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AlphaGraphics Announces Strong Profits for First Half of Year
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Effects of sleep management with self-help treatment for the Japanese elderly with chronic insomnia: a quasi-experimental study
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Norihisa Tamura, Hideki Tanaka
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This study aimed to determine whether sleep management with self-help treatment is more effective in improving insomnia, compared to a waiting-list control. A total of 51 participants with insomnia, aged ≥60 years, were assigned to two groups: the treatment group or waiting-list control group. Intervention included sleep education, group work, moderately intense exercise, and self-help treatment using a sleep diary for 2 weeks. Participants completed the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI-J) and sleep diaries wearing an activity recorder pre- and post-treatment. The treatment group showed a significant improvement in the ISI-J with a fairly large effect size (Cohen’s d: within = 0.78, between = 0.70), whereas the waiting-list control group did not. Sleep diary and activity recorder data showed small to moderate effect sizes in the treatment group. Thus, sleep management with self-help treatment was superior to a waiting-list control for insomnia severity in the targeted elderly population.
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Train organizers transported over 5.2M fans during 2018 World Cup
Monday, July 23, 2018 6:55 PM - Moscow, Russia
A press conference on the rail transport services provided in support of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ took place at the press centre of the TASS news agency in Moscow on 19 July 2018.
The conference was attended by Pavel Burtsev, head of the department for the management of the Passenger Transportation business unit, and Kirill Polyakov, Managing Director of the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation (ANO) Transport Directorate-2018.
“According to preliminary estimates, more than 5.2 million passengers were transported between the cities hosting the World Cup matches,” said Pavel Burtsev. “The increase in passenger transportation, taking into account fans travelling on both the additional free trains we laid on and on regular scheduled services of the RZD holding in June 2018 alone amounted to a 10% increase compared to the same month last year.”
Pavel Burtsev said that the transportation of World Cup fans in additional free trains was no longer available now that the FIFA World Cup Russia™ is over.
All 734 runs of additional trains made their journeys as scheduled, including six high-speed Sapsan trains. A total of nearly 319,000 passengers travelled.
“The suburban complex of the RZD holding was also actively involved in supporting fans by providing them with free transportation,” stressed Pavel Burtsev. “Thus, during the FIFA World Cup Russia™, 12 regional suburban passenger companies carried almost 291,000 people free of charge.”
Burtsev also noted that a significant part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ legacy will be the modernisation and development projects for the passenger infrastructure which were implemented by Russian Railways in preparation for the football tournament.
The RZD Holding thus reconstructed the station complexes in 11 cities hosting the games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ with an emphasis on ensuring transport security and adapting to the needs of low-mobility passengers.
In addition, a new infrastructure has been built and electric trains have been arranged between the station and the international airport in Volgograd.
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by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck (Contributor) ISBN: 0609610570, Hardcover- $17.33 BUY
Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; actually getting things done never seems quite as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in Execution, the ultimate difference between a company and its competitor is, in fact, the ability to execute.
Execution is "the missing link between aspirations and results," and as such, making it happen is the business leader's most important job.
Get Better or Get Beaten
by Robert Slater ISBN: 0071373462, Hardcover- $22.95 BUY
Do business like Jack Welch! When Jack Welch took the reins of General Electric in 1981, he reformulated GE in his own image -- tough, smart, competitive, and relentless. First published in 1994, Get Better or Get Beaten became a bestseller as managers sought to understand and mimic the success of the man lauded by Fortune as "...perhaps the most admired CEO of his generation."
Now, on the eve of his planned April retirement, the new Get Better or Get Beaten, Second Edition shows you how to compete "Welch style" in today's techologically advanced business arena.
Look to this fast-paced book for:
- Jack Welch's latest views on management and leadership
- Examples of how Welch transformed GE into an e-business
- Insights into Six Sigma and other successful GE quality initiatives
- and More...
Jack - Straight from the Gut
by Jack Welch, John A. Byrne ISBN: 0446528382, Hardcover- $18.87 BUY
It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business.
In Jack: Straight from the Gut, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century. Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem, Massachusetts, the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder, which culminated in 1981. What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls "superficial congeniality"--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname "Neutron Jack."
First, Break All the Rules - What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman ISBN: 0684852861, Hardcover- $18.90 BUY
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy." "Great managers are revolutionaries," the authors write. "This book will take you inside the minds of these managers to explain why they have toppled conventional wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged in its place."
Good to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
by Jim Collins ISBN: 0066620996, Hardcover- $16.50 BUY
Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great, Collins concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success.
Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come.
A New Brand World - Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century
by Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell (Contributor) ISBN: 0670030767, Hardcover- $17.47 BUY
Bedbury, who headed advertising and marketing divisions for Nike and Starbucks during their phenomenal growth, coaches on establishing a memorable brand. Observing consumers overwhelmed by countless choices, he argues that now's the time to build a brand that evokes trust from its customers.
"Unless your brand stands for something, it stands for nothing," he declares, as he explains methods for companies big and small to articulate their essence and ethos to core customers, potential customers and employees. Bedbury elaborates his belief that "the brand is the sum total of everything a company does" with lively anecdotes from the experiences of Harley-Davidson, Microsoft and others. He calls for advertising and marketing that will inspire rather than merely inform (ie: "Just Do It").
Inside The Magic Kingdom - 7 Keys to Disney's Success
by Thomas K. Connellan ISBN: 1885167237, Hardcover- $13.00 BUY
Look in Mickey's Briefcase . . . Now, an outsider takes you inside the incredible Disney service culture and presents simple, powerful concepts in a fun, memorable way that just may change the way you conduct business. Based on hours of interviews and discussions with present and former Disney employees, Inside the Magic Kingdom discloses the secrets behind Disneys success . . . and explains why, of its more than 30 million guests each year, over two-thirds are repeat customers.
This upbeat, easy-to-read book illustrates clear, solid principles with examples that are well-known to Disney insiders but virtually unknown to outsiders until now. Outlines the seven keys to Disney's success. Now the principles that drive the culture and phenomenal success of Disney are disclosed in this fun, easy-to-read book. You will learn many insider secrets that will spell success if implemented in any business.
McDonald's - Behind the Arches
by John F. Love ISBN: 0553347594, Paperback- $11.05 BUY
McDonald's: it is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing. In tough financial times, McDonald's proved that ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instinct were the keys to building a service business the entire world has come to admire. In the years since McDonald's: Behind The Arches was first published, McDonald's has been a trendsetter in advertising, focusing on different ethnic groups as well as the physically disabled.
McDonald's created McJobs, a program that employs both mentally challenged adults and senior citizens. And because its franchisees have their fingers on the pulse of the marketplace, McDonald's has evolved successfully with the health food revolution, launching dozens of new products and moving toward environmentally-safe packaging and recyclable goods. Inspiring, informative, and filled with behind the scenes stories, this remarkable saga offers an irresistible look inside a great American business success.
How to Make Your Business Run Without You!
by Susan M. Carter ISBN: 0967029104, Paperback- $26.60 BUY
How To Make Your Business Run Without You is a how-to resource for small business owners and entrepreneurs to effectively streamline operations that will pave the way for more business, bigger profits and a business that virtually runs itself. Through step-by-step chapters, Author Susan Carter advances readers from the high-risk potential of 'owning their own jobs' to the freedom and control of 'owning their own businesses.' A must read for any owner or self-employed professional who is eager to move from start-up status to ongoing success.
The Myth of Excellence - Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything
by Fred Crawford, Ryan Mathews ISBN: 0609608207, Hardcover- $19.25 BUY
Crawford is the managing director of the consumer products, retail, and distribution practice at the Cap Gemini Ernst and Young consultancy. Mathews is a futurist specializing in demographics and lifestyle analysis at FirstMatter, another consulting firm. To research purchasing behavior, they surveyed 5,000 consumers, but the responses they got surprised them and prompted their title's contrary proposition.
They developed a new model of "consumer relevancy." They explain in detail the importance of price, service, quality, access, and experience for the consumer. They then suggest that for companies to be successful they need to dominate on only one of these five factors. On a second of the five they should stand out or differentiate themselves from their competitors; and on the remaining three they need only to be at par with others in their industry. With dozens of examples, Crawford and Mathews demonstrate the validity of their premise.
Raving Fans - A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service
by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles (Contributor) ISBN: 0688123163, Hardcover- $13.00 BUY
Kenneth Blanchard continues his trend of writing easy-to-read books with BIG ideas for making your business better. Raving Fans is a book of stories relating how fictional companies have created an environment of delivering awesome customer service. A guy that has just been put in a managment position requiring a turnaround goes on a fictional trip with his "angel" to visit businesses that have figured out their vision and their system to deliver customer service extraordinary. Based on three simple principles (Decide, Discover, Deliver), each company has created a group of Raving Fans (not just customers, but fans) who wouldn't consider shopping anywhere else for what one of these companies offers.
Differentiate or Die - Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition
by Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin (Contributor) ISBN: 0471357642, Hardcover- $17.61 BUY
There are no two ways about it with Jack Trout. Either you've got a product or service that you can say is different, or you don't have much at all. In today's global marketplace and at its lightning-fast rate of change, there's no point in inventing and presenting a product only to sit back and hope that consumers everywhere will discover its greatness. It's not simply about what you or your product can do, it's about what you do differently from everyone else. Coauthors Trout and Steve Rivkin say it all in their no-holds-barred title, Differentiate or Die.
Extraordinary Guarantees - Achieving Breakthrough Gains in Quality and Customer Satisfaction
by Christopher Hart ISBN: 0814450644, Paperback- $24.95 BUY
Many leading firms have achieved both these results by offering extraordinary guarantees. You too can boost organizational performance and quality to new levels by following the practical advice offered in the important book, Extraordinary Guarantees. Guarantees were once considered nothing more than a marketing gimmick. But as more and more quality leaders have begun to offer ironclad pledges of total customer satisfaction, the guarantee is now being recognized as an unparalleled tool for gaining a major, often unbeatable, competitive edge-and a host of other benefits.
Competing on Value
by Mack Hanan, Peter Karp (Contributor) ISBN: 0814450369, Hardcover- $17.47 BUY
Presents a new approach to selling that emphasizes not competing on the basis of the best price, but the highest value--i.e. demonstrating to current and prospective customers that using your products or services will either cut their costs or improve their revenues. This book discusses VALUE. Value is not what you put INTO your products and services, it is what the customer GETS OUT. Three qualifiers of value are how much, how soon, and how sure--these are what the customer needs to know. In summary, this is highly recommended for every company that sells products and/or services.
Practice What You Preach - What Managers Must Do to Create a High-Achievement Culture
by David H. Maister ISBN: 0743211871, Hardcover- $18.20 BUY
Maister, a professional service consultant, surveyed 6,500 employees at 50 worldwide companies to evaluate the relationship between company financial performance and employee satisfaction and loyalty. He found a direct and dramatic correlation. Here, he offers detailed commentary from CEOs, managers and staffers, and analysis of the survey results. Bosses in all kinds of companies will benefit from his solid advice, which should be required reading for executives and upper level managers.
by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ken Kurson ISBN: 0786868414, Hardcover- $16.35 BUY
This highly anticipated book from New York's once controversial, now beloved former mayor opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining four months in office. But, he argues, he did not suddenly become a great leader on September 11, and "had been doing [my] best to take on challenges my whole career."
Throughout, he displays the hands-on management that marked his administration, including his willingness to respond swiftly and in person to crises, to prove that he could be relied on when the city needed him most. While some critics found his style too aggressive, he has an effective counterargument: "Before September 11, there were those who said we were being overly concerned [about security]," he observes. "We didn't hear that afterwards..."
Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping
by Paco Underhill ISBN: 0684849143, Paperback- $9.75 BUY
In an effort to determine why people buy, Paco Underhill and his band of retail researchers have camped out in stores over the course of 20 years, dedicating their lives to the "science of shopping." Armed with an array of video equipment, store maps, and customer-profile sheets, Underhill and his consulting firm, Envirosell, have observed over 900 aspects of interaction between shopper and store. They've discovered that men who take jeans into fitting rooms are more likely to buy than females (65 percent vs. 25 percent).
They've learned how the "butt-brush factor" (bumped from behind, shoppers become irritated and move elsewhere) makes women avoid narrow aisles. They've quantified the importance of shopping baskets; contact between employees and shoppers; the "transition zone" (the area just inside the store's entrance); and "circulation patterns" (how shoppers move throughout a store). And they've explored the relationship between a customer's amenability and profitability, learning how good stores capitalize on a shopper's unspoken inclinations and desires.
Underhill, whose clients include McDonald's, Starbucks, Est?Lauder, and Blockbuster, stocks Why We Buy with a wealth of retail insights, showing how men are beginning to shop like women, and how women have changed the way supermarkets are laid out. He also looks to the future, projecting massive retail opportunities with an aging baby-boom population and predicting how online retailing will affect shopping malls. This lighthearted look at shopping is highly recommended to anyone who buys or sells.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0399144463, Paperback- $12.97 BUY
Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image.
Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Restoring the Character Ethic
by Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0671708635, Paperback- $11.20 BUY
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas.
Principle-Centered Leadership
by Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0671792806, Paperback- $9.75 BUY
Covey, the author of the New York Times number 1 bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has struck a chord with millions of readers with his insights into human nature and values. Now he tells them how to apply his theories to everyday life, focusing primarily on the world of business.
The Power Principle - Influence With Honor
by Blaine Lee, Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0684846160, Paperback- $9.75 BUY
This self-help book reflects Lee's views on various types of power and how to develop principle-centered power in your life, which he defines as power that inspires loyalty and devotion, transcending time and place. Such power is based on trust and respect and survives even after one dies. Lee describes three types of power: coercive, which relies on the premise of control and uses fear as its instrument; utility, which is based on fairness, the exchange of what you can do for me with what I can do for you; and principle-centered, which is based on what you can do with others. The author tells us that his purpose in writing this book is to encourage us in our work with people, and he recommends that we choose principle-centered power as the primary way to influence others in our key relationships. Such power requires us to grow, to challenge our assumptions, and often to change our whole orientation in life.
by George S. Clason ISBN: 0451205367, Paperback- $6.99 BUY
I often give this book out as a gift whenever a person younger than me asks for my advice on money. I always present this book to them saying "if you read it and do as it says, it will work magic." It really contains excellent, time tested advice, and would make a good gift for someone in their early 20s who is on their own for the first time, and struggling.
The book is a series of parables about money written in the 1920s by George Clason. They were written as individual essays of a few thousand words, but the theme throughout them is consistent -- save 10% of your money, give 10% away, use 10% to reduce your debt load, and live on the remaining 70%.
The stories in the book are entertaining; they are reminiscent of some of the parables in the Bible, such as the Prodigal Son or the story of the Workers in the Vineyard. I think this is intentional on the part of the author; certainly readers in the 1920s had an appreciation for "old fashioned stories with a moral" that people today seem to have lost. I enjoy the book greatly, though, and any thoughtful person who reads the book should find it interesting, especially if they are trying to get their finances in order.
The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition
by David Chilton ISBN: 0761513116, Paperback- $10.78 BUY
In this revised and expanded edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton, president of Financial Awareness Corporation, shows readers how to achieve the financial independence they've always dreamed of. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton encourages readers to take control of their financial future and build wealth slowly, steadily, and with sure success.
The E-Myth Manager - Why Management Doesn't Work-And What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber ISBN: 0887309593, Paperback- $11.02 BUY
More than ten years after his first bestselling book, The E-Myth, changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small business owners, Michael Gerber - entrepreneur, author, and speaker extraordinaire fires the next salvo in his highly successful E-Myth Revolution. Drawing on lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium-sized, and very large organizations, Gerber has discovered the truth behind why management doesn't workand what to do about it.
Unearthing the arbitrary origins of commonly held doctrines such as the omniscience of leader (Emperor) and the most widely embraced myth of all. The E-Myth Manager offers a fresh, provocative alternative to management as we know it. It explores why every manager must take charge of his own life, reconcile his own personal vision with that of the organization, and develop an entrepreneurial mind-set to achieve true success.
by Napoleon Hill ISBN: 0449214923, Paperback- $7.19 BUY
Is it true that by simply changing your thoughts you can completely change what you have in life? How could it be that simple? It is, but first you have to believe.
Most people want to see something happen, then believe in it. To be succesful you have to do the opposite. Believe in it first, then you will see it. That's is one of the key messages in this book written almost 70 years ago.... It reads like it was written yesterday.
The title says it all. "Think and Grow Rich", but it is NOT just a book about making money. I am certain many people from all walks of life could benefit from this work, regardless of their opinion of money and riches. The message is clear: You may have whatever you want in life... if you can discover the secret within its pages.
I first read this book when I was a teenager. I am not sure it made much of an impression on me. I picked it up recently and I can't believe how much it has changed. Of course, that's nonsense. The book is the same, only my mind is now ready to see what the secret is...
Get this book and see if you can unlock the Secret to finding 'riches' for yourself.
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SQL Server 2014 Announced at TechEd2013
Microsoft unveiled SQL Server 2014 on Monday and said the new version is designed with "cloud-first principles." It will feature built-in, in-memory OLTP and a focus on real-time, Big Data-style analytics. No specific release date was provided in the announcement.
"Our Big Data strategy to unlock real-time insights continues with SQL Server 2014," said Quentin Clark, corporate vice president with the Data Platform Group, in a blog post. "We are embracing the role of data--it dramatically changes how business happens. Real-time data integration, new and large data sets, data signals from outside LOB systems, evolving analytics techniques and more fluid visualization and collaboration experiences are significant components of that change."
The news came with a slew of other big product announcements at the TechEd North America conference in New Orleans, such as Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. All will be available in preview later this month.
A key feature of SQL Server 2014 is the incorporation of in-memory, online transaction processing (OLTP) technology stemming from a project that has been in the works for several years, codenamed "Hekaton," Clark said. Developed in conjunction with Microsoft Research, Hekaton greatly improves transaction processing speeds and reduces latency by virtue of working with in-memory data, as opposed to disk-based data.
Microsoft touted the benefits of the "conscious design choice" to build the Hekaton technology into SQL Server 2014, with no need for a separate data engine. "Other vendors are either introducing separate in-memory optimized caches or building a unification layer over a set of technologies and introducing it as a completely new product," said Dave Campbell, Microsoft technical fellow, when Hekaton was announced as a coming component of SQL Server 2014 last November. "This adds complexity forcing customers to deploy and manage a completely new product or, worse yet, manage both a 'memory-optimized' product for the hot data and a storage-optimized' product for the application data that is not cost-effective to reside primarily in memory," Campbell said.
Clark picked up on that theme in today's announcement. "For our customers, 'in the box' means they don't need to buy specialized hardware or software and can migrate existing applications to benefit from performance gains," he said.
Clark also emphasized the embrace of cloud computing, noting how SQL Server 2014 will work seamlessly with the cloud-based Windows Azure to reduce operating expenditures for mission-critical applications. "Simplified cloud backup, cloud disaster recovery and easy migration to Windows Azure Virtual Machines are empowering new, easy to use, out-of-the-box hybrid capabilities," he said.
The Microsoft exec also noted SQL Server 2014 will include improvements to the AlwaysOn feature, supporting "new scenarios, scale of deployment and ease of adoption."
As mentioned, Microsoft provided no release date, but that detail was bound to be foremost in the minds of many users, such as one named Patrick who posted the very first reader comment on Clark's blog post: "Are there some dates (other than 2014)?"
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Are accruals mispriced? Evidence from tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model
Mozaffar Khan
This paper proposes a risk-based explanation for the accrual anomaly. Risk is measured using a four-factor model motivated by the Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. Tests of the model suggest that a considerable portion of the cross-sectional variation in average returns to high and low accrual firms is explained by risk. The four-factor model also performs better than some other widely used models in pricing a number of different hedge portfolios.
Journal of Accounting and Economics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2007.07.001
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Khan, M. (2008). Are accruals mispriced? Evidence from tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 45(1), 55-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2007.07.001
Are accruals mispriced? Evidence from tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. / Khan, Mozaffar.
In: Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 45, No. 1, 01.03.2008, p. 55-77.
Khan, M 2008, 'Are accruals mispriced? Evidence from tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model', Journal of Accounting and Economics, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 55-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2007.07.001
Khan M. Are accruals mispriced? Evidence from tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 2008 Mar 1;45(1):55-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2007.07.001
Khan, Mozaffar. / Are accruals mispriced? Evidence from tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. In: Journal of Accounting and Economics. 2008 ; Vol. 45, No. 1. pp. 55-77.
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Erratum: Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. (Journal of Infectious Diseases (January 1, 2001) 183 (154-159))
J. R. Johnson, P. Delavari, A. L. Stell, T. S. Whittam, U. Carlino, T. A. Russo
Medicine - Veteran's Administration Medical Center
Journal of Infectious Diseases
In an article in the 1 January 2001 issue of the Journal (Johnson JR, Delavari P, Stell AL, Whittam TS, Carlino U, Russo TA. Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. J Infect Dis 2001;183:154–9), the financial support footnote should have included the Minnesota Medical Foundation (grant SMF-2040-98, “Reservoirs of Uropatho-genic E. coli”).
Johnson, J. R., Delavari, P., Stell, A. L., Whittam, T. S., Carlino, U., & Russo, T. A. (2001). Erratum: Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. (Journal of Infectious Diseases (January 1, 2001) 183 (154-159)). Journal of Infectious Diseases, 183(2), 357. https://doi.org/10.1086/317945
Erratum : Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. (Journal of Infectious Diseases (January 1, 2001) 183 (154-159)). / Johnson, J. R.; Delavari, P.; Stell, A. L.; Whittam, T. S.; Carlino, U.; Russo, T. A.
In: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 183, No. 2, 15.01.2001, p. 357.
Johnson, JR, Delavari, P, Stell, AL, Whittam, TS, Carlino, U & Russo, TA 2001, 'Erratum: Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. (Journal of Infectious Diseases (January 1, 2001) 183 (154-159))', Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 183, no. 2, pp. 357. https://doi.org/10.1086/317945
Johnson JR, Delavari P, Stell AL, Whittam TS, Carlino U, Russo TA. Erratum: Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. (Journal of Infectious Diseases (January 1, 2001) 183 (154-159)). Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2001 Jan 15;183(2):357. https://doi.org/10.1086/317945
Johnson, J. R. ; Delavari, P. ; Stell, A. L. ; Whittam, T. S. ; Carlino, U. ; Russo, T. A. / Erratum : Molecular comparison of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates of the same electrophoretic lineages from humans and domestic animals. (Journal of Infectious Diseases (January 1, 2001) 183 (154-159)). In: Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2001 ; Vol. 183, No. 2. pp. 357.
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Nitrate-induced polypeptides in membranes from corn seedling roots
Min Ni, Leonard Beevers
The polypeptide composition of the membranes from corn (Zea mays L.) seedling roots upon nitrate induction was determined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and silver-staining. The synthesis of five polypeptides (49, 48, 35, 33, and 32 kDa) in the tono-plast fraction and four polypeptides (50, 49, 38, and 33 kDa) in the plasma membrane fraction was induced by both 2.5 mM Ca(NO3)2 and 5 mM KNO3. Extensive washing of the membranes with salt and NaOH demonstrated that three induced polypeptides (49, 48, and 35 kDa) in the tonoplast fraction and two induced polypeptides (49 and 33 kDa) in the plasma membrane fraction were integral proteins. After incubation of seedlings in N-free medium for 4 d, the 49 and 32 kDa polypeptides in the tonoplast fraction had disappeared. By the sixth day in N-free medium, the 35 kDa polypeptide had disappeared from the tonoplast fraction. The 50 kDa polypeptide of the plasma membrane fraction was no longer detectable in seedlings incubated for 6 d in N-free medium. The size of the spots corresponding to the 33 kDa polypeptides of both membrane fractions and to the 49 kDa polypeptide of the plasma membrane fraction was reduced following incubation of seedlings in N-free medium. The changes in nitrate-induced polypeptides in both membrane fractions following transfer to N-free medium correlated with a reduced capacity to take up nitrate in the treated seedlings. The results support the conclusion that the nitrate-induced polypeptides may be involved in nitrate transport across the tonoplast and plasma membrane.
Journal of experimental botany
https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/45.3.355
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Ni, M., & Beevers, L. (1994). Nitrate-induced polypeptides in membranes from corn seedling roots. Journal of experimental botany, 45(3), 355-365. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/45.3.355
Nitrate-induced polypeptides in membranes from corn seedling roots. / Ni, Min; Beevers, Leonard.
In: Journal of experimental botany, Vol. 45, No. 3, 03.1994, p. 355-365.
Ni, M & Beevers, L 1994, 'Nitrate-induced polypeptides in membranes from corn seedling roots', Journal of experimental botany, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 355-365. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/45.3.355
Ni M, Beevers L. Nitrate-induced polypeptides in membranes from corn seedling roots. Journal of experimental botany. 1994 Mar;45(3):355-365. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/45.3.355
Ni, Min ; Beevers, Leonard. / Nitrate-induced polypeptides in membranes from corn seedling roots. In: Journal of experimental botany. 1994 ; Vol. 45, No. 3. pp. 355-365.
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The drowned survivor: The fiction of J. R. Salamanca
Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction
https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.1977.10690156
10.1080/00111619.1977.10690156
Baxter, C. (1977). The drowned survivor: The fiction of J. R. Salamanca. Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 19(1), 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.1977.10690156
The drowned survivor : The fiction of J. R. Salamanca. / Baxter, Charles.
In: Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1977, p. 75-86.
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Share this Story: Can Trump pardon his associates -- or himself?
Can Trump pardon his associates -- or himself?
Jan Wolfe
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, kicking off what is expected to be a string of pardons during the final weeks of the Trump administration.
Trump has granted clemency to supporters before, most notably earlier this year when he commuted the criminal sentence of Roger Stone, who was sentenced to prison after being convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers.
Can Trump pardon his associates -- or himself? Back to video
In 2018, Trump even said he had the “absolute right” to pardon himself – a claim many constitutional law scholars dispute.
Here is an overview of Trump’s pardon power, which is sweeping but not absolute.
ARE THERE LIMITS ON TRUMP’S PARDON POWER?
The pardon power, which comes from the U.S. Constitution, is one of the broadest available to a president. The nation’s founders saw the pardon power as a way to show mercy and serve the public good.
While pardons are typically given to people who have been prosecuted, pardons can cover conduct that has not yet resulted in legal proceedings.
A pardon is not reviewable by other branches of government and the president does not have to give a reason for issuing one.
A pardon wipes out a criminal conviction. A different form of executive clemency, known as a commutation, leaves the conviction intact but wipes out the punishment.
But the pardon power is not absolute. Crucially, a pardon only applies to federal crimes. That means pardons would not, for example, protect Trump associates from the criminal investigation being conducted by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, a state prosecutor.
Vance’s probe, which began more than two years ago, stemmed from hush money payments that the president’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen paid before the 2016 election to two women – an adult-film star and a former Playboy model – who said they had sexual encounters with Trump. Trump has denied the encounters and has said the probe is politically motivated.
The district attorney has suggested in court filings that the probe is now broader and could focus on potential bank, tax and insurance fraud, as well as falsification of business records. It is unclear what stage the investigation is at. No one has been charged with criminal wrongdoing.
COULD TRUMP PARDON HIS FAMILY MEMBERS?
Yes. It is legal for Trump to pardon his inner circle, including members of his family.
In 2001, former President Bill Clinton pardoned his own brother, Roger, who was convicted for cocaine possession in Arkansas.
Clinton pardoned about 450 people, including a Democratic Party donor, Marc Rich, who fled the country because of tax evasion charges.
CAN TRUMP PARDON HIMSELF?
There is not a definitive answer to this question. No president has tried it before, so the courts have not weighed in.
“When people ask me if a president can pardon himself, my answer is always, ‘Well, he can try,'” said Brian Kalt, a constitutional law professor at Michigan State University. “The Constitution does not provide a clear answer on this.”
Many legal experts have said that a self-pardon would be unconstitutional because it violates the basic principle that nobody should be the judge in his or her own case. Kalt said that, in his view, was the stronger argument.
Trump could try to pardon himself preemptively to cover the possibility of prosecution after he leaves office.
In that case, the pardon’s legitimacy might never be tested in court, said Kalt. For a court to rule on the pardon’s validity, a federal prosecutor would have to charge Trump with a crime and then Trump would have to raise the pardon as a defense, he said.
COULD THE VICE PRESIDENT TAKE OVER AND PARDON TRUMP?
In a 1974 memorandum, a Justice Department lawyer said President Richard Nixon could not pardon himself but that another option was constitutional: that he temporarily step down, receive a pardon from his vice president and then regain power.
In order to do that, Nixon would have had to invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which allows an incapacitated president to temporarily step down.
Nixon ultimately resigned in the face of the Watergate scandal and almost certain impeachment and removal from office. His successor, Gerald Ford, later pardoned Nixon for any federal crimes he committed or might have committed while in office.
It is not clear what Vice President Mike Pence would have to gain from agreeing to pardon Trump, said Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown University.
“I don’t think Pence would want that to define his legacy,” Brettschneider said. (Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Jonathan Oatis and Richard Pullin)
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Sir John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer (born 16 April 1786 in Spilsby, England; died 11 June 1847 aboard HMS Erebus near King William Island, Nunavut).
FRANKLIN’S name is synonymous with Arctic exploration and the Northwest Passage. A respected naval officer and colonial governor, he was involved in several high-profile expeditions to the Canadian Arctic that mapped large stretches of unknown coastline. He is best known for leading the tragic 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands perished on that voyage, despite being close to discovering the elusive sea route through the Canadian north. The Franklin expedition remains one of the most enduring mysteries of Arctic exploration and Canadian history.
Early Naval Career
Franklin entered the Royal Navy in 1800 at the age of 14. Early in his career, he developed the surveying skills and interest in natural science that would determine his career as one of the greatest explorers of the Canadian Arctic. The Royal Navy was the leader in promoting voyages of exploration and scientific research throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. From 1801 to 1803, Franklin was part of an expedition led by his uncle, navigator Matthew Flinders, that surveyed much of the coastline of Australia. He also saw significant naval action during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812: he served under Horatio Nelson at the Battles of Copenhagen (1801) and Trafalgar (1805) and was later injured during the British offensive against New Orleans (1814).
Surveying the Canadian North
After the wars, the British Admiralty resumed its interest in exploration, especially the almost mythical Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific. Franklin’s experience, particularly his surveying skills, made him a valuable asset in these endeavours. In 1818, he commanded a modified whaling ship, the Trent, in an expedition led by David Buchan to find a passage through the polar ice northwest of Spitsbergen (a Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean). After months of probing pack ice, the mission was called off.
The following year, Franklin was charged with mapping the northern shoreline of the American continent. His party travelled vast distances overland and by canoe down the Coppermine River, reaching the sea on 18 July 1821. Although it encountered serious problems, this expedition was the first to map large sections of the Arctic seaboard. In his well-organized second expedition to the Arctic (1825–27), Franklin made the approach in boats up the Mackenzie River. From the Mackenzie Delta, the party split into two groups: one ventured east to map as far as the Coppermine River, while Franklin led the other west toward Alaska. Back in Britain, Franklin was celebrated as a hero. He published Narratives of both journeys, was promoted to captain in the Navy, elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and even knighted. Through it all, he remained a modest and private man.
Tragedy in the Northwest Passage
Ironically, Franklin’s career as an explorer stalled after his exploits of the 1820s, as the Admiralty lost interest in northern exploration in the following two decades. From 1836 to 1843 he served as the lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), a British penal colony. Although Franklin attempted to institute significant political and social reforms, he fell out of favour with the Colonial Office and was not reappointed. Fortuitously, his arrival back in Britain coincided with the Admiralty’s renewed efforts to complete the Northwest Passage. Since his earlier expeditions, new discoveries and mapping had reduced the unknown part of the Passage to a stretch of almost 500 km between Barrow Strait and the mainland. Although Franklin was now in his late fifties, he campaigned hard to lead the expedition. Supported by friends and fellow explorers and bolstered by his professional reputation and his fame as an Arctic trailblazer, the Admiralty gave him command in February 1845. It would be the best-equipped and most technologically advanced Arctic expedition to that date.
Along the Barrow Strait, Nunavat, 2014.
On 19 May 1845, the Franklin expedition left the River Thames to find the Northwest Passage. Aboard the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were were 134 officers and men (five later disembarked at Greenland as they were judged unfit for service). The ships also carried provisions for three years — including approximately 60,000 kg of flour; 30,000 kg of salt beef and pork; 8,000 cans of preserved meat, vegetables and soup; 500 kg of tinned pemmican; 4,000 kg of lemon juice; 90 kg of pepper; 3,000 kg of tobacco; 4,000 kg of chocolate; and thousands of litres of wine and spirits. The ships also carried research instruments for botany, zoology, and geology as well as early photographic equipment, hand organs, and libraries — 2,900 books in total, including technical manuals and works by Charles Dickens. The vessels were modified for service in the Arctic: the bows were strengthened with sheet iron to withstand ice and steam engines were added for use in emergency situations. The ships were also equipped with desalinators, which could distill drinking water from seawater, and with boilers. In short, it was a well-provisioned and well-equipped expedition; the general mood was optimistic and many believed they would make it through the Northwest Passage in a year. However, after sailing into Baffin Bay, where it was spotted by whaling ships on 26 July, the expedition was never heard from again.
Franklin Expedition Site. Site of the archaeological site on King William Island where the remains of Franklin’s crew were found.
Based on evidence gathered during rescue missions and archaeological excavations, historians have reconstructed Franklin’s route on this fateful voyage. Entering Lancaster Sound, they spent the first winter at Beechey Island. During the summer of 1846, they turned south and navigated their way through Peel Sound and into Victoria Strait, only to get frozen in thick ice off King William Island, where the ice floes reportedly did not recede all summer long. Trapped, they spent the winter off King William Island, where Franklin died from unknown causes on 11 June 1847, aboard the Erebus. Other crew members had also perished. Based on written messages, historians now know that the survivors abandoned the ships on 22 April 1848 and attempted to reach safety overland. Some died along the way while others reached the Adelaide Peninsula, in essence completing the final unknown leg of the Northwest Passage.Eventually the ships sank; in 2014, HMS Erebus was found in the waters near King William Island, and in September 2016, a team from the Arctic Research Foundation announced that they had found the Terror in Nunavut’s Terror Bay. With the death of all 129 men, the Franklin expedition is the worst tragedy in the history of Arctic exploration.
Searching for Franklin
Between 1847 and 1859, some 30 expeditions searched for the lost ships, most sponsored by the Admiralty and Lady Franklin. Search missions continued into the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although any hope of rescue had long been abandoned. Gradually, these missions found evidence that pieced much of the voyage together, but still left the biggest questions unanswered. John Rae’s discovery of cannibalism on King William Island horrified Victorian Britain, with Charles Dickens and others rejecting the possibility of such barbaric behaviour by Franklin’s men. One of the unintended benefits of these missions was increased understanding and mapping of the Arctic, and the completion of Franklin’s quest for the Northwest Passage.
Lady Franklin, shown here in 1816, launched the long search for her missing husband.
In recent decades, archaeologists have continued to investigate the Franklin expedition, with the help of Inuit oral legends and expertise. In the 1980s, a team led by forensic anthropologist Owen Beattie examined the bodies of three crewmen found on Beechey Island and found high levels of lead and suggested that solder used to seal the food cans had been the source of contamination; this led to the theory that the physiological and neurological effects of lead poisoning had contributed to the eventual fate of the Franklin expedition. However, a 2013 study led by chemists at Western University has cast doubt on the role of food tins as the source of lead poisoning.
In 1992, the Canadian government designated the Erebus and Terror a national historic site, despite not knowing their location. Since 2008, Parks Canada has led a large and much-publicized search for the lost ships. Speaking from onboard a vessel involved in this underwater search in Cambridge Bay in 2012, Prime Minister Stephen Harper voiced the federal government’s support: “It is truly exciting to be launching this new initiative to continue searching for the lost vessels of the Franklin Expedition.” On 9 September 2014, Harper announced that one of Franklin’s ships had been found; it was identified later that month as the HMS Erebus. On 12 September 2016, a team from the Arctic Research Foundation (founded by Jim Balsillie) announced that they had found the Terror in Nunavut’s Terror Bay, north of where the Erebus was found in 2014. The discovery was to be confirmed by Parks Canada. (See Franklin Search.)
An accomplished Arctic explorer, Franklin is best remembered for his tragic 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. That mysterious voyage, which has baffled explorers and experts for more than 150 years, obscures the fact that Franklin added more to the coastal map of Canada than any explorer except George Vancouver.
A map of the Northwest Passage, created in 1854.
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Of interest to the curious,
Erebus and Terror are two mountains
in the Antarctic named after the
two lost ships. Also, Mount Erebus
has the dubious distinction of
housing the crashed remains from
the 1979 flight of Air New Zealand
flight 901.
Franklin, Lady. Shown in 1816. Lady Franklin launched the long search for her missing husband.
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Capital gains tax hike would cripple investment
By Niels Veldhuis on May 21, 2020 No Comment
Increasing the federal tax would be anti-investment, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-innovation and anti-green
By Niels Veldhuis
and Jake Fuss
The Fraser Institute
At a time when the country faces momentous economic challenges, it’s hard to think of a more damaging policy than a capital gains tax hike.
Yet rumours persist that prior to the COVID-19 crisis and economic downturn, that’s exactly what the federal government planned to do.
It’s also why the government’s recent attempt to give itself extraordinary powers to change taxes without parliamentary approval deeply concerned many of us.
Veldhuis
Increasing capital gains taxes would be anti-investment, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-innovation and anti-green. As such, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should put an end to the capital gains hike rumour.
Capital gains happen when assets are sold, be they physical properties such as real estate or financial assets such as shares in companies.
In response to a higher capital gains tax, investors may hold on to existing investments, rather than sell them and invest in something new, such as an emerging business. If they don’t sell, they don’t pay capital gains tax. But if they don’t sell, our investment sector becomes less responsive to opportunity.
That’s why the federal Department of Finance has found that taxes on capital – such as capital gains – are the most economically-damaging taxes, and that lowering the capital gains tax in Canada would produce significant economic benefits.
Entrepreneurs and their investors risk their own capital, time and energy in the hopes of profiting from the creation of a new product, an unproven service or the introduction of a new technology.
Jake Fuss
Entrepreneurs typically accept low pay early in this process so earnings can be reinvested to meet the needs of their growing business. In return, they and their financial backers expect to be compensated when the business matures and they take it public or sell it to another company.
The bottom line is that capital gains taxes reduce the reward entrepreneurs and investors receive from the sale of businesses. If you lower the potential rewards, you discourage entrepreneurs and investors.
Capital gains tax increases are also anti-green and run counter to the government’s desire to encourage clean energy. In their 2019 election platform, the Liberals said “to attract and grow businesses … we will cut in half the corporate tax paid by companies that develop and manufacture zero-emissions technology.”
But what about those who finance or start innovative clean technology businesses?
The Liberals could keep the capital gains tax rate where it is for “qualifying investments,” but that would be administratively complex and costly. And if they actually believe their own platform – that “lower taxes will create a strong incentive for businesses to set up shop in Canada” – why wouldn’t this be true for all investors in all industries, not just in green technology?
Some people argue that if capital gains are taxed at lower rates than other forms of capital income – dividends or interest, for example – businesses and individual investors will try to transform these kinds of capital income into capital gains in order to enjoy lower tax rates.
But the experience of countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands, which have no capital gains taxes, suggest these concerns are overstated.
Capital gains tax increases run contrary to the lessons of former Liberal prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.
In their 2000 budget, Chrétien and Martin (then finance minister) said: “The high-technology sector and other fast-growing industries are particularly important to Canada’s future economic growth. Our tax system must be conducive to innovation, and must ensure that businesses have access to the capital they need in an economy that is becoming increasingly competitive and knowledge-based. An examination of the taxation of capital gains in Canada suggests that this objective would be better achieved with a reduction in the inclusion rate of capital gains.”
The Chrétien and Martin Liberals reduced the capital gains inclusion rate (the amount of capital gains subject to tax) from 75 per cent to 50 per cent as part of a larger initiative to improve Canada’s competitiveness and attractiveness to investors. They understood that a lower, more competitive capital gains tax rate was essential to attracting and retaining investment and entrepreneurs.
Considering the current state of Canada’s economy, increasing the capital gains tax is the last thing the government should do.
Instead of raising taxes on entrepreneurs and investors, the government should follow the example of two former Liberal prime ministers and reduce capital gains taxes to improve economic growth and foster innovation.
But again, first it should do no harm and immediately kill rumours of a capital gains tax hike.
Niels Veldhuis and Jake Fuss are economists with the Fraser Institute.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by columnists and contributors are the author’s alone. They do not inherently or expressly reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of our publication.
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Fans cheer their team before an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game between Alabama and Ohio State, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Fans watches during warm ups before an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game between Alabama and Ohio State, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Fans watch before an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game between Alabama and Ohio State, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban watches his team during the first half of an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game against Ohio State, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
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A Ohio State fan reacts during the second half of an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game against Alabama, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
A security officer checks a fan arriving for an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game between Alabama and Ohio State Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Alabama celebrates after their win against Ohio State in an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Alabama won 52-24.
Alabama offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood holds the trophy for his teammates to touch after an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game against Ohio State, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Alabama won 52-24.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban and offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood hold the trophy after their win against Ohio State in an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Alabama won 52-24.
Ohio State head coach Ryan Day watches his team during the first half of an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game against Alabama, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
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COVID-19 shadows title game as college football season ends
The Associated Press — By STEVEN WINE - AP Sports Writer
The end of the college football season began with a scene that would have looked bizarre 12 months ago — and will likely appear just as strange looking back years from now — but seemed entirely unremarkable Monday night.
Alabama coach Nick Saban and Ohio State coach Ryan Day met on the field during pregame warmups with their faces covered by protective black masks.
From start to finish, the specter of COVID-19 loomed large over the 2020 college football season and the national championship game was no exception.
Along with masks for almost everyone except the players, there were lots of empty seats — around 50,000 — for the College Football Playoff showdown. The game, played in the Miami Dolphins’ stadium, drew the sort of turnout typically found in the fourth quarter of an NFL preseason game.
For sports fans, the odd atmosphere has become frustratingly familiar — like Alabama, which beat Ohio State 52-24 to complete an unbeaten season, the Lakers, Lightning and Dodgers won championships in mostly empty arenas.
But the challenges college football faced in navigating the pandemic were unique, as Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith noted after catching three touchdown passes to lead Alabama to victory.
“With COVID and everything going on, it just made things tougher, and made us more together as a team, being here for each other, keeping our bubble small,” Smith said. “The discipline on this team is like no other.”
Many were pessimistic the season would ever reach the finish line when it began Aug. 29 with the Guardian Kickoff Classic between Austin Peay and Central Arkansas, a game attended by far fewer than the 2,000 tickets that were available.
Nearly 130 subsequent Bowl Subdivision games were postponed or canceled after that and every week seemed to bring a headache or a twist tied to the coronavirus. Players around the country endured frequent testing as they tried to avoid campus outbreaks of the virus, with mixed success.
The Pac-12 and Big Ten postponed their seasons before reversing course, and Ohio State played only eight games. Alabama made it to the Rose Bowl, which because of the pandemic was played not Pasadena but in Texas.
Fittingly, the championship game took place at a COVID-19 vaccination and testing site. Ohio State was without 13 players, and while the school didn't give a reason, Day acknowledged last week the Buckeyes were dealing with new cases of the virus.
Saban tested positive for the virus twice during the season, with one result deemed a false positive. That made it appropriate he was at the center of the championship trophy celebration, to applause from masked, socially distancing Crimson Tide fans scattered around the stadium.
“Perseverance probably is the one word that describes this team the best,” Saban said, “in terms of what they’ve had to overcome all season long to go undefeated and win a championship.”
Even with a small crowd, there was a big roar when Saban lifted the trophy. And the audience around the country was huge, as sports again offered a diversion and some semblance of normalcy.
It was a made-for-TV season that ends with an asterisk, and college football now looks toward the 2021 season, which question marks of its own.
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Posted: Jun 22, 2015 / 08:20 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 22, 2015 / 01:31 PM EDT
James Monroe Barrett.
Update: The man who police say shot a Wilkes County deputy Monday morning has died.
James Monroe Barrett, 60, of 3659 Bethel Road in Jonesville, was taken into custody after a multiagency manhunt. He was receiving medical attention for injuries sustained during a standoff with law enforcement and died at the scene at about 11 a.m.
Deputies responded to a call about a domestic dispute involving the shooter at 5:55 a.m. That's when he opened fire.
Barrett, also known by the alias Thomas Barnett, is also believed to have set a house on fire before fleeing into the woods.
The deputy who was shot has been identified as Sgt. Steven Russell, a 12-year-veteran in the Patrol Division. He has two children.
Russell received a gunshot to the shoulder and shrapnel struck him in the forehead. He was airlifted from the scene and is expected to be OK.
Two other people were taken to the hospital. One was taken to Wake Forest Baptist, the other was taken to Hugh Chatham Hospital in Elkin, both with non-life-threatening injuries.
One of those injured was the owner of Myers Dairy.
JONESVILLE, N.C. -- A search is underway for a suspect who shot a deputy off North River Ridge Road a few miles west of Jonesville early Monday morning.
The shooting happened at 5:55 a.m. at the intersection of North River Ridge and Bethel roads.
Deputies responded to a 'shots fired' call and found the suspect shot into a cruiser and hit at least one deputy.
Another person, a local dairy farmer, was shot in addition to the deputy. This second person was a resident in the area, according to officials.
One person was airlifted and another was taken by ambulance to Wake Forrest Baptist Medical Center.
A grandmother and two children were trapped in their homes all morning. SWAT teams just got them out safely.
Firefighters have not been able to put out the fire at the scene because there is still an active shooter, according to officials.
The home that is on fire belongs to the same family who was trapped in the home.
The suspect is described as a white male in his 40s or 50s. He is considered armed and dangerous.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Greensboro police are asking for the public's help finding a bank robbery suspect.
On Thursday around 4:48 p.m., police responded to the State Employees Credit Union at 100 E. Elmsley Drive when they were told about a robbery.
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Farewell to Andrei: Kostitsyn off to KHL
By Mike HalfordSep 14, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT
Andrei Kostitsyn is on the move again.
According to a report from Russian news website Sports.ru, Kostitsyn has agreed to a one-year deal with Traktor Chelyabinsk of the KHL — the same team that employs Washington prospect Evgeni Kuznetsov and longtime NHLer Jan Bulis.
The move will be Kostisyn’s third of the calendar year. He started out the season in Montreal, scoring 12G-12A-24PTS in 53 games, before being shipped to Nashville at the trade deadline.
His time with the Predators was tumultuous. Flashes of strong play (he scored 12 points in 19 regular season game and tied for the team in postseason goals, with three) were largely overshadowed by the broken curfew incident in the Western Conference semifinals, an incident that also involved Alexander Radulov — who has since returned to the KHL, signing with CSKA Moscow.
By signing in Russia, Kostitsyn also ends the brief family reunion he and brother Sergei had in Nashville. The younger Kostitsyn re-upped with the Preds this offseason, signing a two-year, $6 million deal.
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Brass Bands NI Podcast
Over the past months, Michael Whan of Downshire Brass caught up with Desy Graham, Professor Michael Alcorn, Richard Evans and Mike Fowles on their thoughts on brass bands in Northern Ireland.
The European Youth Brass Band is an opportunity for the top youth brass players across Europe. Northern Ireland were proud to have 3 representatives this year in Daniel Rollston (Cornet, Murley), Stephen Crooks (Eb Bass, Murley) and Matthew Brown (Percussion, Third Carrick) in Perth, Scotland.
Over the coming weeks we hope to post what the lads had to say on their experience.
Flying the flag, Stephen Crooks, Matthew Brown and Daniel Rollston in Perth, Scotland.
This years Spring Festival, hosted by the BBL, proved to be another great day of banding at the Alley Theatre in Strabane with some terrific performances and some challenging pieces.
Highlights of the day were 1st Old Boys who won the Championship Section with Dessie Neill (Laganvale) taking home the soloist prize in the section. Elsewhere Third Carrick edged Ballyduff Silver Band to take the Founders Cup back to Carrick with their principal cornet, Claire Hueston, being the best of the soloists. CWA have yet another win in the third section seeing off competition from Comber Silver Band and Wellington Memorial who claimed 2nd and 3rd respectively. An all round enjoyable day for adjudicator Mr. John Berryman.
The First Old Boys Association Silver Band was formed in Belfast in 1946. As its name suggests, the band was created from amongst the former members of the 1st Old Boys Brigade Company. The 1st had been the first Company in Ireland, dating from 1886, and was formed at St Mary Magdalene Church (Col), Donegall Pass Belfast. A few ex-members of the company are still associated with the band as players/vice- presidents. The band on its creation assumed instruments and music from a previous band, known as the IOR (Independent Order of Raccobites) Band. During its existence the band has regularly competed in contests both at home and in England. The band have won the senior brass section on Thirteen occasions. Other notable successes include a second place in the UK Grand Shield competition (Manchester Belle Vue, 1965), and Sixteen NI Brass Band League championships plus numerous entertainment contest and solo and quartet victories.
The band draws its members from all sections of the community in Northern Ireland. Many members live and work in Belfast, while some make a round trip of over 100 miles to attend rehearsals two nights a week. Everyone gives of their time freely, as the band is a ‘subscription’ band, i.e. members pay weekly dues. Other expenses are raised through concerts and miscellaneous fund-raising activities.
Stephen Cairns is the bands current Musical Director who has led the band to victory in many competitions from 2003 to present.
In recent years, the band has enjoyed working with a number of visiting professional conductors including Richard Evans, Geoffrey Brand, Graham O’Connor, John Berryman, Frank Renton and more recently, Mike Fowles who led the band to victory in the 2010 NIBA Championships.
Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band was formed as a Flute Band in 1908 to provide a recreational activity with a ‘temperance’ outlook for the local youth from the Laganvale area (beside the River Lagan). The headquarters of the Band was a converted dwelling in Laganvale Street and thus the band was known as the Laganvale Temperance Flute Band.
The Flute Band flourished in the period following the First World War, winning the Irish Championships in 1921. The Band was a familiar sight in the many and varied traditional parades in Belfast and District during the 1920s and early 1930s. In November 1938, the Band decided to change to brass instruments and became known as the Laganvale Silver Band.
Members determinately kept the Band running during the Second World War despite several members having joined the forces and the remainder working long hours to support the war effort. Early in 1942, following discussion with the Officers of the local Squadron of the Air Training Corps (ATC), Laganvale became the basis of the Band of 1136 Squadron, Air Training Corps. The ATC Cadets provided a valuable source of new players and following 6 months of hard work, the Band led the Squadron on their monthly Church Parade to All Saint’s Parish Church. Thereafter, engagements followed thick and fast throughout the Province. The band was upgraded to Wing Band of the Training Corps, Northern Ireland and performed in Scotland and England. Following the war the members, new and old, returned en masse to Laganvale Silver Band.
The Band has a busy contesting programme with 5 wins in the Irish Championship contest (1968, 1972, 1995, 2004 and 2005), 3 wins in the Brass Band League Spring Festival (1985, 1999 and 2005) and numerous wins in local entertainment contests. The Band has also travelled to contests in Great Britain every year since the early 1950s. This resulted in several top placings, the best being 1st prize in the Buxton High Peak Brass Band Festival in 1999 against a strong field of 14 bands. These “away” trips have included competing in the European Brass Band Championships in Bergen (1996), Belfast (2006) and Birmingham (2007).
In addition to contesting the Band undertakes an extremely busy schedule of public engagements, fetes and concerts. The senior Band is supported by the Concert Band which also takes on occasional engagements.
The Band gained sponsorship from Antrim based company Metal Technology in 2004 and became known as Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band.
Downshire Brass
The Band was formed in 1990 by the Amalgamation of the Reid Memorial Silver Band and Hillsborough Silver Band, two of the oldest bands in Ireland at that time. The name Downshire originated from the members themselves as they wanted a new name for the new amalgamated band even though they were proud of the history of both bands. The amalgamation has been very successful and many of the band are original members.
The Reid Memorial Flute Band was formed in 1912 from the members of Dr. Haire’s Bible Class belonging to Malone Presbyterian Church. It always maintained it’s link with Malone although not all it’s members were church members. The band maintained a high standard of music making until in 1933 the price of Flutes forced the members to change to Brass Instruments which meant that they had to begin again. In 1939 rehearsals and contests curtailed, resuming again in 1945 and from then on the Reid Memorial Silver Band became one of the leading Senior Brass bands in Ireland and maintained this standard for many years until the civil unrest caused the band to suspend it’s activities for approx a year. During this time members kept the machinery ticking over and the instruments, until membership had been recruited enabling the band to reform at Second Section level. The band continued to compete in contests and progressed to the Championship Section. The band carried out a busy programme of concerts and park engagements until the amalgamation with Hillsborough Silver Band to become Downshire Brass in 1990. The name “Downshire ” in Downshire Brass has links going back to Hillsborough with the Marquis of Downshire.
Hillsborough Silver Band was founded in 1850 and was the Official band at the opening of the Banbridge Railway Station in 1859. The band was founded by Lord William Hills who whilst visiting his estates in England observed bands at work and decided to bring instruments back to Hillsborough for it’s own band. The band like all bands in that period started of as a flute band due to the low startup costs of instruments but progressed over the years to Brass and then Silver providing a service to the local community disrupted only by the first world war as was the case throughout the country at that time. The band held it’s rehearsals in the upstairs rooms of the old Market House (which later became the Courthouse) where it remained until the “troubles” in the Province and the close proximity to the Hillsborough Castle (where the Secretary of State for NI resided) forced the band to seek other accommodation in the village. The band carried out a great number of engagements locally and successfully contested in the BBL, NIBA and further a field over the years. Sadly due to a combination of lack of financial support and a decline in members, the band finally had to call it a day in 1990 and amalgamated with the Reid Memorial Silver Band to formDownshire Brass.
MUSGRAVE PARK 5 JULY 2009
To find out more, visit the bands website at: www.downshirebrass.com
Murley Silver Band
Murley Silver Band was formed in 1924 and took its name from the local district of Murley, a few miles from Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone (Northern Ireland) where most of the original members resided. At present the band is located in Fivemiletown, in the heart of the Clogher Valley.
The original set of instruments were bought with a loan from a Mr. Gillespie (the owner of the Valley Hotel at that time) and were delivered in a wicker basket aboard the Clogher Valley Railway. In the early years, the band only performed at local cultural events, but by the 1960’s there was huge surge of interest in participating in national contests organised by the Brass Band League of Northern Ireland (BBL) and the North of Ireland Bands Association (NIBA). The late Robert Hall was one of the key members, giving a lifetime of service to Murley by teaching virtually every playing member Murley had for almost 40 years, as well as playing himself.
The late Gordon Bloomfield conducted the band from 1960 until the appointment of a local school headteacher, Jack Taylor, in 1962.
However, it is fair to say that the meteoric rise of the Murley band through the sections can be pinned on one man – the late Harry Gault (right). Harry (who also founded the magnificent Strabane Concert Brass) was the conductor of Murley for 24 years, until his untimely death on April 12th 1997 at a brass band contest.
Harry became the Musical Director of Murley in 1973 and the following year, the band made their first recording entitled Murley Makes Music. In 1979 & 1980 the band became both NIBA and BBL Intermediate champions and to mark the occasion a second recording was produced, simply entitled Murley in Concert. In 1981 Murley were made Band of the Yearand in 1982 they competed in the Championship section for the first time. This was held in the Ulster Hall, Belfast where the band had a commendable result, finishing sixth out of nine. In 1987 the band recorded their best result in the BBL finishing 1st in the ‘Own Choice’ Spring Contest held in Glengormley High School. The band played Tam O’Shanter’s Rideby Denis Wright.
During the difficult period following Harry’s sudden death in 1997, band member Ann Bloomfield (nee Robertson) took up the baton for several months, leading the band in a memorable tour of Dublin and Bray. Mr Stephen Magee, a local music teacher, kindly stepped in as a conductor and remained in the post until September 1999.
In this same month Keith Anderson was appointed Musical Director and under his guidance, the band had several excellent contest results and produced their third recording – a CD entitled And The Band Played On, which was released in 2005. .
Murley’s finest hour came in October 2007, after finally winning the North of Ireland Brass Band Championship playing Coventry Variations byBramwell Tovey – the first time in the band’s 84 year history.This acheivement, under the baton of Keith Anderson (left), meant that the band qualified for and subsequently participated in the European Championships in Stavanger, Norway in May 2008.
In June 2008, Murley appointed William Hill as their new musical director and subsequently completed a historic double by winning the NIBA Championship for two years running. As a result, the band competed for the second time in the B-section of the European Brass Band Championships 2009 in Ostend, Belgium. The band finished a credible fourth out of six bands.
In March 2014, after a successful weekend with legendary conductor Richard Evans, Murley became champions for the very first time at the Valley Hotel Entertainment Contest. They won Best March and soprano cornetist James Cooke picked up the prize for best soloist.
To find out more, visit the bands website at: www.murleyband.co.uk
Third Carrickfergus Band
History of The Third Carrickfergus Band
The band was formed in 1958, under the direction of Mr D J McCartney, as the 3rd Carrickfergus Boys’ Brigade Band. The band went from strength to strength and won the Marching Bands Competition in Belfast three years in a row as well as featuring in the major Brass Band contests throughout Northern Ireland. The Band eventually disbanded in 1968 as the boys got older and left the BB.
They reformed in April 1973 as the 3rd Carrickfergus BB and Old Boys’ Band, again under the direction of D J McCartney. This position was soon taken over by Dr R W Hylands. He was a lecturer in civil engineering at NI Polytechnic at Jordanstown. He was previously conductor of Ormeau Military Band and Templemore Avenue Silver Band, which was the top band in Northern Ireland when he was with them.
In its first contest after reforming, the NI Bands Associations Championships, it took second place, then in March 1975, it won the Brass Band League (Section 3) in Northern Ireland with 185 marks out of a possible 200. It continued with its winning streak and under his direction, Dr Hylands took the Band from the Junior Section to the Champion Section with a total of sixteen consecutive first places in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain. This record is yet to be broken.
The band won the highest honour “Band of the Year” in 1976. As a junior band this was a great achievement. This award was shared with Agnes Street Silver Band, which was a senior band. This was the first time a junior band had ever won this title. The win qualified the Band to compete in the Pontin’s Holiday Camp Band Contest in Southport, one of the biggest British fixtures. The Band won this competition and went on to gain second place at the National Finals in Wales in a contest with over 100 competing bands. During the year of ’76, the band also won nine entertainment contests and their conductor, Dr Windsor Hylands, won the “Conductor of the Year” award.
The late 1970’s saw a large number of females entering the band. The first two ladies to join were Barbara Binding and Janice Curry (15 and 17 years old respectively when they joined). They were both made very welcome and were greatly respected for their commitment and attendance at rehearsals. Band officer Jim Simms was quoted saying, “The pair of them are just great. They don’t seem to mind at all and we’re only too glad to have them in our ranks. They are both talented musicians.” Today, there is an increasing number of females joining the band, with a current total of nine.
Throughout the next few years, and in to the early 1980’s, the band took part in many concerts and public appearances, both locally in Northern Ireland and in England. Individuals and ensembles took part in festivals and competitions where they won many prizes. Frequent winners included Dean McNally, Peter Graham, Thomas Binding, Ruth Binding, Hazel Bannister, Barbara Binding, Diane Howlett and Nigel Hylands.
Throughout the 1980s, the band continued with their local engagements across Ireland and although competing in local competitions they failed to achieve their previous successes. During this time the band focused on the junior members encouraging them and improving their skills and techniques. At this stage, the band had about 18 members in the junior band.
1986 saw the appointment of a new Musical Director – Mr Desmond Graham. Des had played in the band since it was first formed and often helped out by leading section rehearsals.
Des led the band to victory in March 1993 when it was placed second in the Northern Ireland Brass Band Championships then, in March 1995, the band celebrated a notable championship double of the North of Ireland Band Association’s Annual Contests in the Ulster Hall. This was the second time the band had won the coveted Rose Bowl, the first being in 1976.
The band has continued, to date, playing in many concerts throughout the year, particularly over the summer and Christmas months. During the summer the band hosts open air concerts across Northern Ireland and during Christmas, the band enjoys playing for shoppers in many of the local shopping centres, including Castle Court – Belfast and the Tower Centre – Ballymeana, for the arrival of Santa Claus.
In addition to contesting and concert performances individual members and groups have scored notable successes in various Music Festivals throughout the Province. The younger players connected with our Junior Band have been particularly successful in these events.
The band have had a long and successful history and have endeavoured to keep the fun in both the music played and in the rehearsals. This, it is hoped, will create the right atmosphere to encourage learning and the introduction of new up and coming junior members thus ensuring a healthy future for the Third Carrick Band.
We hope there will be much more to write about in the future.
To find out more, visit the band’s website at: www.thirdcarrickband.co.uk
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Rescuers including firefighters from nearby cities and air force pilots were searching for survivors at the reservoir near Medellin where the El Almirante sank with about 160 passengers on board.
Survivors described hearing a loud explosion near the men's toilet that knocked out power a few minutes after the boat began its cruise around the giant lake. "The boat was sinking and all we could do was scream and call for help", according to the Associated Press reports. He said that six people had died and another 31 were missing.
Margarita Moncada, the head of the disaster response agency in Antioquia state, said that almost 99 people have been rescued, while others managed to reach the shore on their own.
The passengers who were rescued said that the boat was most likely overcrowded and that many people were not wearing life vests. The discrepancies in the number of fatalities could not be immediately reconciled.
Margarita Moncada said that 99 people were rescued immediately and another 40 managed to find shore on their own and were in good health.
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But President Juan Manuel Santos, who traveled to Guatape to oversee search efforts, said it was sailing well below capacity. "What we have seen in the videos is that the boat was very close to the port... and we do not know whether it was a mechanical failure, an overloading or something to do with the currents that caused it to sink", said Morales, the fire captain.
In the absence of a passenger list, authorities have been relying on family numbers and survivors to report their whereabouts. The accident mobilised Colombia's armed forces, Victoria Eugenia Ramirez, secretary of the government of Antioquia, told the media.
A group of 25 scuba divers had to suspend their search overnight due to a lightning storm.
As night fell, the usually festive town was silent as people began to register the magnitude of the loss.
The Penol-Guatape reservoir is a popular tourist destination approximately an hour from the central city of Medellín. Guatape fills with tourists on long weekends like this one, since Monday is a holiday in Colombia.
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Engineers to design next generation subsea inspection system for petroleum industry
Associate Professor Fangpo He Associate Professor Karl Sammut AUV simulator Dr Jimmi Li subsea pipelines
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A new inspection vehicle to monitor the condition of subsea pipelines will be designed and developed by a Flinders University engineering team to meet the growing needs of the offshore petroleum sector.
With integrated sonar and video sensing, the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) will not only assess the integrity of pipelines that lie up to 2.5 kilometres below sea level but will also evaluate the changing conditions of the sea-floor.
Joint Team Leader, Associate Professor Karl Sammut from the Flinders School of Informatics and Engineering, said a number of challenges faced the petroleum sector as oil and gas resources were increasingly developed a long way from shore.
“At present more than 80 per cent of Australia’s gas resources exist in remote areas that can lie up to 300 kilometres offshore and extra-long pipelines will be required to transport the oil and gas from the deep sea environment safely back to shore,’ Associate Professor Sammut said.
“However, offshore there are many challenges facing the safe transportation of these elements, including the integrity of the pipe itself, shifting seabeds, strong currents, overheating due to sand coverage and pressure – all of which are to be examined through this project.”
The AUV concept is being developed as part of a $3.5million research project by the CSIRO Wealth From Oceans Flagship, which is aimed at finding science-based engineering solutions for the safe and economic design and operation of subsea pipelines in Australia’s deepwater frontiers.
Flinders is one of six universities taking part in the Subsea Pipeline Collaboration Cluster, including the University of Western Australia, Monash University, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and Curtin University of Technology.
The Flinders node has, through its Intelligent Systems Research Group, received $409,000 in funding to develop an AUV concept vehicle that can be used to monitor the performance of offshore pipelines.
The group, jointly led by Associate Professor Sammut, Associate Professor Fangpo He and Dr Jimmy Li from
the School of Informatics and Engineering, will work on the project together with colleagues from the University of Western Australia and Curtin University.
According to Associate Professor Sammut, the Cluster will investigate a range of areas as part of the project, including seabed characterisation prior to pipeline deployment, the evaluation of potential pipeline hazards, and analysing pipeline-seabed-ocean interaction.
“Flinders will use the funding to appoint two post doctoral researchers to help carry out the research on the navigation, control, and video and sonar imaging,” Associate Professor Sammut said.
The post doctoral researchers will join a team of five PhD students already engaged on the project.
“The project itself is very similar to one that is currently being undertaken in the North Sea between England and Norway, where they experience similar problems of sand-shift and movement of the seabed.
However, we believe there is much to be learned through our experiments due to the fact that pipelines have never before been laid so deep below sea level before,” Associate Professor Sammut said.
Associate Professor Fangpo He said “the biggest challenge posed by the deep water environment is the complexity of operating an AUV over long periods of submerged activity with little or no human intervention”.
“This challenge defines the need for advanced control, navigation, imaging, and reasoning techniques as well as improved power systems and these areas form the core expertise of the research group,” she said.
The AUV is being developed on site at Flinders University in South Australia with the collaboration of the Engineering Technical staff. The group is currently exploring avenues for additional funding to complete construction of the vehicle and to obtain access to a large tank facility to facilitate testing before deploying the AUV at sea.
Collaboration with other marine research groups is also being sought with the assistance of the Flinders Research Centre for Coastal and Catchment Environments.
The post doctoral students are expected to be appointed early in 2008.
Associate Professor Fangpo He (standing, left), Dr Jimmi Li (right) and Associate Professor Karl Sammut examine the AUV simulator.
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Performing ArtsMarching Band
Bands, most from Arkansas, present field shows
Music for All, which is the parent nonprofit behind the Bands of America circuit of marching bands, provided a showcase for bands from Illinois, Missouri, and, mostly, Arkansas via live stream Saturday.
The Ft Osage High School marching band performs in the showcase. (school live feed)
First up this afternoon—and, for many, this school year—was the Ft Osage Marching Band from Independence, Missouri. After a few technical glitches, which delayed the performance by only about five minutes—as might be expected with school-based technology—the band presented its show entitled “Simple Gifts” with full pageantry on a gorgeous day that had only a few cotton ball clouds in the sky.
The Quaker tune, set for orchestra by American composer Aaron Copland in “Appalachian Spring,” may have been the theme of the first field show many viewers have seen from a marching band this school year.
Back in the BOA studio, Cam Stasa, Music for All’s director of participant relations, watched and couldn’t help but reflect, “As the live feed started, we were like, ‘Oh my God, it’s a marching band.'” Ms Stasa, who is originally from Michigan, participated in the first summer championships for “Marching Bands of America” in Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 1976, the circuit that later became Bands of America.
A few minutes later, we started watching the Power Band Classic Invitational, where 10 bands from Arkansas performed at Lake Hamilton High School in Pearcy, a suburb of Hot Springs. Although many schools have abandoned festivals and competitions this year across the country, Arkansas is enforcing social distancing and mask policies but still has live marching band shows.
First on the schedule at the Power Band Classic was the Malvern High School band, and they performed a jazzy suite featuring a sassy trombone.
For those accustomed to a quick 14-minute succession of bands, this was a little different. But what hasn’t been different in 2020? However, Ms Stasa explained that the invitational in Arkansas provides an educational clinic for each band immediately following their performance, which makes the additional time in between performances necessary.
So about a half hour later, following some Bands of America commercials and a question from an announcer not shown on the screen (“When do we go back to Arkansas? How does this work?”), Gurdon High School took the field at the Arkansas invitational. But because of technical difficulties, viewers only saw the closing seconds of the show.
The live stream format does not allow rewinds or repeats of any of the performances, so we are unable to comment on the show from Gurdon, except to say that their show was entitled “Phobias.”
Minutes of commercial messages and sponsors’ logos followed, but for the viewers longing to see marching bands take the field, it was worth the wait.
Horatio High School took the field next, with the drum major, percussionists, and flags wearing big, black masks, clearly visible from the eagle’s eye view of the video feed. The Class 3A group also had no trombone players on the field, notable this year because the social distancing requirements for trombones, at least in Arkansas, are a little greater at nine feet than the six-foot separation required for musicians playing other instruments.
Horatio was followed by De Queen High School’s marching band, with its show entitled “Nostalgia,” which started with a recording of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” as the musicians ran into place from the front sideline. That was followed by a live performance of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other classic rock.
As with Zoom classrooms for students this school year, there was a slight lag between what viewers saw and what they heard: it came to about one beat in the band’s reprise of “Don’t Stop Believin’.”
The band from Lakeside High School in Hot Springs took the field next, and the band from Castle High School in Newburgh, Indiana, was scheduled to perform after that but did not appear.
Victor J Andrew Marching Thunderbolts, opening set (school live feed)
During a break in the Power Band Classic, the live stream feed shifted to Tinley Park, Illinois, where the Marching Thunderbolts from Victor J Andrew High School presented a dynamic show entitled “Mothership,” a three-minute interlude.
Emphatic chords punctuated a countdown from 10 to open the show, and the energy kept growing after that to the conclusion.
According to an announcer at the high school, the band squeezed in its last concert on March 10, just a few days before Illinois residents had to stay in their homes.
Since then, students have been recording band videos, he said, “to make things as normal as possible for students. They look forward to getting back to doing what they love in the way they remember doing it.”
From there, we went back to Arkansas for the final bands in the Power Band Classic, starting with Van Buren Senior High School. Their show, entitled “Ah Via Musicom,” showcased dazzling individual musicianship, not only with a mellophone soloist and a trumpeter who joined in, but also with the ensemble backing them up.
The visuals weren’t too bad, either. Their short show, lasting a little more than four minutes, had flags twirling in the finale in perfect unison, which is probably not the most common occurrence in a mid-season performance, especially during a pandemic.
Paragould High School
Next up was the Paragould High School PRIDE Marching Band. To get to the Power Band Classic, students and staff had more than a three-hour drive from near the Missouri border, said band director Richie Williams, through the “middle of nowhere Arkansas.”
The band performed at the 2015 Bands of America Grand National Championships and missed the semifinals cut by just a point and a half.
“We were heartbroken,” Mr Williams told me. “We thought we were going to make it. That was our first year to do Grand Nationals, too.”
Even with a close call like that, 2015 wasn’t nearly as heartbreaking as 2020 has been with the pandemic, though.
“This has been a different year, to say the least,” he said. “But Arkansas and Texas are still going forward with marching band state championships.” (Bands have the option during the pandemic to send in recordings instead of competing in person, but bands that do that aren’t eligible to be named Arkansas state champions.)
During the pandemic, performing in marching band is especially meaningful to students, writes Rebecca Morgan, drum major for the Paragould PRIDE.
The pandemic has also cut the number of bands lining up to compete for a state title dramatically: a little more than 30 bands are participating in the state series this year, Mr Williams estimated, compared to more than 80 last year.
In addition, “a lot of bands went to a much easier show, with everybody being in quarantine,” he said. But not Paragould. “We decided we were going to go full steam ahead on the show that we were going to do,” he said.
The show, entitled “Alpha,” is based on an Arctic wolf pack, he explained. “You’re going to see props like you’ve always seen and a color guard that’s dressed up in wolf costumes. You’re going to see a show like you would see if you went to a BOA competition—a full-out show just like that.”
The show depicts various ways in which wolves interact with each other and with the nature around them. The ballad, for instance, depicts the way packs protect elderly wolves from other animals that try to attack the weakest in the group. Parts are more aggressive, while other parts are more playful.
For example, one section, with some amazingly fast mallet work in the pit, features a dancer; another features a soloist being encircled by the color guard.
Because Paragould wasn’t able to start playing their instruments until August 5—they could rehearse the visuals and marching, but not the music—the development of the show is “a little behind” where it would be, given a state championship series in early November.
On top of the delay, the band also had to cope with rules for playing wind instruments, including staying in one room for only 30 minutes before moving to a different room to let the air clear out of the first room.
The rehearsal schedule doesn’t fit into every student’s current life in the same way, though, so Paragould’s numbers are down a bit.
“We have about 115 students in the band this year,” Mr Williams said. “In a non-Covid year, we’re usually about 160 or 170. A lot of students maybe just didn’t want to do it, or they got lazy, or they got a job and didn’t want to let their job go.
“But I’m going to tell you what,” he went on. “The kids that we have that are doing it, I mean, they are on fire. They’re great kids. We’re going to keep on doing what we love.”
The night’s finale
Bands from Cabot High School and Bryant High School were next, followed by the host school.
Lake Hamilton, which is hosting the Power Band Classic Invitational, was named the 2019 Class 6A state champion and has been invited to march in London’s New Year’s Day Parade on January 1. As of today, that parade is still on. The band continues to paint the field with a show entitled “Our Voice.”
With all the enthusiasm of youth, an announcer declared during the pre-show that people want to make the world right. But, “with all that is going on today, that seems like an impossible task.” Once the show began, the theme continued with an ethereal sax solo soaring over a rhythm section before a full band swell.
“How do we make a change?” the announcer wondered. “Will life ever return to normal? Are we going to destroy the world?”
Yet the band left us with the idea that, “like all those before us, we will change the world.”
The night ended with that message of hope amid a pandemic that has changed so much so quickly in our world. Music for All will present showcases like this one on October 17 and October 24. Virtual tickets cost $5 (available from Music for All).
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UHD Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Kanazawa Seiryo University
Last Thursday, UHD President Bill Flores met with Masafumi Miyazaki, president of Kanazawa Seiryo University (KSU), to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU). Interim Provost Ed Hugetz, as well as several deans and administrators joined the meeting.
The memorandum is the first step in building a relationship of academic exchange and collaboration between the two universities. KSU is a private university located in Kanazawa, a city on the west coast of Japan with a population of approximately 500,000. Originally founded as a business school in 1967, KSU now has nearly 2,500 students in the College of Economics, College of Human Sciences, and a graduate school. The university has an affiliated kindergarten, junior high schools, and a high school. Seiryo High School is famous in Japan for its athletics programs, and counts former MLB outfielder Hideki Matsui among its alumni.
KSU and UHD share a similar mission, with KSU's philosophy "to cultivate sincere professional people who can play a useful role in society." The two presidents joined to discuss areas of mutual interest, including their respective intensive language programs. KSU offers a 15-week Japanese Language Studies Program for international students as well as an annual 2- to 4-week long intensive Japanese language and culture study program. Miyazaki hopes the program will be able to open its doors to UHD students in the future.
"I expect our potential collaborations to result in a detailed understanding of both Japanese and American cultures for our students, as well as rich academic exchange," Miyazaki said.
Miyazaki went on to share KSU's plans to add more English-taught academic courses, and his hopes to explore opportunities for credit transfer between the two institutions.
Last school year, more than 100 UHD students went on long-term study abroad trips. John Hudson, director of the Center for Student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion says the University hopes to expand, explore and promote these opportunities in the future. He has plans to establish MOU's with universities in Europe and Asia.
President Flores expressed his enthusiasm about the importance of such partnerships.
"Opportunities for cultural exchange and immersion help students to develop into more culturally aware citizens and well-rounded professionals," Flores said. "I look forward to discussions about potential exchange programs and possibly a faculty and student visit to Kanazawa Seiryo University. I think we have a lot to offer each other."
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST MIRA JACOB
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 4, 2020
By Ramya Ramana
Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide interviews with each of the NBCC Awards Finalists for the publishing year 2019.
Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. She is the author of the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, and the graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, which shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book.
Ramya: So first I want to say thank you for writing this, from the bottom of my heart because it was just so refreshing to read a story that I could see myself in, and so much of your journey. I felt like I see myself and I could see my sister and I could see so many other South Asian women in. When you were writing this book, did you expect it to resonate with so many people? There's also a lot of people who aren't South Asian that find themselves in this story. Was that something that you expected, or what was that for you?
Mira: Yeah, it's a really interesting question because it gets to the heart of something which is the difference between what is your experience as a writer in the world, and what is your experience as a writer in this industry? And those are really different things. So as a writer in the world with a lot of other people of color around me, and a lot of other writers from marginalized communities around me, I was like, of course this is going to resonate. We're all in this. But as a person who's at the mercy of an industry that is largely guided by whiteness, I wasn't sure if it would get out in the form that I wanted it to be in. If the editing process was going to let the parts that I knew were vibrant shine through, if the team behind it was going to really be behind it or if they were going to get what was important about it. Like all of those things, the business parts were parts I didn't know. If the question is simply, did you know when you were writing it that other people would find themselves in this? For sure. I just wasn't sure they would find the book.
Ramya: And how was that process for you from finding the editor?
Mira: The editor who bought the book is not the editor that I ended up doing most of the editing work with, only because he moved on to another house. But when that happened, there was a moment where they briefly about giving me to the associate editor or the assistant editor at the same time. and it was somebody who would be inheriting the book. It was also a less senior person. It was also a white woman who I'm sure does fantastic work, so this is not about her work. Just that I understood very quickly as they were explaining it to me, I was like, oh no, this is somebody who doesn't have the seniority to battle back what I know is going to be a tide of insecurity about putting out a book like this.
I think what happens when you're writing about race-specific topics is white editors can get so cagey about what rights they have. Because they don't have the conversation deeply, they react from a place of paranoia and marketing, rather than a place of knowledge and a place of 'if that comes at us, we do this. If this comes out...' There's a way to talk through these things and to these things, and I knew that that person probably wasn't going to be adept in that. So I specifically requested that it go to an editor named Chris Jackson, and finessing that was was a bit of a thing. There were two things that happened that helped that. One is that I talked to Alex Chee who's a good friend and just a real friend to so many of us, so many writers of color in the literary space in that he's been there for longer than most of us, and he's been through a lot of these difficulties before. And he was the first one that said to me, you know, you can ask for an editor of color. And when he said it, I started laughing and I was like, there were like three, what do you mean? And there are many more than three. But yeah... Like I remember going home and being like, you need somebody that's going to call you on your bullshit, because that was actually, to be honest, that was the harder part. I wasn't worried that a white editor was going to censor me as much as they were not going to engage with it.
Yeah. You have to fight for everything. There's not a part that you don't have to fight for.
Ramya: You do such a great job of incorporating specific moments in telling your story. What was that process like in choosing what to put in the book, and choosing what to keep out? And then also like as far as memory, did you have any practices that helped you remember certain parts of your life?
Mira: That's really interesting. Okay, so let me answer the first part first.... the second part first, which is that I don't have memory practices. I would write things that I remembered, scenes that I sort of remembered from my life because I do remember things almost as like movies and in that way, because memory is unreliable, I will totally own the fact that I remember them in a way that someone else might not. And that is actually to me just how memory works. We will all remember things differently. I had no problem with being like, yeah, this is how I remember it. I'm writing it. I also know because I'm a fiction writer when I'm making something up. So I knew like if I was like, Oh, it'd be better if it happened this way and I'd be like, yeah, but this is a memoir, so you don't get to have it happen that way.
What's really interesting with that particular point and going between fiction and memoir is that when you don't get to have an event happen the way you would want it to happen for dramatic effect, you have to look really hard for what made it have that dramatic effect on you. Like, Oh I want to write this moment bigger than it is, but that didn't happen. So what is the thing that happened and then what was the thing? What was the beat of conversation or the moment or the pause that shaped me, and how do I let that live? And then there's one thing with like how do I let that live in normal prose? And there's another thing with how do I let that live with basically paper dolls that I've drawn in the shape of myself and conversation. so it was not that I had practices so much for remembering, as much as I had practices for once I knew what I was going to write, for how to get to the vulnerable part.
Ramya: Obviously it's your story, so nobody can experience the same exact thing that you experienced. But there's a space where when you cringe, I feel like I can cringe with that moment. Is there a specific way that you choose to craft dialogue that insinuates that emotion or insinuates that feeling where the reader can also feel what you're saying?
Mira: Yes. I have to always think about, so dialogue for me is every bit as much about what isn't said as what is said. So I feel like when people craft dialogue, they're always looking at it from - not they're always, but one of the things I see often, especially with writers who are less seasoned, is they're always looking for a kind of information exchange. Like, how do I get this point across, rather than what can this person not say? And I jumped from what can't be said to what can't be said.
Ramya: So another question I have is, you speak a lot about love in your book, and specifically like journeying through romantic love and what that looks like. We come from cultures where you get married and you don't marry for love really. You just kind of get married because it's tradition and it's just what everybody's done, and so those are the people that raised you, and then you grow up in this country and everything is about romantic love.
Mira: Everything!
Ramya: And I wonder if there was ever a point where when you were young, when you were navigating all of this, a point where you knew you deserve this romantic love, even if that's not what your parents had or the generation before had? Or was it something of desire that felt distant that you kind of had to journey towards, and what was that journey like?
Mira: I mean, there's so many complicated parts to me about being a South Asian woman and being a South Asian young woman, and specifically when we're talking about romantic love, I think you're right that we're expected. In families that have had arranged marriages, I think we're supposed to actually also do that, have an arranged marriage and it's very much about supporting your community, being part of your community, supporting your tradition.
But also if you look at the fantasy within that, there's also the fantasy that you fall in love after you've had your arranged marriage. That's the unspoken part of it. Everyone says like, Oh, then you just get married. But then, and there is this kind of silent "but of course then you fall in love", and you know and I know, because I've seen so many of those marriages that that doesn't always happen for everyone. That happened for my parents and I feel really lucky. I know it's happened for some of my friend's parents. I also know several friends' parents for whom it never happened. They didn't like each other from the get go. They didn't like each other 30 years later. It was never happening. So one of the things is you have to unpack ...the fantasy of romantic love is present in both. You have to look at that and just decide where they're placing it. So it's not actually ever that you're just not supposed to want romantic love. It's that you're not supposed to pursue it in one.
And in the other, you were allowed to pursue it, but then what happens in that too is this kind of funny ... because pursuing it in the Western sense comes with betraying your culture, you make an equation in your head, which is more or less if I pursue romantic love, I'm betraying my culture, therefore I'm doomed to fail, and when I fail, it'll be on me cause I'm the one that left my culture anyway.
So like in the way that we were just talking about dialogue and what can't be said, to me it's really interesting always to unpack the part of the fantasy we don't say out loud. So the part of the fantasy that we don't say out loud, especially that one is if I pursue American love and it backfires, I will deserve all the pain I get, and then I will be alone with it. Yeah. I think I had to go through a point many points where I'm also... part of that also is just acknowledging sexual hunger, which we're also not supposed to acknowledge at all. You're supposed to be a virgin when you get married and again, other things like good sex will just happen automatically. Whatever.
Ramya: Nobody even talks about it.
Mira: Nobody talks about having sex. The babies just appear, but you're supposed to believe sort of in the glow of a Hallmark card that something happens that's great, and foggy lens. Anyway, I'm a person with a pretty active sexual appetite. I knew that from the time I was young and I knew that if I was going to be sexual, people I knew it was always much better when it cared about them. And so it was like letting my body inform me as much as my culture informed me. Which can feel really.... I think it's a real threat to my culture that I would do that, and at first when I was doing it, it was just sort of like, Oh my God, what does this mean about you? What does this mean that you're going to listen to your body as much as you listen to your parents, as much as you listen to your culture, your relatives? What does that mean? And everything in this world will lead a young brown woman to believe that if you listen to your body as much as you listen to everyone in your life, you have failed everyone in your life. I just don't fucking think that's true.
Ramya: Yeah, and also the idea that everybody owns you.
Mira: Yeah, exactly right. That is the sure-fire way to make sure that everybody owns you but you. And then what? When do you get to be yourself? When do you get to feel the joy of being in this brown woman's body? So I think for me it was like I came at it sideways through the lens of shame, and sort of sneaking off to be with people and really loving it, and then sneaking back into my own culture. A culture that, by the way, also rejected me for my skin color, because it wasn't attractive and I wasn't what anybody wanted for their son. Surely I had some feelings. I don't know, hold those feelings about, that's my body.
Ramya: I think even from what I see in my own growing up in what I've spoken to a lot of South Asian woman, you learn to kind of compartmentalize both sides of yourself and function and code switch in each world.
Mira: Well that's why it was so important for me to draw myself naked. I had to explain that part to my son. And it was really wild to say that to him, because when the book was coming up, one of the big conversations, we had a lot of conversations about how do you feel about this part? He didn't read many of the parts that were about the drugs, the sex, whatever, but he read all the parts that are about him. And then I was like, there's one other thing I need to tell you about in the book and he's like, okay. You might hear about this from friends of yours, but I drew myself naked and I want you to know before anyone else tells you. And he was like, okay, you know. And I was like, yeah. And he's like, okay. And I was like, do you want to know why? Is it important for you to know or do you not want to talk about it yet? And he's like, no, you should tell me why. And I was like, I grew up in a culture where I wasn't supposed to enjoy sex and I wasn't supposed to pursue it and I wasn't supposed to enjoy my body, and the amount of shame that I grew up with was so present that it took away a level of conversation I could have been having with myself the whole time about what my needs and my wants were. I couldn't even look at them directly because I wasn't allowed to feel powerful in my body. And I was like, it took me until I was 20, in my twenties and away from my family and living in New York to be like, I'm just, okay, wait, no, I am doing this. The sky's not falling down. I'm just able to enjoy myself. Life goes on. It took me that long and I can't imagine how much more powerful I would have felt if I would've been able to see that sooner. So I'm drawing myself naked for all the young South Asian women. And I was like, what I'm scared of is all of the aunties and uncles and the patriarchy and all the people that are going to be like, that whore! Why did she do that? And I was like, but why I'm doing it is because there's probably some young South Asian woman that's going to look at this and it's going to relate to other parts of the story, and sooner or later she's going to go back to the part where I was naked and I'm not ashamed about being naked on the page because I have a body and I love that body. I don't want her to remember that. And he goes, okay, so it's like for feminism, and I'm like, yeah, it's like for feminism. He goes, okay, cool. He was like, great. So done.
Ramya: On page 75 , there is this diagram of your brain. There’s a lot of anti- blackness that is perpetuated in our culture and it's interesting because especially South Indians, if you look at some of us, we're just as dark.
Mira: Oh yeah. Darker.
Ramya: Darker, but nobody ever wants to admit that. How did you demystify the stereotypes or anti-blackness in your own journey growing up? And what did that process look like for you?
Mira: Part of the reason I drew that diagram of my brain is because that is basically a diagram of what was happening in my brain before I said some stupid racist shit and ruined the night of two boys who really didn't deserve it to be ruined. That night that I still wake up regularly remembering saying that and remembering what was so haunting about that moment was that I saw their faces and I was like, oh my God, I just did the thing to them that's done to me. I just did it to them, and knowing exactly what they were feeling because it had been done to me so often and having done it myself, it was just this real moment of like, Oh, just because people say racist shit to you doesn't mean you're not going to say to someone else. Doesn't make you bullet proof. What's really interesting to me about this moment that we're in right now is I think that there's this tendency to identify as people of color. I've already said it several times in this conversation. We say that in response to Trumpism and to whiteness and this need to kind of say, I am not of you. My experience is different than yours, but within that our experiences - blacks and browns - is so, so, so different.
So one of the things that I'm trying to do really interrupt in this is how Indians specifically, and some, I would say South Asians, there are many different groups of South Asians, but Indians specifically come here with a lot of white privilege and we come here and what is given to us, we take and then also I've heard more than one uncle be like, we made it here. Well, I don't know. Were you shipped here without your choice, separated from your family? Were you routinely raped? Were you routinely subjugated? Did you have your family stripped away from you over and over 400 years? Is that something that you survived? No. Oh, you mean the government just let you in the country? It helped you build systems and you wonder why you think that you can compare that to what black Americans have gone to through. Is that really what you're comparing with? Let's take that apart. I could just as easily have written a chapter about some horrible racist shit an uncle said to me, but what's the point of that chapter? If I'm confronting an uncle, we can all do that work. We all want to be the hero, and so what does it matter if I can be the hero over and over and over again if I can't actually really show where my I thinking has fallen short? I say that to you also knowing that if America progresses, and I hope to God it will, they're going to be chapters of this book that people pull out and they're like, oh my God, she was such an idiot. Look what she wrote here because we will have thought past it. Because we'll be able to look back. I will be able to look back on this and say, wow, I still had a blind spot about that. I still did this thing there. Wish I wouldn't have done it and grow from that point. You have to be willing to put something down on paper, which is much less than glamorous. I think it's really important for South Asians especially because our population does tend to rate with the highest income earning population is very small, but we're the highest income earning. I think it's really important for us to take that apart and look at what system are we benefiting from and why? And also what do we keep in check so we keep benefiting from that system? Because if the only way that we can continue to thrive in America is to step on the necks of other brown and black people. then we are inherently deciding to buy into a system which will never see us as fully human at the expense of other people, of other people. Yeah. It is just a shit show. That way it goes, the shit show. I'm so uninterested in my community becoming part of that shit show.
Ramya: There's certain characters that have the same image used multiple times. So for example, it will be a character, but in one scene they will appear as a teacher and another as a relative. Is there a reason you chose to do that?
Mira: So much of this book was creating a visual language. So what you're talking about there is every character in here is presented almost as a paper doll. They never moved their expressions and they never changed their bodies. They present one way, and there's reasons for that. I never changed the expressions because I don't want to have to perform racial pain, and I realized if I don't ever put an expression on their face, then the viewer has to hold what's happening. The other part of that is just this idea where when I was in bed one night, I was like, so is the thing you're saying then that whatever body you're born into is just how you act in the world? Is that what you believe?
Like you believe that a person that's born white is always gonna feel this, and a person that's born brown is always going to feel this? And I was like, no, I actually don't believe that at all. Okay, so then what's the visual solve for that? What is the visual way to confront that? Oh right. You have to have the same potty repeated in completely different situations. You have to like allow that to be real. And I don't do it with any of the main characters because it would be too confusing. But with the side characters, I do it. I've done it a lot. What's really funny about it too is when the book was being edited, a lot of people pointed out to me the white characters I had repeated, but they never pointed out the black or the Asians. So it was what it was, but what was really fascinating to me is how we're taught to recognize white faces over every other face.
Ramya: How did you give yourself the permission to write this book?
Mira: There is something when you are in a brown body that has always belonged to everybody else, giving yourself permission becomes such a wild thing because you want it from your mother, you want it from your father, you want it from your boss, you want it from your husband. There's a million different ways to ask for permission. And then running up against all of that was this idea that all of those people who I would wait to give me permission were not going to save my son from what was happening in this country. And I was like, I'm the only one that's going to care that much. I'm the only one that's going to... I definitely wrote this book for a segment of America that I felt was drowning and couldn't see themselves anymore and didn't feel recognized or cared for or held, because they didn't feel real anymore, because they'd been turned into a gross caricature by a dictator basically. So it's like, how do you run in the face of a caricature? You make it as complicated and specific as possible. You make yourself, if you're writing a memoir, as complicated and specific as possible. You air things about yourself you're not even quite comfortable with to say, this is how I've lived.
My friends have known forever that I was bi. It was no secret to absolutely nobody, and it's even funny cause I even had to go back to some of my closest friends in college and I was like, I forget. Was I openly out with you from the get-go? And they're like, yeah, you were out from the get-go, and it was really interesting cause I was like, that's cool. That's good. I'm glad. Cause I knew what I was, but I also was like, did I tell you? And they're like, yeah, you were totally clear about it. I was like, okay, thanks, but also deciding like I've been married for 20 years, there's no reason to talk about it, unless you feel like, okay, wait a minute. This is a part of my life. This is a part of my life I could safely tuck away to make this less complicated, and then we're just talking about race, but that's not who I am and that's not who I ever was. And also it feels so weird to have any of my ex-girlfriends reading this and be like, so you just erased us, for the sake of talking about what? You just erased us for the sake of talking about your identity in this very uncomplicated way. So you know, when you ask who did you ask for permission was less, or how did I give myself permission? I gave myself permission because I felt like the thing that I was trying, the thing that I was up against was the monolith of the idea of a person of color. And the only way that that was going to become a human was if I got specific. So I just got more and more specific and every time I got specific and every time it landed an ugly place and every time I felt vulnerable and exposed. Yes. this is exposing. This is awkward. Probably some of your aunties are never going to look at you again. That's true. But also there's a little more room for your boy in the world if you do this. There's just a little more room.
Ramya: What is your message to young Indian, brown girls and boys?
Mira: Yeah, I mean I wrote this book for you guys. What would I say? I mean it's so funny cause it's a huge thing. But I think I feel like the one cultural trait that we all share is wanting to respect tradition in a way of caring for our parents and holding onto those community bonds, and I believe in those same things, but you can never do it at the expense of yourself. And if that community makes you ashamed of who you are, if that community can't see you and can't hold you, then you have to redefine community. You have to find your people and look for each other, because there are many of us. There are so many of us. I know now for sure, I'm sure I've got several aunts and cousins and other people that are like, this is tremendously embarrassing and they talk about it with the family. Oh my God, can you believe this girl did this? But also I feel like sure, you will be able to bandy that about as gossip for the rest of your life. But also I've got this life. I love this life. I'm okay, and we will probably meet and have open conversations, but in your version of how things should have gone, I would have never been fully myself. I'm just fully myself. That's all. It's really not bigger than that.
Ramya: Thank you so much Mira.
Mira: Oh wait, I want to tell you something.
Ramya: Of course.
Mira: And one of the most amazing things is while I thought it would resonate, I was like, there are so many reasons that a book like this will never be taken seriously, partially because I'm funny, and I think right off the bat when you're funny about things, it gives people an opportunity to pretend that it's not serious. It's a mechanism by which people will dismiss you and I've always known that, but I'm writing for my readers. The critical will dismiss you and then there's your reader who you're like, I don't give a fuck. I'm just trying to reach you. You know this, I know this. This shit's funny. So I think I always knew it would resonate with people. I've been really surprised and sort of just really gratified about the critics getting this one, specifically with this award. This is one of my favorites. Favorite book of all the book awards. I always read this list, because I always feel like it's the people who really delight in books and really take them apart and put them back together the way I do. So that's why this is such an honor and I didn't think that would happen. That has been both baffling and deeply wonderful, like really, really good, that part.
Ramya: And you deserve that and so much more. So I'm rooting for you.
Mira: Thank you.
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Conflict Watch: Current Strategy Can Degrade But Cannot Defeat The Islamic State
UPDATE: With U.S. backed coallitons making advances in Mosul (Iraq) and Raqqa (Syria), and Sirte (Libya), with little news of IS expansion elsewhere, it seems like I may have been wrong on the need for a significant force of Western troops to defeat the IS on the battlefield.
I will leave this post up because it still contains important points about the multifaceted approach needed to defeat the IS ideology. But I believe it is important to admit when you are wrong, and in this case I was.
It is commonly accepted that the fight against the Islamic State (IS) is not solely a military fight. When the U.S. led coalition outlined its plan for combating the group, three main fronts emerged:
Traditional Warfare
Let’s examine how we are doing on each of these fronts, before considering the larger goal of defeating the IS:
It is notoriously difficult to police social media sites. Creating an account is free and monitoring content costs money. When an account is shut down, another one pops-up.
The IS has proven itself adept at using social media as both a recruitment tool and as a platform to amplify its message of terror. Good production quality has had the effect of making the group seem more permanent.
Social media sites, understanding the importance of countering the IS message, are stepping up to the plate (perhaps due to the fact that their own infrastructure is being exploited by these groups). One weak spot until recently was Twitter, but a new report shows the company has started to make a stronger effort:
The Islamic State’s English-language reach on Twitter has stalled in recent months amid a stepped-up crackdown against the extremist group’s army of digital proselytizers, who have long relied on the site to recruit and radicalize new adherents, according to a study being released on Thursday.
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) has long been criticized by government officials for its relatively lax approach to policing content, even as other Silicon Valley companies like Facebook Inc (FB.O) began to more actively police their platforms.
Under intensified pressure from the White House, presidential candidates and some civil society groups, Twitter announced earlier this month it had shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group.
In a blog post, the company said that while it only takes down accounts reported by other users it had increased the size of teams monitoring and responding to reports and has decreased its response time “significantly.”
It does not appear social media will become less popular anytime soon. As long as it is a platform that billions of people use, extremist groups will try to use it to further their causes (especially given the success the IS has had).
Therefore, it is the responsibility of social media companies to do everything they can to fight this misuse–it should be a liability issue, a cost of doing business for a very profitable industry.
Fighting a war and running a “state” are not cheap–the IS has to at least appear to offer some social services and run certain institutions if it wants to claim it is a “state”.
The IS primary revenue streams are selling oil, taxing the people in areas it subjugates, seizing money from banks in those areas, and (to a lesser extent) other illicit activities (selling stolen antiques, ransoming hostages, drug trade, etc).
Recent drops in oil prices and sanctions have helped squeeze the IS finances. But we cannot and are not relying solely on market forces to disrupt the group’s revenue streams:
Air strikes have reduced Islamic State’s ability to extract, refine and transport oil, a major source of revenue that is already suffering from the fall in world prices. Since October the coalition says it has destroyed at least 10 “cash collection points” estimated to contain hundreds of millions of dollars.
U.S. military officials say reports of Islamic State cutting fighters’ wages by up to half are proof that the coalition is putting pressure on the group.
In January, the coalition said air strikes against Islamic State oil facilities had cut the group’s oil revenues by about 30 percent since October, when U.S. defense officials estimate the group was earning about $47 million per month.
[U.S. Army Colonel Steve] Warren said air strikes against Islamic State’s financial infrastructure were “body blows like a shot to the gut”.
“(It) may not knock you out today but over time begins to weaken your knees and cause you to not be able to function the way you’d like to,” he told reporters last week.
It is true there is a limit to what airstrikes can accomplish against the IS without more soldiers on the ground. But airstrikes can be very effective in disrupting oil production and blowing up known cash storage sites. This is an area where the U.S. could expand its efforts more or less unilaterally.
One way to do this could be reconsidering what an acceptable target is. The U.S. led coalition has made an effort to avoid striking areas with expensive infrastructure, in hopes it can be used if wrestled back from the IS. But, as Ramadi has proven, the IS will rig any areas it loses with explosives before it leaves, so perhaps we should rethink trying to spare infrastructure if it means we can make a more significant dent in the IS finances.
What we cannot do is disregard civilian casualties–“carpet bombing” IS held areas is not a viable option. Not only would such a strategy be morally reprehensible, but it would be counter-productive, reinforcing the IS anti-Western message.
In recent months, the IS has lost significant territory in Iraq and Syria. Unfortunately, the groups practice of rigging areas it loses with explosives makes it very difficult to turn liberated areas back to “normal” (safe for displaced people to return and lead productive lives).
Furthermore, these gains have not always been made in “sustainable” ways. In Syria, the Assad regime has gained much of the territory the IS has lost (although the Kurds, natural allies to the West, have also gained territory). In Iraq, a Shiite dominated government has made advances with the aid of Iranian fighters, risking further alienating Iraq’s Sunni population (which paved the way for the rise of the IS in the first place).
Further curbing the benefit of IS loses in Iraq and Syria is the group’s expansion into Libya, where it has an estimated 6,000 fighters and rising, exploiting the post-Qaddafi power vacuum. The U.S. led coalition has started an aerial campaign against the IS in Libya, but absent a unified Libyan government, it will be difficult to stop the groups expansion.
In Libya’s incredibly important neighbor Tunisia, the freedoms associated the country’s successful democratic transition have created more space for the IS to operate. Ultimately effective pluralistic democratic governance, which respects the human rights of all people, is the only way to defeat the IS. We must provide Tunisia with all the support it needs, to ensure that democratization does not become a tool the IS uses to its advantage in the short-run.
Degrading AND Defeating the Islamic State
The good news is we have made progress on each of the three main fronts in the fight against IS (Social Media, Financial, Traditional Warfare). The bad news is that while we are able to degrade the IS, we have done so in a way that ignores the underlying factors that led to the groups rise in the first place.
Let’s not downplay the very real benefits of degrading the IS. It limits the groups ability to spread misery and death. It compromises the groups ability to carry out attacks abroad, and reduces the likelihood it will inspire lone-wolf attackers.
But the fight against the IS is expensive, and the longer the group is allowed to operate, the more it’s assertion that it is a “caliphate” becomes the fact on the ground. Moreover, time gives the IS (which has proven itself quite tactical and resilient) room to metastasize and evolve. Imagine if the group connected its Middle Eastern territory with large swaths of Northern Africa, transforming its ideological link to Boko Haram into an actual military alliance? This may seem like an unlikely scenario, but everything the IS has done up until this point has defied the odds against it.
To avoid perpetual war we must degrade the IS in a way that also attacks the groups underlying message–that there is no viable alternative for Muslims. On this front, much work remains. Governments in Islamic countries should put aside sectarian divides and treat the fight against the IS as the fight for the soul of Islam that it is. Unfortunately, there is little to suggest this will happen anytime soon, a point recently made by political comedian Bill Maher:
“Why don’t they fight their own battles? Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ISIS isn’t 10 feet tall. There are 20,000 or 30,000 of them. The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people. So why do we have to be the ones leading the fight? Or be in the fight at all?”
If you consider the countries bordering Iraq and Syria — Iran (with 563,000 armed forces personnel), Jordan (115,500), Kuwait (22,600), Lebanon (80,000), Saudi Arabia (251,500) and Turkey (612,800) — you get a total of 1.6 million.
Add in Iraq (177,600) and Syria (178,000) themselves and that brings the total to 2 million. That’s less than half of Maher’s figure.
When we heard back from Maher’s spokesman, he said the comedian was also including the armies of Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
If they (reservists) are included as part of a country’s army, the total for those 13 countries Maher wants to include rises to 4.95 million, as Maher said.
If you don’t include the reservists, the number of troops in the countries cited by the comedian only rises to 3.6 million.
Looking at the largest Muslim players, there is little hope in sight. Turkey is more interested in fighting the Kurds–one of the strongest forces against the IS–than the IS itself. Saudi Arabia and Iran are wrapped up in proxy wars in Syria and Yemen, and are ideologically opposed to pluralism, democracy, and one another. Egypt under Sisi has become increasingly authoritarian, and as a result finds itself consumed by its own terrorist insurgency. Iraq, as mentioned earlier, is relying too heavily on Iranian forces. In Syria, Assad is hoping that with Russian and Iranian support he can knock out all opposition except the IS, completing his “fighting terrorism” narrative and cementing himself in power as he kills indiscriminately. Jordan seems like a true ally in this fight, but it itself is a monarchy that will not fight for democratic values, and even if it would it cannot be expected to take on this fight alone.
It often seems that the IS is everyone’s second biggest concern. The inability to rally a meaningful Pan-Arabic counter-insurgency against the IS is not ideal (and is actually quite sad), but it is a reality we must acknowledge if we are to put together a coalition that CAN end the group’s reign of terror.
To this end, we need more support from those who do share our values. America cannot be the World’s Police, but the world does need a “police force”. Every country that believes in and has benefited from democratic governance and human rights has a role to play. A global coalition (including ground troops) must include all these parties, and be proportionately funded and manned (meaning the U.S. will still have to play a major leadership role).
To some, such a coalition may seem even less likely than a meaningful Pan-Arabic counter-insurgency. But in my mind, corralling support from interdependent allies that share common values and coordinating financing to fairly and sustainably spreads the cost is more achievable than completely changing the behavior of historically adversarial actors.
We need this global coalition not just to defeat the IS, but to prevent the next Syrian Civil War. Global security is at a crossroads and must evolve–prevention is the cheapest way to maintain a peaceful international order. Having an effective deterrent, alongside promoting democracy and human rights, are indispensable elements of preventing conflict.
Global security is a global public good, absent visionary leadership it will be under-invested in, to the detriment of all.
Categories: Blog Posts, Conflict Watch | Tags: airstrikes, Assad, conflict prevention, democracy, Human Rights, Iraq, IS, isil, ISIS, Libya, oil, pluralism, sectarianism, Social media, Syria, Terrorism | Permalink.
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Conflict Watch: Bypassing Assad To Get Humanitarian Aid To All Syrians
Recent gains by the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) in Iraq have temporarily reduced international pressure against the Assad regime in Syria. There is no rebel party with the military capability to counter ISIS, and diplomatic attention in the region has shifted towards trying to keep Iraq together and the Israel-Gaza war.
However, the Islamic State also presents a new challenge to the Assad regime; an organized, battle ready opponent. 700 people died over a two day span last week in fighting between the IS and Assad regime, marking the two deadliest days of the 3+ year Syrian Civil War:
The two-day death toll occurred last Thursday and Friday, with brutal fighting between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and the IS that centered around a gas field, according to reports released this week from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based anti-Syrian government group that keeps tabs on the war’s dead.
For several months, the Assad government has held the upper hand against Syrian rebels, which have become increasingly fractured. That reality was underscored Tuesday, when the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said it had voted to force out its “interim government” and form a new one within a month.
Attempts to form a viable government-in-exile for Syria’s opposition have been hamstrung by internal rivalries and by its inability to establish itself inside Syria.
So long as the opposition remains divided, a number of analysts have suggested that besides benefiting the Assad government, it may also bode well for IS prospects in Syria.
“The potential for ISIS [another name for the Islamic State] to engineer a similar resurgence in Syria [as Iraq] is real,” wrote Noah Bonsey, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, in the Huffington Post.
“Should it succeed, ISIS would be well-positioned to present itself to Sunnis in the region at large as the only remaining force with the strength to oppose reviled regimes in Baghdad and Damascus.”
Western powers have stated they would help the Iraqi government counter the IS, on the condition that Iraq creates an inclusive government. It would be hard to imagine any situation in which the Assad regime would be extended a similar offer (unless of course he offered to step down, but if 3 years of war and 150,000+ deaths haven’t convinced him, the IS will not). This new enemy, alongside his recent victory in Presidential “elections”, has only further embolden Assad, even as the humanitarian situation continues to devolve.
While deadlocked on the idea of taking punitive military action against Assad, the UNSC finally took concrete steps to address the world’s most pressing humanitarian crisis:
Despite objections by Syria’s government, the United Nations Security Council voted 15 to 0 on Monday to authorize cross-border convoys of emergency aid for millions of deprived Syrian civilians in rebel-held areas, without prior approval by the Syrian authorities.
Nearly half of Syria’s population — 10.8 million people — need assistance because of the war, and roughly half of them live in rebel-held areas.
The government of President Bashar al-Assad had insisted that all international aid be channeled through Damascus, the capital, and very little, if any, had been getting to civilians in areas not controlled by the government. Mr. Assad’s political opponents said the inequity of aid distribution was part of an effort by him to use the assistance, including medicine, as a weapon of war to sicken and starve rebel-held areas into submission.
Under the resolution, which is legally binding, United Nations convoys can enter Syria through two crossings in Turkey, one in Iraq and one in Jordan, all of which are beyond the Syrian government’s control. United Nations officials had previously identified these crossings as important routes for getting aid to isolated civilians.
Sylvie Lucas, the ambassador from Luxembourg, said the Syrian government’s denial of aid to rebel-held areas was the main reason for the resolution. In remarks to the Council after the vote, she said the resolution’s sponsors had been “forced to seek other means, other ways to ensure that humanitarian aid is provided to more Syrians, wherever they may live.”
Under the resolution, she said, “the consent of the Syrian government will no longer be necessary.”
A group of 34 nongovernmental organizations that have worked with the United Nations in trying to help Syrian civilians, including Oxfam and Save the Children, also welcomed the Security Council resolution. In a statement, the group called it “a diplomatic breakthrough that must translate into real change on the ground.”
The Assad regime has withheld aid as a military tactic, hoping to break the will of pro-rebel groups by depriving them of basic needs. This is a diabolic act, in blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
With recent gains by the IS, what was once a matter of “will” (the Assad regime not wanting to deliver aid to rebel areas) has also become an issue of “capacity” (the Assad regime is likely no longer able to reach certain areas with aid). This confluence of factors has forced the UNSC, including Russia, to allow aid to be delivered to the 10 million+ Syrians who need it without the Assad regime’s approval. After 3+ years of fighting and untold human suffering, human rights have finally triumphed over “national sovereignty” in Syria.
Assad may be more confident now, but this confidence is further evidence of his delusion. Syria is fragmenting around him, while he trumpets a victory in a sham of an election.
Categories: Blog Posts, Conflict Watch | Tags: Assad, humanitarian aid, Humanitarian crisis, IS, ISIS, Syria, Terrorism, UNSC, war | Permalink.
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If Climate Experts Wrote New York Transportation Policy…
By Noah Kazis
The Paterson plan calls for enormous reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve the targets would require a total transformation of how New York grows and how residents get around.
As Andrew Cuomo transitions into the governorship, David Paterson just handed him a parting gift: a comprehensive blueprint for how the state can tackle its greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, which has been in development since a Paterson executive order in August 2009, goes into spectacular detail about how the state might reach the ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels over the next forty years.
With Paterson exiting the stage soon, the plan carries little weight, but it shows what it would take for New York to tackle climate change with the urgency it deserves. While emissions from buildings are the largest contributor to climate change in New York, the team of experts who authored the report make clear that it will take an all-out transformation of the state’s transportation and land use systems to reach the climate goal. Transit expansion, smart growth, complete streets, and congestion pricing (for New York City, at least) all figure into the plan.
The biggest transportation-related reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would come from a total shift to clean vehicles powered by clean fuels by 2035. Over the next 20 years, moving toward that goal could eliminate 130 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, more than every other transportation and land use proposal combined.
The other big-ticket reduction in the transportation sector would come from a massive expansion of transit. That includes everything from bus rapid transit in every metro area in the state, to new subways and the roll-out of high-speed rail. All that new transit would cut greenhouse gas emissions by a large amount, though the report notes that it couldn’t reduce driving very much in more rural parts of the state.
The transit expansion would cost an additional $25 billion over the next two decades, making it the most expensive transportation-related suggestion. “Achieving these goals would require funding well above what is available today,” the authors write. Of course, the report, which is more scientific than political, doesn’t specify where the funding for this transit expansion would come from.
Under the plan, the biggest greenhouse gas emissions reductions would come from changes to how cars are fueled. Smart growth policies offer the state big cost-savings and could be an appealing early action for Andrew Cuomo.
Smart growth initiatives, without which the transportation emissions targets would be impossible, loom large in the plan. “Without significant changes in land use and development patterns in New York State, the level of VMT reductions and mode share changes contemplated in the entire suite of transportation and land use policies will be difficult to achieve,” the report states. If New York keeps sprawling, we won’t be able to build well-used transit systems, and increased driving will eat away at fuel efficiency gains.
The report offers two principal strategies to combat sprawl. First, the authors recommend the creation of “priority growth centers” where compact, mixed-use, walkable and bikeable development can flourish. These centers would exist in urban, suburban, and rural forms. Again, the goals here are extremely ambitious. The report calls for half of all new construction to take place in these priority growth centers by 2030 — a tough bar to clear considering the state can provide smart growth incentives but can’t directly regulate land use.
Even so, the plan emphasizes that smart growth initiatives need to be implemented as soon as possible, especially in fast-growing downstate areas. If action isn’t taken quickly, all that new sprawl gets baked into the cake. “Land use patterns are difficult to change once established,” says one understated passage.
Putting growth in the right parts of the state, however, doesn’t get you across the finish line. You also need to take what the authors call “a micro-planning approach by creating specific, people-friendly/oriented network/land use connections.” That means endorsing complete streets, for example. While more compact development makes it far easier to walk to the store, on a terribly designed street it might still be dangerous or unpleasant.
The plan also endorses two policies particularly important for the densest urban environments in the state: congestion pricing and parking reform.
Congestion pricing, the authors propose, should be instituted in New York City with the revenues going to pay for some of their other recommendations.
The plan also calls for a major revision of parking policy across the state. In the downtowns of all the state’s major cities, smarter pricing of on-street parking could reduce a major incentive to drive. Off-street, employers can offer their workers the option of cashing out their parking benefits rather than only offering free parking. The authors suggest that “the true cost of parking should be reflected in municipal development policies and zoning ordinances.”
Neither congestion pricing nor parking reform offers a large reduction in statewide emissions. In fact, they offer the two smallest reductions of any land use or transportation policy. However, a place like Manhattan already has the best transit and most compact development in the country. The most important policies are already in effect, essentially. Congestion pricing and parking reform would push it a step even further and allow the very green, very massive, very densely populated regional core to function more smoothly.
This climate plan doesn’t have any sort of binding power or even an abstract commitment from the state to eventually follow its specific recommendations, though Paterson’s executive order does promise to reach that 80 percent reduction somehow. Even so, it could serve as a blueprint for the new administration to follow as it tackles climate change and a yardstick against which to measure future environmental efforts.
For the fiscally conservative Cuomo, the report also makes clear that a number of these efforts will actually help the state’s bottom line. In particular, by reducing the cost of new infrastructure, the smart growth initiatives save the state billions over time. If Cuomo wants a way to burnish his environmental reputation without compromising on fiscal discipline, there’s no better place to start.
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It will never stop until it is stopped:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1986120/-Unable-to-land-a-punch-on-Joe-Biden-Trump-escalates-his-racist-sexist-attacks-on-Kamala-Harris
Fine, no peace, then.
EVER:
https://digbysblog.net/2020/10/a-banana-republic-for-which-it-stands/
I never thought America would die at the hands of a person named "Amy".
So much for the wages of toxic masculinity.
We have no government:
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/10/13/it-is-the-official-policy-of-the-united-states-that-what-the-current-president-says-is-not-the-official-policy-of-the-united-states/
Of course, at the risk of confirming my native hypocrisy, maybe Barrett will turn out to be a harmless hippie chick:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-might-surprise-everyone/616697/
In which case, I can then enjoy the sight of Erick Erickson rending his garments as he rummages for his wife's weapon and resurrects the goat that Judge Souter had relations with.
But, I doubt it.
I hope Puerto Rico invites the Russian and Chinese Navies in for some R&R:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1986081/-Paper-towels-needed-in-Aisle-1-to-mop-up-Trump-s-stupid-remarks-aimed-at-Puerto-Ricans
Well, at least he found one place to ENCOURAGE voting.
I wonder if he has somehow contrived to have his name placed on the ballot in Puerto Rico and will adjudicate to count those illegal votes.
our new Justice either doesn't know simple facts of the law or is afraid to tell us she knows them.
but yes, liberals exist.
I guess she would consider it a trick question, if asked whether the constitution as a whole or in part is unconstitutional [there is a school of thought on the Right considering at least several amendments to be exactly that and going back to the Federalist Papers the whole idea of a Bill of Rights was not to the liking of some of the Founders].
did anyone hear that?
it sounded like a giant whiff.
The federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to review whether Obama-era officials improperly requested the identities of individuals whose names were redacted in intelligence documents has completed his work without finding any substantive wrongdoing, according to people familiar with the matter.
This is it for me today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAtGpU_xY8
Keep trying! (from cleek's WaPo link):
The end of Bash’s case is similar to that of a review conducted by John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, who was asked in November 2017 by Sessions to look into concerns raised by Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state. The Post reported in January that the inquiry had effectively ended with no tangible results. In the months that followed, Trump bemoaned the state of the inquiry on Twitter, asserting that Huber “did absolutely NOTHING.”
Or found absolutely NOTHING. Because it was all bullsh*t to begin with. How much did they spend on this stuff, since that was the big concern about the impeachment hearings? Also, too - Benghazi!
What a bunch of tools...
The revelation that U.S. Attorney John Bash, who left the department last week, had concluded his review without criminal charges or any public report will rankle President Trump at a moment when he is particularly upset at the Justice Department. The department has so far declined to release the results of Bash’s work, though people familiar with his findings say they would likely disappoint conservatives who have tried to paint the “unmasking” of names — a common practice in government to help understand classified documents — as a political conspiracy.
but Obama was a tyrant
Out of curiosity, I googled for information on the Durham investigation into the FBI's Russia probe and found this:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/fbi-russia-barr-trump/index.html
...Even more disappointing to Barr and Trump, current and former Justice officials say the Durham probe has yet to find evidence to bring any major indictments against the people Trump considers his political enemies, CNN has reported, although Durham is still investigating.
One telltale sign indictments aren't in the offing is that intelligence documents provided to Durham by the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe are now being declassified and turned over to Congress by Ratcliffe.
If those documents were going to be used in prosecutions, the Justice Department wouldn't allow them to be released now, officials say.
I, for one, hope that Trump gets so very angry that he shoots Barr in the middle of 5th Avenue. A "Second Amendment Firing", one might call it.
He won't lose any votes, so he might as well.
Even more disappointing to Barr and Trump, current and former Justice officials say the Durham probe has yet to find evidence to bring any major indictments against the people Trump considers his political enemies,
And AG Barr, low as he has sunk, hasn't quite reached the point of going to trial with flat out manufactured evidence. Yet. Although Trump's comments on the subject suggest there may be plans for after the election . . . if he wins.
Happily, every day so far this month, 538's forecast either ups Biden's chances by 1 (out of 100), or drops Trump's by one, or both. I expect that to thrttle back soon, as there just aren't enough Trump Chances left to last until Election Day.
I expect that to thrttle back soon, as there just aren't enough Trump Chances left to last until Election Day.
As I understand it, part of their calculation involves the possibility for something to change the course of the election in Trump's favor, which becomes increasingly less likely as election day approaches. So, even if nothing changes but the passage of time, Trump's chances continue to diminish. I guess you could call it an uncertainty fudge in favor of the less likely winner that becomes less significant as that uncertainty decreases along with the time left until the election. (If that makes any sense, verbally or conceptually.)
hsh -- have they forgotten 2016, and Comey? Wasn't that less than a week before the election?
Although I have no idea what the prognosticators were saying at the time, either before or after his little surprise.
Posted by: JanieM | October 14, 2020 at 02:09 PM
they're still working on FUBARing the whole process so it will end up in the courts.
You'd have to ask them. But there is the big bombshell about Hunter Biden's emails being recovered from a damaged computer left at a Delaware repair shop. So maybe Rudy Giuliani will play the role of Comey this time around, revealing that Hunter introduced Joe to a Burisma oligarch. I can't imagine this one will fall apart under further examination (at least not for Trump's hard core base, including some people in congress, who seem to love them some Russian propaganda).
have they forgotten 2016, and Comey? Wasn't that less than a week before the election?
They definitely haven't forgotten. And they've made changes to try to address the problem.
On the other hand, the race then was a lot closer. The actual 2016 results were well within the published margin of error. If the results differ by the same amount, and in the same direction (the thing about error ranges is that you are equally likely to be off in either direction), then Biden still wins easily.
At this point, Trump would need
1) the polls to be off the same way,
2) but by even more,
3) to draw another inside straight with the Electoral College,
4) AND to have the courts decide a bunch of law suits all in his favor.
Even with a one in a million shot, there is still that one chance. But it's not the smart maney bet.
So maybe Rudy Giuliani will play the role of Comey this time around,
seems to me like Rudy's playing the same role - spread as much bullshit as possible and hope Biden slips in it.
This one will turn out to be as important as the one about the $3.5M payment to Hunter Biden that wasn't a payment to Hunter Biden.
as an aside, the Senate Judiciary Committee needs a better AV squad.
1. Not that it matters, but I was being sarcastic.
2. This tale of a broken laptop and more suspicious emails...
First of all, they've been trying to damage Biden with accusations about his son and Ukraine for a long time, and all that has happened is that Biden has polled better and better (not saying the Ukraine stories are causing that, just that they don't seem to be accomplishing their goal of turning people against him, at least not in enough numbers to matter).
Secondly, Biden isn't Hillary. For better and worse, but in this case what I mean is that I think there were a lot of people who wanted to believe Hillary was nefarious. I just don't think it sticks, with Biden. Plus it is, in fact, 2020 and not 2016.
Thirdly, no fiction writer would invent such an uncreative bunch of villains. Emails, again?
Giuliani and Clickbait are quite a pair. I saw a clip that probably went around everywhere last night of Clickbait dancing...why isn't he in protective (from himself) custody at this point?
What Trump needs is to squeak out a win in a couple of swing states.
It's not out of the question.
The (D)'s need to GOTV. Everywhere. If you're so inclined, it's not too late to send postcards and/or phone bank.
Polls don't elect the POTUS. Voters don't even elect the POTUS. The electors do, and that is highly game-able scenario.
No rest until Nov 3. Or, really, until January 20.
One of the tragic losees of our time is that it has gotten so hard to be sure when sarcasm was intended. Even from those one knows fairly well.
Still, I should have picked up on that. Sorry.
wj -- absolutely nothing to be sorry about. I just wanted to clarify.
And yes, it's hard to tell these days.
Did early in-person voting yesterday; from getting in line to walking out the door, 22 minutes. Fortunately my county seems better prepared than some of the other populous metro Atlanta counties, where there have been reports since early voting started on Monday of multiple hour waits (as much as 8 and even 12 hours). Fulton County has been using State Farm Arena (where the NBA franchise plays) as an early voting location, which is working mostly well, but not every county has a similarly-sized space; Fulton is also geographically expansive, stretching far into the northern suburbs, where folks are not very inclined to brave the urban hellhole.
Fulton is also geographically expansive, stretching far into the northern suburbs, where folks are not very inclined to brave the urban hellhole.
I'm guessing more sarcasm, or at least a related form of poking fun. Parody, perhaps, aimed at provincial suburbanites.
Also, too, my wife and I used our local drop box for our mail-in ballots. She did the actual dropping, which required her to sign the outside of the envelope as the person other than the voter performing the delivery. Not sure how they would have known the difference, but we played by the rules.
My ballot's status is "received" when I log on to the elections website. It only took a couple of days for the status to be updated. I just have to wait for it to change to "accepted," which is what's shown for my primary ballot sent through the mail.
Since setting up the login, I can access my entire voting history going back to 1996, when I registered in my current municipality.
Trump, before inauguration, did call the 5th district "falling apart" and "crime infested", which is what I was thinking of, but I guess I borrowed Duncan Black's frequent usage.
... and going back to the Federalist Papers the whole idea of a Bill of Rights was not to the liking of some of the Founders].
Some were concerned that the government would feel free to abuse any rights left unenumerated.
russell's not wrong. From a piece in today's NYT called Biden is Not Out of the Woods:
One way to measure voter enthusiasm is to compare voter registration trends for each party. A Democratic strategist who closely follows the data on a day-to-day basis wrote in a privately circulated newsletter:
Since last week, the share of white non-college over 30 registrations in the battleground states has increased by 10 points compared to September 2016, and the Democratic margin dropped 10 points to just 6 points. And there are serious signs of political engagement by white non-college voters who had not cast ballots in previous elections.
David Wasserman, House editor for The Cook Political Report. wrote on Oct. 1 that voter registration patterns over a longer period in key battleground states show that “Republicans have swamped Democrats in adding new voters to the rolls, a dramatic GOP improvement over 2016.”
Posted by: Girl from the North Country | October 14, 2020 at 05:26 PM
Barrett was asked if she believes a president should unequivocally commit to a peaceful transfer of power
"To the extent that this is a political controversy right now, as a judge I want to stay out of it, and I don't want to express a view," she says.
OK, that's clear. The proposed Supreme Court Justice thinks that the ability of the President to act directly contrary to the law isn't a matter of law.
Which means, essentially, that everything is a political question, and there are no laws. Just what you have the power to get away with. Glad we cleared that up.
everyone who thought the GOP would nominate someone who isn't a thoroughly doctrinaire wingnut, please raise your hand. now hit yourself with it.
everyone who thought the GOP would nominate someone who isn't a thoroughly doctrinaire wingnut, please raise your hand
Of course they would. But that didn't necessarily mean they would nominate a completely out-of-the-closet wingnut. Yet they have.
but why wouldn't they? the outcome is guaranteed, and norms are passé. why try to please anyone who isn't part of the team?
If she's seated, Coney Barrett will be the third sitting SCOTUS justice to have worked the (R) side in Bush v Gore.
Even she seemed surprised at that! Not.
I am incredibly pessimistic today. Sorry folks. Will come back if I have some good tidings to bring.
Posted by: sapient | October 14, 2020 at 07:08 PM
Barrett looks like she'll be close to a Scalia 2.0. Or a 3.0 if you count Gorsuch. Justices often don't rule on cases the way the people who nominate and vote for them hope they will.
The not-the-worst-president-we've-had gave his dupe child AND the dupe military attache who carries around the nuclear "football" the Covid-19 virus.
At least William Henry Harrison had the good grace to fucking DIE BEFORE his inauguration as he held you in armchair so you could feel his disease.
More guns.
Less healthcare.
Fewer subhumans.
Justices often don't rule on cases the way the people who nominate and vote for them hope they will.
That's absolutely true, and I'm hoping for that, of course.
Except that such a variation can go two ways. And the fact that we can't imagine her rulings being worse than we expect just means we have a failure of imagination.
(Sorry, I'm sleep deprived this week, and next. Makes me even grumpier than usual.)
Makes me even grumpier than usual.
Happy to love you, misery!
I'm sleep deprived this week
The trouble with virtual conferences with a world-wide audience is that somebody is going to be up at terrible hours. For me, this week and next are a conference running on Central European Time (Hamburg, Germany). Which is, in California, graveyard shift. It's been a while since I could do that without batting an eye.
Dropped off my ballot at a dropbox on Saturday. Received and confirmed by the board of elections on Tuesday. My vote is safely in.
Go Katie Porter.
Details are for wussies and commies.
This guy sounds reliable.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunters-laptop-to-rudy-speaks-out-in-bizarre-interview
Throughout the interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation that contacted him. At one point, Mac Isaac claimed that he was emailing someone from the FBI about the laptop. At another point he claimed a special agent from the Baltimore office had contacted him after he alerted the FBI to the device’s existence. At another point, he said the FBI reached out to him for “help accessing his drive.”
Mac Isaac referenced the infamous Seth Rich conspiracy theory—which holds that a DNC staffer who police say was murdered in a botched robbery was actually killed off by Clinton allies because he leaked committee emails—as reason for his paranoia. He said he made a copy of the hard drive for the purposes of personal protection.
“They probably knew I had a copy because I was pretty vocal about not wanting to get murdered,” he said, “so I’m going to have a copy.”
I'm not sure why I'm paying any attention to this. It's probably some perverse fascination with how far gone so many people seem to be these days.
early voting in NC started today.
took me two hours to get through the line.
signs were up along the line for every candidate, except Trump himself.
I'm not sure why I'm paying any attention to this.
It's the perverse appeal of train wrecks.
On a positive note...
(Politico's Tim Alberta, from Arizona)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/15/letter-to-washington-from-phoenix-429433
...When I called the Maricopa County elections office, a spokesperson told me that 180 people cast ballots at McDowell Square that day. I spoke with about 15 of them. There was a great deal of diversity—age, background, socioeconomic status—but they all had two things in common.
First, they were Hispanic, which was intentional for the reporting of this piece.
The second thing was not intentional: Nobody had voted for Trump. I stayed until the polls closed, speaking to every person I could, hoping to find a single supporter of the president. For the first time in this series, every citizen I encountered was voting for the same candidate.
I know, I know—it’s a microscopic sample size. Still, if I were working to reelect the president, it would scare the hell out of me. Trump might be able to weather a bludgeoning from upscale white suburbanites or a groundswell of Hispanic voter intensity. In Phoenix, there is mounting evidence of both...
Posted by: Nigel | October 15, 2020 at 12:55 PM
"It's the perverse appeal of train wrecks."
Well, there is a perverse appeal when watching from a distance. And repeating the viewing in slo-mo.
Jeez, lookidat!
But trains wrecks are absolutely riveting when we are passengers on the train hurtling down the track, not a brake to be heard engaged, and you hear the engineer cackling maniacally over the train's intercom, and then a conductor screams that the train has been diverted to a siding marked "1000-foot cliff straight ahead" and then the latter throws his ticket-puncher into the air and dives headfirst out the nearest window.
The Hispanic vote is far from monolithic. But if anything like what he found in Arizona should be happening in Texas....
One might raise a tentative finger and inquire to no one in particular whether the bar in the lounge car is still open.
No, Trump has not been ‘tough’ on Russia.
Trump’s policy on Russia sanctions has been an elaborate ruse, designed to project toughness while actually doing little to follow through. The reality is that Trump, far from taking a tough line, has proactively undermined sanctions from Day One of his term in the White House.
The results are clear. As Trump’s own FBI director recently emphasized, Russia is continuing to interfere in our politics today. That’s not because the sanctions have failed to achieve their purpose. It’s because Trump never intended them to work in the first place.
"Since setting up the login, I can access my entire voting history going back to 1996, when I registered in my current municipality."
I find this terrifying. So your secret ballot is not only not secret, it is a permanent record.
I could be wrong, but I think the only thing being tracked is the fact that you submitted a ballot. I.e., that you voted.
That's pretty much been in the public record for quite a while now.
So your secret ballot is not only not secret, it is a permanent record.
Is there not an important difference between "a history of which elections you voted in" and "a record of how you voted in past elections"?
Knowledge of the latter would indeed compromise the secret ballot. But I am hard pressed to see how the former would be a problem.
My entire voting history sounded different to me. If its just that you voted not so much.
But knowing your voting history is tracked would, I suspect, make many people uncomfortable.
I've been a poll worker for several elections now. One of our duties was, every hour per state law, to post outside the polling place a list of who had voted so far. (This being used primarily by partisans seeking to make sure all of their supporters turned out.)
It amounted to a pretty darned public record of whether you had voted. So merely having it available online as well doesn't seem much of an innovation.
i was surprised when i first saw that voting history is all on-line in NC, too. but, now i find it a lot less worrying than having my property values and county tax records available to anyone who wants to look.
just checked my own .. in MA, doesn't look like they have the whole history, just where your current ballot is in the process. and it looks like it's just for mailed ballots.
almost everything about the voting process is regulated and managed by the states, according to their own rules.
Not to put too sharp a point on this, if you get antsy about someone knowing you cast a ballot (but not knowing who you voted for), you really can't complain about how voter fraud is a huge problem in elections.
I say it's time to bring back old-school voter fraud. Do like George Washington did - buy those votes with booze!!
Alcohol is slurred speech protected by the First Amendment.
And, let's DO make a very sharp point about this. If complete historical records are being kept of the number of times a citizen, by name, cast a ballot in each election (not WHO or WHAT we voted for) and it is available to all, then what the Hell is this entire "voter fraud" hysteria on the Right about? .... he asked with an innocent face.
The only reason to be terrified about the practice is if an individual voted more than once and/or in the wrong jurisdiction.
It has been stated here not awfully long ago by someone named Marty without followup identity verification that voting is a privilege that should be limited by some vague and suspicious regulatory measures.
Yes, one vote per person, not one vote per drink.
The secret to cheating is to get drunk and vote often using a different alias each time.
They who can hold their liquor .. WIN!
A candidate who doesn't know any alcoholics will not get far in an American election.
Seven states, I think, still bar alcohol sales on election day.
That's why Republicans stock up for weeks beforehand in those states.
Selling VOTES is still permitted 365 days a year.
Some careful law enforcement investigation should get to the bottom of the scandal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGtzMbKOVts
The President of the United States proudly admits ordering the cold-blooded murder of an American citizen by the government without resort to a trial by jury or even a fucking arrest:
https://twitter.com/Acyn
I'll buy the next round.
Fucking subhumans.
Times change.
Early 19th century ballot boxes were often made of GLASS, so that the ballots could be seen inside.
The concern, at the time, was ballot box "stuffing", in which there would be ballots in the box before any voter had a chance to put their own in.
And if you don't have the courage of your convictions, to let your neighbors know how you voted? Tough shit, wimp.
I fully expect Trump to use the result that there are precincts that record ZERO votes for Trump as "evidence" of fraud. Rather than evidence of multiple-digit-IQ.
Citizens Inebriated has always been the norm.
I understand that North Carolina provides this information (though in the form of a multi-gig data file) on all their voters, to anyone.
it's searchable, too.
https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/VoterInfo/
it will tell you when a person voted, how (in person, absentee, etc), in which county, and which ballot they requested.
they have me going back to 2000.
we moved here in 1997.
the web site also tells you:
Voter Reg Num: xxxxxx
NCID: xxx
Party: DEM
Ethnicity: NOT HISPANIC or NOT LATINO
NCDMV Customer: Yes
Any paranoid RWNJs that dislike having their state collect voter information on them are invited to sit out this November election, and all future elections as well.
Erasing the information already collected? That's harder, but they can do it. All they have to do is say "Trump Jesus" three times while sucking on a bullet.
I haven't checked lately but the complete driver license database use to be available for a fee from many states.
Posted by: CharlesWT | October 16, 2020 at 09:20 AM
The Republican Party is beyond redemption.
The GOP starts forging a new alliance with QAnon
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/qanon-trump-maga-movement-429739
Ibram X. Kendi takes heat on these pages for his alleged Marxist approach to racism in America:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/threat-voter-subtraction/616746/
Increasingly blatant evidence shows restricting voting rights by hook and crook in America is a plank in the anti-Marxist conservative right wing platform for stealing elections, and that position is more patently Stalinist than it is Eisenhower.
I'm more Groucho, Chico, and Harpo than Karl or Zeppo, but Kendi nails it on this issue, though Margaret Dumont may pop a monocle and tut-tut.
Also, I'm glad Trump finally came around to my view that cannibalistic pedophilia is a bad, bad thing.
So, I guess I deserve a Nobel Prize for beating him to the punch, even though I still order anchovies on pizza from joints that may have a basement.
Meanwhile, the White House murderous vermin have denied all emergency funding to California for the catastrophic fires and their aftermaths, though Kellyanne Conway's first task when she returns from infecting her family with the pandemic virus is to fly out there and blow David Nunes, though I hear Stephen Miller is eager to monopolize that job too.
I hope Biden doesn't follow suit and deny emergency funding for Texas and Florida and everything red in between the next time they are submerged.
Just make sure none of the monies go to registered republicans in those states.
In fact, bill THEM to rebuild infrastructure and property and compensate their liberal and Democratic neighbors' lives who are lost.
It's a game.
Two can play.
To his credit, Biden won't.
I've voted for him anyway.
A Pew Research survey last month found that 41 percent of Republicans believed that QAnon was “somewhat” or “very good” for the country.
That's f**king insane.
the GOP is a cult dedicated to opposing teh libz and Q gives them a rich new mythology to justify their opposition.
the only sane thing to do is vote third party to make sure nothing about the GOP changes and the libz don't win, amirite?
Also, cancel culture and Marxism are still worse problems in today's US of A. Tyranny abounds.
"somewhat" good for the country?
Does that mean they are against pedophilia but feel that eating children can be tolerated, as long as the latter practice is consensual?
Again, our intelligence services need to find Q or the many Q's and deep six them via deep state action.
I grow more conservative as I age regarding terminating the terrorist enemies of my country.
Another bit from Nigel's link:
At a NBC News town hall on Thursday night, Trump himself refused to denounce QAnon when asked about the movement. “I know nothing about QAnon. I know very little,” the president said. “I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard.”
On the other hand:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/qanons-obsession-with-savethechildren-is-making-it-harder-to-save-kids-from-traffickers/
“It’s extraordinarily frustrating,” said Lisa Goldblatt Grace, co-founder and executive director of My Life My Choice, an anti-trafficking nonprofit. “We’ve worked so hard for the last 18 years to shift the narrative and have people understand this is happening in our communities. QAnon instead gives folks this incredibly sensationalized ‘other’ to fear and be angry about.”
In reality, child trafficking in the U.S. doesn’t look like a bunch of Hollywood and D.C. elites performing satanic rituals on children they stole from suburban playgrounds. Instead, kids who are sexually exploited are often poor, children of color, immigrants, or some combination of the three, and they’ve often been in the child welfare system or run away from home. In 2018, 1 in 7 kids who were reported as runaways to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely victims of child sex trafficking, according to UNICEF.
“We see minors who are in a vulnerable position — maybe they’ve run away from home, maybe they’ve been kicked out of their home — and then engage in sex acts for money in order to have food to eat and a place to stay,” said Jean Bruggeman, executive director of Freedom Network USA, an anti-trafficking group. “Almost never is there any kind of abduction or solely a use of physical force or locking people away. It’s generally much more subtle coercion.”
They fight it very hard, but they're so divorced from reality that their fight is counterproductive to the cause of stopping child sex trafficking. How Trumpian.
On racial bias, Booker had a great question for Barrett:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-hearing-cory-booker-called-bluff-about-racism.html
...“I understand that you weren’t aware of specific studies I cited, which are central to the important work of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which advises federal judges or provides recommendations to federal judges,” he continued. “So I just want to give you an opportunity today to share what studies, articles, books, law review articles, or commentary you have read regarding racial disparities present in our criminal justice system.”...
Which she was unable to answer.
She doesn't strike me as someone who has read widely.
Understatement of the year.
Not that it matters. Is there a label for this charade that would be equivalent to "show trial"? Maybe just "charade" is enough.
Whaddya mean? She's read all 73 books multiple times (and Esther is her absolute fave - Esther/Ahasuarus = OTP).
No one needs any other books.
Including not having read widely about stuff that you'd expect any Federal judge to be aware of. (But perhaps she merely wasn't paying attention when her law school class went over the Bill of Rights. Cram enough to pass the exam, then forget it immediately. That sort of approach seems plausible.)
Cram enough to pass the exam, then forget it immediately. That sort of approach seems plausible.
Hey! That's what got me through school! Everyone's a critic these days....
I got thru some classes that way, too. But not on subjects critical to my career. In those, I paid attention. And, if I was using the information, the knowledge stayed reasonably fresh.
I generally paid attention if I liked the class. But I liked a good number of them, so I guess it worked out well enough. (No one's looked at my transcripts for decades, anyway.)
Being able to provide significant help to my son when he was taking AP physics last year might be the crowning achievement of my own education. ;^)
Is there such a word as megansplaining ?
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1316770240475398145
McArdle: "We have long lines for voting for the same reason we have long lines for major concerts: it's a rare event for which demand occurs all at once."
And yet, lots of other states have elections equally infrequently. And we don't see those long lines there. Why might that be?
She's so very taken with her own cleverness.
Dunning-Kruger: see McArdle, Megan.
she sees everything through Econ 101-colored lenses.
That seems to be a common problem. Things like basic supply-and-demand curves, highly abstracted to illustrate concepts, are taken as being equivalent to laws of nature that apply universally. I guess viewing the world in such a simplified way provides a convincing illusion of clarity.
That is to assume she is arguing in good faith.
I used to think that, a decade back.
At least for federal elections, states that do registration are required to maintain their voter registration lists. Eg, remove dead people or people who move away. Or in many states, who have not voted for long enough. Such information is considered public so that the states' work can be checked by anyone.
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EMA’s Brexit relocation decision date announced
The European Medicines Agency has given an update on its preparations for Brexit, ahead of the October meeting that will decide its new location.
In its latest management board update the EMA said it has several Brexit work streams – including one dealing with the physical relocation of the agency from its current headquarters in London to one of the remaining member states.
According to the document the European Council is expected to choose from a list of cities bidding to host the regulator in October.
Earlier this year, health secretary Jeremy Hunt indicated that the UK will have to quit the EMA because of the government’s desire to be free of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
This will make the EMA’s London headquarters location untenable, and it will have to move its base from the Canary Wharf location it has occupied since the 1990s.
Hosting the EMA is seen as a magnet for the pharmaceutical industry, and pharma companies have cited the agency’s location as a factor when deciding on investing in the UK.
That is why member states from Ireland to Romania are bidding to host the EMA, as it as seen as a catalyst for growth of the life sciences industry.
Another Brexit issue the EMA is wrestling with is redistributing work formerly conducted by the UK’s drugs regulator, the MHRA.
The MHRA often takes a lead role when medicines are assessed using the centralised process, and as one of the larger EU regulators it also conducts work such as safety monitoring.
All of this must be distributed between the other regulators and the EMA has set up two working groups, one focused on human medicines, and one dealing with veterinary medicines, which will explore how to relocate this work across the rest of the network.
The EMA has also produced guidance for pharma companies to help them adapt processes and consider changes to marketing authorisations to ensure they remain valid.
UK parliament backs EU trade deal, as industry sifts through detail
UK Leaders: Gilead’s Hilary Hutton-Squire on building trust with the NHS
The 2nd Life Sciences Sector Deal and the NHS 10 Year Plan
Key Pharmaceuticals Ltd to lead a workshop on Parallel Trade & Brexit
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Yorkshire GMC recruits first participant for 100,000 Genomes Project
One of the UK government’s revolutionary Genomic Medicine Centres (GMC) has made its first recruitment in accordance with the ongoing 100,000 Genomes Project.
Donna Proctor, a 49-year-old domestic supervisor at Seacroft Hospital, is the first person to provide a blood sample to the new Yorkshire and Humber NHS GMC.
Originally when launched, the project included 11 GMCs dotted around the country. In December 2015, an additional two GMCs were added, helping to increase the numbers of participants recruited to the project.
The project, launched in 2012, aims to place the UK as a world leader in diagnosing and treating cancer and rare diseases through the building of a robust genomic database. The extensive database will include various genetic information associated with each disease, including specific genetic mutations that can aid in diagnosis and better inform treatment decisions.
Clinical Director for the Yorkshire and Humber NHS GMC project, Dr Andrew Jack, said: “Genomics is key to the future of medicine. Patients with inherited genetic disorders and cancer will benefit though the provision of more efficient diagnosis, better patient information and by enabling access to the next generation of targeted therapies.”
Professor Sue Hill, the Chief Scientific Officer for England, echoed Jack’s enthusiasm for the news, specifically referencing it as a “great step forward for healthcare in Yorkshire and Humber.”
“[This is] another step in keeping NHS care at the cutting edge of science. The contribution of people like Donna, and many, many others like her, is helping to build the future of health care across the country.”
The total number of anticipated project participants stands at around 70,000. At time of writing, the total number of whole genomes sequenced stands at 7896. The latest figures can be checked here.
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A day in the life of… a seasoned pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry executive
Pierre A Morgon
Theradiag and Sanofi Pasteur
Pierre A Morgon is a Non Executive Director at Theradiag (formerly Biomedical Diagnostics) and also Vice President, Franchise &, Global Marketing Strategy at Sanofi Pasteur. Here he shares what a typical day is like for him.
Continuing our series where we speak with individuals from various roles and functions across the pharmaceutical industry on what a typical day is like for them, we speak with Pierre A Morgon.
Pierre Morgon is a Non Executive Director at Theradiag (formerly Biomedical Diagnostics), in addition to being Vice President of Franchise &, Global Marketing Strategy at Sanofi Pasteur. He explains what it’s like to walk in his shoes for the day.
Interview Summary
RA: How did you come to be in this role?
PM: During the six years that I spent outside of the vaccine industry between 2003 and 2003, I had always remained in contact with my previous boss as Aventis Pasteur who eventually decided to capitalize on the skills that I acquired in other business settings, and jokingly asked me to come back because “he needed a true marketer in the executive committee” (sic).
In addition, I’ve always been interested in global market trends, economic implications on the functioning of all industries, starting with health care, and consumer behavior.
RA: What does a typical day / week at work look like for you?
PM: There isn’t a typical day, other than 15 to 16 hours of work, combining one-on-one interactions, meetings, videoconferencing, emailing, etc. The most interesting part of my role is the wide scope of topics and the intertwining of the subjects in the global strategic picture.
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“The most interesting part of my role is the wide scope of topics and the intertwining of the subjects in the global strategic picture.”
RA: What are the biggest challenges you face on a day-to-day basis?
PM: Sufficiently enlarging the scope of strategic thinking to adequately prepare the senior management to the full range of strategic scenarios that Sanofi Pasteur is likely to face and therefore help set the stage for the relevant decision making.
In addition, challenging inertia, status quo and the deeply rooted belief of some in the company that the vaccine industry is (partially) immune to the global consumer trends that surround us.
RA: What are the parts of your job that you find the most rewarding?
PM: Exploring novel topics, data and trends across markets to generate insights and inspiration, and use them to shape strategic orientations, to manage relationships and to develop people in sync with the long-term company needs.
RA: What are the most important skills in doing your role well?
PM: Curiosity, intellectual flexibility, strategic thinking, empathy and emotional intelligence, and organizational awareness.
RA: What is the likely progression from where you are now?
PM: Who knows? Perhaps evolution closer to the shareholders, in global roles influencing strategic decisions related to portfolio structure, M&,A, etc.
“Be curious, be patient, and never trust anyone telling you that you can’t do it…”
RA: What advice would you give a job seeker on looking to get into this role?
PM: Be curious, be patient, and never trust anyone telling you that you can’t do it, until you’ve actually tried, using a rigorous experimental approach!
RA: Who inspires you the most?
PM: Great scientists, such as Pasteur (of course), Einstein, Newton, Edison and Volta. But also great painters, such as Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Picasso and Klimt. Yet, most often, my main source of inspirations are closer to my professional concerns (world renown strategists such as Sun Tzu, Von Clausewitz, Machiavelli, Julius Cesar, …) or to my personal life, starting with my two daughters (well in line with the French proverb according to which “the fruit never falls far from the tree”).
RA: Thank you for your time.
If you would like to share your “A day in the life of…” please contact us here.
About the interviewee:
Pierre A. MORGON received his Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Lyon in 1985, his Masters in Business Law from the Lyon Law School in 1986 and his MBA from ESSEC in Paris in 1988. He is also an alumnus of INSEAD, IMD and MCE executive programs.
He is a member of the Management Center Europe Sales &, Marketing Council, and he has been a lecturer in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry seminars and in business schools for several years.
Pierre MORGON has over 25 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in marketing and operations positions as Product Manager, International Group Product Manager, International Marketing Director, Vice President Marketing, VP Business Unit, General Manager and VP Global Marketing Operations and Strategy.
Through these local and global positions, he has acquired direct experience with blockbuster products in diverse markets (primary care, specialty care, hospital, vaccines, and biotechnology), geographies (US, Europe, Japan, China, India, Emerging Markets) and organizations.
He spent 2 years at ICI-Pharma, followed by 8 years at Synthelabo, a division of L’Oreal. Subsequently, he joined Aventis Pasteur in 1998, as VP Marketing, International, and was promoted to Vice President Global Product Marketing.
Then he had a diversified and complementary set of experiences in operations, first at Yamanouchi Pharma France as General Manager, then at BMS France as Vice President, Hospital Operations, then at Schering-Plough as Director of the Primary Care business unit in France, and eventually at BioAlliance Pharma as Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Management Board.
In June 2009, he joined Sanofi Pasteur as Vice President, Franchise &, Global Marketing Operations, and was appointed Vice President, Franchise &, Global Marketing Strategy in July 2011. He is a member of the Executive Committee.
He has been appointed non executive director to the Board of Theradiag (formerly BioMedical Diagnostics) in March 2012, a company focusing on in vitro diagnostics in auto-immunity, infectious diseases and allergy.
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PERITIA is an EU-funded project investigating public trust in expertise.
In a world increasingly relying on knowledge, trust in trustworthy expertise is essential to achieve progress and well-being. We need experts to help policymakers and citizens take the correct decisions in important matters like health or climate change.
As many people in Europe and the world, we are worried about a populist backlash against the notion of “expertise”. With an international multi-disciplinary team, PERITIA seeks to help citizens and policymakers learn to trust trustworthy expertise. By doing so, we aim to enhance trust in a better democratic governance for the future of Europe.
Key Hypothesis
The key hypothesis explored conceptually and tested empirically is that affective and normative factors play a central role in decisions to trust, even in cases where judgements of trustworthiness may seem to be grounded in epistemic considerations, such as professional reputation, reliability and objectivity.
Testing our Research
The project will use climate change and climate science as a test case. Ultimately, it seeks to design and provide practical tools and indicators which can be applied to measure and establish the trustworthiness of the agents and institutions involved in social and political decision making.
View Work Packages
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Karen O'Brien (Photo: UiO)
Ten percent of us can stop climate change
If only ten percent of us are able to change our mentality and lifestyle, we can stop climate change. So says Professor Karen O'Brien, who helped write the new UN report.
Nina Kraft
Article from University of Oslo
tuesday 31. january 2012 - 05:00
The University of Oslo is Norway's leading institution of research and higher education.
The world experiences more extreme rainfall, dangerous floods and strong hurricanes, warns the new UN report on climate, but most refuse to listen. "Everybody" knows that this really is important, but the message is too tough.
Political leaders have achieved little. It is acknowledged that the Kyoto Agreement had few real consequences for climate change, and most people had little faith in the Summit in Durban in early December.
Yet Karen O'Brien, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, has not given up. And she contributed to the latest UN report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), launched in Oslo this week.
Hard and soft power
"I am a strong opponent of those who argue that we have reached a point where human-induced climate change is so great that we cannot do anything anymore, that we have reached a point of no return. I am convinced that we can all do something," says O'Brien, who is the main author of one of the chapters in the UN report.
"We must adapt ourselves to the idea that we can influence the climate" says Karen O'Brien (Photo: Colourbox)
"But we cannot just wait for the 'leaders' to do something. The first change must take place inside our own heads - we must adapt ourselves to the idea that we can influence the climate. So we must push for change in our communities and our country, as well as in our own culture, and in our own thinking. In a few years we will laugh at this consumer society we have now, where we compete over how many shoes and bags we have in the closet, where we travel all around the world on vacation. I do not think change comes from above, from climate agreements where governments commit to international agreements that opened loopholes for the sale of quotas. It is at best a minimum solution," says O'Brien.
The insurance industry will force change through
O'Brien has more confidence in the economic forces that affect development. She believes that many large companies see the writing on the wall and will adopt greener technologies. The large insurance companies that insure and lend money to the rest of the insurance industry are meticulously following the findings of climate research. Among the most eager readers of the IPCC document are the giants Munich Re and Swiss Re.
"Insurance companies can stop the aviation and shipping industries, indeed whole transport systems, and all other kinds of industry. You can’t put an oil tanker to sea without insurance. And insurance companies are concerned. They do not want to be financially responsible for climate change as it will cost very much to clean up," says O'Brien.
Three scenarios
The UN report is based on research from hundreds of researchers. But it lacks concrete figures. Nowhere is it written that the climate is going to be x degrees warmer after y years.
This is a disadvantage since countries want hard reliable facts they can take to the table, and it is also a disadvantage since the general public may get the impression that climate change is not so dangerous or that "scientists disagree". But, the professor explains, this uncertainty is a necessity for scientific reasons.
The UN report has divided the globe into 26 zones, each of which is subdivided into smaller regions. In each region, there is uncertainty. How the climate changes in each area depends on trade policy, politics within countries, population growth, economic growth, how green the economy is, economical differences in countries and communities, and how the community is able to adapt in practical terms.
According to O'Brien scientists cannot say that a specific area, in India for example, will suffer a flood that is of a certain size, in a certain number of years, and that the consequences will be such and such. It depends on natural fluctuations, human impact and many factors that cannot be foreseen – from specific quantities of greenhouse gases to how local people adapt their behaviour.
"For example, do people in vulnerable areas live on the banks of rivers? How do they build their houses? Do they have an agriculture that erodes the soil? We have used three models for each region, where we have supposed three types of community development at the micro and macro level. But even with the model where we have assumed the most environmental initiatives, we foresee a warmer climate," explains the professor.
"Much of the vulnerability has been created by human activity. Large floods or landslides that kill thousands are not necessarily events that happen by themselves, but are partly created by society. When a million people live in appalling conditions in makeshift sheds on a hillside, with no access to sanitation or drainage, it is no coincidence when disaster strikes. It is the result of a policy, a social system," she says.
The consequences for Norwegian salmon and strawberries
O'Brien is mildly frustrated by how little impact serious climate research has on the public debate in Norway - not least in light of the Euro crisis.
"It seems that many people in Norway believe that a warmer climate would be beneficial for Norwegian agriculture, for example. But we know that only small changes in temperature can have major impacts on biodiversity in Norwegian forests and in the ocean," she says.
Changes in rainfall can affect agriculture.
"We can perhaps get a reaction from Norwegian national sentiment if we can tell Norwegians that something they have a close and emotional relationship to may not last forever. That the delicious Norwegian strawberries are in danger, or that Norwegian cows will not produce enough milk. Or that salmon may stop spawning in Norwegian fjords," asserts O'Brien.
She thinks that strawberries might be in danger:
"It is possible, especially if we get too much rain at the wrong time in the summer. We do not know everything we need to know about how climate change affects the local climate. It will have an affect."
Green values
Explaining consequences of climate change can be difficult, the researcher admits.
"This is because no one takes responsibility for ensuring that people are informed and that they continue to learn about the world once they are adults. It is hard to influence people's basic values and how they view the world, but I do not think it is impossible, and we must not give up."
"Among my children's generation green values are taken for granted, but among those my age or older we need to work harder. Not everyone will change, but perhaps ten to eleven percent in a society can be enough. They will take responsibility in leading the way and thus change their societies from within," says O'Brien.
In Europe, she points to Germany as a country where citizens have got the politicians to see the gravity of the situation, while in her old homeland the US, California stands out with its investment in sustainable energy.
Researchers agree
If anything, the UN panel is criticised for being too cautious in it projections, according to O'Brien. There are researchers who believe the risk of cyclones is much larger than the panel suggests even in their worst case scenarios. Some other researchers warn of even higher temperatures and warn that sea levels could rise by up to two meters - which will mean that many of the world's ports will be partially under water.
"Five years ago we talked about the Earth's average temperature rising by two to three degrees. Some researchers are now talking about a rise of six to seven degrees," says O'Brien.
She admits that there is an ongoing superficial debate with so-called "climate skeptics", but the few scientists who disagree with the IPCC are peripherial in there respective research milieu. Those who work on climate change are concerned with recent "systems-thinking"; that is, they see many systems - meteorological, biological, political, economic, etc. - in context. How changes here and now can affect changes in another place or another time. For example, how changes in temperature affect pests and pollen spreaders and what consequences this has for agriculture.
Norway's responsibility
In O’Brien’s opinion Norway’s role is crucial, even though it is a small country and in spite of an economy based on oil.
" Norway should take the lead. We have the finances to do it. If Norway cannot achieve its goals, it has no moral right to tell the South that they must achieve their climate goals," says O'Brien.
"Oil is a non-renewable resource that we use for fuel. We should have used it for purposes for which we have no alternative. It is no less valuable if it is used for better purposes in the future, when we will have established a green energy system. Those who do not realize that energy production in the world will change to green energy have lost. China understands this. It is in the Chinese five-year plan, and they are now buying green technology companies," concludes O'Brien.
Read the article in Norwegian at forskning.no
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In the nick of time is an idiom that has been in use for hundreds of years. An idiom is a word, group of words, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase that has a literal meaning, even when the etymology or origin of the idiomatic expression is lost. An idiom is a metaphorical figure of speech, and it is understood that it is not a use of literal language. Figures of speech like an often-used metaphor have definitions and connotations that go beyond the literal meaning of the words. Mastery of the turn of phrase of an idiom, which may use slang words or other parts of speech, is essential for the English learner. Many English as a Second Language students do not understand idiomatic expressions and idiomatic language such as in a blue moon, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, silver lining, back to the drawing board, barking up the wrong tree, kick the bucket, hit the nail on the head, face the music, under the weather, piece of cake, when pigs fly, and raining cats and dogs, because they attempt to translate them word for word, which yields only the literal meaning. English phrases that are idioms should not be taken literally. In addition to learning vocabulary and grammar, one must understand the phrasing of the figurative language of idiomatic phrases in order to know English like a native speaker; it is helpful to maintain a list of phrases, common expressions, and popular expressions to memorize that are used figuratively or idiomatically. We will examine the meaning of the idiom in the nick of time, where it came from, and some examples of its idiomatic usage in sentences.
In the nick of time means at the most important moment or at the last possible moment. Any delay would have meant the action occurred too late. In the nick of time has it roots in the 1580s, when in the nick meant at the critical moment. The image is of a nick or notch in a stick, which made a precise measurement. By the 1600s, the prepositional phrase of time was added to the idiom, and in the nick of time has been a popular expression ever since.
Friends from work who wouldn’t be shooed away and police officers who took the time to care led to help in the nick of time for an Adairsville man. (The Rome News-Tribune)
Some of Byton’s competitors have managed to secure investment in the nick of time. (The Financial Times)
What I thought was going to take three years ended up taking 11, with some corporate sponsors coming in in the nick of time to help make it a reality. (The Napa Valley Register)
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JUSTROM2 comes to an end
Strasbourg, France March 2019
JUSTROM2 comes to an end in March 2019. To illustrate the work achieved during its implementation, below there is an extract was taken from the final report submitted by one of the JUSTROM2 lawyers at the end of the project.
JUSTROM2 through a team member's eyes:
Overall, this year we assisted 214 beneficiaries out of which 71% were women (63 men, 151 women) and a total of 281 cases out of which 79% concerned women (76 men and 205 women) in 353 sessions. In the Awareness Raising Gatherings we informed 261 people out of which 77% were women (60 men & 201 women).
The Legal Clinic was very successful in playing its important empowering and enabling role towards access to legal aid, access to courts and public services as well as increase awareness regarding discrimination. Our well-established modus operandi from the first year of implementation was put to function for the second year.
It is a telling example of empowerment, at least for the area where the Clinic is situated, that the majority of beneficiaries that acquired assistance this year already knew on the boundaries of our services (i.e. not being able to represent them). The quantitative results of JUSTROM1 was one important factor of disseminating the functions of our Clinic to the community as a well as to other communities through word of mouth. Another important factor for the continuity and success of the Clinic was the probono provision of our services during the break between JUSTROM and JUSTROM2.
With regards to discrimination, Anti-Gypsyism and Gender Based Violence our efforts have provided the basic foundations for those crucial issues to be addressed. This reminds me of what a great Professor of Philosophy once told me, ‘’a problem cannot be solved if it is not identified as a problem first’’. It is true that even now, after two years of implementation, many women (even young) consider violence and discrimination as normal and part of the culture. Our facilitator said it best, women encounter these struggles silently. On a positive note, a few cases of addressing these ongoing phenomena may bring about concrete change by having a multiplier effect and treat them holistically. Women as role models have the power to turn up the volume of ‘’silent’’ discrimination, racism, hatred and violence.
It is of outmost importance to point out once again that Roma women in our area of operation, although mostly uneducated, are active and can adopt to problems even of the most complicated legal nature if they have assistance and support.
In practical terms, from the moment they are informed about their rights and on how to enact them, they are willing to pursue them, even when the involve issues of complex legal nature.
JUSTROM2 has provided the forums to active Roma women to promote civic engagement and civil discourse. These foundations lead by women need to be strengthened through increasing awareness and capacity through mentoring, communication with key governmental and non-governmental Stakeholders. This is the only way to ensure sustainability, address and collectively solve issues of discrimination, access to justice, gender equality and anti-gypsyism
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WTO agreement secures £1.3 trillion market for British contractors
Post date 1st March 2019
The WTO has today (27 February 2019) confirmed that British businesses will be able to continue bidding for public sector contracts around the world after the UK leaves the EU.
British businesses will be able to continue bidding for public sector contracts around the world worth more than £1.3 trillion a year after we leave the European Union.
World Trade Organization (WTO) members have today (Wednesday 27 February) confirmed that the UK will join the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) as an independent member if we leave the EU without an agreement.
This is a significant step in the UK establishing its independent trade policy for the first time in more than 40 years. The UK has already submitted its own tariff schedules to the WTO and will take up its independent seat in Geneva after exit day.
The UK will join the GPA as an independent member as soon as possible if we leave the EU without an agreement, or will remain a member under EU schedules if we have an Implementation Period.
The GPA is an agreement within the WTO framework between its 19 members, including major economies such as the United States, Canada, the EU and Japan. The UK’s independent membership gives British businesses the certainty that they will be able to continue bidding for public sector contracts overseas on almost the same terms as they do now.
Overseas businesses will be able to bid for £67 billion worth of public sector contracts in the UK every year. In return, British suppliers will be able to bid for £1.3 trillion worth of government contracts overseas in a wide range of sectors from large infrastructure to professional and business services.
It will also ensure that British taxpayers and public sector organisations, including government departments, continue to benefit from increased choice and value for money on contracts which are open to international competition. The agreement will continue to protect vital public services such as the NHS.
International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox said:
I’m delighted to have confirmation from the GPA Committee today that the UK will be an independent member of the agreement as we leave the EU. This is a hugely successful global agreement which will give British businesses certainty that they can continue bidding for £1.3 trillion worth of government procurement contracts overseas.
This is an important win for British diplomacy as we take our place on the world stage, and we are looking forward to continuing to play a committed and active role in the GPA Committee and the WTO as a whole. I’d like to thank our colleagues in the GPA for working with us to achieve this excellent result.
While there may be a short period of less than a month before the GPA takes legal effect in a no deal scenario, disruption to businesses is likely to be minimal. The Government has made guidance available to businesses.
Tags WTO
Preparations for Brexit
The UK and the WTO – Article by Dr Liam Fox
Post date 2nd November 2018
“When we speak for ourselves, we flourish – and our status in the WTO is no exception” is an article for the Telegraph newspaper written by Dr Liam Fox, which was also published on the Government’s website on the 2nd November 2018.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/when-we-speak-for-ourselves-we-flourish-and-our-status-in-the-wto-is-no-exception
The article attempts to clarify misconceptions on WTO negotiations and goods schedules.
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0
As part of our work to set up the UK’s own trade policy for the first time in over 40 years, we are currently establishing our independent goods “schedule” at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The UK is a full and founding member of the WTO and our status is no different from that of, say, Canada or Japan. But under the EU treaties, EU member states have agreed to speak with one voice on trade. In the WTO that means the Commission represents the member states. It also means the UK’s rights and obligations are bound up with those of the other EU member states in common “schedules”. One for goods and one for services, these are the official WTO documents that describe the tariffs, quotas, subsidies, and regulatory commitments that underpin our position in the multilateral trading system.
Before we leave the EU, the UK needs to separate its schedules from the EU’s. As part of this process, WTO members have a chance to respond. A small number expressed reservations and would like to discuss further. Last week, I announced that the UK intends to open negotiations at the WTO to address these concerns. This has been purposefully misunderstood by those wishing to stop Brexit as evidence that our WTO strategy isn’t working.
They are wrong. It’s not unprecedented for a WTO member to trade on schedules that have not been approved by every other WTO member. In fact, the EU hasn’t had an up to date certified goods schedule since 2004, and certainly doesn’t have an updated services one.
The government’s policy since October 2016 has been to establish the UK’s independent position in the WTO by March 2019 so that we are prepared for a range of possible Brexit outcomes. That remains our policy, and last week’s announcement is evidence that it is on track, not that it has failed.
Under WTO procedures, if changes to a country’s schedule are of a purely technical and formal nature, members can use a process called “rectification” to make those changes. That is why we decided to replicate, as far as possible, the UK’s existing rights and obligations. We have replicated thousands of tariffs lines in our EU schedules into our UK-only schedules.
We always knew agricultural quotas and subsidies would be different. You cannot copy and paste a quota or subsidy for the EU into the UK schedule: it would represent a major change to our agricultural trade on the one hand, and a major increase in the UK’s rights to subsidise agriculture on the other. The UK and the EU came up with a methodology last year for dividing the EU’s existing agricultural quotas and subsidies, based on existing trade flows with third countries. We knew there would be objections, because the countries that rely most on these quotas – the US, New Zealand, the major Latin American exporters – have been telling us, and the EU, from the outset.
We nevertheless used this methodology in our goods schedule and submitted it to the WTO membership, for 2 main reasons. First, we believe this represents a fair reproduction of the rights under the EU’s existing schedule. And second, our priority was to first establish the UK’s separate schedule in the WTO and only then to use other WTO processes that exist to address any objections to specific elements of it.
The objections we have received were therefore neither unexpected, nor a failure of our strategy. We have always been open to having more detailed discussions with partners once we had established our own schedule. That is why I have announced our intention to launch negotiations on these objections.
This process is unlikely to be fully complete by the time we leave the EU. But objecting WTO members cannot veto the UK trading on our uncertified goods, or services, schedules after next March. In the unlikely event of a “no deal” between the UK and EU, we will be able to take full control of our trade policy in March 2019 based on the schedule we have set out.
As the Director General of the WTO has said, the consequences of no deal would not be a walk in the park but nor would it be the end of the world. There will be difficult moments, but the UK will be ready to take back full control in the WTO from next March.
Tags Liam Fox, WTO
Joint letter from the EU and the UK to the WTO
Post date 12th October 2017
On the 11 October, the EU and UK published a joint letter sent from the EU and the UK Permanent Representatives to the WTO.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-eu-set-out-proposals-to-wto-members-for-trade-post-brexit
In preparation for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the UK government and the European Commission have set out a number of proposals for future global trading arrangements.
The proposals include apportioning the EU’s existing commitments on the amount of imported goods on which a lower duty is charged. These tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) apply to a range of everyday items such as dairy products and meat.
International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox said
“As an international economic department, we’ve been working closely with the European Commission to prepare for our withdrawal from the EU in order to minimise any disruption to global trade.”
“Our agreed collaborative approach shows real progress on how UK government intends to take forward our future trading arrangements with the world. This is the start of our open and constructive engagement with the WTO membership and sets out our intentions regarding EU quotas to forge ahead and establish the UK as an independent WTO member.”
To ensure a smooth transition which minimises disruption to our trading relationships with other WTO members the UK intends to replicate as far as possible its obligations under the current commitments of the EU.
This agreed approach between the UK and EU will now form the first part of our cooperative, inclusive and open engagement we will have with WTO members, in accordance with WTO rules and procedures.
The letter is available from
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651033/Letter_from_EU_and_UK_Permanent_Representatives.pdf (pdf)
and was signed by
On behalf of the UK by
H.E. Julian Braithwaite, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the International Organizations in Geneva
On behalf of the EU by
H.E. Marc Vanheukelen, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the WTO
However, it may not be as straightforward as it seems according to a report from the BBC,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41581705
and another report by Politico EU
http://www.politico.eu/article/us-rounds-on-britain-over-food-quotas-as-post-brexit-trade-woes-deepen/
A number of countries Argentina, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Thailand, Uruguay and the USA have objected to the proposals because dividing quotas for goods imported at reduced tariffs for crucial agricultural goods such as meat, sugar and grains will leave them worse off. The letter was sent to Julian Braithwaite and Marc Vanheukelen on September 27. I noticed a copy of this letter at
http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/ec0a64b2-a95f-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97.pdf
I found a useful article about Tariff-rate Quotas on the Trade Beta Blog at
UK, EU, WTO, Brexit primer — 2. Tariff quotas
EU Resources
Post date 9th May 2016
Various interesting and/or useful links.
Negotiating documents on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/brexit-negotiations/negotiating-documents-article-50-negotiations-united-kingdom_en
IndexMundi
IndexMundi contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources. You can explore and analyze thousands of indicators organized by region, country, topic, industry sector, and type.
http://www.indexmundi.com
Examining the UK’s relationship with the EU
Following on from a 2010 election and Coalition Government pledge to ‘repatriate’ EU competences to the UK, in July 2012 the Government launched a Review of the Balance of Competences, which it described as “an audit of what the EU does and how it affects the UK”
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/review-of-the-balance-of-competences
The WTO, which was established in 1995, and its predecessor organization the GATT have helped to create a strong and prosperous international trading system. It currently has 162 members. The UK has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 1 January 1948. All EU member States are WTO members, as is the EU in its own right.
Information about the WTO can be found at
https://www.wto.org/index.htm
Brexit and the World Trade Organization
An article, by Gregory Messenger – a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, which discusses the consequences from a World Trade Organization (WTO) perspective if the UK were to leave the EU.
http://blog.oup.com/2016/05/brexit-wto-world-trade-organization/
European Commission – Departments and Services
The Commission is divided into several departments and services. The departments are known as Directorate-Generals (DGs). This page has links to the various departments.
http://ec.europa.eu/about/ds_en.htm
Information provided by the EU
The EU is active in a wide range of area, from human rights to transport and trade.
Useful links providing information on these topics can be found at
http://europa.eu/pol/index_en.htm
UK in a Changing Europe
The UK in a Changing Europe initiative is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and based at King’s College London. The Initiative explores the key aspects of UK and EU dynamics. Their website provides a wealth of information exploring numerous issues which may affect how you decide to vote.
http://ukandeu.ac.uk/fact-figures/
They have also produced a useful document, in conjunction with Full Fact the UK’s independent fact checking organisation, to provide impartial information on claims made by both the Remain and Leave campaigns on various topics
Leave/Remain: The Facts behind the claims
Full Fact is the UK’s independent, non-partisan, factchecking charity. It checks claims made by politicians, the media, pressure groups, and other voices in public debate, and pushes for corrections where necessary.
https://fullfact.org
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) provides informed, independent and practical legal ideas for a global community.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL).
Comments on Brexit
https://www.biicl.org/categories/brexit
Seven Brexit Endgame Scenarios – A guide to the parliamentary process of withdrawal from the European Union (pdf)
Tags DGs, Directorate Generals, WTO
Post date 13th April 2016
The creation of a single European economic area based on a Common Market was a fundamental objective of the Treaty of Rome.
Today, the EU is the largest economy in the world. It is the worlds biggest exporter of manufactured goods and has the worlds largest single market area of more than 500 million consumers.
The EU is responsible for the trade policy of its member countries and negotiates trade agreements, based on World Trade Organisation rules, on their behalf. This means that no individual member government can negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with a non-EU partner.
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Buildings Compete to Work Off the Waste
National contestants chosen by the EPA vow to slim down their energy "waste lines."
Melinda Burns
With a nod to a popular TV reality show, the U.S. has launched its first-ever National Building Competition, choosing 14 energy-conscious contestants made of concrete, brick and steel to vie for the title of "biggest loser" of kilowatt-hours.
The finalists were selected from a pool of more than 200 energy efficiency crusaders by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and announced Tuesday as part of the Energy Star program. They include a 12-story Glenborough LLC office building in Arlington, Va.; a Marriott hotel in San Diego's historic Gaslamp District; an elementary school in Carbondale, Colo.; a JCPenney store in Orange, Calif.; a mall in St. Paul, Minn.; a Sears store in Glen Burnie, Md.; and a dorm at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.
"It's time for buildings to tighten their belts and we're happy to help them go on an energy diet," said Gina McCarthy, EPA's assistant administrator for air and radiation. "Cutting energy use will reduce their monthly expenses and their carbon footprint, showing that environmental protection and economic growth can go hand in hand."
The winning building will be chosen based on its energy performance from Sept. 1, 2009, to Aug. 31 of this year. There will be a mid-point "weigh-in" on July 21, and the winner will be announced on Oct. 26. Bob Harper, the celebrity personal trainer who advises dieters on TV's "The Biggest Loser," is offering "energy fitness" tips to the building contestants in videos on the EPA Web site.
Today, over at Glenborough, a San Mateo, Calif.-based real estate investment and management firm with 45 office buildings nationwide, they're scrambling to set up a Twitter account and Facebook page to spread the word about their entry, a 1987 office building at 1525 Wilson Blvd. in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial.
Carlos Santamaria, Glenborough's director of engineering and co-chair of sustainability, says the company has already cut energy use in the building by 30 percent since last Sept. 1 by replacing the key components of an outdated cooling and heating system. Now, among other things, Glenborough has set up "Energy Champion" teams to work with tenants, urging them to power down their computers and turn out the lights when they are not in the office. Despite the hot summer ahead, Santamaria believes the building can achieve up to 37 percent energy savings by Aug. 31.
"We're very, very proud and honored to be one of the elite chosen," he said, noting that only two office buildings made the list. "Glenborough is really a forward thinker. This is part of our normal routine. We identify the big energy wasters and then attack them."
According to the EPA, commercial buildings account for 18 percent of the nation's energy use and nearly 18 percent of its emissions of greenhouse gas. Office buildings emit more greenhouse gas than any other kind of structure. On average, the EPA says, about 30 percent of the energy used in commercial buildings is wasted.
The finalists in the National Building Competition are old hands at saving energy.
JCPenney, for example, won an Energy Star Award for Sustained Excellence this year, and so did Hines, the Houston-based real estate firm that owns the other office building in the competition. Sears was named a 2010 Energy Star Partner of the Year.
Glenborough has been named a 2010 Energy Star Leader: 80 percent of its buildings have won the Energy Star. The label goes to buildings in the top 25 percent for energy efficiency, compared to the national average.
In one high-profile project, Glenborough spent $750,000 over five years retrofitting an 11-story office building that is part of The Aventine in San Diego, achieving a 40 percent reduction in energy use, Santamaria said. The tar and lava roof was replaced with a new, cool roof of white plastic; carbon dioxide sensors were installed throughout the building to better control the fans for outside air, light sensors were placed in the hallways and stairwells; and the chiller, or cooling unit, now runs on an automatic software program.
As a result, Santamaria said, the company is saving between $150,000 and $200,000* per year in energy costs on The Aventine alone.
"Buildings don't get more efficient that that," he said.
Santamaria says he's primarily in charge of "things that hum and go 'round and 'round," but that hasn't stopped him from pushing through a different idea for saving energy - daylight cleaning, or hiring janitors during the day. In addition to reducing heating and lighting costs by up to 10 percent yearly, this change can improve quality of life for the cleaning staff, Santamaria said.
"These are real people who need two jobs to feed their families," he said. "They're going to be seen as real persons throughout the building and are going to be part of Glenborough's team."
On Monday, Glenborough launched daylight cleaning at its 14-story building in San Mateo. Now, the janitorial staff no longer has to work nights.
"What I've come to learn after 30 years in this industry is that these buildings are an ecosystem," Santamaria said. "They're a living, breathing structure. For those of us who spend a great part of our life in them, and are given the responsibility to maintain and upgrade them, it's our responsibility and obligation to do what we can to ensure they can live another 50 years and operate as optimally as they can.
"If you start from that place, then the ideas will come to you."
* — These dollar figures have been recalculated and corrected since the story originally posted.(Return to story.)
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Do Climate Marches Encourage Others to Take Action?
When it comes to changing people's perceptions, a study suggests that the climate movement may be different from other causes.
Leah Dunlevy
Young Spanish climate activists take part in a demonstration in Barcelona, Spain, on May 24th, 2019, as part of global protests demanding action against global warming.
(Photo by Pau Barren/AFP/Getty Images)
There has already been an unprecedented wave of climate activism in 2019, from the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in the United Kingdom to the Youth Climate Strikes that mobilized young climate activists across the world. Strikes, protests, and marches have become a primary way for citizens to express concerns over alarming climate trends—and government inaction.
Are the marches effective? Maybe: A study published earlier this year in the journal Frontiers in Communication found that climate marches have some positive effects: High-profile marches have the potential to increase positive perceptions of demonstrators and strengthen beliefs in the power of collective climate action. The researchers found, however, that marches don't tend to encourage observers to take action themselves.
In order to deepen their understanding of the psychological drivers of collective action (including beliefs about collaborative climate action, perceptions of others' climate change activism and concerns, impressions of marchers, and participants' willingness to take action themselves), a team of researchers surveyed nearly 600 "bystanders" the day before the March for Science and several days after the People's Climate March (the two marches took place roughly one week apart in 2017). The researchers defined bystanders as individuals who didn't attend the marches but heard about them through the media.
Participants were asked to respond to a number of questions, including if (and how much) they knew about the marches, their perceptions of the marches' participants, and whether they believed in collective efficacy—which, in the context of climate change, refers to the idea that, by working together, people can collectively address the climate crisis. The researchers also collected data on the political leanings of respondents' news consumption, to examine if and how the media influenced different beliefs (or psychological motivators) that impact an individual's willingness to take part in collective climate action.
Impressions of Collective Efficacy
The study found that participants were more optimistic about collective climate change action after the marches. And unsurprisingly, the type of media consumed by the survey participants influenced the way that climate marches affected their perception of collective action. What did come as a surprise to the researchers, however, was that consumers of conservative media showed the largest increase in favorable beliefs about collective efficacy.
The reason for this, the researchers explain, may be that conservative news media had less coverage leading up to the marches, but news coverage after the marches was more or less equal among news organizations across the political spectrum. As a result, consumers of conservative news had a greater possibility of increasing their belief in collaborative efforts to tackle climate change because they had less favorable opinions about collective action to begin with.
But this doesn't mean there will be a surge in climate activism among conservatives: Heightened beliefs in the ability of collective action to create meaningful change don't necessarily translate into an individual feeling called to participate in collective action.
Impressions of Marchers
Previous research has concluded that certain types of activism lead to bystanders perceiving activists (and, by extension, their work) as extreme, militant, and alienating. The climate movement, the researchers suggest, may be different.
People across the political spectrum saw the protesters as "less arrogant, less whiny, and less eccentric," after being bystanders of a climate march, Janet Swim, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at Penn State University, told Grist.
Again, these perceptions varied depending on what media the respondents consumed. The researchers found that participants who consumed more conservative media had more negative impressions of marchers in general. The researchers posit that this is probably because conservative news sources are more likely than liberal news sites to portray such protesters negatively.
Collective Action Intentions
Despite their potential to change people's perceptions, the study found that the marches were limited in their ability to promote tangible climate engagement: Few respondents were willing to engage in collective action either before or after the marches.
However, those who followed conservative media were actually more likely to experience a heightened intention to participate in collective climate action, such as a climate march.
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Topic: Climate Change
Leah Dunlevy is an editorial intern at Pacific Standard. She is currently a student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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The George W. Bush transition to power
George W. Bush had the shortest official transition in history at just 39 days, but secured more political appointees during his first year in office than any other modern president. Clay Johnson,who served as the executive director of Bush’s transition and later as director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, tells host Dave Marchick how Bush brought many of his personnel practices as Texas governor to Washington, how he started his transition early, solicited advice from seasoned Washington veterans and maintained a focus on planning for the new administration even the results of the 2000 election were in dispute.
Read the highlights:
After the contested results of the Nov. 7, 2000 presidential election, the country had to wait for the Supreme Court decision on December 12 before recognizing Bush as the president-elect. Marchick asked Johnson how the transition team proceeded during this time of uncertainty.
Johnson: “On the day after the election, nobody knew how long it was going to take to resolve. We were just all standing at parade rest. We were shuffling papers, remembering what our goals were and just continuing to work on it privately. Maybe 10 days into it, (transition chairman and Bush’s running mate) Dick Cheney decided, and I’m sure he talked to the president about this, we have to assume we’re going to win this thing. We have to prepare as if we know we’re going to win it.”
Marchick asked Johnson who he turned to for advice on the presidential transition and what advice he was given.
Johnson: “(Former Secretary of State and Treasury) James Baker and (former Secretary of State) George Schultz were just invaluable people and they were so welcoming. The general direction that I got from them was to ensure you have clear definitions of success regarding what you want to try to accomplish and by when. (They said ) don’t go in looking for general things you need to do, but develop the list of things that you want to accomplish by specific dates.”
“We set specific goals…We wanted to be able to communicate that we are working hard to prepare to govern…We set targets for ourselves even before the election was thrown to the court. (Our goal) was to have the senior White House staff chosen by December 15 and the candidates [for Cabinet positions] selected by Christmas time.”
Marchick asked Johnson when George W. Bush began his presidential transition planning for the 2000 election and why he was picked as executive director of the transition.
Johnson: “He (Bush) said…I want you to prepare a plan for what I do when I win the presidency. This was in June of 1999. So it was 16 months or so before the presidential election. I don’t think anybody’s started that early ever before or after.”
“I was a known entity…and I had worked with the senior people in Austin. They knew that I was methodical, organized, systematic…and was focused entirely on the success of my 50-year plus friend. I had a nickname among the (state) senators. My nickname was the icebox or the refrigerator…I was not Mr. hail-fellow-well-met. I was not somebody that was going to be trying to glad hand people and curry favor. I had one client and that was the governor.”
Marchick asked how Johnson’s experience as appointment’s director when Bush was the Texasgovernor helped him prepare for his role in staffing the new administration, particularly by employingthe practice of Bush meeting weekly with the personnel staff to discuss potential nominees rather than going through the White House chief of staff.
Johnson: “It was very important. It’s the way we had done it in Austin…We had a system and he wanted it done exactly like that. And he realized he felt good about the time he spent on that…It was typically 25 to 30 people that he would review every week. And it took about 25 or 30 minutes. There was a real process: `What kind of person would we be looking for to fill this position? What do we want them to do? What kind of person is best prepared to do that? Do we want somebody who’s a manager? Do we want somebody who is a policy person? Did they have the basic human qualities, et cetera, et cetera.’ Then he’d say I agree and then we would move on.”
Marchick noted that Johnson advised Bush in the summer of 2000 to pick his White House chief of staff well ahead of the election, and asked why that was important?
Johnson: “It was key for the person who was going to be making the decisions and working with the president to pick the senior White House staff. If the chief of staff is asked to join the White House team on the day after Election Day, he or she is going to have to take a week or 10 days to put his game face on and you’re going to waste a week or 10 days. (Our goal was to identify) the chief of staff early so that he or she could be prepared to start working, to reach out to people and talk to people about coming in…as soon as the election is decided.”
Marchick noted that historically, sub-Cabinet positions have been a point of contention betweenCabinet secretaries and the White House, and asked how the Bush team handled this issue.
Johnson: “Everybody…advised us (not to) delegate to the Cabinet secretaries (regarding) the picking of all of their sub-Cabinet members…because it has never been successful. We were very clear with every Cabinet secretary that this would be collaborative. We had to both agree…That worked fabulously. I remember when I had my first meeting with (Secretary of State-designate) Colin Powell. I said, ‘Colin, I expect that 92% of the people you bring into the State Department are going to be people that you have worked with before and that will be fine. But there are a lot of people we will identify for you to consider, and maybe there are people you don’t know who should be in certain positions.”
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Modeling the New Economic Geography – R&D, Vertical Linkages, Policy Implications. (2008)
Kranich, Jan
Zusammenfassung gemäß § 11 der Promotionsordnung der Fakultät II (Fassung 01.10.05) und den „Allgemeinen Richtlinien des Senats über die Veröffentlichung von Dissertationen und die Ablieferung von Pflichtexemplaren“ (Senatsbeschluss vom 14.7.1999) zu meiner Dissertation mit dem Titel: „Modeling the New Economic Geography – R&D, Vertical Linkages, Policy Implications“ The present work introduces four theoretical papers, which primarily focus on R&D, interindustrial linkages, and their policy implications. All in all, three issues basically motivated conception and realization: At first, previous NEG models do not incorporate endogenous R&D activities of firms. Existing models include R&D only in a growth context, which increases the formal complexity and departs from the simple core-periphery formulation. Second, vertical linkages are extensively considered in the class of international models. In face of its formal simplicity, the majority of publications refer to the standard model of Krugman and Venables (1995) utilizing intra-industry trade in which the manufacturing sector produces its own intermediates. However, the results are similar to the core-periphery model, but the implications of vertical linkages, especially in terms of specialization, cannot be reproduced. In contrast, the more challenging version of Venables (1996), which considers an inter-industry framework of an explicit upstream and downstream sector, is often cited (143 citations according to IDEAS/RePEc), but only few papers were directly built on it: Puga and Venables (1996), Amiti (2005), Alonso-Villar (2005). The third issue concerns the calibration of real economies. Although, hundreds of numerical simulations have been done in order to display the modeling outcomes, an application to particular industries in terms of their spatial formation and evolution is still a neglected field of research. Against this background, the present work aims to make a contribution to these topics. For a summary, all four papers are briefly to be summarized at this point. The first paper, entitled 'Too Much R&D? – Vertical Differentiation and Monopolistic Competition,' discusses whether product R&D in developed economies tends to be too high compared with the socially desired level. In this context, a model of vertical and horizontal product differentiation within the Dixit-Stiglitz (1977) framework of monopolistic competition is set up where firms compete in horizontal attributes of their products, and also in quality that can be controlled by R&D investments. The paper reveals that in monopolistic-competitive industries, R&D intensity is positively correlated with market concentration. Furthermore, welfare and policy analysis demonstrate an overinvestment in R&D with the result that vertical differentiation is too high and horizontal differentiation is too low. The only effective policy instrument in order to contain welfare losses turns out to be a price control of R&D services. The main contribution of this closed economy model in the course of the present work is a modeling framework, which can easily be adapted to the New Economic Geography. This has been approached in the second paper: ‘R&D and the Agglomeration of Industries' in which the seminal core-periphery model of Krugman (1991) is extended by endogenous research activities. Beyond the common ‘anonymous' consideration of R&D expenditures within fixed costs, this model introduces vertical product differentiation, which requires services provided by an additional R&D sector. In the context of international factor mobility, the destabilizing effects of a mobile scientific workforce are analyzed. In combination with a welfare analysis and a consideration of R&D promoting policy instruments and their spatial implications, this paper also makes a contribution to the brain-drain debate. In contrast to this migration based approach, the third paper 'Agglomeration, Vertical Specialization, and the Strength of Industrial Linkages' focuses on vertical linkages in their capacity as an additional agglomeration force. The paper picks up the seminal model of Venables (1996) and provides a quantifying concept for the sectoral coherence in vertical-linkage models of the New Economic Geography. Based upon an alternative approach to solve the model and to determine critical trade cost values, this paper focuses on the interdependencies between agglomeration, specialization and the strength of vertical linkages. A central concern is the idea of an 'industrial base,' which is attracting linked industries but is persistent to relocation. As a main finding, the intermediate cost share and substitution elasticity basically determine the strength of linkages. Thus, these parameters affect how strong the industrial base responds to changes in trade costs, relative wages and market size. The fourth paper 'The Spatial Dynamics of the European Biotech Industry' presents a simulation study of the R&D intensive biotech industry using the standard Venables model. Thus, it connects all three preceding papers and puts them into the real economic context of the European integration. The paper reviews the potential development of the European biotech industry with respect to its spatial structure. On the first stage, the present industrial situation as object of investigation is described and evaluated with respect to a further model implementation. In this context, the article introduces the findings of an online survey concerning international trade, conducted with German biotech firms in 2006. On the second stage, the results are completed by the outcomes of a numerical simulation within the New Economic Geography (NEG), considering vertical linkages between the biotech and pharmaceutical industries as an agglomerative force. The analysis reveals only a slight relocation tendency to the European periphery, constrained by market size, infrastructure and factor supply. In the final conclusions, central results of all four papers are summarized with respect to economic policy. Against the background of general legitimization and the impact of political intervention, Chapter 6 draws the main conclusions for location and innovation policies. In this regard, the industrial-base concept as well as the mobility of R&D play a central role during this discussion.
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Circulating unmetabolized folic Acid: relationship to folate status and effect of supplementation
Obstet Gynecol Int. 2012;2012:485179. doi: 10.1155/2012/485179. Epub 2012 Feb 19.
Carolyn Tam 1 , Deborah O'Connor, Gideon Koren
1 The Motherisk Program, Division of Clinical Pharmacology/Toxicology and Nutrition Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8.
There are increasing concerns that exposure to unmetabolized folic acid, which results from folic acid intakes that overwhelm the liver's metabolic capacity, may be associated with adverse effects. In this paper, we examined the folic acid status of women of reproductive age in relation to dietary intake and the effect of folic acid supplementation (1.1 mg or 5 mg). Plasma unmetabolized folic acid was not significantly correlated with folate intake estimated by food frequency questionnaire or biomarkers. The proportion of women with detectable levels of unmetabolized folic acid increased from 65% to 100% after twelve weeks of supplementation (P < 0.05); however, the increase in concentrations did not reach statistical significance and the effect was not sustained. Moreover, there were no significant differences between the two doses. This suggests that there are mechanisms by which the body adapts to high folic acid intakes to limit exposure to unmetabolized folic acid.
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Acadiana Legal Services Corporation (ALSC) is a private, non-profit law firm that provides free legal assistance in civil cases to low-income individuals in the southwest and central regions of Louisiana. ALSC provides services in a variety of areas of law including consumer, education, family, juvenile, health, housing and public benefits. (Alexandria, Lafayette and Lake Charles) DONATE
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Catholic Charities of New Orleans - Project SAVE provides free, emergency legal representation to survivors of domestic violence in Orleans Parish. Staff attorneys help with legal orders to keep survivors safe and to protect their legal rights. Project SAVE's legal services include temporary restraining and protection orders, temporary child support, custody and use of property. (New Orleans) DONATE
Catholic Charities of North Louisiana provides quality social services to families and individuals without discrimination and in accordance with Catholic Social Teachings and professional standards. Their Immigration and Family Services practitioners work with individuals who need help in navigating forms, legal documents, immigration standing and understanding the requirements necessary for immigrants and their families to successfully live in the community. (Shreveport) DONATE
Central Louisiana Pro Bono Project coordinates the provision of free legal services to low-income people in Avoyelles, Rapides and Vernon Parishes. The Project recruits volunteer attorneys to handle cases referred by Central Louisiana Legal Services. The Project also organizes free legal advice clinics in the community where volunteer attorneys answer questions and provide general information concerning various legal matters. (Alexandria) DONATE
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Jeff Davis Communities Against Domestic Abuse is a non-profit organization which operates the only emergency battered women's shelter in Jeff Davis Parish. Their goal is to provide a safe shelter environment, advocacy and empowering programs to survivors and their children who are victims of domestic abuse. CADA will also assist victims of domestic abuse in Jeff Davis Parish to obtain temporary restraining orders against their abuser. (Jennings) DONATE
Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana addresses pervasive problems in the post-conviction phase of the criminal justice system and creates a supportive, collaborative space for attorneys and advocates. DONATE
Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation utilizes its Lafayette Volunteer Lawyers pro bono program to ensure that access to justice is available to low-income residents in Lafayette Parish. The Foundation also maintains a law library where pro se litigants can access information relevant to their legal matters. (Lafayette) DONATE
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Louisiana Center for Children's Rights is a nonprofit law office that defends the rights and dignity of young people in Louisiana's juvenile justice system by providing holistic, skilled, and client-directed legal representation; leadership in juvenile defense reform; and training and practice resources for public defenders. (New Orleans) DONATE
Louisiana Center for Law & Civic Education is a statewide organization that coordinates, implements and develops legal and civic education programs, trains educators in the delivery of these programs and assists with their implementation. (New Orleans) DONATE
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Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Wage Claim Clinic - The Workplace Justice Project is dedicated to fostering just working conditions for low wage and immigrant workers by striving to create an equitable legal and cultural environment where their contributions are respected and valued. They help low-wage workers that face problems in the workplace. DONATE
LSBA Young Lawyers Division fosters discussions and interchange of ideas relative to the duties, responsibilities and problems of the younger members of the legal profession in the State of Louisiana; to aid in their advancement; to encourage their interest and participation in the activities of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and, in general, to further the purposes and objectives of the LSBA.
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Oasis (formerly Calcasieu Women's Shelter, Inc.) provides a variety of services to victims of domestic violence in Allen, Calcasieu, and Cameron Parishes. These services include shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, job training, adult education and childcare. (Lake Charles, Allen and Cameron) DONATE
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Safe Harbor, Inc. provides shelter and a variety of other services to victims of domestic violence in St. Tammany and Washington parishes. Safe Harbor's legal outreach program assists women with the preparation of petitions for temporary restraining orders and protective orders and provides court escort for hearings. (Covington and Slidell) DONATE
Shreveport Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project provides free legal assistance through volunteer attorneys to low-income and indigent residents of Caddo and Bossier Parishes in both civil and juvenile matters. In addition, the Shreveport Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project offers educational presentations on law-related issues to the general public. (Shreveport) DONATE
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS) is a private, non-profit law firm that provides free legal assistance in civil cases to low-income individuals in southeast Louisiana. SLLS provides services in a variety of areas of law, including consumer, education, family, juvenile, health, housing, wills and public benefits. (Covington, Baton Rouge, Hammond, Marrero and New Orleans) DONATE
Southeast Advocates for Family Empowerment (SAFE) is a family violence prevention and intervention agency assisting survivors of domestic violence and their dependent children serving Livingston, Tangipahoa, St. Helena and Washington parishes. (Hammond) DONATE
Southwest Louisiana Bar Foundation provides legal assistance to indigent citizens in five Southwest Louisiana parishes - Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jefferson Davis. (Lake Charles) DONATE
St. Bernard Parish Battered Women's Program, Inc. serves victims of domestic violence in St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes. The program offers a wide variety of services, including a 50-bed shelter and a legal advocacy program, which assists victims with completing the petitions for protective orders, educates them on the cycle of abuse, informs them of their rights under the Crime Victim's Reparation Act and accompanies them to court for their hearing. (St. Bernard) DONATE
Training, Education and Mediation for Students (T.E.A.M.S.) serves juveniles in need of education advocacy services in Caddo and Bossier Parishes. T.E.A.M.S. has court appointed education advocates on staff to serve students who are at risk of becoming involved with the court system or who are already involved with the courts. These advocates ensure that the special education and mental health rights of these young people are honored both by schools and the justice system. (Shreveport) DONATE
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(Redirected from Tao)
A Taoist temple in Shaanxi province.
Thinking hardly
or hardly thinking?
Major trains of thought
The good, the bad
and the brain fart
Cosmodicy
Life (moral value)
Solipsism
Come to think of it
v - t - e
Preach to the choir
Crux of the matter
Speak of the devil
Antitheism
An act of faith
Cargo cult
Religious pareidolia
Taoism or Daoism (Chinese: 道教 daojiao or 道家 daojia) is an ancient religious and philosophical tradition from China. It is centered around the name-giving Tao (or "the Way"), an intentionally vague and all-encompassing concept that's insanely difficult to translate. The Tao is supposed to be the true, yet elusive form of the source and fundamental order of the whole universe, and much of Taoism is concerned with advice on how to adapt oneself to this fundamental structure, both by deliberate action and by studious non-action, or wu-wei (無爲). It is often represented as a union of opposites represented by yin (陰) and yang (陽). Traditionally, yin is dark, female, and receptive, while yang is light, masculine, and active. Daoists hold that this is not an essential duality, but rather two mutually constituting and intricately linked parts of a whole, both of which are at all times present in all things and may only achieve temporary preponderance.[note 1] The seminal Taoist text is the Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing), written by the mythical sage, Lao Tzu. Other classics of Taoism include the Chuang-Tzu (Zhuangzi, named after its author) and the Tao Tsang (Daozang).
1 Uses and abuses
2 Philosophical vs. religious Taoism?
Uses and abuses[edit]
Taoism has a high potential for woo abuse, especially by those who don't really know much about the religion, and by martial artists. Many of these can be found in books with the title "The Tao of..." There are a few good ones out there, like Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do, but most resemble Fritjof Capra's 1975 book The Tao of Physics, which has been criticized in its efforts to link mystical philosophy and quantum mechanics[1] and for its use of outdated physics.[2]
Philosophical vs. religious Taoism?[edit]
Popularly, a distinction is drawn between philosophical and religious Taoism. Philosophical Taoism, called 道家 daojia, treats the Tao Te Ching as a guide to help one's actions conform with the way of nature. Religious Taoism, called 道教 daojiao, is focused on obtaining physical immortality and avoiding evil spirits. In reality, this distinction is completely fictional and merely serves as a method for fans of the Tao Te Ching or the Zhuangzi to separate out the ideas they find most palatable, and discard the rest as superstition. One critic states, "[M]ost scholars who have seriously studied Taoism, both in Asia and in the West, have finally ... abandoned the simplistic dichotomy of tao-chia and tao-chiao - 'philosophical Taoism' and 'religious Taoism.'"[3] Nonetheless, most popular interpretations and high-school summaries of Taoism make this division into "philosophical Taoism," which provides a way to understand the world and which is fully compatible with other religious traditions, and "religious Taoism," which includes elements of ancestor worship, animism, and alchemy.
Taoist Xian (not to be confused with the X-Men or Xians), have super powers , like the Siddhi s of Hinduism. According to Victor H. Mair, "They are immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children. The transcendents live an effortless existence that is best described as spontaneous. They recall the ancient Indian ascetics and holy men known as ṛṣi who possessed similar traits."Do You Believe That? The term refers to both supernatural humans and animals dwelling in the sacred mountains. [4]
In the early part of the 21st century, a new text was discovered, called the Nei-yeh (lit. Inward training), which dated to roughly the same period of the Laozi and Zhuangzi texts. The Nei-yeh is a manual for personal betterment, largely through meditative practices, and much of the more obscure language in the foundational texts can now be deciphered as references to this work. This discovery has further destabilized the belief that there is any real separation between philosophical and religious Taoism, since the fundamental distinction, that philosophical Taoism does not partake in or advocate monastic-type practices, has now been effectively disproven.[5]
Historically, the most common name used in English has been Taoism, which comes from the Wade-Giles transliteration of Chinese. Most academics now prefer the term Daoism, from the newer, and now official, pinyin transliteration. Some people are capable of arguing endlessly about which name is more correct — which quickly descends into arcane discussions of differences between Chinese and English phonology,[note 2] the relative merits of Wade-Giles vs. pinyin,[note 3] etc.
↑ In case you're wondering: yes, these ideas are vague, unfamiliar, intriguing and seemingly profound enough to be an excellent material for appropriation by Western woo-meisters. But in China, they coexist very well with a pragmatic and science-affirming worldview, and at the very least the people believing them rarely set out to murder infidels in the most brutal manner possible.
↑ Expect hairs to be split - though dao would be agreed on by any Westerner schooled in Mandarin as a more appropriate Romanization, and pinyin itself was developed by a Chinese-born investment banker educated in the United States and fluent in English, it is unlikely that any Western-born adherent of these ideas is actually familiar with the language.
↑ This discussion is greatly complicated by cross-strait politics
↑ "At the heart of the matter is Mr. Capra's methodology—his use of what seem to me to be accidental similarities of language as if these were somehow evidence of deeply rooted connections." - Jeremy Bernstein (Steven Institute of Technology) (1982) Science Observed, New York: Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-07340-9, p.333-340
↑ "The bootstrap philosophy, despite its complete failure as a physical theory, lives on as part of an embarrassing New Age cult, with its followers refusing to acknowledge what has happened." Peter Woit, Columbia University, Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
↑ Kirkland, Russell. 2004. Taoism: the Enduring Legacy. New York: Routledge. 2.
↑ Victor H. Mair, Wandering on the Way: early Taoist tales and parables of Chuang Tzu. (New York: Bantam. 1994), 376.
↑ Kirkland, Russel. “A Quest for the ‘Foundation of Taoist Mysticism” Studies in Central & East Asian Religions. 2001/2002. Vol 12/13, 224.
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CBD Set to Charge Ahead
9 years ago •By Dan Sowden
The Team: (left) Emporio sales manager Nicholas Criss, Reed Property Group’s manager of development Carl Nancarrow and Ray White Maroochydore's Director Dan Sowden on site.
The Maroochydore CBD is moving ahead in leaps and bounds with recent developments giving Sunshine Coast Council access to a further 53 hectares of land in the heart of Maroochydore.
Last week, members of the Horton Park Golf Club voted on the club’s future and decided to sell the land their club is based on to Sunshine Coast Council for $39 million.
The vote now allows council to proceed with their plans to make Maroochydore the Coast’s Principal Activity Centre (PAC) and divide the greens into seven sub-precincts comprised of a retail precinct, central park, civic plaza, transit plaza, residential and commercial areas as well as a community space accommodating library and arts facilities.
Director of Ray White Maroochydore, Dan Sowden, said the decision was great news for the Maroochydore region, with the new CBD providing a myriad of benefits to local residents.
“Maroochydore is set to become the heart and soul of the Sunshine Coast, with council’s plans ensuring it will be a thriving city centre combining a mix of commercial, retail and residential development as well as parklands, walkways and public transport,” Mr Sowden said.
“The Maroochydore area is already a vibrant business and social hub, and the new infrastructure and developments will simply make it even bigger and better.”
Under the Horton Park Golf Club’s current agreement with council, the club must vacate the land by 31 August, meaning council can get to work shortly on implementing their plans for the region.
Mr Sowden said the Maroochydore region was already growing rapidly, with the Lexus showroom having recently been constructed and the Harvey Norman superstore now under construction.
“With all this development occurring in the CBD, it’s no wonder investors and home-hunters are flocking to Maroochydore to secure their slice of the action and capitalise on the sizeable capital gains on offer,” Mr Sowden said.
“The Emporio development has received a lot of interest from investors who have recognised the benefits of purchasing property in the Maroochydore area.”
Source: The Emporio Team
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Startup Offers Clustered Exchange Server With Managed Maintenance
By Stuart J. Johnston
A small Redmond, Wash.-based startup is shipping a new twist on outsourcing and turnkey solutions – a cluster of Exchange 2003 servers in a single box, replete with subscription-based third-party management, monitoring and maintenance. And, no, that’s not a cutesy turn of phrase referring to Microsoft.
Azaleos Corp. calls its new OneServer an “e-mail appliance.” The idea is to provide customers with a highly-available turnkey server “appliance” that sits behind the customer’s firewall. Azaleos then sells the customer a “subscription” – a multi-year contract – to provide patch testing and management, real-time monitoring and administration.
“The Azaleos messaging solution appliance is a true enterprise-class appliance integrating hardware, software and managed subscription services into an integrated, scalable solution,” according to a company statement.
Adds CEO and company co-founder Roger Gerdes: “This is a single box that plugs into the customer’s network and sits safely behind their firewall on the customer’s site.”
The OneServer is comprised of a chassis that contains three dual-processor servers wired in a failover cluster arrangement. Two of the servers run Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition while the third runs Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.
The first two servers run Exchange Server 2003 in a failover configuration with one “active” node and one “passive” node. The third server is an Active Directory domain controller node, according to Keith McCall, Azaleos’ CTO and co-founder. “And if the domain controller fails, [OneServer] can bring up the passive server as a [backup] domain controller,” McCall adds. Both Gerdes and McCall are former Microsoft employees as are two other members of the firm’s board, former Microsoft senior executives Pete Higgins and Mike Slade. Sharing Microsoft's hometown in the rainy Pacific Northwest also inspired the name. The company's co-founders chose Azaleos, the Greek root word for "dry," as a direct contrast to the local weather.
In addition, the package includes anti-virus and anti-spam software from Sybari (a firm which Microsoft recently purchased), mobility technologies from Good Technology, and archiving and compliance software (for example, to aid in Sarbanes-Oxley Act auditing) from KVS. Azaleos wrote its own monitoring, management and provisioning software as well as a simplified Web-based administration console.
Customers can specify whether they want servers manufactured by Dell or HP. Additionally, if a customer already has purchased licenses for Exchange Server 2003, those licenses can be applied to the appliance – saving customers money. The OneServer can also take advantage of customers’ existing storage area network (SAN) systems. Otherwise, “Azaleos can provide a 1-terabyte SAN Solution,” says Gerdes.
A single OneServer can support up to 2,500 users.
Azaleos, which is a Microsoft Certified Partner, combines the OneServer with its new OneStop Subscription Services, through which the company provides 7x24 monitoring, hardware updates and patch management for all software in the appliance. In order to do that, Azaleos built its own network operations center and hired its own staff of Exchange experts. The company launched commercial availability of its products this week following a beta program last fall.
One of the advantages of the active/passive cluster configuration is that software updates and patches can be remotely installed and tested on the “passive” machine while the “active” server continues its normal e-mail functions. “We have the capability to flash an image [of software or firmware updates] into the appliance,” says McCall.
Azaleos says a typical installation with 1,000 users would cost just under $10 per user per month or about $117,000 per year for a three-year subscription, including hardware and software costs. The OneServer with a terabyte of storage costs approximately $35,000 or $30,000 without. Subscription fees run between $7 and $9 per user per month. That compares to more like $154,000 per year for a company that sets up and maintains its own Exchange servers, the company claims.
The company plans to offer multi-site disaster recovery service in the second half of 2005.
Stuart J. Johnston has covered technology, especially Microsoft, since February 1988 for InfoWorld, Computerworld, Information Week, and PC World, as well as for Enterprise Developer, XML & Web Services, and .NET magazines.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Labor Employment And Training Administration Russell Brands, LLC, Coosa River Yarn Division, Wetumpka, AL; Notice of Termination of Investigation, 21008 [E9-10388]
Russell Brands, LLC, Coosa River Yarn Division, Wetumpka, AL; Notice of Termination of Investigation, 21008 [E9-10388]
Download as PDF 21008 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 86 / Wednesday, May 6, 2009 / Notices Name Issuance type JP Morgan Chase 2003–ML1 (U—JP Morgan Securities Inc.) .............................................................................................. C ............ MLynch role S Legend: C = Commercial mortgage-backed securitizations. R = Residential mortgage-backed securitizations. U = Underwriter. S = Sponsor. MS = Master Servicer (either HLS or Wilshire). MLynch = Merrill Lynch. The availability of this amendment, if granted, is subject to the express condition that the material facts and representations contained in the Application are true and complete and accurately describe all material terms of the transactions. In the case of continuing transactions, if any of the material facts or representations described in the Application change, the amendment will cease to apply as of the date of such change. In the event of any such change, an application for a new amendment must be made to the Department. Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of April, 2009. Ivan L. Strasfeld, Director of Exemption Determinations, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. [FR Doc. E9–10362 Filed 5–5–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–29–P DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Russell Brands, LLC, Coosa River Yarn Division, Wetumpka, AL; Notice of Termination of Investigation In accordance with Section 221 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, an investigation was initiated on March 18, 2009 in response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers of Russell Brands, LLC, Coosa River Yarn, Wetumpka, Alabama. The petitioner has requested that the petition be withdrawn. Consequently, the investigation has been terminated. Signed in Washington, DC, this 1st day of April, 2009 Richard Church, Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance. [FR Doc. E9–10388 Filed 5–5–09; 8:45 am] [MCC FR 09–09] Superior Fabrication Company LLC, Kincheloe, MI; Notice of Termination of Investigation Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, an investigation was initiated on February 9, 2009 in response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers of Superior Fabrication Company LLC, Kincheloe, Michigan. The petitioner has requested that the petition be withdrawn. Therefore, the investigation under this petition has been terminated. mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES [TA–W–65,626] MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION [TA–W–65,173] Signed at Washington, DC, this 1st day of April, 2009. Richard Church, Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance. [FR Doc. E9–10375 Filed 5–5–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 18:36 May 05, 2009 Employment and Training Administration BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P Employment and Training Administration VerDate Nov<24>2008 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Jkt 217001 Request for Information From the Private Sector for Malawi Compact Program Development AGENCY: Millennium Challenge Corporation. ACTION: Invitation for private sector input. Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7701 et seq. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (‘‘MCC’’) is a U.S. Government agency created in 2004 to administer the Millennium Challenge Account. Its mission is to reduce poverty through the promotion of sustainable economic growth. Since 2004, MCC has signed Compact programs with eighteen partner countries ranging from $66 million to $698 million. In April 2009, the Government of Malawi (‘‘GoM’’) through ‘‘MCA–Malawi’’ presented a SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00110 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 proposal including three projects to MCC for potential Compact funding. This Request for Information (‘‘RFI’’) aims to solicit feedback from the private sector on these projects. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This solicitation has the following objectives: (a) Share best practices and private sector experiences on similar projects from other countries; (b) Generate opportunities for leverage of Compact funds with private sector financing, trade, and investment; and (c) Solicit information about opportunities and challenges facing businesses in the sectors which have been identified for possible Compact projects. This solicitation is focused on the three following project proposals, which are posted publicly in full detail at http://www.mca-m.gov.mw/index.php/ concept-papers/81: b The proposed ‘‘Energy’’ project would fund increased availability of reliable and quality power, access to power, efficient power service delivery, and improved natural resources management. b The proposed ‘‘Transport’’ project would fund more reliable, efficient and affordable transport options through road and rail investments. b The proposed ‘‘Governance’’ project would fund improvements to the public financial management and budget oversight system as well as assistance to GoM anti-corruption agencies. Where possible, respondents are encouraged to provide information based on experience in the country. Experiences from other countries may also be applicable. MCA–Malawi may use information provided by the private sector to structure projects for Compact funding. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Visit http:// www.mca-rn.gov.mw/. Responses to and questions about this Request for Information should be e-mailed to info@mca-m.gov.mw and to psi@mcc.gov. DATES: Companies, other organizations, and individuals are invited to submit responses on or before Friday, May 15, 2009. E:\FR\FM\06MYN1.SGM 06MYN1
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Russell Brands, LLC, Coosa River Yarn Division, Wetumpka, AL;
Notice of Termination of Investigation
In accordance with Section 221 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended, an investigation was initiated on March 18, 2009 in response
to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers of
Russell Brands, LLC, Coosa River Yarn, Wetumpka, Alabama.
The petitioner has requested that the petition be withdrawn.
Consequently, the investigation has been terminated.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 1st day of April, 2009
Richard Church,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E9-10388 Filed 5-5-09; 8:45 am]
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Analysts Offer Predictions for Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc’s Q1 2020 Earnings (NYSE:AMRX)
in Healthcare Research
Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc (NYSE:AMRX) – Equities research analysts at Piper Jaffray Companies reduced their Q1 2020 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Amneal Pharmaceuticals in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, November 6th, according to Zacks Investment Research. Piper Jaffray Companies analyst D. Amsellem now anticipates that the company will earn $0.06 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $0.11. Piper Jaffray Companies also issued estimates for Amneal Pharmaceuticals’ Q2 2020 earnings at $0.08 EPS.
Several other research firms have also issued reports on AMRX. ValuEngine upgraded shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 25th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded Amneal Pharmaceuticals from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 12th. Leerink Swann lowered Amneal Pharmaceuticals from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. SunTrust Banks restated a “buy” rating and set a $5.00 price target on shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals in a research report on Tuesday, August 6th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research cut Amneal Pharmaceuticals from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Three analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Amneal Pharmaceuticals has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $9.00.
Shares of AMRX traded up $0.20 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $4.04. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 5,179,103 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,506,678. The stock has a market cap of $1.14 billion, a PE ratio of 4.25, a P/E/G ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 1.52. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $3.10 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $4.34. Amneal Pharmaceuticals has a 52 week low of $2.27 and a 52 week high of $18.17. The company has a current ratio of 2.25, a quick ratio of 1.50 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.91.
Amneal Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:AMRX) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November 6th. The company reported $0.04 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.13 by ($0.09). The firm had revenue of $378.30 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $403.90 million. Amneal Pharmaceuticals had a positive return on equity of 23.17% and a negative net margin of 19.61%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 20.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.28 EPS.
Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. TPG Group Holdings SBS Advisors Inc. grew its stake in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 317.4% in the third quarter. TPG Group Holdings SBS Advisors Inc. now owns 16,213,367 shares of the company’s stock worth $47,019,000 after purchasing an additional 12,328,767 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its position in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 2.3% in the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 9,757,628 shares of the company’s stock worth $69,962,000 after buying an additional 218,497 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. grew its position in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 9.4% in the 2nd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 6,394,923 shares of the company’s stock worth $45,852,000 after buying an additional 549,217 shares during the last quarter. Point72 Asset Management L.P. bought a new stake in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $23,772,000. Finally, Northern Trust Corp increased its stake in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 1.3% during the second quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 1,200,738 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,609,000 after buying an additional 14,961 shares during the period. 35.80% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
About Amneal Pharmaceuticals
Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, licenses, manufactures, markets, and distributes generic and specialty pharmaceutical products for various dosage forms and therapeutic areas. It operates through two segments, Generics and Specialty. The Generics segment develops, manufactures, and commercializes complex oral solids, injectables, ophthalmics, liquids, topicals, softgels, inhalation products, and transdermals across a range of therapeutic categories.
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“It’s the biggest revolution since the digital disc”: New ERA research reveals five ages of entertainment preference | Media
New consumer panel-based research from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has today (December 6) revealed the scale of the generation gap in the way Britons consume entertainment.
According to an official press release, ERA’s research shows five distinct ages of entertainment preference. The data comes from ERA’s authoritative consumer tracking study which quizzed a panel of 2,000 UK consumers about their entertainment consumption habits every quarter for the past six years.
For under-25s, the smartphone and laptop are the dominant ways to consume music and video, with more than eight out of 10 of that age range reporting they had listened to music via a smartphone in the previous three months and over three quarters having watched video on computer.
In contrast, an official press release stated that for those in the over-55 category, neither laptop nor smartphone appear among their top entertainment technologies with traditional radio (whether in-car, via DAB or even AM/FM) taking three of the Top Five slots.
Speaking about the results, ERA CEO Kim Bayley said: “The entertainment business is in the midst of the biggest revolution it has faced since the advent of the digital disc. This survey confirms that there is a marked difference in the speed of adoption of new technologies by different generations.”
You can read a breakdown of the results below:
The Under-25s
The under-25’s are the most enthusiastic adopters of smartphone and streaming technologies with nearly 85% of them using smartphones to access music. Music and video top their interests.
Interests broaden in the late 20’s and early 30’s although there’s a 20 point difference with the under 25’s in the degree of engagement with the most popular technologies. Smartphones top the rankings for 24-34 year olds.
The 35-44 year olds score in-car radio as their most used entertainment technology just ahead of the TV set-top box. Smartphones, used for music or games are next most popular, followed by the first Top Five appearance of DAB radio.
More 45-54s have used a TV set-top box in the past three months than they have used any other entertainment device. Four out of the Top Five positions are taken by music technologies.
The Over 55’s
In-car radio scores highest for the over-55’s, while DAB is also favoured and even traditional AM/FM radio scores a Top Five placing.
Last month, according to ERA-commissioned research by consultants OC&C, it was claimed that streaming could be worth £1.6 billion by 2023.
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George Chatani, Hawaii Army National Guard (HIARNG), Lahainaluna High School, TAPS *
Taps: George Yoshio Chatani
George Yoshio Chatani, 89, passed away in Honolulu on August 17, 2020. He was born on April 25, 1931 in Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii. The Chatani family later moved to Lahaina, Maui where George attended Kamehameha III School for 8 years then graduated from Lahainaluna High School in 1949.
He enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard that same year and served for almost 38 years as
an Air Defense Missile Assembly Technician, Electronic Mechanic Technician, and Avionic Equipment Maintenance Supervisor before his retirement as a CWO3 in 1987. He finally ended his military career in 1991 after serving another 4 years in the Hawaii Army National Guard Retired Reserve.
George was an active member of the Lahaina Club and kept in close contact with all his classmates. He enjoyed attending Lahainaluna reunions and always looked forward to his casual trips to Las Vegas. He spent much of his time keeping up with financial news, advocating changes in condominium law, and looking out for people’s best interests.
George is survived by his daughter, Cindy Flynn; sister, Lorraine Noji; grandsons, Eugene Sumera Jr. and Jake Flynn; grand- daughter, Julia Ediger; 7 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great- granddaughter.
Private services will be held on a future date at Diamond Head Memorial Park. Online messages may be left at www.hawaiianmemorialparkmortuary.com
Retiree News extends heartfelt sympathy to his family and friends.
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THE JOKERS
SQUARE DANCE CLUB
Back in the summer of 1951, the earliest beginning of Jokers was taking form. Johnny White had his first beginners class at San Tomas School. This class plus the next one, which met in an unfinished store in the Quito Shopping Center, formed the nucleus of the club in October 1951. In true Joker fashion, however, the club's birthday "Traditionally" comes whenever in the year that it seems appropriate, usually in November or December.
After several trials of unsatisfactory names, the name "JOKERS" was chosen, since the group consisted of a bunch of Jokers and someone happened to have a Joker from a deck of playing cards that was particularly expressive of the male membership, (an interesting note - a couple of years ago a duplicate of the original playing card that inspired the Joker emblem was discovered in a very unusual place by one of the original Jokers).
Back in the early days, before there were many hoedowns in the San Jose area, all the club members would travel in car caravans on Saturday nights - 1st Saturday to Grasshoppers, 2nd Saturday to Valley Swinger, 3rd Saturday to Harmony Hoe downers or 49ers, and 4th Saturday to Dip 'N Divers. Most of these dances were across the bay, except 49ers in San Francisco, and neither rain, sleet, nor fog could keep us from our Saturday night square dance. Some of these jaunts, at times, resulted in the whole caravan getting lost, trying to find a hall, while being led by someone who claimed to know the way.
At the 1954 Golden State Roundup in Oakland, the first animated club banner made its appearance - the tongue-wagging, eye-blinking "JOKER". It has always given people something to talk about and, once again, was the center of attention when it appeared at the 25th National Square Dance Convention in Anaheim in 1976.
In 1954, long before Hawaii became a state, Jokers had a hoedown with a Hawaiian theme, grass skirts and all. This was the start of a procession of theme dances, many with elaborate stage and hall settings. There was a riverboat dance, among others, and the Jokers were the real leaders of the Space Age. They and their guests were "Dancing on the Moon" back in November 1955.
The Jokers were active in the formation of the Santa Clara Valley Square Dancers Association, and supplied its first president, RAY WORREL. In 1962, our association hosted the State Square Dance Convention in San Jose. The Jokers had a fun-type exhibition group at the time, and we presented our "Olympic Square Dance Team" at the convention. Johnny White called for the Jokers for 26 years retiring in 1978. He called for the Jokers from 1951 to May 1978 when he left we had 26 couples in the club. In July 1978 the Jokers hired Dick Lawrence, there were 24 couples in the club when he started. He left us in December 1980 with 13 couples in the club. When Dick left we hired Johnny Robertson in March 1981 with 13 couples in the Jokers. He left in December 1982 with 18 couples left in the club. In March 1983 we had the opportunity to get Kip Garvey as our caller. He started with 18 couples and built our club up to 59 couples when he left in 1987. When Kip left we were lucky again, a new caller from Southern California was transferred to our area. His name was Scott Slocum. He started with us in 1987 with 57 couples. He was transferred to another area in December 1990, leaving with 42 couples. We then hired Doug Davis. He started in January 1991 with 42 couples and left in April 1992 with 50 couples in the club. Scott Slocum again came back to the area and started to call for us in May 1992 with 39 couples he left in March 1996 with 35 couples in the club, then he was transferred again. In 1996 Gary Carnes became our caller with 35 couples. He left in March 2000 with 28 couples left in the club. Bob Elling started in June 2000 with 23 couples remaining in the Jokers and left in December 2003 with 22 couples. Roger Smith became the club's caller in December 2003 and continues to call and teach for the club with wonderful support from his partner Josie Baumgartner.
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Flora of Ordway Prairie Compared to Other Prairie Remnants of the Missouri Coteau
David J. Ode
Hamlin Garland was an early twentieth century novelist whose parents homesteaded in Brown County, South Dakota in the late 1800's. To Garland this was the land of the Middle Border. By this expression Garland referred to that boundary existing between the land of the harvester and the land of the hunter. In many ways this region is still the land of the Middle Border, for it is in Edmunds, McPherson and Dickey counties where cropland meets rangeland, where the sub-humid Central Lowland gives way to the semiarid Great Plains and where the tall grass prairie intermingles with the mixed grass plains. Situated here on the Middle Border is the Samuel H. Ordway, Jr. Memorial Prairie, twelve square miles of sanctuary owned by The Nature Conservancy and dedicated to the preservation of prairie plants and animals. Unlike State Game Production Areas (GPAs) and Federal Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) where management is directed toward producing game animals, management of the Ordway Prairie is directed toward maintaining, as much as possible, the full diversity of species and communities present in this part of the northern plains grassland as it was prior to early white settlement. In order to obtain this "full diversity of species" it may be necessary to introduce certain plant species which are not currently found on Ordway Prairie. This assumes that more plant species could have originally existed on Ordway in its pristine condition but have since been eliminated by activities of man such as cultivation and overstocking. For example, about 400 acres of Ordway have been cultivated and there is some indication that much of Ordway was heavily overgrazed prior to its purchase by Thomas Boylan in the 1950's. The primary objective of this study is to identify and locate plant species native to prairie environments of the Central Missouri Coteau region but not reported for Ordway Prairie. Secondly, since the flora of north central South Dakota has been poorly documented, another purpose of this study is to provide new floristic information for this region.
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Ode, David J., "Flora of Ordway Prairie Compared to Other Prairie Remnants of the Missouri Coteau" (1981). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4044.
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An appeal to the presidential candidates for changes in Polish law allowing to combat homophobic hate crimes
“We expect an amendment that will provide effective protection against attacks motivated by prejudice, including on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, gender and disability; that is, those discriminatory features that currently do not have any such protection in Polish law” – distinguished Polish lawyers appeal to candidates in the election to become President of the Republic of Poland
Commissioner for Human Rights: Impossible elections
Voting entirely by post can breach the constitutional principle of the universality of the elections. The campaign being conducted does not respect the principle of equal opportunities for the candidates, while the citizens are not receiving even a minimal amount of knowledge about the elections. Held in this way, they cannot be consistent with international standards.
The National Electoral Commission deprived of its powers in Poland
Mariusz Jałoszewski
Law and Justice party has just excluded a key institution from the process of preparing the elections: the National Electoral Commission. Former Chairperson of the Commission Judge Hermeliński: such a change in the electoral laws and procedures is in breach of Article 2 of the Constitution.
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The Hidden Treasure (Lady Umme Kulthum, daughter of Imam Ali and Lady Fatima a.s)
Lady Umme Kulthum (s) was the fouth child born to Imam Ali (a.s) and Lady Fatima (s.a). She spent her life serving seven Infallibles, and witnessed crucial moments that changed the landscape of Islam forever: from her mother's sermon about Fadak, to the terrible calamities on the plains of Karbala. Despite this her name has been mentioned only occasionally in the books of history. Controversies over her existence and marriage to the second Caliph, Umar Al-Khattab, have overshadowed discussions on her noble characteristics, and the crucial role she played in the unfolding of Islamic history. The book is the first published biograpy on the life of the noble Lady. It seeks to address these issues and restore her rightful place in the hearts of those who love the Ahlul Bayt a.s
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Jamel Shabazz: Sights in the City: New York Street Photographs
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Introduction by Marla Hamburg Kennedy. Interview by Cheryl Dunn.
During the summer of 1980, under the direction of his photographer father, Jamel Shabazz armed himself with a Canon AE1 SLR camera and began to photograph the landscape of his native New York City. Photographing in the streets put Shabazz right in the heart of all of the action; he carried his camera everywhere he went, from Harlem to Times Square, the Lower East Side to downtown Brooklyn, always set and at the ready. Like a fisherman seeking a fruitful catch, Shabazz ventured into locations full of life and uncertainty in hopes of capturing a unique moment. Consisting of 120 color and black-and-white photographs taken between 1985 and the 2000s, most of which have never been published, Sights in the City is the testament of Shabazz’s visual journey.
Hardcover; English; 160 pages; 70 color / 50 b&w
Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 0.5 inches (W x L x D)
Jamel Shabazz: Back in the Days
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New York: Portrait of a City
Bruce Davidson: Subway
Bruce Gilden: Lost and Found
Carrie Boretz: Street - New York City 70s, 80s, 90s
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Across the border
Bhagat Singh lives on in Pakistan today. And he is the unlikely hero the country needs
In Lahore, activists gather every year to demand that a chowk be named after him. His ancestral village celebrates his death anniversary on March 23.
Haroon Khalid
Mar 23, 2017 · 08:00 am
Pashtun Forums
Bhagat Singh is the least likely Pakistani hero – born into a Sikh family, an avowed communist, sympathetic of the Russian Revolution (which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union). Pakistan, on the other hand, created 16 years after his assassination in 1931, became a symbol of a Muslim country, disowning its Hindu and Sikh heritage. Soon after its birth, the state aligned with the Americans in the Cold War against the Soviet Union and started hounding communists. Russia, an ally of India, became one of the overt enemies of the new state.
In the past 70 years, these fault lines have only deepened. Leftist politics is non-existent. Slowly, most of the country’s Hindu and Sikh heritage is being lost to encroachers as the state remains aloof. Religious fundamentalism has increased exponentially, shrinking the space for non-Muslims even more so.
And yet, Bhagat Singh somehow continues to live on. It seems as if every year the demand to acknowledge him as a state hero has increased. In 2008, a Punjabi nationalist organisation celebrated his 100th birthday in Jaranwala, the district of his hometown Banga. It was a low-key affair with only a few hundred attendees.
After attending the festival, I visited Banga, his ancestral village. It was a pitiful sight. The school where once a young Bhagat Singh studied was in a dilapidated state, with no roof over many of the classrooms.
The school Bhagat Singh attended in Banga village in Jaranwala district. Photo credit: Haroon Khalid
The house that his family once occupied had been divided among several families, with one part of the property falling to an advocate, Sanaullah. Even though he was aware of the historical significance of the property and had taken good care of some of its original architecture, I could not help but feel dismayed at the condition of Bhagat Singh’s village. Facing the house was the village ground where every year before Partition, on March 23, a festival would be arranged to commemorate the sacrifice of Bhagat Singh. The festival in many ways followed the tradition of Sufi festivals, which too are celebrated on the death anniversary of the saint, because it is believed that on this day the saint finally meets his beloved – the deity. The ground, when I visited the village, had been converted into a pond.
The chowk in Lahore
On the other hand, every year on his death anniversary, a handful of civil society activists gather in the Shadman area of Lahore, at the roundabout they refer to as Bhagat Singh Chowk. From here, one can see the boundary wall of the Lahore Jail where he was hanged on March 23, 1931 with his comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev Singh. The jail, at the time of his execution, also included the area of this roundabout. In fact, the gallows were located at this exact spot – hence this here was where Bhagat Singh was hanged.
For years, these activities have demanded that the roundabout be renamed Bhagat Singh Chowk. For years, the state has turned a deaf ear to them. On certain occasions, state representatives have attended the protest and made false promises, but nothing has changed.
In 2012, there was a ray of hope. In the past few years, the gathering at the roundabout had gotten bigger. That year, prominent Indian personalities, such as the film-maker Mahesh Bhatt and journalist Kuldip Nayar, were also part of the gathering. The democratic regime that had come to power in 2008 after a decade of military rule wanted to project itself as a progressive and liberal government, at a time when the country was being engulfed by an all-consuming civil war. The state was beginning to unravel as a result of the religious fundamentalism it had promoted for years, and the government, it seemed, was eager to change the narrative. Renaming the chowk in honour of Bhagat Singh would have been a step in the right direction.
The city district government of Lahore in 2012 announced that the roundabout would be renamed Bhagat Singh Chowk. But before the activists could even begin to rejoice, protests against the move – led by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (a banned organisation led by Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group) – broke out. A banner was placed on top of the roundabout stating that renaming the roundabout was an attack on the “Two Nation Theory” – the raison d’être of the Pakistani state. Instead, a spokesperson for the organisation suggested that the roundabout be named Hurmat-e-Rasool Chowk (In respect of the Prophet).
A few months prior to the announcement, the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims had send shockwaves throughout the Muslim world. There were protests everywhere against the YouTube movie made by a Los Angeles-based Egyptian-American, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. The spokesperson for the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, therefore, suggested that the name of the roundabout, instead of celebrating a Sikh, should honour the memory of Muslims who had protested against this alleged blasphemy of the West. The protests had the desired effect. The Lahore High Court restrained the government from issuing the notification to rename the chowk. Perhaps, the roots of religious extremism have been sowed too deep in the state to be removed now.
The following year, the activists were back at the roundabout to reiterate the demand they had been making for years. However, this time they were confronted by a more powerful and better organised opposition, led again by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Accusations were hurled, the activists were labelled Indian agents and anti-Pakistan. Undeterred, they return to the roundabout every year.
Activists gather at a Lahore roundabout every year to demand that it be named after Bhagat Singh. Photo credit: Haroon Khalid
Aspirations of a nation
In fact, ever since the turning down of the demand, the voice to appropriate Bhagat Singh in the Pakistani narrative has only grown louder. In the past few years, another group of civil society activists have started organising a Bhagat Singh mela (festival) in Banga on his death anniversary. His house has been renovated and a proposed uplift of the entire village has been suggested. Almost 70 years after Banga disowned its heritage, it has once again accepted Bhagat Singh as one of its own.
In these times, this demand to appropriate Bhagat Singh is symbolic of a broader demand. It is a demand to embrace the non-Muslim heritage of Pakistan, it is a demand for the state to shun its monolithic identity and replace it with a more pluralistic one. It is a demand to appropriate Leftist politics in the mainstream of the country, which for years has been dominated by the religious-led Right-wing. It is a rejection of religious extremism and a demand for tolerance. The demand is more than just one roundabout or one personality. Bhagat Singh represents the aspiration of a different country, of a peaceful country. In this time, it seems Bhagat Singh is the most likely hero Pakistan needs.
Haroon Khalid has written three books, most recently, Walking with Nanak.
How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend
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Review: Richard Jewell (2019)
Richard Jewell (2019)
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Premise: Based on true events. A low level security guard (Paul Walter Hauser) discovers a bomb at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. In the aftermath, the FBI investigates the guard as a suspect and press coverage turns his life upside down.
What Works: Clint Eastwood’s recent films like American Sniper, Sully, and The 15:17 to Paris have dramatized the exploits of contemporary American heroes. Eastwood’s latest installment in this cycle is Richard Jewell, the true story of a security guard who saved many people’s lives at the 1996 Summer Olympics when he discovered a bomb and evacuated the blast area. The film covers the night of the bombing but the majority of this story takes place during the aftermath in which the FBI and the press falsely accused Jewell of masterminding the bombing to make himself a hero. Among the impressive aspects of this story is the way in which the filmmakers establish credibility. That’s first done through the characterization of Jewell himself. Jewell’s introduction is not flattering; he comes across as a Paul Blart-type who was fired from a college security job for overzealously enforcing the rules. But Jewell is also depicted as being fundamentally good at his job. He noticed details and asked the right questions and followed procedure and those behaviors saved lives. The filmmakers also make the actions of the press and the FBI credible by establishing the history of would-be heroes who manufacture crises for their own self-aggrandizement, a profile that fit Jewell suspiciously well. But the movie is also infuriating because it shows how the press and law enforcement got caught up in confirmation bias and wrongly smeared Jewell as a villain. The movie captures the stress of living in a fishbowl of suspicion and press attention and it is a startlingly powerful depiction of the power of the state and the media to railroad a citizen’s life. The cast of Richard Jewell is terrific, starting with Paul Walter Hauser in the title role. Hauser plays Jewell as a man of integrity who was naïve but not stupid and his disillusionment with law enforcement is heartbreaking. Hauser is paired with Kathy Bates as Jewell’s mother and Sam Rockwell as his attorney Watson Bryant. The interactions between Hauser and Rockwell manage a balance of drama and comedy and they are many of the movie’s best scenes.
What Doesn’t: There is one troubling aspect of Richard Jewell and that is the depiction of Kathy Scruggs, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who broke the story about the FBI’s investigation of Jewell and, as depicted in the film, drove the narrative that turned Jewell’s life upside down. Olivia Wilde’s performance is really broad and out of step with the tone of the movie. The film also depicts her trading sex for story tips although there is no proof the real Scruggs ever did that. There is one way of justifying this. Turnabout is fair play and Scruggs made a splash by spreading lies about Richard Jewell that destroyed his reputation and followed Jewell long after he was exonerated. The movie does the same to Scruggs but it comes across as a low blow because she is no longer alive to defend herself.
Bottom Line: Richard Jewell is the best installment in Clint Eastwood’s cycle of hero stories. The film is a startling portrait of the fickle nature of public opinion and the power of the state and the media in our lives.
Episode: #782 (December 29, 2019)
Owen Hatherley on politics and public film screenings: "Although the lights are off and, naturally, talking is not encouraged, a cinema experience is a public one, something that happens in groups in a place. That’s among the reasons why it has so often been a focus for the Left, and why film clubs have been so much a part of socialist activism over the years." ... See MoreSee Less
We Can’t Lose the Collective Experience of Going to the Movies to This Pandemic
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Going to the movies feels fundamentally different from simply streaming videos: it's a collective experience, and often inspires discussion and argument. In 2021, when the pandemic finally recedes, we...
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Review: The China Syndrome (1979)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Directed by: James Bridges
Premise: A news crew (Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, and Daniel Valdez) record footage of an accident at a nuclear power plant. As the team tries to verify the facts, a control room operator (Jack Lemmon) discovers a flaw in the plant that could reveal a much larger and more dangerous problem.
What Works: The China Syndrome is a tight and intelligent conspiracy thriller. This is very good storytelling. The film is very well paced, as it introduces multiple storylines and cuts effectively between them, never shorting one or the other for plot, tension, or character development, but it also maintains a tight enough reign in the editing that each scene is just long enough to make its contribution to the film. The China Syndrome deals with potentially complicated technical content but it handles the exposition very well, giving the audience the basic information that they need to understand the development of the plot while not losing the audience or the story in the details. It also does not dumb down its content and instead points an accusing finger at the news media for underestimating the intelligence of its audience and compromising its integrity for profitability. This theme is even more resonant now than when the film was made. The performances by the main cast are all strong but the two great roles of the film belong to Jack Lemmon and Wilford Brimley as power plant control room operators. Lemmon carries much of the film’s dramatic weight as the man who realizes the true gravity of the situation and the burden of that knowledge hangs on his performance. Brimley is also very effective as the blue collar company man who is caught between his duties to him employers and doing the socially conscious thing and Brimley plays it great, embodying the dilemma of a corporate employee.
What Doesn’t: The conclusion of The China Syndrome is a mixed bag. The turn the story takes is unexpected and yet it is also consistent with the paranoia of 1970s films. There is an opportunity in the climax to make a bold storytelling decision, but the finale ultimately goes for a happier, less edgy, more Hollywood ending. It does not refute the themes or integrity of the movie and on its own terms it is a satisfying resolution. But a darker conclusion would have been an interesting and braver choice, although it might have left have limited the film’s commercial appeal.
DVD extras: Featurettes, deleted scenes, and filmographies.
Bottom Line: The China Syndrome is an effective 1970s conspiracy thriller. Even though the ending is a little conventional in the genre of paranoid thrillers, it is still a provocative film and a well told story.
Episode: #332 (March 27, 2011)
Tune in on Sunday for reviews of the remake of MULAN and THE NEW MUTANTS and THE MIDNIGHT SKY and LOVE AND MONSTERS as well as a look at recent film headlines and music from a variety of movies. Sounds of Cinema airs Sunday morning at 9am on KQAL-FM 89.5 Winona, MN and at 11am on KMSU at Minnesota State Mankato. ... See MoreSee Less
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Federal court system hacked, experts warn it could impact national security
January 9, 2021 /in Computer Security /by SecureTech
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) -Today federal courts were notified a dangerous hack may have infiltrated the nation’s judicial branch.
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Now lawyers are scrambling to notify clients.
And experts say—the damage from this hack could impact our safety now.
Right now federal officials are investigating an enormous computer breach of the judicial branch.
It’s part of a wider breach that has now impacted all three branches of the government.
Suspected Russian hackers accessed U.S. Government and private companies’ systems for months — without anyone even noticing.
“I’ve been practicing in federal court for 40 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” says attorney James Martin Davis.
Omaha attorney James Martin Davis is a former secret service agent.
He knows all too well the impact this could have on our entire nation.
“I’ve never seen something so consequential in terms of the size, the magnitude and the depth,” says Davis.
Davis says the impact from this breach goes beyond hackers having information on criminal court cases.
It could have a serious impact on our nation’s security.
That’s because those hackers now have access to countless documents with sealed information.
“Many times, in federal court, there are cases that involve national security or espionage or defense contractors,” says Davis.
Hackers also have sensitive information that could hurt businesses across the nation.
When someone goes to patent and idea or trademark something, it all goes through the federal court system.
“If somebody has the access they can get patent information, trademark information, highly confidential financial information. All those things that can be used, particularly engineering information,” says Davis.
Right now, Davis says the biggest concern our nation is facing, what happens to all the information now in the hacker’s hands.
“We know the hack is very serious. We just don’t know how the perpetrators are going to use that information now,” says Davis.
The judiciary branch is working hard to add new security measures in place.
Documents will now be stored in a stand-alone computer.
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January 7, 2021 /in Mobile Security /by SecureTech
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) (“GBT”, or the “Company”), announced that its joint venture, GBT Tokenize Corp. (“GBT/Tokenize”), is continuing with its research associated with an AI system to detect and open clogs within arteries based on its proprietary radio technology, which has an internal code name of “Hermes”.
The research is evaluating a system targeted for arterial clogs cleaning, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or any other body vascular organ. The researching is focusing on the use of an intravenous mini-probe unit that could travel within the artery, searching to find clogs including complete blockages (Total Occlusions). Upon detecting a clog, GBT/Tokenize will evaluate whether the system will have the capability to remove it and clear the blood vessel for efficient blood flow. This blockage may cause a condition called atherosclerosis (when a substance called plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries) and can eventually block the artery, causing vascular disease, heart attack or stroke. The research is evaluating whether the unit can use AI based and radio frequency imaging system to “see” within arteries. We are now researching the development of a low frequency radio system to scan within arteries, producing 3D visuals, shown on a computer screen, and used for intravenous navigation.
GBT/Tokenize is evaluating developing a system that will have the capability to be manually remote controlled by physicians or to autonomously operated inside blood vessels. It is intended that an advanced SOC (System on Chip) microchip with an embedded software will control the unit’s operations. The goal is to research the inclusion of a wireless communication capability to produce a computerized 3D imaging for the operating physician. We are evaluating initial setup of the system for inserted into a human body, for example through a large leg artery, and autonomously or manually travel further to other parts of the body. Using a variety of micro-sensors, we are researching the viability of a system that will search and remove clogs without damaging the vessel’s tissue. The device is…
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Cyberattack cripples NYC DOE’s teacher disciplinary system
January 2, 2021 /in Internet Security /by SecureTech
A ransomware attack has crippled the city’s teacher discipline system, The Post has learned.
A contractor that provides hearing transcripts for the city Department of Education, the Ubiqus Group, said it “was hit by a ransomware-type cybersecurity incident” on Dec. 4.
“As a precautionary measure, we have shut down all our IT systems across all our operating sites,” the company announced on its website.
In a ransomware attack, hackers seize a user’s data, folders or device until a “ransom” fee is paid. A DOE spokeswoman would not say whether a ransom had been demanded.
Pending a probe, the cyberattack shut down NYC termination hearings for tenured educators accused of incompetence or misconduct.
“This is serious. Transcripts are the lifeblood of these hearings,” said Betsy Combier, a paralegal who defends teachers and a blogger who first reported the malware attack. “You can’t do anything without the transcripts, you can’t do a closing. You can’t decide a case.”
Combier said she called the state Education Department and was told that a “forensic cyberteam” is investigating.
The city DOE said Ubiqus is contracted by the state. A spokeswoman could not immediately say how many hearings have been held up.
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Pantone's 'Uplifting' Color of the Year Is Now Also the Color of Apocalyptic Fiery Destruction
Today, Pantone, a company that does color stuff, made its annual announcement identifying a single color on the spectrum that it feels best captures the “zeitgeist” of today. Last year, its choice of “Greenery” was criticized for its resemblance to vomit, a true testament to Pantone’s prescience seeing how this year has gone.
This year the color Pantone has bestowed upon us is Ultraviolet. It’s supposedly a color that evokes soothing introspection and deep primordial mystery, chosen to bring “hope and an uplifting message.” Via the New York Times:
It “communicates originality, ingenuity and visionary thinking,” Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said by way of explanation.
“It’s also the most complex of all colors,” she said, “because it takes two shades that are seemingly diametrically opposed — blue and red — and brings them together to create something new.”
Subtle. While the choice may be all about serenity, unity, and compromise in our broken political system, Pantone’s big reveal came at exactly the worst time, because purple is now also the color of utter and dire emergency.
Southern California is currently dealing with extremely violent and apocalyptic wildfires. The fires are so bad, in fact, that they have surpassed the current color-coded system authorities of yellow, orange, and red that authorities use to grade them. So they had to find a new color, and guess what they went with?
Via Time (emphasis mine):
“The forecast for tomorrow is purple,” said Ken Pimlott, director at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “We’ve never used purple before.”
“We’re talking winds that can surface that can be 80 miles an hour,” Pimlott said. “These will be winds that there will no ability to fight fires.”
Once again, it seems Pantone got it right by accident.
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Mobile mental health service to deliver co-ordinated care
An innovative mental health service will continue to bring mental health care to the homeless populations of Perth and Fremantle with a funding extension granted by the McGowan Government.
$3.7 million has been allocated to continue to deliver mental health triage, assertive outreach, clinical assessment and treatment via a Mobile Clinical Outreach Team (MCOT).
The MCOT provided support to more than 120 clients on the streets of these two business districts, last year.
The Team consists of a psychiatrist, social workers and mental health nurses, working closely with other specialist mental health staff, in partnership with local specialist homeless services, and other mental health, alcohol and drug services.
They assist people to transition into more stable settings, such as community mental health services, and enable early intervention and care for mental health issues, which reduces the likelihood of re-entry into acute services such as hospitals.
For urgent clinical support, call the Mental Health Emergency Response Line on 1300 555 788 (Metro), 1800 676 822 (Peel) or 1800 552 002 (Rural). In a crisis call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or for free counselling, call Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636.
“It’s important for all of us to be mindful of our mental health and wellbeing and if issues arise, to address them and seek help if needed,” said Mental Health Minister Roger Cook.
“It is no different for our homeless population, who can find it extra challenging to seek support through the usual mainstream primary care and mental health pathways.”
“This service is one part of the system, that will ensure we as a community can help identify and address mental health issues early, enabling people to find pathways to healthy, productive and fulfilling lives.”
Community Services Minister Simone McGurk said, “The McGowan Government is committed to supporting people experiencing homelessness and understands the complexity of this issue.
“That is why, as we focus on helping people to permanently exit homelessness, we are also investing in a range of measures to ensure immediate delivery of specialist services to those in need.
“This funding will enable the Mobile Clinical Outreach Team to continue its important work in Perth and Fremantle providing vulnerable Western Australians with timely access to mental health care.”
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A strategy to improve the interpretability of image recognition models
Concept Whitening disentangles the latent space of the neural network so that its axes are aligned with predefined concepts, e.g., ‘airplane’, ‘car’ and ‘dog’. This means all information about the concept gathered by the network up to that point travels through that concept’s single node. Credit: Chen, Bei & Rudin.
Over the past decade or so, deep neural networks have achieved very promising results on a variety of tasks, including image recognition tasks. Despite their advantages, these networks are very complex and sophisticated, which makes interpreting what they learned and determining the processes behind their predictions difficult or sometimes impossible. This lack of interpretability makes deep neural networks somewhat untrustworthy and unreliable.
Researchers from the Prediction Analysis Lab at Duke University, led by Professor Cynthia Rudin, have recently devised a technique that could improve the interpretability of deep neural networks. This approach, called concept whitening (CW), was first introduced in a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence.
“Rather than conducting a post hoc analysis to see inside the hidden layers of NNs, we directly alter the NN to disentangle the latent space so that the axes are aligned with known concepts,” Zhi Chen, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore. “Such disentanglement can provide us with a much clearer understanding of how the network gradually learns concepts over layers. It also focuses all the information about one concept (e.g., “lamp,” “bed,” or “person”) to go through only one neuron; this is what is meant by disentanglement.”
Initially, the technique devised by Rudin and her colleagues disentangles the latent space of a neural network so that its axes are aligned with known concepts. Essentially, it performs a “whitening transformation,” which resembles the way in which a signal is transformed into white noise. This transformation decorrelates the latent space. Subsequently, a rotation matrix strategically matches different concepts to axes without reversing this decorrelation.
“CW can be applied to any layer of a NN to gain interpretability without hurting the model’s predictive performance,” Rudin explained. “In that sense, we achieve interpretability with very little effort, and we don’t lose accuracy over the black box.”
The new approach can be used to increase the interpretability of deep neural networks for image recognition without affecting their performance and accuracy. Moreover, it does not require extensive computational power, which makes it easier to implement across a variety of models and using a broader range of devices.
“By looking along the axes at earlier layers of the network, we can also see how it creates abstractions of concepts,” Chen said. “For instance, in the second layer, an airplane appears as a gray object on a blue background (which interestingly can include pictures of sea creatures). Neural networks don’t have much expressive power in only the second layer, so it is interesting to understand how it expresses a complex concept like ‘airplane’ in that layer.”
The concept could soon allow researchers in the field of deep learning to perform troubleshooting on the models they are developing and gain a better understanding of whether the processes behind a model’s predictions can be trusted or not. Moreover, increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks could help to unveil possible issues with training datasets, allowing developers to fix these issues and further improve a model’s reliability.
“In the future, instead of relying on predefined concepts, we plan to discover the concepts from the dataset, especially useful undefined concepts that are yet to be discovered,” Chen added. “This would then allow us to explicitly represent these discovered concepts in the latent space of neural networks, in a disentangled way, to increase interpretability.”
Accurate neural network computer vision without the ‘black box’
Concept whitening for interpretable image recognition. Nature Machine Intelligence(2020). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-020-00265-z.
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Using artificial intelligence to help drones find people lost in the woods
A trio of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has used artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches of people lost in the woods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, David Schedl, Indrajit Kurmi and Oliver Bimber, describe how they applied a deep learning network to the problem of people lost in the woods and how well it worked.
When people become lost in forests, search and rescue experts use helicopters to fly over the area where they are most likely to be found. In addition to simply scanning the ground below, the researchers use binoculars and thermal imaging cameras. It is hoped that such cameras will highlight differences in body temperature of people on the ground versus their surroundings making them easier to spot. Unfortunately, in some instances thermal imaging does not work as intended because of vegetation covering subsoil or the sun heating the trees to a temperature that is similar to the body temperature of the person that is lost. In this new effort, the researchers sought to overcome these problems by using a deep learning application to improve the images that are made.
The solution the team developed involved using an AI application to process multiple images of a given area. They compare it to using AI to process data from multiple radio telescopes. Doing so allows several telescopes to operate as a single large telescope. In like manner, the AI application they used allowed multiple thermal images taken from a helicopter (or drone) to create an image as if it were captured by a camera with a much larger lens. After processing, the images that were produced had a much higher depth of field—in them the tops of the trees appeared blurred while people on the ground became much more recognizable. To train the AI system, the researchers had to create their own database of images. They used drones to take pictures of volunteers on the ground in a wide variety of positions.
Testing of the system showed it to be approximately 87 to 95 accurate compared to just 25 percent accurate for traditional thermal images. The researchers suggest their system is ready for use by search and rescue crews and could also be used by law enforcement, the military, or wildlife management teams.
Drones and artificial intelligence show promise for conservation of farmland bird nests
David C. Schedl et al. Search and rescue with airborne optical sectioning, Nature Machine Intelligence (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-020-00261-3
Using artificial intelligence to help drones find people lost in the woods (2020, November 27)
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Home/Science/What the Media Gets Wrong About Children Dying of Gunshots
What the Media Gets Wrong About Children Dying of Gunshots
Rebecca Watson Follow on Twitter Send an email June 22, 2017
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A truly heartbreaking study has just been published in the journal “Pediatrics” showing that the third leading cause of death for children in the US is gunshots. If you’ve spent any time in the US looking at the news, you’ll know that guns are a very serious problem here, with mass shootings so regular that there have been a few times this year when I’ve seen one reported and mistakenly assumed that it was one that had happened earlier in the day. In 2015 there were 372 mass shootings in the US, so yep — more than one per day on average.
Another fun fact: more Americans have died in the US from guns in the past 50 years than all American who have died in every war the US has ever fought for its entire history. See? Fun!
So this new statistic, that gunshots are the third leading cause of death in children, isn’t exactly surprising. But I want to talk about it because while it is terrible, the news outlets reporting on it are misleading in a way I find important to note.
For instance, over on Newsweek an article declares the study findings in the headline and then opens by pointing out the tragic deaths of four children who were accidentally shot with guns in June alone, and we’ve still got a week and a half of June left. All four kids are under the age of 9.
Here’s the issue: the study was about “children” as defined legally — under the age of 18. And it’s not just about accidental deaths — it includes murders and suicides. When you break down the actual categories, you see that the deaths of the children mentioned in the article actually account for less than 6% of cases.
Newsweek doesn’t link to the study although the entire thing is available in full on the Pediatrics website where you can see that the researchers broke the victims down into two age groups: 0-12 and 13-17. Though the older group should be significantly smaller considering it encompasses only 5 years of age as opposed to 13 years of age in the younger group, older kids accounted for 82% of all victims.
I’m not just nitpicking, here. The problem with portraying all these gun deaths as accidentally happening to small children means that people will get the wrong idea of how we might go about combatting it. If the majority of these deaths really were accidental deaths of small children playing with guns, the solution is simply investing in gun safety education for kids and for adults, making sure guns are locked up and emptied of ammo or only able to be used by the owner. I say “simply” but obviously in the US nothing involving gun control is simple thanks to the lobbyists at the NRA, but still, it’s a fairly straightforward plan.
But because the actual data shows the vast majority are teenagers who are being murdered or killing themselves, the solution becomes a multi-pronged one. We need to do the above (because there are still young kids accidentally killing themselves and others) and also we need to keep kids out of gangs, and we need to keep gangs out of neighborhoods. We need to fix underlying factors like poverty. And we need better access to psychological counseling for youth, especially those that are most at-risk and have access to guns.
And the thing is, the researchers say all that really clearly in their study, but it’s being overlooked because people care more about toddlers accidentally shooting themselves than poor 15-year old kids dying in gang shootouts. The latter is the greater problem, but it also requires the most complicated solution — and unfortunately, humans tend to prefer dramatic events with simple fixes.
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weatherwax says:
I agree with your assessment. This kind of thing isn’t new. Some years ago one study expanded the age of children to 24.
Essentially, yes. The other one is school shootings, but they’re relatively rare, and tend to get a bunch of scapegoats. (Besides guns, I’ve heard that movies, video games, RPGs, heavy metal, the goth lifestyle in general…Yeah, basically, everything.) And of course, school shootings are stereotypically white suburbanites.
At least they’ve moved beyond “Ban the AR-15!”, which is more symbolic than anything. (Obviously if you ban the AR-15, then anyone who would get an AR-15 to commit a crime will move on to their second pick.)
cryptopsy says:
Would getting rid of all those guns not be an idea?
To an outsider like me, that seems a more obvious solution than trying to fix poverty or provide phsychological counseling. But then again: I live in The Netherlands. We’re used to the fact that it can be quite a hassle to take the lives of our fellow men. An inconvience that is somewhat balanced by the relative lack of dead children.
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Teleophthalmology
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Chennai Prtroleum Corporation Limited
Medical Research Foundation, a unit of Sankara Nethralaya, records with deep appreciation, the initiatives of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited for successfully executing its Corporate Social Responsibility by sponsoring “Free Eye camps” in and around the villages of Manali, where the organization is located, jointly with the teleophthalmology team of Sankara Nethralaya.
Starting from the year 2009, for a period of four years, till March 2013, a total of 43 “Eye camps” have been conducted by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited across areas the neighbouring of Manali, Kosapur, Ernavur, Tondiarpet, Kodungaiyur, to name a few.
Study of reports indicates prevalence of Cataract in the elderly and uncorrected refractive errors in the lower and middle aged populace. Over six thousand patients comprising the elderly (both men and women) and children were screened in various camps. Quite a number of patients detected with complications of the eye, during preliminary examination, were referred to the base hospital for cross consultations to other departments to undergo various investigations such as Ultrasound, Humphreys Fields Test, Fundus Flurosciene Angiography and Optical Coherence Tomography where these tests were carried out absolutely free of cost. About 509 patients with refractive errors were dispensed spectacles free of cost. Cataract extraction with IOL implantation, with food, lodging, medicines, spectacles and transportation (to the base hospital and back to camp site) were offered absolutely free of cost to 555 patients.
The sole aim of these camps was to bring in State of art Medical technology to the doorstep of the villagers who otherwise could ill afford the same. The beneficiaries included Industrial labourers and particularly the elderly belonging to the lower economic strata, whose quality of lives have remarkably changed, making them self dependent, to earn a living or manage their daily routine.
Sankara Nethralaya, seeks the continued patronage of corporate bodies such as the CPCL to transform the quality of life of the villagers into a productive one and deliver quality eye care to the rural masses and to those living in inaccessible and remote areas
S.NO YEAR NO.OF CAMPS
CONDUCTED NO.OF PATIENTS
SCREENED NO.OF SURGERIES
01 2009-10 10 1611 139
04 2011-13 09 1233 98
Total 43 6257 555
A day at the camp site
An average day for Sarojama begins at 4 a.m.; her daily chores are followed by a 45-minute drive to Kasimedu to buy fish — her only source of income. Back at Manali, Sarojama joins her fellow vendors as they begin their sales for the day. Sitting on the roadside has meant that the 57-year-old widow is constantly exposed to the sun and dust. “By the time I go home my eyes are burning and I often experience an irritation-like feeling,” she says.
Off late, her eyes have been a cause of concern; she is unable to see far off things, identifying the number board of an approaching bus is no longer as easy as it sounds. She is one among the many who came to the Sankara Nethralaya-CPCL (Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited) eye camp, held at Manali on June 20, 2009, in the hope of finding a solution to her eye care woes. Sankara Nethralaya’s teleophthalmology department conducted a detailed eye screening for 305 patients at the day-long free eye camp and helped diagnose various eye ailments including cataract and other ocular diseases. For someone whose sustenance wholly depends on the number of fish she sells a day, coming to the camp also meant forgoing a day’s earning. “I could not miss this chance. I can’t afford to go to a hospital, neither do I have the money nor the time,” she says matter-of-factly.
Manoranjitham agrees. “We are lucky that our eyes are being examined for free, not all can afford going to a hospital and paying for the treatment,” says the 46-year-old attender at the Manali government school. She too, like Sarojama, has been complaining of a burning sensation in the eye, and difficulty in seeing.
Both of them represent a significant percentage of people who are the sole breadwinners for their family at Manali.
Sarojama is childless and Manoranjitham’s son and daughter are leading their own lives elsewhere, leaving Manoranjitham and her husband to fend for themselves. Her husband is unemployed and her meagre earnings of Rs. 500 per month, out of which Rs. 200 goes in paying the rent for the house, is all she has to make both ends meet.
While a detailed eye check up at the camp has indicated the need for both of them to undergo cataract, it’s not a case of urgency as they had been diagnosed with immature cataract. Both of them were prescribed glasses, which optometrists said should take care of their eye care worries for the time being. Being the sole breadwinners, they both expressed their desire to be operated a little latter. The cataract surgery with intra ocular lens implantation will be performed free-of-cost soon.
So how does a typical eye camp function in helping people like Sarojama and Manoranjitham?
The first step involves filling in the personal details in the registration form, following which the patients undergo a basic eye screening test, where an ‘E’ chart, adhering to the WHO approved norms, helps test vision clarity. This screening serves as a filter to identify those who need a more detailed check up and those whose don’t.
The second level of detailed eye examination includes noting patient details in the Electronic Medical Records. Here, a more comprehensive diagnosis is done for cataract, refractive error, glaucoma and other eye ailments. The patients are either recommended for surgery, or are prescribed glasses.
For complex cases where further consultation is required, a teleconsultation is set up with experts at the Sankara Nethralaya hospital in Chennai through the mobile rural teleopthalmology van, stationed at the camp, using satellite connectivity (VSAT) with the help of the Indian Space Research Organisation. Based on the teleconsultation with the senior ophthalmologist, the patient is prescribed further treatment.
If a patient is recommended for surgery then he/she is guided to the next level of examination, where a blood test is conducted to determine BP and blood sugar levels of the patient. Following this, the patient is given a pre-surgery counselling by the ophthalmologist wherein they are told about the impending surgery that will be performed free-of-cost on indigent patients. In fact, patients who are recommended for surgery are brought to SN the very same day and an operation is performed on the next day.Patients who had problems other than cataract were referred to JCOC, the community wing of SN, where indigent patients are treated free of cost.
A key component of the eye camp is conducting an eye-awareness programme where patients are educated through a video presentation on eye care.
People like Sarojama, are not the only ones who visit the camp, there is 14-year-old Linda who mistook her eye irritation symptoms to the need for wearing glasses only to be told at the camp that her vision was perfect!
Three-year-old Akash was not that lucky. After a lot of cajoling that went in to getting the tiny tot sit still while the optometrist checked his eyes, the news was grim. Akash has myopic error of -9 and -7 in his eyes. Coming from a poor family, a visit to a free eye camp like this ensures that all hope is not lost for people like Akash. He will soon be wearing glasses prescribed for him. Akash’s case highlights the importance of screening school children for refractive errors, which may adversely affect a child’s academic performance.
For 70-year-old Amsa, a widow from Nagapattinam, the case was no different. Having been abandoned by her 2 sons and 5 daughters, Amsa depends on the goodwill of her relatives for her survival. On a visit to Manali, she was brought to the camp by a relative. An examination of her eye revealed the need for a cataract surgery. She was taken to SN where a free-of-cost surgery was performed on her. For residents of Manali, the camp answered their many unanswered questions. A teleophthalmology camp like this one, through support from organisations like CPCL, showcases how technology can be brought to the doorstep of every poor personand how the availability of quality medical care to indigent patients,often an impossible option, can be made possible!
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by Obituaries | Jul 2, 2019
J.D. Rana, 93, of Watson passed away on July 2, 2019 in Monroe, Louisiana.
He was a longtime farmer in the Watson area, a Baptist, and served in the United States Navy during WWII.
Mr. Rana was born on April 3, 1926 in Briggsville, Arkansas to the late Clark and Roxie Taylor Rana.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Clara B. Smith Rana; and two sisters, Maggie Held and Wanda James Sample.
Survivors are his son, J.D. Rana, Jr. of Watson; daughter, Marti Sivils and husband, Greg of Crossett; five grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Visitation will be Saturday, July 6, from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Services will follow at 2 p.m. at Griffin Funeral Home with Greg Sivils officiating. Burial will be at Walnut Lake Cemetery with military honors.
Memorials may be made to Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home, 6700 US Hwy 165 North, Monroe, Louisiana 71203.
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Thanks to skiing possibilities they offer, The High Tatras are well known also abroad. But not everybody knows, that in winter there are good conditions for skiing in almost the whole territory of Slovakia.
Slovakia is mostly a mountainous country, typical for its vertical unevenness. This fact, together with the continental climate, creates favourable conditions for skiing. Ideal natural conditions are mostly in the Tatras where winter sports have been developing fully since the end of the 19th century in the local centres.
The first races started in the Tatras in 1911. The first downhill race was organised on the 6 km track starting at Sliezsky dom and finishing at Tatranská Polianka. Two years later, the first cross-country skiers set off for the race. The ski jumpers made their first jump on the wooden springboard over Tatranská Polianka. Today the length of the jumps makes us smile as the longest of them was only around 25 meters long. The history of skiing was later connected with Štrbské Pleso and its centre Areál snov which in 1970 became the place of the skiing world championship.
Today, alongside with other well-known ski centres of the Tatras and the Fatra ranges, several centres in lower mountains have been built and their offer is still growing. In winter there are good conditions for skiing in almost the whole territory of Slovakia. Ski tracks with lifts are in all mountain ranges from the Malé Karpaty Mountains in the west to the Nízke Beskydy Mountains in the east. The use of artificial snow has now equalled the differences that previously existed in the duration of ski seasons between the high-mountain and sub-mountain ski centres. Many ski tracks are also lighted in the night.
Source: Vydavateľstvo DAJAMA
Web: Ski resorts in Slovakia
Slovenská lyžiarska asociácia
Nový Smokovec 44
Phone: +421 (0) 918/249 159
E-mail: sekretariat@slovak-ski.sk
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Back from quarantine, Conley leads Jazz over Nuggets | Inquirer Sports
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Back from quarantine, Conley leads Jazz over Nuggets
Associated Press / 07:53 AM August 22, 2020
Utah Jazz’s Mike Conley (10) drives as Denver Nuggets’ Monte Morris (11), Nikola Jokic (15), Michael Porter Jr. (1) and Jamal Murray, right, defend during the first half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — For four long days, Mike Conley was confined to his hotel in quarantine.
He wasn’t about to be contained on the court.
Conley made a career playoff-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points in his return from quarantine, helping the Utah Jazz rout the Denver Nuggets 124-87 on Friday for a 2-1 lead in the first-round series.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: He’s a terrific player,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. “I know how glad our guys were to see him back.”
Conley left the NBA bubble for the birth of his son and returned Monday night. He went through a four-day separation that ended Friday.
While in isolation, Conley said he got about 30 minutes of outside activity a day to work on his game.
There wasn’t a hint of rust as he made his series debut. He was 7 of 8 from 3-point range and had four assists.
“Being on that court was all I was thinking about other than my family,” Conley said. “Thankful to be back and looking forward to the rest of the series.”
The 37-point loss tied the third-worst in Denver’s playoff history. The record is 44 against the Los Angeles Lakers on May 22, 1985.
The Nuggets had 17 turnovers and shot 37.5% from the floor. They were also 12 of 38 from 3-point range.
“They’re playing at a different level than us right now and we have to somehow find a way to not only match that but exceed that going into game No. 4,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said.
Rudy Gobert had a career playoff-high 24 points for the sixth-seeded Jazz courtesy of numerous easy dunks and layups. He also had 14 rebounds.
“The good thing about tonight is we played our game,” Gobert said. “There’s nothing we did tonight that I haven’t seen this team doing before.”
Donovan Mitchell was held “in check” — as much as anyone can these days — with 20 points. He had a Jazz playoff-record 57 in Game 1 and 30 in Game 2.
Utah led by 25 in the second quarter and extended it to 39 in the fourth with all of the starters on the bench.
It’s the second straight lopsided win for the Jazz in the series after dropping Game 1 in overtime.
No time for complacency, though.
“I know the series can shift in so many ways,” Conley said. “We have to continue to keep fighting, continue to be consistent, play together and have fun while we do it.”
Nikola Jokic led third-seeded Denver with 15 points, while Jamal Murray had 12 points on 5 of 16 shooting.
“I just think we have a target on our back,” Murray said. “Teams are prepared for us, and they’ve been giving us all they got.
They did that tonight, and sometimes we think we’re good and we’re down 12 at the end of the first. I just think we’ve got to hold ourselves to a higher standard individually, as a squad, as a third seed.”
TIP-INS
Nuggets: Will Barton III (right knee) and Gary Harris (right hip) have yet to play in the bubble. Asked about Harris’ possible availability, Malone said: “He’s getting in a really good place mentally and physically. It would be great to get him back at some point in this series if that’s possible.” … Rookie Bol Bol scored 11 points in the fourth quarter.
Jazz: Gobert’s previous playoff best was 22 points at Houston on April, 14, 2019. … Georges Niang had 16 points, including four 3-pointers. … Joe Ingles added eight assists.
PLAYFUL VIDEO
Mitchell posted on social media a video outside of the hotel room of a quarantined Conley, who playfully banged on the window in the distance. The caption was: “We gonna see you soon.”
Finally let out of his room, Conley played more than 24 minutes and was 9 of 13 from the floor.
THIRD QUARTER BLUES
The Nuggets were outscored by a combined 74-48 in the third quarter of the opening two games.
“I have to have a much better halftime speech,” Malone cracked before the game.
It didn’t work. The Nuggets were outscored 35-20 in the third in Game 3.
Game 4 is Sunday.
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3D Tetris is a video game released for the Virtual Boy in 1996. A Japanese version was planned, to be called Polygo Block, but production of games was ceased due to lack of interest in the Virtual Boy system. This was the last game released on the Virtual Boy.
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The Positive and Negative Aspects of Foster Care and Adoption
The question of whether or not parenting should be regulated or licensed is a difficult one. On the one hand, the number of children who end up in foster care because of incapable parents is staggering as is the number of children from broken homes who are unable to regain their lives after being abused. Even more staggering is the number of parents who force dangerous ideologies on their children which promote sexism and racism or even ignorance on topics which science has proved to be wrong, such as vaccines causing autism. On the other hand, how can you regulate that? Creating a test that would prove that someone is fit to have a child would be incredibly difficult. How do you say, this is a good parent and this a bad parent? Do you put the potential patent in a room full of children and see how they do? Do you give them a written test? Do you test their genes for possible drug addiction or alcohol abuse? Do you send them to a psychologist whole diagnose whether or not they know what they’re doing? Who’s paying for all of this? The DMV constantly faces budget cuts. A brand new licensing system for something completely different and difficult to test wouldn’t make it past the laugh test in Congress.
And even if you could pay for this all and you found the perfect way to test it, how do enforce it? Does a parent have to show their parent license every time they try to pick up their kid in kindergarten? If a couple gets pregnant on accident without a license, is that child forced into foster care? I think the one positive that this would bring about is that it would force birth control and planned parenthood to be more widely available, perhaps even required. Though it’d be difficult to regulate, one could give a person birth control from the time they reach puberty until they get got this license. But seeing as there is already so much controversy surrounding birth control right now, it’s unlikely that this would be possible to put this into practice.
Though licensing would force birth control to become more widely available, it could also be used to do wrong. Same-sex couples already face enough trouble trying to adopt a child. Imagine what anti-gay rights leaders would do with this license. In some states, it may become completely impossible for same-sex couples to even attempt to have children. It’ll take a long time before we can even begin to put something like this into practice.
Another problem is that because of the price of such a maneuver is that it would make parenthood exclusive for rich parents. And if rich families are the only ones giving birth, poorer families will die out, and minimum wage and infrastructure jobs would be empty. A constant cycle would arise where a poor people die out then the rich become poor and the cycle starts again.
All is not lost, however. Foster parents and adopters are visited by social workers to ensure that the child will be given to a good home. There is clearly a way to prove whether or not a parent is suitable. Though it’d be difficult to do this on a larger scale, it’d be possible. And with overpopulation and high competition in schools, it may be vital to put into practice in the near future. If that means one less child has to live with an abusive parent or have harmful ideals forced upon them, it may be worth it.
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Posted on March 21, 2013 by Susan B. Noyes
This is education venture philanthropy at its best. More cities could use a Mind Trust too.
Announcing our latest Charter School Incubator winners
The Mind Trust announced today that we will invest $1 million in Rocketship Education and $1 million in KIPP Indy to help each launch networks of charter schools in Indianapolis. Rocketship and KIPP are among the very best charter operators in the country.
We’re making the investments through our Charter School Incubator, which we use to grow the number of best-in-class public charter schools in Indianapolis.
The investments in Rocketship and KIPP will support the launch of two high-quality school networks. Together, these two networks will add 12 schools serving 6,250 students to the Indianapolis landscape by 2020.
Rocketship will start a new eight-school network that serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade. KIPP Indy, which currently operates a middle school, KIPP Indianapolis College Preparatory, will add two elementary schools, another middle school, and a high school to become a five-school network.
Rocketship, founded in San Jose, Calif., has attracted widespread national attention for its success in helping low-income students achieve outstanding results. Across its seven California schools, 90 percent of Rocketship students receive free and reduced-price lunch, yet 82 percent of Rocketship students are proficient in math. That pass rate is higher than California’s statewide rate and that of the neighboring San Jose Unified School District, where half as many students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch.
KIPP, which operates 125 schools in 36 cities, is one of the nation’s best charter school networks. Over the last three years, KIPP Indy has increased student proficiency on the ISTEP+ by 30 points in English and 39 points in math and received an “A” school grade because of its consistent improvement.
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The Crash of Swissair 111
Flight route of Swissair 111 (Source: SRF)
It is the biggest disaster in Swiss aviation history: On 2 September 1998, near the Canadian Halifax, Swissair Flight 111 from NYC to Geneva crashed into the Atlantic with 229 people on board. The cause of the crash has never been clarified. Yet for Swiss media, the case remains taboo.
In its 2003 investigation report, the Canadian Transportation Safety Authority (TSB) came to the conclusion that a short circuit in the entertainment system cabling probably led to a fire in the cockpit, which caused the plane to crash within minutes.
However, in 2011 a forensic expert from the Canadian Federal Police RCMP involved in the investigation came to public attention as a whistleblower and presented new facts that questioned the investigation report and suggested sabotage or an attack as the cause of the crash. Six years later, he published his findings and original documents in book form.
The following list summarizes his main statements:
After only a few days and despite initial indications of a possible crime, the investigation management decided to treat the crash exclusively as an accident and not to initiate a criminal investigation.
An external metal expert, who was commissioned to investigate the site of the fire, found unusually high levels of magnesium residue, which indicated that a high-temperature thermite incendiary device had been used. However, the expert had to rewrite his report several times at the behest of the investigators until all evidence of a possible incendiary device was removed. Magnesium was no longer mentioned in the investigation report.
The fire expert of the American FAA aviation authority and other experts also suspected the use of an incendiary device due to the damage.
Test experiments, which were intended to prove that the burning insulation material alone could melt the aircraft’s aluminium frame, had to be adjusted on the instructions of the investigators until completely unrealistic conditions were reached.
A piece of molten metal from the aircraft was disposed of during the test.
The recorded voice data did not indicate a failure of the entertainment system as would be expected in the event of a short circuit. Rather, the examination of the wiring indicated that the defects were a result of the fire and not its cause.
The aircraft maintenance check revealed that a new employee with a demonstrably false identity was present during the cleaning and handling of the aircraft at New York Airport and did not show up for work afterwards.
According to cargo documents, the plane was supposed to carry diamonds with an insurance value of $300 million, but when the wreckage was recovered, they were untraceable.
In the absence of a criminal investigation, no detailed profiling of the passengers was carried out, although some prominent persons were on board on the flight from New York to Geneva.
During the investigation, the whistleblower was asked by his superiors to manipulate his police investigation protocols.
In 2011, Canadian television CBC and Swiss television SRF produced a joint documentary film in which the whistleblower and the metal expert had their say for the first time. The SRF journalist in charge also spoke in advance to two renowned European aviation accident experts, who also criticised the official investigation report.
Nevertheless, Swiss television surprisingly decided against broadcasting the documentary: They did not want to “spread speculation”, said the then editor-in-chief. Other Swiss media tried to portray the Canadian investigator as a “lone wolf” or “conspiracy theorist”. The then Swissair spokeswoman, however, who had insight into the whistleblower’s extensive documents, was shocked: “What he said was untouchable”.
The reason for the Swiss media’s lack of interest, which continues to this day, is not obvious. The years from 1996 to 1999 were a particularly difficult time for Swiss foreign policy. The – also unexplained – Luxor attack in November 1997 on a mainly Swiss travel group also fell during this phase.
And three years after Halifax, the attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred, in which, according to critics of the official account, thermite could also have been used.
Swissair 111: The Untold Story (CBC, 2011, 40 minutes)
Additional literature
The website of the Canadian forensic scientist with many original documents
His book, Twice as Far: The Swissair 111 Airplane Crash Investigation (2017)
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Dana Point, California — StopB4UStart, Inc. received a $10,000 grant from The UPS Foundation, which drives global corporate citizenship and philanthropic programs for UPS (NYSE:UPS).
The grant will be used toward the development of the StopB4UStart app for Android, expenses incurred when giving presentations at local schools, audio visual assistance for the production of educational videos, marketing materials (including brochures and t-shirts), etc.
StopB4UStart, Inc. is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that relies on the support of government grants, and donations from individuals and corporate sponsors to meet its mission of educating and empowering people to stop using drugs and alcohol before they start. With the generous support of The UPS Foundation, StopB4UStart will be able to continue providing outreach to local schools, groups, and recovery centers to empower individuals to stop using drugs and alcohol, and improve their life choices through human connection.
“Thanks to The UPS Foundation, we now have more opportunity to grow our presence and spread the message that you absolutely can stop using drugs and alcohol — and it starts with recognizing fear,” said Danny Murphy, founder of StopB4UStart. “We’re also here to help others facilitate connections, and that, in turn, will encourage them to feel capable of conquering their fears.”
Established in 1951 and based in Atlanta, Ga., The UPS Foundation identifies specific areas where its backing clearly impacts social issues. In support of this strategic approach, The UPS Foundation has identified the following focus areas for giving: volunteerism, diversity, community safety and the environment.
In 2015, UPS and its employees, active and retired, invested more than $110 million in charitable giving around the world. The UPS Foundating can be found on the web at UPS.com/foundation. To get UPS news direct, visit pressroom.ups.com/RSS.
“The UPS Foundation is honored to support StopB4UStart’s efforts to stop individuals from using drugs and alcohol before they start,” said Eduardo Martinez, president of The UPS Foundation and chief diversity and inclusion officer at UPS. “Our goal is to fund powerful programs that make a lasting different to the global community.”
StopB4UStart specifically addresses drug and alcohol addiction on a proactive basis rather than a reactive one. Their mission is to stop addiction where it begins: deep within the fear, worry, and stress felt by young individuals. StopB4UStart offers a number of experienced, energetic speakers for presentations, educational videos, and a free app (for both iPhone/iPad/iTouch and Android) that helps individuals stay in touch with their friends, share information and ideas regarding recovery, and help those who may be struggling with alcohol and drug abuse. For more information, visit stopb4ustart.org or call (844) 786-7248.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 590 › Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez
Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, 590 U.S. ___ (2020)
Opinion (Kagan)
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) established the three-strikes rule, which generally prevents a prisoner from bringing suit in forma pauperis (IFP) if he has had three or more prior suits dismissed on the grounds that they were frivolous, malicious, or failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. 28 U.S.C. 1915(g). Colorado inmate Lomax sued prison officials to challenge his expulsion from the facility’s sex-offender treatment program and moved for IFP status. He had already brought three unsuccessful legal actions during his time in prison. The district court and Tenth Circuit rejected Lomax’s argument that two of the dismissals should not count as strikes because they were without prejudice.
The Supreme Court affirmed. Section 1915(g)’s three-strikes provision refers to any dismissal for failure to state a claim, whether with prejudice or without. A Section 1915(g) strike-call hinges exclusively on the basis for the dismissal, regardless of the decision’s prejudicial effect. Courts can and sometimes do dismiss frivolous actions without prejudice.
The Prison Litigation Reform Act's three-strikes provision refers to any dismissal for failure to state a claim, whether with prejudice or without.
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321, 337.
Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez et al.
certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the tenth circuit
No. 18–8369. Argued February 26, 2020—Decided June 8, 2020
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) established what has become known as the three-strikes rule, which generally prevents a prisoner from bringing suit in forma pauperis (IFP) if he has had three or more prior suits “dismissed on the grounds that [they were] frivolous, malicious, or fail[ed] to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.” 28 U. S. C. §1915(g).
Petitioner Arthur Lomax, an inmate in a Colorado prison, filed this suit against respondent prison officials to challenge his expulsion from the facility’s sex-offender treatment program. He also moved for IFP status, but he had already brought three unsuccessful legal actions during his time in prison. If the dispositions of those cases qualify as strikes under Section 1915(g), Lomax may not now proceed IFP. The courts below concluded that they did, rejecting Lomax’s argument that two of the dismissals should not count as strikes because they were without prejudice.
Held: Section 1915(g)’s three-strikes provision refers to any dismissal for failure to state a claim, whether with prejudice or without.
This case begins, and pretty much ends, with Section 1915(g)’s text. The provision’s broad language covers all dismissals for failure to state a claim, whether issued with or without prejudice to a plaintiff’s ability to reassert his claim in a later action. A strike-call under Section 1915(g) thus hinges exclusively on the basis for the dismissal, regardless of the decision’s prejudicial effect. To reach the opposite result would require reading the word “dismissed” in Section 1915(g) as “dismissed with prejudice.” Doing so would also introduce inconsistencies into the PLRA, which has three other provisions mentioning “dismiss[als]” for “fail[ure] to state a claim.” §§1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), 1915A(b); 42 U. S. C. §1997e(c). As the parties agree, those provisions do not deprive courts of the ability to dismiss suits without prejudice.
Lomax nonetheless maintains that Section 1915(g)’s phrase “dismissed [for] fail[ure] to state a claim” is a “legal term of art” referring only to dismissals with prejudice. To support this view, he points to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b), which tells courts to treat a dismissal “as an adjudication on the merits”—meaning a dismissal with prejudice—where the dismissal order does not specify. But Rule 41(b) is necessary precisely because “dismissed for failure to state a claim” refers to dismissals both with and without prejudice. The existence of the rule thus undercuts Lomax’s position.
Lomax also argues that the Court should interpret the phrase “failure to state a claim” based on the other two grounds for dismissal listed in Section 1915(g). But contra Lomax’s view, courts can and sometimes do dismiss at least frivolous actions without prejudice. Still more fundamentally, interpreting the phrase “failure to state a claim” based on the pre-existing terms “frivolous” and “malicious” would defeat the PLRA’s expansion of the statute beyond what was already there. Pp. 3–7.
754 Fed. Appx. 756, affirmed.
Kagan, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined, and in which Thomas, J., joined as to all but footnote 4.
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.
ARTHUR J. LOMAX, PETITIONER v. CHRISTINA ORTIZ-MARQUEZ, et al.
on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the tenth circuit
[June 8, 2020]
Justice Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court.[1]
To help staunch a “flood of nonmeritorious” prisoner litigation, the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) established what has become known as the three-strikes rule. Jones v. Bock, 549 U.S. 199, 203 (2007). That rule generally prevents a prisoner from bringing suit in forma pauperis (IFP)—that is, without first paying the filing fee—if he has had three or more prior suits “dismissed on the grounds that [they were] frivolous, malicious, or fail[ed] to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.” 28 U. S. C. §1915(g). Today we address whether a suit dismissed for failure to state a claim counts as a strike when the dismissal was without prejudice. We conclude that it does: The text of Section 1915(g)’s three-strikes provision refers to any dismissal for failure to state a claim, whether with prejudice or without.
Petitioner Arthur Lomax is an inmate in a Colorado prison. He filed this suit against respondent prison officials to challenge his expulsion from the facility’s sex-offender treatment program. As is common in prison litigation, he also moved for IFP status to allow his suit to go forward before he pays the $400 filing fee. For that motion to succeed, Lomax must avoid Section 1915(g). That provision bars further IFP litigation once a prisoner has had at least three prior suits dismissed on specified grounds.[2]1 And Lomax is no rookie litigant. During his time in prison, he has already brought three unsuccessful legal actions (against various corrections officers, prosecutors, and judges). If the dispositions of those cases qualify as strikes under Section 1915(g), Lomax may not now proceed IFP.
The courts below ruled that Lomax had struck out. The District Court denied his motion for IFP status, finding that all three of his prior suits had been dismissed for failure to state a claim—one of the grounds specified in Section 1915(g). See App. 65–66.[3] On appeal, Lomax argued that two of those dismissals should not count as strikes because they were without prejudice, thus allowing him to file a later suit on the same claim. The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rejected that argument. Relying on Circuit precedent, the Court held it “immaterial to the strikes analysis” whether a dismissal was with or without prejudice. 754 Fed. Appx. 756, 759 (2018) (quoting Childs v. Miller, 713 F.3d 1262, 1266 (CA10 2013)).
The Courts of Appeals have long divided over whether a dismissal without prejudice for failure to state a claim qualifies as a strike under Section 1915(g).[4] In line with our duty to call balls and strikes, we granted certiorari to resolve the split, 589 U. S. ___ (2019), and we now affirm.
This case begins, and pretty much ends, with the text of Section 1915(g). Under that provision, a prisoner accrues a strike for any action “dismissed on the ground[ ] that it . . . fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.” That broad language covers all such dismissals: It applies to those issued both with and without prejudice to a plaintiff ’s ability to reassert his claim in a later action.[5] A strike-call under Section 1915(g) thus hinges exclusively on the basis for the dismissal, regardless of the decision’s prejudicial effect. To reach the opposite result—counting prejudicial orders alone as strikes—we would have to read the simple word “dismissed” in Section 1915(g) as “dismissed with prejudice.” But this Court may not narrow a provision’s reach by inserting words Congress chose to omit. See, e.g., Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, 587 U. S. ___, ___ (2019) (lead opinion of Gorsuch, J.) (slip op., at 1).
Indeed, to do so would violate yet another rule of statutory construction: “In all but the most unusual situations, a single use of a statutory phrase must have a fixed meaning” across a statute. Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Hunt, 587 U. S. ___, ___ (2019) (slip op., at 5). The PLRA includes three other provisions mentioning “dismiss[als]” for “fail[ure] to state a claim”—each enabling courts to dismiss sua sponte certain prisoner suits on that ground. §§1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), 1915A(b); 42 U. S. C. §1997e(c). No one here thinks those provisions deprive courts of the ability to dismiss those suits without prejudice. See Reply Brief 15; Brief for Respondents 21–24; Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae 21–22. Nor would that be a plausible position. The broad statutory language—on its face covering dismissals both with and without prejudice—tracks courts’ ordinary authority to decide whether a dismissal for failure to state a claim should have preclusive effect. So reading the PLRA’s three-strikes rule to apply only to dismissals with prejudice would introduce inconsistencies into the statute. The identical phrase would then bear different meanings in provisions almost next-door to each other.
Still, Lomax maintains that the phrase “dismissed [for] fail[ure] to state a claim” in Section 1915(g) is a “legal term of art” referring only to dismissals with prejudice. Reply Brief 4. To support that view, he relies on a procedural rule used to answer a different question. When a court dismisses a case for failure to state a claim, but neglects to specify whether the order is with or without prejudice, how should a later court determine its preclusive effect? Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b), codifying an old equitable principle, supplies the answer: It tells courts to treat the dismissal “as an adjudication on the merits”—meaning a dismissal with prejudice. See Durant v. Essex Co., 7 Wall. 107, 109 (1869). According to Lomax, “Section 1915(g) should be interpreted in light of this legal backdrop.” Brief for Petitioner 17. He reasons: Because Rule 41(b) presumes that an order stating only “dismissed for failure to state a claim” is with prejudice, the same language when used in Section 1915(g) should bear that same meaning. And if so, the provision would assign a strike to only with-prejudice dismissals for failure to state a claim.
But that argument gets things backwards. The Rule 41(b) presumption (like its older equitable counterpart) does not convert the phrase “dismissed for failure to state a claim” into a legal term of art meaning “dismissed with prejudice” on that ground. To the contrary, Rule 41(b) is necessary because that phrase means only what it says: “dismissed for failure to state a claim”—whether or not with prejudice. In other words, the phrase’s indifference to prejudicial effect is what creates the need for a default rule to determine the import of a dismissal when a court fails to make that clear. Rule 41(b), then, actually undercuts Lomax’s position: Its very existence is a form of proof that the language used in Section 1915(g) covers dismissals both with and without prejudice. And here too, confirmation of the point comes from the PLRA’s other provisions referring to “dismiss[als]” for “fail[ure] to state a claim.” See supra, at 4. If that phrase had really become a legal term of art implying “with prejudice,” then those provisions would prevent courts from dismissing prisoner suits without prejudice for failure to state a claim. But Lomax himself does not accept that improbable reading. See ibid. His supposed “term of art” is strangely free-floating, transforming ordinary meaning in one place while leaving it alone in all others.
Lomax also makes an argument based on the two other grounds for dismissal listed in Section 1915(g). Recall that the provision counts as strikes dismissals of actions that are “frivolous” or “malicious,” along with those that fail to state a claim. See supra, at 1, 2, n. 1. In Lomax’s view, the first two kinds of dismissals “reflect a judicial determination that a claim is irremediably defective”—that it “cannot succeed and should not return to court.” Brief for Petitioner 11, 22 (internal quotation marks omitted). To “harmonize [all] three grounds for strikes,” he continues, the same must be true of dismissals for failure to state a claim. Id., at 23; see id., at 21 (invoking the “interpretive canon noscitur a sociis, a word is known by the company it keeps” (internal quotation marks omitted)). So Section 1915(g), Lomax concludes, must capture only the subset of those dismissals that are issued with prejudice—the ones disposing of “irredeemable” suits. Id., at 21.
As an initial matter, the very premise of that argument is mistaken. Contra Lomax’s view, courts can and sometimes do conclude that frivolous actions are not “irremediably defective,” and thus dismiss them without prejudice. See, e.g., Marts v. Hines, 117 F.3d 1504, 1505 (CA5 1997); see also Jackson v. Florida Dept. of Financial Servs., 479 Fed. Appx. 289, 292 (CA11 2012) (similarly if less commonly, dismissing a malicious action without prejudice). Indeed, this Court has suggested that a trial court might abuse its discretion by dismissing an IFP suit with prejudice if “frivolous factual allegations [can] be remedied through more specific pleading.” Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 34 (1992). So on Lomax’s own metric—whether down the road the plaintiff ’s claim might return—the dismissals he claims would be outliers in Section 1915(g) in fact would have company. And because that is true, his reason for excluding those decisions from the provision collapses. If dismissals without prejudice for frivolousness count as a strike under Section 1915(g), then why not for failure to state a claim too?
Still more fundamentally, Lomax is wrong to suggest that every dismissed action encompassed in Section 1915(g) must closely resemble frivolous or malicious ones. The point of the PLRA, as its terms show, was to cabin not only abusive but also simply meritless prisoner suits. Before the PLRA, the statute governing IFP claims targeted frivolous and malicious actions, but no others. See Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 328 (1989). In the PLRA, Congress chose to go further—precisely by aiming as well at actions that failed to state a claim. The theory was that a “flood of nonmeritorious claims,” even if not in any way abusive, was “effectively preclud[ing] consideration of ” suits more likely to succeed. Jones, 549 U. S., at 203. So we cannot, in the interest of “harmonization,” interpret the phrase “failure to state a claim” based on the pre-existing terms “frivolous” and “malicious.” Cf. Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore., 515 U.S. 687, 702, 705 (1995) (rejecting use of the noscitur canon when “the Senate went out of its way to add” a “broad word” to a statute). That would defeat the PLRA’s expansion of the statute beyond what was already there.
The text of the PLRA’s three-strikes provision makes this case an easy call. A dismissal of a suit for failure to state a claim counts as a strike, whether or not with prejudice. We therefore affirm the judgment below.
1 Justice Thomas joins all but footnote 4 of this opinion.
2 1 The full text of the three-strikes provision reads: “In no event shall a prisoner bring a civil action or appeal a judgment in a civil action or proceeding [in forma pauperis] if the prisoner has, on 3 or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court of the United States that was dismissed on the grounds that it is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, unless the prisoner is under imminent danger of serious physical injury.” 28 U. S. C. §1915(g).
3 Two of the cases were dismissed under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), which holds that a claim challenging the validity of a conviction or sentence under 42 U. S. C. §1983 “does not accrue until the conviction or sentence has been invalidated.” 512 U. S., at 490. In concluding that those two Heck dismissals were for failure to state a claim, the District Court followed Circuit precedent. See Smith v. Veterans Admin., 636 F.3d 1306, 1312 (CA10 2011). Not all Courts of Appeals accept that view. See, e.g., Mejia v. Harrington, 541 Fed. Appx. 709, 710 (CA7 2013). But Lomax did not raise that issue, and we therefore do not address it.
4 Four Circuits treat dismissals without prejudice for failure to state a claim as strikes. See Orr v. Clements, 688 F.3d 463, 465 (CA8 2012); Paul v. Marberry, 658 F.3d 702, 704 (CA7 2011); O’Neal v. Price, 531 F.3d 1146, 1154 (CA9 2008); Day v. Maynard, 200 F.3d 665, 667 (CA10 1999) (per curiam). Two Circuits do the opposite. See Millhouse v. Heath, 866 F.3d 152, 162–163 (CA3 2017); McLean v. United States, 566 F.3d 391, 396–397 (CA4 2009).
5 Note, however, that the provision does not apply when a court gives a plaintiff leave to amend his complaint. Courts often take that path if there is a chance that amendment can cure a deficient complaint. See Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 15(a) (discussing amendments to pleadings). In that event, because the suit continues, the court’s action falls outside of Section 1915(g) and no strike accrues. See Brief for Respondents 31–35 (noting that flexible amendment practices “ensure that potentially meritorious prisoner suits are not hastily dismissed with a strike”); Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae 27–28 (similar); Tr. of Oral Arg. 32–34, 44 (similar).
Oral Argument - February 26, 2020
Arthur James Lomax
Christina Ortiz-Marquez, et al.
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Russian novelist, a profound social and moral thinker, and one of the greatest writers of realistic fiction of all time
Tolstoy, the son of a nobleman landowner, was born on September 9, 1828, at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate south of Moscow. He was orphaned at the age of nine, then raised by relatives and educated by French and German tutors. At the age of 16, Tolstoy enrolled at Kazan' University (now Kazan' State University), first studying languages and then law; influenced by the writings of the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, he became dissatisfied with formal study and in 1847 left without a degree. After a brief, futile attempt to improve the condition of the serfs on his estate, he plunged into the dissipations of Moscow's high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform.
In 1851 Tolstoy joined his brother in the Caucasus, where his regiment was stationed, and after a time Tolstoy joined the army there. In the Caucasus, he came into contact with cossacks, and later focused on them in one of his best shorter novels, The Cossacks (1863). In it he compared the effeteness of a sophisticated young Muscovite with the vigorous and natural cossack life, portrayed with sympathy and profound poetic realism. Between battles with the hill tribes, Tolstoy completed an autobiographical novel, Childhood (1852), followed by two others, Boyhood (1854) and Youth (1856), which without rhetoric or sentimentality draw on the psychologically significant memories common to all growing boys. These works received instant acclaim, as did Sevastopol Stories (1855-56), based on Tolstoy's participation in the Crimean War. It is a sobering exposure of the pretentious heroics of the military command as opposed to the uncomplaining bravery of common soldiers and war's grim reality.
Tolstoy returned to Saint Petersburg in 1856 and became interested in the education of peasants. While on trips abroad (1857 and 1861), he visited French and German elementary schools, and at Yasnaya Polyana he started a village school that, in its teaching methods, foreshadowed the tenets of modern progressive education. In 1862 the novelist married Sonya (Sofya) Andreyevna Bers, a member of a cultured Moscow family. In the next 15 years he raised a large family, successfully managed his estate, and wrote his two greatest novels, War and Peace (1865-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77).
War and Peace and Anna Karenina
War and Peace, considered one of the greatest novels ever written, is an epic of Russian society between 1805 and 1815, just before and after the Napoleonic invasion. It contains 559 characters, commemorates important military battles, and portrays famous historical personalities, but its main theme is the chronicle of the lives of five aristocratic families. The work is a masterpiece of realism. The characters are brilliantly realized by the descriptions of significant physical details, and by Tolstoy's penetrating psychological analysis that illumines their inner worlds, showing how they seem to themselves and to others at different moments of their lives. Spontaneous, unaffected Natasha Rostova, one of the most famous heroines in Russian literature, who matures from an exuberant adolescent into a solid matron, embodies Tolstoy's ideal of womanhood. Natasha remains abundantly herself, engrossed in private concerns of love, marriage, and children in the midst of the national holocaust. She confirms Tolstoy's iconoclastic views, expounded in separate philosophical chapters in the novel, of the historical process; history, for him, was the result of anonymous motivations and personal happenings rather than great public events instigated by national leaders. A profoundly optimistic philosophy emanates from the vast novel. Despite the revelations of the horrors of war and acknowledgment of human failings, the general message of War and Peace, inspired by Tolstoy's personal happiness during these creative years, is a zestful love of life in all its manifestations.
Tolstoy's shorter masterpiece, Anna Karenina, is one of the greatest modern psychological novels. The same creative methods convey reality, but the novel has more artistic unity than the earlier work, and exuberance gives way to pessimistic overtones; the inner conflicts of the main protagonists remain unresolved. Anna's adulterous passion for the young officer Vronsky, set against a background of St. Petersburg society life in the 1860s, is effectively contrasted with the lawful union of Kitty and Constantin Levin and their life on a country estate. Tolstoy shows deep compassion for his beautiful, erring heroine, but ultimately she is condemned to suffering and suicide for her transgression of moral and social laws. The principal hero, Levin, is an autobiographical character. He echoes the author's disapproval of intellectuality and urban sophistication, and he becomes tormented by the same doubts about the meaning of life and the relation of human beings to the infinite that assailed Tolstoy when he was completing Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy's Moral Philosophy
In the uniquely candid, powerful Confession (1882), Tolstoy described his growing spiritual turmoil, castigated himself and his class for leading a selfish, empty existence, and started his long quest for moral and social certitudes. He found them in two principles of the Christian Gospels: love for all human beings and nonresistance to the forces of evil. He expanded upon and illustrated his new radical faith in eloquent essays and tracts, including The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894). From within autocratic Russia, Tolstoy fearlessly attacked social inequality and coercive forms of government and church authority, urging freedom from hatreds and a purer life dictated by one's own moral conscience. In What Is Art? (1898), an indictment of almost all classical and modern art—including his own masterpieces, which he claimed were produced for the cultured elite—he advocated a morally inspired art, accessible to everyone. His didactic essays, translated into numerous languages, won adherents in many countries and from all walks of life. Many of them visited Yasnaya Polyana seeking instruction and advice.
Returning to imaginative fiction, Tolstoy wrote a number of brief, edifying tales (Stories for the People, early to mid-1880s) with peasant settings; they are models of economy in construction. Other works, intended for the educated reader, are also morally purposeful in subject matter but give fuller rein to his immense creative powers. The best known of these are the short stories "The Death of Ivan Ilych" (1886) and "Master and Man" (1895), both depicting the spiritual conversion of a man facing death; the short story The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), about a loveless marriage; the play The Power of Darkness (1888), a naturalistic peasant tragedy of cupidity and lust leading to violence; and the novel Resurrection (1899), the story of the moral regeneration of a conscience-stricken nobleman.
At the age of 82, increasingly tormented by the disparity between his teachings and his personal wealth, and by endless quarrels with his wife, who resisted his attempts to renounce their material possessions, Tolstoy left his home one night. He fell ill three days later and died on November 20, 1910, at a remote railroad station. At his death he was hailed as a uniquely powerful moral force throughout the world. That force and his timeless and universal art continue to provide inspiration today.
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Last names beginning with M
Mundy, Daniel Louis
Story: Mundy, Daniel Louis
Page 1: Biography
George Grey photographed by Daniel Louis Mundy
1826/1827?–1881
This biography, written by William Main, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1993.
Daniel Louis Mundy was born, probably in 1826 or 1827, in Wiltshire, England, the son of James Mundy, a confectioner, and his wife, Sarah. Nothing is known of his early life, except that he married Louisa Rust at Hackney, London, on 19 July in 1856. Mundy may have come to New Zealand via the Australian goldfields. He arrived in Dunedin in 1864 with sufficient capital to buy William Meluish's photographic business.
Probably in 1865 Mundy moved to Christchurch where he entered into partnership with Braham La Mert. By 1867 he was working on his own account and is known to have photographed moa skeletons for Julius von Haast. He briefly took part in public life as a member of the fire police.
Mundy originally worked principally as a portrait photographer, but after a photographic expedition to the West Coast in 1868 he set out in 1869 to travel New Zealand, taking views and selling prints as he went. He was possibly the first New Zealand photographer to concentrate exclusively on this branch of the profession. Others may have boasted a wide selection of views in their advertisements, but these often came from a variety of sources and did not represent the work of any one photographer.
Mundy spent some years travelling through Canterbury, the Southern Alps, Wellington, Poverty Bay, the Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Rotorua, Auckland and Hokianga. He took many photographs, sometimes at great personal risk and discomfort. He was in the central North Island during the pursuit of Te Kooti, and was said to have narrowly escaped attack.
In a number of the bigger centres Mundy advertised his prints in a pre-publication subscription series. In this fashion he attracted the patronage and friendship of a number of influential people including James Hector, George Grey and Haast. His landscapes of the thermal districts, the Bay of Islands, Hokianga and the East Coast were highly praised for their technical excellence: 'he is not satisfied until he has got the right light upon his object and the best effect from his chemicals. He is not content with the mediocre or the ordinary.'
Mundy was based at Port Chalmers in spite of his extensive travelling; the Mundys' only child, a daughter, was born there in 1873. He displayed his photographs in Wellington in 1872, and in the mid 1870s departed for England to further his career. Here he used his extensive collection of New Zealand photographs to stage displays and give lectures. In 1873 a number of his photographs were used by the New Zealand government in their exhibit at the Vienna exhibition. In 1875 he published a book, Rotomahana – the boiling spring of New Zealand, with a foreword by Ferdinand Hochstetter. It was one of the first books to use the autotype process, a technique which allowed photographs to be reproduced in a printing press with all their halftones intact. The excellence of this publication earned Mundy a decoration from the Austrian court.
Mundy moved to New South Wales, then Victoria, in 1875. He returned briefly to New Zealand in 1877 and gave a number of illustrated lectures based on his work. His photographs of this period make the claim that he had secured the patronage of members of the British royal family. In 1880 he was working as a photographer in Sydney. He died at Emerald Hill, Victoria, on 30 November 1881. It is not known when or where Louisa Mundy died.
Next:External links and sources
William Main. 'Mundy, Daniel Louis', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2m62/mundy-daniel-louis (accessed 17 January 2021)
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5 Free Online Resources for Vintage Cocktail Literature
Posted on: Aug. 10, 2016 | Culture | By: Jodi Cash
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Looking to up the ante on your cocktail knowledge without looking in the same trendy texts that everyone else is? Or maybe, you’ve already read all of the contemporary cocktail books, and you’d like to delve a little further back in time for inspiration. Scholarly cocktail nerds have long since been hunting down antique cocktail books for insights on drinks of yesteryear — when the Internet was in its infancy, they corroborated in online chatrooms and forums, searching out obscure titles on eBay. And before that, the truly dedicated actually traveled to libraries and used bookstores, hoping to find a treasure trove of old school cocktail recipes. Now it’s easier than ever to find recipes and information for drinks of old — the books have made their way off of dusty shelves and onto the world wide web. Below, we’ve gathered a few of the best online resources for vintage cocktail books.
1. Mr. Boston Official Bartender’s Guide, via Sazerac Co.
For decades, Mr. Boston was the foremost authority on bartending. In 1935, “Mr. Boston Official Bartender’s Guide” was published, followed by 65 updated editions over the span of 80 years. Sazerac Co. now owns Mr. Boston, which includes rights to the books, as well as their cordial and spirit line. This summer, they launched an online version of the Mr. Boston, which aggregates recipes from all but 17 of the printed book editions, so you can see everything from how a French 75 was made in 2012 to an Adonis cocktail in 1978 to an Absinthe Frappe in 1935.
2. Difford’s Guide Cocktail Book Timeline
Spanning between 1827 and 1963, many a great cocktail text was published. This article by Difford’s Guide provides a timeline of books worth seeking out — many of which link to full-text PDFs that are free and available online (like this charmingly titled tome, “Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks”). If you’re really ambitious, you could use this literary timeline as a checklist of sorts, with more than 100 years’ worth of great cocktail reads.
3. EUVS Vintage Cocktail Books
This interactive archive of cocktail books represents an international array — with titles from everywhere from Mexico to Italy to Japan and Australia. Scroll through book covers, and upon choosing a title that interests you, click through to the books online, presented like an actual physical copy with pages you can turn (complete with the noise of rustling paper). While some texts, like Embury’s classic “The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks,” are password-protected, many are immediately available (such as this enlightening guide to the Daiquiri or the aptly titled “Here Is Something That Will Interest You”). With dozens of titles available dating as far back as the early 1700s, this database is as expansive as it is entertaining.
4. Library of Congress Mixology Books
If this year’s Presidential election has caused you to lose faith in America, let the Library of Congress’s database of digitized cocktail books help restore it. The Library contains volumes written more than 100 years ago, like “Modern American Drinks” (1895) and “Mixology: the Art of Preparing all Kinds of Drinks” (1898), all of which are now free and online in a ViewShare project called Mixology Books.
5. The Bibulous Bibliography
With resources segmented by time frame from 1705 to present day, Bibulous presents a broad spanning swath of resources from all over the world. Many of the titles are available online, with citations as to where the hard copies are located. Written like an annotated bibliography, you can find all the information you need to determine which books feature what you’re after, all organized by era in cocktail history (so you can brush up on your essential Rat Pack bar books or go deep into the Gothic age of drinking).
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When using these general data and information, the DAKO GmbH does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the DAKO GmbH analyses anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
6. Registration on our website
The data subject has the possibility to register on the website of the controller with the indication of personal data. Which personal data are transmitted to the controller is determined by the respective input mask used for the registration. The personal data entered by the data subject are collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the controller, and for his own purposes. The controller may request transfer to one or more processors (e.g. a parcel service) that also uses personal data for an internal purpose which is attributable to the controller.
By registering on the website of the controller, the IP address—assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject—date, and time of the registration are also stored. The storage of this data takes place against the background that this is the only way to prevent the misuse of our services, and, if necessary, to make it possible to investigate committed offenses. Insofar, the storage of this data is necessary to secure the controller. This data is not passed on to third parties unless there is a statutory obligation to pass on the data, or if the transfer serves the aim of criminal prosecution.
The registration of the data subject, with the voluntary indication of personal data, is intended to enable the controller to offer the data subject contents or services that may only be offered to registered users due to the nature of the matter in question. Registered persons are free to change the personal data specified during the registration at any time, or to have them completely deleted from the data stock of the controller.
The data controller shall, at any time, provide information upon request to each data subject as to what personal data are stored about the data subject. In addition, the data controller shall correct or erase personal data at the request or indication of the data subject, insofar as there are no statutory storage obligations. The entirety of the controller’s employees are available to the data subject in this respect as contact persons.
7. Subscription to our newsletter / Privacy policy on the use of Sendinblue (formerly Newsletter2Go)
7.1 Registration for our e-mail newsletter
If you register for our e-mail newsletter, we will send you regular information about our offers. Your e-mail address is the only mandatory information for the sending of the newsletter. The provision of further data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for sending the newsletter. This means that we will only send you an e-mail newsletter if you have expressly confirmed that you agree to receive newsletters. We will then send you a confirmation e-mail asking you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter in future by clicking on a corresponding link.
By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent for the use of your personal data in accordance with Article 6(1) lit. a GDPR. When you register for the newsletter, we save your IP address entered by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace any possible misuse of your e-mail address at a later date. The data collected by us when you register for the newsletter will be used exclusively for the purpose of advertising in the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter or by sending a message to the person responsible mentioned at the beginning. Once you have cancelled your subscription, your e-mail address will be deleted from our newsletter distribution list immediately, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.
7.2 Sending the e-mail newsletter to existing customers
If you have provided us with your e-mail address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to send you regular e-mail offers on similar goods or services from our range of products to those you have already purchased. In accordance with Section 7 Subsection 3 Act against unfair competition (UWG), we do not need to obtain your separate consent for this. In this respect, data processing is based solely on our justified interest in personalised direct advertising in accordance with Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. If you have initially objected to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose, we will not send you an e-mail. You are entitled to object to the use of your e-mail address for the above-mentioned advertising purpose at any time with effect for the future by notifying the person responsible named at the beginning of this document. For this you will only incur transmission costs according to the basic rates. After receipt of your objection, the use of your e-mail address for advertising purposes will be immediately discontinued.
7.3 Newsletter dispatch via Sendinblue
Our e-mail newsletters are sent via the technical service provider Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany to whom we pass on the data you provide when you register for the newsletter. This forwarding is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR and serves our legitimate interest in using a promotionally effective, secure and user-friendly newsletter system. The data you enter to subscribe to the newsletter (e.g. e-mail address) will be stored on Sendinblue’s servers in the EU.
Sendinblue uses this information to send the newsletter and for statistical analysis on our behalf. For evaluation purposes, the e-mails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel image files stored on our website. In this way it can be determined whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked on, if applicable. Technical information is also recorded (e.g. time of access, IP address, browser type and operating system). The data is only collected pseudonymously and is not linked to your other personal data, a direct personal reference is excluded. This data is used exclusively for the statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better adapt future newsletters to the interests of the recipients. If you wish to object to the data analysis for statistical evaluation purposes, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter.
Furthermore, in accordance with Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR, Sendinblue may use this data itself on the basis of its own legitimate interest in the needs-based design and optimisation of the service and for market research purposes, for example to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, Sendinblue shall not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or pass them on to third parties.
We have entered into a contract with Sendinblue under which Sendinblue undertakes to protect our customers’ data and not to pass it on to third parties.
Sendinblue’s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/.
The newsletter of the DAKO GmbH may contain so-called tracking pixels on a case-by-case basis. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in such e-mails, which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the DAKO GmbH may see if and when an e-mail was opened by a data subject, and which links in the e-mail were called up by data subjects.
Such personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analysed by the controller in order to optimize the shipping of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the controller. The DAKO GmbH automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.
9. Contact possibility via the website
The website of the DAKO GmbH contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.
10. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data
The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.
If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.
11. Rights of the data subject
a) Right of confirmation
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of confirmation, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
b) Right of access
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller free information about his or her personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information.
Furthermore, the European directives and regulations grant the data subject access to the following information:
the purposes of the processing;
the categories of personal data concerned;
the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing;
the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
Furthermore, the data subject shall have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. Where this is the case, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
c) Right to rectification
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay, and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary:
The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject withdraws consent to which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the DAKO GmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of DAKO GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employee of the DAKO GmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
e) Right of restriction of processing
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:
The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use instead.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the DAKO GmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employees of the DAKO GmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.
f) Right to data portability
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the DAKO GmbH.
g) Right to object
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
The DAKO GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If the DAKO GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing.
This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the DAKO GmbH to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the DAKO GmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the DAKO GmbH for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the DAKO GmbH. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, the DAKO GmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the DAKO GmbH.
i) Right to withdraw data protection consent
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the DAKO GmbH.
12. Data protection for applications and the application procedures
The data controller shall collect and process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of the processing of the application procedure. The processing may also be carried out electronically. This is the case, in particular, if an applicant submits corresponding application documents by e-mail or by means of a web form on the website to the controller. If the data controller concludes an employment contract with an applicant, the submitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with legal requirements. If no employment contract is concluded with the applicant by the controller, the application documents shall be automatically erased two months after notification of the refusal decision, provided that no other legitimate interests of the controller are opposed to the erasure. Other legitimate interest in this relation is, e.g. a burden of proof in a procedure under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
13. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the enterprise Facebook. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows social network users to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook, Facebook detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-site of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, e.g. the “Like” button, or if the data subject submits a comment, then Facebook matches this information with the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component, information about a visit to our website by the data subject, whenever the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook during the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Facebook account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
14. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google (Universal) Analytics
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). Google (Universal) Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including the abbreviated IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server and stored there, and may also be transferred to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA.
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymisation of the IP address by shortening it and excludes any direct personal reference. Through the extension, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a server of Google LLC.in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide us with further services related to the use of the website and the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google (Universal) Analytics is not combined with other Google data.
All the processing described above, in particular the setting of Google Analytics cookies for reading information on the terminal device used, is only carried out if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Article 6(1) lit. a GDPR. Without this consent, Google Analytics will not be used during your visit to our website.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please deactivate this service in the “Cookie-Consent-Tool” provided on the website. We have concluded an order processing contract with Google for the use of Google Analytics, which obliges Google to protect the data of our site visitors and not to pass it on to third parties.
For the transmission of data from the EU to the USA, Google relies on so-called standard data protection clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to guarantee compliance with the European data protection level in the USA.
Further information on Google (Universal) Analytics can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.
15. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google+
On this website, the controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is a social meeting place on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Google+ allows users of the social network to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically downloads a display of the corresponding Google+ button of Google through the respective Google+ button component. During the course of this technical procedure, Google is made aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available under https://developers.google.com/+/.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google recognizes with each call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of his or her stay on our Internet site, which specific sub-pages of our Internet page were visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Google+ button and Google matches this with the respective Google+ account associated with the data subject.
If the data subject clicks on the Google+ button integrated on our website and thus gives a Google+ 1 recommendation, then Google assigns this information to the personal Google+ user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Google stores the Google+ 1 recommendation of the data subject, making it publicly available in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. Subsequently, a Google+ 1 recommendation given by the data subject on this website together with other personal data, such as the Google+ account name used by the data subject and the stored photo, is stored and processed on other Google services, such as search-engine results of the Google search engine, the Google account of the data subject or in other places, e.g. on Internet pages, or in relation to advertisements. Google is also able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored on Google. Google further records this personal information with the purpose of improving or optimizing the various Google services.
Through the Google+ button, Google receives information that the data subject visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call-up to our website is logged in to Google+. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks or doesn’t click on the Google+ button.
If the data subject does not wish to transmit personal data to Google, he or she may prevent such transmission by logging out of his Google+ account before calling up our website.
Further information and the data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ More references from Google about the Google+ 1 button may be obtained under https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
16. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google-AdWords
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows the advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-define specific keywords with the help of which an ad on Google’s search results only then displayed, when the user utilizes the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.
The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website.
If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject through Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, e.g, the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or cancelled a sale of goods.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.
The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as stated above, by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie set by Google AdWords may be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject has a possibility of objecting to the interest-based advertisement of Google. Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
17. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Instagram
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the service Instagram. Instagram is a service that may be qualified as an audiovisual platform, which allows users to share photos and videos, as well as disseminate such data in other social networks.
The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which an Instagram component (Insta button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding Instagram component of Instagram. During the course of this technical procedure, Instagram becomes aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Instagram, Instagram detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Instagram component and is associated with the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, then Instagram matches this information with the personal Instagram user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Instagram receives information via the Instagram component that the data subject has visited our website provided that the data subject is logged in at Instagram at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Instagram button or not. If such a transmission of information to Instagram is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their Instagram account before a call-up to our website is made.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved under https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
18. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn
The controller has integrated components of the LinkedIn Corporation on this website. LinkedIn is a web-based social network that enables users with existing business contacts to connect and to make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people in more than 200 countries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world.
The operating company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component of LinkedIn. Further information about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the LinkedIn component and associated with the respective LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the LinkedIn buttons integrated on our website, then LinkedIn assigns this information to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
LinkedIn receives information via the LinkedIn component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the LinkedIn button or not. If such a transmission of information to LinkedIn is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our website is made.
LinkedIn provides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possibility to unsubscribe from e-mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affiliates such as Eire, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy The applicable privacy policy for LinkedIn is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.
19. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Matomo
On this website, the controller has integrated the Matomo component. Matomo is an open-source software tool for web analysis. Web analysis is the collection, gathering and evaluation of data on the behavior of visitors from Internet sites. A web analysis tool collects, inter alia, data on the website from which a data subject came to a website (so-called referrer), which pages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a sub-page was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used for the optimization of a website and the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The software is operated on the server of the controller, the data protection-sensitive log files are stored exclusively on this server.
The purpose of the Matomo component is the analysis of the visitor flows on our website. The controller uses the obtained data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of this website in order to compile online reports, which show the activities on our Internet pages.
Matomo sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, an analysis of the use of our website is enabled. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically through the Matomo component prompted to submit data for the purpose of online analysis to our server. During the course of this technical procedure, we obtain knowledge about personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves to understand the origin of visitors and clicks.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which access was made, and the frequency of visits to our website. With each visit of our Internet pages, these personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, are transferred to our server. These personal data will be stored by us. We do not forward this personal data to third parties.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the used Internet browser would also prevent Matomo from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Matomo may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by Matomo as well as the processing of these data by Matomo and the chance to preclude any such. For this, the data subject must set a “Do Not Track” option in the browser.
With each setting of the opt-out cookie, however, there is the possibility that the websites of the controller are no longer fully usable for the data subject.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Matomo may be retrieved under https://matomo.org/privacy/.
20. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Xing
On this website, the controller has integrated components of XING. XING is an Internet-based social network that enables users to connect with existing business contacts and to create new business contacts. The individual users can create a personal profile of themselves at XING. Companies may, e.g. create company profiles or publish jobs on XING.
The operating company of XING is XING SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a XING component (XING plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding XING component of XING. Further information about the XING plug-in the may be accessed under https://dev.xing.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, XING gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on XING, XING detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject -and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site- which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the XING component and associated with the respective XING account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on the XING button integrated on our Internet site, e.g. the “Share”-button, then XING assigns this information to the personal XING user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
XING receives information via the XING component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at XING at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the XING component or not. If such a transmission of information to XING is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their XING account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection provisions published by XING, which is available under https://www.xing.com/privacy provide information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by XING. In addition, XING has published privacy notices for the XING share button under https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
21. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/ During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.
YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.
YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
22. Payment Method: Data protection provisions about the use of PayPal as a payment processor
On this website, the controller has integrated components of PayPal. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via so-called PayPal accounts, which represent virtual private or business accounts. PayPal is also able to process virtual payments through credit cards when a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an e-mail address, which is why there are no classic account numbers. PayPal makes it possible to trigger online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also accepts trustee functions and offers buyer protection services.
The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
If the data subject chooses “PayPal” as the payment option in the online shop during the ordering process, we automatically transmit the data of the data subject to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, the data subject agrees to the transfer of personal data required for payment processing.
The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, or other data necessary for payment processing. The processing of the purchase contract also requires such personal data, which are in connection with the respective order.
The transmission of the data is aimed at payment processing and fraud prevention. The controller will transfer personal data to PayPal, in particular, if a legitimate interest in the transmission is given. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and the controller for the processing of the data will be transmitted by PayPal to economic credit agencies. This transmission is intended for identity and creditworthiness checks.
PayPal will, if necessary, pass on personal data to affiliates and service providers or subcontractors to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or for data to be processed in the order.
The data subject has the possibility to revoke consent for the handling of personal data at any time from PayPal. A revocation shall not have any effect on personal data which must be processed, used or transmitted in accordance with (contractual) payment processing.
The applicable data protection provisions of PayPal may be retrieved under https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
23. Legal basis for the processing
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
24. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legitimate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the shareholders.
25. Period for which the personal data will be stored
The criteria used to determine the period of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.
26. Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; Requirement necessary to enter into a contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data
We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.
27. Existence of automated decision-making
As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.
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Roy Achille Marchand
The Airmen’s Stories – P/O R A Marchand
Roy Achille Marchand was born in Bromley, Kent, on 24th August, 1918 and, after leaving Westminster School in 1936, began to study medicine at King’s College, London University. His desire for a flying career in the Royal Air Force was ignited after meeting a serving RAF Squadron Leader whilst holidaying in the South of France in 1938. At the still tender age of 20, Roy Marchand joined the RAF on a Short Service Commission in March 1939 and he began his ab-initio training towards becoming a fighter pilot.
Flying training started at No.30 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School at Burnaston near Derby, before progressing to more advanced instruction at No.15 Flying Training School at Lossiemouth in Scotland. Awarded his ‘Wings’ in August 1939 just as Great Britain began mobilising its Armed Forces ready for war against Nazi Germany, Pilot Officer Roy Marchand thereafter went to the No.11 Group Pool in November for further training prior to attachment to the No.2 Ferry Pilot Pool as a reserve pilot for France.
P/O Marchand’s desire to be a fighter pilot was realised at the very beginning of 1940 when he was posted to fly Hawker Hurricane fighters with No.73 Squadron at Rouvres, one of RAF Fighter Command’s precious few fighter units based in France as part of the Advanced Air Striking Force for defensive duties.
As the so-called ‘Phoney War’ on the Western Front dragged on through the first half of 1940 with only brief aerial skirmishes with the enemy, Roy Marchand put in claims for Messerschmitts on 26th March and 21st April, 1940. During this period he found for himself a young bride just before the German Wehrmacht launched its Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) against the West on 10th May, 1940. Suddenly in combat against a numerically superior Luftwaffe, the RAF squadrons were hard pressed to stop the relentless advance of the enemy. Battling hard in many dogfights, 73 Squadron was in constant action and Roy Marchand put in a claim for an ‘unconfirmed’ Dornier Do17 bomber in the early hours of 13th May, but on this day whilst flying his Hurricane L1673 in combat with Do17’s and Messerschmitt Me110 fighters, he was wounded in the shoulder and beneath his left eye.
Evacuated back to Great Britain to recover from his injuries, more bad luck followed when he and his young wife were badly hurt in a car accident. With extended sick leave, P/O Marchand missed the Allied retreat to Dunkirk and the final evacuation from France. It wasn’t until early July, 1940, that he returned to his Squadron, now stationed at Church Fenton in North Yorkshire, where it was recuperating and re-equipping for its new role as a night defence squadron.
As the Battle of Britain raged through July and August, 73 Squadron did not experience much contact with the enemy as night raids were sporadic and night-fighter defence was still in its infancy. However, at the beginning of September, the Squadron learnt they were to head further south to reinforce the Duxford Wing. This rumour proved stillborn, but on Thursday 5th September the Squadron left Church Fenton for the Sector airfield of Debden in Essex but all too soon they were then ordered to move into the satellite aerodrome at Castle Camps [called ‘Freddie 1’], which the Squadron soon found lacked many home comforts. There was not too much time to worry about that as the 73 Squadron Hurricanes were soon ordered into action and by evening had lost three of their fighters destroyed and a further three damaged with one pilot killed and another wounded. On the credit side, the Squadron had claim for two ‘probable’ Heinkel He111 bombers.
Action the next day continued unabated and P/O Marchand found himself in the thick of it as testified to by the Squadron diarist:
“… P/O MARCHAND destroyed a 109, 10 miles N.E. of MAIDSTONE, thus opening the Squadron’s score in that category. He landed at PENSHURST having run short of petrol and rather lost his way. He got back in the evening his smiles even as large as if his wife had walked suddenly into Freddie 1. It was a tonic to see him but when he came to make out his individual combat report, the I.O. noticed that he had only claimed a ‘probable’. Even more pleased was he when told it obviously came into the ‘destroyed’ class and he was the first to get a definite kill for 73 Sqdn.”
Saturday 7th September marked a dramatic change in Luftwaffe tactics when they switched their attention from RAF airfields to London. 73 Squadron was heavily involved in the great daylight air battles with some success, although Roy Marchand had no claims this day. The following day was oddly quite contrasting for him though.
It dawned bright but cold at Castle Camps where the morning developed into a lovely early autumn day. It appeared that the enemy were not going to repeat their efforts of Saturday upon London, though Kent was receiving its usual level of attention from German raiders. Any anticipated ‘excitement’ for 73 Squadron was being unknowingly reserved for them later on in the early evening! As the day began drawing to a close, it was in the fading light of the evening sky that an unidentified aircraft was plotted in the vicinity of Castle Camps. Concern grew among those on the ground, for when challenged this lone intruder fired off the wrong colours of the day – Sergeant John Griffin was ordered to rapidly get airborne in his Hurricane and investigate the ‘intruder’. After a short time, and possibly due to radio problems, he landed and reported the mystery aircraft to be a “long nosed” Bristol Blenheim. Squadron Leader Robinson then passed on this information to Operations, who acted with little hesitation by ordering two more 73 Squadron Hurricanes to go and investigate this aeroplane further. The Squadron diarist described the unfolding event as follows:
“[The] Mess was a rush of eager applicants but eventually F/Lt. BEYTAGH and P/O MARCHAND were the winners and were airborne in less than 3 minutes minus helmets. They intercepted beautifully some 3 miles to the West of the aerodrome in full view of all of us and amid cheers and shouts of ironical advice, whereupon the ‘Blenheim’ shot off the correct colours in great haste! On their return the two pilots reported that it was an Anson whereupon Sgt. GRIFFIN was ‘debagged’ outside the mess and drinks all round were demanded from him – incidentally without success.”
Aerial activity was generally quiet for the Squadron over the next two days, but during the late afternoon of Wednesday, 11th September, Roy Marchand joined in combat with enemy fighters once more, and over North Kent he tangled with Me110s before putting in a claim for a ‘probable’.
The Squadron experienced a lull in fighting over the next two days until Saturday, 14th September, when it suffered grievously at the hands of both enemy fighters and possible ‘friendly fire’. Three Hurricanes were shot down in combat during the mid-afternoon with one pilot killed and two others wounded including the C.O., Squadron Leader Maurice Robinson. Five other Hurricanes sustained varying degrees of damage and Roy Marchand flying Hurricane P2869 was one of the few pilots who made it back to Castle Camps relatively unscathed, though he had a bullet hole through his port main fuel tank, port aileron, main spar, and with another bullet clean through his radio mast just above his head. Some of the pilots reported that they had been attacked by Supermarine Spitfires, but this was never officially verified.
Fine morning weather broke across the remote field at Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire to greet the battle-hardened pilots of 73 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, when they were roused from their beds early on Sunday, 15th September 1940. The Squadron had experienced a large measure of combat success and tragedy during the previous ten days since moving to ‘Freddie 1’, the satellite aerodrome of RAF Debden.
From dawn to 09:00 hours of that new autumn day, the Squadron was brought to ‘Readiness’, and then to 15 minutes ’Available’, until just after 11:00 hours when ten Hawker Hurricanes were ordered up into the air to patrol Chelmsford at 15,000 feet. One of the Squadron pilots who took to the skies on what was to become the most decisive day of the Battle of Britain, was 22 year-old Pilot Officer Roy Marchand. Not being at full Squadron strength, Blue and Green Sections of ‘B’ Flight comprised the main formation leaving the 4 remaining Hurricanes to act as ‘lookouts’ on the port and starboard sides. At one side P/O Marchand flying Hurricane P3865 TP-K took up his position as one of the ‘lookouts’. At around 11:30 hours a large force of free-hunting Messerschmitt Me109’s crossed the English coastline high above Dover ahead of a formation of Dornier Do17 bombers – their target being London. The Messerschmitts were looking for any RAF fighters and to sweep them out of the way to clear a path for the Dorniers following on behind.
With this large enemy raid building up over Kent, 73 Squadron was vectored south of the Thames Estuary to intercept the raiders. The Hurricane pilots soon joined in combat near Maidstone just after midday, and it was against a strong number of the deadly Me109’s that a swirling dogfight ensued.
The precise details are unknown of what happened in one fateful moment, but a stricken Hurricane fell away from the fight unnoticed by squadron colleagues busy fighting for their own lives. As ammunition and fuel became exhausted, the Hurricane pilots gradually broke off from the engagement and returned to Castle Camps with claims for 3 enemy fighters destroyed. Eventually all the 73 Squadron pilots were accounted for with one pilot missing but reportedly force-landed at Biggin Hill, whom it was assumed to be young Roy Marchand, thus no-one unduly worried about him. Later that evening after further hard fighting during the afternoon, the Squadron received news of P/O Marchand and “… we were astounded to be told that he had crashed at TYNHAM [sic] near SITTINGBOURNE and killed.”
The sadness felt by everyone was doubled by virtue of the fact that Roy’s young and pregnant wife of only a few months had been waiting around the Squadron dispersal seeking news of her husband. The unpleasant task of telling her the grim news fell to Flying Officer Michael Beytagh [as acting Commanding Officer] along with Pilot Officer Hoole, the Intelligence Officer. Of Roy Marchand, the Squadron diarist paid tribute:
“P/O Marchand was an excellent pilot and a charming and unassuming boy who was never ruffled by anybody or anything. We will sorely miss him.” The record for the day was closed with the words, “The Squadron feels that to some extent the death of gallant MARCHAND to-day has been avenged by the day’s good work.”
Deeply mourned by his mother Constance, P/O Roy Marchand was laid to rest in Bromley Hill Cemetery where for many years his grave was marked by a magnificent polished granite headstone, but this was controversially removed to be later replaced by a CWGC headstone; sometime afterwards the original headstone came into the possession of the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum. They saw the possibility of utilizing the headstone as a memorial, and thus an approach was made to Mr & Mrs Rex Boucher, the owners of Nouds Farm, Lynsted, where P/O Marchand had tragically crashed. Along with the agreement of the pilot’s daughter Mrs Carol Ventura, permission was kindly granted to erect the headstone as a permanent memorial in tribute to the RAF fighter pilot close to the actual crash-site.
On 15th September, 1985, a poignant ceremony was held at Nouds Farm to unveil the memorial at the precise moment P/O Marchand crashed, where every year since, the local branch of the Royal Air Force Association has held its annual Battle of Britain service.
Roy’s daughter Carol has naturally taken a close interest in seeing her father commemorated, she was born after his death so she was never seen by him.
Dean Sumner 2008
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‘Post’ readers share memories of, experiences with St. Teresa of Kolkata
By: Tom Dermody - September 9, 2016 - Featured Article
When Mother Teresa was canonized at the Vatican on Sept. 4, hundreds in the Diocese of Peoria recalled being in the presence of a saint. Thousands of others in central Illinois of all faiths continue to be inspired by the words and actions of the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity who served “the poorest of the poor.”
St. Teresa of Kolkata and the Diocese of Peoria share several remarkable links, including:
Long before she became world famous, the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women was among the first groups to support her work in India. Mother Teresa came to Henry to express her gratitude to 500 representatives of the organization in 1960.
In 1992, Bishop John J. Myers invited members of the Missionaries of Charity to serve the needy in the neighborhood of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Their presence continues two decades later.
And on Dec. 10, 1995, nearly 1,000 people crowded St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria for a Mass attended by Mother Teresa and during which members of her religious community renewed their vows. All present would receive a Miraculous Medal from her hand before she left to visit OSF Saint Francis Medical Center to thank staff for their care of an ill member.
So when The Catholic Post invited readers to share memories and personals stories about Blessed Teresa, we heard plenty. Here are some examples:
DID SHE INTERCEDE FOR THE WOMEN’S CARE CENTER?
Did Mother Teresa intercede on behalf of the Women’s Care Center in Peoria?
“She was directly involved in the opening of the Women’s Care Center,” said Christine Dennis, president of the board of the pro-life center that has been educating, counseling and supporting women in need from a location next to Peoria’s abortion facility since 2013. “And I want everyone to know I believe it’s true.”
She recalled being new to the Peoria area in the spring of 2007 and attending the Diocese of Peoria’s Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. As she was walking to her car after Mass, Dennis saw members of the Missionaries of Charity, who serve in the cathedral neighborhood, and “chased them down.” She told them of her desire to open a Women’s Care Center in Peoria and asked for their prayers.
The Sisters assured her of their prayers, and advised Dennis to put a miraculous medal on a property that would be selected for the center.
“We prayed a novena every year,” said Dennis, including with a second class relic of Mother Teresa. Eventually the best site became clear, but “we needed a miracle,” since the cost was $400,000 before needed renovations.
The miracle happened, support was found, and in the weeks before the center’s opening — as a trench was being dug around the property and landscaping was being pulled up — Dennis saw a shiny object that had been unearthed.
“I knew what it was from 50 feet away,” said Dennis of the Miraculous Medal. “It was shining bright as the sun.”
The center now has Miraculous Medals on site in several places.
MSGR. PRENDERGAST GOT ADVICE FROM THE FUTURE SAINT
When Msgr. John Prendergast was studying in Rome to be a priest of the Diocese of Peoria during the mid-1970s, he was part of the North American College’s apostolate to the Missionaries of Charity. His service included working with the brothers in Calcutta during the summer of 1973.
In an interview last year with The Catholic Post when he was granted senior status after a 39-year priestly career, Msgr. Prendergast — pictured with Mother Teresa in 1976 — told how the Missionaries of Charity tried to recruit him to be spiritual director for their house of formation after his ordination. Msgr. Prendergast told Mother Teresa that Bishop Edward W. O’Rourke would not allow him to stay and suggested she write him a letter.
The future saint’s advice? “No, Father, you should always do what the bishop wants you to do, because that’s what God wants you to do.”
Home shrine reflects the love this priest’s mother has for St. Teresa of Kolkata
Father Royer shares memories of Mother Teresa and why “I claim her as my Mother”
Missionaries of Charity have been bringing Jesus to Peoria for 25 years
Cathedral Mass will honor St. Teresa of Kolkata, Missionaries of Charity on Sept. 10
IN THE AUDIENCE IN BOMBAY, INDIA
ROCK ISLAND — Dr. Clement P. Cunningham, a retired Rock Island family physician who has been a leader in the Catholic Medical Association for more than six decades, met Mother Teresa when they both attended a Eucharistic Congress in Bombay, India.
Dr. Cunningham gave a presentation on natural family planning during a session hosted by the Catholic Health Association of India. In the audience was Mother Teresa, accompanied by a group of Missionaries of Charity.
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“I did meet her at that time but I don’t recall our conversation,” said Dr. Cunningham, a member of St. Pius X Parish now in his mid-90s. But something else has stayed with him through the decades.
“Whereas my wife and I had four or five-star hotel accommodations, we felt terrible that Mother Teresa and her group slept rolled in a blanket on a cold, hard floor,” he told The Catholic Post.
Years later, the two met again during Mother Teresa’s 1995 visit to Peoria “when she placed her special medal in my hand.”
PERU PASTOR USES QUOTE DURING CURSILLO WEEKENDS
Father Harold Datzman, OSB, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Peru, is pictured with Elaine Becker of LaSalle with a bronze statue of Mother Teresa at the Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet. Father Harold told The Catholic Post that he uses a Mother Teresa quote comparing God’s grace to an electrical current and Mary to a wire when he gives talks at Cursillo weekends. Mother Teresa challenges all to “ask Our Lady to come into our lives and to make Jesus use us to go around the world and continue connecting the hearts of people with the current, who is Jesus.” (Provided photo)
“WE ARE PENCILS IN THE HAND OF GOD”
EAST MOLINE — Mary Lou Lohman remembers when Mother Teresa came to the Quad Cities in 1976 to receive the Pacem in Terris Award given by the Diocese of Davenport.
“The local newspaper reported that at the ceremony she chose not to eat the banquet fare but asked for a bowl of soup instead, so that she could eat like the people she served,” recalled Lohman, a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Silvis.
On a shelf in Lohman’s home is a quotation of Mother Teresa done in calligraphy. It reads: “We are all pencils in the hand of God.”
TWO MEDALS RECEIVED WITHOUT ASKING
As a member of the diocesan staff, Donna Ward of the Office of Finance had a place reserved in St. Mary’s Cathedral when Mother Teresa visited Peoria on Dec. 10, 1995. Like hundreds of others, she stood in line after the Mass to receive a medal from the hands of the future saint.
Because Ward’s daughter could not attend, “I was thinking ‘I wish she would give me two’ rather than the one medal she was giving out,” recalled Ward.
“When I got to her she looked in my eyes, smiled, and gave me two,” she said, adding “I will never forget that moment.” Everyone she later asked said they received only one.
“How blessed I was,” said Ward. “But you know, if I just got one I would have given it to my daughter.”
“YOU CAN’T DO WHAT I DO. I CAN’T DO WHAT YOU DO”
It was 1982, the year that Albina Aspell became editor of The Catholic Post after eight years as a reporter and assistant editor. She and Father John Dietzen, former Post associate editor, were in Jerusalem on a Holy Land tour with about 20 other Catholic press editors.
After returning from touring Masada, the call came to Aspell’s room: “Mother Teresa is in the gift shop.”
It turns out she was actually in a room next to the gift shop, accompanied by Msgr. John Nolan, then head of Catholic Charities. Catholic editors knew to grab their cameras. Father Dietzen took a photo of Aspell with her, and Aspell returned the favor. The photos are printed here.
While they are lasting memories, so is the message Mother Teresa would share with the editors after they had toured one of her homes in Amman, Jordan. Aspell admits to being intimidated during the tour because those assisting “were so much stronger” than she felt.
“You can’t do what I do,” Mother Teresa told the editors. “And I can’t do what you do.”
“She made me feel better about the whole thing,” Aspell recalled this week, calling Mother Teresa “gentle, genial, and pleasant” and “the one person I admire most.”
A MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY CARD FROM MOTHER
LA SALLE — Millie Arellano hesitated to answer The Catholic Post’s request for local stories about Mother Teresa because the one in her family with the strong connection to the saint was her mother, who died a year ago at the age of 103.
Dr. Remedios GoQuiolay Arellano with Mother Teresa.
“Before she died she wrote her autobiography,” said Arellano, a member of St. Patrick Parish in LaSalle, about her mother, Dr. Remedios GoQuiolay Arellano, who lived in the Philippines.
Among the book’s chapters was one dedicated to important people she met — including three future saints, Pope John Paul II, Padre Pio, and Mother Teresa.
Dr. Arellano was president of the Asian federation of Catholic doctors, and she met Mother Teresa during three different medical congresses. At the final one, in 1991, Mother Teresa asked Dr. Arellano her birthday.
“Mom was surprised that on her birthday that year she received a birthday card from Mother Teresa,” said her daughter.
Dr. Arellano’s recollection of Mother Teresa included inspiring words Mother Teresa shared during a 1978 congress in Bombay. “A doctor’s vocation is very much like what Jesus did when He went about doing good and healing the people,” said Mother Teresa. “To prove that He loved the world, He had made Himself the hungry one; He had made Himself the sick one; He had made Himself the naked one; He had made Himself the homeless one; so that you and I could do the same.”
SNEAKY MOVE LEADS TO MEMORABLE MOMENT
CANTON — Joyce McGhee knows it was sneaky thing to do, but for her the pay-off of having a front-row view when Mother Teresa spoke at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in 1995 was worth taking the chance.
On Dec. 10, McGhee was at OSF Saint Francis visiting her uncle, who had been in a serious accident. Word began to circulate that Mother Teresa, following a celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral that morning, would come to the medical center to thank staff for the care they gave to a member of the Missionaries of Charity.
“They said it was for employees only,” recalled McGhee, who is a member of St. Mary Parish in Lewistown. “Being an adventurous soul, I got by the door to get a glimpse.”
After getting that glimpse, she took it a few steps further.
“When everyone was filing in, I did, too,” she told The Catholic Post. McGhee made it all the way to the front row of the packed auditorium. She doesn’t remember all that was said, but recalls their eyes met.
“It gives me goosebumps to think about it now,” she said. “Being in her presence is almost overwhelming. It brought tears to my eyes. It still does.”
GIFTS BRING LETTERS, FRIENDSHIP TO STREATOR RESIDENT
The Catholic Post received the following email from Paul Ahearn of Streator:
In 1985 I was at the library, looking for a good mystery to read. I came across a book on Mother Teresa, who always fascinated me.
My mother passed away in 1982 and I had her diamond rings which I bought for her in my youth. It was a difficult thing to do, but I sent my Mom’s rings to Mother Teresa. I think she appreciated it — so much so that she sent me a letter on Sept. 24, 1985.
Since that time, every time I’d send a donation to the Missionaries of Charity I’d get a letter back from Mother Teresa. We’d write back and forth up until 1997, the year she passed away. That year, she sent condolences because my Dad passed away. She also wrote a letter and asked me to pray for her. She knew her health was failing.
I feel very humbled that Mother Teresa was and is my friend. I am very unworthy to have such an honor. I still send donations for the Missionaries of Charity. Their address is: 335 East 145th St., Bronx, N.Y. 10451.
I’ve given most of my letters that I treasured from Mother Teresa away. Mother Teresa always said she wanted people to remember Jesus our Savior and not her.
Thank you, Mother Teresa, for being my friend and a friend to all of us.
A LOVING LETTER IN RESPONSE
The Catholic Post received the following email from Agnes Christmas, Danville, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women:
When our daughter Eve was a very young girl, she sent a get-well note when we heard that Mother Teresa was very sick. Eve received a loving response letter which we saved. However, we are not sure whether it came directly from Mother Teresa or someone on her staff in her office.
INSPIRED BY MESSAGE, EXAMPLE
The Catholic Post received the following email from Barbara Rutkowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin presented the Pere Marquette Discovery Award to Mother Teresa on June 13, 1981. The university’s highest honor was also presented to Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Apollo 11 astronauts, among others. The award honors those who advance humanity or make an extraordinary breakthrough.
I was fortunate to attend this ceremony honoring her followed by a Mass. The arena and auditorium were filled to capacity. During the presentation ceremony, Father John P. Raynor, SJ, then president of Marquette, said, “Like Pere Marquette, Mother Teresa does indeed map the unknown regions of man’s need to give and receive Christ’s charity.” In response, Mother Teresa said, ”I am most unworthy to receive this honor, this award. But I receive it for the glory of God and in the name of our poor people — the unwanted, unloved, uncared for.”
Her example has inspired me to continue serving my local parish, preserving history, and tutoring children.
FAVORITE SAYINGS
Two callers shared favorite sayings of Mother Teresa.
For Adelia May, a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Galesburg, a quote on a daily calendar has stuck with her: “I hope, I wish, with God’s help, to be holy.” “I say it every day before my rosary,” she told The Catholic Post.
Mary Joy Feeney of Rock Island, meanwhile, knows the wisdom of Mother Teresa’s saying that loneliness and being forgotten are the greatest poverties. A widow and now 86, Feeney says that as we age we “have to learn to be alone and accept.” She keeps the saying taped inside her cupboard door.
ORDAINED A MISSIONARY OF CHARITY FATHER
Peoria native Darren Dentino, a Bergan High School graduate and one of 10 children of Mike and Margaret Dentino, is now a priest of the Missionaries of Charity serving in Guadalajara, Mexico. A 1998 Catholic Post feature on then Brother Dentino (shown with Mother Teresa in an undated photo) told how the musician learned of the community during a “Come and See” two-week experience in 1992. He spent 12 years in formation serving the poor in Mexico and Kolkata, India, and studied for the priesthood in Rome, where he was ordained 12 years ago.
“It’s not so much the work we do,” he told The Catholic Post in 1998, when his studies were augmented by visits to AIDS patients and assisting with a youth group at a neighboring parish. “It’s that we’re happy to do it.”
Father Dentino traveled to Rome to witness the canonization with other priests of his community.
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Minnesota Museum of American Art
Housed in the historic Endicott Building, the Minnesota Museum of American Art is one of the state's leading arts institutions. It features a collection of 4,500 works of state, regional and national American artists including Thomas Hart Benton, Joan Mitchell, Romare Bearden; many Minnesota artists are also represented. The museum also offers numerous educational community engagement programs including classes, interdisciplinary programs, and partnerships. The Endicott Building was built in the late 1890s and, along with the adjoining Pioneer Building, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Endicott Building was built in the late 1890s. The museum relocated here in 2012.
The two buildings were designed in the Italian Romanesque style and were constructed during a major commercial boom period. The Pioneer was built first (in 1889) and originally the two buildings were separated by a narrow alley. The museum was founded as the St. Paul School of Fine Arts in 1894. It was officially incorporated as a museum in 1927. Serious collecting began in the 1940s and its name was changed to the St. Paul Art Center in the 1950s. The name was changed again in 1969 to the Minnesota Museum of Art. It became the Minnesota Museum of American Art in 1992 to reflect the museum's primary focus on American works.
"About." Minnesota Museum of American Art. Accessed April 5, 2017. http://mmaa.org/about.
Lutz, Thomas. "Pioneer and Endicott Buildings." National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. July 10, 1974. https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/cab922d1-6629-47f2-98d7-c53114ed81e9.
Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri, via Wikimedia Commons
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Museums and Galleries of Minneapolis and St Paul
This tour would take several days to complete and is intended to offer a general introduction to the many museums and art galleries of the MSP metro.
Historic St. Paul Minnesota Walking Tour
This walking tour begins with some of the city's historic churches and theaters and includes several museums, statues, and landmarks such as Union Depot and the Landmark Center.
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Enhancing the involvement of people with disabilities in disability research
December 10, 2019 1.18am EST
Dina Afrianty, La Trobe University, Slamet Thohari, Universitas Brawijaya
Dina Afrianty
Research Fellow at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University
Slamet Thohari
Senior lecturer, Universitas Brawijaya
Dina Afrianty receives funding from Knowledge Sector Initiative, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and implemented in partnership with Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency. The opinions expressed in this article are the authors' own and do not represent the views of the Australian or Indonesian governments.
Slamet Tohari is Indonesian Chair of Aidran (Australia Indonesia Disability and Advocacy Research Network), a senior lecturer at the Departement of Sociology Universitas Brawijaya. Slamet receive funding from Knowledge Sector Initiative, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and implemented in partnership with Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency.
La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.
Very few people with disabilities have access to tertiary education. Pusat Studi dan Layanan Disabilitas, Universitas Brawijaya, Author provided
To remove the barriers that discriminate against people with disabilities, the Indonesian government should create policies based on high-quality research. People with lived experiences of disability should be at the centre of the research process.
This approach is essential because relevant and accurate data can help overcome the social and cultural prejudices that prevent real action for people with disabilities. And it is critical that research reflects their needs because they understand what is needed.
The majority of research still deals with people with disabilities as objects of research by restricting them to the role of informants.
It is time to start including persons with disabilities as part of the research team. They can then be involved in identifying issues that matter most for their lives in the research design process.
Involving people with disabilities in developing inclusive policy and knowledge of disabilities will greatly help to reduce interest bias and untangle the complexity of disability.
Disability research in Indonesia
Since enacting the Disability Law in 2016, Indonesia has demonstrated its commitment to transforming its approach to upholding the rights of people with disabilities.
It has gradually adopted the social model. This is an approach to social policy-making based on recognising the perspectives of people with disabilities. It emphasises that social structure is the source of exclusion, discrimination and inequality.
Indonesia has since seen emerging research in this area. Since 2015, an international disability conference has been organised biannually by Australian and Indonesian researchers and advocates. The latest one took place in September 2019.
The authors of this article were the conveners of the last conference. Topics discussed at this conference included legal and socio-cultural studies, education, health and well-being, politics, psychology, religion, disability research methodology, infrastructure and technology – tools are being developed to support accessibility.
We see increased interest among researchers at universities, disability advocates working at disabled people’s organisations, and those working with international development agencies on disability research.
Some of the material presented at the conference was the work of people with lived experiences. This academic conference enables us to observe directly the extent of development in disability studies and the level of engagement of people with disabilities, researchers and policy-makers.
Support for research on disabilities has mainly come from international development agencies. The Australian government has been one of the strongest advocates in pushing for inclusive research with a focus on evidence-based research to inform policy.
Under the broad heading of Gender Equity and Social Inclusion, the neighbouring government’s engagement includes a deliberate focus on the quality of life of Indonesians living with disabilities.
Nothing about us, without us
The Latin phrase “nihil de nobis, sine nobis” (nothing about us, without us) communicates the idea that no policy should be decided about a community without direct participation of community members affected by that policy.
Research conducted by people with lived experiences or that involves people with disabilities is consistent with the principle of participatory research. It’s an approach that has been developed in countries like Australia.
However, this approach faces challenges in Indonesia.
First, there is a need for greater adoption of, and funding support for, participatory research to ensure inclusion in research. Secondly, very few people with disabilities have access to tertiary education, but their presence is important to inform this change process to put lived experiences at the centre of research.
It is fair and equitable to expect people with disabilities have an opportunity to contribute. However, they are seriously underrepresented in the sector.
Research on disabilities produced in the global north should inform the development of disability studies in Indonesia.
In countries like Australia and United Kingdom, persons with disabilities have been doing research and published findings and recommendations. Their work has contributed to the formulation of socially inclusive policies.
Indonesia should be in a position to not just adopt this work, but gradually formulate relevant local research. This will help expand the emerging research from the global south.
Progress to date includes the establishment of centres for disability studies and services at Lambung Mangkurat University in South Kalimantan; University of Indonesia Airlangga University UNESA and Brawijaya University in East Java; Ahmad Dahlan University, Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta University, Sanata Dharma University and State Islamic University (UIN) Yogyakarta in Yogyakarta; and UIN Jakarta.
Indonesian disability international journals have been published at Brawijaya University and UIN Yogyakarta.
With its robust disability movement and emerging research by disability advocates, Indonesia should be able to form a basis for local knowledge production.
Moreover, local higher education institutions should now do all they can to improve access to education opportunities. This needs to be across the board and not just through specialist disability-focused programs.
Three is no reason people with disabilities should not contribute in all disciplines and become part of the wider community of scholars. That way, all sectors will be strengthened by their insights, and social transformation will become a reality.
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If it weren’t for John McCain, I’d still be in an Egyptian prison \ - The Freedom Initiative
If it weren’t for John McCain, I’d still be in an Egyptian prison
Mohamed Soltan is a human rights advocate and founder of the Freedom Initiative.
I woke up a few days ago to a voice mail from my mother in Egypt consoling me about the loss of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Later in the same day, I received two text messages from contraband phones in Egyptian prisons: My friends there were grieving his loss as well. This did not come as a complete shock. McCain, after all, played a vital role in securing my own release from prison in Egypt, and without him, I would not be able to pen these words as a free man in his honor.
That I can write this strikes me as all the more remarkable, considering that there was a time when I harshly criticized him.
The senator has left our troubled world at a time when we need a man like him the most. As the lines continue to blur between fact and fiction, McCain always remained grounded in reality with an unwavering stance on freedom and morality. Advocates for human rights in the Middle East are shaken by his loss. We strongly feel his absence in the fight against oppression and tyranny in this era when human rights are far down at the bottom of the current administration’s list of priorities.
McCain’s door was always open to victims of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. His staffers would jokingly complain that they felt as if their sole job was to save prisoners around the world. He was not only an American patriot but also a champion to millions who faced oppression. His voice echoed in some of the darkest dungeons and prisons around the globe.
During my nearly two years in prison in Egypt, the authorities sometimes allowed Islamic State recruiters into our solitary confinement wards. These extremists were deliberately deployed to convince me and other pro-democracy prisoners that hunger strikes and peaceful resistance were ineffective in the face of oppression. They argued that the United States had abandoned its own ideals and values by supporting the likes of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Many of us responded to their propaganda by invoking the name of McCain. His stances proved that the West is not all the same and that American policy is not a monolith.
After soldiers marched onto Cairo streets in July 2013, McCain responded with a courage the White House did not have: He used the word “coup” to describe Sissi’s seizure of power and crackdown on the elected government. In 2015, McCain released a powerful statement advocating the release and protection of human rights defenders in oppressive countries like Egypt, of whom I was one.
When I heard that McCain had written a letter calling for my release, I was taken aback. I had long opposed his hawkish policies in the Middle East, including his support for the war in Iraq, and, as a U.S. citizen, I had tirelessly campaigned against him in the 2008 presidential election. In fact, I still disagree with him on many of his past policies and positions. And yet I was grateful for his advocacy on the Senate floor and behind closed doors. As I laid in my prison cell, many times on the verge of death and with deteriorating health, his support offered a ray of hope that only another former prisoner could understand — that feeling of being unjustly imprisoned, hopeless and helpless.
His voice was pivotal to obtaining the support of the United States in securing my release and the release of thousands of prisoners of conscience around the world.
Only someone who has experienced suffering and oppression at firsthand can continue to combat it with such passion and dedication. I, like many others, benefited from McCain’s courage and have been touched by his heroism. He will live on in history as a flawed man whose policies were often subject to his biases and limitations — but also, more importantly, as a principled man who was committed to justice, democracy and human rights. His courage in the political arena intimidated and struck fear in the hearts of tyrants.
McCain was a testament to the fact that one could be a decent human and politician while remaining true to universal values and principals. Today, tyrants and dictators celebrate while we, the victims of authoritarianism, mourn and grieve.
Yes, the loss of McCain is an exceptionally devastating loss for human rights defenders across the world. It leaves a massive void at a time when that community is enduring abuse and defeat, and is losing many of its staunchest champions. His passing will in turn embolden demagogues, authoritarians and dictators around the world for many years after the news about his death has faded. He was a firewall against state oppression for many people, and it is unclear if there is anyone who will be able to fill his shoes.
From one former prisoner to another, I promise to share the spirit of freedom McCain has injected into my life and the lives of others. I pledge to help others in the spirit of his courage and dedication, and I hope that he can somehow feel the ripple effect of the goodness he has brought into this world.
May God forgive his shortcomings and have mercy on his soul.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/08/31/if-it-werent-for-john-mccain-id-still-be-in-an-egyptian-prison/
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Skyward Sword Replay: Week 1
Posted on June 6, 2016 by Ryan
Having finished up with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, and being totally obsessed with Zelda because of Hyrule Warriors Legends, I have decided to finally begin a replay of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Will I see it through to the end? Oh yeah, most likely. Unlike RPGs, more action-oriented games generally hold my attention all the way through on a replay.
I have also decided that I will take some time out to reflect on the game each week, as despite being one of my most anticipated games ever and having enjoyed it quite a lot, Skyward Sword really didn’t leave a very lasting impression on me. I could tell you every plot beat and plenty of pointless trivia from nearly every other Zelda game, but my memories of Skyward Sword are mostly blurry and full of holes.
To call this “Week 1” might be a bit of a misnomer, as it’s really just “Day 1” if I’m going for full disclosure. It was a very full day though! I played for like six hours!
As soon as I gained control of Link, the first thing I wanted to do was to remove the control overlay on the HUD. There was no option to do this, and I was quite displeased, as it takes up a lot of screen real estate. The right side of the screen is covered in a huge Wiimote diagram, and there’s a nunchuk display on the bottom left. It’s really ugly and distracting. Fortunately, after the intro stuff was over and the adventure proper began, I was given the option to reduce the control layout to a smaller, more traditional display. There’s even an option to turn it off entirely, which is very thoughtful!
Speaking of controls, Skyward Sword was built entirely around motion controls, which put off a lot of players. They really don’t bother me, but I can understand how having to move slightly could be a deterrent to your average Gamer. What does make the motion controls a problem is that they are so tightly woven into the game that it would be nearly impossible to re-release it with normal controller support. So that means no Skyward Sword HD, which is too bad, because the game’s art style is gorgeous and would be mind-bogglingly beautiful with a high definition remaster. But hey, being sad because I won’t get to pay $80 for a prettier version of a game I already own is a very first world kind of problem.
One of the biggest black marks on Twilight Princess’ reputation is that the time between the start of the game and the first dungeon is very long and slow. It’s really not as bad as the internet would like you to think, but it does get going at a very leisurely pace. Skyward Sword also has a fairly extended intro sequence, though savvy players can probably burn through it pretty quickly. I took about two hours to get to the surface, but I plodded along, taking time to get reacquainted with Skyloft and its citizens. I even chased Beedle’s ship shop around for a while trying to get on board before I was supposed to (I failed).
Back to Twilight Princess again for a moment: that game has really incredible cutscenes. The huge range of facial expressions for all the characters, they way that so many of them have tons of unique animations, and overall excellent direction. It’s really very satisfying to watch the story in Twilight Princess unfold, and even though you are allowed to skip the cutscenes, I never do because I find them such a joy to watch. And for years I thought that this was unique to TP. Not exactly! Skyward Sword does a lot of these things too, but to a lesser extent. Link, Zelda and Groose are all very animated and expressive, though most of the other characters are a little more stiff. Zelda in particular is very lovable in this game, and luckily, most of the scenes in the first act focus on her.
As far as gameplay is involved, I do quite enjoy how the “field” sections are basically just wide-open dungeons that lead into the more traditional temple-style dungeons. I wandered around Faron Woods for quite a bit longer than I needed to, just learning the lay of the land and hunting for secrets. This being a Zelda game, of course, many of said secrets are currently inaccessible because I don’t have bombs or whatever it is that lets Link dive underwater.
The Kikwis are cute. I like them better than Deku Scrubs and Kokiri as the forest-dwelling people, but they’re not quite as adorable as the jingly little Koroks.
Goddess Cubes are an interesting distraction. They are black blocks that, when hit with a Skyward Strike, make a treasure chest appear somewhere up above the clouds. It’s kind of like finding treasure charts in Wind Waker, but less exciting. In the end, they’re just another thing that you’ll be combing old areas for once you get a new tool. Might have been better to cut out the middleman and just hide treasure chests instead. At least you eventually get the ability to dowse for them.
Speaking of which, dowsing is a handy feature, but why does the game keep insisting that I use it every ten steps? Like, let me just run around and explore. We’re not on a time limit here, so it’s not critical that I beeline to the goal as fast as possible. Though Fi isn’t being as overly intrusive as people like to claim. She doesn’t pop out any more often than Midna, and so far I’ve been able to ignore all of her “Hey! Listen!” jingles without any forced interruptions. I’m beginning to think that folks on the internet might like to blow things way out of proportion.
This is running pretty darn long now, so let’s just touch on one last thing: Skyview Temple. It is incredibly short and easy, as you might expect a game’s first dungeon to be. But take a moment to look back on the first dungeons in other Zelda games… Dragon Roost Cavern, TP’s Forest Temple, Woodfall Temple, even the Deku Tree. All of these first dungeons are significantly more complex and bigger than Skyview. It’s not a terrible dungeon if you take it on its own terms, but it really pales in comparison to its peers, and is fairly unsatisfying. On the other hand, it’s got the absolute hardest first boss in the series: a duel with Ghirahim. He’s not too tricky if you’ve figured out sword combat and how to parry with a shield, but I can see many a player getting stuck and giving up at this point. It’s a great fight that eschews the usual Zelda tradition of “use the dungeon tool to stun the boss, sword him, repeat twice more” in favour of a truly intense one-on-one duel.
Alright, so. It turns out that I have a few more thoughts about Skyward Sword than I’d expected. Imagine that! It’s a complex game, and there’s a lot to go over. I might have to start paring down my thoughts so that these things aren’t just massive walls of text.
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One Step Closer to Senator Dukakis?
John Hanlon
@johnhanlon
Posted: Sep 23, 2009 7:30 AM
Although there seemed to be some doubt about the Governor of Massachusetts being able to appoint an interim Senator earlier this month, little doubt now seems to remain. It is now extremely likely that Governor Patrick will get to appoint the next Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and his choice could be former Massachusetts Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
As the Boston.com website reported yesterday, "The state Senate passed a bill this afternoon that would allow Governor Deval Patrick to name an interim successor to Edward M. Kennedy, potentially paving the way for appointment of a new US senator later this week." That article later noted that "Patrick has pushed for the bill and could sign it as early as Wednesday." That appointment could, once again, give liberals in the Senate a 60th vote, which could prove pivotal for those who are trying to pursue massive health care reform this fall.
One top prospect for the position is former Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis. (Dukakis, it should be noted, was the last Democratic Governor of Massachusetts before Patrick, who was inaugurated in January of 2007.) Along with Democrats in the state who could be pleased by the appointment of Dukakis, the Boston Globe is also advocating for that decision. A recent editorial by the Globe noted that "The ideal candidate for the interim job would have a high profile, significant policy expertise, and a record of political independence - but no further political ambitions. Dukakis is the most logical choice; indeed, he may be the only one who meets all the relevant criteria." [# More #]
There is definitely a good possibility that over two decades after his failed run for the presidency, Governor Dukakis may finally get a major and high-profile position in our nation's capital, if only for a couple of months. However, there is always a chance that Patrick chooses someone other than Dukakis. It was only a few months ago that a Senator Caroline Kennedy seemed like a sure thing. Dukakis may have momentum on his side for the appointment but if the legislation is signed by Patrick, then the decision will be the Governor's to make.
Fortunately, Politico.com has a new article about lessons that Patrick should keep in mind if he does get the opportunity to appoint Kennedy's replacement in the Senate. The last lesson "Remember, the nation is watching" is one that Patrick should surely note before making his decision. The nation was watching as New York Governor Paterson fumbled when he was given the chance to make a Senate appointment and now, according to reports, President Obama wants him to quit running for re-election because of Paterson political vulnerabilities.
Now, the nation will be watching to see what Governor Patrick decides if, as is now likely, he gets to appoint the next Senator from Massachusetts.
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Tag: Todd Robeck
Does SeaWorld Do Much For Wild Orcas?
“I’ve certainly never seen a SeaWorld researcher.”
Not really, writes Tasneem Raja in Mother Jones:
Yet independent orca researchers say these arguments don’t hold water. “If SeaWorld didn’t exist, would our understanding of wild killer whales be significantly reduced? I think the answer to that is no, it would not,” says a veteran marine-mammal researcher who works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s a bit like having Walt Disney tell us about mouse biology,” says Ken Balcomb, founder of the Center for Whale Research and a pioneering orca researcher.
Despite their 24/7 access to killer whales, SeaWorld-affiliated researchers have published relatively few orca studies. Of the four dozen orca-related papers coauthored by SeaWorld-backed researchers over the past 40 years, half were published before 1990, and just seven since 2010. What’s more, at least one-third of these papers did not focus on captive whales, but wild populations ranging from Alaska to New Zealand.
Many of the papers cited on SeaWorld’s website were coauthored by researchers from the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, a San Diego nonprofit founded in 1963. SeaWorld provides around 10 percent of its roughly $5 million budget. In 2012 and 2013, Hubbs-SeaWorld published 26 papers on topics ranging from abalone genetics to polar bears’ hearing; none focused on orcas. SeaWorld also touts its SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund as evidence of its investment in killer-whale science and conservation. However, between 2004 and 2012 the fund spent no more than $550,000 on research focused on killer whales, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Whale and Dolphin Conservation.
It’s well worth reading the whole thing.
At some point SeaWorld will realize that spin will no longer cut it. If they want credit for promoting conservation and a better understanding of threats to wild orca populations they will have to make real investments and do real research.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 12/05/2014 Categories Diary Of A Killer WhaleTags Blackfish, conservation, research, salmon, SeaWorld, Shamu, Todd Robeck1 Comment on Does SeaWorld Do Much For Wild Orcas?
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Iconic singer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member ART GARFUNKEL has made an indelible mark on the music world as both a solo artist and half of the unrivaled Simon & Garfunkel. He has also enjoyed a successful film career, published a book of poetry, released 12 solo albums, and recently written an autobiography, What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From An Underground Man.
GARFUNKEL was originally celebrated for his Grammy-winning, chart-topping songs and albums with partner and fellow NYC native Paul Simon. Their greatest hits collection, which includes “Mrs. Robinson,” “Scarborough Fair,” “The Sound Of Silence,” “The Boxer” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” among others, is one of the biggest selling albums ever.
For his In Close-Up tour dates, Art brings along a guitarist and keyboardist, performing Simon & Garfunkel songs, solo hits, select covers – and he reads excerpts from Luminous. “Taking on the fear and vulnerability of a live show keeps you vital,” says GARFUNKEL. “I’m a singer trying to get away with a lucky job. I try to soothe, to lift…That’s my life.”
Blessed with what the New York Times described as a “beautiful countertenor,” singer ART GARFUNKEL has made an indelible mark on the music world as both a solo artist and half of the unrivaled Simon & Garfunkel.
Since then, he has been busy as a husband and father to his two sons, 27 year-old James and 12-year-old Beau Daniel. He is also an avid walker who has walked across Japan, the US (celebrated in the 1997 concert DVD “ACROSS AMERICA”), and now Europe.
After Simon & Garfunkel parted ways in 1970, GARFUNKEL landed several major film roles, including “Carnal Knowledge” (opposite Jack Nicholson), “Catch 22”, and Nicholas Roeg’s “Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession.” His solo debut “ANGEL CLARE” spawned the top 10 hit “All I Know.” His other solo albums include “BREAKAWAY” (‘75; features the hit “I Only Have Eyes For You”), “WATERMARK” (‘78; featuring “[What A] Wonderful World” with James Taylor and Paul Simon), “FATE FOR BREAKFAST” (‘79), “SCISSORS CUT” (‘81), “THE ANIMALS’ CHRISTMAS” (‘86), “LEFTY” (‘88), “GARFUNKEL” (greatest hits, ‘88), “UP TILL NOW” (‘93), “ACROSS AMERICA” (‘97), “SONGS FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD” (‘97), “EVERYTHING WAITS TO BE NOTICED” (’03), “SOME ENCHANTED EVENING” (’07) and “THE SINGER” (2012).
The late ‘80s brought two new challenges for GARFUNKEL: he published Still Water, a collection of poetry, in ‘89, and began an amazing trek across America–on foot. But the ‘80s and ‘90s found GARFUNKEL doing what he does best: singing for an audience.
ART GARFUNKEL earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia College, majoring in Art History; later he earned his Masters degree in Architecture at Columbia University. He lives in New York City with his wife Kim. GARFUNKEL is an avid reader and has chronicled every book he’s read since June 1968 on his website–1,246 in all.
For more, visit www.artgarfunkel.com.
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'Don't think you’re immune because you're isolated': B.C. Indigenous chief warns after COVID-19 outbreak
Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 8:22AM PST Last Updated Wednesday, November 25, 2020 6:49PM PST
VICTORIA -- Alert Bay was one of the first remote areas in B.C. to be hit with COVID-19, and the elected chief hopes no one has to live through what they did.
“It was a really scary thing,” said ‘Namgis First Nation elected Chief Don Svanvik. “You’d rather not go through a curfew or lockdown like we did.”
Every day at 9 p.m. a tsunami alert would sound in Alert Bay telling people they had to be back home in 30 minutes.
“It was a really scary time,” he said. “We believed it wasn’t going to come to us. We are a little island and we are going to know when it comes up and then boom, here it is, we have it.”
Cabins were available to people who could not self-isolate and anyone who had a positive test was flown off the remote island to a hospital.
Svanvik said there are roughly 1,500 people on the island and 30 people tested positive and one person died. Later, they learned six people had the antibodies of the virus.
“That was really surprising to everyone,” he said.
Currently, there are no cases of the virus in Alert Bay and there are limited restrictions, but the acting chief medical officer for the First Nations Health Authority said communities are in the second wave of the virus.
“We’ve seen the numbers increase significantly,” said Dr. Shannon MacDonald.
Previously, she was seeing one to two cases a day, every day. Now, daily numbers are in the double digits and climbing.
“Those numbers are increasing and the severity is increasing and we are seeing more people having to be in the hospital,” she said.
First Nations govern and set their own rules and MacDonald said she is there to guide them.
“My job is about relationship and partnering with communities and providing them the information they need to make their own decision,” she said. “That’s completely the role of a self-determining nation and I work for them.”
Another First Nation community on Haida Gwaii has confirmed a positive case of COVID-19 and Tlaoquiaht First Nation in Tofino has two positive cases.
“A small outbreak can be disastrous,” said MacDonald.
Haida Gwaii, similar to Alert Bay, is not locked down but Old Massett resident Cynthia Samuels said people are taking extra precautions.
“The first time we had the outbreak everyone was panicking and everyone was scared, but with his case we got reassured right away that this was an isolated case and that person went right into isolation,” said Samuels.
A checkpoint was set up in the past few days to monitor the people coming and going from the community.
The Tlaoquiaht First Nation is completely locked down and posted on their Facebook page asking people to stay home.
“There is to be absolutely no visitors to the community and no visiting between houses,” says the statement. “Please do not travel beyond the junction. Only leave the community for absolutely essential foods and supplies.”
Dr. MacDonald said many people in the communities have chronic diseases and are particularly at risk.
“Another thing is in some communities where housing is a challenge and multi-generational households live together in close proximity and space and all it would take is one individual to come in with COVID to have a real impact in that household,” she said.
If the virus were to come back to Alert Bay, Svanvik said he would react more quickly.
“Don’t think you’re immune because you’re isolated, absolutely follow the protocols,” said Svanvik. “You get to thinking because of isolation you’re safer and you are until you are not."
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The first in her family to graduate from college, Tricia went on to law school and became a practicing attorney and law professor. In 2013, she was elected by her People, the Ho-Chunk Nation, to serve as Associate Justice of the Ho-Chunk Supreme Court. She was re-elected to that position in 2017.
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Sustainability Drives Success in a Post-Coronavirus World
September 2020 / INVESTMENT INSIGHTS
Find out more about why sustainability is an important indicator of a high-quality growth company.
Scott Berg, Portfolio Manager
The coronavirus pandemic has pulled forward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) trends by years in a matter of months.
Societal pressures are driving unprecedented change and the need for real solutions from governments and businesses alike.
In the current environment, it is more important than ever for companies to incorporate sustainability into their long-term strategies.
Crisis causes change. We know this both as human beings and as experienced global investors. The 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) led to a reckoning in how businesses were run, especially in financial services. The GFC ultimately redefined fiduciary responsibilities, shifting more emphasis toward clients and shareholders. Fueled by government bailouts, new regulations, and shareholder activism, the crisis led to more transparency and fundamentally changed the financial world—in most ways for the better.
In the years following the GFC, we have seen seismic shifts in the global economic landscape: In particular, technology has permeated all sectors and industries, creating remarkable efficiencies and capabilities. In some ways, technology has been a significant democratic force, spreading power, knowledge, and sophisticated tools to many. But technology has also been hugely disruptive: Generating significant efficiencies has led to job losses and some industries disappearing altogether. Meanwhile, we have also seen wealth concentration and natural monopolies created with clear winners and losers, which in turn contributes to social and political tensions.
The coronavirus pandemic has pulled forward many disruptive trends to a staggering degree. Social distancing and the shuttering of brick-and-mortar businesses have accelerated e-commerce and communication adoption by years. Businesses are leaning on technology to help employees function in a work-from-home status that may become a more permanent way of life even after the pandemic wanes.
The coronavirus pandemic has pulled forward many disruptive trends to a staggering degree.
However, even as governments around the world have applied unprecedented monetary and fiscal policy stimulus to create and protect jobs, they have struggled to ease growing societal pressures.
Technology and an Era of Accelerated Change
(Fig. 1) A monumental era of investment, fueled by credit and new technology, has accelerated and enabled disruption
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One of the consequences of the coronavirus has been an intensified debate about how to address various dimensions of inequality, both societal and economic.
...it is more important than ever for companies to incorporate sustainability into their long-term strategies.
Given the current environment, it is more important than ever for companies to incorporate sustainability into their long-term strategies. By this, we are not talking about good governance and corporate citizenry, we are talking about developing a robust business strategy for navigating environmental and social change. Sustainability is fundamentally intertwined with and a function of visionary thought, disciplined leadership (especially in crisis), being on the right side of societal change, and contributing to the needs of others.
Just as the GFC was a reckoning for financial companies, so has the current health crisis been for the technology sector. Big tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Netflix are not unfamiliar with ESG controversy. Their business models have driven and benefited from tremendous societal changes in the way we communicate, shop, and watch TV. While these societal shifts have driven topline growth, they also have created more operational risks. With so much at stake, many technology companies have been taking material steps to address their approach to ESG considerations in human capital management and ethics (supporting increased payment of international taxes).
In his 2020 annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos acknowledged the extraordinary role the company has in customers’ lives, stating, “Customers count on us to be there…Amazon can make a positive impact and be an organizing force for progress.” He also outlined the great lengths the company is going in order to invest in logistics to keep pace with customer demand, strive to ensure employee safety and quality of life, reduce packaging waste, and support the diversity and skills of future generations. These are all core tenets of creating an increasingly sustainable business. That one of the most influential CEOs of one of the largest companies in the world chooses to focus on them shows that sustainability has become not just a part of the conversation, but increasingly an important consideration in corporate strategy.
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(Fig. 2) 1950–2019: Wall Street boom, main street bust
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It’s not just large firms that are recognizing their importance in supporting and improving our lives: Since the pandemic, smaller companies have also seen the difference they are making to help us through challenging times. E-commerce platforms are playing a pivotal role in helping small businesses transition from offline to online. In health care, there are several smaller, niche biotech companies that are at the forefront of the coronavirus battle due to their capabilities in creating accurate testing, serology research, and vaccine support. Never in history has such a collective focus been applied to a problem, and the hope is that society can emerge with a greater sense of collective goals from this period.
With an emphasis on durability and positive change, we feel informed and seek to invest in companies on the right side of change with respect to the next stage of the ESG journey.
We are seeing the results of this shift firsthand: Companies are initiating discussions on ESG themes and outlining detailed plans, where historically it was more common for us at T. Rowe Price to begin the conversation. The conversation around ESG factors has always been important to us, as we believe it creates better companies over the long term. We use a variety of tools to influence change, including dialogue from our analysts, formal letters and communications, face-to-face engagements, and public advocacy. We understand that good ESG practices very often breed more sustainable and durable businesses.
How Do We Factor in ESG?
One reason we feel we are well suited to the era’s increasing focus on ESG is that we fully embed ESG analysis within our investment process. With an emphasis on durability and positive change, we feel informed and seek to invest in companies on the right side of change with respect to the next stage of the ESG journey. Our Responsible Investment team provides analysis on industry-level and stock-specific ESG issues, which we then incorporate into our company-specific analysis and investment theses. We also screen the entire portfolio using our proprietary Responsible Investing Indicator Model to not only help understand the characteristics that relate to ESG, but also to make us aware of any elevated exposures to specific ESG factors.
When we look at the world today, there are several sectors that stand out to us as fertile areas for sustainability and positive impact, which should help quality participants benefit from these sea changes.
Materials: The last few years have been some of the hottest on record, and catastrophic weather events (forest fires, hurricanes, flooding) are demonstrating the reality of climate change. We are increasingly looking for companies that address climate change through carbon capture and storage, sustainable packaging, and green alternatives that are actively reducing their carbon footprints. For instance, paper and packaging companies are well positioned for the shift from plastics to more sustainable materials. We also focus on companies producing materials like industrial gases that function as greener fuel alternatives.
Utilities: Companies in this sector are going to be central to improving environmental sustainability given their large infrastructure, durable income structures, and ability to invest in renewables to aid the energy transition that is critical for society. We look for high-quality, well-run utilities that are putting significant resources into renewable energy infrastructure.
Health Care: The coronavirus has intersected a period of growing demand and cost for health care provisions and created a bifurcated landscape in health care. Pre-pandemic, we favored biologics companies given the innovation occurring, and the spread of the coronavirus has shown the importance of these types of businesses. The pandemic has also pulled forward telehealth trends by years, and companies that provide these services are seeing rapid adoption while helping patients to maintain essential and safe communication with doctors.
Information Technology: Massive and rapid growth in any sector creates growing pains, and the technology sector has not been absent from negative focus as it has tried to balance economic gains with its obligations to workers and society.
Given political and societal oversight, tech companies are rapidly coming to terms with their responsibilities to act as good stewards of sustainability, even if it comes at the expense of short-term returns. Amazon hiring and investing to fulfill dramatically raised demand while protecting its employees is an example of a focus on long-term sustainability and potential protection of the core business model that relies on reputation and societal acceptance.
We actively engage with a number of large tech companies to help guide their ESG journeys and influence their decision-making where possible. Given the size of our company and the level of exposure we have to the technology sector, we at times have unique access to high-profile management teams and a meaningful ability to influence change directly.
ESG Considerations Are Crucial to Finding Good Growth Companies
A changing economic landscape powered by technology has brought significant disruption to societies around the world, and it has become clear that some form of intersection between society, companies, investors, and governments is crucial to perpetuating economic stability and success. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated adoption of sustainability trends by years, making it critical to understand this increased emphasis and how it will reshape the investment landscape.
ESG is a permanent part of this new order. Businesses will need to think carefully about their effect on industries; people; and, ultimately, the planet. Companies that understand these connections are often the innovators that are positioning themselves for real and future growth. We believe this is a good disruption and we seek to invest in companies on the right side of change.
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Mormon ‘Ex-Gay’ Organization Evergreen International Merges Into Radical North Star
Wayne Besen January 03, 2014
North Star is so Rigid it Believes that “it would have been wrong to ordain a black person in May of 1978”
CHICAGO – Truth Wins Out welcomed the demise today of the notorious Mormon “ex-gay” organization Evergreen International, which will be merged into North Star, an ambitious “ex-gay” organization that markets itself to a younger demographic. Despite its sunny presentation, North Star is a radical fringe group that uses junk science to dehumanize LGBT people. A group spokesperson, Jeff Bennion (pictured), is a controversial figure who claimed two weeks ago that “it would have been wrong to ordain a black person” prior to 1978.
“North Star is a rising star in the ‘ex-gay’ industry that supports junk science and espouses dangerous ideas that harm LGBT people and their families,” said Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen. “Their philosophy is that gay people should marry the opposite sex, which is a prescription for disaster and divorce. It is our view that North Star should follow in the footsteps of Evergreen and disband before they harm more innocent people and ruin additional lives.”
In a controversial Dec. 23, 2013 article packed with junk science Bennion wrote:
“Another set of people will say that the Church will eventually come around to blessing homosexual unions, just like they did with blacks and the Priesthood, perhaps the precedent being the now-discarded practice of adoption sealings that were performed in the early restored Church. There is much more to say about this issue that I will do in a future blog post, but for now it will suffice to point out that it would have been wrong to ordain a black person in May of 1978, even if you knew with a certainty that is changing the next month.”
North Star is also a staunch opponent of efforts to prohibit reparative therapists from practicing on minors. Such laws have been passed in California and New Jersey, and are under consideration in several other states. Jeff Bennion penned an op-ed for the New York Post, “A Low Attack on Same-Sex Therapy,” expressing his organization’s support for the harmful practice of conversion/reparative therapy:
“SOCE was a revelation to me. It helped me confront my shame, around not only my homosexual feelings but also many other experiences. It taught me that my feelings were innately good, and a natural response to the circumstances I faced. It motivated me to try to repair important family relationships, and helped me learn how to better relate to other men, whom I’d previously ignored or disdained. It’s made me much more accepting of myself and of others.
All of this growth would have been worthwhile on its own terms. But I also found that my sexuality was much more fluid than I’d realized. Under certain circumstances, those feelings were not an issue at all, to the point that they became dormant.
I don’t claim that I no longer experience same-sex attraction, but neither do I need to. Through therapy, I gained enough skills that I felt able, in an open and honest way, to explore romantic relationships with women.”
The Salt Lake Tribune first reported on the story of the “ex-gay merger today:
Days after hundreds of gay and lesbian couples swarmed county offices to get Utah marriage licenses, a group originally founded to help Mormons eliminate same-sex attraction closed its doors.
Before doing so, Evergreen International turned over some of its resources and mailing lists — said to number up to 30,000 participants, including many from Spanish-speaking countries — to a newer LDS-based gay support group, North Star.
Combining the two groups, organizers say, will create “the largest single faith-based ministry organization for Latter-day Saints who experience same-sex attraction or gender-identity incongruence and will also provide increased access to resources for church leaders, parents, family and friends.
North Star believes that homosexuality is sinful:
“Homosexual behavior is included among many kinds of sin that God considers wrong, according to scriptures that Latter-day Saints claim to uphold, and confirmed by many Prophets and Apostles they claim to sustain.”
“Latter-day Saints who believe that homosexual behavior is not sinful and may eventually be endorsed by the Church are also in error.”
Bennion shared his thoughts on marriage equality in Utah:
“I am surprised at the speed with which it has been imposed. What has been not only surprising, but dis heartening, is the number of friends who are self-described believing Latter-day Saints who have hailed this ruling as a good thing. I have been pondering why people who consider themselves believing Latter-day Saints would celebrate this action, particularly the specific means by which it was imposed in this case, which has some fairly dire implications for religious freedom. I think there are two reasons for it. First, these people believe that homosexual sex, under at least certain circumstances, is not sinful. Secondly, these people believe that there is no qualitative difference between homosexual relationships and heterosexual relationships. These premises are both wrong, however, and I will discuss each in turn.”
Bennion is also quite glib about gay people marrying the opposite sex and potentially ruining the lives of both partners, as well as the lives of offspring:
“Perhaps what is meant is that gay couples love each other just as much as opposite sex couples do. I think that is true, from what I have seen. But what does love have to do with marriage?. If love is all that is required for people to have the right to marry, how much love is enough? Must it be deep, passionate love, or merely fond affection will suffice? I love my parents and siblings deeply, and that love is not cheapened by the fact that I do not have the right to marry any of them.
In one sense of the word, we have had gay marriage for some time. I should know. I am in one. I experience same sex attraction, and yet I am married. In my case, however, I am married to a woman….As I can attest personally, it is far from a merely irrelevant and pedantic point to say that gay men already had the right to get married. In fact, there are far more of us married to women than there will ever be who are married to another man. We are not the exception, we are the rule.”
Here are Bennion’s backward views on transgender people:
“…I saw the cover of People magazine, which had on its cover the picture which purported to be of a pregnant man. Reading the article, you will discover that this story is not as newsworthy as it appears. The “man” is not a man at all, he is a woman living under a legally sanctioned fiction that he is a man.”
“What an odd and judgmental statement coming from Jeff Bennion, who is a homosexual man living under the legally sanctioned fiction that he is a heterosexually married man,” said TWO’s Besen.
Truth Wins Out (TWO) is a non-profit organization that works to demolish the very foundation of anti-gay prejudice. Our philosophy is simple: We attack the underpinnings of homophobia by debunking harmful lies, discrediting hateful myths, and countering anti-gay organizations. By chipping away at the underlying ignorance that fuels anti-LGBT attitudes, we can ultimately win our fight for fairness and achieve full equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people worldwide.
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Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
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Explore the University Museums through eMuseum! This educational tool was created to support students and faculty in their quest for knowledge by providing access to search the permanent collection. The University Museums' permanent collection at Iowa State University includes more than 30,000 objects with significant collections in the areas of the Decorative Arts, the art of Christian Petersen, Public Art, and Iowa Artists. Up to now only a portion of the museum's permanent collection has been available to view online. The eMuseum tool will allow you to now fully explore the collection, whether currently on view or in storage, by putting all of the permanent collection online.
The University Museums at Iowa State began in 1975 and currently consists of the Anderson Sculpture Garden, Art on Campus Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, Christian Petersen Art Museum, and Farm House Museum. Since 1975 a variety of Museum staff members, interns and volunteers have worked to describe and find background information on the objects in the collection. We continue to update our records, take photographs, and add more detailed descriptions. Our goal through eMuseum is to create vital partnerships within Iowa State University and to enhance higher education by exploring creative interactions in the arts, sciences and technology.
This is an ongoing project so please check back for new research, updated information and photographs, and new acquisitions. The objects listed here represent a majority of the University Museums' collection. While we are committed to make the entire collection accessible via the internet, museum staff recognizes that some information may not be accurate and up-to-date. If you have information relevant to any of the objects you find on our site, we would be grateful to know about it. Please direct any inquiries to aclone@iastate.edu.
Funding for the University eMuseum project has been generously provided by Carole Horowitz, Kathy and John Howell, IBM, Al and Ann Jennings and a TechStarter Grant through IT Services at Iowa State University.
Iowa State has been commissioning and collecting public art for nearly 100 years and the intent has remained consistent - to create an intellectually and culturally stimulating campus environment. More than 650 significant, and more than 2,000 total, public works of art promote social, political and cultural discussions reflecting the diverse values and belief systems of the campus community. Public art is a partnership between the artist and the commissioning campus community and provides a unique sense of place while promoting the practice of visual literacy to the entire university.
The Art on Campus Collection is continually growing through the Art in State Buildings (AiSB) Program, originally enacted in 1978 by the Iowa Legislature. The law requires one-half of one percent of state building construction funds be used for acquiring public art.
The Art on Campus Collection also includes models, drawings, maquettes and works of art from the permanent collections, exploring the creative processes public artists use to research, create and install the public works of art in the Art on Campus Collection. This part of the collection is housed at The Christian Petersen Art Museum, which is the nation’s only campus museum devoted to teaching visual literacy campus-wide while focusing on public art as a major means of communication and expression to campus audiences.
Christian Petersen created more than 1,250 known works of art during his lifetime, and nearly 80% of his sketches, drawings and sculptures are included in the Christian Petersen Art Collection at Iowa State. Christian Petersen was sculptor in residence at Iowa State for twenty one years, from 1934 to 1955. Petersen originally came to Iowa at the invitation of artist Grant Wood during the Great Depression to participate in the federal Public Works of Art Projects for Iowa State and stayed to make a permanent and lasting impression on the campus landscape.
In 1962, Ann and Henry Brunnier pledged to Iowa State a collection of dolls and decorative arts amassed over fifty-five years. The donation included a comprehensive European, North American and Asian decorative art collection. This was comprised of glass, ceramics, Old Russian enamels, and ivory carvings. Ann’s collection included more than 8,000 objects, filling two semi-trucks. Since this original donation, hundreds of other private patrons have donated other decorative arts collections to expand the University Museums’ permanent collections. In addition to a large encyclopedic collection of glass, fine ceramics, Russian enamels and ivory, this collection also includes furniture, jades, pottery, snuff bottles, and carved wood objects.
In 1962, Ann and Henry Brunnier pledged to Iowa State a collection of dolls and decorative arts amassed over fifty-five years. The donation included a comprehensive European, North American and Asian doll collection. Ann’s total collection included more than 4,000 objects, filling two semi-trucks. Since this original donation, the doll collection has been carefully curated to include some of the best of Ann’s collection. Victorian era games and toys are also in this collection, many of which are on display at the Farm House Museum.
In 1975 University Museums did not initially plan an Iowa Artists Collection, but within five years it became apparent that this important artistic legacy needed to be addressed, both for Iowa State and the citizens of Iowa. As the Iowa Artist Collection grew through the exceptional generosity of donors and artists the Iowa Artists Collection became one of the most significant of University Museums’ collections. Artist included in the collection include those that were born and raised in Iowa, were educated in Iowa, and/or worked in Iowa for a period of time. There are now over 150 Iowa artists in the collection and over 2000 works of art by those artists spread throughout the campus.
The history of art pottery at Iowa State began in 1920 with the hiring of Paul Cox (American, 1879-1968) as acting head of the Ceramic Engineering Department. Cox has previously spent eight years at Newcomb College in New Orleans as technical director of Newcomb Pottery. Cox eventually became the official head of ISU’s Ceramic Engineering Department in 1926. Initially Cox’s attention was focused on clearing and preparing the laboratories and work spaces, as well as securing new equipment. The then began traveling throughout Iowa as part of an extension program designed to educate the public about the area of ceramics and its importance to industry and home decoration. Because of Cox’s influence, the modeling of clay and the production of art pottery began to receive equal attention with the technical aspects of ceramics.
The Ceramic Engineering Department slowly gained popularity among students and faculty. Under Cox’s direction the student branch of the American Ceramic Society became involved with VEISHEA (the annual student celebration) and its traditions. The students prepared floats for the parade and also made hundreds of ceramic souvenirs to be sold or given away to campus visitors. One such souvenir, a ceramic tile featuring the iconic Campanile involved then sculptor-in-residence Christian Petersen, and can be seen in this exhibition.
In 1924 Cox hired Newcomb graduate Mary Lanier Yancey (American, 1902-1983) as an instructor in the Ceramic Engineering Department. Her position had two priorities: teaching pottery design and creating pottery for exhibiting throughout the state. Yancey’s Arts and Crafts style pottery was sold and the resulting funds were returned to the department to assist in funding its operations. Most of Yancey’s students were women majoring in Home Economics. The male students in the department worked the clay and prepared it for shaping. The women formed pots by hand or by using a kickwheel. The pots were then glazed and fired and taken home to admire.
Art pottery production at Iowa State ended in 1930 with both Cox and Yancey leaving the department. The “art” aspect of the Ceramic Engineering Department at Iowa State was terminated in 1939 when the emphasis went entirely to engineering and technical matters.
The Iowa Quester Glass Collection now numbers over 1,000 objects ranging from monumental Brilliant Period cut glass to colorful art glass and a diverse array of Early American Pattern Glass. This unique collection, housed in and cared for by Iowa State University Museums, Ames, Iowa, showcases American glass from 1840 to 1950.
In 1996, a partnership was formed between the Iowa Questers led by Kay Beckett of the Neta Snook Chapter in Ames, then Iowa Questers’ State President, Shirley Foster, and University Museums’ director, Lynette Pohlman. At that time, the University Museums was known nationally for having an encyclopedic glass collection as recognized by scholars and the pre-eminent American glass museum, the Corning Museum of Glass of Corning, NY. After a vote from the Iowa Quester State Council the Iowa Quester Glass Collection was formalized with the following mission: “To establish an Iowa Questers Glass Collection, of historic glass from around the world, at Iowa State University Museums. This would provide a State of Iowa resource for preserving, viewing and interpreting historic glass objects. The focus will be on American-made glass from 1840-1945.”
Now the bulk of the collection is American pressed glass pre-Depression Era most of which would fall under the Early American Pressed Glass (EAPG) group. Iconic works of glass include a Jumbo pattern table set, many pieces of Iowa City and Keota glass, a Rebecca at the Well tall standard compote, Terrestrial Globe pattern butter dish, examples from historical glass, the state’s series, and novelties. Thoughtful gifting of three major pressed glass collections just this past two years included over 130 toothpick holders, dozens of whale oil lamps, and a collection of 50+ sauce dishes and other glass works. With the help of many chapters, individuals, partners and collaborators, the collection continues to grow by leaps and bounds!
Highlights of the paintings in the University Museums permanent collection include the twelve painting series America in the Making by N.C. Wyeth, paintings commissioned in the 1930s, and contemporary paintings by significant American artists.
Commissioning portraits of high level administration positions such as President, Vice President, Provost, Dean, Department Head, etc. has been a long standing tradition at Iowa State that continues in to the present. The portrait collection represents a group of individuals who have had a long standing impact on Iowa State and have left behind a legacy of dedication, hard work, and accomplishment.
Sculpture in the permanent collection ranges from works in glass and stone to bronze and fabric. This collection includes North and South American, Asian, African and European sculpture.
The textile collection ranges from historic apparel, linens, rugs and quilts to Native American and contemporary weavings. The permanent collection has fine and costume jewelry, watches, and eyewear.
A work of art tells many stories. The artist’s story and intent, the story of its place in time, whichthen intertwines into the stories of those who view it. This exhibition will explore how art can signify a place, a time, and stories about the world or just one person. Art is powerful, it can create visceral memories and strong communities, bringing people together while they each create their own individual interpretations of what they see, through the lens of their lived experiences. Most oftenit is the curator whorelays the differentinterpretations, created through meticulous research and interviews with artists, through an exhibition at an art museum, but there are morestories we should be tellingabout the art on display.
University Museums has reached out to our community at Iowa State and beyond to tell your stories or interpretations with our permanent collection for this exhibition. The exhibitionincludesartist intent, their stories, along with your stories written through your personallens of who you are, where you are from, and how these inform your unique viewpoints.It is a space open to discussion about the meaning of art and the place of art in a world greatly changed over the last few months.
Ar tis impactful for its ability to reflect time and place, humanity, and the world. Over the past 40 years, the mission of University Museums has been to exhibit and interpret art for the Iowa State campus. As we emerge from this time of isolation, we ask for your stories to broaden the understanding of art within the collection and the place of art in our campus community.
Works of art on paper includes the drawings, photographs, and fine art prints in the collection in addtion to books and documents. The drawings in this collection include a range from realism to abstraction and landscapes to cartoons. Notable artist include Christian Petersen, Frank Miller, Frank Lobdell, and Ellen Wagener. The prints in University Museums permanent collection range early 1800s fashion prints to a large collection of American Scene prints by Depression era artists like Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Louis Lozowick. The collection also boasts the largest collection of fine art prints and printing plates by Jay N. “Ding” Darling as well as prints by significant contemporary printmakers such as Amy Worthen, Beth VanHoesen, and Mark Adams. Many of the photographs in the collection are of ISU campus by George Christensen and King Au.
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Author(s): Yotam Ottolenghi; Ixta Belfrage
Flavour-forward, vegetable-based recipes are at the heart of Yotam Ottolenghi's food. In this stunning new cookbook Yotam and co-writer Ixta Belfrage break down the three factors that create flavour and offer innovative vegetable dishes that deliver brand-new ingredient combinations to excite and inspire. Ottolenghi FLAVOUR combines simple recipes for weeknights, low effort-high impact dishes, and standout meals for the relaxed cook.
Packed with signature colourful photography, FLAVOUR not only inspires us with what to cook, but how flavour is dialled up and why it works. The book is broken down into three parts, which reveal how to tap into the potential of ordinary vegetables to create extraordinary food: Process explains cooking methods that elevate veg to great heights; Pairing identifies four basic pairings that are fundamental to great flavour; Produce offers impactful vegetables that do the work for you.
With surefire hits, such as Aubergine Dumplings alla Parmigiana, Hasselback Beetroot with Lime Leaf Butter, Miso Butter Onions, Spicy Mushroom Lasagne and Romano Pepper Schnitzel, plus mouthwatering photographs of nearly every one of the more than 100 recipes, Ottolenghi FLAVOUR is the impactful, next-level approach to vegetable cooking that Ottolenghi fans and vegetable lovers everywhere have been craving.
The third installment in Yotam's bestselling and multi-award-winning PLENTY series (over 2 million copies sold). FLAVOUR celebrates the limitless potential of vegetables and reveals how to transform them into magical dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi is the restaurateur and chef-patron of the four London-based Ottolenghi delis, as well as the NOPI and ROVI restaurants. He is the author of seven best-selling cookery books. Amongst several prizes, Ottolenghi SIMPLE won the National Book Award and was selected as best book of the year by the New York Times. Yotam has been a weekly columnist for the Saturday Guardian for over thirteen years and is a regular contributor to the New York Times. His commitment to the championing of vegetables, as well as ingredients once seen as 'exotic', has led to what some call 'The Ottolenghi effect'. This is shorthand for the creation of a meal which is full of colour, flavour, bounty and sunshine. Yotam lives in London with his family www.ottolenghi.co.uk @Ottolenghi
Ixta Belfrage (Author)
Ixta Belfrage spent her youth dipping her fingers into mixing bowls in places as far-flung as Italy, Mexico and Brazil and so became an expert without a title. She began her culinary career proper at Ottolenghi's NOPI restaurant, before moving to the Test Kitchen, where she has worked for Yotam Ottolenghi for four years, contributing to his columns in The Guardian and The New York Times. She lives in London, where she makes regular guest chef appearances in some of the city's top restaurants. Flavour is her first book.
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Yes, the Civil Rights Act does protect gay and trans Americans
By Evan Wolfson, opinion contributor — 05/30/19 02:00 PM EDT
A skydiving instructor in New York came out as gay and was fired. A Georgia county child welfare services coordinator was discharged when he joined a gay softball league. After six years as a funeral director in Michigan, a woman disclosed she is transgender and was terminated. Their cases are now headed to the Supreme Court.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 broadly protects Americans against workplace discrimination on the basis of “sex.” The question the Court will consider is whether that protection covers discrimination on the basis of “sexual orientation” (whether you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or non-gay) and “gender identity” (whether you are transgender or not).
Numerous lower courts, including several of the federal appellate courts, as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), have held that it does. They are right.
As the 7th Circuit wrote in an en banc decision of the full court, “It would require considerable calisthenics to remove the ‘sex’ from ‘sexual orientation.’ ”
Black’s Law Dictionary defines homosexuality as “Of relating to, or characterized by sexual desire for a person of the same sex.” Merriam-Webster’s defines it as “Of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex.”
You can’t define sexual orientation without reference to sex, you can’t even spell “sexual orientation” without “sex” and, as the 7th Circuit concluded, “the common-sense reality [is] that it is actually impossible to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation without discriminating on the basis of sex.”
Likewise, the 6th Circuit held that “it is analytically impossible to fire an employee based on that employee’s status as a transgender person without being motivated, at least in part, by the employee’s sex.” In that case, an employee considered excellent and well-qualified when thought to be a man was terminated days after she began coming to work in her true gender identity as a woman.
As a man, fit; as a woman, fired. No wonder even Judge William Pryor, a right-wing darling on President Trump Donald TrumpCIA chief threatened to resign over push to install Trump loyalist as deputy: report Azar in departure letter says Capitol riot threatens to 'tarnish' administration's accomplishments Justice Dept. argues Trump should get immunity from rape accuser's lawsuit MORE’s shortlist for the Supreme Court, found that anti-transgender discrimination is a subset of sex discrimination prohibited under existing federal law.
Courts have agreed that sexual orientation and gender identity are aspects of sex discrimination for several reinforcing reasons. “First,” the 2nd Circuit explained in a ruling of the full court, “sexual orientation discrimination, such as suspending a lesbian employee for displaying a photo of her female spouse on her desk while not suspending a man for displaying a photo of his female spouse, ‘is sex discrimination because it necessarily entails treating an employee less favorably because of the employee’s sex.’ ”
“Second,” the 2nd Circuit held, “it is associational discrimination because an employee alleging discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is alleging that his or her employer took his or her sex into account by treating him or her differently for associating with a person of the same sex. Lastly, sexual orientation discrimination necessarily involves discrimination based on gender stereotypes, most commonly heterosexually defined gender norms.”
These cases did not come out of the blue. For more than 40 years, courts have noted, “the Supreme Court has recognized that ‘employment decisions cannot be predicated on mere stereotyped impressions about the characteristics of males or females,’ because Title VII strikes “at the entire spectrum of disparate treatment of men and women resulting from sex stereotypes.’ This is true of stereotypes about both how the sexes are and how they should be.”
Prohibited stereotyping under the Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court held 30 years ago in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, includes firing a woman because she dresses or acts “too masculine.” That 1989 ruling and subsequent cases have been accepted as the rule in workplaces across the nation. As the 7th Circuit recognized, perhaps “the ultimate case of failure to conform” to a sex stereotype is gay people’s attraction to an employer’s idea of “the wrong sex,” or a transgender person’s transitioning into his or her true gender identity. If an employer were to say, “I’ll hire Jews and I’ll hire Catholics, but I won’t hire converts,” would there be any doubt that is religious discrimination?
In a related case, conservative icon Justice Scalia wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court that “statutory prohibitions often go beyond the principal evil [Congress was considering at the time] to cover reasonably comparable evils, and it is ultimately the provisions of our laws rather than the principal concerns of our legislators by which we are governed.”
I rarely agreed with Justice Scalia, but when he was right, he was right. The text is clear. And majorities of the public in every state, and even a majority of self-identified Republicans, overwhelmingly favor protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace.
In 2015, building on the freedom-to-marry win, LGBT leaders called for work to combat discrimination on several tracks: passing legislation at the local, state, and federal levels; working with businesses and growing public support; pursuing federal litigation under existing law.
Even winning in the Supreme Court under Title VII would not negate the need for additional legislation in Congress and the states, because work in multiple arenas, through multiple methodologies, builds understanding and support in people’s day-to-day lives, lays down building blocks of progress, and delivers protections that reach different people with different remedies.
While moving forward at the state and federal levels with explicit non-discrimination legislation — including H.R. 5, the Equality Act, recently passed by the House of Representatives and endorsed as good for business by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, no less — we now look to the Supreme Court to hew decades of case law from numerous courts declaring that Title VII is, and must be enforced as, a “broad rule of workplace equality.” There should be no transgender exclusion or gay exception.
Evan Wolfson founded and led Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage rights for same-sex couples, which culminated in victory at the Supreme Court in 2015. He teaches law and social change at Georgetown Law Center and at Yale University.
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Adam’s Top 5 Video Games of 2015
Posted on December 28, 2015 by thelostlighthouse in Video Games and tagged Arkham Knight, Avalanche Studios, Batman, Batmobile, best videogames of 2015, Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, Bloodborne, bugs, Fallout 4, From Software, FromSoftware, Fury Road, gaming, glitches, gothic, horror, horror game, Lovecraftian, Mad Max, Playstation 4, post-apocalyptic, PS4, Ready at Dawn, Rocksteady, Rocksteady Studios, sandbox game, Scarecrow, Sci-Fi, Sony, steampunk, supernatural, The Lost Lighthouse, The Order 1886, TLL, tllgaming, video game reviews, video games.
Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to be sharing our top 5s of 2015, from everyone who writes here at The Lost Lighthouse. This time Adam will go through his favourite 5 video games of the year.
I’m taking a quick break from the depths of writing my PhD thesis to write about some of the things I actually cared about this year. This time it’s my favourite video games released in 2015. Of the various things my misguided attempt at a doctoral level qualification has taken from me, the spare time to actually play video games is probably the most felt. Also video games are expensive and I’m incredibly broke. As such, I’ve only actually played five games this yeah (at least that came out in 2015. I also played the incredible Transistor). So this was really just an exercise in picking which order they go in for me. All of these games were played on PS4.
5. Fallout 4 (Bethesda Softworks)
The above is part of the reason why Bethesda’s latest installment of everybody’s favourite huge, sprawling post-apocalypse sandbox game is only number 5 on my list. After months of rumours and speculation, details of a new Fallout began to emerge and in November it was finally released. Now due to my heavy work load right now and general state of being very busy (and leaving my PS4 in London over Christmas), I haven’t finished the main story yet. I have however pumped a lot of time into the game, completing a lot of side missions and doing a large amount of world exploration.
Let’s talk about that world, as a way of kicking off with the good about the game. The world is stunning, as long as you look at it from a distance. While the post-apocalypse trope of a colour palette heavy in browns and greys is definitely present, ‘The Commonwealth’ is densely packed with a lot of interesting scenery and locations to interact with. The storyline so far has been relatively engaging. I don’t really care about my missing son, but the shadowy Institute is intriguing and the return of certain organisations on unprecedented scales is an interesting inclusion. The world really lives through the side missions though, many of which are not only engaging but incredibly enjoyable too (my favourite so far is The Silver Shroud). The combat mechanics are unchanged for the most part, so the V.A.T.S. system is back and still a lot of fun.
Now for what I don’t like, and I’m just going to rattle through them. Feel free to discuss them in the comments! The UI is not great, and any changes have not improved things from Fallout 3 or New Vegas. The graphics, while not the be all and end all of a game, should really be better at this point especially for the character models. The dialogue system, previously a big part of Fallout, has been stripped back to make you feel like a passenger in what is largely otherwise a shooter, rather than a participant in an RPG. I have yet to see the point in settlements, and the user interface in building and interacting with a settlement is horrible, likely the reason why I have no desire to spend any more time doing it. While I do enjoy the crafting aspect for weapons and armour, having this and the base construction in the game means that almost every piece of junk in Fallout is worth keeping, and every location contains more crap than you and your companion can carry. As such, I’ve spent probably about 40% of my playtime hefting junk around and either selling or scraping it.
But for me the biggest issue with Fallout 4 is the glitches and bugs. There has been a lot of comment online about this, which largely seems to boil down to this being something you expect and accept in a Bethesda game. I don’t really see it like that, and this is probably the first time I’ve really had a problem with it. With limited time and money to play games these days, having a full price game be released as a bit of a glitchy mess doesn’t hold water with me. Weapons disappearing, enemies floating, corpses janking around ruining the desolate quiet of a vault. This is why it bothers me. These games are about immersion, and every time I see my companion get stuck in a wall or I fall through the world it takes me completely out of it. Sure they’re working on fixes all the time, but I’m reaching the point where I want games to just be finished properly when they come out.
4. The Order 1886 (Ready at Dawn)
Speaking of a game that was finished, The Order 1886 was the first game I played this year (I reviewed it over here). I liked it a lot. The gameplay was a bit heavy and reminiscent of a clunkier Gears of War, but it wasn’t bad. The story was interesting, succinct and well-paced and while it ultimately didn’t quite deliver on the promise of alternate steampunk Knights of the Round Table supernatural beast hunters, with the very few instances of actually fighting monsters either shockingly easy and repetitive or relegated to quick time events, while the rest of the game was spent shooting ‘rebels’ and other humans for reasons that were never made abundantly clear other than waving around the word ‘conspiracy’, it was a satisfying plot that I enjoyed.
The game wasn’t particularly long, in fact many said it was far too short for a full price game. I clocked in around 7 hours for my playthrough, and I was fairly defensive about the length in my original review, while also decrying the debate as generally oversimplified. However, since I completed it I really haven’t felt any compulsion to revisit the game. I’m not really sure what that says about it or it’s value. Saying that, it remains the best looking game I’ve played so far on the latest console generation. Despite it being a largely drab and grey trudge through Victorian England, it was stunning to look at and I really enjoyed it.
3. Mad Max (Avalanche Studios)
This one snuck up on me, as it would probably have totally passed me by if I hadn’t been swept up in the Fury Road fever this year. Instead, I actively made the decision to pick up this new Mad Max game over Metal Gear Solid V, due to it’s reasonably positive if not stellar reviews and the fact that I was fairly sure it would be an easier game to pick up and put back down for short gaming stints, making it better for taking breaks from working and avoiding getting so engrossed that I waste hours on it. Fortunately I turned out to be right about that, but more fortunate was how much I ended up loving this game for all of it’s simplicity.
Set before Fury Road, with a somewhat tenuous link to characters in the film, you play as Max after having the Interceptor stolen and being left for dead. You ally yourself with a mechanic, and slowly modify a rusty frame to an armoured ‘Magnum Opus’ capable of driving across the Plains of Silence to freedom. The game is another big sandbox environment, as you drive around finding scrap for your car, fighting off raiding parties, taking down War Boy camps with your fists and limited shotgun ammo and helping your allies thrive, while trying to outrun sand storms and stop Lord Scrotus and his minions. In essence, you just drive around and blow stuff up. And it is incredibly fun. The game’s only real let down is that it is very repetitive. The map is studded with scavenging locations, and each of the 4 allies you meet along the game require the same things from you. A lot of it is extraneous, but useful for completing the game. That said, there are some very fun and unique missions, like driving through the Underdune – a network of tunnels that was once an airport, now home to the nocturnal Buzzards.
2. Bloodborne (FromSoftware)
Second from top for me this year is the PS4 exclusive Bloodborne from ‘Souls’ creators FromSoftware. A grueling, Groundhog Day style trial-and-error endurance experience where you spend most of your time dying. A lot. But it’s the sort of game that makes you think tactically, commands your full attention, tests your ability and ultimately rewards you for it. As a hunter, you wade through scores of the crazed residents of the town of Yharnam, feral beasts and huge, hulking monsters. Each time you finally figure out how to beat a boss and ‘Prey Slaughtered’ pops up on your screen, you feel an immense satisfaction and a real feeling of earning it.
The game itself is beautiful. Well, beautiful if you like heavily gothic surroundings and grotesque monsters. Halfway through the game you enter a sort of nightmare realm, while everything takes on a deeply Lovecraftian slant, including horrific beasts that cling to the huge buildings around you that you can’t attack… but get close enough and they can attack you. My flatmates described this as the game they’ve enjoyed watching me play the most, I expect in part because of the surroundings, but likely also due to my reaction to the difficulty level of the game – swearing my head off every time I felt like I was unjustly killed, even thought it was probably due to me not paying enough attention. It happened a lot.
1. Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios)
My favourite game of the year is likely a little predictable for me. As a huge Batman fan, I’ve always been extremely impressed by the Arkham games (at least the Rocksteady ones) for not only capturing the ethos and feeling of a mixture of the best Batman comics and Batman: The Animated Series, but also managing to create gameplay that makes you really feel like you are being the Batman. Easy to control combat that looks brutal yet elegant, stealth that combines technology and fear to take down foes, and detective work to put together a case. This third installment from Rocksteady is their final Arkham game, though there isn’t a doubt in my mind that WB will be back with more.
Scarecrow is working with the mysterious ‘Arkham Knight’ and his militia army, and using an overwhelming force and seemingly hundreds of drone tanks they bring Gotham to it’s knees. Batman must prevent them from poisoning the city with fear toxin, while figuring out the identity of the Knight and putting a stop to their plans. Along with a few new tricks, like the hugely satisfying fear takedown, Bats also finally has the Batmobile – less a car in this incarnation and more of the personal tank of the Christopher Nolan films, able to speed around at huge speeds before transforming into a combat mode complete with missiles, stun guns and a huge cannon – to be deployed against drone tanks only. While feeling hilariously overpowered, the Batmobile has been successfully deployed in much the same way as the hand-to-hand combat was for the first time in Arkham Asylum – it’s very easy to feel like a total badass with it. The one drawback? I get the feeling Rocksteady were very, very proud of their new toy. So much so that the Batmobile is shoehorned into missions and situations that feel totally unnatural, to the point that it is essentially overused.
The main plot is an exercise in escalation, in an understandable trajectory from the first game until now. But it’s a very enjoyable superhero tale with some very well deployed twists, some less well deployed twists (I may have seen the identity of the Arkham Knight coming a mile off due to my familiarity with the comics, but it’s telegraphed very clumsily and out of nowhere a couple of hours before) and a huge climax. The side quests are even better than they were in Arkham City, once again drawing from the extensive rogues gallery (some of which were extensions of side plots set up in that game). For every one that fell a little flat, like the Hush sequence, there were excellent scenarios like ‘The Perfect Crime’.
The only issue I have with the extra content like this, which was the same as the previous games, is that while I can suspend my disbelief in general for superhero antics, it is physically and temporally impossible for all of this to occur in one night. Equally unbelievable is that with the city in such dire peril, you’d take some time out of saving it to capture Man-Bat or train Azrael. Maybe leave them to tomorrow Bruce? Or even just have the plot take place over a couple of days. Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight go to ground for a day or two, and while the Batcomputer checks up on some leads you start cleaning up some other problems in the city? Whatever. It’s really a tiny and slightly pointless complaint, really just brought about by overthinking things. Ultimately, this was a great game. Unless you tried to play it on PC.
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The Movie March!
We're marching to the movies! Get in line!
#ThrowbackThursdays
Interlude – Top Five Favorite Comedies
My Top Five Favorite Comedies
Okay, so the headline is slightly misleading. Wait, come back! Only “slightly”! While I often enjoy comedies, I really only have three “favorite” comedies, and then a bunch of others that I enjoy on various levels. But nobody is going to click on a Top Three list. And I really wanted to do this column because 1) I can’t make it to any new movies, this weekend, but I wanted to post something, and 2) I think we all need a laugh, right now.
So, I’m presenting to you my three personal favorite comedies and two more that came to mind before all of the rest because of . . . you know . . . reasons. For me, so many comedies that are widely considered all-time classics are just . . . okay. So, my list is almost certainly to be unlike anyone else’s. But I hope you check some of these out if you haven’t (or if it’s been a while) and get some enjoyment out of them. Away we go!
5. Wanderlust
This 2012 comedy from director David Wain and starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston came and went without a whole lot of attention. And that’s a shame. The movie, itself, is consistently funny and Rudd and Aniston are surrounded by a stellar supporting cast but this one makes the list for primarily one single scene. Paul Rudd demonstrates that he may be the greatest comedic actor in Hollywood (a talent which also assists him in stealing every scene he’s in during this year’s Captain America: Civil War) by single-handedly delivering what I consider to be the funniest performance I’ve ever witnessed in any movie. Ever. It’s not for kids. It’s not even for many “adults”. But Rudd takes a solid comedy and, by himself – in less than two minutes – elevates the entire film and makes it entirely unforgettable.
4. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
I know, I know. “The first one is always better!” Well, that’s simply a myth. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was better than its predecessor in virtually every single way including the most important one: it was funnier. In fact, the one and only time in my entire life that I laughed until I cried while watching a movie was during this film. And the rest of the nearly sold-out audience was right there with me. Much like my number five movie on this list, that laughing fit came about due to one scene in particular (which wouldn’t have worked without Jim Carrey’s incredible performance) but the entire picture is an onslaught of wit, unpredictability, and maniacal exuberance from Carrey. And, on occasion, I still greet people by exclaiming, “Bumblebee Tuna! Bumblebee Tuna!” The resulting combination of confusion and repulsion has allowed me to consistently weed out those not truly deserving of my friendship. So, thanks, When Nature Calls!
3. Clue: The Movie
Here’s where my true list of beloved comedies begins. So many people mention The Rocky Horror Picture Show as though it’s the only reason Tim Curry should be so revered. Feh! “FEH!” I say! Aside from his startlingly frightening portrayal as Pennywise in the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s classic It, there’s his astounding Wadsworth in Clue: The Movie. Functioning as a locked-box mystery (and based on the enduring board game), Clue is a nonstop cavalcade of clever one-liners and brilliant satirical performances. As unrelentingly hilarious as each of the cast members are in their roles (and literally every. Single. One of them. Delivers. It’s an actual seven-way tie for who gives the best performance.), the characters have no idea that they’re hilarious. And whether you’re collecting recipes with Mrs. Peacock or learning math from Mrs. White, you’ll be laughing the whole time. In a genius creative decision, the movie was filmed with three different endings, which were placed randomly at theaters, so that audiences wouldn’t know which one they were getting. The movie frustratingly bombed, anyway (even in 1987, Americans Didn’t Want Movie “Originality”!). Yet, it has gone on to become the classic it deserves to be heralded as (there’s even a remake in the works). Everyone needs to see this one at least once or twice or forty times in their life.
2. Dumb & Dumber
Jim Carrey makes his second appearance on the list, this time teaming up with Jeff Daniels in The Farrelly Brothers’ all-time classic, Dumb & Dumber. I’m not sure there’s ever been a more quotable movie than this one, nor one that made it harder for me to choose my favorite part (leaning towards the snowball). The writing from the Farrellys and Bennett Yellin is ironically quick-witted and the consistency and quality of the performances from Carrey and Daniels are the stuff of legend. I’ve never seen such an intelligent movie so commonly be referred to as “stupid”, but make no mistake – though Harry and Lloyd possess less-than-average intelligence, the film, itself, does not. There’s one clever line after another. One unpredictable quote follows the next. And two completely committed performances finished the package off and helped make Dumb & Dumber a comedy that set the bar for any other comedy that came afterwards.
1. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I love every single thing about this movie. I love the entire cast: Jason Segal, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, and – in smaller roles – Bill Hader, Liz Cackowski, Jack McBrayer, Jonah Hill, and Paul Rudd (who should be serving multiple prison sentences for once again stealing scenes). I love the Hawaiian setting (while watching the film, I thought that I’d love to stay at a resort like the one they were staying at. I went one better by booking a trip to Hawaii and staying AT the resort they were staying at.). I love the story. I love the character arcs. And I love the laughs. Forgetting Sarah Marshall has plenty of heart, but never forgets that its goal is to score laughs. It ends up being a cinematic total package that forces guffaws and feelings, while also scoring points for perhaps even causing some viewers to assess their approach to their own lives. This movie played a large role in providing me with the greatest week of my life, so maybe I’m biased, but Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a top-flight comedy that goes above and beyond to be so much more. It’s easily my favorite comedy of all-time.
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Jilted lover slits woman’s throat, kills self
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 6: A jilted lover killed a 21-year-old woman by slitting her throat before killing himself at Karakkonam, a nearby suburb on Monday, police said.
The incident occurred when the woman, Ashika, was at home and her parents, both daily wage earners, were away for their routine work.
The accused, 21-year-old Anu, who lived in a nearby house, barged into Ashika’s house and slit her throat before ending his life in a similar manner, police said quoting local people and neighbours.
When neigbours rushed to the house hearing the woman’s screams, the two were found lying in a pool of blood.
“As informed by the local people, we rushed to the spot and took both of them to the nearby Karakkonam Medical College. But, the woman was declared brought dead.
Doctors asked us to rush the man to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, where he died later,” a police official said.
The official said both were in love with each other, but had parted ways.
The woman had lodged a complaint last year stating that the man was stalking her, based on which he and his parents had been summoned to the station and the issue had been sorted out, he said.
Police said they were clueless on what triggered the sudden provocation that led to the tragedy, the official added.
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Turkey in touch with Iran, U.S. and aims to cool tensions
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks at a press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (Not Pictured) after… Kay Nietfeld January 06, 2020 06:07pm IST
ANKARA – Turkey will work to de-escalate tensions between Iran and the United States and has been in contact with both parties after U.S. forces killed a top Iranian military commander last week, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.
Since the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander, Cavusoglu said he has held phone calls with his Iranian and U.S. counterparts to discuss it.
Asked if Turkey would be open to mediating between Tehran and Washington, Cavusoglu said Turkey would support any steps to ease tensions in the region. “We will continue to work with other countries to solve this problem or de-escalate tensions in the coming days,” he said.
The issue of Iran-U.S. tensions would be on the agenda during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Turkey on Wednesday, he said, adding President Tayyip Erdogan had discussed the issue with Iranian, French, Iraqi and Qatari counterparts.
“Our common concern is Iraq turning into a conflict zone for other, third-party countries. This is a very serious risk for Iraq and our region,” Cavusoglu said. “Therefore, we will continue to do whatever we can to reduce the cycle of violence.”
The United States last week killed Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East, in an overnight attack in Baghdad authorized by President Donald Trump.
Iran has promised vengeance and on Friday condemned Trump as a “terrorist in a suit.”
Iraq’s parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign military forces to leave amid a growing backlash against the Soleimani’s killing, which has heightened fears of a wider Middle East conflict.
Cavusoglu said the parliament’s decision was not binding, adding that Erdogan had urged his Iraqi counterpart to act with reason.
“The killing of Soleimani didn’t just shift the balances in Iraq, it also did so in Iran. This may lead to radical groups gaining strength,” he said.
Cavusoglu said he have also discussed the issue with his Russian, British, Qatari and Pakistani counterparts, and with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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