and received his approval to write his intellectual biography.
Max and Monique talk with Open Book about Canada's beloved maverick prime minister, including surprising revelations about his young life.
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MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION OF POPULATION OF THE
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH INTEGRATED CARE PROJECT
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Home > News > The next meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the project “Maternal and Child Health Integrated Care” was held.
The next meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the project “Maternal and Child Health Integrated Care” was held.
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On November 20, 2020 in the building of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan under the lead of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan, Chairman of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the “Maternal and Child Health Integrated Care (MCHIC)” project – Sattoriyon Matlubakhon Amonzoda there was held a meeting of Project Steering Committee on the MCHIC project implementation.
The meeting was attended by the Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Tajikistan, Deputy Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the MCHIC project Jamoliddin Abdullozoda; members of the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the MCHIC project Abdufattohzoda G.A., Head of the Department of Social Development of the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan; Majidi Yu.Kh., Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tajikistan; Nasriddinzoda R.H, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Tajikistan; Naziri L.K, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sheralizoda Sh.A., First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Investments and State Property Management of the Republic of Tajikistan, Gafforzoda Nigina, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Women and Family Affairs under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan; Representatives of the executive bodies of the pilot districts of the project and a number of officials of the Project Administration Group (PAG).
The meeting was opened by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Matlubakhon Amonzoda, who briefed on the agenda of the meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the MCHIC project and the purpose of the project to the timely measures of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan to protect the health of mothers and children in the pilot areas of the project, including Faizobod and Rasht districts of Republican subordination and Shadiddin Shohin district of Khatlon region.
It was noted that all current activities within the framework of the Action Plan for the implementation of the MCHIC project were to complement the tasks outlined in the Address of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan dated December 26, 2019 “On the main directions of domestic and foreign policy”.
According to the agenda of the meeting Zulfiya Abdusamatzoda, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Republic of Tajikistan made a presentation on the implementation of this project.
It should be noted that despite the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic continues in the world, to date, the project has been properly implemented..
In this regard, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Matlubakhon Amonzoda instructed the members of the committee, the executive body of local government to make a valuable contribution to the timely and effective implementation of the project.
Then the manager of PAG of the MCHIC project Mahmudzoda IS. informed the attendees about the implementation of the project in its specific parts.
In the course of the meeting the issues of the agenda were discussed among the attendees and the they expressed their views on the project activities.
Taking into account the discussion of issues, proposals and their importance, the Steering Committee on the implementation of the MCHIC project adopted a Work Plan for the implementation of the Project and the next meeting was set to be conducted in 2021.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has partnered with leading healthcare knowledge provider, the BMJ, to launch a new online coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Information Centre
Start of next ADB mission to review project outputs
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Asian Development Bank review Mission for the Maternal and child Health Integrated care Project
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PUBLIC HEALTH IS ONE OF THE SOCIAL POLICY PRIORITIES OF THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN
Founder of Peace and National Unity, Leader of the Nation, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon
The President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon signed an executive order on holding the Years of rural developement tourism and folk crafts in the Republic of Tajikistan.
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Ministry of health and social protection of population of the Republic of Tajikistan «Maternal and child health integrated care project»
Address: Dushanbe, Shevchenko street, 61
Tel .: +992 (37) 221 43 94 +992 (37) 221 43 95
Email: info@adbmch.tj
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Katie77
Love is a force of Nature
Re: Heath Ledger Tributes and Obituaries...
I guess because I am very proud to be an Aussie, that when my countrymen let me down, or show such disregard for human decency like those that harrassed Heath, it just makes me disappointed even more, than I would be if it was someone who came from somewhere else.
And when I think that their actions, may have changed the course of Heath's life, where he decided to live, it just makes it all the more despicable. One moment like that, had it not happend, may have made things different.
I too am a great fan of Adam Lambert. Unfortunately, now that American Idol has finished on Aussie TV, we dont get much press about him, but I do hope he gets treated fairly, and has plenty of support and protection from the idiots out there who seem to get pleasure hurting these people.
I watched a movie called "Two Hands" the other night. A film made in Australia when Heath was only 19. And like I cant help myself doing now, when I watch him in any film, I feel some kind of guilt or knowing something I shouldn't know, that he only has a limited time left. It overcomes me, and I cant stop thinking it, as I watch him. And eventually the guilt turns to a sadness, such a dam awful sadness.
I feel the same when I look at photos of family or friends that have passed on. Like I want to crawl into the photo or film and tell them to be careful. Its an awful feeling.
Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect.
It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfection
ifyoucantfixit
Well I have been keeping pretty close track of his comings and goings. He has officially signed his contract with 19entertainments
RCA division. I think he said they are already starting to find songs and try to put the stuff together in an album.
He was presented on Sunday Young Entertainer of the year award. Presented co-incidentally by Kara DioGuardi.
The new issue of Rolling stone comes out on Friday, and he is the cover boy.!!! He is really excited about that one. He was
nearly giddy when he was doing it. There is some videos online showing it. He is having the time of his life. He like Heath has
been no angel in his life. He admits to smoking pot and not always being the square peg, so to speak. But as afraid as I get sometimes
by the thrush of media he is encountering. He said like David Copperfield, it is the best of times it is the worst of times...The media following him around makes him know he is popular finally, but its also the fact that the media is always followiing him around... However
he has been continuously gracious and sweet when talking to them all. I think he has worked his whole life to get to this place, and
I think if anyone is ever ready. He is. But dangerous things could change that open generous and sweet person. Just as it seemed to do to Heath. Making him afraid to be that open fun and joyful kid he was when he started. We'll just have to wait and see.
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Quote from: Katie77 on June 08, 2009, 11:59:57 pm
That is so weird, it is exactly the way I feel when I watch Heath films now. I even find myself thinking make the most of every minute. Candy is so hard to watch, particularly when Dan finds one of his friends dead from an overdose in his house. I don't know why I watch it because I keep thinking OMG that will be you soon.
I can also empathise with you about your fellow country men. Every time the England soccer fans used to run wild abroad, I would be so ashamed. I used to think, Oh please don't let there be trouble this time.
Similarily the particular type of Brit. abroad who moans about all this foreign food and why can't I just get some fish and chips. It is always said in such a loud voice too, cringe !!!
We are all the same. Women, men, gay, straight
Just read two articles/interviews that I really enjoyed. Both are by Paul Fischer. The first is an interview with Heath done in 2006, the second piece is a tribute written after Heath´s death.
Perhaps they´ve already been posted here.
Paul Fischer at the Toronto Film Festival.
CANDYMAN / DARK KNIGHT
Heath Ledger arrives in Toronto for the North American premiere of his Australian film, Candy, without an entourage. There’s no publicist and no fanfare. "When I’m not working I don’t need a publicist", Heath Ledger says, as we sit in the quiet corner of a Toronto hotel restaurant. Here for just a day, he already misses wife Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda."Matilda is just awesome and being a father has also helped me become even more selective now with work because for me, to go away from home for a day, let alone five, is tough," says Heath Ledger, with a wistful smile. Ledger, though, was more than happy to leave Montreal where Michelle is shooting Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan film I'm Not There, in which he also appears, to talk about Candy. In another unforgettable performance, the now Oscar nominee plays a self-destructive heroin addict, also ferociously in love with the beautiful Candy. The actor, who hasn’t made a film in his native Australia since Ned Kelly or with is own accent since 1999’s Two Hands, says it was a release to go back to Australia and work there. "I mean I’m constantly looking for material back there for that reason and it was so liberating to talk without an accent. But I also love to tell Australian stories and they’re just so very few of them back there right now, because any half decent or half talented writer, actor or cinematographer just gets ripped up and taken out of there, so the pickings are slim." Heath Ledger was happy to get paid far less than usual to take on another challenging role. "I really loved working on it, I was so comfortable and relaxed and I was working with wonderful people like Abbie. Cornish."
Heath Ledger and Cornish both took the job of research very seriously, almost too seriously it seems. "We grabbed a video camera and went down to this place in Sydney called NUA, which is the Narcotics Users Association. There we met this gentleman who has been and still is a junkie for something like 25 years. So he took us into this little room, pulled out what looked like a rifle case, opened it up and there was a prosthetic arm in it - like a really lifelike arm, and at the end, on the shoulder, there are two tubes that have blood bags and you put fake blood into them and they’re fully functional veins in the arm that you can inject into and pull out blood. I mean they’re designed to teach nurses and stuff like that how to find veins, but they have one here to teach kids how to inject safely. And so he was like, oh, look at that vein, that’s a good one, ooh, ooh, and he was salivating at the mouth, and he was like let’s get one here, so there was that," he recalls, laughingly. We filmed it and so I gave the DVD to Geoffrey Rush, one to the Art Department and one to Neil, just as reference. "The film, Candy, which is being released in the United States by ThinkFilm later this year, was loosely based on the real life experiences of addict Luke Davies who was on set all the time and was there to say things that we wouldn’t know - like when you’re stoned high on heroine, your eyes aren’t like that but your eyebrows are up." But the actor concedes he could have survived without too much of the research. After all, he says laughingly, "I feel that I’ve read a million books and articles and have seen a million movies and TV shows on heroine and heroine addiction, I just feel like we all kind of have seen it."
Since the first time we met, on the set of Two Hands in Australia, Heath Ledger has evolved into one of Hollywood’s true A-list stars. Last year, he joined that elite group of Oscar nominees for his sensitive and much acclaimed performance in Brokeback Mountain. Looking back, the actor is genuinely surprised that the film took off like it did. "I was definitely surprised and my expectations for the film were really down here," he says laughingly, moving his hands towards the floor. "I was really pleasantly surprised and so grateful to have been given that opportunity and really proud of it but I’m really happy it’s all over too, because it was really exhausting," Ledger says, recalling the awards season and the lead up to the Oscars. But he also admits almost shyly, that his nomination has opened up even more doors. "I think there’s a new level of interest kind of thing but I haven’t really acted on it, since the only thing I’ve really done since is this Todd Haynes film and The Joker." It is his decision to play The Joker in the new Batman film The Dark Knight that has caused much interest in the industry. He says that ordinarily doing something like that would not be of interest to him. "I actually hate comic book movies, like fucking hate them, they just bore me shitless and they’re just dumb. But I thought what Chris Nolan did with Batman was actually really good, really well directed, and Christian Bale was really great in it." Heath Ledger says he’s looking forward to playing a truly evil character. "He’s going to be really sinister and it’s going to be less about his laugh and his pranks and more about just him being a just a fucking sinister guy." Asked if he decides to do a big movie like this, because of agent pressure, Heath Ledger pauses then laughs. "I’m sure they’re super happy that I’m doing this, because this is the first time I’ve really kind of taken something like that, so they’re over the moon. But I think it’s just going to be a really fun experience, and I love to dress up and wear a mask." No costumes have been designed, but the actor says that "I’ve seen a few interesting designs on the look and I think that it’s going to look pretty cool."
Who would have thought that when young Heath Ledger decided to move to Los Angeles at age 17, he would ultimately end up as a gay cowboy and Batman’s nemesis in a matter of a year or so? But life turned out differently than even he could have imagined. After all, we both moved to LA for the same reason, as I discovered during this conversation: For love. "I also moved to LA to follow a girl," he recalls laughingly. "I did Roar, was dating a girl in the TV show, she went back to LA and I had to go with her. I stayed there and lived with for her for two years." Then he landed his first major film role - back in Australia- Two Hands. The rest, as they, is history. Now Heath Ledger says he’s at his happiest, both professionally and
HEATH LEDGER - A PERSONAL REFLECTION
By Paul Fischer
I first met Heath Ledger in the winter of 1998. It was nighttime, and a young ex-TV star was on the set of his first film, Two Hands, the laconic Australian gangster films. He was 18, fresh faced, shy but embracing the future. We were in the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross and Heath Ledger had a cigarette dangling between his fingers. I remember him telling me how much he loved acting and how much he was looking forward to his first Hollywood role opposite Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You. Life was going well for the then 18 year old. Over the years we had done countless interviews throughout his evolution as an actor. You put two Aussies together and the conversation is different to the usual interview. Even with the success he attained, there was nothing pretentious about Heath Ledger, nothing even gloomy or despondent as some are suggesting. Ferociously intelligent and very private, Heath Ledger was always impassioned about his work, and I remember not long after Matilda was born, he was clearly the doting father.
We got along because I was never intrusive into his private life and we had a similar, cheeky sense of humour. That side of him was rarely exposed in the media, because Heath Ledger never courted publicity and hated the process. The last time we saw each other was at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival where he was promoting the Australian film Candy. Yes, ironic that he was starring as a drug-addicted artist, but his performance in that film exemplified his individual artistry. We were sitting in a quiet corner restaurant joking away as we usually did, and he spoke about his daughter and how fatherhood impacted on his choices. "Matilda is just awesome and being a father has also helped me become even more selective now with work because for me, to go away from home for a day, let alone five, is tough,"
We also talked about his latest role, that of The Joker in the new Batman and his initial reluctance to take it on. He says that ordinarily doing something like that would not be of interest to him. "I actually hate comic book movies, like f***ing hate them, they just bore me shitless and they're just dumb. But I thought what Chris Nolan did with Batman was actually really good, really well directed, and Christian Bale was really great in it."
Those who barely knew him will write much about Heath Ledger and there will be endless speculation over his tragic passing, but at the end of the day, he was an audacious talent, a smart human being with a zest for life and a passion for his craft. He was a doting father, and in the 10 years I knew him, I marvelled at his personal and professional evolution. Rest in peace mate, you'll be sorely missed.
The Masses´ comment to Heath´s Oscar win was a poem by Emily Dickinson:
Glory is that bright tragic thing
That for an instant
Means Dominion –
Warms some poor name
That never felt the Sun,
Gently replacing
In oblivion
Quote from: Buffymon on November 19, 2009, 05:03:32 am
Thanks for posting .
Brokeback Got Me Good
Matt Damon:
"Heath's the best actor I've ever worked with," he says. "Coming off The Brothers Grimm, which wasn't particularly well-received, I remember telling people about him. 'Heath Ledger, you mean the guy from A Knight's Tale?' they would say. I'd tell them, 'No, you wait!' And then he did Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight. People just got a glimpse of what he was going to do. He was so full of life. I don't think I'll ever get over that, nor will anybody who knew him. He was a miracle of a man. It's just horrible. It sucks." He starts to tear up, and gulps down some much-needed mineral water.
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html
Quote from: MilAn on December 22, 2009, 01:12:33 pm
Gulp. What lovely and heartfelt words. It's still heartbreaking to hear his friends and co-workers use the past tense, but I'm so grateful when they express their thoughts and admiration publicly. Thank you, Matt.
And thanks for posting this, MilAn.
Heath touched the hearts of so many. Wonderful and sad to see.
I've always had a thing for Matt Damon. The first time I watched BG was because he is in it, I didn't know Heath back then. After Brokeback, I watched it again because Heath is in it.
The Venice detail in the article gave me a smile.
What a beautiful man Matt Damon is. He was so sincere in his admiration for how he felt. It was hard
to read. You could tell he is a very deeply feeling person. Of course by what we have always seen, of him
it has always been fairly obvious.
An aside about the movie BG, I bought it right after the video came out. I was somewhat disappointed,
but not by the acting. The movie had so much potential. Everything was there, as far as I could tell, except
the story was so non cohesive. It went everywhere, and nowhere. But in favor of Heath and Matt, they
both did wonderful jobs I thought. The costumes, the towns, etc. were very interesting and well done as
well. Too bad it just died on the vine so to speak.
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Update 27th March
Deirdre and Tom Kearney and Micheal Birmingham were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in Wynne's. The house prize was won by John Lyons. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €1,200 for the next draw on Saturday April 1st which will be held in Mattimoe's Bar, with Team A in charge.
The McGovern Directional Drilling sponsored Seniors defeated St. Dominic's in the 2nd round of the league on Sunday last.
The Cooney Motors/Centra sponsored juniors play Tulsk in the Division 5 league in Abbey Park, Boyle on Saturday 1st April at 6:30pm.
The U-16's play Roscommon Gaels in the Division 1 league on Thursday March 30th in the Abbey Park at 6:45pm.
The Minors play Western Gaels in the Division 3 league on Sunday April 2nd in the Abbey Park at 11am.
The Club has finalised its schedule for the trip to Dublin by former players, officials and supporters of Boyle GAA. The trip will take place on Friday 7th April. The first stop will be a visit to the Croke Park GAA Museum and stadium tour and lunch in Croke Park. It will be followed by an afternoon trip to Leinster House to see the operations of the Dáil and Seanad.
Transport will be provided on the state-of-the-art Club Rossie bus. As space is limited to 50 passengers, bookings will be taken on a first-come-first-served basis. it will be an interesting and entertaining social outing for anyone of any age category and irrespective of involvement with the Club. Please note the deadline for those wishing to travel is Saturday next 1st April. This promises to be an excellent day out and we ask those wishing to travel to immediately contact either Martin Dolan (086 2413529) or Barry Lowe (086 8545492).
Congratulations are extended to Catriona and Sean Purcell on the recent birth of Cian.
Best wishes to Ciaran Beirne as he recuperates form a recent injury.
Congratulations to all who made their Confirmation over the weekend.
LADIES FOOTBALL:
U16's had a great win over Padraig Pearses . Well done to all the girls. Final round game is away to Clann na nGael on Sunday 2nd April.
Eugene Halligan and O. Hunt were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in Kate Lavin's. The house prize was won by Marie Paul. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €1,100 for the next draw on Saturday March 25th which will be held in Wynne's Bar, with Team E in charge
The draw for direct debt and yearly members was held on St. Patrick's day and the five winners of a €100 each were: Hannah O'Boyle, Mark O'Connor, Sean McKeon, Gary Sheerin and Odran Feely.
The McGovern Directional Drilling sponsored senior team are away to St. Dominics in the 2nd round of the O'Gara Cup on Sunday March 26th at 12:30pm.
The Cooney Motor/Centra sponsored Junior team lost their opening league game to St. Joseph's on St/ Patrick's day.
The U-14 division one team play St. Michael's on Saturday March 25th in Ardcarne Park at 4pm. The division four team play St. Croan's on Sunday March 26th in Enfield at 1pm.
Thanks to all who braved the weather to join the float on St Patricks day. Thanjs to the organising committee for their work. Special thanks to Martin Downes for the use of his trailer and to Michael Furey and Odran Feely who worked against the clock to provide cover for the musicians. Thanks also to Brendan Gaffney for his help with our trad group. Hopefully it will be the start of things to come.
The minors play Kilbribe on Sunday March 26th in Kilbribe at 11am.
Club members and supporters and former players and officials are reminded that seats are filling rapidly on the Rossie Bus for the Club's trip to Dublin on Friday 7th April. This is a very attractive day-out which includes a visit to the Croke Park Museum and stadium and Dáil Éireann. Booking is on a first-come-first-served basis. Those wishing to travel should contact either Martin Dolan (086 2413529) or Barry Lowe (086 8545492) immediately.
It was a busy weekend for the U16 ladies. They lost to St. Brigids in Kiltoom on St. Patrick's Day. On Sunday they hosted St. Mary's. Brilliant teamwork gained them a win over a determined Tulsk team. Next Championship fixture Sunday 26th March at 4pm v's Padraig Pearses in the Abbey Park.
Congratulations are extended to Barry Feely who won the club lotto jackpot on Saturday night last, winning €2,800. The draw was held in the Patrick's Well were Aaron Sharkey was a €20 winner and Francis Bolger won the house prize. It will be at €1,000 for the next draw on Saturday March 18th which will be held in Kate Lavin's with Team D in charge.
Well done to Boyle Celtic on their great win in the quarter-final of the FAI junior cup, fantastic result.
The McGovern Directional Drilling sponsored senior team game against St. Dominic's was postponed due a recent bereavement in the St. Dominic's club.
The U-16 team were defeated by Clan na nGael in the Division one league over the weekend. They play St. Dominic's in the division one league March 19th in Knockcroghery at 11am.
The Cooney Motors/Centra sponsored Junior team play St. Joseph's on St. Patrick's day in Kilteevan at 12noon.
The Club will have a final wrap up of gaa registration on next Tuesday evening 14th March 8.00pm to 8.30pm in the club Room, following the U 8.s starting at 7.00pm. Registration is extremely important and is required for all adult players, non players, coaches, committee members and underage players.
Plans for our entry into the St Patrick's Day parade are well under way. It is hoped the club will be well represented on the day from our nursery boys and girls up to the more senior members of our club. More details later...
The club are holding a sponsors evening March 24th at 8:15pm in the clubrooms. All welcome.
Supporters of Boyle GAA Day Trip
Dear Supporter,
Boyle GAA Club in conjunction with the GAA Social initiative is organising a project, the object of which is to bring together in a social setting, those who have been involved in various ways with the club over the years. The reality is that many people fall away from their GAA club and the connection that once was an important part of their lives dwindles. Our mission is to try to re connect as many of you as possible with our club in a social way. And don’t worry, we are not going to ask you to line the field or train the u-12 team (unless you want to of course!!!)
As our first initiative we are arranging a trip to Dublin on Friday 7th April. The Club is hiring the state-of-the-art Club Rossie bus for the occasion!
We are preparing a very attractive range of activities for the day. The focal point will be a trip to the GAA Museum in Croke Park, and a tour of the venue itself. This a real “must-see” for anyone with just even a passing interest in Gaelic Games, and we have no doubt that those who may have seen it before will be keen to see it again. The Croke Park visit package includes lunch at the venue.
We will then travel to Leinster House where a visit to Dáil and Seanad Éireann will be kindly facilitated by Deputy Eugene Murphy TD and Senator Frank Feighan.
The club will be making a contribution towards the cost of the trip, however we are asking for a contribution of just €30 from each person which will cover transport lunch and the tour.
We are offering you, as someone with a long connection with Boyle GAA, the opportunity to participate on this trip. We feel that the 2 visitor attractions chosen will be of immense interest to you. The trip will be a great chance to catch up with your pals who share a love of the club and the enjoyment of friends and old acquaintances.
As you will appreciate, the bus will be restricted to 50 passengers. For that reason, we feel that the fairest way of deciding on who should go, is by “first come-first-served” method. We therefore ask that if you wish to travel (and we earnestly hope that you do), that you confirm your intention to travel and to submit the €30 to either of the undersigned IMMEDIATELY, as once we have reached the bus capacity, we will have to close reservations.
(Please note that if you have a friend, spouse or partner who has no GAA connection they are also very welcome to join us)
Regards Martin Dolan Barry Lowe
Carrick Road Spa
Boyle Boyle
086 2413529 mdolan1954@hotmail.com 086 8545492 Barrylowe1@hotmail.com
The U-16 were defeat by St. Dominic's in the championship over the weekend. They play St. Brigid's in Kiltoom on St. Patrick's day at 11am and St. Mary's Sunday March 19th in the Abbey Park at 4pm.
Update 6th March
Sean and Seamus and Owen Garvin were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in Clarke's Bar. The house prize was won by Alison O'Shaughnessy. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €2,800 for the next draw on Saturday March 11th which will be held in The Patrick's Well, with Team C in charge.
The McGovern Directional Drilling sponsored senior team are away to St. Dominics in the 2nd round of the O'Gara Cup on March 12th at 2pm.
The minors were defeated by St. Aidan's in the league on Sunday last.
The U-14 division 4 game was postponed due to an unplayable pitch.
The U-16 Division 1 team play Clan na nGael in the league Sunday March 12th in the Abbey Park at 11am.
The Club has finalised its schedule for the trip to Dublin by former players, officials and supporters of Boyle GAA. The trip will take place on Friday 7th April. The first stop will be a visit to the Croke Park GAA Museum and stadium tour and lunch in Croke Park. It will be followed by an afternoon trip to Leinster House to see the operations of the Dáil and Seanad. Transport will be provided on the state-of-the-art Club Rossie bus. As space is limited to 50 passengers, bookings will be taken on a first-come-first-served basis. This promises to be an excellent day out and we ask those wishing to travel to immediately contact either Martin Dolan (086 241 3529) or Barry Lowe (086 854 5492).
The very best of luck to Boyle Celtic on Sunday March 12th in their FAI Junior Cup quarter-final.
Sympathy of the club to the McQuaid family on their recent bereavement.
U-16 Ladies Championship: Boyle play St. Dominic's Sunday March 12th in the Abbey Park at 4pm.
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If Cancún wasn’t a car crash, why do I feel like roadkill?
KateBlagojevic 13 December 2010 If Cancún wasn’t a car crash, why do I feel like roadkill?2010-12-13T02:53:47+00:00 Environment 2 Comments
World Development Movement press officer Kate Blagojevic writes from the climate summit in Cancún, Mexico. Follow her on Twitter at @wdmnews.
This time three years ago, I had a heated discussion with WDM’s then head of policy Pete Hardstaff, who was writing for the New Statesman at the Bali climate negotiations. We were arguing whether it was appropriate to use an analogy about hacking limbs of a baby off to illustrate what rich countries were doing to the Kyoto Protocol. I decided that it wasn’t and that he had possibly gone a little bit mad from sleep deprivation.
But he hadn’t gone mad; he was tired, yes, but it’s not the tiredness that gets you; it’s the despair. Despair renders you dumb-struck and numb. It brings on an existential crisis when you need it least. And yes, it makes you use analogies that are dramatic because you want to, you have to, convey to people that what is happening, at every boring, procedural negotiation, is the erosion; little by little, limb by limb, of our future.
Chris Huhne said that the talks risked becoming a car crash. But according to the media and governments the crash was averted, so why do I still feel like roadkill?
The car crash that Huhne predicted was that the talks would fail because Japan and Russia said they would not sign up to extend the Kyoto Protocol – the text that legally binds developed countries to reducing their carbon emissions. And this would mean that developing countries wouldn’t sign up to anything. That didn’t happen, but it was fudged, and countries signed up to ‘recognise’ that global temperatures had to be kept to a 2 degree rise and voluntary emissions reductions. And that has been proclaimed a victory for the UN process and for the climate.
This is dangerous because it threatens to undermine the Kyoto Protocol by replacing it with voluntary, rather than legally binding cuts from developed countries, that don’t add up to a total that will actually keep temperatures down.
Also announced with much fanfare is the creation of a Green Fund that from 2013 will deliver ‘approaching’ $100 billion a year to developing countries. But there are several problems: Firstly it is in part the promise of this much-needed money, aswell as the money that is supposed to be delivered now, which is forcing the hand of poor countries to sign their own death warrants by accepting this sham of an agreement.
Secondly, only a third of the money will come from public purses, the rest will be raised ‘creatively’ through private finance and offsetting through markets. In the words of the Indigenous Environment Network: “Approaches based on carbon offsetting, like REDD, will permit polluters to continue poisoning land, water, air, and our bodies, while doing nothing to stop the climate crisis. Indeed, approaches based on the commodification of biodiversity, CO2, forests, water, and other sacred elements will only encourage the buying and selling of our human and environmental rights.”
Thirdly, for decades people in developing countries have suffered under the tyranny of the World Bank’s lethal cocktail of economic policy conditions, the pushing of high carbon projects and the undermining of human rights. And it’s been reported that we and our allies from developing countries were victorious in our efforts to ensure that the World Bank doesn’t become the manager of the Green Fund. Whilst the World Bank is currently set to be the Trustee of the Fund, under the aegis of the UN, the terms are so vague and loophole ridden that it will probably end up have a key role in determining which countries get how much cash and how far they have to bend over to get it. So the campaign to get the World Bank out of climate finance is a vital one that will continue.
Standing alone against the view that the talks were a success is Bolivia. And in so-doing has stood up to bullying, bribery and bare-faced insults. Their final statement said: “Last year, everyone recognized that Copenhagen was a failure both in process and substance. Yet this year, a deliberate campaign to lower expectations and desperation for any agreement has led to one that, in substance, is little more than Copenhagen II.”
The overarching story that real progress towards a global deal to prevent catastrophic climate change has been won in Cancun is a lie. But what has been won is more time; more time for rich countries and corporations to work together to crush resistance from Bolivia and other developing countries but also from civil society groups and activists.
My personal sense of powerlessness in the gargantuan battle that people around the world are fighting against business as usual is overwhelming me. But I am finding solace and truth in the words of a friend who wrote to me and said: “As you find despair in people being locked up, beaten and killed, so you can find hope in people resisting, laughing and defying. Really I think that’s all there is. That’s all the strength there is. But it is big if you can feel it, and it’s the only thing that has ever pulled people out of desperate situations.”
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Seb Crankshaw - December 21st, 2010 at 10:17 pm none Comment author #14592 on If Cancún wasn’t a car crash, why do I feel like roadkill? by Bright Green
Fantastic blog Kate, thanks for that. A really interesting response from A Marshall too – that ‘game theory’ principle is very interesting stuff.
A Marshall - December 13th, 2010 at 9:26 am none Comment author #14591 on If Cancún wasn’t a car crash, why do I feel like roadkill? by Bright Green
The best way of achieving maximum cooperation, according to mathematical game theory, is the Tit for Tat strategy. You start with cooperation, then continue to cooperate if the other party responds cooperatively, but not if it doesn’t.
In other words you don’t wait until there is an agreement, you go first and then see how the other party responds.
So perhaps there should be less emphasis on international agreements such as Cancun and Kyoto, and more of a campaign for a national policy of revenue-neutral Green taxes or carbon permit auctions, with strategies for counteracting any negative effects on trade with nations that don’t have similar policies.
A Green tax shift to carbon taxes, with cuts in other taxes, would make energy-intensive goods more expensive and labour-intensive goods more affordable.
A cap-and-dividend policy, with the revenue from carbon permit auctions paid to citizens as dividends, would have the same effect.
But import bans or tariffs would be needed to prevent unfair competition from countries with lower carbon prices.
If there is uncertainty about whether the other party is being cooperative, you should do cooperation in one interaction out of three if the other party isn’t a neighbour, and two times out of three if it is. (P. Grim, T. Kokalis, A. Tafti, and N. Kilb, “Imperfection and Cooperation”, in “Evolution of Communication in Perfect and Imperfect Worlds”, from World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution 56 (2000), http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/pgrim/evolution.htm)
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Review: Haywire (2012)
Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Eddie J Fernandez, Maximino Arciniega, Michael Fassbender, Anthony Brandon Wong, Bill Paxton
R for some violence
Buy on DVD
Steven Soderbergh, in lieu of retiring as he suggested and persuing other artistic pursuits, has instead decided to keep going in the medium while experimenting with stylistically diverse films like Contagion, The Informant! and Magic Mike coming out later this year. With Haywire, his penchant for focusing on realism has created one of the more compelling spy thrillers in recent memory.
Longtime spy master James Bond and the more recent popular figure Jason Bourne are built on legendary archetypes of the suave, attractive toughened spies whose pursuits are drawn from the inspiration of pulp literature, focusing on music, special effects and boistrous sound mixes to sell their chaotic stories. Soderbergh’s Haywire may be of the same brand in terms of plotting and structure, but the barebones sound mix gives it a new sheen that makes the Bourne films sound exotic. Apart from the naturalistic aural cues throughout the film, including some rather gut-twisting fight sequences, its spy star is a woman, something not often seen in the world of espionage thrillers.
Mallory Kane, played by pro wrestler Gina Carano, is a work-hardened, dedicated spy whose career seems destined for destruction. She’s all business all the time, except in the one-time romantic entanglement she pursues with an attractive co-worker played by Channing Tatum. Tatum gives the audience a glimmer of his capabilities as an actor, but without more stable support, it’s hard to believe him as anything but a box office draw with minimal talent. His performance may have benefited from Soderbergh’s approach to acting, which seems to keep the audience emotionally distant from them. Like many of his characters in Contagion, Haywire doesn’t exactly endear itself. You hope for Kane’s success, but her plight isn’t the kind you would cheer or jeer. Carano does a fine job in the role, but is likewise beholden to Soderbergh’s style.
Two of their co-stars, Ewan McGregor as the head of a company who outsources spies to various governments and Antonio Banderas as the mysterious financer of the plot against Mallory never display more than rudimentary techniques in their roles. This could be a fault of Lem Dobbs’ inefficient screenplay, given that both are fine actors when given better material.
There’s a clear dileneation in Dobbs’ script between good and bad; while it may not be evident at the outset, by the end of the second act, there is little doubt. This reliance on convention keeps the film from stretching beyond its tightly-focused boundaries. Spy thrillers have always needed an indisputable hero and an indefatiguable villain. Born out of the Cold War, this methodology enabled the public to rally behind the flag as a courageous force risked his own life to protect theirs. While the Bourne series has tried to blur these lines, only Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has managed to keep the audience from identifying someone truly evil and someone entirely good. Shades of gray don’t belong in this medium, at least that’s the common perception.
Soderbergh had the chance to not only divert from the standard sound effects-heavy techniques of his predecessors, but expand beyond the narrative stricture of the genre. Were it an entirely convention-defying picture, it might have been more exciting; but other than the nifty use of naturalistic sounds, most of the piece is merely traditional.
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Korean media: the epidemic hits the tourism industry, causing losses of up to 14 trillion won
After the outbreak of the epidemic, not only did they fall into unemployment, but most people had difficulty obtaining government assistance because they had not signed a labor contract with the company.
According to the Korean media "Jingxiang Shimbun", due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, a South Korean travel agency's revenue fell 97% year-on-year, and its debt was more than 1 billion won (about 5.94 million yuan). At the end of last year, the third pandemic occurred in South Korea. The travel agency was overwhelmed and was forced to fire more than 20 employees. The person in charge of the travel agency said that since South Korea issued anti-epidemic measures that banned gatherings of five or more people, small travel agencies in some places have struggled. "I have been in the tourism industry for 20 years, but this is the first time I have encountered such a harsh business environment." He said.
According to a data from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, affected by the epidemic, the overall revenue loss of South Korea's tourism industry in 2020 is expected to reach 14.1 trillion won (about 83.5 billion yuan). Among the practitioners, the tour guides responsible for receiving foreign tourists and translating bear the brunt. After the outbreak of the epidemic, not only did they fall into unemployment, but most people had difficulty obtaining government assistance because they had not signed a labor contract with the company.
In addition, various industries in South Korea’s cultural and art fields have suffered serious losses. The income from museums and art galleries has decreased by 110.3 billion won; the income of art performances and art exhibitions has decreased by 449.2 billion won; the cancellation of 570 popular music performances has resulted in a loss of 66.6 billion won; Cinema revenue fell nearly 80% year-on-year. It is worth noting that the sports industry has suffered more losses than the tourism industry. Last year, its revenue dropped by 29 trillion won. (*Article source: People's Daily Online)
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Charlotte Mason and the Millennium
by Art Middlekauff
The first time I ever spoke at a Charlotte Mason event was the 2008 Living Education Retreat. I thought I did pretty well, but I wasn’t sure I would ever be invited back. (I was, thankfully, in 2015.) A key element of my 2008 presentation was Charlotte Mason’s theology. My focus was narrow, however, and I entitled my talk “The Nature of Children.” By 2010 I had broadened my coverage of Charlotte Mason’s beliefs sufficiently enough that I could entitle my new workshop “The Theology of Charlotte Mason,” a workshop which I co-hosted at the Charlotte Mason Institute conference that year.
I adapted, evolved, and presented this “Theology of Charlotte Mason” presentation many times in the succeeding years. But from the first, in 2010, I told my audiences that I was primarily focused on Mason’s theology of “personhood and personal development.” I had a line that I would always deliver: “Her theology of eschatology is very interesting, but probably not so relevant to a conference on education.” That was my statement of (or so I thought) the obvious notion that no one really cares about Mason’s theology of the end-times. After all, what bearing could that possibly have on pedagogy?
Well, fast-forward to 2020, and now I find myself wanting to retract my little disclaimer. Over the years I have learned just how many things do in fact have a bearing on pedagogy. For example, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe, and the decorations we employ have all worked their way into articles and discussions about education. So 10 years after laying down the guardrails for my exploration of Mason’s theology, I hereby widen my aperture. Charlotte Mason’s eschatology is now fair game.
But even then, I will limit my investigation to just one aspect of Mason’s eschatology: her view of the millennium. Now what, you may ask, is the millennium? It is one of the most debated elements of Christian theology, based on one of the most fiercely contested passages in all of Sacred Scripture:
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let out for a little while.
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years. (Revelation 20:1–6, RSV2CE)
The “thousand years” of this passage in Revelation are known as the millennium. The great question that has engaged Christian expositors and thinkers across the centuries is the relationship between these thousand years, the millennium, and the bodily return of Christ to earth described in the immediately preceding passage, Revelation 19:11–21. Interpreters have generally fallen into three camps:
Broadly there are three schools of thought: amillennialism, premillennialism, and postmillennialism. The prefixes “a,” “pre,” and “post” suggest the view of the timing of the Lord Jesus Christ’s second advent in relation to the “thousand years.” Hence, postmillennialists argue that Christ returns after the “thousand years.” Premillennialists argue that Christ comes before the thousand years. Amillennialists also contend that the Lord comes after the thousand years much like postmillennialists, but they understand the thousand years differently. For the amillennialist, as the prefix suggests, there really is no literal thousand years. Instead, the whole interadvent period between the first and second comings of Christ is taken to be the “millennium.” Some postmillennialists argue with the amillennialists that the millennium may not be a literal thousand years, yet they generally agree with the premillennialists that the millennium is yet future. There are many variations even among adherents to the same broad view of the millennium.[1]
The three schools represent three quite different views of the future. The premillennial view is perhaps the most jarring to the modern mind as it contemplates an extraordinary state of affairs on planet earth itself:
The second coming will be a great, single, outstanding, and glorious event, but will be accompanied by several others bearing on the Church, on Israel, and on the world. The dead saints will be raised and the living transfigured, and together they will be translated to meet the coming Lord. Antichrist and his wicked allies will be slain; and Israel, the ancient people of God will repent, be saved, and restored to the Holy Land. Then the Kingdom of God, predicted by the prophets, will be established in a transformed world. The Gentiles will turn to God in great abundance and be incorporated in the Kingdom. A condition of peace and righteousness will prevail in all the earth. After the expiration of the earthly rule of Christ the rest of the dead will be raised up; and this resurrection will be followed by the last judgment and the creation of a new heaven and a new earth.[2]
In can be difficult at first to grasp the full implications of this vision of the future. The idea is that right here on our planet earth (not the “new heaven and new earth” of Revelation 21), resurrected human beings will be serving under the Lord Jesus Christ, appearing now as a worldwide King, no longer a suffering servant. Planet earth will become a literal theocratic paradise. And this will last for one thousand years, before eternity begins, in which “the dwelling of God is with men” (Revelation 21:3, RSV2CE).
While this vision of the future was “the dominant position among the ante-Nicene Fathers,”[3] its vision of a physical, earthly kingdom was distasteful to later theologians. St. Augustine (354–430) is thus generally associated with the emergence of the second school of thought, amillennialism:
Augustine discussed Revelation 20:1–10 in some detail in the City of God…, reasoning by analogy of faith with other passages of scripture that the millennial kingdom is best viewed as the present Christian era wherein the powers of evil are already being restrained and the church being given time to proclaim the gospel. The strongman Satan is being bound up by Christ on the cross and in the descent into the netherworld… Ultimately, “to the strong, even the devil is weak”…, though penultimately he may be permitted to rage before his final collapse.
During this postresurrection period the gospel is being preached with the hope that Christ will increasingly reign in human hearts. The millennium is not to be awaited but has already begun. The church constitutes the proximate firstfruits of the kingdom of God on earth…
Augustine’s view became prototypical for much Western Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant. When the glorious return did not occur in the year A.D. 1000, the idea of millennium increasingly became viewed symbolically as a long though unspecified period of time.[4]
Across history, then, most Christians have been amillennial along with St. Augustine. In this view, the millennium is a symbol of the present age. It is the span of time between Christ’s first advent and his second. And the “new heaven and new earth” of Revelation 21 begin immediately upon that second advent.
Over time, however, a third position emerged, distinct from the other two. The postmillennial view is described as follows:
Postmillennialists tend to appear as historical optimists who believe in the triumph of the gospel in human society… Many have a gradualist and progressive view of the coming kingdom, wherein Christ, though physically absent, is gradually coming more and more to reign upon the earth and will come when that process has come to completion. Postmillennialists expect history to get better, not worse…
Postmillennialism means that Christ will return after the gospel has been preached to all and has taken full effect among the nations. The glorious return will occur after the millennial kingdom has been established.[5]
This description of the kingdom of Christ may ring a bell for people who have read a wide range of Charlotte Mason’s writings. For example, in 1904 Mason wrote:
But we are in the dark hour before dawn; such a Christianity is coming upon us as neither the world nor the Church has ever dreamed of…[6]
Similarly, in 1916 she wrote:
… perhaps the great Hope rising upon us out of the present distress is that an era of passionate Christianity is coming, when we shall hear the shout of a King in our midst and shall all stand at attention waiting his word of command, when we shall hasten to do his bidding, and, like any other courtiers, be aware of the mind of our King upon all the matters of our daily life, small and great, knowing indeed that in his eyes there are no small things and no great.[7]
Indeed, Chapter V of Part II of Mason’s Formation of Character could be recast as a postmillennial view of the future. Entitled “A Hundred Years After,” it describes a future utopia when life-giving ideas have spread throughout the world. Particularly touching in this vision is a description of the transformation of the church of Christ:
A century ago, our Church was supposed to show some signs of decadence; to-day she is quick to her remotest extremities… our clergy are raising up about them a body of ardent young spirits to whom self-devotion is a law; labour in spiritual uplands a necessity.[8]
For some students of Charlotte Mason, this chapter entitled “A Hundred Years After” is the most embarrassing portion of the canon. I suspect the embarrassment is less due to Mason’s limited skill as a science fiction writer and more due to a deep mistrust for such a progressive view of the future.
In any event, is it safe to infer that Mason was postmillennial because some of her optimistic statements about the future sound like what a postmillennialist might say? Of course, if we could find an explicit statement about the millennium from Mason, then the case would be closed. But I have searched high and low for such a statement and I can’t find one. So we have to rely on circumstantial evidence to answer the question. A first approach might be to consider who the postmillennialists were, and whether any of them would have been anywhere near Charlotte Mason’s circle of thought. We can begin with a few examples:
Among varied representatives of postmillennialism are Joachim of Fiora, Daniel Whitby, Cocceius, Witsius, and Rauschenbusch.[9]
Examining this list, we find that Joachim of Fiora (1135–1202) was an Italian Catholic. Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669) and Herman Witsius (1636–1708) were Dutch Reformed theologians. Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was an American Baptist. The only Anglican on this representative list is Daniel Whitby (1638–1726), who “was a controversial English theologian.”[10]
I mention the Anglican aspect because Mason stayed pretty carefully within the boundaries of her church. All of the commentaries assigned in the PNEU programmes were written by Anglicans. (There were zero exceptions.) Most of the theologians Mason quoted (such as F.D. Maurice) were Anglican. Very rarely did Mason point to other sources, and as far as Anglicans go, I can find no evidence that she was reading the writings of Whitby or any postmillennialist.
What I can find evidence for, however, is a theory about what Mason’s students would have learned when they studied Revelation. We know that they did study this book, in the highest two forms:
The study of the Epistles and the Book of Revelation is confined for the most part to Forms V and VI.[11]
While we do not have a full programme in the digital archive in which Revelation was assigned, we do have a programme fragment from 1918 which includes an exam question about the book. We have many later programmes for Forms V and VI and they all assign the same commentary for all Bible lessons without exception: John Roberts Dummelow’s One Volume Bible Commentary. The evidence points to an unshakable conclusion: when Mason’s PNEU students encountered Revelation, they had Dummelow at their side. And what did this Anglican theologian have to say about the Millennium? Let’s see what the Form V and VI PNEU scholars would have read.
First, they would see that in the introduction to the book of Revelation, Dummelow states:
The sketch of the purpose of this book will have shown that the ‘Preterist’ view is at the basis of the present Commentary.[12]
The preterist view holds that all or most of the prophecies in Revelation were fulfilled in the first century AD. This view is commonly associated with amillennialism. Indeed, on the next page the commentary elaborates:
The question remains whether those predications which have to do with the millennium, i.e. the thousand years during which Christ would reign on earth (cp. 204f., were meant to be understood literally or spiritually. The earliest interpretation was literal. Those who accepted the book expected a literal reign of Christ on earth. It was for this reason that many, not believing in a literal millennium, would not accept the book as canonical. It was only the spread of spiritual interpretation, by which the ‘thousand years’ denoted the present period of the Church, the view advocated by Jerome and Augustine, that enabled the Church as a whole to receive the book.[13]
This is quintessential amillennialism: “the ‘thousand years’ denote[s] the present period of the Church.” Not only that, but also the students of the PNEU would be taught that without amillennialism, the canonicity of Revelation would still be in doubt.
When Dummelow actually gets to Revelation 20:1–3, he exegetically defends his amillennial view:
The meaning is, that for ‘1,000 years’ the power of evil would not be able to gather itself into an organized attack upon Christianity. The ‘1,000 years’ are not to be understood numerically, but as a period of rest and happiness. For 1,000 is a multiple of 10, which was regarded as a sacred number because the commandments are 10; and it is the number which was considered to stand for the sabbath in the history of the world, 1,000 years’ rest coming after 6,000 years’ toil: cp Ps904.[14]
This would not have been controversial in the Anglican context of Mason’s day. If Mason did not accept Dummelow’s amillennial position, so carefully argued theologically and exegetically, why would she put his commentary in the hands of her students? Perhaps this circumstantial evidence is conclusive, and we can rest assured that Mason was an amillennialist. And perhaps I should end my article here.
But I must point out that there was another minority view among Anglicans: some were actually premillennialists. The most notable example, is perhaps, Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816–1900). Although he was never (as far as I know) quoted by Charlotte Mason, many Christians today have heard of him because of his strong evangelical beliefs. When it came to the millennium, his view was quite clear:
V. I believe that the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ will be a real, literal, personal, bodily coming; and that as He went away in the clouds of heaven with His body, before the eyes of men, so in like manner He will return. (Acts i. 11)
VI. I believe that after our Lord Jesus Christ comes again, the earth shall be renewed, and the curse removed; the devil shall be bound, the godly shall be rewarded, the wicked shall be punished; and that before He comes there shall be neither resurrection, judgment, nor millennium, and that not till after He comes shall the earth be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. (Acts iii. 21; Isa. xxv. 6–9; 1 Thess. Iv. 14–18; Rev. xx. 1, etc.)[15]
Indeed, Ryle insisted that “placing the millennium between ourselves and the advent”[16] has the unfortunate effect of destroying the possibility that Christ could return at any time. This concern of upholding the immanence of Christ’s return was perhaps as important to Ryle as the concern of upholding the canonicity of Revelation was to Dummelow.
At this point you may ask why Ryle would have influenced Mason towards premillennialism any more than Whitby would have influenced her towards postmillennialism. And there really is no reason. Except that it is so interesting to read about Masons’ view of the resurrection. This view comes out clearly in a remarkable letter from 1911. Speaking of “the world to come,” she writes:
I do not look for anything in the way of punishment or reward or compensation more than of the sort I get here—with the one vast exception of “life more abounding,” that is, I think God-knowledge, God-consciousness.
But there will be there
So much to do
So much to know
So much to love
At the present time people can only see, know, do, love, as they are prepared, and I have a notion we have to begin the things in the flesh. We shall go on with it in the spirit. All the people we shall meet we ought to know, realise, first; all the flowers in the world—all the stars in the universe (and I know no astronomy to speak of!)
I think the most astonishing statement in this letter is when she says that the next life will be more “of the sort I get here.” The sense is that the current life is a “dress rehearsal” for future wonders that differ only in degree but not in kind. And what of this tantalizingly obscure statement about “all the flowers in the world”? Perhaps the notion is that we should get to know our flowers now because we shall see them again in the next age?
You might say, “well enough, this will be fulfilled in the new heaven and the new earth of Revelation 21, not the millennium of Revelation 20.” And of course, you are probably right. And yet there is something so tangible, so earthy, so real about Mason’s vision of the resurrection. Will we see those flowers again?
The December 1918 issue of The Parents’ Review contained a most interesting article. With Mason as the editor, we know that nothing got into the magazine without her approval. The Rev. F. H. Bickersteth Ottley had given a lecture to the PNEU at St. Agnes School. As an Anglican priest, he certainly had the qualifications to speak reliably on spiritual matters. His topic was “Jerusalem and Palestine.” Something about the lecture appealed enough to Mason to make her want to include the text in The Parents’ Review.
The article runs a generous twelve pages. It is really a first-rate geography piece, as suggested by the first paragraph:
My only qualification for attempting to deal with this subject is the fact that I have travelled myself on horseback from Jerusalem to Damascus; and in that journey I became convinced that a knowledge of the geographical configuration of Palestine is an absolute necessity to an intelligent understanding of the stories of the Old and New Testaments.[17]
Why does one need to know geography to understand the Old and New Testaments? Because the stories it recounts are so tangible, so earthy, so real…
In the twelve pages, Ottley dives into a detailed review of all kinds of elements of Palestinian geography. Through it all, he ties the facts and features to relevant portions of the Old and New Testaments. It is wonderful and rich, but not overtly paradigm-shifting. But then in the last paragraph he breaks the glass:
I feel now that I have said enough to enable teachers to realize what a wealth of material is at their disposal with a map and a pair of compasses, a series of photographs and some of the many books published on Palestine, to make the Scripture lesson the most fascinating lesson of the day, instead of a dull, dry task. The History of the Jews is the key of God’s great design, and the land of this mysterious chosen people will be the land where the greatest event of the future will take place—the Second Coming of our Lord to this world. Just as for the past 4,000 years Palestine has been the centre from which has radiated out in ever growing circles the Divine purposes which led up to and followed the fact of the Incarnation. So shall it be the centre of the Millennial Reign, when His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem upon the East.[18]
I read this paragraph. And then I reread it. And then I reread it again. This is the premillennialism of the ancient church. This is the hope of Bishop Ryle. This is the belief that Jesus Christ will come and rule in personal, bodily form, right here on planet earth, for one thousand years.
What did Mason think when she read these words? Did she notice the discrepancy with Dummelow? Did she sympathize with Ottley’s view? Or did she merely tolerate it? Perhaps we will never know. There is no footnote. There is no editor’s note.
But I can’t help but wonder if Mason imagined for a moment what this kind of future would be like. Jesus Christ would be here on earth, our earth. The saints would be raised too (Revelation 20:4). Did she think about her 1911 letter: “All the people we shall meet we ought to know, realise, first; all the flowers in the world—all the stars in the universe”?
All the flowers of the world. Right here before Jesus Christ. And we, under His government, going for a nature walk. After the wondrous meeting on the road to Emmaus, the disciples reflected, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” (Luke 24:32, RSV2CE). How would our hearts burn within us if we could walk among the flowers with the King who created them?
Surely it was Rev. Ottley’s hope. It is my hope too. Was it Mason’s? I don’t know. I do know one thing for sure, however. Mason wrote, “Let [the children] grow up, too, with the shout of a King in their midst.”[19] If there is a King, then there is a Kingdom. Whether our King is in heaven or on earth, He rules just the same. And our job as parents is to enthrone Him in every heart.
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[1] Zachariades, D. (2003). “Millennium.” In C. Brand, C. Draper, A. England, S. Bond, E. R. Clendenen, & T. C. Butler (Eds.), Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (p. 1127). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Berkhof, L. (1938). Systematic theology (p. 709). Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
[3] Oden, T. (1992). Life in the Spirit: systematic theology, vol. III (p. 427). San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco.
[4] Ibid., pp. 421–422.
[6] Mason, C. (1904). Home Education, 3rd ed. (pp. 303–304).
[7] Mason, C. (1916). “The National Mission.” In The Parents’ Review, vol. 27 (p. 771).
[8] Mason, C. (1906). Formation of Character (pp. 171–172).
[9] Oden, T. (1992), op. cit., p. 424.
[10] “Daniel Whitby,” Wikipedia.org, last retrieved 9/19/2020.
[11] Mason, C. (1925). Towards a Philosophy of Education (p. 169).
[12] Dummelow, J. (1908), The One Volume Bible Commentary (p. 1066).
[13] Ibid., p. 1067.
[15] Ryle, J. (1879). Coming events and present duties. London: William Hunt and Company (p. x.).
[17] Ottley, F. (1918). “Jerusalem and Palestine.” In The Parents’ Review, vol. 29 (p. 760).
[19] Mason, C. (1904). Parents and Children (p. 57).
One Reply to “Charlotte Mason and the Millennium”
Nancy Kelly says:
Listening to this article was like hearing a thrilling piece of reader’s theater! It has so many ideas in it that I will be thinking about it for a long time. Of course, your opening about the LER caught my attention right away as I certainly do remember the 2008 talk, then the 2015 presentation, and others since then. It takes humility to admit that our views and understanding have grown and changed, so I’m grateful that you admit that and then so clearly explain how that has happened in your own CM journey. I wonder if this is the first time the words “Mason” and “science fiction” have been in the same sentence?!?
But in the broader view, this little bit of the history of eschatology, specifically millennialism and Mason’s view, is a fascinating thing to ponder. Thank you for explaining it so well and bringing your vast knowledge and reading to bear on the topic.
“And our job as parents is to enthrone Him in every heart.” Amen.
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St. PETERSBURG, 16 Dec. Agriculture of the Leningrad region shows the growth of production of grain, potato, milk and fish in large holdings, and developing farms.
“Agriculture of the Leningrad region shows the production increase: increased production of grain, potato, milk, fish. This was reported at the meeting with heads of Executive authorities of the Leningrad region, summarizing the preliminary results of the state program “Development of agriculture of the Leningrad region” in 2015″, — stated in the message of the regional government.
For the first nine months of 2015, gross production output of agriculture amounted to $ 81.6 billion (103% in comparable prices over the same period of 2014), the year is expected more than 100 billion rubles.
“The active development of agriculture of the Leningrad region, despite the fact that its lands belong to the so-called zone of risky agriculture, technology policy promotes competent leaders, which is supported by the relevant committees and the head of the region Alexander Drozdenko,” notes candidate of economic Sciences, associate Professor North-West research Institute of Economics and organization of agriculture Vladimir Surovtsev.
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The Leningrad region produces 41.4% of gross output of agriculture of the northwestern Federal district, 2% of the total agricultural production of the country.
According to the forecast, by the end of 2015 in the 47th region grain production will amount to 139 thousand tons (109% compared to 2014), potatoes — 308,6 thousand tons (108%), milk — 575 thousand tons (101,3%), meat — 367 thousand tons (100,1%), fish catch -19,1 thousand tons (109,1%), commercial fisheries — 7,1 thousand tons (106%).
Last year in Leningrad region produced more than 3 billion eggs, and about 300 thousand tons of poultry meat. In 2014, the region produced 41.4 per cent of gross output of agriculture of North-West and 2.3% of the total agricultural production of the country. The leading place in the agricultural complex of the region have livestock.
Implementation of the programs “beginning farmer” and “Development of family livestock farms”. If in 2009 to support small farms from the budgets was sent to 33.2 million rubles, in 2014 the volume of state support has exceeded 309 million rubles, i.e. was increased in 9 times. Today representatives of the small farms produce 26% of the total gross output of agriculture of the Leningrad region.
The experts also point to growing support for the regional government of the farm and its growing potential.
“The number of farms in the Leningrad region can be increased at least twice, the production of goods of agriculture — four times. Of course, the emphasis of development of agroindustrial complex of the region aimed at the development of large-scale production, but in every niche of the agricultural sector has its own advantages. Developments in many of our areas are decent, as in some areas farmers do not yet feel the competition,” says the head of the farmers Union of Leningrad region Mikhail Skanda.
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Off the Shelf…’Hook’
I think it’s fair to say that a great many people overlook this film and it wasn’t really popular when it came out, but over the years I have learned to love Hook. Steven Spielberg can almost do no wrong and while this is a departure from the actioners he is known to helm, this still had its fair share of kid friendly swashbuckling. Talk about an ensemble cast, this film has acting talent in spades…
In Hook, a grown up Peter Banning (really, the real Peter Pan) has grown up in the real world after being adopted as an orphan. As an adult, Peter has forgotten all the memories from his time in Never Never Land. Peter, on a (perhaps fated) trip back to England is visiting Wendy Darling. His purpose is to honor her for her lifetime of raising orphans by opening a hospital in her name. While at that dinner event, Captain Hook has kidnapped Peter’s two children and ransomed them. Peter, so far removed from his past life, slowly starts to come to terms with what is going on, who has his children, where he must go to save them, and finally that he really is the Peter Pan.
When one thinks of Robin Williams, “wacky” is probably the first word that comes to mind. Yet, thinking about casting, he was really the only choice for this movie because if there was truly a person who never grew up, it is Williams. Sure he has had some fine dramatic performances and wowed audiences and critics with his range but this role suited him amazingly well. Sure this wasn’t a vehicle for him to channel all his over the top antics but he was able to play the line between adult and kid pretty damn well.
Now if Robin Williams wasn’t enough of a shot into left field for a casting decision, how about Dustin Hoffman? I mean he just killed the role and, aside from Bob Hoskins as Smee, was the best part of the movie. This wasn’t Hoffman’s best performance by far, but I still think he delivered the goods. He came across so likeable even as a villain that I would be all for another film, even though he was ambiguously eaten by the crock at the end. While I’m sure everyone (both viewers and the actors in the movie) realized some lines were cheesy, he gave it the performance a fine run through even if it seemed he was dumbing himself down to play Hook. This is still a kids movie after all, so some leeway had to be given to allow this movie and his role in it to get a passing grade from an older viewing audience.
While I consider John Williams as probably my all time favorite film composer, this score was both fantastical, inspiring magical and touching. Never one to give anything less than a top-tier performance Williams gave an incredibly unique score to the film which fit so well with the theme of the movie (could he do anything but?) making Hook not just a visual feast but an auditory one as well. While I value Williams’ scores, this, much like Hoffman wasn’t the crown jewel in his resume but there were some parts of the score (namely the sequence where Peter finally remembers who he is) that were beyond brilliant and showcased Williams’ ability to continually surpass his own achievements in music.
Now, I do adore this film, but I do find one gripe I need to bring up. I never, never, never, never liked Rufio, neither as the character or the actor. Something has always seemed off. Be it his brazen attitude, his arrogant demeanor, the fact that he can’t act, or that he really does look like a “skunk head with too much moose” his whole character was a real tough sell. However over the years (many, many yeas in fact), I have kind of accepted him as part of the movie and have let my dislike with him go…basically the same way I feel about Ghostbusters II.
Watching this movie was like watching a parade go by. There were so many wonderful things to look at, the colors were vivid and the music got you into what was going on. Amidst the cornucopia of great scenery and screen elements, there’s two things that really caught my eye and made me do a double take. The first is a rather obscure cameo from Glen Close (of all people) playing a lowly pirate (of all parts). If you didn’t notice her before that’s OK, she doesn’t really look like herself. It’s kind of like an on-screen easter egg if you’re able to recognize her. Also Phil Collins makes a very small appearance if you didn’t catch him either. I don’t want to spoil those scenes for you so I leave it to you all to watch it again to find them both…or for the impatient viewers, just try a YouTube search.
When this was released on DVD years ago it was one of the first DVD titles to feature an anamorphic transfer. That was like the HD of the day. While the visuals themselves may have seemed vert set oriented and implausible, I still consider it the eye candy of yesteryear. I enjoy this movie for its looks, the acting, the incredible score and the bookoo acting talent that brought it all together.
Now as a bit of parting thanks, I do have to acknowledge Pogomix.net (who are known to make awesome videos using nothing but clips, sounds and music from the movie in question) for their recent ‘Hook’ remixed music video. It was the inspiration to get me to watch and write-up this old favorite of mine. Check out the video and enjoy…
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All in all, Hook is a reminder for us to get back in-touch with the kid in all of us. It’s a fun ride and really makes you believe in the “second star to the right” and all that goes with it.
G-S-T Ruling: 4/5
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President Buchanan invites the Prince of Wales to visit the United States
President Buchanan wrote to Queen Victoria to suggest officially that should the Prince of Wales wish to extend his upcoming visit to Canada with a visit to the United States he would be welcomed with enthusiasm. The invitation was taken up and the heir to the British throne entered the U.S. at Detroit on September 20, 1860 and was received in Washington DC by President Buchanan on the afternoon of October 3, 1860. (By John Osborne)
Ian Radforth, Royal Spectacle: The 1860 of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 313.
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Buchanan, James
08/09/1860 New York Herald, “The Ovations to the Prince of Wales,” August 9, 1860
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Kindle books in Indian languages could be a game changer
New Delhi, Dec. 21 -- Amazon India has announced that Kindle will launch digital books in five Indian languages-Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati and Malayalam. The titles include Ishq Mein Shahar Hona by Ravish Kumar (Hindi), Rajaraja Chozhan by Sa. Na. Kannan (Tamil), Mrutyunjay by Shivaji Sawant (Marathi), Ek Bija Ne Gamta Rahiye by Kaajal Oza Vaidya (Gujarati), Aarachar by K.R. Meera (Malayalam) and Mayapuri by Shivani (Hindi). Kindle devices seventh generation and above will support Indic scripts, enabling readers to access such books. This is a move that could be a game changer in India. Amazon India has moved methodically to embed itself in Indian publishing. First, it launched Kindle with free lifetime digital access provided by BSNL, but only for English e-books. In November, the acquisition of local publishing firm Westland-known for its commercial fiction best-sellers and translation programme-was completed at reportedly $6.5 million (around Rs44 crore), a small portion of the $5 billion allocated by Jeff Bezos as investment in India. In fact, Seattle-based Amazon Publishing's translation imprint, AmazonCrossing, has surpassed all other publishers in the amount of world literature it makes available in the US. This was first highlighted in December 2015 by Chad Post, publisher, Open Letter Books, on his influential website, Three Percent. In October 2015 AmazonCrossing announced it had a $10 million budget to invest in translations worldwide. It is probably no coincidence that Amazon India vice- president and country manager Amit Agarwal has been inducted into the Bezos core team, which is responsible for its global strategy. In an email, Post responded to the news, saying: "This seems like a great thing for Indian readers and anyone interested in Indian literature. Amazon's stated goal is to make as many books available in as many formats to as many people as possible, and this program is a strong move in that direction. Increasing digital access to these books will be huge-it greatly expands the potential audience, and could help AmazonCrossing expand into publishing Indian writers in translation. AmazonCrossing published 60 works translated into English in 2016, which is far more than any other publisher. The majority of these titles are translated from German, French and Spanish, but AmazonCrossing has expanded into doing works from Iceland, Turkish, Chinese and Indonesian, so it makes sense that they would be interested in finding books from these five Indian languages." In India, this announcement could not have come at a more opportune moment. With demonetization, Indians who prefer dealing in cash are perforce moving to digital payments. Also, by July 2017, it will be mandatory for all handsets manufactured, stored, sold and distributed in India to support the inputting of text in English, Hindi and at least one more official Indian language, and support reading of text in all these languages, thus making it feasible to read books other than English on the Kindle app too. Kannan Sundaram, publisher, Kalachuvadu, welcomed the decision: "We hope it will increase our revenue from e-books which is pretty low now. Tamilians are spread all over the world. It is near impossible to reach hard copies to them. So this will boost the chances for them to read Tamil books of their choice." Best-selling author Ashwin Sanghi called it an "outstanding initiative by Amazon India. It's about time that vernacular writing moved out from the confines of paperback. It will also enable out-of-print books to be made available now." Another best-selling author, Amish Tripathi, said this will address the inadequate distribution and marketing of Indian language books, for the much larger market is the one in Indian languages. "I am personally committed to this and am very happy that of the 3.5 million copies that have been sold of my books, a good 500,000 of them are in Indian languages." Others remarked upon the best global practices it would bring to local publishing. Well-known Hindi lexicographer Arvind Kumar says it will influence reading patterns by encouraging cross-pollination of literature across cultures by "opening new avenues for translation of two-way Hindi to English and other Indian languages which are being introduced on Kindle, and from many non-English languages like French and German or, say, Latin American into Hindi". Mini Krishnan, OUP, too endorsed it, saying readership in the Indian languages is healthy, so "a highly portable personal library will surely do well". Published by HT Syndication with permission from MINT.
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Taxis to overtake private car sales soon: Maruti Suzuki's RC Bhargava
New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- In a move that is indicative of Indian auto companies' belated and grudging acceptance that their industry has been disrupted, perhaps forever, by new models of ownership, the country's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, expects the bulk of future vehicle purchases to be in the taxi space. Fewer cars will be bought for personal use as shared mobility spreads its wings, according to Maruti Suzuki. "The ownership spectrum will change. Bulk of the cars will not be privately owned. A lot of cars will be owned (commercially used) by the aggregators," Maruti Suzuki chairman R.C. Bhargava said at a press conference on Friday. At Maruti itself, fleet sales, albeit on a smaller base, surged 60% during 2015-16, largely on account of demand from taxi aggregators. The changing car-buying pattern, however, is unlikely to impact sales, Bhargava said. "I do not see these aggregators as a threat to the industry. They are positive for the industry. The reason being, anything that increases efficiency level, which is a more economic solution, has to be good for the customer, good for the user of the car, good for the industry. There cannot be a situation which is good for a user and a customer but bad for the industry. So, I don't agree with the Mahindra assessment," Bhargava said. He was referring to a September 2015 statement by Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, who said that since cab-hailing companies such as Ola and Uber had turned transportation into a commodity, auto sales could be impacted. Mahindra's assessment may have been based on the fact that if Ola, promoted by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, had built a fleet of 350,000 cars across India and Uber around 150,000, and assuming their claim that none of their vehicles is older than three years is correct, then together they would have accounted for 9.25% of the 5.4 million passenger cars sold in India between 2013-14 and 2015-16. And, since one cab gets utilized multiple times during the day, it is a potential cause of concern. "A lot of youngsters who can own vehicles today don't want to own one, but only need access to transportation," Mahindra had said. Bhargava's argument, on the other hand, is based on the assumption that with the increasing use of four-wheelers due to the taxi aggregators' aggressive push, customers will move away from scooters and motorcycles to the vehicles of the cab-hailing companies. The jury is still out on the disruption caused by the taxi aggregators, but industry experts see it as a sign of things to come. A June 2015 Morgan Stanley report said private car ownership is more aspirational in India, a country with growing Internet access and a large population of young people who are concerned about pollution and are open to ride-sharing. "India has all the right ingredients to become one of the largest markets for shared mobility in the world," Morgan Stanley analyst Binay Singh wrote in the report. According to John Moavenzadeh, head of Mobility Industries and member of the executive committee of the World Economic Forum, in India, Ola and Uber in the short term are actually generating sales for auto manufacturers because they are providing financing programmes for people to purchase their vehicles and to become drivers. "That's great for the vehicle manufacturers, but that is a short-term gain coming at the cost of medium- and long-term sales opportunities following that classic old model of 'we need to sell more cars'," Moavenzadeh said in an October interview. "But, you are not going to sell more cars if you have a fleet of cars which are much more heavily utilized and, of course, that's what Ola and Uber do. You take a car, it is used 50% of the time, whereas (in the) personal mobility model, a car is sitting idle for 95% of the time," Moavenzadeh said. "In the long term, they will take cars off the road. That's the big challenge." Not that Indian manufacturers are sitting idle. They are testing the waters. While Maruti has tied up with Ola and Uber for driver training programmes, Mahindra has tied up with Ola to finance vehicles for more than 40,000 of its drivers by 2018. The deal is pegged at Rs2,600 crore. Tata Motors Ltd has a similar tie-up with Uber.
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Enjoying Mario Games Online
The days when Mario games can only be played on a console have gone. When personal computers became a necessity in the US, Mario ‘s games entered the network. The online versions of those games are very similar to the initials, but nowadays you don’t have to work with any device except your computer to play them.
This is without a doubt the most popular and most widely played game on the web. Adults and children love the adventures of Luigi and Mario in King koopa World especially in past releases, which let mature players reminisce. More than 200 Mario games produced today are available. Not all of them have an online version uploaded. Although the smaller ones can be found a little easier.
The biggest difference is the settings of the game between playing Mario online and playing with a gaming console. The use of the mouse and keyboard for game management means you need to play over the net. Only the keyboard is used in almost every situation. To fully play the game and do it well, you need to manipulate the game, as you do with the use of a game console.
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Play current Mario games, usually on the web browser. You’ve got a flash, so it’s not important to download the entire game that’s scheduled to run on a browser. All you have to accomplish is to go to a gaming location where these games can be sold. These sites may have uploaded other games so that you may need to find them in particular. Try to find Mario in the right category of game. Normally they go through action games or maybe arcade games.
The downside to playing Mario online is that you must play the game on a small screen. Some online platforms have options to play a full-screen game but don’t believe that anyone should do it. Pick a gaming site that offers this feature if you want to maximize the fun of playing Mario games online.
Choose from a wide range of online Mario games — puzzles, adventure, races and games to shoot are possible. Some games are modelled on some original versions while others are created by independent programmers who adapt Mario as their main character. Each is guaranteed to be friendly. You will support you when you’re gone. They’re indeed an excellent hobby, particularly for games to relax in front of your computer or maybe get away from a tired mission.
Experience the adventure Mario can bring. It’s just so nice to know that such games are usually available to anyone with an online connection. You can play with it whenever you want and do so at no cost. Catch Mario online free games and have a wonderful time playing with them, too. Easy are suitable for adults as well as children.
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Microsoft Reports Strong Rebound: Happy–Well, Less Gloomy–Days Are Here Again! (Plus the Numbers)
April 22, 2010 at 1:27 pm PT
With much easier comparisons due to a devastating period last year and an upswing in PC sales, Microsoft posted solid third-quarter earnings today after the markets closed.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it had revenue of $14.5 billion in the quarter ended March 31, a six percent rise from a year ago.
Net income was $4.01 billion, or 45 cents a share.
That’s despite forking over $78 million to Yahoo in the quarter as part of Microsoft’s online search and advertising partnership with the company.
The numbers handily beat Wall Street expectations of $14.4 billion and 42 cents a share.
Microsoft (MSFT) said the results included “the deferral of $305 million of revenue relating to the Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee program. Adjusting for the revenue deferral, third-quarter revenue totaled $14.81 billion, an increase of eight percent over the prior year period.”
“Windows 7 continues to be a growth engine, but we also saw strong growth in other areas like Bing search, Xbox LIVE and our emerging cloud services,” said CFO Peter Klein in a statement. “Our record third-quarter revenue along with continued rigor on cost management resulted in exceptional EPS growth.”
Was it just a year ago, battered by the econalypse, that Microsoft reported its very first drop in revenue, as well as a disastrous net income?
At the time, then-CFO Chris Liddell noted that the recovery would not happen quickly, but be “slow and gradual.”
That was largely due to weak PC sales, of course. And it led to layoffs and a general mood of gloom over the company.
Last year in the same quarter, Microsoft whiffed big time, reporting revenue of $13.7 billion, down from $14.5 in the third quarter of 2008. Net income was worse, down to $2.98 billion from $4.4 billion the year earlier.
But PC sales are up, which is always good for Microsoft. Its stock has been up because of it–almost four percent just this week.
This year, the company also has sales of the new Windows 7 operating system to goose results.
And the next quarter will also probably look good as Microsoft releases its cash-generating Office 2010 version to businesses and consumers.
The Entertainment and Devices division, which includes Xbox, was up, earning $165 million, from a $41 million loss a year ago.
But the long-suffering Online Services Division–home of the company’s Bing search service–was, more than ever, money-losing. It lost $713 million in the quarter, compared with a loss of $411 million last year.
The red ink was even more so, since Microsoft forked over $78 million to Yahoo (YHOO) in the period, which certainly brightened Yahoo’s bottom line in its report earlier this week.
Here’s the Microsoft press release with tables:
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European football in China: digital dog fight
By Mailman/Netease 17 Jun 2015
European football is more than a game in China, it’s an obsession. Europe’s top four leagues have turned Chinese fans with no inherent connection to a club, into ‘super fans’ that are willing to invest more time, money, and emotion than their European counterparts.
Chinese fans’ appetite for the European game has grown dramatically in the last 10 years due for a few reasons, predominantly the technological development of broadcasting and digital media in China. Currently, there are around 70 million followers for the 30+ active European football teams on Chinese social media, with all of China’s top television networks vying for their share in broadcast rights.
Recently, a sports marketing company ran an online poll in partnership with Netease, China’s number one sports portal, revealing that La Liga is the most popular European league in China. La Liga received 45.5% of the votes, ahead of the Premier League with 35.7%, Bundesliga with 13.5% and Serie A with 5.3% of the votes. In cross analyzing the findings of the study along with our experience in the industry, we deduced the most probable reasons behind the success of La Liga and the Premier League.
Spanish Obsession
Spain received almost half of all the votes from the Netease poll, putting an end to the belief that the Premier League was the most popular in China. This can be attributed to four core reasons: star players, success at the right time, el Clásico, and the recent increase in commercial activity.
40% of fans follow a team because of their star players, a massive driving factor to the popularity of a league. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have over 31 million followers on Chinese social media, more than Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona combined. When they’re supported by the rest of the best players from across the world, it’s clear to see the effect that the calibre of players can have on the league. Ronaldo and Messi’s personal battle to be the best player in the world, where they have shared the World Player of the Year award for the last seven seasons, has brought La Liga far further into China’s limelight.
La Liga teams experienced a golden period between 2009 – 2014, with nine semi-finalists in the Champions League over this period, compared to only three from the Premier League. This era of success coincides with the boom of Chinese social media, a period where Chinese fans could for the first time openly discuss, follow, and engage with their favorite clubs. The Champions League is highly regarded by the Chinese fans, meaning that La Liga’s club’s success in the tournament during this period converted many fans to follow these teams on these new online platforms.
El Clásico, one of the world’s most viewed sports events with an estimated 400-500 million viewers worldwide, has become a must-watch in Chinese fans’ social calendar despite fans often having to stay up well into the early hours of the morning. No other top European rivalry can boast the same level of major honours, whilst the intensity shown in this fixture has deep roots in the Spanish vs. Catalan conflict. The passion on and off the field has driven exposure of La Liga, demonstrated by Real Madrid and Barcelona finishing in the top two of this year’s Red Card.
La Liga is still behind the Premier League in its Chinese commercial activity, but the gap is slowly closing with many recent investments. La Liga currently has four major commercial and sponsor deals with Chinese companies, including Huawei and CCTV. Meanwhile, Wanda Group paid £34 million for a 20% share in Atletico Madrid, the first time a Chinese company has invested in a top tier European football club. These commercial deals increase exposure and help to create a connection with Chinese fans and the league. In addition, given their extremely patriotic nature, Chinese fans responded positively to Chinese organisations now investing in elite European clubs. La Liga recognises a strong partnership with China is key to future development and plans to build on this to improve its relationship with Chinese fans.
Premier League Passion
The Premier League received just over a third of all votes, but is well represented on Chinese social media, with nine teams and the Premier League official account. The Premier League’s popularity is driven by its competitive nature, the Beckham phenomenon, it’s history, and the common language.
The Premier League’s core strength is in fact the strength of the league. There are at least six teams that are all able to compete at the highest level in domestic and European competition, while all other teams would dismiss the title of an underdog. Twelve Premier League teams made the Champions League semifinals between 2004 and 2009, while there was a English finalist in seven of the eight years from 2005 to 2013. Success on Europe’s greatest stage, coupled with the fast pace tempo of the league meant that many Chinese fans were captivated by the entertainment and success of the Premier League clubs.
David Beckham’s second full season at Manchester United fell around the same time that the Premier League was first being broadcasted live on Guangdong TV, Chinese fans’ first chance to watch the Premier League after CCTV 5 had previously refused to pay. His rise to fame in China and throughout Asia put the Premier League on the map, and began a new period of dominance and commercial opportunities for the league. David Beckham has since played in La Liga, Serie A, MLS and Ligue 1, and has held an ambassadorial role for the Chinese Super League, but it was his time in the Premier League that had the greatest influence on Chinese fans.
If England is the birthplace of football, then the Premier League is now it’s home. The FA celebrated it’s 150th anniversary in 2013, and is the oldest football organisation. Although, the Premier League was only formed in 1992 as the elite league for English football, Chinese fans respect and value the history of the league, its clubs, traditions, and even the stadiums. The charm of the Premier League is an undeniable reason for its popularity in China.
Chinese are now learning English in their early youth, and it’s now an important part of their educational progress. Before China’s social media ‘revolution’, many fans would have to read their news from international media networks, typically in English. Even now with the huge technology growth in China, major Chinese media will translate English content from their Western counterparts, with a large proportion of these focused around the Premier League. The growing inclusion of English in Chinese culture is a good predictor for the Premier League surpassing the popularity of La Liga.
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MICROSCOPE-ANTIQUES.COM © 2013-16.
HANDHELD SIMPLE MICROSCOPE, COMPRESSOR & LIVEBOX
MAKER: SOLD BY THOMAS BARTLEET & SONS
c. 3rd Quarter 19TH C.
SIGNED:'THOS BARTLEET & SONS, LONDON'
DESCRIPTION HISTORY
DESCRIPTION: This brass livebox/compressor simple microscope is made of brass with a wooden handle. It is signed 'THOSBARTLEET&SONS, LONDON'. The barrel is about 30 mm in diameter and also about 30 mm high. The entire instrument is about 120 mm in length. The subject could be let inside to be viewed as it moved around or could be trapped between the bottom two plates as a compressor. This would allow a flexible amount of immobilization.
HISTORY OF THE THIS MICROSCOPE AND THOMAS BARTLEET & SONS
Thomas Bartleet & Sons was a company specializing in buttons, thimbles and other clothing-related items. They apparently were active from at least the first quarter of the nineteenth century through at least the third quarter of that century. I have found no reference to them making or even selling microscopes. Interestingly, having an office in Birmingham, where Bartleet and Sons primary location was, was a T.H. Bartleet who was the secretary of the Birmingham Medical Association, and a surgeon.
Instruments similar to this one are frequently dated to the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Update – PUBG withdraws lawsuit against Epic
Posted By : Andrew Thomas/
PUBG Corp., the Korean Subsidiary of Bluehole Studios (the developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds), has dropped its lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games Inc. PUBG had filed a copyright infringement claim against Epic in South Korea back in January. According to reports, PUBG alleged that Epic had copied PlayerUnknown’s assets and user interface. You can read our coverage here. However, on Monday, PUBG sent a letter of withdrawal to Epic’s lawyers and the South Korean case was closed. Neither side has stated a reason for the withdrawal. PUBG’s lawsuit against Netease Inc. is still ongoing, and we will continue to provide updates when available.
It is worth noting that Tencent Holdings Ltd., a Chinese social media/gaming company, is a part-owner in both Bluehole Studios and Epic – each to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars – and might not want its investments suing each other. Also, PlayerUnknown’s currently runs on Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, which could also play a part in the settlement. We may never known the exact reason PUBG withdrew, but the cross-over between the two sides could have been a significant factor. As of right now, this appears to be the end of the legal conflict between PUBG and Epic.
A Battle Royale is Brewing
PUBG Corporation, makers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, have filed a lawsuit against Epic Games, makers of Fortnite, in South Korea. The lawsuit was filed in the Seoul Central District Court in January. PUBG asked the Seoul Central District Court for an injunction against Epic, claiming copyright infringement. We do not usually comment on litigation outside the United States, but PlayerUnknown’s and Fortnite are two of the most popular games, are both battle royale games, and both have had an enormous impact on the video game industry by popularizing the battle royale game genre as a whole.
So why sue in South Korea? Likely answer: sue where you think you can win. PUBG is a subsidiary of Bluehole, a South Korean game developer. Choosing South Korea as the forum gives Bluehole and PUBG home-court advantage. Also, the legal standard for copyright infringement might be different in South Korea than in America. The differences in the legal standards might give PUBG an edge depending on the claims asserted.
As of this writing, the specific claims PUBG is asserting against Epic Games are unknown. According to a Korea Times article, Bluehole had previously stated its belief that Epic Games copied core elements and the user interface of PlayerUnknown’s. Earlier this year, PUBG filed a similar lawsuit against NetEase for copyright infringement in the US. PUBG filed that lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In the US claim, PUBG listed a series of elements which individually may or may not be copyrightable, but which together they allege have copyright protection. Essentially, the claim argues that NetEase copied the total look and feel of PlayerUnknown’s by including all of the similar elements listed. Check out our previous post for more on the NetEase case. Both lawsuits are in the very early stages of litigation, so there has not been any significant ruling yet.
PlayerUnknown’s currently runs on the Unreal Engine 4, which is an Epic Game property. It will be interesting to see if there will be any fallout as a result of PUBG instigating litigation. As it stands now, this case is a big deal, but if this lawsuit grows beyond South Korea’s borders, it could get UNREAL! (get it? Unreal, like the game engine? Sorry Canon, had to go there…).
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Creator sues over alleged Chinese knockoffs
On April 2, 2018, PUBG Corporation and PUBG Santa Monica, Inc. (“PUBG”) sued NetEase, Inc. and NetEase Information Technology Corp. (“NetEase”) over alleged copyright infringement, trade dress infringement, and unfair competition. The complaint alleges, in short, that NetEast’s titles Rules of Survival and Knives Out are knockoffs of PUBG’s massively popular Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds.
PUBG’s lengthy (155 page!) complaint provides a listing of all instances in which Rules of Survival and/or Knives Out allegedly copied Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. Some examples, as alleged by PUBG:
“Pre-Play Area” – Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Rules of Survival, and Knives Out feature a pre-play area “where players can meet each other and try out weapons while waiting for other players to join.”
Play Map – The layout of the maps in all three games are “strikingly similar.”
“Scenes and Locations” – Both Rules of Survival and Knives Out feature, like Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, locations such as a shooting range, a rural aqueduct, a port with shipping containers, a farm area, two-story hexagonal towers, and the like.
Air Jump – In Rules of Survival and Knives Out, as in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, players jump at any point from an airplane onto various portions of a map. Players may then descend in freefall and release a parachute.
Weapons – For example, where Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds features a M416, Rules of Survival features an MA14. Both games also feature, for example, red dot sights, vertical foregrips, bullet loops, and other similar accessories.
Frying Pans – Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Rules of Survival, and Knives Out feature frying pan weapons.
“Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” – Both Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds and Rules of Survival use this phrase to indicate the winner of a match. Rules of Survival also has a rubber chicken which may be used as a melee weapon.
Shrinking Gameplay Area – Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Rules of Survival, and Knives Out have a progressively shrinking gameplay area and a timer which warns players when a next shrinking event will occur.
Individually, all of the above examples could arguably be found in other video games or in real life. For example, the M416 in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds’ is arguably a version of the Heckler & Koch HK416. As another example, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is far from the progenitor of the term “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner,” as the term originated during the Depression. It seems likely that PUBG will argue that the combination of such elements, rather than the individual elements themselves, has been copied by NetEase.
PUBG is far from the first game company to sue creators of alleged copycat game titles. Tetris Holding, the company that owns the rights to Tetris, won a battle against a copycat app. In that case, the Court found that the fact that game mechanics and game rules are not entitled to protection “does not mean, and cannot mean, that any and all expression related to a game rule or game function is unprotectable” such that Tetris Holdings was “entitled to copyright protection for the way in which it [chose] to express game rules or game play as one would be to the way in which one chooses to express an idea.” Similar battles occurred between the creators of The Sims Social and The Ville and between the creators of Triple Town and Yeti Town. Our firm (Banner & Witcoff), for example, represented Wargaming.net in a similar dispute against Changyou.com involving an alleged knockoff of Wargaming’s World of Tanks.
Epic sues alleged Fortnite hackers Brandon Broom and Charles Vraspir
On October 11, Epic Games, Inc. and Epic Games International (“Epic”) sued individuals Brandon Broom and Charles Vraspir in two separate suits (5:17-CV-0511 and 5:17-CV-0512) for copyright infringement, circumvention of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), breach of contract, and intentional interference with contractual relations. The suits, filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina, relate to Epic’s game Fortnite.
Epic alleges that Broom and Vraspir not only cheated in Fortnite, but also assisted others in doing so on the website AddictedCheats.net. When cheating themselves, Broom and Vraspir allegedly intentionally targeted Fortnite streamers (i.e. “stream sniping”) because, allegedly per Vrapsir, “its [sic] fun to rage and see streamers cry about how loaded they are and then get them stomped anyways.” Epic’s complaints seem to suggest that Vraspir was particularly aggressive on cheating in Fortnite because he was banned from Fortnite: allegedly per Vraspir, his ban “unleash[ed] the beast” such that “Epic will have to take care or their game will die.”
Fortnite’s popularity in recent weeks has exploded since a recent free mode released which, some allege, provides a game mode duplicative of the massively popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Some speculated that Bluehole, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ developer, might explore a suit against Epic (indeed, Bluehole issued a public press release complaining about the similarities); however, Bluehole’s extensive reliance on Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and ongoing licensing relationship with Epic makes such a suit seemingly unlikely.
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