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Man to set record for pushups, raising money for 1st responders
By Amelia Jones
A Wisconsin man is on his way to set a new world record for pushups.
MILWAUKEE - A Wisconsin man is on his way to set a new world record for pushups. He's not doing it for recognition though, he's doing it to raise money for first responders.
"It’s not only taxing physically but it’s also taxing mentally," said Nate Carroll.
Nate Carroll is doing 4,100 pushups a day.
"The goal is 1.5 million pushups for 1.5 million dollars," said Carroll.
Wisconsin man Nate Carroll works to set world pushups record.
In 365 days, he'll set a new world record but it's not about the recognition for Carroll.
"The main reason I’m doing this, the only reason I’m doing this, is to support the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. It is a foundation out of New York that pays off the mortgages of fallen first responders or catastrophically injured vets or gold star families," said Carroll.
Carroll served in the Marine Corps, he understands the sacrifice first responders make.
"They put their life on the line to protect us and protect property. And any inconvenience I have as a result of doing pushups is pretty small in comparison," said Carroll.
Pushups are just part of the challenge. Carroll also hopes to raise $1.5 million for the foundation.
"It’s not about Nate. It’s not about anything to do with me, it’s about supporting our first responders," said Carroll.
Carroll is well on his way to achieving his pushup goal.
"So I’m at about 575,000 today. So I’m about a little over halfway there," said Carroll.
And over $32,000 in donations. Carroll has until June 13, 2021, to finish.
"Which is my birthday, so that will be a nice birthday present to me and on my birthday I hope I can deliver $1.5 million to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation," said Carroll.
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Until then, he will keep pushing.
"There’s probably going to be people who don’t believe it’s possible but if you live with integrity then that’s what I go by and I do my best to verify as many as I can," said Carroll.
If you want to follow along as Nate finishes his pushup challenge, you can follow his YouTube and Instagram channels. If you'd like to donate to Nate's pushup challenge, CLICK HERE.
FOX6 viewers donate $23,888 to Coats for Kids during phone bank
FOX6 viewers donated $23,888 to the campaign. That translates to nearly 1,200 brand new winter coats for kids in our communities.
Hunger Task Force buys building for increased capacity, new HQ
Hunger Task Force (HTF) announced on Thursday, Dec. 10 that it has purchased a 120,000 square foot warehouse on W. Electric Avenue in West Milwaukee.
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Former top Romney strategist backs Jeb Bush's possible 2016 White House run
A top adviser to Mitt Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns has backed a likely White House run by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, a Bush aide confirmed to Fox News late Tuesday.
Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman, has been meeting with and speaking to conservative heavyweights in effort to persuade them of Bush's credentials, a Washington-based GOP operative said.
Though Bush has not formally announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, most observers believe it is all but certain that he will formally launch his campaign later this year. Weber's support for Bush was first reported by The Washington Post.
Bush is scheduled to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Md., outside Washington later this month. In the run-up to his appearance, the Post reports, Weber and others have met with skeptical conservatives to talk up Bush's record on taxes, spending, and education while Florida governor.
Weber served as a senior policy advisor on both of Romney's campaigns. Late last month, the former Massachusetts governor announced he would not run for President again after publicly considering the idea. Just over two weeks before Romney announced his decision, Weber told Bloomberg Politics that he was "not happy ... with the way he's chosen to re-enter presidential politics." The Post reports that Weber's remarks were appreciated by the Bush camp, which saw Romney as a dangerous potential rival.
Fox News' Serafin Gomez contributed to this report.
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Disease potential
Washington State’s grape industry has the right conditions for downy mildew.
February 15th 2009 Issue
This cluster was infected with downy mildew about two weeks before bloom. Washington growers would likely see this type of infection from rain early in the season
In the past, Dr. Gary Grove wasn’t concerned about downy mildew becoming a resident grape disease in the Pacific Northwest. The disease is not yet found in Washington State, but since working on climate change issues, the pathologist now worries the disease could gain a foothold.
Downy mildew, a serious grape disease found around the world, is problematic in regions with warm, moist summers, said Grove, Washington State University pathologist and director of the AgWeatherNet program. Vinifera grape varieties are susceptible to the disease, although susceptibility varies within juice grape or Labrusca varieties.
"The epidemiology is very explosive and could probably move faster than powdery mildew," he said. "Once the disease gets rolling and established in an area, the only way to deal with it is with a fungicide program."
But the problem with downy mildew, he notes, is that generally, the fungicides effective against powdery mildew are not effective against downy mildew. There are a few exceptions, but those products that work on both diseases, like the strobilurins, are very prone to developing resistance. Abound, Sovran, and Pristine control both, but are susceptible to resistance of powdery mildew. Widespread resistance to powdery mildew has been reported in New York and the eastern United States, according to Grove.
Some of the products were commercially available for only eight to ten years before they developed resistance, he said, stressing the importance for growers to follow fungicide resistance management.
Downy mildew is an easy disease to diagnose, he told grape growers attending the Washington State Grape Society annual meeting in November. Symptoms include oily spots on the leaves, with a white downy or mildewy coating on the underside of the leaves; the disease will also attack fruit. An easy diagnosis is the Magarey’s test of putting a suspect leaf in a wet paper bag and letting it sit overnight in temperatures of 70 to 75°F. Spots will appear in the morning if the disease is present.
Spores of downy mildew come in two types—the oospore, which allows the disease to survive cold winters, desiccation, and persists in the environment for up to ten years, and the sporangia, a spore that he describes as being able to swim. "Once we have this disease in an area, it’s going to stay," said Grove, referring to the hardiness of the oospores.
The disease cycle is difficult to break. Infected leaves fall to the ground in the fall, and the spores overwinter there. In the spring, when temperatures reach 50°F, combined with 0.4 inches of rain, spores are released and continue the disease
life cycle.
"We do have the weather conditions for this disease, though not to the same extent as other areas," Grove said. In reviewing past weather data, Grove found that in eight out of ten years, conditions were right for a primary infection, and in five out of ten years, conditions were ripe for a secondary infection. "In western Washington, it’s a no brainer that we have conducive conditions."
Grove believes that although Washington has the potential for downy mildew infection, it has not been detected because the fungus has yet to be brought into the state.
Downy mildew incidence has been reported sporadically in California. The hop version of downy mildew, which has similar epidemiology as the grape form, does quite well in eastern Washington, he noted.
"We do have the environmental conditions, we do have the host," he said. "I just don’t think we have the pathogen yet."
Clean plant material is a strong defense against the disease. He attributes the grape industry’s efforts to develop the Northwest Grape Foundation Service as part of an industry plant improvement program as the reason that the pathogen has not hitchhiked into the state.
"Two years ago, I would have said not to worry about it," Grove stated. "But since doing climate work and looking at future weather trends, now I’m worried about it.
"If it ever gets well established in California or Oregon, it could very easily move into Washington. And if it gets in, it would totally change our pest and disease management. Once it gets established, nothing will really manage or minimize it other than a really expensive fungicide program."
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Gifts can be dropped off at Elks Lodge until 6 p.m. Dec. 24. The lodge is open Thursday-Saturday 5-10 p.m., and Stansbury said folks are welcome to stop by during their monthly veterans breakfast Saturday, Dec. 15, from 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Desserts will be accepted until noon Christmas day.
Stansbury said people are encouraged to come by and help by donating, volunteering, or just by stopping in on Christmas to show support for the military.
"We have about half a dozen who have already asked to volunteer so we may run out of room soon, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't love for people to come in and show their appreciation," Stansbury said.
To be a part of the event, call San Angelo Elks Lodge No. 1880 at 325-227-6920, or Chris Stansbury at 325-374-4443.
More:Elks Lodge gives Goodfellow personnel Christmas cheer, meal
More:Lots of opportunities for charitable giving this Christmas season in San Angelo
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Publication - Impact assessment
Coronavirus (Scotland) (No. 2) Bill: equality impact assessment
Michael Russell MSP, +6 more … Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People, Kevin Stewart MSP, Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning, Jenny Gilruth MSP, Minister for Europe and International Development
Constitution and Cabinet Directorate, +8 more … Advanced Learning and Science Directorate, Housing and Social Justice Directorate, Justice Directorate, Learning Directorate, Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government), Parliamentary Counsel Office, Social Security Directorate, Taxation and Fiscal Sustainability Directorate
Building, planning and design, Communities and third sector, Constitution and democracy, +6 more … Coronavirus in Scotland, Education, Housing, Money and tax, Public safety and emergencies, Public sector
EQIA to consider the impact of the urgent measures contained in the Coronavirus (Scotland)(No. 2) Bill.
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Equality Impact Assessment - Results: Coronavirus (Scotland)(No. 2) Bill
Title of Policy
Coronavirus (Scotland)(No. 2) Bill
Summary of aims and desired outcomes of Policy
The purpose of the Coronavirus (Scotland)(No. 2) Bill ("the Bill") is to respond to the emergency situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The Bill complements and supplements the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, passed by the Scottish Parliament on 1 April 2020, and the Coronavirus Act 2020, passed by the UK Parliament on 25 March 2020, which the Scottish Parliament gave its consent to on 24 March 2020. The Bill will put in place necessary and urgent measures in order to address the continued threats posed by the outbreak in Scotland.
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Constitution and Cabinet Directorate
In deciding to progress further emergency legislation in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Scottish Government has taken into account its responsibility first and foremost to protect the lives and health of people living in Scotland. It has also borne in mind the unprecedented pressures on all sectors including Scottish business, the Third sector and the public sector in Scotland, and the effect of the substantial adjustment to the way people are being asked to live by public health guidance, and required to live by the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020. The Bill contains necessary measures required to respond to an emergency situation. The Scottish Government is satisfied that all of the measures contained in the Bill are appropriate and proportionate.
The coronavirus outbreak is a severe and sustained threat to human life in Scotland. The Scottish Government is committed to taking all steps necessary to address that threat. A severe pandemic could infect a large proportion of the population, and the public health measures required to control and limit the spread of the outbreak require a significant adjustment to the lives of those living in Scotland, to business in Scotland, and to the way public services are delivered and regulated.
Current public health guidance[1] continues to require business and public authorities to operate very differently to the way they have done until now by implementing, for example, physical distancing policies, or by requiring their workforce to work from home, where possible. In addition the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020[2] (S.S.I. 2020/103) ("the 2020 Regulations") require the closure of businesses selling food or drink for consumption on the premises, and of a wide range of other businesses set out in the regulations to protect against risks to public health. The 2020 Regulations also prohibit those living in Scotland from leaving the place where they live without reasonable excuse, and ban public gatherings of more than two people.
Public health guidance is likely to require some adjustment to normal life for some time, as the effort to limit and control the coronavirus outbreak continues. The requirements and restrictions in the 2020 Regulations will continue until they are terminated by the Scottish Ministers by direction, or until they expire under regulation 11 of the 2020 Regulations.
The Scottish Government considers that in order for essential public services to continue to be able to discharge their functions in the way they were intended to, some changes need to be made to the way they operate and the way that they are regulated.
Even beyond the new restrictions on living and working in Scotland, the coronavirus outbreak continues to have an effect on essential public services and other activities which demands a response. The continuing shift in resourcing and prioritisation for central and local government, and those involved in health and social care, will require a number of the obligations and duties on public services in Scotland to be adjusted temporarily, to reflect the importance which the Scottish Government places on responding to the coronavirus outbreak, and protecting the health of people living in Scotland.
The Bill therefore takes the following measures:
it makes adjustments to laws which protect individuals to ensure their effective operation during the coronavirus outbreak;
it makes adjustments to criminal procedure, and to other aspects of the justice system, to ensure that essential justice business can continue to be disposed of throughout the coronavirus outbreak;
it makes a range of provision designed to ensure that business and public services can continue to operate effectively during a period where controls on movements have been imposed, and when pressures on public services are acute.
The Scottish Government is satisfied that all of the measures contained in the Bill are appropriate and proportionate. In line with requirements set out in the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, the Bill contains the following safeguards:
Part 1 of the Bill will automatically expire less than six months after it comes into force. The Scottish Parliament may extend this for two further periods of six months, giving Part 1 of the Bill a maximum duration of 18 months;
where a provision in Part 1 of the Bill is no longer considered necessary, Scottish Ministers may bring it to an end earlier than on this six-monthly schedule;
the Scottish Ministers are required by the Bill to report on the continued need for the measures, and on the use of powers in the Bill, every two months.
The Scottish Government is committed to keeping the provisions of this Bill under review at all times, under the scheme set out above.
The Scope of the EQIA
As the measures within the Bill cover a broad range of topics, many people in Scotland with one or more of the protected characteristics, including children and young people, students, carers and those involved in the justice system might be impacted.
The Scottish Government has considered whether the provisions could constitute conduct prohibited by the Equality Act. In many cases, the provisions will apply to a wide range of people across the range of protected characteristics. These proposals will allow the existing legal protections to remain in place to safeguard people's welfare and ensuring that their access to justice is maintained.
It should be also borne in mind that these proposals will be kept under review to ensure their positive effects are kept in view and importantly to ensure that if any potential negative impact identified steps can be taken to address them.
The Scottish Government has also considered whether the provisions could constitute indirect discrimination. It is not anticipated that the provisions could give rise to more significant impacts on certain protected characteristics. Where some possible impact has been identified, the Scottish Government considers the impacts are justified and a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of protecting the general public from the coronavirus outbreak by increasing the capacity of public service systems and mitigating the spread of infection.
During the EQIA process, the potential impact on each of the protected characteristics was considered (including age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership). The assessment identified that the Bill is likely to have a direct positive impact on women. The Scottish Government has no evidence to suggest that any person with protected characteristics would be disproportionately adversely affected by the introduction of the Bill.
Most impacts will be temporary, spanning the duration of the coronavirus outbreak and emergency situation, and many of the provisions where possible contain safeguards and mitigation measures to lessen the extent of any negative actual or perceived impacts.
Individual Bill Provisions and Impact on Equality
Changes to Student Tenancy Agreements in purpose built student accommodation ("PBSA") and University and College Accommodation
Provisions in this Bill temporarily introduce:
i. a 7 day notice to leave period for those currently tied into a student accommodation contract; and
ii. a 28 day notice to leave period for agreements entered while the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 is in force.
These measures will ensure that students who left their accommodation, or have been unable to return to it, due to coronavirus restrictions and who wish to end their contract early, are able to do so. They also give students looking to find suitable accommodation for the next academic year reassurance that should restrictions continue and they are unable to take up the accommodation as planned, that they will not be forced to pay for accommodation they are not using for a full academic year.
This policy is intended to implement temporary measures to help protect students from being held liable to pay for accommodation they are not able to use and the significant financial impact that may have on students. It is not intended to impact, directly or indirectly, on any group of people with protected characteristics, or on the wider equality duties.
However, the majority of those in student accommodation are women. Almost half of students in halls are from outside the UK and hence, those staying in PBSA and halls of residence are potentially more likely to have a wider variety of ethnic backgrounds. The majority of students residing in PBSA and halls of residence are 21 and under. Action to protect students from being held liable to pay for accommodation they are not able to use as a result of the outbreak should have a positive impact on outcomes for these groups.
The Scottish Government considers that the temporary legislative changes are likely to positively impact across those with protected characteristics, as the legislative measures will protect them from the financial impact of being held liable to pay for accommodation they are not able to use.
Coronavirus Carer's Allowance Supplement
The aim of the Coronavirus Carer's Allowance Supplement (CCAS) is to improve outcomes for carers in receipt of Carer's Allowance (CA) by providing some additional financial support to mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. The payment is worth £230.10, and will effectively double the value of the June 2020 payment. It is intended to have a positive impact on the approximately 83,000 carers[3] in Scotland who are in receipt of CA, and an indirect positive impact on the people they care for. CCAS will be paid as a lump sum to carers who are eligible for the June 2020 payment Carer's Allowance Supplement (CAS) from Social Security Scotland.
The Scottish Government has considered the potential impacts of CCAS on people with one or more protected characteristics by revisiting the 2018 Equality Impact Assessment for CAS. Through this process aspects of CCAS have been identified which would negatively impact on carers who fall in to one or more of the protected groups, or to people in these groups who are cared for. In summary, it is anticipated that CCAS will have a direct positive impact on women (because the majority of carers are women), and indirectly on the disabled children and adults they care for by reducing stress on carers and contributing to household finances.
There is insufficient evidence available on gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, and religion and belief to assess the payment's impact on these groups. Limited data is available on sexual orientation and carers. Research from Carers Trust Scotland[4] and LGBT Youth Scotland highlights that LGBT young carers face barriers in having both their LGBT and carer identities recognised by support services.
The Scottish Government anticipates that the Supplement would likely have a disproportionately positive impact on women, as more than two thirds of recipients (69 per cent) are female.[5]
Women are more likely to be carers than men until retirement age when 19% of both women and men are providing care. In the oldest age groups (75+), more men than women (12% and 9% respectively) provide care.[6] The vast majority or CCAS recipients would be women of working age, as most carers or pension age and above will have only underlying entitlement to CA (because the State Pension is an 'overlapping benefit') and means that CA, and so CCAS, will not be paid.
Evidence[7] shows that women are more likely to rely on social security payments as part of their incomes as men, and there is some evidence that women typically act as 'poverty managers', going without food and other vital resources so that other family members do not.
According to Women's Budget Group briefing,[8] women have been disproportionately impacted by cuts to disability benefits, both as claimants and as carers. 55% of adults with disabilities and of those claiming PIP are women and 58% of carers are women (60% among those caring for more than 50 hours per week).[9]
The Scottish Government also anticipates that it would have a disproportionately positive impact on disabled people, as person the carer looks after will be disabled. The payment can help maintain the health and well-being of the carer, which has knock on positive impacts for the looked after person, and in cases where the carer lives with the cared for person, a potentially positive impact on overall household finances.
Figures on the number of disabled people receiving CA are not available, and limited data is available on disabled carers. However, among carers caring for 35 hours or more per week, 50% reported they had one or more long term conditions.[10] Receipt of CA is based on the cared for person being 'severely disabled' - defined as being eligible for a specified disability benefit, either Attendance Allowance, the highest or middle rate of Disability Living Allowance care component, either rate of the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment, Armed Forces Independence Payment, Constant Attendance Allowance at or above the normal maximum rate with an Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, or Constant Attendance Allowance at the basic (full day) rate with a War Disablement Pension.
Information on recipients of CA by race is not publicly available. 9 per cent of people in Scotland provide unpaid care and this varies across ethnic groups. People from older ethnic groups such as 'White: Scottish' and 'White: Other British' were the most likely to provide unpaid care.[11] People from ethnic groups with younger age profiles (such as the 'Arab' and 'White: Polish' groups) were least likely to provide weekly unpaid care. People from the White: Gypsy/Traveller group were most likely to be providing unpaid care and to be providing 35 hours or more of unpaid care (the threshold for CA). The next most likely to provide 35 hours or more of unpaid care were Bangladeshi and Pakistani groups.
Bankruptcy - more accessibility for debtors
These measures have no significant impact. To the extent that those with protected characteristics are over-represented in that share of the population facing the burden of unsustainable debt - so for example, households with children are more likely to be in debt than households without - there will be a minor positive impact.
Temporary withdrawal of the requirement for a prescribed person to witness a named person agree to the role in relation to mental health law
Scottish mental health and incapacity legislation is based on rights and principles, one of which is non-discrimination. Service users with a longer-term mental disorder are included within the protected characteristic of disability under the 2010 Equality Act.
The Bill temporarily removes the requirement for a nominated person to have their signature witnessed by a prescribed person when they agree to become a named person. As this change seeks to minimise any impact on the service user and therefore continues to focus on protecting patient safeguards there is no adverse effect to protected characteristics in relation to these regulations.
Amendments to statutory time limits for criminal proceedings
The provisions remove the time limit on the length of a single adjournment in summary cases after first calling where the accused is not in custody, and in all cases where a case is adjourned prior to sentencing for a report on the offender's physical or mental condition, or pending a decision regarding an alleged breach of a court order. The measure is intended to avoid the need for additional court hearings to extend adjournments because of difficulties in obtaining reports because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. It is not considered to have a differential impact on people with any of the protected characteristics.
Allowing the Scottish Ministers to make arrangements for Prisoner Custody Officers to carry out duties within police stations
This provision has little to no impact. It allows the Scottish Ministers to make arrangements for Prisoner Custody Officers to carry out a range of duties within police stations that are being used to enable virtual custody courts. These duties will be the same as those carried out within physical court premises.
Continuation of undertakings in relation to non-attendance at court as a result of the coronavirus outbreak
This provision allows the court to modify the terms of an undertaking given under section 25(2)(a) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 by changing the time at which the person is to appear at the court where certain conditions are met. Those conditions are: the person fails to appear at court as required by the terms of the undertaking, the court considers that this is attributable to a reason relating to coronavirus, and the court does not consider it appropriate to grant a warrant for the person's arrest. Where the court exercises this power, this has the effect of preventing the undertaking and any associated conditions from expiring. This legislative change is necessary to ensure that the undertaking regime continues to operate effectively and to preserve public safety, especially in domestic abuse cases where conditions attached to undertakings are of particular importance. It is not considered to have a particular impact on people with any of the protected characteristics, either directly or indirectly.
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - confiscation orders: section 99(4) "exceptional circumstances": effect of coronavirus on proceedings
Inclusion of the effect of coronavirus on proceedings as an exceptional circumstance in relation to the proceedings for the purposes of section 99(4) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is not expected to have any impact on persons with protected characteristics.
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - extending the time to pay and the dis-application of interest in relation to confiscation orders
The extension of the specified period for payment of a confiscation order where payment cannot be made for reasons relating to coronavirus within 12 months of the date that the order was made and disapplication of interest where an extension is granted is not expected to have any impact on persons with protected characteristics.
Display of court documents
The Bill permits documents which would otherwise have been displayed on the walls of the court to instead be displayed on the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service (SCTS) website, thereby enabling the documents to be viewed by the public during a time when people are unable to physically access the walls of court. It is recognised that online publication may have a negative impact on some of the protected characteristic groups, in particular those who have been identified as using online technologies less than other groups such as older persons and those with physical and mental disabilities. To mitigate any negative impact to these groups the information which would be provided on the walls of the court can be relayed to any member of the public via a phone call to the court. The SCTS has followed W3C Web Accessibility standards in the creation of their website which will ensure documents are displayed in an accessible format. There is no other adverse effect anticipated to any other protected characteristic group. Having documents online will have a positive impact on those that would find travel to court buildings a significant barrier.
Timing of Citizens Assembly on climate change holding and reporting to Ministers and Parliament
Provision to allow for a delay to the deliberations and reporting of the citizens assembly on climate change will apply to all persons irrespective of protected characteristic and will therefore not constitute direct discrimination on that basis. There may be positive benefit for people in protected or vulnerable groups as delay could allow the participation of individuals that would otherwise be excluded due to coronavirus restrictions.
Timing of establishment of a Nitrogen Balance Sheet
This amendment will have no impact on persons with protected characteristics.
Registered Social Landlords - submission of audited annual accounts
This provision has no impact. It extends the length of time by three months for RSLs to provide their audited annual accounts to the Scottish Housing Regulator for the financial year ending 31 March 2020.
Amendment to the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000
The deadline for publication of a Ministerial statement on local connection
This provision extends the deadline for Scottish Ministers to publish a statement on local connection. It has no impact on any of the protected characteristics, either directly or indirectly.
These provisions amend the dates of the Championship in the UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Act 2020 ("the UEFA 2020 Act") following postponement of the event because of the coronavirus outbreak. The provisions also amend an exception to the ticket touting offence in the UEFA 2020 Act where a ticket is auctioned and the proceeds given to charity. Neither of these changes is considered to have a particular impact on people with any of the protected characteristics, either directly or indirectly. Further details about the equality impacts of the UEFA 2020 Act as a whole are set out in the EQIA that was published previously.[12]
Listed Building and Conservation Area Consents
The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 ("the Listed Buildings Act") requires listed building consent for works to listed buildings and conservation area consent for the demolition of buildings within conservation areas. The provision amends section 16 of the Listed Buildings Act to extend the duration of a listed building consent or a conservation area consent that would otherwise lapse during the emergency period because works authorised by the consent have not begun. The emergency period is the period beginning with the coming into force of these provisions and ending on 6 October 2020. Consents to which the provision applies will instead lapse at the end of an extended period (which ends on 6 April 2021) unless works have commenced before the end of the extended period.
The provision also enables the Scottish Ministers to make regulations to amend the definition of the emergency and extended periods.
The proposed measure is not expected to have any detrimental impacts with respect to any of the protected characteristics (including age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership), either directly or indirectly.
Electronic submission and registration of copy deeds in the Register of Inhibitions and Register of judgments
These measures will allow people to continue to submit applications for registration of documents in the Register of Inhibitions and the Register of judgments digitally while the Registers of Scotland are temporarily unable to receive applications by post.
These measures do not raise any issues in respect of equal opportunities. The Bill's provisions do not discriminate on the protected characteristics of age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief and socio economic status.
This policy has no discernible relevance to the protected characteristics: marriage and civil partnership and maternity and pregnancy.
Registers of Scotland will provide guidance on the new measures and a customer services telephone line for those seeking further support in accessing the Registers and submitting applications.
Extending the time period during which a previous main residence must be sold in order for house-buyers who have paid the LBTT Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS) prior to a particular date to claim a repayment from Revenue Scotland
The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS) was introduced on 1 April 2016 and is collected and managed by Revenue Scotland. It applies to most purchases of additional dwellings in Scotland over £40,000 by individuals where, at the end of the day that is the effective date of the transaction (usually the date of completion), a buyer owns two or more dwellings (in Scotland or another country) and is not, or is not solely, replacing their main residence. It also applies to most purchases of dwellings in Scotland over £40,000 by non-natural persons (e.g. companies and partnerships). The ADS is charged at 4% of the purchase price and is paid as part of any LBTT due on the relevant purchase.
The provisions in the Bill will increase by nine months the period in which relevant taxpayers can dispose of a relevant previous main residence and still be eligible for a repayment of the ADS. This would result in relevant taxpayers having 27 months rather than 18 months to dispose of their previous main residence and still be eligible for a repayment of the ADS.
In addition, the provisions provide a power for the Scottish Ministers to amend, by order, the period of 27 months or the period of transactions to which they can apply.
The provisions do not change in any other way the arrangements in place for the ADS, as provided for in the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Amendment) Act 2016 and Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Relief from Additional Amount) Act 2018. As such, the proposed measure is not expected to have any detrimental impacts with respect to any of the protected characteristics, either directly or indirectly.
Power to introduce non-domestic rates relief
Recommendations and Conclusions
The Scottish Government has assessed the potential impact of the proposed Bill on equal opportunities and has determined it does not unlawfully directly discriminate with respect to any of the protected characteristics (including age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership). Where provision might potentially indirectly impact on equality, the Scottish Government considers the impacts are justified and a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of protecting the general public from a coronavirus pandemic by increasing the capacity of public service systems and mitigating the spread of infection.
Declaration and Publication
I have read the Equality Impact Assessment and I am satisfied that it represents a fair and reasonable view of the expected equality impact of the Bill.
Signed: James Hynd
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Mr Gilles Herard has been giving back to the community for decades and these awards and certificates of recognition stand as testament. Read on.
Mr Herard recently generously donated to Une Affaire de Famille, a nonprofit organization that offers a variety of activities, programs and services to support families of the Haut St-Laurent region.
Business Hall of Fame 2019
Gilles Herard, Managing Director of Capital Corp Merchant Banking, was awarded the Best of Orlando Award as International Merchant Banker for the 7th consecutive year.
AI Awards 2017
Winner for Merchant Banking CEO of the Year for 2017 by International Finance Magazine
ACQ5 Global Awards 2017- Gamechanger
Gilles Herard, President of CCMB, was honoured as Gamechanger of the Year for 2017 by Acquisition Finance Magazine, a leading corporate magazine news site.
Gilles Herard Best of 2017 Award
Gilles Herard of Capital Corp was given the Best of Orlando Award for International Financial Consultant for the 5th consecutive year in 2017
Mr Gilles Herard was Awarded the 2016 Best of Orlando Award as International Financial Consultant, his 4th consecutive year earning such an award.
Gilles Herard was awarded the 2014 Best of Orlando award for International Financial Consultant for the second consecutive year, resulting in his induction into Orlando's Business Hall of Fame
Gilles Herard Best of Orlando Award
Gilles Herard was awarded the Best of Orlando Award in 2013 in the category of Financial Consultant
Academy of Political Science
Gilles Herard was inducted as a fellow member of the Academy of Political Science in 2005. The Academy of Political Science is an American non-profit organization and publisher devoted to cultivating non-partisan, objective analysis of political, social, and economic issues.
Member: Library of Congress
Mr Gilles Herard was generously awarded a Bicentennial Membership to The Library of Congress with all special benefits accorded to Bicentennial Members
Orlando (FL) Mayor Commendation
Mr Gilles Herard was commended for his business presence in Orlando, FL, by Orlando's Mayor, Buddy Dyer, in 2004
Induction, Ntnl Geographic Society
Gilles Herard was inducted into the National Geographic Society by the Officers & Board of Trustees in 1995 and has been a member since. The National Geographic Society has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. It is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, and the promotion of environmental and historical conservation.
Member: Academy of Political Science
Mr Gilles Herard became a member of the Academy of Political Science (based in New York City) in 2005. He remains a member of this esteemed organization to this day.
Symposium of the Americas
Mr Gilles Herard was an active participant in the 1996 Symposium of the Americas, an event that provides the opportunity to bring together business and government leaders from throughout the hemisphere to discuss issues of importance to the region's international trade community.
Mr Herard is proud to be a donor to Project Healing Waters. Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. is dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and disabled veterans through fly fishing and associated activities including education and outings.
Mercy Ships
Mr Herard is a proud donor to Mercy Ships, which is an organization made up of a team of nurses, doctors, surgeons, and other crew members from all over the world who donate their time to help on board the world’s largest non-governmental floating hospital. As a floating hospital, Mercy Ships can sail directly to some of the world’s poorest people to deliver life-saving medical care and provide safe, state-of-the-art facilities in which to treat them.
Ongoing Supporter, Smile Train
Gilles Herard has been given special recognition for his generous donations to Smile Train, an organization whose mission it is to provide a child born with a cleft palate the same opportunities in life as a child born without. Smile Train provides free cleft surgery to hundreds of thousands of poor children in developing countries; trains doctors and medical professionals in over 80 countries; and treats the “whole child” with comprehensive, total rehabilitative care.
Mr Herard is proud to be a continued supporter of the Wounded Warrior Project, supporting war veterans and their families.
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org
Builder Award, Sheriffs Youth Ranch
Gilles Herard received the Builder Award. The Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches' vision is to provide young men and women with the ability to face the future with a sense of direction, ability and hope. The mission of the organization is to prevent youth delinquency and develop strong, resilient, lawful, and productive citizens who will make a positive contribution for our communities for years to come. In 2010 alone, the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch was able to help out 3,700 boys & girls in FL.
Room to Read Program
Gilles Herard was given special recognition for his generous donations to Room to Read, an organization that seeks to provide reading materials and an education to children in developing countries throughout Asia and parts of Africa. The organization develops literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and supports girls to complete secondary school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school and beyond.
Shriners Hospitals for Children
Mr Herard is proud to be a contributing member of the Shriners Hospital for Children, who provides specialized care to children with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palates worldwide, regardless of the patients' ability to pay.
The Independence Fund
Mr Herard proudly supports war veterans as a donor to the Independence Fund, which offers services and programs for disabled veterans that they do not otherwise receive.
Dreams for Teens
Gilles Herard, Jr was recognized and thanked for his support towards the organization Dreams for Teens. Dreams for Teens is an organization that has helped disadvantaged teens throughout Central Florida since 1989. The organization's yearly gift drive helps upwards of 1,600 teenagers during the holidays every year, aside from other drives that it carries out to support kids that are disadvantaged.
United States Holocaust Museum
Gilles Herard, Jr. was honored by the United States Holocaust Museum in grateful appreciation of his generous donation. A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, promote human dignity, and prevent genocide. A public-private partnership, federal support guarantees the Museum's permanence, and its far-reaching educational programs and global impact are made impossible by donors nationwide.
Benefactor, Mayo Clinic
Gilles Herard was awarded a Benefactor Certificate for his contribution to the Mayo Clinic. This award certifies that the person has made a contribution to medical progress by supporting Mayo's programs in medical research and education. The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world.
CCHS (FL) Swim Team
Gilles Herard, Jr was thanked by the Cypress Creek High School Swim Team for his generation donation and sponsorship ahead of their regional competition time. Mr Herard's contributions helped the swim team to procure new uniforms, equipment, and covered entry fees to various swim meets throughout their season.
Supporter, U.S. Olympic Committee
Gilles Herard was given special recognition by the United States Olympic Committee for supporting America's olympic athletes and for honoring the spirit of sports competition that energizes the nation's olympic efforts. The vision of the United States Olympic Committee is to enable America's athletes to realize their Olympic and Paralympic dreams. Donations aid athletes through training, coaching, and support while they train to represent the United States at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Christian/Jews Int'l Fellowship
Gilles Herard, Jr has been a generous ongoing contributor to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada.
Gilles Herard, Jr. was awarded a Certificate of Recognition in recognition of his support of the American Heart Association's 2009 Annual Appeal and the goal of lives saved. The American Heart Association's mission is to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. That single purpose drives all the AHA does. The need for the association's work is beyond question. Mr Herard is proud to have been able to contribute to the American Heart Association's appeal.
Huntingon Huskies
Gilles Herard, Jr was profusely thanked for his generous donation in support of the Huntingdon Huskies Atom A hockey team. The donation contributed to paying tournament fees as well as replacing worn-out gear.
Rescue Recognition, City of Montreal
Gilles Herard, Jr was rewarded in 1988 by the city of Montreal for rescuing two children from a burning building before the firefighters were able to arrive.
AIPCA
Mr Herard has been a contributor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States.
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Interview with Harry Ogg
What is the Citizens’ Orchestra?
To play in an orchestra – for many citizens of Cologne, this wish comes true for the first time in the Cologne Citizens’ Orchestra, which François-Xavier Roth initiated during the 2019/20 season. The initiative is dear to his heart, but also to the musicians of his orchestra. More than 40 of them work with the participants, supporting them as they learn the works and the orchestra as it prepares for its concert at Cologne’s Philharmonie. To play side by side with the professionals is highly motivating and lots of fun. After all, there is not only much to learn in the rehearsals with François-Xavier Roth – there is also lots of laughter! 37 violins, 23 cellos, 14 clarinets and many other instruments have joined the Cologne Citizens’ Orchestra, which includes about 160 members. The musical level of the participants differs greatly. To Harry Ogg, who leads the rehearsals as musical assistant to François-Xavier Roth, that is not a problem: »There are people who only started playing their instrument five years ago, and there are others who have played in other orchestras. But that is precisely what we like about it! In this way, our orchestra reflects the many facets of a living community.« Parts that are too hard are simplified. And the more experienced members help those who are less experienced. The group’s philosophy is: there is no competition.
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What happens inow?
There is no rivalery in our ochestra
Harry Ogg, conductor
For November 15, 2020 we scheduled the first concert of the Cologne Citizens' Orchestra with François-Xavier Roth at Philharmonie Cologne. The recent lockdown prevented that, but we are working on realizing a new concert date next spring.
Then five orchestras will play: Due to the current regulations for rehearsals and concerts, our musicians are divided into two string orchestras and three wind ensembles. The concert will include music by Pietro Mascagni, Carl Nielsen and Gustav Holst, from the sublime »Finlandia« by Jean Sibelius to Béla Bartók's »Romanian folk dances.
Bürgerorchester 2021
We like to share our passion for classical music. I look forward to the encounter.
François-Xavier Roth once again invited everyone to make music with him and his orchestra in the 2020/21 season. The registration closed on September 30, 2020.
Anyone who plays an orchestral instrument and is at least 16 years old. Due to the current situation, this year places are limited, and participation will be decided by a lottery. Due to the repertoire, please note that clarinettists must be able to play both A and B clarinet.
The concert takes place on July 4, 2021 at 6 pm at Cologne’s Philharmonie.
Rehearsals begin in January 2021 and are held at the Rehearsal Centre of the Cologne Municipal Theatres. The detailed rehearsal schedule will be published after the registration period.
»Music is for everyone«
An Interview with conductor Harry Ogg
200 citizens of Cologne play side by side with the musicians of the Gürzenich Orchestra. Their common goal: playing a concert with François-Xavier Roth at Cologne’s Philharmonie! Harry Ogg leads the pilot project and offers insights into the fascinating rehearsal process.
In January 2020 you launched Cologne’s Citizens’ Orchestra by leading its first rehearsal. What characterizes the orchestra?
Our premise was that everyone can join in, and we do not reject anyone. Of course we were intrigued to see what would happen. The orchestra consists of more than 200 people: we have a 82-year-old triangle player, and the youngest participant is only 16.
How different are the levels of experience the players bring to the project?
There are people who only started playing their instrument five years ago, and there are others who have played in other orchestras. Of course this means that the levels of accomplishment are very different. But that is precisely what we like about it! In this way, our orchestra reflects the many facets of a living community.
How do you deal with this in practical terms?
We simplify individual parts for some. But we encourage other participants to practice and believe that they will get there. For each person, we definitely find a solution. Our philosophy is: there is no competition in our Citizens’ Orchestra. We want everyone to have a good time. The experienced members help the less experienced ones.
What were your criteria when selecting the programme?
It should be ambitious, but doable within the time we have. But most of all, it should be fun, that is the most important thing!
In your hometown of London, you founded an ensemble of your own while still a student, an ensemble which has made a name for itself. Which challenges do you face when conducting the Citizens’ Orchestra?
I have worked a lot with amateur orchestras, and I know the great improvement we can achieve between the first rehearsal and the concert. This is going to be a wonderful experience for all who join in. We will work on rhythm, sound, and phrasing, on ensemble playing and on listening to one another. Every time, it is fascinating to see how much we can improve. Usually, I am the only one responsible for this. But in this special case, we also have 20 additional musicians from the Gürzenich Orchestra acting as coaches.
What motivates them?
Well, it is always a joy to pass on your own knowledge. Many of our musicians are professors at music academies or instrumental teachers. The Citizens’ Orchestra gives them an opportunity to pass on their skills and knowledge. The special feature is that here they cannot choose whom to work with. However, they are very adaptable and open to other people. Another aspect is that the members of the Citizens’ Orchestra are not there to make money with their music, but only to enjoy what they are doing. And that, of course, is transmitted back to us professional musicians. Playing with amateur musicians is a special joy! It is great to share this enthusiasm, both in rehearsal and in concert.
Ultimately, François-Xavier Roth takes over the rehearsals and conducts the concert …
It’s going to be a ball. He has an energy that is transmitted to anyone in his vicinity. And he has a humanity that is infectious. This is something you also notice at the Gürzenich Orchestra, incidentally: as soon as François-Xavier is on the podium, the orchestra sounds different. It is fascinating to observe this. Many members of the Citizens’ Orchestra are longing for this experience of making music with him. And now they will have that opportunity.
What was the decisive impulse that led François-Xavier Roth to found the Citizens’ Orchestra?
François-Xavier considers community projects with amateur musicians or people who have never made music particularly important. Music is for everyone! With projects such as the Citizens’ Orchestra, he manages to convey music beyond the confines of the concert hall. It is a major part of his philosophy. Furthermore, he wanted to establish a more personal connection with tour audience. There are a lot of our subscribers among the musicians of the Citizens’ Orchestra. We are all looking forward to seeing how the orchestra will develop further, what the future will bring … for of course, François-Xavier has a lot of other fascinating ideas as well!
About Harry Ogg
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by Julian Edelman
by Tom E. Curran
Of the many storylines to the Patriots’ incredible 2016 season, the continuing domination of the team’s star wide receiver Julian Edelman was one of the most memorable. Not only did he break his previous personal record for most yards in a season with 1,106, but he also he emerged–on the front page of sports sections across the country–as the Patriots’ hero after making an against-all-odds catch when the Patriots were losing 28-20 in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.
Those two seconds in which Edelman seemed to defy gravity, diving forward to catch a football that had ricocheted off two opposing defenders before it reached the ground, will no doubt remain at the center of his legacy. And it should. Edelman had been preparing for that moment his whole life: over warm California winters when he would lead his brothers and sisters in a football scrimmage on not just Thanksgiving, but Christmas, too; at Woodside High School where he led his team to a 13-0 record as a senior; at Kent State University where as quarterback he led his team in passing and rushing as a senior, breaking his school’s previous record for total offense; and on the legendary New England Patriots, where he worked with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick to develop his game and become a two-time Super Bowl champion.
Taking readers through Edelman’s childhood, NFL career, and two incredible Super Bowl victories, this book is the first-hand account of the making of a champion and an indispensable text on what is perhaps the most memorable win in Super Bowl history.
Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General / Biography: Sport
On Sale: 15th November 2018
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Frank Sinatra: The Master of Rubato
In analyzing Sinatra’s singing at its best, lovers of the art of singing have pointed to its many virtues—e.g., his fine musicianship, his ability to sing with intimate feeling, his flawless legato (connected singing), his careful employment of vibrato, and his cello-like vocal tone. Still others have believed that the creative way he moved his golden voice through his songs was the crowning achievement of his singing. Let’s consider for a moment this last virtue. What was is about the way Sinatra moved his voice that contributed so much to his remarkable singing?
Music, all music, takes place in time and at a certain speed; this speed is normally referred to as tempo. All musical pieces are composed with at least one tempo, sometimes with more than one. Part of a singer’s (or any musician’s) talent and skill deals specifically with how he treats the tempo he is singing. That is, whether he sings “right on the beat”—for example, remaining true to the song’s typical tempo, or instead becomes rhythmically flexible with the tempo and plays with the beat and sings a little before it—hurrying the beat, so to speak, or after it—slowing the tempo down. This variation of the tempo of a song on the part of performers is called tempo rubato or simply rubato. The exact Italian translation is stolen time. The artistic challenge of singing rubato is to be able to vary tempo without losing the natural rhythm of the musical piece, and to do so in a charming fashion. If a singer steals—hurries or slows—time with respect to a particular beat, he has to return the time somewhere else in the musical phrase in order to keep the rhythm of the phrase, and that of the song as a whole, aesthetically balanced (in time).
Rubato is an important artistic device for singers because, if done well, it adds heightened feeling and meaning to a performance. Without employing at least some degree of rubato, performances could sound stiff, mechanical, unemotional—without visceral impact; they could be in a word—boring. In an ideal case—and with the greatest artists—a tasteful and distinctive use of rubato becomes an integral aspect of a singer’s style. This idea, of course, brings to mind Maestro Rubato himself—Frank Sinatra.
Sinatra sometimes referred to himself humbly as “just” a “saloon singer.” Why such an apparently disingenuous remark from the great artist? In fact, he was the consummate popular singer with an unmatched musical legacy that included big band music, the American Songbook (“Standards”), Broadway tunes, and a number of the contemporary pop classics (e.g., songs by the Beatles and Stevie Wonder). He even sang a Mozart aria (La Ci Darem La Mano from Don Giovanni) in Italian in one of his films (It Happened In Brooklyn). For some music critics, however, he was also—and most interestingly—an original jazz singer. Jazz icons like Miles Davis openly confessed that Sinatra’s singing influenced their own interpretive styles. As far as his seeing himself primarily as a saloon singer, I believe that he felt his artistic mettle the most when he was able to sing his words and their meanings simply, without having to compete with a large orchestra or even a small ensemble. For him, the piano alone was sufficient for him to be at his very best.
The one aspect of his singing that seems to have had the greatest impact on other musicians was “Sinatra’s phrasing”—the expression that one hears most frequently from the lips of those whom he has influenced. Nonetheless, the idea of his being a jazz singer may, at first, appear to be a misnomer. After all, aren’t the hallmarks of jazz singing improvisation (spontaneous and creative vocal and lyrical flourishes that are not in the written music) and, for the most accomplished “jazz singers” (e.g., Ella Fitzgerald), scat singing? To my knowledge, Sinatra never scatted in any of his songs. How about improvisation? Although he did not deviate from the written music with unpredictable vocal flourishes as a vocal style, we have to acknowledge that he was an improvisational innovator, nonetheless. How should we understand him in this light? The answer is simple: if Sinatra’s creative phasing was the skill upon which his claim to jazz fame rests, then it was his expert use of rubato that made him into a jazz singer.
In fact, his musical genius lay, in part, in his remarkable ability to play with the tempo of a song, offer up spontaneous rhythmic give-and-takes, stretching, shortening, and bending the lyrics in the process—and to do so in such a natural, elastic way that the listener is hardly aware of the subtle tempo shifts, even though the listener instantly feels the “emotional moments” and “emotional spaces” they create. It’s through this creative approach to tempo management that Sinatra is able to bring to life—sometimes new life—the nuanced meaning of lyrics and the emotional elements of the music. This is another way of saying that Sinatra’s rubato style is not only inseparable from the story that he is essaying, but is also guided by the natural inflections of the words he is singing. With Sinatra’s rubato singing then, story line, word, and rhythmic structure all come together in a unique and captivating fashion. This is rubato singing par excellence, and it’s in this arena that he has no peers. For a wonderful lesson in rubato, listen to his rendition of George and Ira Gershwin’s Nice Work If You Can Get It that he recorded with Count Basie.
But still there is another aspect of Sinatra’s singing that one could say bespeaks the meaning of jazz. If exceptional jazz music is anything, it’s honest, but it’s an honesty that expresses what’s happening in the very moments of its creation. This means that jazz a performance is not about the past or future, rather it’s about the feelings, thoughts, passions, revelations, joys, fears, sorrows, celebrations, melodies, harmonies that spontaneously emerge in the present—as an artist is performing. In a similar fashion, when you hear Sinatra nimbly weaving his way through a song, you get the feeling that he is revealing his soul—and the personality it informs—at that very moment; that he is singing about what is real to him—and you—right now and from his own point of view. This is why his interpretations are so poignant, so moving. It’s in this sense that we have to conclude that Sinatra possessed the soul of a great jazz musician. And what is the famous Sinatra swagger but the attitude that says, “Pardon my candor, but I am here to tell you the way I see it, the way I feel it—right NOW! Straight talk, right from the heart, my heart—no half-measures, no bullshit, no compromises!” This spirit is the essence of his singing and the essence of jazz as well.
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Keidel named race secretary at Running Aces
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Nominations for the $350,000 Isle of Capri Pacing Series, the $100,000 Mack Lobell Trotting Series, and the inaugural $100,000 Frances Dodge Van Lennep Filly and Mare Pacing Series have been released by Pompano Park race secretary Greg DeFrank. The 10th edition of the Isle of Capri Pacing Series, which features a $250,000-added final that represents a $100,000 increase from last year, ha...
Stonebridge Kisses on verge of $1-million mark
Stonebridge Kisses could become harness racing’s next millionairess in the $42,000 featured mare pace on Friday night at the Meadowlands. The 8-year-old daughter of Artiscape has earnings of $985,393 entering Friday night’s 10th race. Although she has been a formidable competitor in both stakes and open company, the toughest test she faced was recovering from a racing accident at a...
American Lane aiming for fifth straight Friday
Patient handling and a change in scenery have helped American Lane move up the trotting ranks at the Meadowlands.
Winter storm prompts racetrack cancellations
The winter storm on the eastern side of the continent is taking its toll on racetracks as Monticello Raceway, The Meadows, Woodbine Racetrack, Flamboro Downs and Sports Creek have all announced the cancellations of its Friday live racing cards.
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Vestas Reinstates Guidance for 2020, Stock Hits New High
With the worst financial impacts of the pandemic’s first surge waning, Vestas restored the 2020 guidance it withdrew in April.
John Parnell August 11, 2020
John Parnell
Senior European Editor
COVID-19's impacts lessened for Vestas in its most recent financial quarter. (Credit: Vestas)
Global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has reinstated its 2020 guidance as the outlook for the year begins to solidify.
The full-year revenue guidance is the same as it was prior to its suspension in April, though its forecast earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margin has been cut from 7 to 9 percent to 5 to 7 percent.
While the reinstated guidance was a bright spot in Vestas' quarterly report, it was overshadowed somewhat by a €175 million ($206 million) warranty charge for repairing and upgrading blades on existing projects. Still, the Danish firm’s share price was up 8 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price, reaching a record high of DKK 915 ($145) per share.
CEO Henrik Andersen said the full-year guidance was provided with a number of uncertainties remaining.
“The important note here is that the basic assumptions right now come with higher uncertainty than normal because we are still in the middle of [the pandemic],” Andersen told analysts on Tuesday.
Revenue for the quarter was up 67 percent from the same time last year to €3.5 billion. Order intake hit 4,148 megawatts. Despite this, Vestas' EBIT fell from €94 million to €34 million, dented by the COVID-19 pandemic and the warranty charge.
Last quarter Vestas posted an €80 million loss, citing the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The company laid off 400 people in April as part of a product portfolio restructuring.
Andersen said the figure for the warranty charge was high because it affected so many blades. With the root of the problem identified, he assured analysts that there would not be any additional charges.
Vestas moving quickly to beat U.S. tax credit deadlines
With manufacturing operations confirmed as being back to normal, the discussion turned to project delays. This is a particularly acute problem in the U.S., where tax credit deadlines add extra pressure.
“Our U.S. customers, anyone who works with us, we all have the same interest in getting things done as quickly as possible. We’re trying to get as much executed in 2020” as possible, Andersen said, adding that some projects could be brought forward to fills the gaps created by those experiencing delays.
In March, market research firm Wood Mackenzie trimmed 6.5 percent, or 4.9 gigawatts, from its 2020 global wind installation forecast, leaving it at 73 gigawatts. Vestas is the world's leading supplier of wind turbines, with an 18 percent market share in 2019.
The importance of good service
While Vestas' turbine manufacturing operations are central to its business, the picture is changing as the wind industry matures. More than half of Vestas' €35.1 billion order backlog, or €18.9 billion, is tied to future service contract revenue. The service division’s EBIT for the quarter was a massive 28.5 percent versus the companywide underlying EBIT of 5.9 percent.
Andersen said the repowering market is growing as a decade of technology development and improvements help make the case to project owners in the U.S. in Europe to upgrade their wind farms.
On Tuesday, Vestas announced two orders from Chinese customers totaling 251 megawatts, bringing its Chinese orders past 1 gigawatt for the year. Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables research expects China to add 251 gigawatts of wind capacity between 2020 and 2029.
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Special Report: Streetwear Has a Sustainability Problem
Words: Christopher Morency
Illustrations: Kurt Woerpel
FRONTPAGE is Highsnobiety’s weekly online cover story exploring the people, moments, and ideas shaping culture today. For the third edition of our series, Highsnobiety’s Christopher Morency takes a deep dive into streetwear's sustainability problem.
The global fashion industry is an ecological disaster. 73 percent of the world’s clothing eventually ends up in landfills. Every second, a whole garbage truck full of textiles is thrown out. More than $200 billion of unsold stock is sitting on shop floors and in warehouses around the world. Meanwhile, the number of garments produced annually surpassed 100 billion for the first time in 2014, doubling since 2000. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) projects that the global apparel and footwear industry will grow by 81 percent by 2030. With a rise in consumer spending coupled with a customer base that expects new product to be delivered at the speed of Instagram, fashion appears more and more disposable by design.
Streetwear is part of this sustainability problem.
The pressing statistics above prove that the sustainability conundrum is vastly bigger than streetwear’s contribution alone, but by and large, it’s streetwear that has surreptitiously dodged the bullet in the public eye, both with the media and with consumers when it comes to its harmful impact on the environment and the attached human cost. As a result, it has left fast-fashion giants and big luxury houses alone on the chopping block.
“I think there’s always been a tendency to look to the big players for solutions but also to blame them for their sheer scale and therefore their impact," says Eva Kruse, CEO and president of Global Fashion Agenda, whose flagship event Copenhagen Fashion Summit is a pioneer in promoting sustainable practices in fashion. "But there’s a big challenge ahead with small and medium-sized companies who find it difficult to start. It’s actually within that segment of our industry where most companies are lagging behind.”
At a time when Supreme is valued over $1 billion, nearly 25 billion pairs of sneakers are produced annually, and streetwear brands produce up to 350 different items a year, streetwear can no longer be classified as the nascent industry it once was. Its sartorial codes and attitudes have gone mass.
When graphic T-shirts, oversized hoodies, bold sneakers, and mundane accessories (all often manufactured in cheap virgin materials) have become the only standard for a person to launch a fashion line from their bedroom, one no longer needs to follow the traditional trajectory of attending an established fashion school and presenting high-end seasonal collections during one of the major fashion weeks in order to gain traction. Instead, it's the cultural relevance that defines the value of streetwear over the intrinsic value of its materials and labor.
As a result, the market has been flooded with countless young designers for whom environmental and social responsibility are low on the priority list. Luxury and fast-fashion brands who have adopted this zeitgeist have also opted for easily produced, high-margin items in a wishful attempt to resonate with today’s young consumers.
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Rapid business growth has turned streetwear into fast fashion for predominantly young men, whose identity is being formed by mindless consumerism over the counter-cultural attitudes and beliefs it once stood for. After all, its unsustainable business model rooted in weekly drops has encouraged a consumption cycle where last week’s purchase is no longer relevant only a week later, pressuring consumers to buy again. In streetwear, selling out is a sign of a successful week in business.
“Streetwear is setting the trends in so many ways and also speaking to an audience that has a lot of power, so if they would also start to talk about taking more conscious consumption choices, it would affect how a lot of people would think about their role in society,” says Kruse.
So why have the streetwear industry and its key figures done so little to drive the conversation forward and educate consumers when they have such a direct line to the next generation of shoppers?
Underdogs with Big Footprints
“Streetwear hasn’t ever had the spotlight like it does now," says Dao-Yi Chow, co-founder of the American label Public School. "It’s managed to avoid the ills of commerciality, and with it the responsibility to consider its own environmental impact. While streetwear has always been on the forefront of social consciousness, there hasn’t been the same urgency to address climate change in the same energy as other social issues.”
As much as streetwear has long been used as a means to express identity while signifying belonging to a wider group of like-minded individuals, its roots go deeper. Since its early days, streetwear has served as an important vehicle in representing the counter-cultural viewpoints of a group on the opposite side of the ruling class. The sociopolitical messaging surrounding streetwear has directly informed its values and structure. Think Stüssy representing surfers and skaters, and Jordan Brand’s influence on lower-income communities and beyond. Eco-conscious production and design aren’t part of this foundation.
“Ethical isn’t a word commonly associated with streetwear," says American industry veteran and creative business consultant Julie Gilhart, who has worked with everyone from Amazon, Prada, and Jil Sander to Goyard and Mulberry. "It’s too broad of a term, and it doesn’t really resonate with the culture.” Gilhart argues that, although streetwear has long been in the same kind of price point as contemporary and fast fashion, it has always been in its own category. “Responsibility, in terms of sustainability, isn’t written into that culture. So there’s a language that needs to be developed that will resonate.”
En masse, that language may not be written any time soon. Despite streetwear’s growing demand and long heritage, its newly found access with the traditional luxury industry has resulted in brands focusing on legitimizing their seat at the table by building fast-scalable global businesses, instead of pushing for a more sustainable agenda.
“Somehow a lot of streetwear [labels] have turned into conservative brands," says Jacob Kampp Berliner, co-founder and CEO of Danish streetwear label Soulland. "You come from a culture where you’ve been on the opposite side of society and then suddenly you’re such a big part of not changing the world anymore. I strongly believe that there are so many strong voices out there, from Virgil Abloh to Supreme, and they never ever speak about sustainability. Streetwear is about free speech, so it feels strange when brands don’t raise their voice for a better planet.” (Last year, Virgil Abloh joined natural mineral water giant Evian as creative advisor for sustainable innovation design.)
Many founders of streetwear brands are self-taught and lack formal training — their own brands often being the first jobs they’ve held within the fashion industry — which has created challenges of its own.
“The prevailing thought process that seems to permeate throughout the streetwear market is that they don’t see themselves as one of the [bigger companies], because they’re not as volume-driven as, let’s say, an H&M, and because they don’t make their clothes in Bangladesh,” says Dio Kurazawa, founder of The Bear Scouts, which connects brands like 1017 ALYX 9SM, Kith, and Billionaire Boys Club with manufacturers that help labels become more green throughout their supply chain. “Brands believe they’re doing a lot more than they actually are – [meanwhile], their customers aren’t putting pressure on them.”
How to Change
A lack of pressure shouldn’t stop streetwear brands from acting more responsibly. The tides in the wider fashion ecosystem are changing fast, not only making it a missed opportunity but a real business risk for those not taking a stance or action.
According to this year’s Pulse of the Fashion Industry, an annual assessment of the fashion industry’s environmental and social performance created by BCG and the Global Fashion Agenda, more than 50 percent of consumers say they plan to switch brands in the future if another brand acts more environmentally and socially friendly than their preferred one. Still, for the time being, sustainability considerations are seen as a prerequisite rather than a driver of purchasing decisions.
Getty Images / Barcroft Media / Sujay Reddy
While “sustainability” is a big buzzword in the fashion industry, it has now become so ambiguous that it’s lost its original meaning. “The problem is that no one knows what a ‘good’ value chain looks like,” says Sebastian Boger, partner and managing director at BCG and co-author of the Pulse report. “In this industry, we clearly have to differentiate between ‘less bad’ and things that make the current practices better.”
So what can streetwear brands do to drive meaningful short- and long-term change when it comes to its impact on the environment and its people?
Step One: Lead with Product
“Don’t try to sell a brand as being sustainable or responsible – it needs to be about good design first,” argues designer Christopher Raeburn, who is known for upcycling unconventional fabrics from items like vintage parachutes, military deadstock, and kites. The pioneering ethos of his namesake label, Remade, Reduced, Recycled – a riff off the famous Repair, Remake, Reimagine slogan – has summed up his circular approach to his streetwear-inflected fashion line since its inception in 2009.
According to Raeburn, there are three steps brands can take when it comes to product: “Design things that are from recycled materials and are recyclable, organic, and enduring, so they keep their lifespan for the longest possible time.” In October 2018, Raeburn was appointed global creative director at Timberland, where under his tenure the brand now strictly collaborates with brands that act with purpose first. “It’s an interesting moment when you've got a brand the size of Timberland now saying ‘we won't work with you,’” notes Raeburn.
While seemingly greenwash-y at first sight, the crux of promoting the topic of sustainability through good product design is certainly a good initial step to get the conversation started. “People really love to talk about the topic [but] they want tangible examples that they can easily explain to others,” says Boger, whose report found that mentions of sustainability in social media increased a third faster than overall social media growth itself between 2015 and 2018.
Highsnobiety / Barcroft Media / SerhiiHudak
adidas’ partnership with environmental organization Parley for the Oceans this year sees its collaborative sneakers made up of at least 75 percent upcycled plastic trash. By the end of the year, 11 million pairs will have been made, while a wider release of its 100 percent recyclable Futurecraft.Loop trainer is set to follow in 2021.
The soles of Nike’s popular VaporMax, 270, and 720 models are made with more than 70 percent recycled materials, while the Flyknit and Flyleather technologies (that eliminate any surplus waste) are becoming some of the brand’s most profitable platforms.
French sneaker brand Veja — whose responsibly designed models are crafted in Brazil from organic cotton and Amazonian wild rubber soles — sells nearly two million pairs of sneakers every year, and has over 2,000 stockists. All this without spending any money on advertising. Added to the fact that many other streetwear brands are finding innovative ways of combating the millions of gallons of water, virgin materials, pesticides, and micro-plastics used in the industry every day, great design will always reign supreme.
“We know that you can do it properly and today it's almost considered lazy and immoral if you don't act upon something that can be so easily achieved,” says Livia Firth, co-founder and creative director of Eco-Age, a consultancy firm providing sustainability solutions for brands including Gucci, Stella McCartney, and MatchesFashion.
Step Two: Slow Down and Speak Up
Offering sustainable solutions through design innovations certainly isn’t enough. Even if materials are made with environmental responsibility in mind, streetwear’s commitment needs to be deeper. It’s the speed at which streetwear brands are producing, consumers are purchasing, and style publications such as Highsnobiety are promoting, that is the main problem. (By the end of the year Highsnobiety will have posted a projected 2,400 sneaker-related articles.) And each segment has its own role to play.
“The big elephant in the room is that, if you’re in the business of fashion and you’re producing, you want to grow,” says Gilhart. “There’s not one company that says it will slow down and take less profit.”
“It hits the nail on the head of the biggest challenge,” agrees Kruse. “The whole business model is based on creating a need that we don’t have by pushing new stuff into the market and overproducing and overconsuming. We need to promote a different set of values and it would be so cool if it would come from streetwear.”
Whether it’s urging customers to buy less by shutting online stores on days like Black Friday, offering free repairs to extend the lifespan of clothing, or actively embracing the resale market by supplying it with deadstock products, there are many steps brands can take to slow down. But it’s unlikely brands will compromise business growth to reduce their impact any time soon. They need to rethink the entire notion of speed. “Brands need to understand that the relationship with their community need not be purely a transactional one. You can buy a pair of kicks but you can’t buy culture,” says Chow.
The Public School co-founder has a point. The most successful, environmentally responsible streetwear brands of the future realize that commodities aren’t the only things for sale. Instead, it’s the brand itself that consumers want to buy into most, not necessarily the product it puts out. This means that streetwear brands should equally emphasize trading in knowledge, access, belonging, and experiences, and sell an overall ethos beyond product alone.
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Noah regularly gives its audience a behind-the-scenes look at its supply chain and breakdown of its pricing strategy, while designer Matthew Williams hosts community-driven 1017 ALYX 9SM events (where he educates the brand’s following on its sustainable design innovations). These are just two examples of brands that have the power to democratically enable a two-way communication flow where consumers are empowered to be a part of – and influence – a brand’s growth. It’s how loyalty is built today.
Since streetwear brands are often owned by their original founders, they don’t have a board to answer to. They are uniquely positioned unlike many luxury and fast-fashion brands to write their own rules and to speak out. Gilhart believes there are many streetwear brands that are implementing positive change already but are deciding to keep quiet in order to keep public criticism out. The fear of being called out for greenwashing, however, shouldn’t keep brands from educating the next generation at such a critical time.
“If brands like Supreme and Off-White™, which are considered cool by teenagers, started to truly communicate with their audience and say, ‘Listen, we’re not only cool because of the product but also because of the story behind it,’ it would educate that audience much faster than anything else,” concurs Firth.
Step Three: Implement Small Wins
“For a lot of brands that started a long time before the movement was as strong, it’s very difficult to change their foundations and incorporate new principles,” says Gilhart. “But then, as Al Gore said, ‘It's an inconvenient truth.' It's just too damn convenient.”
18 months ago Soulland restructured its business model. “We went from a conventional company to one that operates sustainably,” explains Kampp Berliner. “What changed everything for us was that we decided to go for the lower-hanging fruits.” Putting the right garbage cans in the office and making hang tags out of recycled materials quickly turned into bigger operational changes. “Our best-selling products were basic logo T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts. We made them sustainable and lowered the price. We currently make a lower profit on the sustainable products but the idea is that we can drive more volume.”
“Quick quarterly wins, I call them,” says Kurazawa. “We cannot expect brands to be, let’s say, 60 percent sustainable within six months, so we basically create a strategy where every quarter [the brands] have a win under their belt.” From better packaging solutions to circular fabrication, The Bear Scouts has 1,200 supply chain partners that provide different types of free fabrication and production in return for credit. “We make it financially viable for them so they don’t have an excuse.”
Change can be made effectively at scale. Nike, which uses recycled materials in nearly 75 percent of all of its products, sees both opportunities and challenges. “The challenge of being the largest footwear brand in the world brings a level of complexity that can make changes more difficult to implement across every aspect of our business,” admits Noel Kinder, Nike’s Chief Sustainability Officer. “We’re actively working with our contract manufacturing partners across our supply chain to improve energy efficiency and water use, while reducing carbon emissions and waste.”
BEKASI, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA - 2019/09/11: Scavengers sort and collect plastics for recycling at the garbage mountain in Bantar Gebang landfill that is considered to be the worlds largest dump. Jakartas Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Treatment Area (TPST Bantar Gebang) was established in 1985. On average, 7,000 tons of waste are dumped annually at the landfill, which is expected to exceed its limit in 2021. (Photo by Agung Fatma Putra/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Step Four: Power to the Collective
By and large, however, the streetwear market has been sleeping on its biggest asset: self-education. At a time when big luxury houses and fast-fashion businesses are treating innovations in sustainability as a competitive advantage to get ahead, the collaborative DNA of street culture has the power to educate the industry as a whole, and lead long-term financial, social, and environmental prosperity. “Streetwear has such an opportunity to educate and inspire through the way it works – it has an immediacy for younger communities and also a legitimacy in terms of its narrative that you don’t get anywhere else in the industry,” says Raeburn.
Frustrated by the lack of viable substitutes for the standard petroleum-based shoe sole in the sneaker industry, Allbirds invented its own solution, too. The result, called SweetFoam, is the world’s first sugarcane-based green EVA foam and its a technology Allbirds has open-sourced to the wider market. Since launch, more than 100 brands have inquired about implementing the solution into their existing supply chains. Having racked up $100 million in total revenue over the first two years, it’s proven that exchanging ideas won’t hurt business.
“We can’t alter the future of our planet by acting alone – it’s going to take collaboration from a group of leading companies who can show the industry a better path forward,” says Nike’s Noel Kinder.
“No brand or designer is going to change our industry single-handedly, however, if we can come together and turn our individual knowledge into institutional knowledge, then we can start seeing some major changes,” says Chow, who earlier this year co-launched V-to, a business-to-business program that supplies 100 percent recycled cotton blanks to streetwear brands, meant to replace the poorly sourced virgin cotton currently used by the majority of the marketplace. “In some instances like ours, overhaul it completely. Slowly but surely, things that seemed difficult or too complicated will become our norm,” he adds.
As sustainability is becoming more of a conversation in youth culture than with any other demographic, streetwear brands, publications and consumers need to speak about the topic and take genuine action today. “A real big issue is that in a short amount of time, it’s not going to be cool to not be responsible. It can change overnight. So for streetwear brands, first comes action and accountability, and that means before you can even figure out how to talk about your story, you have to do the work.”
Words:Christopher Morency
Illustrations:Kurt Woerpel
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" Frank is, frankly, a priceless gem." - Foluso Falaye
"This is a compassionate story full of adventure, lasting friendships, and the power of family love, as well as the need to feel a sense of belonging. An exciting read full of hope, promise, and, of course, science." - Emily-Jane Hills Orford
"Author Ece Gurler has crafted a truly excellent work that ticks all the boxes to engage and excite the MG reading audience. I would highly recommend Frank as a high-quality reading gift for the little bright sparks in your life to devour." - K.C. Finn
Have you ever dreamt of an alternate world? A world full of second chances and lost dreams, found again. Just like the one Frank has stumbled upon.
Frank, an eleven-year-old science nerd, fashions a hiding place in his closet with his favorite things. He calls it the "Aurora Shell", where he retreats whenever he feels upset or scared. The day he learns that he was adopted, he discovers an empty space behind his Big Bang Theory poster, in the Aurora Shell. He decides to crawl in and find out what awaits him at the end of this dark tunnel. There, he meets an incredibly cheerful kid, Andy, who becomes his first true friend. Soon after they realize that this is not just a simple passage, but it is a bridge that connects two parallel universes! Frustrated that he was unwanted by his biological parents in his own world, Frank decides to take his chance in this new universe to gain acceptance. Maybe this time his parents would welcome him and love him? Grabbing their backpacks, the two friends set out on a quest to find Frank's birth parents in Andy's universe. In the beginning of their journey, everything looks brand new and astonishing to Frank. But this adventure will hold dangers they never could have imagined. Will they be able to survive the grave challenges and find Frank's family in the end? Was their secret going to cause them trouble?
Ece Gurler's middle-grade novel, Frank, is an excellent coming of age story for young readers who are 7-12 years old. Following the quest of one eleven-year-old science genius, Frank, readers will share experiences and sentiments that might mirror some of their own. The plot is full of unexpected twists and turns as the two main characters, Frank and his alternate dimension counterpart, Andy, discover new realities in worlds full of chances and dreams, both lost and real. This science fiction story will introduce young readers to the wide world of fascinating discoveries, like penicillin and electricity, and how much fun learning about science can be (as well as being useful).
BookBaby, 9781098320119, 222pp.
Ece Gurler, who was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, has always believed in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Besides her work as a School Director in Boston, she is also a full-time author and artist. She studied Geological Engineering in ODTU. But her career path deviated from science and she chose to make difference in people's lives by becoming an educator. Now, she is pursuing her Master of Arts degree in Critical and Creative Thinking at UMASS Boston. Working in the international education sector for more than a decade gave her the ability to read diverse behavior of her students. This unique skill set, combined with her love for science, gave birth to her debut book, "Frank." As an avid reader, she likes to read about history, psychology, science and fictions with strong characters. Currently, she lives in the inspiring city of Boston. When she doesn't write, she makes art. She gives real-time drawing and painting tutorials online. Learn more about her writing and art, get tips and her free resources at: www.ecegurler.com
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USA: Anheuser-Busch’s great grandson fails with own brewery
William “Billy” Busch, the great grandson of Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch, has failed with his attempt to replicate the famous family's success with his own brewery. Eight years after starting the St. Louis-based The William K. Busch Brewing Company in 2011, Billy Busch said in a press release on Wednesday he was “shutting down, dissolving and stopping” brewing operations of its two Reinheitsgebot-adhering lager beers, Kräftig and Kräftig light.
“After careful consideration, the William K. Busch Brewing Company has decided to shut down,” Busch said in the statement. “I want to thank all of our customers, retailers, suppliers, and vendors who have supported us over the last eight years.”
The brewery was an attempt of the 59-year-old to prove himself as more than just a wealthy heir. Billy Busch was always considered the "black sheep" of the family. He bit off another man's earlobe during a 1981 bar fight. One year later he was accused of punching a drive-thru worker in the throat. In later years it became a little calmer about the bad boy beer heir. But only two years ago, Billy Busch hit again the news when he was accused of bloodying a kid's nose when the sixth-grader had a confrontation with Busch's son at a basketball practice.
In the first years of its existence, the William K. Busch Brewing Company expanded with double-digit growth rates and could expand distribution throughout Missouri. However, in 2016 the tide turned and volume sales of Kräftig and Kräftig Light nearly halved in the last three years to about 7,000 barrels (8,350 hl). Considering the recent announcement, Billy Busch saw apparently no way to contain the losses and pulled the plug.
Still in December last year, Billy Busch announced to build a farm brewery and distillery outside of St. Louis, Missouri, where he intended to brew artisan, small-batch beers and craft, barrel-aged whiskeys along with his Kräftig beers. The two all-malt beers were brewed so far at City Brewing, the brewery of the former G. Heileman Brewing Company, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The new greenfield project was expected to be completed by spring 2020 but is put now on hold.
However, this might not be the end: “I’ve always been passionate about brewing, because it’s in my blood. I hope to one day return to this great American-led industry,” Billy Busch said. In an interview with KMOX, a St. Louis-based radio station, he confirmed, that he is still considering a distillery as “spirits continue to siphon volume from beer”.
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Festival Theatre turns conference arena in cross-street tie-up with Surgeon’s Hall
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) and the Festival Theatre are pooling their resources to create a one-stop ‘large conference destination’
Colin Donald
The Festival Theatre will team up with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh to create a one-stop ‘large conference destination’
Edinburgh’s business tourism market could be boosted by a new alliance between two top-rated venues joining forces to create a new conference and events super-venue.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) and the Festival Theatre are pooling their resources to create a one-stop ‘large conference destination’, making use of some of the capital’s finest settings.
In sharing their space and expertise, the ambitious venues will be able to manage conferences for up to 750 delegates, which has the potential to generate significant income for the city.
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The established conference business at the College is managed by its commercial arm, Surgeons Quarter and already hosts more than 1,000 events per year 30 of which have in excess of 250 attendees.
Enabling access to the auditorium at the Festival Theatre, which has a seating capacity of over 1900 - along with Scotland’s largest stage - positions the stunning venues as a new and distinctly different option for larger conferences.
Moira Walker, Marketing Manager for Surgeons Quarter, said: “The benefits that our collaboration will bring to Edinburgh are not just financial; these conferences draw in some of the brightest minds from across the world.
“They give our local industry leaders the chance to share work with, and learn from, key players in a variety of fields.
“In keeping with our setting, our venues offer soul and character – qualities that are so often missed in large-scale purpose-built centres.
“We’re located directly across from the Festival Theatre, and in true neighbourly style, we’ve established a solid working relationship over the years.”
The combined offering is being marketed at destinations across the world, from Las Vegas to Frankfurt, thanks to Surgeons Quarter Sales Manager, Elizabeth Squair, who is tasked with driving associated business. Elizabeth will also promote this unique product in Dubai at an ICCA event which Surgeons Quarter is now delighted to be a member of.
Niall Dewar, Deputy Head of Front of House and Customer Services at Festival Theatre, said: “This is a huge opportunity as it opens up a market and revenue stream otherwise unavailable to us.
“For CEOs and speakers of a more theatrical nature, we’re hopeful the prospect of presenting on the largest stage in Scotland will be hugely appealing.”
“Each of our combined spaces are completely unique and cover every need of any conference - from the main event held here, through to a huge arrange of options for the post-conference social programme.
“In collaborating we can offer the true character of Edinburgh, while fitting around the practical requirements that conference organisers face in the city centre.”
Edinburgh’s World Heritage status, modest size and unrivalled beauty makes it a highly desirable city for business trips and conferences.
But, as its distinguished title was awarded for its protected green space, and old traditional buildings that were not designed for big gatherings of this style, many of the capital’s larger conference settings find themselves on the outskirts of the city.
Amanda Ferguson, Head of Business Tourism at Marketing Edinburgh, said: “This agreement between RCSEd and Festival Theatre is a forward-thinking, professional relationship that will see Edinburgh able to offer high-class service in the heart of the Old Town.
“Economically, this is a big deal for the capital. Conference bookings of this size see the monetary benefits ricochet throughout the city, reaching beyond the traditional tourism sector and benefitting Edinburgh’s many industry sectors – facilitating international connections, collaboration and even inward investment.
“The capital is fast making a name for itself as the place to be for conferences and events and it’s excellent to see these organisations helping further enhance that reputation.”
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The College offers the King Khalid building, the Quincentenary Building, the Playfair Building and the Prince Phillip building totalling 16 events spaces, all superbly fitted out with a range of resources to cover all needs.
Meanwhile, Festival Theatre Edinburgh is hardly short of history, with a stunning 1928 art deco auditorium fronted by a sleek and contemporary front of house located on Edinburgh's longest continuous theatre site, where over a century of famous acts have graced the stage.
Surgeons Quarter is tasked with making the most of the RCSEd’s impressive buildings, with profits being invested back into the College, which delivers life-changing surgical skills to every corner of the world.
Launched in 2006, the recently rebranded Surgeons Quarter team promotes, sells and manages conferences, corporate events, weddings and other events across the College’s buildings. It has also helped establish the College as a Festival-Fringe venue and last August hosted seven theatres frequented by 75,000 customers, while also delivering significant food and beverage sales.
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Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), Staples, Inc. (SPLS), Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI): Today’s 3 Worst Stocks
Published on August 23, 2013 at 9:51 am by The Motley Fool in News
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case they’re material to our investing thesis.
Wall Street shrugged off technical oddities that caused a three-hour trading halt in all NASDAQ Composite (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) issues, as the three major U.S. indexes all gained ground. The past few weeks saw stocks slip on growing assurance that the Federal Reserve will begin curbing its asset-buying program next month. Now that the Fed’s tapering is taken as a given, that large cloud of uncertainty has been lifted; the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) added 14 points, or 0.9%, to end at 1,656 Thursday.
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) was one of the top losers in the S&P, cratering 12.5% today as shareholders sold off after the company’s most recent quarterly report disappointed investors yesterday. The double-digit decline is the largest single-day stumble in more than two years for the PC mainstay. In fact, a major catalyst behind today’s decline is the very fact that HP is a “PC mainstay”; the company is trying to rebrand itself around its enterprise solutions segment, but that was one of the company’s most glaring weaknesses in the most recent quarter.
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) was again one of the index’s worst performers, losing 1.4%. Of course, Staples investors will take that any day over yesterday’s abysmal 15% slump on the heels of — you guessed it — a disappointing quarterly earnings report. Research outfit Jefferies Group reduced its price target on the office supplier’s shares today, as Wall Street lowers its expectations for the future.
Business equipment company Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) shed 1.2% Thursday, driving the annual dividend yield on shares to 4.3%. Pitney Bowes offers physical and digital communications solutions, and with physical mail on the decline, the company will have to either expand operations or continue to squeeze more out of each dollar of revenue. Despite declining sales in each of the last four years, Pitney has grown profits by double-digit rates in each of the past two years.
The article Today’s 3 Worst Stocks originally appeared on Fool.com.
Fool contributor John Divine has no position in any stocks mentioned. You can follow him on Twitter, @divinebizkid, and on Motley Fool CAPS, @TMFDivine.The Motley Fool owns shares of Staples.
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Paralympic medallist Jonkers hands out 100th grant from Sporting Dreams Foundation to Australian skier
By Gary Anderson
Alpine skier Jordan Carroll became the 100th recipient of a grant from the Sporting Dreams Foundation run by former Australian Paralympian Marayke Jonkers at a special presentation in the Sunshine Coast.
The 18-year-old was presented with the AUD$250 (£136/$219/€170) grant by Jonkers and London 2012 Paralympic athlete Rachel Dodds, the first ever recipient of a grant from the foundation.
Carroll was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer at the age of 12 that eventually led to him becoming blind.
But the youngster is fighting back and has designs on representing Australia at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang and is currently training with the Australian squad.
"I couldn't be prouder of the achievements of Jordan Carroll," said Jonkers, a former swimmer who picked up a silver medal at Beijing 2008 and two bronze medals at Athens 2004.
"Despite losing his vision to cancer only one year ago, Jordan has shown he has the potential to become Queensland's first Winter Paralympian, having been invited to train with the national Paralympic team.
"The highlight for me was watching our first grant recipient Rachel Dodd present the 100th award and speak about how far she has come from dreaming of being a Paralympian to becoming a world champion."
Jonkers, who became a paraplegic in a car accident at eight months old, founded Sporting Dreams in 2008, after being awarded a grant of AUD$10,000 (£5,450/$8,700/€6,845) when she won a national women's magazine award.
The Foundation aims to help Queensland-based athletes with disabilities to achieve fun, fitness and personal development through sport and to support future champions.
Carroll was one of 13 athletes to receive an introductory level grant of AUD$250 (£136/$219/€170) to assist them in taking up a sport.
Eight established athletes were awarded development grants of AUD$500 (£272/$437/€342) to assist them with training and competition costs.
"Becoming a Paralympian has changed my life and I want to ensure every athlete has the same opportunity to experience the benefits I have had through sport, which is why I started Sporting Dreams," added Jonkers, who has also represented Australia at the International Triathlon Union World Championships in 2009 and 2010.
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Joining An MLM Does Not Make You A ‘Small Business Owner’
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Jamie Smith of Portland, Oregon, joined the multilevel marketing company doTerra in 2014. She was working as full-time massage therapist and holistic health coach at the time, and had also launched a line of her own body care essential oil products. She was struggling with her business and rethinking her career ― that is, until she was introduced to doTerra by a friend.
“She really pitched me on the business and making X amount of money per month,” Smith said. “I was definitely in a financial need. I was also a new mom … the typical targeted, vulnerable person.”
As an MLM, doTerra hires “wellness consultants” to sell its products (essential oils, in this case) and to recruit new members to work underneath them for the company. Like most other MLMs, the opportunity is presented as a chance to start “your business” and “live the life you want.”
It seemed like a great opportunity to Smith. She could sell ready-made products to her clients rather than crafting them herself, all while maintaining her entrepreneurial lifestyle with the support and structure of an existing business. It’s a common promise among MLMs: Quit the rat race. Be a boss babe. Join and instantly become a small-business owner.
“Earning income with doTerra is called a ‘business opportunity,’ so the implication of running your own business is there immediately,” Smith said. However, with more than 1,500 employees and $307 million in sales each year, doTerra International is by no means a small business. And Smith was certainly not an owner.
Yet millions of MLM consultants believe that’s just what they are: small business owners. Here’s why they’re not, and why the premise can be so damaging.
Most MLMs Are Not Small Businesses By Definition
Generally, a small business is any privately owned company or sole proprietorship that generates less revenue and/or has fewer employees than a regular-sized business or corporation.
The specific standards that constitute a small business vary by industry, according to the Small Business Administration. For example, a small new-car dealer business has fewer than 200 employees. A small business that sells women’s clothing generates less than $30 million in average annual revenue.
Let’s look at some popular MLM companies, on the other hand. Mega-MLM Amway, which sells a variety of health, beauty and home products, boasted sales of more than $8.4 billion in 2019. LuLaRoe, known for its myriad colorful, patterned leggings, brought in $2.7 billion in 2017. Even smaller-scale MLMs don’t come close to being a true small business: Monat generated $435 million in revenue in 2018, while Color Street posted $119 million in revenue that same year.
Legally, You’re An Independent Contractor
Even though corporations engaged in multilevel marketing may not be small businesses, participants are often made to feel like they own a small chunk of the company, with the autonomy to run it as their own. With titles such as “independent consultant,” “fashion retailer” or “wellness advocate,” these positions imply a high level of expertise, authority and ownership ― not to mention, “consultant” sounds a lot more attractive than “sales rep.”
“The terms that different MLMs use to designate their participants, as well as the different levels in the compensation plans, are somewhat fanciful and arbitrary,” said Douglas M. Brooks, an attorney who specializes in representing victims of pyramid schemes, deceptive MLM programs and business opportunity scams. Higher levels, he added, are given terms that mimic those in traditional product distribution systems or other businesses, such as “supervisor” or “director.”
But the truth is that legally, selling products for an MLM makes you an independent contractor, not a business owner or franchisee, even though the distinction is often confusing.
“dōTERRA provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to build an independent business selling dōTERRA’s high quality products. Individuals who choose to pursue this business opportunity must sign our Wellness Advocate agreement, which clearly defines their relationship with dōTERRA as independent contractors,” a doTerra representative explained.
Contractors are self-employed individuals who provide goods and services to another business or entity as a nonemployee. As a result, they don’t receive the same benefits or legal protections that actual employees do, such as a minimum hourly wage, paid time off, health benefits or a 401(k). They have to supply their own equipment and tools, and are responsible for paying their own taxes. In the case of MLMs, contractors often spend a large portion of their time recruiting and training new members in their downline, but they do not hire, fire or manage any of their own employees. And the company can cut ties with the contractor at any time, for any reason.
So in a sense, independent contractors who work for MLMs are business owners ― but they are a business of one. They are sole proprietors, and don’t have any stake in the company they contract for.
You Have No Control Over The Company’s Vision, Strategy Or Products
Business owners are the vision behind the company. They’re typically involved in setting the pricing, overseeing product development, marketing and distribution, and making decisions about branding.
As an MLM consultant, however, you have zero control over these key business decisions. You don’t choose the products or have a say in how they could be improved. The prices and compensation structure are set for you. What you say about the products and company, and how you say it, is controlled by the MLM.
Before leaving doTerra in 2018, Smith said she was feeling immense burnout and fatigue from building up teams of distributors and seeing little financial payoff. And the overall experience seemed inauthentic. She felt like she was part of a factory. “I sort of let go of all of the other things that I had been trained to do, the other ambitions that I had to keep my own legitimate business as a health coach and massage therapist … to really just doing their business goals,” she said.
Brooks noted that the contracts between contractors and MLMs usually contain detailed instructions on how the participant is supposed to operate their “business.” “Most MLM distributor agreements incorporate the MLM company’s rules and regulations, which can amount to over a hundred pages of small print,” Brooks said. “They can restrict the distributor’s right to sell their business and often contain arbitration clauses in which the distributor agrees to submit any disputes to private arbitration, and gives up their right to go to court or participate in a class action against the MLM.”
It’s also common for regular business owners to invest in the materials needed to create their products. MLM consultants, on the other hand, are often required to buy actual inventory upfront. In fact, spending a certain amount of money each month is sometimes required to be eligible for various earnings and bonuses. Smith, for instance, said she had to spend at least $100 per month in order to earn enough personal volume (PV) points to qualify for income.
In essence, MLM consultants are forced into becoming customers of the MLM, not owners.
You’re All But Guaranteed To Lose Money
Starting a business is a risky prospect. About 80% of small businesses survive their first year, and that number drops to 70% after the second year. Forty percent of existing small businesses earn a profit. Out of the other 60%, half are breaking even and the rest are losing money.
However, those numbers are pretty attractive when compared to the MLM industry. One study by AARP found 73% of MLM participants either don’t make money or lose money. A separate report by a longtime consumer advocate who studied MLMs puts that number closer to 99%.
“I totally lost money,” Smith said. And clearly she’s not alone.
Theoretically, MLM distributors can earn money in two ways: By selling the products and by earning commissions off their recruits’ sales. “In practice, it is difficult or impossible for most MLM distributors to earn a sustainable profit solely through retailing,” Brooks said. The “real money” is made through recruiting other distributors to work underneath you, he explained, though only a tiny percentage of participants can earn substantial incomes through recruiting.
“The result is that there is a tremendous amount of attrition among the lower levels of MLM distributors, forcing distributors at the higher levels to engage in continuous, relentless recruiting in order to maintain their positions or rise in the ranks.” This, he said, is a major reason why MLM firms are frequently alleged to be pyramid schemes.
In other words, joining an MLM isn’t the same as starting a business ― it’s committing to losing money. You’d have a better chance of success by taking your money to Vegas and putting it all on black.
With no control over the product or pricing, and no legal or financial stake in the company, MLM participants are merely commission-only sales reps who were tricked into taking some of the most dubious gigs out there.
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Universities City, University of London Subject Computing
Why choose a Computing degree at City, University of London?
Having provided some of the country's first Computer Science degrees, City, University of London has been leading in Computer Science education for more than 60 years. You'll study as part of City's dedicated Computer Science department, which is responsible for world-class research across multiple disciplines in the field.
Located near London's 'Tech City', where global companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have their UK headquarters.
Graduate as a Chartered IT Professional: all undergraduate degrees are professionally accredited by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
Excellent specialist facilities including computer labs with industry-standard software and the Interaction Lab for testing websites, apps, smart TVs and more.
Dedicated support from City's Professional Liaison Unit helps students secure placements at leading companies such as IBM, PlayStation, Disney, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs.
Hear from leading specialists in Big Data and network with the experts at the University’s regular series of Data Bites talks.
Improve your English language skills before starting your academic studies.
Support with your university application.
To apply for direct entry to an undergraduate degree at City, University of London: If you are working with an education counsellor please contact them to make an application. Otherwise, please visit the university website
Leads to: Postgraduate degree
Typical entry requirements: From IELTS 5.5, plus completion of three years of higher education.
A guaranteed route to a Master's degree.
Develop your study and research skills in preparation for postgraduate study.
Improve your knowledge of academic theory and subjects related to your degree.
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Shelbourne Hotel operating company pre-tax losses treble
PRE-tax losses at the company that manages the luxurious five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin increased threefold to €7.6 million last year, new accounts show.
Thu, 06 Oct, 2011 - 01:00
Gordon Deegan
Accounts just filed with the Companies Registration Office by Torriam Hotel Operating Company show the chief factor behind the increased loss was the €7.5m costs incurred by Torriam, associated with a legal case taken against it by the hotel’s owner, Shelbourne Hotel Holdings Ltd (SHHL).
The case concerned Torriam’s fulfilment of obligations arising out of the parties’ 20-year management agreement for the operation of the Shelbourne.
The accounts state an arbitration tribunal on November 10 last year dismissed SHHL’s claim to be entitled to terminate the agreement and the €7.5m costs comprise the awards to the Shelbourne and Torriam’s legal, professional fees and arbitration costs.
A subsidiary of hotel giant, Marriott International, Torriam’s revenues declined by 31% from €13.5m to €9.3m to the end of December last.
The figures show that €3.6m of the €13.5m revenues generated in 2009 related to the operation of a reservation and customer care centre to other Marriott companies that was discontinued by Torriam last year.
The discontinuation of the customer care centre impacted on the numbers employed by Torriam last year, declining from 486 to 323 with staff costs decreasing by 26% from €12.6m to €9.2m.
However, the figures show that the company made a gross profit last year of €55,923 compared to a gross profit of €3.6m in 2009.
The pre-tax loss last year compared to a loss of €2.8m in 2009. The loss last year increased the company’s accumulated losses to €11.3m.
The company had net liabilities totalling €8.9m at the end of last year and a note attached to the accounts states that the company’s ultimate parent company, Marriott International has confirmed that it will continue to support the company as and when required to enable the company to meet its commitments.
The company that owns the hotel, Shelbourne Hotel Holdings Ltd had accumulated losses totalling €208.4m at the end of 2009 that included a €155m writedown in the property.
According to its most recent accounts, SHHL’s future plans include the directors’ intention to restructure the existing group loan facilities with the assistance of the group’s lending institutions. The hotel re-opened in March 2007 after being closed for one year due to refurbishment increasing the number of rooms to 265.
The hotel was purchased by a consortium including Mr Bernard McNamara, Jerry O’Reilly, John Sweeney, David Courtney and Bernard Doyle for €140m in 2004.
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Heriot-Watt leads on next-gen computers
An optical image of a quantum superconducting chip
Heriot-Watt University is leading an ambitious international project to develop a new generation of quantum computers capable of making their own decisions.
The Neuromorphic Quantum Computing (Quromorphic) Project aims to build a computer processor that transfers data in the same way neurons work in the human brain.
The project is being led by Professor Michael Hartmann from Heriot-Watt's Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS) who is working alongside researchers and scientists from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Technical University Delft (Netherlands), University of the Basque Country (Spain), IBM Zurich (Switzerland) and the Volkswagen Group (Germany).
This is a very exciting time to be working as pioneers in the field of quantum computing.
Professor Michael Hartmann
Between them, the group aims to create radical new computer quantum devices, capable of running a huge number of artificial intelligence (AI) tasks at the same time, vastly exceeding limitations of existing technology. For example, where typical AI can be trained to recognise human faces with a single photograph at a time, the quantum neural networks could be fed with thousands or even millions of pictures at once. The programme can then use this data and be trained to make decisions based on user feedback.
Professor Michael Hartmann from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University is the lead academic on the Quromorphic Project.
He explained: “At present, AI is transforming the way we use data. Where computer programmes typically emulate the workings of the human brain to perform tasks such as recognition of human faces or hand-written digits, the Quromorphic Project is taking a different approach by developing quantum computing hardware that mimics the functionality of neurons.
“Like neurons, these new quantum devices made of superconducting electrical circuits will combine input signals to generate output or not. This mimics the decision making process of the human brain where a combination of influences leads a person to make a decision.
“When combining circuits, powerful artificial intelligence emerges. In their quantum version these circuits are expected to process much more input signals and take many more decisions at the same time leading to vast speed improvements.”
He added: “This is a very exciting time to be working as pioneers in the field of quantum computing.
“The possibilities are incredible but of course we cannot yet know its true potential. This will only become clear in the future when we have a better understanding of the capabilities and possibilities.”
Quantum computers are vastly different to a typical desktop PC.
Their development is very much in the early stages however computing giants including Google, IBM and others are currently investing in the cutting-edge technology. Central to its potential power is its processing unit, made of so called a 'quantum bits' or 'qubits'. If, for example, a 100 qubit quantum computer is increased to 101 qubits, its computing power is expected to double, and for the next qubit added it will double once more.
This dramatic escalation in power has tremendous potential, which the Quoromorphic Project hopes to exploit in order to develop a human brain inspired quantum artificial intelligence.
Professor Hartmann continued: “Given the major economic importance of machine learning, one can expect that quantum devices will quickly push aside existing artificial intelligence technology once it can be demonstrated that they are indeed more powerful in real world applications.
“For example, this could lead to new traffic flow optimisations, where complex computational problems need to be solved extremely fast to provide input to navigation systems in real time.”
Earlier this month the European Commission announced more than half-a-million pounds of funding towards the project.
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Can Roanoke, Virginia, Become the Next Bilbao? Taubman Museum of Art
by Anastasia Kolendo; Peter Frumkin
In November 2008, after a $68 million project to build a new museum building in Roanoke was complete, the Taubman Museum of Art reopened. The $15 million needed to fund the new building was still to be raised, and by the end of the 2008 fiscal year (FY) in July, $14.4 million had been borrowed. Before the move, the museum was provided with its space free of any rental, maintenance, security, custodial, and utility fees by a local operating foundation at its Center in the Square. After the move, the costs of staffing and maintaining the facility far exceeded estimates, while the revenues proved far below expectations. In the first year, the museum's operating budget before depreciation was $5.5 million. In fiscal year 2009, an additional $2.8 million had been borrowed and $945,000 paid in interest. This debt expense alone was larger than the entire pre-expansion operating budget. For the grand opening, the Taubman Museum had hired additional staff for a total of 52, but the financial pressure forced four rounds of layoffs, during which the staff was trimmed to 17. At the same time, the admission fee increased, from nothing before the project's beginning to $3 during the capital campaign to $10.50 after opening. Even after these drastic measures, the museum is still struggling, fighting for its very survival. Moreover, other arts organizations complained that the museum had become a drain into which cultural funds were being sucked from foundations and philanthropists in Roanoke Valley. Why did the Taubman Museum's fortunes change so drastically after its move? To what extent was the new building -- rather than the depressed economy -- to blame for the severity of its crisis? What measures during the planning process could have been taken to prevent this catastrophe?
America's Cultural Capital: Recommendations for Structuring the Federal Role
Cultural Policy: The Voice of State Legislators
From Celluloid to Cyberspace: The Media Arts and the Changing Arts World
Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Copyright 2012 Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago.
North America / United States (Southern) / Virginia / Roanoke
Title: Can Roanoke, Virginia, Become the Next Bilbao? Taubman Museum of Art
Authors Anastasia Kolendo , Peter Frumkin
Copyright holder(s) Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago
Geographical Focus North America / United States (Southern) / Virginia / Roanoke
Keywords roanoke , taubman , kittredge , museum , fralin
Document type CaseStudy
URL: https://www.issuelab.org/resource/can-roanoke-virginia-become-the-next-bilbao-taubman-museum-of-art.html
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Pulse Secure Chooses Config
Pulse Secure, leader in Software-Defined Secure Access solutions, has announced a new partnership with Config, a VAD of IT security solutions in France and French-speaking Africa. Under this agreement, Config will distribute all Pulse Secure solutions, including virtual private networks (VPNs), software defined perimeter (SDP), network access controls (NAC) and application delivery controllers (ADC). This partnership will also allow Pulse Secure to extend the scope of the new formula of its Access Now partner program to all players in its distribution network in Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Gabon, Guinea, Morocco, Sénégal and Tunisia.
Founded in 1981, Config is one of the leaders in the distribution of IT security solutions in France and French-speaking Africa. The company regularly signs new partnerships with leading suppliers and manufacturers to offer a complete commercial solution based exclusively on an indirect sales model. Config works with more than 1000 resellers, VARs, IT consultants and integrators across its regions and provides technological expertise and in-depth knowledge of these markets in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa to effectively support its business development and that of its partners.
"Pulse Secure has been a dominant player in the VPN and NAC markets for many years, with solid products and a very positive brand image", said Zouhir El Kamel, CEO of Config. "But the recent expansion into areas such as Software-Defined Perimeter and Application Delivery Controllers is creating real differentiation levers from our competitors, as well as a complete solution for our partners to meet today's and tomorrow's threats. Our technical team is already fully familiar with Pulse Secure solutions and has been familiar with the Pulse Secure EMEA South management team since a previous collaboration. We are therefore confident in our ability to work together with common objectives in a true partnership."
Config has an experienced technical team to provide the necessary support and professional services to its partners in France and French-speaking Africa. In addition, the company is currently conducting an information and training campaign through webinars, technical sessions and a roadshow for its partners. The goal is to make Channel players aware of the main advantages of Pulse Secure solutions.
Laurent Delattre, Sales Director for the EMEA South region, adds: "Config is a highly qualified value-added distributor. His excellent reputation is due to almost forty years of experience in the region. Through this close collaboration, we hope not only to extend Pulse Secure's Access Now partnership program to French-speaking countries, but also to support our channel in marketing Software-Defined Secure Access solutions to meet customer needs and ever-changing threats."
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Mlb Guide
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:48
Major League Baseball teams, betting and information guide.
MLB History
The American League (AL)
The National League (NL)
Kansas City Royals Florida Marlins
Los Angeles Angels Houston Astros
Minnesota Twins Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Yankees Milwaukee Brewers
Oakland Athletics New York Mets
Seattle Mariners Philadelphia Phillies
Tampa Bay Rays Pittsburgh Pirates
Texas Rangers San Diego Padres
Betting & Facts
The World Series
MLB Spreads
The roots of MLB can be traced back to 1870s. The MLB is currently led by Bud Selig and consists of 30 teams from both the United States and Canada. The Boston Red Sox is the most recent champion with New York Yankees holding the record with most championships won.
In structure, the Major League Baseball is composed of two leagues -- the American League, which consists of fourteen teams, and the National League, which has a total of sixteen teams. Each league is then subdivided into 3 divisions, tagged as West, Central, and East. With the exception of designated times of the year, the necessity for interleague games becomes not possible due to the uneven balance of teams.
MLB effectively functions as a single league and being so, it constitutes one of North America’s major professional sports leagues. To be more specific, MLB refers to the organization that guides the National League and the American League through joint organizational structure that continued to exist between both leagues since 1903. They hold their games per season, with each season consisting of 162 games generally starting on the first Sunday in April and ending on the first Sunday of October. The playoffs are held in October or sometime November each year.
MLB guide: difference between the American League and the National League
The rules are basically similar among both leagues. However, there is one exception -- the American League operates following the Designated Hitter Rule (DH Rule) while this is not true for the National League. With this difference in the rule, both leagues then display distinct schemes in terms of style of play. The use of DH Rule in the All Star, World Series, and Interleague games is decided upon by the home team’s league rules. When violations to the rules are committed, penalties are applied. This was applied in 2000 to two leagues that were officially disbanded as separate legal entities, where all rights as well as functions were consolidated in the commissioner’s office.
The MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution that underwent numerous rebirths since 1876, with its most recent revisions done in 2005. Under current Commissioner Bud Selig, Major League Baseball hires and manages the sport’s umpiring crews, and settles labor, marketing or advertisement, and television contracts. The “closed shop” element of MLB for many North American sports leagues has efficiently prevented the yearly promotion and downgrading of teams into and out of the Major League due to their performance. Although private enterprises are generally funded by MLB, it is also funded by public taxes. This makes MLB maintain a one-of-a-kind controlling relationship over the sport, including a majority of the aspects of minor league baseball. This is also largely due to a Supreme Court ruling in 1922 with regards the Federal Baseball Club v. National League, stating that baseball is not subject to federal antitrust law because it is not an interstate commerce. In subsequent years however, this ruling has been slightly weakened.
The MLB Advanced Media, which is the multimedia/production wing of MLB in New York, oversees the MLB.com including the 30 sites representing each team’s website. As agreed, the MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league itself, although it is under the same revenue-sharing plan and ownership group. Similarly, MLB Productions is a wing of the league with identical structure but focuses on traditional media and video.
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Viens, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Located in the heart of a hilltop village in the Luberon, this magnificent property offers over 400 m² of living area. Rich in character and steeped in history, it presents authentic period features including French ceilings, large reception rooms and mullioned windows. The property has been partly renovated, although certain works will be necessary to ensure optimal comfort. Comprising seven bedr... Read more
Located in the heart of a hilltop village in the Luberon, this magnificent property offers over 400 m² of living area. Rich in character and steeped in history, it presents authentic period features including French ceilings, large reception rooms and mullioned windows. The property has been partly renovated, although certain works will be necessary to ensure optimal comfort. Comprising seven bedrooms, two living rooms and a large kitchen, it also offers an old commercial unit on a pedestrian street (in need of renovation). Boasting an elevated position and a series of beautiful views, this 400-year-old property holds the history of the village within its four walls.
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Current issue Archive About the Journal Ethical code Information for Authors Ethical Code Instructions for Authors Agreement CC-BY-SA Author's statement Information for Reviewers Ethical Code The procedure of reviewing Reviewer's form List of reviewers Editorial Board Scientific Council Contact
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Procedural obstacles in the vindication of claims related to labour relations under the Polish special procedure covering labour law cases
Katarzyna Bomba 1
Department of Labour Law and Social Security University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
special procedure covering labour law cases
vindication of claims from labour
labour inspector
composition of labour court
employment protection
Labour law has been developed in order to protect implicitly ‘typical’ employment relationships, based on a contract of full-time employment for an indefinite period of time. The development of non-full-time form of employment required new legal regulations to secure that workers employed part-time should not be in a less favourable position in comparison to those being in full-time employment. Polish part-time work–oriented regulations have been evidently created under the influence of the Directive 97/81/EC. The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of the notion of part-time worker in the Directive and the Polish Labour Code and the protection for part-time workers against unequal treatment. In many cases the regulations under discussion implement the Directive’s requirements or they are even more restrictive than the Directive itself however other still has not fully implemented its provisions. For further development of part-time employment it is essential that the requirements of the Directive 97/81/EC should be met
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Cool Star Marked by Long-Lived Storm (Artist's Concept)
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This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is thought to be similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Scientists discovered it using NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes.
The location of the storm is estimated to be near the north pole of the star based on computer models of the data. The telescopes cannot see the storm itself, but learned of its presence after observing how the star's light changes over time. The storm travels around with the star, making a full lap about every 9 hours. When it passes into a telescope's field of view, it causes light of particular infrared and visible wavelengths to dip in brightness.
The storm has persisted for at least two years. Astronomers aren't sure why it has lasted so long.
While planets are known to have cloudy storms, this is the best evidence yet for a star with the same type of storm. The star, W1906+40, belongs to a thermally cool class of objects called L-dwarfs. Some L-dwarfs are considered stars because they fuse atoms and generate light, as our sun does, while others, called brown dwarfs, are known as "failed stars" for their lack of atomic fusion.
The L-dwarf W1906+40 is thought to be a star based on estimates of its age (the older the L-dwarf, the more likely it is a star). Its temperature is about 2,200 Kelvin (3,500 degrees Fahrenheit). That may sound scorching hot, but as far as stars go, it is relatively cool. Cool enough, in fact, for clouds to form in its atmosphere.
W1906+40 is located 53 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
For more information about the Kepler and Spitzer missions, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler and http://spitzer.caltech.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer.
Kepler Exoplanet Mission
Infrared Universe Mission
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Comparing the Size of Exoplanet Kepler-1649c and Earth (Illustration)
Kepler Planet 1649c Surface View Artist's Concept
Kepler Planet 1649c Artist's Illustration From Space
K2-138 6 Planets Artwork (Artist's Illustration)
K2-288Bb (Artist's Illustration)
K2-138 System Diagram
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Ia Supernova from a White Dwarf Stealing Matter)
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Felt Supernova)
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Ia Supernova from a White Dwarf Merger)
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Core Collapse Supernova)
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Jerusalem Post Magazine Features
Sweet olim
After enduring a rough aliyah, Shirley Milner and family found a business opportunity and it seems they're now here to stay.
By GLORIA DEUTSCH
Shirley Milner 311
(photo credit: Gloria Deutsch)
Every morning except Shabbat, Shirley Milner gets up when her alarm goes off at 5 a.m., dresses, does her hair and makeup and sets off on the journey from Haifa to Kfar Saba, where she presides over Chocolata, a sweets and chocolate emporium on the town’s main street. If her husband, Eric, has no project going in his own leather furniture cleaning business, he joins her in the shop.
They take three buses to work and three to get home, arriving back at 10:30 in the evening.
“That’s when we eat our supper,” says the smiling new immigrant, who left Johannesburg two years ago with her extended family of nine to begin a new life in Israel. The shop has been going for six months now and Shirley, who runs it mainly with daughter Janine, sometimes with Eric and often with one of her two sons, is getting used to it and doing her best to deal with the customers in her less-than-perfect Hebrew.
There’s nothing like safety in numbers, so everyone in the family had each other to lean on if they encountered obstacles early in the aliya adventure. With Shirley and Eric came Janine, her husband Robin and their three children, and the two sons, Craig and Greg.
“South Africa is not a good place to be anymore,” says Shirley, explaining the family’s decision to move to Israel en masse. “You can be murdered for a cell phone. People live behind high walls with electric barbed wire on them. I can’t live like that, being caged in, even with the beautiful gardens, the cars and the swimming pools.”
Still, the move to Israel did not go at all smoothly in the beginning and, as Shirley tells it, the first six months were very difficult.
“We were taken straight to Haifa from the airport and dumped in two apartments which the Jewish Agency chose for us,” she recalls. “In South Africa we’d been to an aliya exhibition and decided we wanted to live in Modi’in, but we chose Haifa because the rents were cheaper.”
Studying in ulpan and living in an apartment where the toilets were always getting blocked up was not a great beginning, and of all the extended family, Shirley found it the hardest.
“I pined for my home and couldn’t get a grip on myself,” she says. “We talked about going back, then said we must get our priorities right and remind ourselves why we were here in the first place.”
Once the ulpan was over, Eric had no problem knowing what he was going to do. He opened up the same business he had in South Africa, called 4 Ever Leather, and Janine helped with the marketing.
“He’d done work for Nelson Mandela and that looked good on his resumé,” says Janine with a smile.
Eric found the jobs rolling in. His company cleaned all the seats in the Knesset as well as in several five-star hotels in the center of the country, and as far as Eilat. In South Africa there had been no shortage of workers; here the boys help him.
BUT WHAT were Shirley and Janine going to do to make a living? They’d both had good jobs in Johannesburg in established companies. Here, with their freshly learned Hebrew and not much knowledge of the country, they had no idea.
They had both spent a few morning hours helping out in Chocolata in Haifa, and when they heard that the company was opening up in Kfar Saba they realized what a great opportunity it would be for them. They decided to buy the franchise and go into the candy business.
The store had been a computer shop and had to be gutted. With only a year or so experience living in Israel, they had to deal with architects and designers, glass fitters and carpenters, accountants and municipal officials. Once the store was ready they were in constant contact with chocolate importers and candy suppliers.
“We didn’t speak the language well – still don’t – but we had to embrace the challenges,” says Shirley.
Fortunately business is good and the attractive displays of goodies ensure a steady stream of people coming in to buy their beautifully presented gift packages as well as favorite things for personal consumption.
“Before Rosh Hashana you couldn’t move in the shop,” says Shirley with obvious satisfaction.
They have become quite expert at giftwrapping and are amused to discover that the average Israeli loves miles of garish sparkly ribbon on presents, in colors that the mother-daughter team would once never have considered using. Most of the customers are pleasant and more than tolerant of the shaky Hebrew, and many use the opportunity to practice their English.
The shop also sells some novelty kitchenware, which can be filled with chocolate as a gift. And soft music plays in the background – usually “golden oldies,” which are Shirley’s choice.
What about the problem of getting fat from sampling the stock all day? Shirley says it’s fine.
“Once you work with things, you don’t want to eat them,” she explains.
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Deputies responded to an apartment on Montvale Road around 9 a.m. Sunday after a witness called and reported that she found blood droplets outside of the building. That's when deputies searched the upstairs apartment and found the body of 39-year-old Julie Ann Hatcher Stinnett.
The witness told authorities that Haven earlier had been at the apartment. About 30 minutes later, a K-9 team found Haven hiding in a tree in a field about three-quarters of a mile from the apartment building. Haven surrendered to deputies and he was taken into custody, authorities said.
More details as they develop online and in Tuesday's News Sentinel.
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Magicians Converge on St. Joseph
St. Joseph is hosting the International Magician's Convention this week. The convention will wrap up with the International
Posted: Nov 10, 2017 10:21 AM
Updated: Nov 10, 2017 1:18 PM
Posted By: Alan Van Zandt
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) It's possible that the next David Copperfield is in St. Joseph right now. That's because this week St. Joseph is the epicenter of the world of magic and prestidigitators from across the country and even around the world are here to fine tune their powers of illusion.
"This is known all over the world as being a premiere place to learn magic and see amazing magicians," said Joshua Jay, a magician who has taken his act to 59 different countries.
Jay is one of the lecturers at the conference, giving seminars to the more than 150 magicians who have come to St. Joseph to learn tricks of the trade and get tips from the masters.
"It's like a lab in high school," said David Sandy, a worldwide magician himself, who has coordinated the conference. "In chemistry lab, you're actually working with the chemicals. In the workshop, you're working with the props and the professionals are teaching you. They might say, 'No, you need to hold the cards like this and position your hands. It's a much better way of learning.
Jay is one of the lecturers at the conference, who got his career started in St. Joseph, having attended one of the magician conferences when he was a teen.
"It's the circle of life. I'm 36 now and I see 15 year old kids like when I was 15," Jay said.
There were a number of young aspiring magicians at this year's conference. Elias Arbuckle, 11, from Des Moines came with his grandfather. Arbuckle said he was impressed by what he saw and says he'd like to take what he's learning at the conference to build on his talents.
"I started out with a lot of card magic and close-up magic," he said. "Now that I've gotten older I really like doing stage magic and bigger objects. I've done like corporate picnics. I've done strolling around in restaurants from table to table."
All of the magicians at the conference agree that their hard work is worth it for the payoff they get at the end of a good trick.
"That's the best part for me, seeing the faces for sure and seeing how it's affecting them because I feel magic is real," said Mike Pisciotta, a magician from Los Angeles who came to be a lecturer at the conference.
The conference will wrap up Saturday night with the International Superstars of Magic and Comedy Show Saturday night at the Missouri Theater. It will start at 8 p.m.
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Legislative leaders clash over the value of addressing transgender issues
The leaders from both parties agreed that lawmakers still have more to do on the property tax issue this year.
Credit: Idaho Press
From left, Senate Minority Leader Michelle Stennett, Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, and House Speaker Scott Bedke address reporters at the Idaho Press Club's annual on-the-record "Headliners" event on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
Author: Betsy Z. Russell (Idaho Press)
Published: 11:09 AM MDT March 11, 2020
Updated: 5:22 PM MDT March 11, 2020
BOISE, Idaho — Top GOP legislative leaders defended devoting large amounts of this year’s legislative session’s time to bills on transgender issues as “responsible” on Tuesday, as Democratic leaders blasted the move as “divisive” in a report from the Idaho Press.
“I think we’ve accomplished some good things and continue to do so,” said Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, as he joined legislative leaders from both parties to address the Idaho Press Club’s annual “Headliners” event. “These are issues that need to be addressed. I think we are addressing them in an appropriate way.”
House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, said, “I am profoundly concerned, I really am. I find it nothing short of horrifying what has been brought forth this session, against a group that is probably literally the most vulnerable group in the state.”
Three bills regarding transgender Idahoans were introduced; one died in committee in the House after a huge outcry at a hearing on it. That measure sought to criminalize transgender medical treatment for anyone under 18.
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The other two measures both have passed the House and are pending in the Senate. HB 500 forbids transgender women or girls from playing on women’s sports teams in high school or college sports; HB 509 forbids changes to the gender marker on Idaho birth certificates to match a person’s gender identity, in direct defiance of a federal court order.
“I have friends with transgender children who are literally looking at leaving the state because they find this such a hostile place to be,” Rubel said. “I have friends in our business community that are embarrassed at the message this is sending about Idaho’s level of intolerance. … The largest players in our business and employer community have stepped forward and said, ‘Don’t do this, please stop. This is sending a terrible message for us in terms of recruiting and retaining the skilled labor force that we need here, to be sending the message that Idaho’s highest levels of government want to gang up on this group.’”
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House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, said, “I’ve been in receipt of some thoughtful letters from some business leaders throughout the state, and I look forward to sitting down with them and talking through the issue.”
“I would make an argument on basic fairness, of having biological males transitioning and participating in women’s sports,” he said. “I think that’s a setback to everything we’ve tried to accomplish under Title IX.”
Hill said, “I wouldn’t have thought five years ago that there would be men transitioning to women who want to play on women’s athletic teams. It just didn’t enter my mind.”
There have been no reports of such incidents in Idaho, both Hill and Bedke acknowledged. Hill said, “Hopefully we can go forward and show our acceptance for everyone as we go through, but there are just some things that are not acceptable, and having someone with the physical characteristics of a man being able to play against my granddaughter in a basketball game or in track or something like that, this is not acceptable to me.”
“I think we are being responsible,” Hill said. “We need to look at what our citizens want.”
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Senate Minority Leader Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, said, “Most all of this is going to be litigated in court. We have A.G. (attorney general) opinions against them. … We are chasing things that we haven’t had an incidence.”
Hill commented, “I’ll tell you, you can get an attorney’s opinion for just about anything you want from somebody.”
But, he said, “We are in the lawmaking business. We have to take some risks. We want them to be as calculated as possible.”
Stennett expressed concerns that HB 500, even after it was amended Tuesday in the Senate, still allows any person to challenge a young female player’s gender, “and then they are forced to go in and defend themselves. … You’ve totally destroyed their dignity,” she said.
“We’re not taking care of property tax, we’ve got roads and bridges that are falling apart, we have all the things, the health care system, all the infrastructure that we were sent here to take care of, and this is all we seem to be able to talk about,” she said.
“Unfortunately, we see more of this in an election year, and it is to drive an agenda,” Stennett said. “There’s an awful lot of politics to it.”
The legislative leaders from both parties agreed that lawmakers still have more to do on the property tax issue this year, even as they push to adjourn their session a week from Friday.
“There’ll be something coming on the homeowner’s index,” Bedke said.
RELATED: Bill freezing property taxes for one year heads to Idaho Senate
Hill said he thought both the House and Senate were waiting to see what might happen with the proposal for a one-year freeze on local government property tax collections, which the Senate has now amended into a three-year, 4% cap.
“I really do think in the next few days you’ll see an increase in the circuit breaker,” Hill said, referring to the long-unadjusted property tax break Idaho offers the low-income elderly.
On the Senate-amended freeze bill, Bedke said, “I believe that’ll pass the House.” But he said that’s intended really to get “conversation started in the interim.” An interim legislative committee also is planned to look into all aspects of the property tax.
“We don’t have a solution yet, but we’ll put the right people in the room,” he said.
Rubel said of the freeze idea, “It’s going to freeze in place a bad situation. We need to at the very least be working on exemption issues and circuit breaker issues.”
Bedke said, “There are some unfinished issues, from my perspective. Obviously we have not addressed the Medicaid expansion funding. I think we have a looming property tax issue.”
He also noted that his bill to increase the grocery tax credit has been “languishing” on the House calendar, and said, “I still feel pretty strongly about that.”
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Rubel said, “One of the proposals out there now is to fund Medicaid expansion with funding taken from health districts, which I think may be worth reconsidering, because I think those health districts may be under some pretty substantial pressure in the very near future.” She was referring to the threat of coronavirus.
Hill said he believes lawmakers will address the state’s main needs before they adjourn, despite the House’s rejection of several budget bills in recent days, including the higher education budget and the budget for the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office.
“I’m not concerned about the Secretary of State not being funded at all,” Hill said. “I’d rather suspect, since it’s an election year, we’d like to have him stick around for a while. So I think these budgets will get taken care of as we go through the next few days.”
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Home > The Squad > Mens > Wicket Keepers > Ben Foakes
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One of the most promising wicket keeper batsmen in England, Ben Foakes joined Surrey from Essex at the end of the 2014 season.
Having represented the England Lions whilst at Chelmsford, Foakes has continued to be a regular with England’s second side and was part of the Ashes squad for the 2017/18 series, thanks largely to his impressive form at the Kia Oval.
During his first-class career, Foakes has garnered equal respect for his glove work and his skills with the bat. Foakes looks likely to be a fixture at Surrey for many years to come.
Following the 2018 title triumph, Foakes was a late call-up to the England squad for the tour of Sri Lanka. He grasped his opportunity incredibly with a century on debut. He followed this up with ODI & IT20 debuts against Ireland and Pakistan respectively in May 2019 and will now be looking to return to the international scene.
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Patenting video games in Europe – the EPO’s Board of Appeal decide in favour of Nintendo (T1504/17)
The video game industry is hugely competitive and finding success involves significant investment in innovation. Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and X have each been seven years in the making. As for the games themselves, blockbuster titles can now rival Hollywood films on budget and production time. You don’t even need a games console anymore, with the increasing popularity of smartphone gaming for titles such as Fortnite adding another layer of complexity to the market.
Obtaining patent protection for innovative features is one way device makers and video game developers can help protect their innovations and stay ahead of the competition. But exactly what can be patented in the video game space? This recent Nintendo case, in which the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) overturned a decision by the EPO’s Examining Division to refuse grant of a patent application, provides some useful guidance.
Video games and patents
In Europe, you must convince the EPO that an invention has a sufficient “technical effect” for it to be patentable. For example, you need to show the distinguishing features of the invention don’t fall within patentability exclusions such as “schemes, rules and methods for playing games” or “presentations of information”. You also need to show those distinguishing features to be inventive over the cited prior art. This can be tricky if there are various cited prior art documents which, on the face of it, look relevant to the distinguishing features of the invention. These issues were considered in detail in the case at hand.
The invention
Nintendo’s invention allows a selected virtual object to be moved between display areas on a screen when a movement sensor (which, unsurprisingly, looks very much like the Nintendo Wii Remote in the application drawings) is moved with sufficient acceleration or angular velocity.
The prior art
The closest prior art (CPA) did something similar. The difference was that the displayed object was moved between display areas by dragging it to a virtual “+” or “-“ button displayed on the screen rather than based on the acceleration or angular velocity of a movement sensor.
Several other prior art documents were also cited. These discussed things like a handheld controller with an acceleration sensor for game processing or gravity compensation, dragging a virtual object using a mouse (including “throwing” the object by dragging it at a certain speed) and controlling a virtual object based on the position of a pointer or an accumulated acceleration vector in a virtual world.
Technical effect
Based on the difference between the invention and the CPA, the Board deemed the invention was novel. The next question was therefore whether this difference produced the technical effect necessary in Europe to allow it to contribute to an inventive step.
The Board decided there was a technical effect because the distinguishing feature of “switching a target object from one area to another by determining when acceleration or angular velocity exceeds a threshold … implies the use of technical means (acceleration sensor/angular velocity sensor) to detect a particular movement and uses this to determine how an object is controlled in a game space”. This allowed moving the object to be done “more intuitively and thus with greater ease” and thus, starting from the CPA, solved the objective technical problem of “how to adapt the [CPA] so that display switching a targeted object is easier for the user”. The Board also stated that the distinguishing feature of the invention “is not a game aspect, such as a game rule, or specific to a particular role-playing game”, thus explicitly acknowledging that the EPO patentability exclusions relating to games did not apply here.
This is also consistent with the approach in the EPO Guidelines for Examination to presentations of information and user interfaces, which state that “features which specify a mechanism enabling user input, such as entering text, making a selection or submitting a command, are normally considered to make a technical contribution”. The mechanism of the invention in which the user moves a movement sensor with sufficient acceleration or angular velocity to cause a displayed object to be moved between display areas fits with this description.
Inventive Step
The Board concluded the invention was inventive because, starting from the CPA and looking to solve the objective technical problem of how to make display switching a targeted object easier for the user, the skilled person would not have arrived at the claimed features relating to detecting when acceleration or angular velocity of a movement sensor exceeds a threshold. This was because, in the Board’s view, the way the CPA switched displays for an object (hovering over a predefined button using “+” or “-“buttons) was “fundamentally independent” of how the object is moved. The skilled person would therefore not have considered simplifying the operation of the CPA in the way claimed, where it is the acceleration or angular velocity of the movement itself which is important. This was despite the wide variety of prior art cited and the known “common place” use of variable values and thresholds relating to movement sensors in the field of user interfaces.
In other words, the motivation of the skilled person to adapt the CPA was key. Again, this is consistent with the approach in the EPO Guidelines for Examination in which the test for inventive step is whether the skilled person would (not could, but would) have arrived at the invention from the teachings of the prior art.
Patents for innovative features in video games are one way to help device makers and video game developers reap returns on investment and stay ahead of the competition. However, to have success at the EPO, it is important that the distinguishing features of the claims have a technical effect over the prior art (e.g. so they don’t fall into the “schemes, rules and methods for playing games” or “presentations of information” exclusions) and that inventive step can be shown based on the motivation of the skilled person in light of the prior art teachings. It is encouraging to see the Board of Appeal applying these principles in this case to arrive at a positive decision for the applicant.
If you would like to know more, please contact Arun Roy or another member of the Kilburn & Strode patents team.
Arun Roy
Changing the game: Tomorrow’s tech in the video game space
It’s National Video Game Day! To celebrate, we’re exploring innovation in this exciting area by taking a look at patent trends in video game technologies at the European Patent Office (EPO).
Femtech: The next big market disruptor is here, and it’s fearlessly female
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The path gets rocky and steep
The past year has been a rough ride for the plaintiffs' bar. Even in traditionally friendly jurisdictions like Texas and Mississippi, judges and juries haven't been responding like they used to, litigators report.
By Peter Geier/Staff reporter | October 09, 2006 at 12:00 AM
The past year has been a rough ride for the plaintiffs’ bar. Notwithstanding notable successes including billon-dollar verdicts and settlements against former lead paint manufacturers, Nortel Networks Corp., Sempra Energy and USG Corp., the litigation system is showing the effects of a well-laid campaign to rein in mass torts, according to plaintiffs’ and defense experts. Even in traditionally friendly jurisdictions like Texas and Mississippi, judges and juries haven’t been responding like they used to, litigators report. “It’s not that it’s been a bad year as much as it’s been a bad 10 years,” said Stephen Daniels, a senior researcher at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago who has spent the past decade studying the effects of tort reform in Texas. Then there’s the fallout from last year’s blistering opinion by a federal judge in Texas who accused the plaintiffs’ firms and doctors who screened silica claimants of manufacturing claims for money. The ruling has inspired a new pugnacity within the defense bar. To Thomas A. Clancy of Clancy & Stevens, a personal injury practice in Chicago, the tort reform movement has proved “sort of an accumulating wave of attacks on the system-not very spontaneous, but very successful.” Tort reform has long been a political staple for Republicans like George W. Bush, who promoted that message both as governor of Texas and as president. “It really rings a bell in some constituencies,” Clancy said. But even if the traditionally more plaintiff-friendly Democrats regain congressional control in November, it seems unlikely that they will “go back and correct the errors, because there’s no political capital in doing that,” Clancy said. The membership of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America appeared to bow to sentiment against their kind last July when voting to change their name to the American Association for Justice. The effects have been concrete: Texas, for example, capped non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases at $250,000 in 2003. That made a lot of legitimate cases uneconomic for lawyers to take on contingency, Daniels said. Moreover, the anti-lawyer rhetoric has made juries less likely to find for plaintiffs. Those factors, in turn, have made insurance adjusters less prone to settle cases early.
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“The strange success of tort reform,” said Daniels, quoting the title of a law review article he co-wrote, is that while many individual reforms were relatively modest, the environment created by the rhetoric is “shriveling the tort system.” William O. Whitehurst of Whitehurst, Harkness, Ozmun & Brees, a plaintiffs’ personal injury practice in Austin, Texas, noted that plaintiffs’ lawyers continue to do well in areas such as patent and commercial litigation. But new restrictions and damages caps have made for a “period of adjustment” for both plaintiffs’ and defense counsel, Whitehurst said. “Plaintiffs’ attorneys are trying to deal effectively with the new laws and still have a cause of action as a practical matter.” John H. Martin, a defense litigator at Thompson & Knight in Dallas and first vice president of the Chicago-based Defense Research Institute, said that Texas tort reform has significantly reduced medical malpractice and asbestos case filings. Although the asbestos litigation shows no sign of going away entirely, the drop in medical malpractice filings has been dramatic enough to send lawyers who spend a lot of time defending these cases looking for other work to do-such as defending doctors brought before state disciplinary boards, Martin said. As evidence of the trend, the seven hospitals in the University of Texas System Professional Medical Liability Plan reported 64% fewer new claims, 61% fewer open claims and lawsuits and 45% fewer new lawsuits from 2002 to 2005. ‘Jackpot’ no more The plaintiffs’ bar can still make headlines, as when a U.S. district judge in New York granted class certification to tens of millions of “light” cigarette smokers, in a case worth perhaps $200 million, an amount subject to trebling under the plaintiffs’ racketeering theory. But more fundamentally, the federal Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 has made it tougher for plaintiffs to certify class actions, long a target for critics of the purportedly disproportionate fees for plaintiffs’ counsel. Mississippi; Texas; West Virginia; and Madison County, Ill., long derided by tort reformers as “jackpot jurisdictions,” have cracked down on out-of-state filers. That’s driven plaintiffs’ lawyers to friendlier jurisdictions in California-San Francisco, especially-but tort reformers are on the march there, too. U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack, of the Southern District of Texas, lit a fire under the defense bar-plus congressional investigators and state and federal prosecutors-by throwing 10,000 silica claims out of court because of dubious medical expert opinions. Jack’s ruling emboldened several asbestos defense settlement trusts to announce that they no longer would honor diagnoses made by the doctors linked to the spurious silica claims. Defendants in other mass torts, including cases involving asbestos, fen-phen and welding rod fumes, have been digging in their heels as well. Last April, an Ohio state court threw out 3,000 asbestos claims diagnosed by doctors under investigation elsewhere who asserted their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves. The judge set aside for rediagnosis 35,000 claims involving those doctors. In June, 47 defendants in the federal asbestos multidistrict litigation likewise asked the court to dismiss 300,000 cases. After the first case in the federal welding rod multidistrict litigation settled on the courthouse steps, several subsequent cases in federal court in Cleveland fell apart on the eve of trial, prompting the presiding judge to impose a stricter case management regimen. Federal officials in Mississippi have been prosecuting fen-phen claimants for filing false claims, and a federal grand jury in Philadelphia reportedly is looking into allegations of more widespread abuses in fen-phen litigation. “Plaintiffs will continue to bring good cases,” said Mark A. Behrens, a partner in the public policy group in the Washington office of Kansas City, Mo.’s Shook, Hardy & Bacon, who represents asbestos and silica defendants and writes on related issues. “But defendants have learned the lesson that if you make the plaintiffs’ lawyers work hard and put up barriers, a lot less junk cases are going to get filed,” Behrens said.
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More Exonerations Before 1989
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David Stain
Convicted of murder in Penobscot County, Maine, in 1888, David Stain and his co-defendant, Oliver Cromwell, were exonerated 12 years later after the key witness, David Stain’s son, recanted his testimony that his father had confessed to the crime.
At about 7:00 p.m., February 22, 1878, John Wilson Barron, a bank cashier, was found dead at the bank where he worked. Barron was gagged, his hands were tied behind him, his head was cut and bruised and several hundred dollars and a $500.00 bond were missing. Police did not find any physical evidence, nor did they have any suspects. The case was set aside as most of the residents of Dexter concluded Barron had committed suicide. Given the condition of the body, this seemed improbable to many, but those who believed in it pointed out the discovery of irregularities apparent in the bank’s accounts, which resulted in a loss of about $700.00, shortly before Barron’s death. It was also reported during the investigation that books of a partnership in which Barron was interested had not been properly kept. There was, however, no explanation for the disappearance of the money and the bond. Thus, the population of Dexter remained divided into two groups: The “suiciders” and the “murderers.” It remained so for years.
Ten years later, Charles Francis Stain, well known to the police of several New England communities, announced to authorities that a ghost had urged him to tell the story of the banker’s death, thus removing the stigma of suicide. He reported that his father, David L. Stain, and Oliver Cromwell, both of Medfield, Massachusetts, were guilty of murdering Barron. He said that he had been called to his father’s bedside shortly after the banker’s death and that, in a burst of hysteria, the elder Stain confessed that he and Cromwell had murdered Barron.
As a result, Stain and Cromwell were both arrested, brought to Dexter, and tried for murder. During the trial, 20 Dexter residents testified that they remembered seeing two strangers who looked like Cromwell and Stain 10 years ago—on the day that Barron was murdered. On March 3, 1888, Cromwell and Stain were convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life in prison. Their appeal, based on an alibi that placed them in Medfield on the day of the murder, failed.
Twelve years later, however, Charles Stain recanted his testimony. He explained that he was angry with his father because he had refused to give him $25.00 which was necessary to keep him out of jail for a minor offense. Stain had a history of false testimony.
On December 31, 1900, Massachusetts Governor Llewellyn Powers pardoned Cromwell and the elder Stain.
- Alex Jarrell and Dolores Kennedy
County: Penobscot
Sentence: Life
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
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Excessive Sentence for Burglary Appeal In Alaska
In Bumpus v. State (Alaska1989), Bumpus participated in a series of burglaries of resort cabins in the Matanuska / Susitna Valley. He was one of a group of five men: four of these men (including Bumpus) burglarized cabins, while the fifth member of the group acted as a "fence" for the stolen property. the burglary ring operated throughout the summer of 1987 and was responsible for approximately fifty burglaries, although Bumpus did not become a member of the group until early July. At the time of these offenses, Bumpus was twenty-nine years old. He had an extensive adult criminal record. In 1977, he was convicted of shoplifting and burglary of a non-dwelling. He served 180 days in jail. the following year, he was convicted of receiving stolen merchandise, a felony for which he received a suspended sentence. In 1984, Bumpus was convicted of second-degree burglary, his third felony conviction. He received a 3-year presumptive term, and he was released from prison in July 1987. Almost immediately thereafter, he became involved in the burglary ring described above. The superior court sentenced Bumpus to a composite term of 23 years to serve. On appeal, this court concluded that 23 years was clearly mistaken that Bumpus's composite term should not exceed 15 years to serve. The supreme court vacated both the superior court's and this court's decisions, and then the court remanded Bumpus's case to the superior court for re-sentencing. From the supreme court's explanation of its decision, it appears that the court believed that Bumpus's proper sentence lay somewhere between the superior court's sentence (23 years) and this court's sentence (15 years). The supreme court stated that it was "skeptical ... that Bumpus deserved twenty-three years". the court noted that, although the sentencing judge had found various aggravating factors, the judge had not explicitly analyzed the relative importance of these factors. Moreover, the judge had not expressly found that a sentence of 23 years was necessary to protect the public, nor had he attempted to explain why Bumpus was receiving such an extraordinary sentence -- what the supreme court described as "the longest sentence ever received by a burglar in this state". Nevertheless, the supreme court did not agree that the superior court's sentencing decision should be reversed outright. Rather, the court concluded that the propriety of the sentence could not be determined until the superior court further explained its decision. For much the same reason, the supreme court vacated this court's ruling that Bumpus should not, under any circumstances, receive more than 15 years to serve. The court declared, "Without articulated findings concerning the factors that determine the range of reasonable sentences, a sentence of fifteen years is as arbitrary and unsupportable as a sentence of twenty-three years." But, from the manner in which the supreme court critiqued this court's approach to the case, it is clear that the supreme court was not suggesting that a 15-year sentence was just as likely to be excessive as a 23-year sentence. Quite the opposite: The court of appeals' abrupt choice of a fifteen-year term is, on its face, not moored to any principle. the court might be suggesting that fifteen years is the most any burglar not convicted of other crimes should receive in this state, but nothing in the applicable statutes, the prior case law, or the appellate court's reasoning explains why fifteen years should be the upper limit.
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The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2013
2013 No. 1881
Impact Assessments
Open Instrument without Schedules
Amendments of the Act
This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum
10.—(1) The Act is amended as follows.
(2) In section 1H (further interpretative provisions for sections 1B to 1G)(1)—
(a)omit paragraph (b) of subsection (2);
(b)in subsection (8), omit the definitions of “accepting” and “consumer credit business”.
(3) In section 194 (general grounds on which power of intervention in relation to EEA firm is exercisable), omit subsections (2) to (4).
(4) Sections 203 and 204 (powers to prohibit or restrict the carrying on of Consumer Credit Act business)(2) are omitted.
(5) Section 226A (consumer credit jurisdiction)(3) is omitted.
(6) In section 227 (voluntary jurisdiction)(4), in subsection (2)(e), omit “or the consumer credit jurisdiction”.
(7) In section 228 (determination under the compulsory jurisdiction)(5), in subsection (1), omit “and to the consumer credit jurisdiction”.
(8) In section 229 (awards)(6)—
(a)in subsection (1), omit “and to the consumer credit jurisdiction”;
(b)omit subsection (4A);
(c)in subsection (8)(b), omit “or (as the case may be) Part 3A of that Schedule(7)”;
(d)for subsection (11), substitute—
“(11) “Specified” means specified in compulsory jurisdiction rules.”;
(e)omit subsection (12).
(9) In section 230 (costs)(8)—
(a)in subsection (1), omit “or the consumer credit jurisdiction”;
(b)in subsection (7), omit “or (as the case may be) paragraph 16D of that Schedule”.
(10) Section 234A (funding by consumer credit licensees etc)(9) is omitted.
(11) In section 234D (reference by scheme operator or regulated person)(10), in subsection (6)(c)(i), omit “or the consumer credit jurisdiction”.
(12) In section 328 (directions in relation to the general prohibition)(11), in subsection (6)(b), after “insurance mediation directive” insert “or Directive 2008/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on credit agreements for consumers and repealing Council Directive 87/102/EEC(12)”.
(13) In section 353 (removal of other restrictions on disclosure)(13), in subsection (1), omit paragraph (c).
(14) In section 401 (proceedings for offences)(14), omit subsection (4).
(15) In section 404E (meaning of “consumers”)(15)—
(a)in subsection (2), omit paragraph (b);
(16) In Schedule 1A to the Act (further provision about the consumer financial education body)(16)—
(a)in paragraph 7(4), omit paragraph (c) (but not the “and” following it);
(b)in paragraph 8(6), omit paragraph (c);
(c)omit paragraph 10(1) and the heading immediately before it;
(d)in paragraph 10(2), for “that Act” substitute “the Consumer Credit Act 1974”;
(e)omit paragraph 13.
(17) In Schedule 2 (regulated activities), in paragraph 24C(17)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (1), for “regulated person” substitute “person who is carrying on a regulated activity”;
(b)omit sub-paragraph (2).
(18) In Schedule 3 (EEA passport rights)—
(a)in paragraph 15(18), omit sub-paragraphs (3) and (4);
(b)omit paragraph 23(19).
(19) In Schedule 6 (threshold conditions)(20)—
(a)in paragraph 2C, after sub-paragraph (1), insert—
“(1A) Paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of sub-paragraph (1) do not apply where the only regulated activities that the person concerned carries on, or seeks to carry on, are relevant credit activities.”;
(b)in paragraph 2D—
(i)in sub-paragraph (3), for “The matters” substitute “Except in a case within sub-paragraph (3A), the matters”;
(ii)after sub-paragraph (3) insert—
“(3A) Where the only regulated activities that A carries on, or seeks to carry on, are relevant credit activities, A has adequate financial resources if A is capable of meeting A’s debts as they fall due.”;
(c)in paragraph 2F, after sub-paragraph (2) insert—
“(3) This paragraph does not apply where the only regulated activities that the person concerned carries on, or seeks to carry on, are relevant credit activities.”;
(d)after paragraph 2F insert—
2G.—(1) In this Part of this Schedule, each of the following is a “relevant credit activity”—
(a)an activity of the kind specified by article 36A of the Regulated Activities Order (credit broking) when carried on in the case specified in sub-paragraph (3), (4) or (5),
(b)an activity of the kind specified by article 39D of that Order (debt adjusting) when carried on—
(i)in the case specified in sub-paragraph (3), by a person who also carries on an activity of the kind specified by paragraph (a),
(ii)by a person who also carries on an activity of the kind specified by paragraph (d) or (e), or
(iii)by a not-for-profit body,
(c)an activity of the kind specified by article 39E of that Order (debt-counselling) when carried on—
(d)an activity of the kind specified by article 60B of that Order (regulated credit agreements) if—
(i)it is carried on by a supplier,
(ii)no charge (by way of interest or otherwise) is payable by the borrower in connection with the provision of credit under the regulated credit agreement, and
(iii)the regulated credit agreement is not a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement,
(e)an activity of the kind specified by article 60N of that Order (regulated consumer hire agreements),
(f)an activity of the kind specified by article 89A of that Order (providing credit information services) where carried on by a person who also carries on an activity of the kind specified by any of paragraphs (a) to (e), or
(g)an activity of the kind specified by article 64 of that Order (agreeing to carry on specified kinds of activity) so far as relevant to any of the activities specified in paragraphs (a) to (f).
(2) But an activity is not a relevant credit activity for the purposes of—
(a)paragraph (a) to (e) of sub-paragraph (1), and
(b)paragraph (g) of that sub-paragraph so far at it relates to activities of the kind specified by any of those paragraphs,
if it relates to an agreement under which the obligation of the borrower to repay is secured, or is to be secured, by a legal mortgage on land.
(3) The case specified in this sub-paragraph is where a supplier (other than a domestic premises supplier) carries on the activity for the purposes of, or in connection with, the sale of goods or supply of services by the supplier to a customer (who need not be the borrower under the credit agreement or the hirer under the consumer hire agreement).
(4) The case specified in this sub-paragraph is where the activity relates to a green deal plan.
(5) The case specified in this sub-paragraph is where the activity relates to a consumer hire agreement where the goods being hired is a vehicle.
(6) For the purposes of this paragraph—
“borrower” includes—
any person providing a guarantee or indemnity under an agreement, and
a person to whom the rights and duties of the borrower under an agreement or a person falling within paragraph (a) have passed by assignment or operation of law;
“conditional sale agreement” has the meaning given by article 60L of the Regulated Activities Order;
“customer” means a person to whom a supplier sells goods or supplies services or agrees to do so;
“domestic premises supplier” means a supplier who sells goods or supplies services to customers who are individuals while physically present in the dwelling of the customer or in consequence of an agreement concluded whilst the supplier was physically present in the dwelling of the customer (though a supplier who does so on an occasional basis is not to be treated as a “domestic premises supplier”);
“green deal plan” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Energy Act 2011(21);
“hire-purchase agreement” has the meaning given by the Regulated Activities Order;
“not-for-profit body” means a body which, by virtue of its constitution or any enactment—
is required (after payment of outgoings) to apply the whole of its income and any capital it expends for charitable or public purposes, and
is prohibited from directly or indirectly distributing amongst its members any part of its assets (otherwise than for charitable or public purposes);
“Regulated Activities Order” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001;
“regulated credit agreement” has the meaning given by the Regulated Activities Order;
“supplier” means a person whose main business is to sell goods or supply services and not to carry on a regulated activity, other than an activity of the kind specified by article 60N of the Regulated Activities Order (regulated consumer hire agreements).”.
(20) Schedule 16 (prohibitions and restrictions imposed by the Office of Fair Trading)(22) is omitted.
(21) In Schedule 17 (the ombudsman scheme)(23)—
(a)in paragraph 3(4), omit “, the function of making consumer credit rules, the function of making determinations under section 234A(1)”;
(b)in paragraph 7(2), omit “, functions in relation to its consumer credit jurisdiction”;
(c)in paragraph 9(3), omit “, consumer credit”;
(d)in paragraph 10(1), omit “or to the consumer credit jurisdiction”;
(e)in paragraph 11, omit “or to the consumer credit jurisdiction”;
(f)omit Part 3A.
Inserted by the Financial Services Act 2012, section 6.
Section 203 was amended by the Enterprise Act 2002 (c.40), Schedule 25, paragraph 40(1) and (7), the Consumer Credit Act 2006 (c.14), section 33, and S.I. 2000/2952. Section 204 was amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 25, paragraph 40(1) and (8).
Inserted by the Consumer Credit Act 2006, section 59.
Amended by the Consumer Credit Act 2006, section 61.
Inserted by the Consumer Credit Act 2006, Schedule 2.
Inserted by the Financial Services Act 2012, section 43.
Amended by S.I. 2003/1473.
OJ L 133/66 22.5.2008 p.1.
Amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 25, paragraph 40(1) and (17).
Inserted by of the Financial Services Act 2010, section 14.
Inserted by the Financial Services Act 2010, Schedule 1.
Amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 25, paragraph 40(1) and (19)(a), and the Consumer Credit Act 2006, section 33.
Amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 25, paragraph 40(1) and (19)(b), the Consumer Credit Act 2006, section 33, and the Financial Services Act 2012, Schedule 4, paragraphs 1 and 15.
Amended by S.I 2013/555.
2011 c.16.
Amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 25, paragraphs 40(1) and (21).
Amended by section 59 of the Consumer Credit Act 2006.
Impact Assessments generally accompany all UK Government interventions of a regulatory nature that affect the private sector, civil society organisations and public services. They apply regardless of whether the regulation originates from a domestic or international source and can accompany primary (Acts etc) and secondary legislation (SIs). An Impact Assessment allows those with an interest in the policy area to understand:
Why the government is proposing to intervene;
The main options the government is considering, and which one is preferred;
How and to what extent new policies may impact on them; and,
The estimated costs and benefits of proposed measures.
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Sr. Consultant Dr Subhash Shalya talks about General Medicine course, what is General Medicine and other details about a Career in General Medicine.
Dr Subhash Shalya | Sr. Consultant | Various Hospitals
What is General Medicine?
A Career in General Medicine is very intriguing. Almost everyone seems to be talking about How to start a Career in General Medicine, while one should first develop an understanding of What is a Career in General Medicine. It is best to learn about General Medicine from a real professional, this is akin to getting it from the horse's mouth.
Sr. Consultant Dr Subhash Shalya invested 23 years in General Medicine. Sr. Consultant Dr Subhash Shalya defines General Medicine as:
Internal Medicine or General Medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists or physicians. General Medicine is also termed as the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults) internal medicine.
How Sr. Consultant Dr Subhash Shalya got into General Medicine?
After completing my MBBS from SNMC, BR Ambedkar University Agra, I did my MS in Orthopedics & then a second MS in Surgery from SN Medical College Agra. Thereafter in 1994, I did my PGCR in Rehabilitation from All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mumbai. I have worked as a Sr. Consultant for various hospitals and later joined as a Senior Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. In 2005, I started my own clinic & rehabilitation centre named 'Bone Joints Care Foundation of India' which is an NGO, working in the field of rehabilitation of pediatric and geriatric patients suffering from disabilities and deformities. I am also associated with Fortis C-Doc Hospital, Max Hospital & NMC Hospital as a visiting Sr. Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon.
Sr. Consultant Dr Subhash Shalya's Talk on General Medicine
1) General Medicine
Next, it covers Education. This Talk is unique because it talks about Education in terms of things which can be learnt from books, to excel at a Career in General Medicine and not as a list of Qualifications, which one needs to get into General Medicine. Here is a list of Education items required for General Medicine:
2) Anatomy
3) Physiology
4) Biochemistry
5) Pathology
6) Pharmacology
7) Toxicology
8) Preventive Medicine
9) Medicine
10) Surgery
11) ENT
12) Ophthalmology
13) Obst & Gynecology
Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Sills and success in General Medicine go hand in hand. One needs to get a hold of essential skills. It details these topics within Skills for General Medicine:
14) Communication Skills
15) Empathy
16) Moral Values
It is important to get an understanding of the Positives of General Medicine. These are the Positives of General Medicine:
17) Satisfaction
After a discussion on Positives, Challenges complete the caricature of General Medicine:
19) Internship
20) Handling Emergencies
In the final section of the Talk, Dr Subhash Shalya talks about How a day goes in a Career in:
21) General Medicine
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The 14 hour process, guided by a LifePage Career Advisor, will help you introspect and check whether your interest in General Medicine is merely an infatuation or is it truly something you wish to do for the rest of your life.
Next, your Career Advisor will help you document how you can get into General Medicine, what education and skills you need to succeed in General Medicine, and what positives and challenges you will face in General Medicine.
Finally, you will get a Career Plan stating which Courses, Certifications, Trainings and other Items you need to do in the next 7 years to become world’s best in General Medicine.
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LifePage Career Talk on General Medicine
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ7IyaPoLoY
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Intensivist
Dr Avantika Singh
Intensivist | Max Hospital, Saket
An intensivist, also known as a critical care physician, is a medical doctor with special training and experience in treating critically ill patients.
"I did MBBS and PG in Anaesthesiology from Era Lucknow Medical College. Currently, I am working with Max Hospital, Saket and doing fellowship in intensive care medicine."
Dr R K Jain
Director | CMI Hospital
Internal medicine or general medicine (in Commonwealth nations) is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists, or physicians (without a modifier) in Commonwealth nations.
"I did my schooling in Dehradun where he excelled in studies and I was awarded certificate of merit by Ministry of education Govt. of India for securing high position in exams. I have set up a 25 bedded nursing home at Dehradun in 1991 specializing in intensive care, cardiology and medicine and it was the hospital catering to medical emergencies and treatment. I have also established the first dialysis unit for whole of western UP and Uttarakhand in 1991 and also set up a paramedical educational institute in the state which again was the first to offer recognized graduate degrees in Nursing to meet the increasing demands of health manpower needs in the state. In the year 2008 I have been awarded Padma Shri by the President of India for my distinguished services in the field of medicine. In the year 2010 I have been appointed as the health advisor to the Government of Uttarakhand."
Medical Counselling
Dr Annu Dhir
Regional Doctor | VLCC
Counselling is a type of talking therapy that allows a person to talk about their problems and feelings in a confidential and dependable environment. Its also to change the lifestyle of people.
"I am a Gyneacologist. I have joined VLCC 5 years back and I am regional doctor of VLCC."
Dr Shilpa Verma
Internal Medicine Physician | Opera House Clinic Pvt Ltd
Internal medicine Physician is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists.
"After completing my school, I did my MBBS from Rajiv Gandhi Medical College and after that did my major certifications like ECFMG, DNB Internal medicines. After doing FICM from Apollo Hospital in 2014, since then I have been associated with various Hospitals in Mumbai like Sir H. N Reliance Foundation Hospital, Bhatia Hospital and Dalvi Hospital."
Dr Narendra Singh Rajput
General Physician | Indira Fertility Care & Dental Care Division
Internal medicine or general medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists or physicians. A general physician is a medical doctor who specialises in many diseases affecting the body, whose primary treatment does not involve surgery.
"After completing my schooling from Jaipur and graduation from Rajasthan University, I did Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery from Lucknow University. I have been practicing as Ganaral Physician since 2007 as well as running my own clinic called Indira Fertility Care & Dental Division."
Vijay P Wadhawan
Doctor | Surbhi Hospital
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland (depending on local referral patterns).
"After my graduation and post graduation in Medicine from Agra University, I worked with various Hospitals as a general surgeon. I am working with Surbhi Hospital, Noida since 2007."
Dr Rekha Khanna
Doctor | Various Hospitals
Medical Counselling is a broad term which describes the process through which healthcare professionals attempt to increase patient knowledge of health care issues. Such counseling may be verbal or written performed on an individual basis or in groups, and provided directly to the patient or caregiver. The process provides for the exchange of information between the patient & health practitioner.
"I completed my graduation in Medicine with specialization in Ayurvedic Medicine. I also did diploma in Reproductive and Child Health. Since 1999, I have been working as a Ayurvedic Doctor and Gynaecologist. In addition to that, since the past one year, I have also been working as a Medical Counsellor to provide information, advice and assistance to patients suffering from various diseases."
Dr Ashok Sharma
Physician | Own Practice
General medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in general medicine are called physicians. Physicians are skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes.
"After completing my MD, I started practicing in Delhi in 1991 as a Physician. I have been handling my own clinic as well as handling the responsibility of visiting doctor at various hospitals."
Dr Poonam Tayde
Resident Doctor | Smt Kashibai Navale Medical College & General Hospital
General medicine is the medical specialty concerned with preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases in adults.
"After completing MBBS from NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences (2007), I started working with Smt Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital and I am a Resident Doctor."
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Lino Manfrotto Passes Away at 80
By Rob Wood (Admin) / February 7, 2017
Lino Manfrotto passed away on Sunday, February 5th aged 80 years. The former photojournalist from Vicenza was most well known for his role in founding the famous Manfrotto brand of tripods.
Manfrotto noticed in the 60s that high quality camera and light supports were rare in the market and so began manufacturing his own designs in his garage towards the end of that decade. In 1972 he met Gilberto Battocchio who was a technician who worked at a local mechanical company in Bassano, Italy.
The first Manfrotto tripod was released in 1974. By 1986 Manfrotto had added 5 more manufacturing plants in Bassano and in the following couple of years added another 5 plants in the industrial zone of Feltre, in northern Italy. During this decade Manfrotto cemented his company as the standard for camera support by which all others would come to be measured.
In 1989, Manfrotto became part of The Vitec Group who also purchased Gitzo, a tripod and heads manufacturer, in 1992. Bogen, a distribution company, was purchased in 1993 and Kata, a video camera bag manufacturer, in 2005.
In 2010, Lino Manfrotto, who had developed a reputation for always being on the cutting edge of the industry, launched the Manfrotto School of Xcellence as an online training resource for photographers and videographers. In 2012, the Manfrotto Imagine More blog was also launched for ideas on getting more out of photography.
These days, 30% of tripods sold worldwide carry the Manfrotto brand as do 7% of camera bags, revenues total over $130,000,000 and the company employs over 700 people.
As far as influential people in our industry go, Manfrotto carved out a very important reputation and will be sorely missed by professionals and amateurs alike.
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Language News
Right Brain Crucial to Language Success
“The left hemisphere is known as the language-learning part of the brain, but we found that it was the right hemisphere that determined the eventual success”
A new study, “Speech processing and plasticity in the right hemisphere predict variation in adult foreign language learning,” published in NeuroImage, focuses on the roles played by the brain’s left and right hemispheres in language acquisition. The findings could lead to instructional methods that potentially improve students’ success in learning a new language.
The brains of 24 students of were scanned before and after a month-long intensive Mandarin program. University of Delaware cognitive neuroscientist Zhenghan Qi was surprised by the results: “The left hemisphere is known as the language-learning part of the brain, but we found that it was the right hemisphere that determined the eventual success” in learning Mandarin.
“This was new,” she said. “For decades, everyone has focused on the left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere has been largely overlooked.” The left hemisphere is undoubtedly important in language learning, Qi said, noting that clinical research on individuals with speech disorders has indicated that the left side of the brain is in many ways the hub of language processing.
However, according to Qi, during the early stages of language acquisition before people begin processing vocabulary and grammar, they first have to identify its basic sounds or phonological elements. The right side of the brain is key to distinguishing “acoustic details” of sounds.
During the study, the participants were taught in a setting designed to replicate a college language class, although the usual semester was condensed into four weeks of instruction. Students attended class for three and a half hours a day, five days a week, completed homework assignments and took tests.
“Our research is the first to look at attainment and long-term retention of real-world language learned in a classroom setting, which is how most people learn a new language,” Qi said.
By scanning each participant’s brain with functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) at the beginning and end of the project, the scientists were able to see which part of the brain was most engaged while processing basic sound elements in Mandarin. To their surprise, they found that the right hemisphere in the most successful learners was most active in the early, sound-recognition stage, although, as expected, the left hemisphere showed a substantial increase of activation later in the learning process.
“It turns out that the right hemisphere is very important in processing foreign speech sounds at the beginning of learning,” Qi said. She added that the right hemisphere’s role then seems to diminish in those successful learners as they continue learning the language.
Additional research will investigate whether the findings apply to those learning other languages, not just Mandarin. The eventual goal is to explore whether someone can practice sound recognition early in the process of learning a new language to potentially improve their success.
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Andrew Weiler May 28, 2019 At 6:09 pm
We talk about language as a set of skills however, for some reason, we ignore the implications of that. Skill development is all about finding the basic foundational elements, working on them and then building on them one at a time. To put it another way, erecting a structure of a house which has no foundations makes no sense at all.
Working on the sounds of language is foundational..in terms of speaking. There is nothing more foundational. Why even try saying something without first mastering the unique sounds and clusters of sounds in that language. That is what I have done ever since I have been teaching (have taught 3 languages doing the same thing).
It means that when the learners start work on meaning, they don’t need to also struggle unduly with how they say it. That means they can put most of their attention on making sense of the language and putting together words that reflect their understanding.
Lisa June 6, 2019 At 6:11 am
Interesting to me are some students in a German class (college level) whose language level is quite high, speak German with an almost unbearable American-accented English. THAT interests me. Any thoughts?
Kathryn Hughes July 11, 2019 At 1:22 pm
I find Andrew Weiler’s comments, which are based on his experiences, to be very insightful. It does make perfect sense that similar to how we learn at an early age the basic sounds of our first language. Although many of my Spanish students could answer questions on an activity, most had difficulty with speaking. Maybe if more time were dedicated up front to listening and understanding the basic phonetics of the language, speaking might be less challenging. It’s worth looking into.
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Hauppauge Man Admits $1.3M Foreclosure Scam
A disbarred attorney from Hauppauge has admitted scamming 10 families out of $1.3 million in home equity during a foreclosure rescue fraud scheme that caused some victims to lose their homes.
Barry Stephen Zornberg pleaded guilty Tuesday before Judge William Wall at Central Islip federal court to charges of lying to federal investigators.
“A license to practice law is not a license to steal or lie,” Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.
Prosecutors said the 54-year-old man conducted real estate closings and allowed Bethpage-based Empire Property Solutions, LLC, a company billed as a home foreclosure rescue specialist, to use his law firm’s escrow accounts to hold and transfer funds during the scheme.
Zornberg falsely told federal investigators that he advised the victims to not participate in the scheme when, in fact, he encouraged the victims to sign over their homes to the firm, thereby losing title to their homes, authorities said.
Victims were told they would “refinance” their homes with Empire, when, in reality, the homeowners were tricked into transferring title in their homes to straw buyers and paying large fees, according to investigators.
John Rutigliano and Kenneth Kiefer, who ran the company, were indicted in 2011 on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Kiefer has since pleaded guilty. Rutigliano pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
Zornberg faces up to five years in prison. He agreed to pay a total of $1,261,149.50 to the victims. His sentencing has not yet been scheduled.
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Caterpillar closing 5 plants, cutting 670 jobs
Caterpillar says it plans to close five plants, causing a net reduction of about 670 jobs in Illinois and several other states, as part of a broader cost-cutting campaign announced last year. The mining and construction equipment company will cut about 230 jobs for office and production workers...
Caterpillar says it plans to close five plants, causing a net reduction of about 670 jobs in Illinois and several other states, as part of a broader cost-cutting campaign announced last year.
The mining and construction equipment company will cut about 230 jobs for office and production workers at a major manufacturing campus in East Peoria, Illinois, where Caterpillar says it's consolidating some manufacturing and transferring some work to outside contractors. Another 120 employees there will be placed on indefinite layoff.
Caterpillar is also closing factories and cutting about 250 jobs in Thomasville, Georgia and Santa Fe, New Mexico — although the company said it will consolidate some operations and add about 160 jobs at an existing plant in Pontiac, Illinois.
The company will close a forest products facility in Prentice, Wisconsin, resulting in about 220 job cuts. Other moves will affect plants in Indiana, Mississippi, Texas and China.
Caterpillar Inc. said most of the moves are part of a broader consolidation effort announced last year, which was expected to affect about 10,000 jobs over three years. Caterpillar currently has about 106,000 workers around the world.
The Peoria, Illinois-based company reported an $87 million loss in the fourth quarter on sales of about $11 billion. It's been struggling with weak demand for mining equipment because of lower mineral prices around the world.
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Marie Baum
A Woman of the Modern Age
Dorothea Schlegel
The Romantic Author
Father: Moses Mendelssohn
Mother: Fromet Mendelssohn popup. yes
Siblings: Recha, Joseph, Henriette, Abraham und Nathan
Of all the Enlightenment philosopher’s offspring, none is more impetuous and passionate in terms of repeatedly and dramatically re-inventing her own life, while staying true to her own voice and tempering the rationalistic outlook with which she was raised. Brendel, Moses’ eldest daughter, is also his favorite. Her mother Fromet makes sure that she writes letters well, plays piano beautifully, and understands French theater. At the age of sixteen, she marries Simon Veit, her father's business partner and friend. Later, she flees this arranged marriage to a banker for a life of literary salons and close alliances with friends.
Some portraits from these years show her with her hair modestly covered according to Jewish tradition, while in others she boldly flaunts uncovered hair. She chooses the name Dorothea (from Goethe’s “Hermann and Dorothea”) and sympathizes with the French Revolution despite shuddering at its atrocities.
The loose, unbound hairstyle affected by the Jewish banker’s daughter as she sits for her portrait betokens her bold temperament. Anton Graff, Dorothea Schlegel (then called Brendel Veit), around 1770 © bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB.
Simon Veit, a friend of Moses Mendelssohn and the first husband of his daughter Brendel. Johanes Veit, Simon Veit, undated © Jüdisches Museum Berlin.
Her encounter with the cultural philosopher Friedrich Schlegel, who would later somewhat shamelessly reveal to the public their relationship in his roman à clef, “Lucinde,” changes her life. She leaves Simon, the father of her sons, and breaks off all ties with her shocked family. Though she thinks about reconciling with her widowed mother, this never actually comes about. After her divorce in 1799, she lives in the commune of early Romantics run by the Schlegel brothers in Jena. In Paris in 1804, she converts to the Protestant faith of Friedrich, the pastor’s son whom she subsequently marries. She claims that Moses Mendelssohn appeared to her during her baptism in a vision of forgiveness. She is the first of her family to leave behind the patriarch’s Jewish legacy.
Dorothea Schlegel, surrounded by her grandchildren, her son, the painter Philipp Veit, and his wife Carolina, and her grandchildren. Drawing by Franz Bretano © private collection.
Her own awakenings and wanderings reflect the turn of an epoch, the tensions between the Enlightenment, Idealism, and Romanticism, the upheaval of the old regime and the emergence of the revolutionary period, the transition from the age of Napoleon to the Restoration.
The divorce certificate of Simon and Brendel dated 1799, in German and Hebrew, © Leo Baeck Institute New York.
Her novel “Florentin” (1800) is published under an anonymous name by Friederich Schlegel. As a translator and author, she supports her brilliant yet somewhat disorganized husband and later serves as the driving force behind their joint conversion to Catholicism in 1808 in Cologne. She did not learn to appreciate her ex-husband’s generosity of heart until her later years of marriage to the man-about-town Friedrich Schlegel. It was only with great reluctance that Veit accepted the conversion of his children (1810), which Dorothea had pursued energetically. In the years after the divorce, she held Simon Veit responsible for the failure of their marriage. While accepting his generous financial support, she disregards the terms of their separation agreement with regard to the children’s education. In her last letter to her former husband, she herself finally assumes the blame for their estrangement.
»»O God, wherefore has my imagination become so black? Did it not once have no colors other than the crimson-purple of the rising sun?”«
From Dorothea Mendelssohn’s novel “Florentin,” published under an anonymous name by Friedrich Schlegel in 1801.
In Cologne, the Schlegels expect to profit from the cultural policies of the Napoleonic occupiers in the form of professional opportunities, but their hopes are dashed. Dorothea spends the next two decades in Vienna, where Schlegel, having been elevated to the nobility, finds a job as secretary in the court of the Austrian Emperor. She visits her sons, the painters Jonas (Johannes) and Philipp, in Rome, where both are affiliated with the Nazarene movement. Here she also reunites with Henriette Herz, her close friend from Berlin days who has just converted to Lutheran Christianity. Dorothea’s Romantic conception of art is combined with a missionary Catholicism. Though raised a daughter of the Enlightenment, her faith turns her into a supporter of the old European order headed by Pope and Emperor. Yet she is unable to overlook the signs of how far this order has decayed, and her first-hand impressions of the decadence prevailing in the Papal State leave her shaken.
Johannes Veit, Henriette Herz, undated © private collection / photo: Reiner Loebe.
The Cultural Philosopher Friedrich Schlegel. Franz Gareis, 1801.
After Friedrich’s death (1829), she lives in Frankfurt am Main, where her son Philipp serves as a museum director. Her relations with other members of the family, be they Jews or Protestants, gradually become warmer. She basks in being a grandmother, in her friendships with relatives such as her younger, Catholic sister Henriette Maria Mendelssohn, and in shared remembrances of days gone by. She has learned not to foist her conviction of belonging to the one true church upon those of other faiths whom she holds dear. But she never returns to Berlin, the city where her scandalous rupture with the family took place.
The Jew of Berlin
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Alex Angulo
Interim Executive Director, Mercy Corps Europe
Alex Angulo has worked in the field of humanitarian aid and development for 25 years, for some of the key agencies in relief, aid and development. Her areas of speciality have included disaster prevention, donor compliance, and sector-leading approaches to risk mitigation and governance.
Alex was appointed Interim Executive Director of Mercy Corps Europe in June 2020. She joined Mercy Corps in 2006 and worked both with the programs and finance teams, before leading the Compliance, Governance & Risk function in Europe.
Prior to joining Mercy Corps, Alex started her career in the European Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) where she helped launch the ECHO Disaster Preparedness Program covering the Andean countries, the Caribbean, South East Asia and East Africa. She then joined the International Red Cross, working in their EU representation office in Brussels. Alex has field experience in Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia where she coordinated the management and reporting of the largest ECHO funded Red Cross program during the Kosovo conflict.
Alex is a determined advocate of disciplined and challenging governance in the humanitarian sector, and detailed scrutiny and reform of risk and compliance mechanisms that support donor and wider public support.
Originally from Colombia, Alex lives now in Edinburgh with her family, where her support for Scottish rugby does not contradict her loyalty to Colombian football.
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Masterplan Marktkwartier Amsterdam
Architecture, Urbanism, Residential, Masterplan/Mobility
Size: 200,000 m2
Project Realisation: 2021 - 2023
Address: Centrale Markthallen, Amsterdam
Client: VolkerWessels Vastgoed, Ballast Nedam Development
Programme: Urban masterplan for a new residential neighbourhood with ca. 1700 units, total area 200,000 m2
Awards: 1st Prize Competition
The Food Center terrain in Amsterdam is somewhat hidden between Jan van Galenstraat and Haarlemmerweg. For decades, shops and restaurants have bought their vegetables, fruit and other food supplies from here. Today, the site is a jumbled ensemble of high fences, shed roofs and a closed gate; it is undergoing a large-scale transformation.
The Food Center terrain, a long quay bounded by two canals, will be renewed and more efficiently organized by developing the series of harbour basins that were filled in and reclaimed during the seventies. As part of this reorganization, the footprint of the Food Center will be halved and a large part of it moved to the northern end of the quay. This change will free up space on the southern end of the quay along Jan van Galenstraat, making room for a lively new green residential neighbourhood: the Marktkwartier.
The Marktkwartier will be a neighbourhood for all Amsterdammers; families, singles, students and seniors will be accommodated in a varied residential programme of around 1700 units. The monumental Market Hall, located between the Marktkwartier and the renewed Food Center terrain, will form the heart of the new residential district.
The historic building will be restored to its former glory and will be made accessible to everyone. The hall will be the new attraction in Amsterdam West and will include a hotel, a Food Lab for food-related knowledge sharing and restaurants.
The starting point for the urban design is a series of well-connected public spaces, each with its own identity. The Marktweide (market meadow) is the centrally located green heart and allows for different types of use for the neighbourhood and for the city. It is bordered on two sides by six-storey residential blocks with accents of twelve-storey volumes.
The blocks feature a series of distinct facades, inspired by the existing buildings along Jan van Galenstraat, framing a view of the Market Hall. This central open space gives clear visibility to both the Market hall and the nearby Koelhuis. Between the Marktweide and the main entrance to the Market Hall is the second open space: the Market Square, which offers space for events and for the outdoor market.
On either side of the Marktweide are two green residential courtyards with free-standing residential buildings or ‘palazzinos’, shielded from the surrounding city by six-storey blocks. The semi-public courtyards have an open connection to the two canals.
Large gates and passageways connect these courtyards with the central Marktweide. Continuous sight lines over the water and new pedestrian and cycling bridges connect the Marktkwartier with the Landlust and Staatsliedenkwartier residential areas across the canals.
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Frank Lloyd Wright The San Francisco Call Building Project, San Francisco, CA c.1913
67 3/4 x 43 1/2 x 9 1/2" (172.1 x 110.5 x 24.1 cm)
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
© 2021 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Frank Lloyd Wright has 116 works online.
There are 385 architectural models online.
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Trump-tied businessmen met NSC officials, Bannon over Venezuela sanctions, sources say
By Jake Horowitz
Five days before the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, a pair of American businessmen with ties to President Donald Trump's family attended a series of previously unreported meetings at the White House with the aim of convincing the United States to lift sanctions against Venezuela, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
Mic reviewed documents indicating the businessmen were Gentry Beach, a billionaire Dallas financier, and Wadie Habboush, an international investor. Both men have ties to Donald Trump Jr., but Beach is particularly close: He is a longtime friend of the president's son and was a major Trump campaign fundraiser.
Government ethics lawyers and policymakers who served in recent Democratic and Republican administrations say meetings between White House national security officials and campaign fundraisers over foreign policy violate NSC protocol and raise serious ethical concerns.
"If this account is true, it raises serious questions about the conduct of foreign policy by the Trump administration," said Mark Feierstein, who served on the National Security Council during the Obama administration as senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs. "Those meetings never should have taken place at any level, let alone with senior officials in the West Wing."
Richard Painter, who served as President George W. Bush's chief White House ethics lawyer, said, "The NSC's focus is supposed to be about security. They're not there to push the business community's agenda."
"In the Bush administration, if these types of meetings were set up, we would've said no," Painter said. "I would not have approved of this type of meeting."
The first of the meetings between Beach, Habboush and National Security Council officials took place on Feb. 8, according to one source with knowledge of the matter. Habboush presented senior NSC officials with a detailed plan to improve political relations with Venezuela and lift U.S. sanctions in exchange for opening up the South American country to potential business opportunities with U.S.-based companies.
The next day, Habboush returned to the White House and presented the plan directly to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, the two sources said.
Habboush did not respond to multiple, detailed requests for comment made through his general counsel. Beach responded through his attorney, Jeff Liddle, who would neither confirm nor deny that Beach met with Habboush and NSC officials.
"Gentry has never had a business relationship with Donald Trump Jr. or the Trump family, nor with the Venezuelan government, or any aspect of it," Liddle said. "Nor with Wadie Habboush."
Liddle added, "He has never made a written or otherwise presentation to the National Security Council."
The NSC and the White House declined to comment in response to a detailed inquiry about the meetings. The Venezuelan government did not respond to requests for comment made to its embassy in Washington.
"Neither Donald Trump Jr. nor anyone else at the Trump Organization has had any involvement in arranging any meetings with anyone at the White House or any other government agency," said a spokesperson from Trump Organization in response to inquiries for Donald Trump Jr. "While Mr. Trump Jr. has known Mr. Beach for many years and campaigned together during the election, their relationship is strictly personal."
Mic spoke to several individuals with knowledge of the meetings, all of whom requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
According to one of the sources, Beach and Habboush set up their meetings with NSC officials through deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland. Beach's attorney confirmed that Beach and McFarland were acquainted. "He knows K.T. McFarland, only because they met at inauguration," Liddle said.
Once at the White House, Habboush presented NSC officials — and Bannon, a day later — with a detailed 10-point plan outlining a proposal to lift U.S. sanctions on the country, according to a source. Habboush told NSC officials he had met directly with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez prior to his visit, multiple sources confirmed. At one point, Habboush dialed Rodríguez and put her on the phone with an NSC official on the spot to demonstrate the legitimacy of his contacts with high-level Venezuelans, one source said.
Whether Trump himself or his eldest son knew about the meetings remains unclear.
The proposed changes to U.S. policy toward Venezuela have also not come to pass. Several days after the meetings, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new round of sanctions on Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami for allegedly aiding drug traffickers.
However, that Beach and Habboush obtained access to senior NSC officials — and that Beach was a big-dollar fundraiser for the campaign — raised alarm among lawyers in the White House Counsel's office over possible conflicts of interest and ethics violations, according to one source with knowledge of the meetings, which another source confirmed.
Of specific concern is a longstanding personal relationship between Beach and the president's eldest son. Alongside Trump Jr. and fellow Dallas billionaire Tommy Hicks Jr., Beach raised millions of dollars for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. He served as a finance vice chair for Trump's inauguration committee. Beach is also a hunting buddy of Donald Trump Jr. and godfather to one of Trump Jr.'s sons.
Beach's hedge fund, Vollero Beach Capital Partners, was a multimillion-dollar equity fund focused on energy investments. In late 2016, it was absorbed by Citadel, one of the world's leading hedge funds. According to publicly available Nasdaq data, close to 50% of Vollero Beach Capital Partners' investments were in oil and gas companies.
In December, Beach's relationship to the Trump family came under scrutiny when a nonprofit he co-founded — and where Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump served as directors — was alleged to have solicited donations in exchange for access to the president at an inauguration event.
Habboush, an Iraqi-American businessman, is CEO of the Habboush Group, which specializes in energy and infrastructure investments. Earlier in his career, Habboush worked at Exxon Mobil, a company with a turbulent history in Venezuela, and whose former CEO Rex Tillerson is now secretary of state. Habboush's father, R.W. Habboush is chairman of the Habboush Group and donated more than $33,000 to the Republican National Committee in January 2017, according to FEC filings.
Habboush and the Trumps are also connected through at least one employee. In February, former Trump family chief of staff Lindsay Santoro began working in business development for the Habboush Group, according to her LinkedIn profile. Santoro previously served as an assistant to Donald Trump Jr. at the Trump Organization, in addition to managing staff for the Trump family during the presidential campaign.
It is not immediately apparent what Beach and Habboush would have gained from improved relations between the two nations had they successfully brought them about.
Revelations of Beach and Habboush's meetings come at a particularly tense moment in Venezuelan politics. Over the past week, protests have broken out after the Supreme Court, which is stacked with loyalists to President Nicolás Maduro, stripped away the National Assembly's legislative powers. On Saturday, the Court reversed that decision, but the move was denounced by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States as a "self-inflicted coup d'état" committed by Maduro's government.
In the face of these events, the relationship between the U.S. and Venezuela remains uncertain.
Bilateral ties between the countries worsened under President Barack Obama, who imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials in 2014 after a government crackdown on protesters resulted in the death of 43 people. Venezuela, which has the world's largest oil reserves and is almost entirely reliant on oil exports, is on the brink of collapse, facing a crippling recession and soaring foreign debt resulting from low oil prices and mismanagement by its socialist government.
Maduro had hoped for a better relationship with Trump, even though the two traded jabs during the campaign. In a January interview, Maduro said of Trump, "He won't be worse than Obama."
But that statement came before the Treasury Department announced the new round of sanctions against Maduro's vice president. It was also shortly before Trump met in the Oval Office with Lilian Tintori, the wife of a top Venezuelan opposition leader who is currently imprisoned, and criticized the Venezuelan government on Twitter. (A day after Trump's tweet, the Venezuelan Supreme Court upheld Tintori's husband's 14-year sentence.)
Nonetheless, Maduro's public statements about Trump have been uncharacteristically soft for the Latin American firebrand — he has denounced the "brutal hate campaign against Trump all over the world." In an interview earlier this month, Maduro called the U.S. president "Comrade Trump" and told people to expect "surprises" in the relationship between the countries.
Norman Eisen, who served as Obama's ethics czar and now chairs the board of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a leading ethics watchdog, called for a deeper investigation to better understand exactly what transpired.
"We don't know enough to know whether any laws were violated," Eisen said. "This should be scrutinized. Let's have some transparency about what transpired here."
"President Trump promised to drain the swamp, but in fact he's flooded it," Eisen said. "The essence of the swamp is for campaign contributors who have relationships with presidential family members to gain high-level access to propose crazy policy ideas that would line their own pockets."
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Michelin Challenge Design Becomes Movin’On Challenge Design
Michelin Announces 'Inspiring Mobility' Winners
Past Challenge Themes
2020: Upcycle
2019: Inspiring Mobility
MCD18: Concours D'Elegance 2050
2018: Mobility/Utility/Flexibility
2017: Le Mans 2030
2016: Mobility for All
2015: Drive Your Passion
2014: Driven / UnDriven
2013: Half!
2012: City 2046
2011: Plus 10
2010: Electrifying!
2009: Brave & Bold
2008: Smaller. Safer.
2007: Sharing the Road
2006: California
2005: Germany
2004: China
2003: France
2002: Italy
EC-Drive by Federico Beltran, Ivan Orozco and Edmundo Platt, Mexico
2011: Plus 10. The Best is Yet to Come!
In 2003, Federico Beltran Montemayor began studying civil engineering at the Institute of Technology and Superior Education of Monterrey (ITESM for its abbreviation in Spanish) in which he studied for the duration of four semesters. During this time, he also began working as a volunteer apprentice in a local woodshop where he learned the skills of woodcraft.
Once he acquired more experience, he began designing and manufacturing children’s furniture. This strongly influenced his decision to change not only his major, but also his university. Shortly after this experience as an independent designer, he began studying industrial design at the Center of Superior Design in Monterrey (CEDIM for its abbreviation in Spanish) to become more proficient in this newfound area of interest.
As a part of his studies at the CEDIM, he has completed multiple projects for some of the university’s partner companies. These design projects have included: “My Little Fence”, a child’s bureau that won first place for the competition organized by the company Multilam which distributes plastic laminate and corian; “Areia”, a wall clock made of corian created for the same company; “Bee Bench”, an ergonomic child’s bench that is intended to be disassembled and recreated into various forms by children; a redesign project of a commercial refrigerator for the company Criotec, which manufactures commercial appliances, among others.
At the same time he began studying at the CEDIM, he worked in different areas, such as construction, architecture, interior and product design making CAD drawings. He also worked as a 3D modeler and renderer in these same areas. He has participated in important projects such as: the executive project for the construction of two new City Club stores (Soriana) in the city of Monterrey; engineering drawings of precast slabs for the construction of a second tier of the Periferico, a main road in Mexico City; conceptual drawings for a Mexican pavilion in Shangai (this was an international contest in which he collaborated with the Architectural Bureau of Monterrey), among others.
Currently he is working as a 3D modeler and renderer in a company that designs and manufactures furniture. This has opened up many opportunities of freelance design work for him as well. He will continue to study industrial design at CEDIM and plans to graduate in 2011. He continues to look for independent projects and contests to gain more experience in the field of design.
Iván García Orozco, 25, was born in Morelia, Mexico. In August 2006, motivated by designing sustainable products that help improve the quality of life of people, he began studying industrial design at the Center of Superior Studies of Design in Monterrey (CEDIM for its abbreviation in Spanish). Since he started the career in 2006, he has worked multiple projects for some of the university’s partner companies such as Multilam, Criotec, Helvex, Vitro, Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma among others. Currently he is close to concluding his studies in industrial design next year and then planning to extend his studies and study a master degree in sustainable design.
Transportation in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico is increasing in an exponential manner, creating more traffic and less efficiency on the roads.
Compact vehicles create greater more effective modes of transportation; their smaller size makes maneuvering on the streets and parking much easier. The option of a custom made interior design ensures that the driver will have a unique and enjoyable experience.
Ec-Drive is a compact vehicle, created for one person, that utilizes O-Led technology to personalize the interior design of the vehicle. The wheels are connected to the vehicle by the means of Mag-Lev technology.
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GOP lawmaker: Arm 'hot little girls' to stop college sex assault
In this June 3, 2013, file photo, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev.
Feb. 19, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC / Updated Feb. 19, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC
By Michele Richinick
A Nevada lawmaker is sponsoring a bill to legalize guns on college campuses in her state, a measure she said could prevent men from sexually assaulting "young, hot little girls."
Many gun rights advocates argue that arming female college students around the country would help reduce sexual assaults. One of those advocates, Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore of Nevada, said in a recent telephone interview with The New York Times: "If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head."
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After publication of the Times report on Wednesday, Fiore issued a statement seemingly clarifying her remarks: "That may not be the most eloquent way to phrase it; however, I stand wholeheartedly by that sentiment because I want every citizen, whether they're on a college campus or not, to have the right to defend him or herself from sexual assault."
"So I ask: 'What's your point? Are you opposed to the right to self defense or are you arguing that rape is the new normal of attending college?'" she added.
Nevada law currently bans concealed weapons at colleges and universities, unless an individual gets permission from the institution's president, a rare occasion.
"If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them."'
The bill introduced by Fiore last Friday would change that, and also allow individuals with concealed weapon permits to carry their guns in public buildings and in unsecured areas of airports. Two previous attempts to pass the so-called "campus carry" bill, which was opposed by university officials, failed in both 2011 and 2013. But now that Republicans control both chambers of the Nevada state legislature, Fiore allegedly is confident her measure will become law.
Amanda Collins, who was unarmed when she was raped in a parking garage at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2007, reportedly testified on behalf of the bill in 2013, saying she might not have stopped the attack but might have been able to defend herself.
Nine states currently allow guns on campuses, including Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Besides Nevada, similar bills have been introduced in nine other states, including Florida and Texas. Republican state Rep. Greg Steube of Florida said a campus carry law would make colleges safer by allowing gun owners to intervene in shooting situations. Gun-free zones, he said, don’t prevent shootings from happening, citing the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre that killed 32 people and wounded 17. Steube introduced his bill just two months after a shooter injured three people at a Florida State University library in November.
Opponents of such laws view the legislation as another attempt by the gun industry to appeal to women and young people. Following the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, for example, the National Rifle Association made a push to close the gender gap in the firearms debate and court women by offering them bra holsters. (Just last month, a woman in Michigan reportedly accidentally shot herself to death while adjusting the revolver in her bra.) Proponents of guns in more places believe women need the weapons for self defense, and say they are concerned police won't arrive in time during an emergency situation.
But statistics show the presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation makes it five times more likely the woman will be killed. And in the United States, women are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other high-income countries, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. The presence of a gun in domestic violence situations increases the risk of homicide for women by 500%.
Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, called Fiore's statement "simply shameful." She said Fiore and other legislators with an "A" ranking from the NRA "are just doing the bidding of the gun lobby as they continue their push for more guns everywhere, no questions asked."
Surveys reveal the majority of students, university presidents, and police chiefs agree that more guns on campuses are not the answer to keeping women safe from sexual assault.
Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national grassroots organization composed of more than 43,000 college students and their parents, as well as professors and faculty. Members believe holders of state-issued concealed handgun licenses should be able to carry their firearms on campuses. The group's website explains the members aren't affiliated with the NRA, but it appears the lobbying group has been involved in the push for more guns on campuses. The NRA, for example, frequently promotes SCC on its social media channels and in its publications, including on the news-talk show, "Cam & Co." The results of a Center for Public Integrity investigation into emerging SCC groups released last August note the NRA's central role in the push to allow campus carry in Florida and Idaho.
In December, "Cam & Co." host Cam Edwards spoke with the assistant director of public relations for SCC about the campus carry effort at the University of Wyoming, whose Faculty Senate had passed a resolution against concealed firearms on campuses.
"Our universities and colleges, they are supposed to be the last home of free and unfettered debate. So I would like to think the supporters of the Second Amendment do feel like they can speak out and speak up," Edwards said during the segment.
David Burnett, former SCC press director, in a 2012 op-ed in America's 1st Freedom called the campus revolt movement a "quiet revolution" that began "methodically rolling back these prohibitions, restoring freedom and self-defense to college campuses."
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Murray Statement on Boeing Tanker Protest
"The Air Force's short-sighted decision to place the future of America's aerospace industry and national security in the hands of an illegally subsidized foreign competitor is simply wrong for America.
"After careful and serious deliberation, Boeing has also concluded that the Air Force's process was flawed and resulted in the wrong decision for our warfighters.
"Since their beginnings as a small company in Seattle, Boeing has never once protested a contract decision. But the concerns raised by the Air Force's debrief have led them to today's action.
"It is my hope that the GAO moves forward with its review in a thorough manner.
"I also believe it is Congress' duty to continue to look into the ramifications of the Air Force's decision for America's national security and economic strength."
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1 dead after small plane crashes into South Carolina home
By David Matthews
One person was killed Wednesday after a small plane crashed into a home in Columbia, S.C.
According to ABC 15 News, firefighters responded to a call around 10:45 a.m. and found a home on fire. A man told officials the plane crashed into his yard and he tried to save the pilot but was unsuccessful.
Damage is visible following a small plane crash during dense fog in a residential neighborhood on Wednesday in Columbia, S.C. (Meg Kinnard/AP)
According to WIS News, the crash occurred about 1½ miles from the Jim Hamilton-L.B. Owens Airport. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss told the station the plane was a Beechcraft F33A Bonanza.
Hutch Fontaine, who witnessed the crash, told ABC 15 he went outside after hearing a loud noise and saw the plane careening toward him. He said the pilot appeared to try to avoid hitting homes as it went down but clipped one of Fontaine’s neighbors’ homes.
The neighbor’s home caught fire and a woman inside was injured while trying to get her cats outside to safety. Fire crews were able to extinguish the flames shortly after arriving at the scene.
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A Park with a Purpose
Posted January 1, 2021 December 29, 2020 | Photography by Dave Miller
How the City of Ocala is making strides to replenish one of our most essential resources through the creation of a monument to the natural world.
Water is the driving force of all nature. It is vital to the survival of every single human, animal and plant on the earth. On our most elemental level, water makes up 70 percent of the human body. It covers 71 percent of our planet’s surface and is an essential element of both our natural ecosystem and our social system. It regulates our climate, allowing some ecosystems to flourish, and is a major limiting factor for others. Water is the key to our food supply and creates essential habitats for wildlife. We rely on fresh water for our most basic needs of drinking, cooking, bathing, and sanitation. We also delight in its more ethereal benefits, such as recreation, healing and relaxation. Water is a magical, moving, living part of the earth and a resource that we depend upon in ways we seldom think about. But think about it, we must.
“All the water that will ever be is, right now.” National Geographic magazine proclaimed this in their 1993 “Water” themed issue. Their point in making such a stark statement is that the earth’s supply of water is limited. Our population continues to grow and, as it does, the demand for water increases, as does the quantity of waste water we produce. Therefore, at some time, we will reach a point where the demand will exceed the available fresh water supply. And this is not centuries into the future. We are closer to that point than most of us might imagine. However, the quote is also often used to express that although water is a finite resource, it is a renewable one.
The Local Picture
Florida is surrounded on three sides by water and has a multitude of surface streams, lakes, wetlands and coastline. This creates a perception of abundant and seemingly infinite water supplies. In reality, there is a critical need for us to conserve those supplies and plan for how we will meet our future needs.
According to the Florida Office of Economic & Demographic Research, over the next 20 years the statewide demand for water is projected to be 7.5 billion gallons a day as the population increases to a projected 25.2 million people. The City of Ocala currently consumes on average 12 million gallons of water a day and 6 million of that is used for irrigation, which contributes to water pollution through runoff. As our local population rises, so too does the usage and pollution.
Throughout the state, communities like ours have been grappling with crafting solutions to the impending issue. Dee Ann Miller, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, explained that expanding supplies in the future will require a combination of approaches, including “the use of existing water supplies, water conservation and the development of additional alternative water supplies as well as projects that recharge our aquifers.”
The City of Ocala has been working proactively on several projects to not only meet the future demand, but also protect our wildlife and natural resources. City leaders have demonstrated their forward-thinking strategy with a project that addresses both of those issues by creating a system that improves water quality while increasing groundwater supplies. The Ocala Wetland Recharge Park located near Lillian Bryant Park, at 2105 Northwest 21st Street, is a 60-acre refuge with 2 1/2 miles of paved walking trails, boardwalks, three ponds, wildlife overlooks, hands-on educational exhibits and educational kiosks. But this is no traditional park. It is a manmade wetland created with this purpose: recharging the underground Upper Floridan aquifer with an average of 3 million gallons of naturally filtered stormwater and treated wastewater every day.
Recharge, Replenish, Restore
By this point, you may be wondering what exactly the term “recharge” means in this instance. Simply stated, groundwater recharge is a process where water moves downward from the surface and drains through the soil to refill the groundwater. Artificial recharge (which is the process being employed at the park) is a process by which stormwater and reclaimed water is purposely directed into the ground by altering natural conditions to increase infiltration. The water has undergone a series of treatment steps during which its composition changes—including removing nitrogen and phosphorus. The goal of the process is to help replenish the aquifer below, which also feeds the Silver Springs system.
Artificial recharge is an effective way to store water underground and create a surplus to meet demand when a shortage might be imminent. The water recovered from these recharge projects can then be allocated to non-potable uses such as landscape irrigation and although not as common, to potable use. By developing and operating the park, the City of Ocala has created a way to efficiently use its water resources.
“The Ocala Wetland Recharge Park allows the City of Ocala to efficiently use its water resources,” Ocala Mayor Kent Guinn commented at the groundbreaking ceremony. “By developing this park, the city will create a wetland ecosystem, improve water quality, boost regional groundwater supplies and provide numerous recreational opportunities for the community.”
A Natural Habitat
Creating a setting to attract wildlife and improve the natural resources of the area was a key aspect of the project.
“One of the purposes is to have a place where the community can enjoy nature,” explains City of Ocala Water Resources Conservation Coordinator Rachel Slocumb. “It will be a nature oasis—definitely unique to Ocala. There aren’t many wetland parks in Florida.”
In fact, in the past, wetlands were largely regarded as wastelands and places to be avoided. Often, they were treated as dumping grounds or were drained and filled in. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a study in 1990 which revealed that more than half of the 221 million acres of wetlands that once existed in the lower 48 states in the late 1700s had been destroyed.
These days, we understand the important role that wetlands play in our natural world and that they provide habitats for a wide variety of birds, fish and other wildlife. In fact, the park in Ocala has the potential to become a true bird watching destination with a variety of ducks, woodpeckers, waterfowl, hawks and many other species of birds on display.
Among the ancient oaks and ponds as deep marshes, there is an incredible display of Florida plant life, with a plethora of distinct plant species, many of which can only survive in a wet environment.
But the park is more than just a place to connect with nature—it’s a monument to our city’s commitment to our environment. A few other similar wetland parks can be found scattered throughout Florida, each creating an abundance of green space and enhancing the neighborhoods around them.
The overall response from the people living near the park has been very positive and the wetlands park has been embraced by community members, according to city officials.
Community advocate, retired educator and former principal at four different Ocala/Marion County schools, Scott Hackmyer, offered this praise for the project: “The City ought to be complimented for a great vision that will develop into a great asset for our community.”
So, whether you crave a relaxing walk and few moments to unwind during this stressful time, want to learn more about this innovative park or are in the mood for a little bird watching, an oasis awaits you at the Ocala Wetland Recharge Park.
Understanding Water Pollution
Nearly everything we do, from generating electricity and engaging in manufacturing to growing food, has the potential to release pollutants into our environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies two broad categories of pollution: point-source and nonpoint-source.
According to the EPA, point-source pollution is any contaminant that enters the environment from an easily identified and confined place. This includes such examples as smokestacks, discharge pipes and drainage ditches, which affect both air and water. Although there are many examples of point-source pollution, the defining factor is that it comes from a single identifiable source.
Nonpoint-source pollution is the opposite. This type of pollution comes from many sources, all at one time, and is carried by surface runoff to natural water sources. A prime example would be how during a thunderstorm a collection of pollutants is washed off streets, sidewalks, roofs and other surfaces into the sewer system. Common types of nonpoint-source pollution, for example, could be oil leaked from a car, rubber from a blown tire, trash and dog waste. But pollutants can also include bacteria and waste from livestock, sediment from construction sites, and excess fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides from farms and residential areas, to name a few.
Surface runoff is the flow of water that occurs on the ground surface when excess rain or storm water cannot rapidly infiltrate the soil. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants and deposits them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters and ground waters.
Non-point stormwater pollution is a huge issue and the leading cause of water pollution in the United States. It has been documented to have harmful effects on drinking water supplies, recreation, fisheries and wildlife. As there is no single identifiable culprit, it is hard to regulate.
For more information, visit www.ocalafl.org or contact City of Ocala Water Resources Conservation Coordinator Rachel Slocumb by email at rslocumb@ocalafl.org or by calling (352) 351-6774.
Follow them on Facebook and Instagram @OcalaWetlandRechargePark
This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement C9.994515617 to the city of Ocala through an agreement/contract with the Nonpoint Source Management Program of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does the EPA endorse trade names or recommended the use of commercial productions mentioned in this document.
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Tip-off Leads to Record Meth Seizure in Australia
Published: Friday, 01 March 2013 15:25
An Australian organized crime task force has seized a record 568 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, also known as “ice”, CNN reported. The seizure in Sydney is nearly double the previous Australian law enforcement record of 306 kilograms, set in July 2012.
Authorities found the methamphetamine, worth an estimated $448 million on the street, in shipments of industrial cleaning supplies originating in China. Three men -- a Singaporean, an Australian, and an individual from Hong Kong -- have been taken into custody and charged with intent to possess a commercial amount of narcotics. They face potential life sentences if convicted.
The investigation began in September 2012 following a call from a Sydney-area citizen, ABC reported. A task force was set up and inquiries led authorities to a suspicious facility in the Sydney area. Monitoring of shipments to the facility led to the February 22, 2012 discovery of the methamphetamine. Police replaced the drugs with an inert substance and waited for those linked to the drugs to collect them. On Wednesday, the three suspects allegedly removed what they believed to be the methamphetamine, and were subsequently taken into custody by the task force.
During the course of the operation, six search warrants were also executed across Sydney, leading to the discovery of an alleged drug manufacturing lab, according to Australian Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus.
Negus told reporters at the press conference that the task force was continuing its investigation, and that further investigations had not been ruled out. Authorities in China have also been notified of the case, he said. New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said that beyond the three suspects in custody, there are “more that will likely be arrested.”
The investigative task force involved cooperation between the Australian Federal Police, the New South Wales Police, Australian Customs, the New South Wales Crime Commission, and the Australian Crime Commission. Scipione stressed that while inter-agency cooperation was key to success, “none of it would have happened” if not for a single phone call from the Sydney community. The case, he said, underscored the importance of “community policing” in combating drug trafficking.
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Who gets to raise 'Baby J'? Court issues heartbreaking ruling in adoption case
Updated Jan 30, 2019; Posted Aug 15, 2018
Gloria Roman, of Roselle Park, holds her newborn son in July 2017. She gave the boy up for adoption at birth. (Courtesy of Gloria Roman)
By Kelly Heyboer | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Though his birth mother desperately wants him back, "Baby J" will be raised by his adoptive parents, a New Jersey appellate court ruled last week in a heart-wrenching adoption case that has left two families in turmoil for months.
Gloria Roman, a 20-year-old receptionist from Union County, went to court last year to try to get back her newborn son after she said the adoption agency misled her and failed to inform her about alternatives to adoption, as required by New Jersey law.
A family court judge agreed and ordered the baby's adoptive parents, who had raised him since birth, to return the boy to his birth mother last year. But the adoptive family appealed the judge's ruling, allowing them to keep the child while the case worked its way through the courts.
Last week, the three-judge appellate panel agreed in a unanimous decision to overturn the lower court's ruling and allow the now 13-month-old boy, called "Baby J" in court papers, to remain with his adoptive parents.
The judges acknowledged whatever decision they made in the complex adoption case would be devastating for one side or the other.
"Few cases have so much potential for calamity," the judges wrote in their ruling. "The adopting parents could lose their only child, the child they have nurtured since birth, and in consequence suffer a lifetime of emotional pain and heartbreak . . . The child could be abruptly removed from the only parents and only home it has ever known, placed in the hands of a virtual stranger, and in consequence suffer permanent emotional damage."
But the judges also said allowing "Baby J" to stay with his adoptive parents would be crushing for his birth mother.
"The birth mother could see her decision to surrender her child upheld, have her parental rights terminated, and in consequence suffer a lifetime of regret and sorrow," the 49-page court decision said.
Plans for an appeal
Roman's new lawyers, Paul Townsend and Jennifer Cornelius, said the birth mother is not done fighting for her son. She plans to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court, though there is no guarantee the court will consider the case.
"The appellate court's decision is a travesty of justice. In failing to affirm the lower court's ruling, the appellate division has focused not on whether the child should be with his natural mother, but on the feelings and emotions of the adoptive couple," Roman's attorneys said in a statement.
The court decision sends the message that New Jersey adoption agencies can skirt rules about giving birth parents information about alternatives to adoption, the attorneys said.
"This decision does not protect Baby J, but rips a child from his natural parent who, in a time of crisis, made an uninformed decision and desperately wants her child back. The procedures and the rules were put in place to avoid such a decision as this," Roman's attorneys said. "A child should be with its natural mother."
In an interview earlier this year, Roman said she had no ill-will toward her son's adoptive parents and she thought were doing a good job raising the baby. They regularly send her photos and updates on his progress.
But she said she believed the adoption agency talked her into signing away her parental rights to her newborn when she was a scared teenager, recently evicted from her house and conflicted on whether she could provide a good life for her baby.
The agency never told her there were other options, including putting her son in foster care or receiving government assistance, she said.
"It was me trying to fight for my son because I felt like I was taken advantage of," Roman said.
The adoption agency, A Loving Choice, based in Shrewsbury, said they were happy with the appellate court decision, which found the agency did discuss some alternatives to adoption with Roman and did not violate state law.
"A Loving Choice Adoption Associates is very pleased with the ruling of the appellate court. We will not be commenting further and wish to stress the importance of honoring the privacy of the adoptive family," the agency said in a statement.
The baby's adoptive parents, who live outside New Jersey, were not identified. They were referred to by the pseudonyms "Stephen and Stephanie" in the court decision.
In a statement released through their attorney, Matheu Nunn, they asked that their name and their baby's name be kept secret.
"We understood the difficult odds we faced seeking a reversal of a trial court judge, so needless to say we are overjoyed that the three judges from the appeals court considered, and ultimately went with, Mr. Nunn's legal argument. We look forward to a lifetime of happiness with our son and we hope that our experience has given hope to any other family going through a difficult adoption journey," the couple said.
An extremely rare case
In New Jersey, the law says a birth parent must wait at least 72 hours after a baby's birth to sign the "surrender" documents to give up a baby for adoption.
Unlike many other states, there is no grace period for a birth mother to change her mind. The surrender is irrevocable unless the birth mother goes to court and proves the papers were signed due to fraud, duress or misrepresentation, according to the law.
Cases like Roman's, where a birth mother goes to court to get her newborn back, are extremely rare, adoption advocates say.
In Roman's case, she got pregnant when she was 19, working part time and living with her mother. They were having financial problems and were recently evicted from their house, Roman said. The baby's father did not want to be involved.
Roman was living with a sister and hiding her pregnancy from her family when she began considering adoption. In her court testimony, Roman said she met several times with an adoption agency counselor, but they never discussed foster care, government assistance or other ways she could keep her baby despite her financial problems.
She gave birth, turned the baby over to his adoptive parents and checked herself out of the hospital the same day without telling her family where she had been. It wasn't until a month after he son's birth that she told her stunned mother and sister about the baby and began looking for legal help to get him back.
In court testimony, the adoption agency counselor said she did discuss alternatives to adoption with Roman, including how the teenager could get a friend to watch the baby while she worked if she chose to keep the child.
However, the counselor also testified she destroyed the handwritten notes she took while speaking to Roman, something she had never done in any other case.
The appellate court judges ruled Roman understood she was giving up parental rights to her baby when she signed the papers.
"Moreover, the record indisputably established that Loving Choice offered (Roman) counseling," the judges wrote in their decision.
Roman -- who now has a full-time job, a house in Roselle Park and plans to return to Kean University to earn her bachelor's degree -- has a Go Fund Me page to raise money to help pay her legal bills as she appeals her case to the state Supreme Court.
As of Monday, the page had raised nearly $6,000 toward a $90,000 goal.
Kelly Heyboer may be reached at kheyboer@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @KellyHeyboer. Find her at KellyHeyboerReporteron Facebook.
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Laika the Space Dog
Sarah Towle
Putting the Story back in History
On November 3, 1957, a tiny capsule rocketed into space. Inside was a diminutive, 14-pound, black and white dog named Laika. And when her spaceship pierced the Earth’s atmosphere, she became the first creature in history to make it to outer space. No small feat for a stray that only days before had been fighting for scraps on the streets of Moscow!
Laika’s unlikely journey was borne out of the race to prove that human spaceflight was possible. Just a month earlier, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union—Cold War nemesis of the United States—launched into orbit history’s first satellite, Sputnik 1. That’s when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev insisted that his scientists perform a second test—this time to determine if a living being could survive the journey to the stars.
The mission was too dangerous to risk a human life, so the Soviets decided to train a stray dog to be Russia’s first cosmonaut. Nine days before the scheduled launch, they chose Laika for her gentle disposition and natural beauty. If she was to make history, they reasoned, she would need to be photogenic.
Laika did make history. Monitors followed the sound of her tiny beating heart all the way into Earth’s orbit. But there was a problem: the Soviets had not worked out how to get Laika back. She perished, circling the earth, most likely from the profound heat created by the capsule’s firing rockets.
Laika’s journey sparked not one but two historic advances: the era of human space exploration, and the animal rights movement, particularly in scientific testing. She became a global folk hero. Her sacrifice inspired poems and novels. She was featured on stamps and coins, and memorialized in a Moscow statue. Her fame ensured that going forward efforts would be made to protect the lives of canine cosmonauts.
Sure enough, on August 19, 1960, two more Moscow strays, Belka and Strelka, became the first living creatures to make the round trip to space.
Laika the Soviet Space Dog will always be remembered as the first living being to boldly go where no one had gone before. Laika was a pioneer for humanity.
Laika was launched into orbit with one meal and a seven-day oxygen supply. Wikimedia Commons
Shown here in her space harness, Laika was launched into orbit with one meal and a seven-day oxygen supply. Wikimedia Commons
The story of Laika (above, in a postage stamp from the Emirate of Ajman, now part of the UAE) lives on today in websites, YouTube videos, poems, and children’s books.
Starting in 1957, Soviet allies, such as Hungary (right), Romania (above), Albania, Poland and North Korea, issued Laika postage stamps. Other countries soon joined them. (Wikimedia Commons )
Sarah Towle is an award-winning digital storyteller of immersive tales for educational tourism. With her latest project for secondary school students—the History Hero BLAST—she puts the Story back in History, bringing a fictional flair to factual tales of inspirational figures from around the world and throughout time. A blog and future podcast, the HHBLAST welcomes the participation of published and aspiring authors, including young writers. Click here to find out more about how to bring the HHBLAST—and Sarah—to your school!
James Hertling
I have been a fan of Sarah's storytelling since her Paris days and am delighted to find her work spreading. Congrats for bringing her aboard!
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How Many People Did the CIA Process at Its Stare Kiejkuty “Black Site,” and Where Are They Now?
Posted on July 28, 2014 by Lambert Strether
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
I’m fascinated to see the Stare Kiejkuty story come alive, because I did some posting on it, back in my salad days, eight years or so ago, back when we were fresh and new and thought electing more and better Democrats was important because they opposed stuff like extraordinary rendition and torture because such things were wrong, not because their guy wasn’t the one doing it (leaving aside the occasional honorable outlier like Ron Wyden). Anyhow, the Stare Kiejkuty story came alive again last week. Reuters:
The CIA ran a secret jail on Polish soil, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday, piling pressure on Poland, one of Washington’s closest allies, to break its long silence about the global programme for detaining al Qaeda suspects.
The court said it had been established that the CIA used a facility in a northern Polish forest, code named “Quartz”, as a hub in its network for interrogating suspected al Qaeda operatives rounded up after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. …..
Thursday’s ruling was the first time that a court in Europe had said that the CIA operated one of the secret jails – often referred to as “black sites” -on the continent.
The court case was brought by lawyers for two men, Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah, and Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who are now both inmates at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military’s prison on Cuba.
They alleged they were flown in secret to a remote Polish airfield, then transferred to the CIA-facility near the village of Stare Kiejkuty where they were subject to treatment they said amounted to [was] torture. …
The court found Poland violated its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent torture, ensure the right to liberty, and properly investigate allegations a crime had been committed on its territory.
The ruling from Strasbourg may have implications for other European states alleged to have hosted CIA prisons: similar cases have been lodged with the court in Strasbourg against Romania and Lithuania. …
Let’s not worry about the other torture camps we apparently littered the European landscape with, and focus only on Stare Kiejkuty. Here is the press release from European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and here are the two decisions: Al Nashiri v. Poland [PDF] and Abu Zubaydah v. Poland [PDF]. They are lengthy and very detailed. Kevin Gosztola has good background here. (Note that Poland may appeal.)
Now, presumably Ron Wyden is, at some point in the not too distant future, going to manage to get the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s 6300-page report on CIA torture released, either by declassifying it after White House censorship, or, as Mike Gravel suggests, by simply publishing it, uncensored, using the speech and debate clause of the Constitution everybody tells me we still operate under. And although that report will surely include material on Stare Kiejkuty, I don’t see a need to speculate about what’s in it, assuming it’s going to be released anyhow. However, there are two very obvious questions raised by the European Court of Human Rights decision, and I’d like to raise them now, because when the report does come out, they are the questions I’d like to look into first. They’re in the headline:
How many people were processed through Stare Kiejkuty?
Because, when you think about it: (1) Surely more than two[1] people, Zubaydah and al-Nashiri, were processed, so how many? And if more than two, (2) surely it’s a more than a little remarkable that nobody talked? So where are they?
Again, I don’t want to speculate, too freely, at least. But I think we can at least try for some “back of the envelope” calculations that will give us the parameters to the first question, and see how far that gets us with the second question. What do we mean by a “back of the envelope” calculation? From Jon Bentley’s wonderful Programming Pearls:
So, if we’re looking at people processed through a torture camp instead of water flowing through the Mississippi, what do we need to know? Inputs, throughput, and output. (Correct me if I am wrong, here, readers; I never did become a programmer!) Input: how many flights per day * average prisoner count per plane; throughput: how many cells * average length of stay; output a function of the first two. I imagine people in the hotel business make much the same kind of calculation when deciding where and what to build. Funny to think of a degree in hotel management qualifying you plan a torture camp, but it’s a funny old world. Of course, the whole process is secret, so we’ll be missing huge chunks of data. Maybe the Senate report, in whatever form it comes out, will fill in the blanks.
Input: How many flights, how many passengers?
It’s hard to know how many flights there were; Boeing subsidiary Jeppeson, for example, filed the flight plans for 70 flights, but the ECHR’s decisions (see PDFs above) say their flight plans were fake, as indeed we would expect them to be. The European Parliament’s “Draft Report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners” gives a total of 1245 flights for Europe as a whole, some of which have multiple stops, based on the “Contribution of the Rapporteur.” WaPo (2014-01-23) says that “The CIA prison in Poland [Stare Kiejkuty] was arguably the most important of all the black sites created by the agency,” and so it’s hard to believe that a substantial portion of the 1245 flights — that is, more than 70 — didn’t end up there. (For something more than the back of an envelope, I’d go through the “Contribution of the Rapporteur” and take subtotals. Maybe soon, if there’s enough reader interest.)
So how many passengers? Again, hard to know. We tend to think of the torture planes as executive jets (like the one the CIA charted from Phillip H. Morse, a minority partner of the Boston Red Sox), and sometimes they were. From Al Nashiri v. Poland:
On 4 December 2002 a CIA contracted aircraft, a Gulfstream jet (capacity for 12 passengers) registered as N63MU with the US Federal Aviation Authority and operated by First Flight Management/Airborne Inc., flew the applicant and Mr Abu Zubaydah from Thailand to the Szymany military airbase in Poland.
However, the CIA fleet included at least one Boeing 737. Also from Al Nashiri v. Poland:
Specifically, we have collected information that CIA airplanes travelling from Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004 made direct flights to remote airfields in Poland and Romania. Human Rights Watch has viewed flight records showing that a Boeing 737, registration number N313P – a plane that the CIA used to move several prisoners to and from Europe, Afghanistan, and the Middle East in 2003 and 2004 – landed in Poland and Romania on direct flights from Afghanistan on two occasions in 2003 and 2004. Human Rights Watch has independently confirmed several parts of the flight records, and supplemented the records with independent research.
So, one executive jet we know of has a capacity of 12; and the Boeing 737 has a minimum capacity of 85 and a maximum of 215. And the planes aren’t necessarily full. Flights can be two ways, so let’s be generous and throw out half of 1245, and be generous again, and figure only half the remaining flights went to Stare Kiejkuty, even though it’s the most important site; that’s 311 flights. Let’s be more generous still, and assume that there were 300 Gulfstream flights and only 11 737 flights. Let’s assume an average prisoner count of 2 on the Gulfstreams, leaving 10 empty seats: that’s 2 * 300 = 600 prisoners. Let’s assume an average prisoner count of 20 on the smallest 737, leaving 65 empty seats. (Presumably, even with an unlimited black budget and no oversight, the CIA wouldn’t use a 737 for onesies and twosies. Although you never know!) 11 flights times 20 prisoners = 220. 220 + 600 = 820 prisoners. Any errors due to rounding! (For comparison purposes, the military prison system held 14,000, according to AP.) Assume 820, then. Gitmo seems to have a capacity of 500, tops. Assume Gitmo was solely populated by prisoners from Stare Kiejkuty. Where are the other 320? OK, too many assumptions! Let’s go at this another way.
Throughput: How many prisoners, what length of stay?
How many prisoners? One way to guesstimate the number of prisoners is to check the size of the facility, just as you would for a hotel by counting the windows. And here WaPo was a very interesting statement in its story of 2014-01-23:
The Polish intelligence service, known as Agencja Wywiadu, had a training base with a villa that the CIA could use in Stare Kiejkuty, a three-hour drive north of Warsaw. The accommodations were not spacious. The two-story villa could hold up to a handful of detainees. A large shed behind the house also was converted into a cell.
“It was pretty spartan,” the agency official recalled.
A “villa” and a “shed,” huh? Oh-kaaay. We’re relying on CIA sourcing here, and only that sourcing, and the clear implication is that only a small number of prisoners were processed. (“Move along people, move along. There’s no story here.”) Far be it from me to suggest that the CIA source is completely self-serving, or that WaPo’s single-sourced reporting is at best sloppy, but contemporary reporting from Stare Kiejkuty differs substantially. From the UK’s Sunday Mirror (in a story that’s rapidly succumbing to bit rot):
Sunday Mirror investigators last week breached the one-mile security cordon around the complex in the muddy village of Stare Kiejkuty, 100 miles from the Polish capital of Warsaw. Many of the 250 locals have family working as army conscripts on the other side of a new Iron Curtain – a three-mile long, two-metre high fence.
Posing as tourists visiting the village in Poland’s equivalent of the Lake District, we rented a chalet 400 metres from the main entrance of the base.
Despite claims the site has high-tech surveillance – including infra-red thermal sensors to detect body heat – it seems little has changed from its 1970s Communist-era role as a base to train Soviet agents and assassins. British traitor Kim Philby taught at the base.
The car park contained at least 25 vehicles. At least three watch-towers had been left abandoned, and 150metres away was a green hangar the size of a football pitch. Locals say this was built last year to house newly-arrived inmates. Other buildings in the complex consist of three fortified bunkers above ground and a firing range.
And here’s the back-of-the-envelope calculation for that:
A football pitch is 100-130 yards deep, and 100-50 yards wide. Let’s assume the largest possible size for the hangar, since Halliburton (say) got the contract. 130 x 100 is 13,000 square yards. Assume a three-story hangar: 13,000 x 3 = 39,000 sq yds. Assume only 2/3 of the space is used for prisoners: Call it 25,000 square yards. Assume a cell is 3 x 3 yards, or 9 sq yds. 25,000 / 9 = 2777, call it 2500 cells.
So, 2500 cells in Stare Kiejkuty at the high end or, assuming one story, one third of that, or 833. Sadly, however, we don’t know when the “guests” “checked in” or “checked out” so we don’t know throughput even if we can guess at the number of “rooms.” And I swear, by whatever you choose to name, that I didn’t know how similar the one-story figgerin’ of 833 would be to 820. Probably means I’m underestimating by an order of magnitude. Because I’m never cynical enough!
Output: How did the prisoners leave, and where did they go?
As for how the prisoners left, and where they went, unless they went to Gitmo, we just don’t know. If I’m anywhere near right on the back-of-the-envelope calculations, then there are a minimum of several hundred prisoners unaccounted for. I hope the CIA got them to sign nondisclosure agreements, as opposed to (say) following the example of the Argentian services in the days of their military dictatorship. Because that would be bad. Of course, the complete release of the Senate Select Committee’s report may lay this issue to rest. What we do know is that a censored or incomplete release will not.
[1] We know of a third case, Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was mistakenly grabbed by the Macedonian police and handed over to the CIA, who tortured him. Here too the European Court of Human Rights did the work of civilization.
Readers, I’d be very grateful if you checked my work carefully. And since I’m just getting my head round this story again, and I have the feeling it could be big — Versailles is a sack of pus waiting to burst — I’d also be grateful for any original (not aggregated) sourcing on this, as close to primary as you can get — plane spotters are great. The European (non-English speaking) press would also be very useful, especially contemporary accounts. For example, Richard Smith points out in mail via the IICJ:
Surprisingly, or not, the CIA, and both the official and unofficial Russian arms export industry, and investment scammers as well, all use shell companies that have the same nominee director, possibly a sign that just one company formation agent, an Irish chap called Burwell, is acting for all of these outfits.
Bottom feeders, all of ’em. But please, no “Just watch this YouTube!” and no hairballs. Thank you!
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ArkansasAngie July 28, 2014 at 6:40 am
The ends do not justify the means. The problem of course is that these yahoos don’t agree.
Do I believe this report see the light of day? Nope.
It is time to hold people accountable.
James Levy July 28, 2014 at 9:07 am
Objectively absolutely correct, but the only people with the power to hold these people accountable are the perpetrators themselves. No faction of powerful men and women stood aloof and can now sweep in and clean the Augean Stables. They are all compromised. If BushCo go down, so do Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, et al. And so, after the drone killings, does Obama and Holder. Who is going to take office, drag all those people to the Dock, and spill all the beans about what they did and continue to do “to keep us safe”, and what American jury the are likely to empanel is going to convict them after Cheney does his “9/11–dangerous world–You can handle the truth!” speech on the witness stand? Not going to happen.
digi_owl July 28, 2014 at 3:16 pm
So what is perhaps needed is a soviet style purge, as seen after Stalin’s death?
human July 28, 2014 at 12:39 pm
Not a single Congress Critter has the balls to read it into the Congressional Record. Disgusting.
rur42 July 28, 2014 at 9:08 pm
Fat chance. We are a country of Good Americans. Verschärfte Vernehmung, indeed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14rich2.html?_r=0
trish July 28, 2014 at 7:19 am
This is so sick. and the terms, the euphemisms, so seemingly benign.
processed. on the one hand, like nothing more than what happens to an army enlistee- paper work, given an ID, boots, cammies, blankets…
but then on the other, what happens to cows, chickens, pigs as their dismembered in meat plants (also out of sight, bloody, ugly and rife with suffering).
These are human beings who are kidnapped (‘extraordinary rendition’-a special dance by a group of men in black?), then tortured. repeatedly. like chained while naked and cold, blasted by incessant noise, constant light, deprived of sleep and isolated from any human contact except for harsh, brutal interrogation by black-costumed thugs who break their bodies with all sorts of sick, brutal methods and fray their minds…
tortured. tortured, tortured. not “processed.”
Banger July 28, 2014 at 9:23 am
Watch it bring you to your
knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed
From Guns n’ Roses
Lambert Strether Post author July 28, 2014 at 2:52 pm
I deliberately used “neutral” language like “processed.” People who are not already persuaded must be. A spoonful of bitterly ironic sugar, doncha know.
The whole post-2001 mini-Gulag the U.S. created seemed to be a bit strange. What I heard and read about the situation in Afghanistan when the U.S. went in was that it was offering bounties on “terrorists” and they didn’t care that much who was brought in. Some were definitely Al-qaida, some were just random people brought in who looked the part–there is no evidence I know of that the CIA/DIA actually went did much checking on these people they just wanted bodies. Why did they want bodies?
I can see torturing Al-qaida people, particularly senior people but Al-qaida was never large in numbers and what sort of information where they looking for? It is my contention, and that of many other observers, that Al-qaida was indeed infiltrated and perhaps controlled, at the very least, by Pakistani and Saudi intel. The Saudis and the Pakistanis had been cooperating together since the U.S. used both services in their war against the Russians in Afghanistan–the idea that Al-qaida suddenly went rogue is silly. It may have deviated but how would AQ manage to get paid Saudi and Pakistani agents out of its organization so easily? The whole AQ narrative makes very little sense if you understand how the world actually works which is not along the neat little border-lines the American media likes to believe is the case. Intel services, criminal gangs, political groups, religious fanatics all interact in various ways often involving bribery, blackmail, threats to family and so on. Do you suppose, for example, that Osama could simply deviate from Saudi rule when he could have been threatened by, for example, having his children or cousins killed? Members of his family were even in the U.S. and allowed to leave by special dispensation–the only planes allowed to fly after 9/11. My point is this–there is no independent Al-qaida or any independent ISIS, or any other group like that. All are, to some extent, involved in at least organized crime and that is always connected to intel agencies whether its the U.S., Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel and so on and so on. These organizations exist precisely because they don’t play by the rules and have their own inter-alliances and play their own role in their countries domestic power-elite.
So I don’t think that the Gulags existed for the sake of merely gathering intelligence–though I believe that was part of the role–really debrief people. Another goal, actually stated by the U.S., was that they wanted GITMO to be a visible example to the world that anyone who opposed U.S. hegemony could go to GITMO which is why the U.S. chose to allow a lot of cameras and press to see just how bad the prisoners were treated and to show the American public that your G-men were on the job etc. But why so many prisoners in secret prisons? Webster Tarpley (who annoys me but who offers very cogent insights–particularly historical ones) claims that these prisons are being used to recruit and train a cadre of “terrorists” to take the field in various parts of the world. Some operating against the Russians, some in Libya, some in Iraq, some in Syria and we could say that ISIS, which is obviously (anybody doubt this please speak up) under the control of the Gulf States and Turkey and, therefore IMHO, the U.S. at least indirectly may be a result of this training program. The leader of ISIS, Al-Baghdadi, is a “graduate” of a U.S. prison for at least four years. Was he trained for his job there? Dosn’t seem beyond the realm of possibilities does it?
Much depends whether you accept the official story of 9/11 which, obviously, since I believe no official stories unless they make sense and have evidence. I don’t believe the official story of anything much these days. I believe the main threats to the U.S. public come not from “terrorism” or Russia or Iran but from Washington and Wall Street.
LifelongLib July 28, 2014 at 2:54 pm
My take on official stories is that they are not so much outright lies as they are radically incomplete.
Yes, a bunch of Islamic terrorists flew a couple of airplanes into the World Trade Center, and the buildings collapsed as a result. But most of terrorists were from an “ally” (Saudi Arabia), their leader had a lot of embarrassing connections to people in the U.S. establishment, their organization had been (still was?) being funded by U.S. intelligence agencies, etc. etc. etc. But after 9/11 it was “Osama who?” and a mad scramble to obscure all this.
“Most of THE terrorists”
Certainly plausible, although what I’d really like is a credibly sourced copy of a catering bill for 820 Polish Happy Meal-equivalents at the facility in the right time frame.
Jagger July 28, 2014 at 3:22 pm
–Why did they want bodies? —–
Do you know how the Israeli would get informers amonst Palestinians back in the 90s. Next to impossible, right. No, wrong. Remember the Israelis would round up hundreds of Palestinians at a time. Once in prison, they would be sexually humiliated and photographed while being humiliated. Then the prisoner would be given a choice, you have been privately humiliated and now we will publically humiliate you by revealing these photographs to your parents, your wife, your children, your siblings, your friends… everyone will know you are no longer a man…..or you become an informer for us. Doesn’t work on everyone but works on most. Barbaric and evil, yes, but effective. And it doesn’t matter whether the individual is guilty of anything or not, you now have an informer.
The US has picked up a lot of tactics first developed by Israel. I would not be surprised if we used and still use the same tactic. Remember all those humiliating photos from Abu Ghraib. MPs were just having some sick fun with their photos but I strongly suspect there were CIA doing the same thing for other purposes.
And all you need to do is round up the bodies. So another possible reason for just rounding up large number of any bodies.
YY July 28, 2014 at 8:36 am
If some enterprising reporter decides to check locally, the local catering contractor could be found for food consumption estimate that will yield the number of detainees.
And much else along those lines. Electrical contractors for lights in the cells. The water bill. (Of, course, if all this evidence shows up later in WaPo, still single-sourced to the CIA, and contains line items like “install light fixture in single cell in >>>>VILLA<<<<<, yeah really, single ....... 1000 zlotys" I'm gonna wonder and start sleeping with the lights on.)
Tom Stone July 28, 2014 at 9:19 am
Good grief, Yves. Of course the majority of the prisoners were killed. There would be exceptions for those that still had some value or were sources of embarassment that couldn’t be covered up with a disappearance. It’s SOP.
fresno dan July 28, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Killed is such a harsh word. Indeed, an uncompromising word – its clarity jars the senses.
Processing has a nice history….
http://preferenser.wordpress.com/tag/papillion/
I’m pretty sure they got processed into Soylent green
Er, lambert. Quite possibly so. Again, I’m looking at building a case (and understanding the report to come, especially if its censored). Incidentally, I’m not sure it is SOP, as you aver. Not all the torture victims in Argentina or Chile were killed, and AFAIK, some of them were quite ordinary people, neither sources of embarassment or “high value” (another disgusting Orwellian euphemism).
RB July 28, 2014 at 9:26 am
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/02/terrorism.terrorism
Old but consistent. Then we can conceive that there are other places such as this:
And if we have one there are surely more. It boggles the mind. I saw somewhere that over 80,000 prisoners have been renditioned so where are they all?
Ed July 28, 2014 at 9:40 am
The Wikipedia article on the site is short but interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_Kiejkuty_(base)
A secret prison camp in Poland! What could possibly be the problem with that?
ST July 28, 2014 at 10:20 am
A couple of things to consider: At least on the “executive jets” I’ve read or heard the prisoners were transported in unheated portions of the aircraft, hooded, naked, drugged and with an adult diapers on. If this is true, they weren’t in seats.
Hangers are necessary for aircraft parking during storms. It would be interesting to find out from locals if they ever put planes inside during bad weather. If they do, that would indicate a different density of detainee accommodations. If they only ever fly in and then right back out in good weather, then they may risk losing an aircraft someday if they are surprised by bad weather.
Here are several accounts of torture, but not in Poland. They will show just how common the rendition of human beings for torture by the USG was. (This rendition is still going on.) The accounts all have the same actions by members of the CIA and OGA that we see with the renditions to Poland: http://www.law.unc.edu/documents/clinicalprograms/ertorturencbriefweb.pdf
I will try to find more information to post. I have read about this prison and need to relocate my information.
Thanks, Jill. Feel free to send me mail or use the contact form on my blog.
indio007 July 28, 2014 at 11:13 am
When the CIA participated in the Algerian torture program, they found when people were released they wouldn’t go home. They mostly forgot about their pre-torture lives and assumed new personas.
I’m not sure if modern torture techniques have the same psychological results.
Banger July 28, 2014 at 11:57 am
The aim of modern torture is to destroy the original personality by fragmenting it and then nurturing new if potential “selves” that live quietly within all of us. This is how torture victims are “turned” so they are able to do the bidding if their torturers through a number of fairly well-known techniques using drugs and hypnosis and surgical manipulation of the brain.
The aim of the old fashioned torture was just to discourage the populace from resisting the authorities. Torture victims were routinely paraded through streets alive or dead–plus, for many torture was fun–that element still appears to be in play today.
Jill July 28, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Torture has been intensely studied by this govt. The primary result of torture is a confession. I believe that is why the govt. used and still does use it. The govt. needs confessions. They don’t want truthful information or they would never use torture.
Banger, really, there are studies showing how to obtain false confessions via torture. These confessions were used to link Saddam to 9/11 etc. among other things.
In other words, a inquisition…
This is the testimony from a lawsuit concerning torture. In many accounts it seems as if the Eastern European blacksites were pass throughs onto Afghanistan, Iraq or Gitmo or Egypt.
https://www.aclu.org/files/safefree/rendition/asset_upload_file829_22211.pdf
TedWa July 28, 2014 at 11:58 am
Timely post from Ron Paul on this subject – it’s under the title “End Torture, Shut Down the CIA!”
The US not only tortured people in its own custody, however. Last week the European Court of Human Rights found that the US government transferred individuals to secret detention centers in Poland (and likely elsewhere) where they were tortured away from public scrutiny. The government of Poland was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to two victims for doing nothing to stop their torture on Polish soil.
How tragic that Poland, where the Nazis constructed the Auschwitz concentration camp in which so many innocents were tortured and murdered, would acquiesce to hosting secret torture facilities. The idea that such brutality would be permitted on Polish soil just 70 years after the Nazi occupation should remind us of how dangerous and disingenuous governments continue to be.
This is the first time the European court has connected any EU country to US torture practices. The Obama administration refuses to admit that such facilities existed and instead claims that any such “enhanced interrogation” programs were shut down by 2009. We can only hope this is true, but we should be wary of government promises. After all, they promised us all along that they were not using torture, and we might have never known had photographs and other information not been leaked to the press.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/july/27/end-torture,-shut-down-the-cia!.aspx
Seal July 28, 2014 at 12:04 pm
That’s a nice little story you got here – wouldn’t want anything to happen to it! Brilliant! No wonder your own blog is unreachable as of a few minutes ago.
Love the comment about getting a hold of the caterers records – lol. There HAS to be a $$$$ angle here also. These scum Polish politicians and “intel” guys got PAID for assisting the CIA is setting up this network of secret torture chambers.
No wonder the CIA has ramped up opium production in AFG to pay for this black budget stuff.
Nothing wrong with the blog that a restart wouldn’t cure; Drupal is resource intensive. The Internet is a hostile computing environment….
This post links to much important, primary source material.”
WHY DID the director of the CIA, John Brennan, surreptitiously come to Poland last month for meetings at the ministry of interior and the ministry of foreign affairs? The American embassy in Warsaw and Polish government sources did not confirm or deny his visit, but a local tabloid stated that Mr Brennan travelled to Warsaw and that he went to Romania on the same trip. And on June 18th, the Romanian president’s website confirmed that Mr Brennan was in Bucharest.
Romania, Poland and the CIA are involved in extraordinary rendition, which means the outsourcing by the CIA of torture sessions. (The CIA prefers the term “enhanced interrogation techniques”.)
This practice is well documented. An in-depth report by the Open Society Justice Initiative entitled “Globalizing Torture” quotes no less than 54 countries as participants in this programme in which 136 individuals were subject to secret detention and extraordinary rendition…
The Polish prosecutors are not very proactive though. The inspector general of the CIA published in 2004 a report on “Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities”. It is on the internet, a Google search away, but the Polish prosecutors seem to believe only in hard-copy delivery.
The fact that two of those alleged “high value” terrorist suspects (Abd al Rahim al Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah) were given in Poland the “victim status” amounts to a recognition that indeed for roughly a year, starting in December 2002, something very fishy may have happened in the Polish military intelligence centre in Stare Kiejkuty (pictured), situated by a beautiful lake. Mr Al Nashiri was, according to the aforementioned report by CIA, subjected to mock executions with a handgun and a power drill and threatened with sodomy and the arrest and rape of his family; Mr Zubaydah was waterboarded at least 83 times. A third man, Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, a Yemeni citizen, held like the other two in Guantanamo, has now requested “victim status” too, through his Polish attorney.
The Polish prosecutors allege that they cannot proceed without information from America. Three requests for information were made to the American Department of Justice. The answer to the first one was “we will not answer”. The other two went unanswered.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/07/rendition-poland
This is interesting as it dates from 2006: “…In Poland, cooperation with the CIA has always been strongly denied. The new government refers to the explanation given by the outgoing president Kwasniewski. “Such a prison has never existed,” he said.
Really? The camp in the small town of Szczytno in Mazury is certainly tailor-made for secret missions. Official flights to what has become Poland’s most famous airport stopped long ago. Gone are the big plans whose remnants can only be seen in the multi-lingual signs: “Welcome to the international airport of Szczytno-Szymany.”
Only private aircraft land and take off here. When, for example, King Juan Carlos of Spain wants to do a bit of hunting in the forests full of wild beasts. Or, possibly, when American friends have urgent business which needs to be dealt with?
“The airport is always ready for action, the technical equipment is all intact,” says the uniformed border guard. Local residents report that black minivans with darkened windows and military markings are always driving by. Vehicles like this belong to the official fleet of the military unit 2669, 20 kilometers away in Stare Kiejkuty.
Two barbed wire fences separate the tiny village from the site with its watch-towers, barriers and far-off red and white radio masts. Photos are strictly prohibited and Polish journalists have had film and memory chips confiscated over the last few days.
Unit 2669 is officially the “training center for news service cadres.” And the fact that it is so near, politically to the new American allies, and geographically to the airport, makes the site of particular interest. Respected village resident Krzysztof Uminski, 45, the last farmer in the area, does not like answering pushy questions. After all, he says, most of the other villagers live from “work provided by the state.” Only hesitatingly does he admit what that means. The spy school is the only major employer in the remote area surrounding the lake…”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/america-s-secret-war-on-the-trail-of-the-cia-a-389789-4.html
Banger July 28, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Again, it is likely a “spy school” where personalities are dismembered and the victims turned into operatives–these sites are not punishment camps or camps to exact information but to probably create a virtual army of “mad” bombers, terrorists and assassins to serve the Empire.
Did you read the post? I’m trying to build a case, not a hairball of what’s “likely.”
Banger July 28, 2014 at 4:04 pm
Ok, I’m not a lawyer or a journo and I don’t want to be either. There is, however, some pretty interesting stuff online about the old MK Ultra project but I know you don’t want to go there–I’ll stay away from commenting on this today.
Crazy Horse July 28, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Just wondering if there is a gas oven facility nearby? Cremation certainly reduces the waste volume after information processing is complete.
Not something you would wish to expose to the locals, even cowed locals, I would say. Issues of good and evil aside, think of the PR disaster. Unlikely.
Oregoncharles July 28, 2014 at 10:53 pm
More likely a little graveyard all its own.
Thanks for the Der Spiegel articles. I wonder if there’s any contemporaneous coverage from European bloggers.
zadoofkaFlorida July 28, 2014 at 5:03 pm
This is not off subject at all. Just compare the rendering, kidnapping and torture to the Ariel Castro kidnappings of three women in Cleveland Ohio. It is the same to kidnap someone off the street, keep them captive for 10 years, starve them and torture them. These three women should hook up with Amnesty International or some public out cry to say that this rendering is WRONG!. These women have a lot to say politically if they would speak out with some help from an organization. I do not think they are able because they are still in the healing process and it will take a long time. Kidnapping off the street, rendering, starving, torture ARE ALL THE SAME THING. It is a crime here and it is a global CRIME!
CIA have been a black mark against USA ever since its inception.
After WW2 the OSS should have been disbanded, Not turned into the CIA.
Ever since the CIA has operated pretty much as spooks for hire for the US moneyed elite…
human July 28, 2014 at 5:52 pm
Crossing the Rubicon
by Michael Ruppert
from chapter 3:
The CIA is Wall Street. Wall Street is the CIA. This is perhaps one of the easiest landmarks to establish on our map. We do it by looking at key players in the CIA’s history and their relationships to America’s financial engine.
Clark Clifford: The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former secretary of defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI (founded by a Pakistani national) a license to operate on American shores. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker. BCCI and its particular web of characters have been a virtual cut-and-paste overlay linking up Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and terrorist financing. 3 It was Clark Clifford who was retained by former CIA Director Richard Helms when the latter was indicted and prosecuted for lying to Congress in 1976. 4
Clifford and his banking partner Robert Altman were eventually indicted on criminal charges for their role in illegally helping BCCI purchase an American bank, First American Bancshares. At the time BCCI had been connected to both drug money laundering and financial support for Afghan rebels supported by the CIA through its director Bill Casey. 5
John Foster and Allen Dulles: These two brothers “designed” the CIA for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during World War II. Allen Dulles had been America’s top Office of Strategic Services (OSS) spy in Switzerland, where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after US investments in Germany. He also held an executive position with Standard Oil. John Foster went on to become secretary of state under Dwight Eisenhower, and Allen served as CIA director under Ike, only to be fired by JFK after the abortive 1961 US-led covert invasion of Cuba known as the Bay of Pigs. Their professions: partners in the most powerful — to this day — Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell.
Enron is only one of Sullivan and Cromwell’s current clients, and it employed a dozen “former” CIA officers before its fall from grace. 6 Other prominent Sullivan and Cromwell clients are AIG, Global Crossing, ImClone, Martha Stewart, and the Harvard Endowment.
After the assassination of JFK in 1963, Allen Dulles became the staff director and lead investigator of the Warren Commission, which asserted that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin who had fired a bullet that had caused JFK’s throat wound, hung suspended in mid-air for several seconds, changed directions twice, then wounded Texas Governor John Connally in the chest, wrist, and thigh only to fall out of his body in nearly pristine condition on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital in Dallas about 30 minutes later. When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, “The American people don’t read.”
Bill Casey: Reagan’s CIA director and the OSS veteran who served as chief overt wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was, under Richard Nixon, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and stock trader.
In 1984 ABC News was devoting serious attention to a CIA scandal in Hawaii connected to the investment firm BBRDW (Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham, and Wong). The BBRDW story was lifting a veil connected to money laundering, drugs, and the failed CIA drug bank named Nugan-Hand. Bill Casey and the CIA’s general counsel Stanley Sporkin put extreme pressure on both the network lid anchor Peter Jennings to stop their coverage. During the semi-public battle, ABC’s stock dropped from $67 to $59 a share, and by December, the firm Capital Cities was trying to buy the network. Capital Cities successfully completed the buyout of ABC in March of 1985, after which the CIA conveniently dropped a suit against the network.7
Bill Casey had helped to found Capital Cities and had served both as its lawyer and as a member of its board of directors in the years between his service as SEC chairman for Nixon and as director of Central Intelligence for Reagan. ABC became known thereafter as “the CIA network.”
Other sources, including the family of the late Colonel Albert Vincent Carone — about whom I have written extensively — confirm that Casey was a lifelong resident of Long Island and that Carone, a “made” member of the Genovese crime family, retired NYPD detective, and CIA operative, routinely exchanged insider trading information with Casey. Multiple witnesses have confirmed that Casey attended the christening of Carone’s grandson.
Stanley Sporkin: Sporkin served as the CIA’s general counsel under Casey. But he had previously served for more than 20 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission, rising to the post of general counsel. Casey’s right-hand man, he was one of the first people Casey brought with him to the CIA in 1981. Almost all of Sporkin’s tenure at the SEC was spent in the enforcement division, charged with prosecuting corporate and stock fraud.
During the Iran-Contra investigations it was revealed that Sporkin had routine contact with Lt. Col. Oliver North, who was later convicted on several felony counts including lying to Congress. 8 At times the e-mails between the two men, alluding to the 1920s comedy team Laurel and Hardy, read “To Stanley from Ollie.”
After retiring as CIA general counsel in 1986, Sporkin was soon appointed a US district court judge in Washington, DC, where he presided over some of the most important trials (including Microsofts) in the country. He resigned from the bench in January of 2000 and joined the Wall Street law firm of Weill, Gotschall, and Manges, self-described as specializing in “Wall Street Management and Capital.” Weill, Gotschall, and Manges is currently serving as Enron’s bankruptcy counsel. Although Sporkin received praise for many of his decisions from anti-corporate critics such as Ralph Nader, he presided over a number of more nefarious cases, including that of former Federal Housing Commissioner Catherine Austin Fitts, whose firm Hamilton Securities had been targeted for malicious and unfounded harassment after uncovering evidence of covert operations that tied the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to drug operations, slush funds, “friendly” Wall Street interests, and political corruption.
Fitts was the target of a 1996 qui tam whistleblower lawsuit, which allows charges to be filed under seal for 60 days while the Department of Justice (DoJ) investigates whether there is merit to the case. As a result, Fitts was nor allowed to know who had made allegations against her, or even what the allegations were. Sporkin extended that seal for five years, thereby turning a brief investigation peri-od into a nightmare that prevented Fitts and her attorneys from being able to know, or even address, an accuser or his allegations. Sporkin was able to do this with no evidence of any wrongdoing, yet his decisions in the case routinely favored the unnamed parties seeking to discredit Fitts and upheld illegal actions by the federal government, including the seizure of her company offices (a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment).
During this period the government destroyed the company’s proprietary software tools and databases that documented community financial flows, and kept the backup tapes under the control of Sporkin-appointed trustees. Fitts has subsequently been completely exonerated (no formal charges were ever filed), and it has been officially admitted that there was no basis for any action against her in the first place. Fitts has also documented several attempts by the Department of Justice investigators to falsify or destroy evidence. According to Insight Magazine, Department of Justice and HUD officials admitted off the record that it was a political vendetta.
After a nine-:year herculean struggle, Fitts is still in court defending against the qui tam lawsuit (indirectly supported all this time by generous government payments and contracts to the government informant who originally brought the suit) and trying to recover an estimated $2.5 million in funds owed to her company, Hamilton Securities. A court of claims ruling in 2004 concluded that the government had breached its contract with Hamilton by refusing to pay Hamilton’s outstanding invoices. DoJ has indicated that the government will not pay, but will appeal.
Hamilton had successfully helped HUD auction defaulted home mortgages, saving the Federal Housing Administration Fund over $2.2 billion. 9 In 2001, after finally succeeding in getting the seal removed from the original lawsuit and obtaining some of the transcripts of sealed hearing — one crucial item was “missing” from court records, Fitts and her attorneys discovered that Sporkin, apparently frustrated at DoJ’S inability to make anything stick, had actively coached DoJ attorneys on how best to keep the case going in spite of its transparent lack of merit and that DoJ was taking contradictory positions in an unsealed case before a different judge in the same court.
David Doherty, who replaced Sporkin as CIA general counsel in 1987, is now the executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, for Enforcement.
A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard: until he joined the CIA in 1998, Krongard was the CEO of the investment bank Alex Brown. In 1997 he sold his interest in Alex Brown to Banker’s Trust, where he served as vice chairman until “joining” the CIA in 1998. A close friend of CIA Director George Tenet, the colorful, cigar-smoking former Marine specialized in private banking operations serving extremely wealthy clients. It has been heavily documented by official US government investigations into money laundering that private banking services are frequently used for the laundering of drug money and the proceeds of corporate crime.10 Private banking services were especially criticized in investigations of money laundering connected to the looting of Russia throughout the 1990s. 11
John Deutch: Deutch retired from the CIA as its director in December 1996. He immediately accepted an offer to join the board of directors of the nation’s second largest bank, Citigroup, which has been repeatedly involved in the documented laundering of drug money. This includes Citigroup’s 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex. 12 Deutch narrowly escaped criminal prosecution after it was learned that he had kept a large number of classified CIA documents on non-secure personal computers at his private residence. 13
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg: The CEO of American International Group (AIG) insurance and manager of the third largest pool of investment capital in the world was floated as a possible CIA director by Bill Clinton in 1995. 14 FTW exposed Greenberg’s and AIG’s long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted by the attacks of September 11. Under Greenberg’s stewardship, an AIG subsidiary severely bent several laws in conjunction with the Arkansas Development Financial Authority (ADFA) to establish what many have alleged was a first-class money laundering operation for drug funds arising from CIA-connected cocaine smuggling into Mena, Arkansas, in the 1980s.
In that series FTW reported that AIG employed in its San Francisco legal offices the wife of Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. I actually went to San Francisco and had lunch with her in the summer of 2001. Our investigations later disclosed that AIG had been tied to US covert operations going back to the World War II and conclusively linked to the heroin trade.15 We also reported that AIG owned and operated the largest private fleet of full-sized airliners and cargo planes on the planet.16
As an illustrative example of how the quiet connections operate behind the scenes to conceal criminal activity, it was an AIG subsidiary, Lexington Insurance, that was involved in the ADFA deal and that also acted as the errors and omissions carrier for Catherine Austin Fitts’s Hamilton Securities. At the start of Fitts’s harassment by DOJ, Lexington reneged on obligations to pay Fitts’s attorneys, who then dropped out of the case. This effectively enabled the DoJ with support from Judge Stanley Sporkin to seize Hamilton’s computers and data, destroy the computers and software, and tie up the backup tapes for years. Those tapes likely contain data — originally supplied to Fitts by HUD — that could expose many illegal covert government operations.
I was not surprised then when Greenberg — a staunch supporter of Israel — was chosen by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2002 to lead an investigation of terrorist financing. The CFR report, not surprisingly, was extremely critical of Saudi Arabia. 17
Professor Peter Dale Scott of the University of California at Berkeley, author of many historically crucial books on covert operations and deep politics, observed in the early 1970s that six of the first seven CIA deputy directors were from the New York social register, and all seven deputy directors “under Walter Bedell Smith and Truman, came from New York legal and financial circles.” 18 The headquarters of the CIA’s World War II predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, was in the New York financial district.
lambert strether July 28, 2014 at 7:41 pm
Well, as I said above: Certainly plausible, although what I’d really like is a credibly sourced copy of a catering bill for 820 Polish Happy Meal-equivalents at the facility in the right time frame.
Synopticist July 28, 2014 at 5:18 pm
A fair number of the gitmo returnees went straight back to fighting jihad. (about 150 supposedly.) Lots of them are in Syria and Iraq right now, ethnically cleansing Christians as we speak. I’m a little short on sympathy for these people.
Yulek July 28, 2014 at 5:29 pm
After such treatment I would want some blood. You would not? Unfortunately such unjust treatment breeds hatred, which gives birth to bloodshed. I wonder why the Israeli did not understand that. Their grand parents lived through hell of second world war, holocaust, yet they seem to have learned nothing out of that experience. I have read, that their indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza and West Bank has created about 72 thousand children, who were wounded or lost their family members to such actions. Do you think that some of those children, once they grow up will not desire revenge, will not wish to revisit their horrors on the other side, only to fuel the cycle of stupidity and hatred even further? Such actions unfortunately breed monsters in human skin.
Backed by our good allies, the Saudi monarchy. So, you’re all right with governments acting extra-judicially?
I’m unclear where you feel that sympathy was demanded of you?
Jill July 28, 2014 at 8:01 pm
This is simply not true. Seton Hall law school is a great source of actual, documented information concerning detainees. To address your claim directly, here is a link:
http://law.shu.edu/programscenters/publicintgovserv/csj/upload/gtmo_final_final_recidivist_6-5-09-3.pdf
Search their Gitmo files, and much will be corrected and known.
Doug Terpstra July 28, 2014 at 8:18 pm
You obviously assume, but really have no way of knowing, that these untried suspects were waging jihad before they were imprisoned and tortured. The US war of terror is alot like a breeder reactor, producing more fuel than it consumes. It’s a diabolical perpetual motion machine…by design, and torture is a key part of it. If they’re not monsters to begin with, they will be turned into them. Witness Israeli society.
Jonathan July 28, 2014 at 5:19 pm
What I find most incredible about all this is that we know who these fine citizens are since most of them have popped up in news reports. Most recently I saw that bastion of credibility, George Tenet, was reviewing Panetta’s CIA report. Now why would he be doing that? Could it possibly be that his name is there and he wants to be able to redact it? It has gotten to the point where our ruling elites act completely out in the open with no apparent fear of being held to account. And I think they are right.
When I mention to people that their elected president assasinates American citizens, invariably the reaction I get is, “They must have done something.” I find this chilling.
People want to believe the best, I think. Why detail is important. “They can’t have meant to do that.” “Yes, they meant to do that, and here’s why.” And so forth.
“Now, presumably Ron Wyden” –
Has no intention of using the “speech and debate clause”. He’s one of my Senators, and I’ve asked him about it. No response.
Yes, he’s been very good on intelligence abuses in general; he’s also been pretty chicken, refusing to use the powers he has.
He is, in the end, just a Democrat, and pretty bad on issues like health care.
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International team of scientists unveils fundamental properties of spin Seebeck effect
(Nanowerk News) Thermoelectric effects are a fundamental building block for the conception and development of new processes for information processing. They enable to re-use waste heat obtained in different processes for the operation of respective devices and thus contribute to the establishment of more energy-efficient, ecofriendly processes.
A promising representative of this effect category is the so-called spin Seebeck effect, which became prominent within recent years. This effect allows to convert waste heat into spin currents and thereby to transport energy as well as information in magnetic, electrically insulating materials. Physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany together with their colleagues from Glasgow University in Scotland now succeeded to reveal essential properties of this yet to be fully understood effect.
Their findings contribute to a more thorough understanding of the underlying processes of this effect and thereby support its further development for first applications. The research work has been published in the journal Physical Review X ("Influence of thickness and interface on the low-temperature enhancement of the spin Seebeck effect in YIG films").
Thermally excited spin waves carry a spin current from the ferromagnet (YIG in this case) into the metal layer. Depending on the YIG thickness and the interface condition the amplitude of the spin current as well as transmission properties change. (Ill./©: Joel Cramer, JGU)
The spin Seebeck effect belongs to the category of spin-thermoelectric effects. Previous work of the physicists at Mainz University in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Konstanz and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shown that the creation of a thermal non-equilibrium leads to the creation of magnetic waves, so-called magnons, within magnetic materials. These transport both energy and torque and thus are able to induce a voltage signal in adjacent metal thin films.
Important contribution in the new field of magnon spintronics
By means of material-dependent measurements over a wide temperature range and with a varied thickness of the employed magnetic material, a direct correlation between the amplitude of the voltage signal and the intrinsic properties of magnons was identified. Furthermore, it was shown that the temperature dependence of the voltage generation efficiency additionally depends strongly on the atomic structure of the interface between magnetic material and metal thin film.
"Step by step answers to the open questions about the fundamental processes of the spin Seebeck effect are given. Our results yield an essential contribution for the development of the aspiring field of magnon spintronics", said Joel Cramer, co-author of the publication and stipend of the Graduate School of Excellence "Materials Science in Mainz" (MAINZ).
Professor Mathias Kläui added: "I am very glad that by means of the intensive collaboration with our colleagues we were able to correlate the transport of spins with the microscopic, atomistic structure. The cooperation with our colleagues from Glasgow already led to several mutual publications and an active exchange with leading groups from abroad is one of the central measures of our Graduate School of Excellence."
Establishment of the MAINZ Graduate School was approved through the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments to Promote Science and Research at German Universities in 2007 and its funding was extended in the second round in 2012. It consists of work groups from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, TU Kaiserslautern, and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. One of its focal research areas is spintronics, where cooperation with leading international partners plays an important role.
Source: Universität Mainz
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Chris Young Gets a Special Delivery For a Special Performance
Chris Young shared on social media that his CMT Award for Performance of the Year for “Drowning” arrived. Along with the picture of the trophy, Chris added, “First award finally here! Cheers you guys and thank you again!!! CMT Music Awards” Maybe there’s a musical collaboration award in his future for this track with Kane…… MORE
Country Music Stars’ Reaction to Christmas Day Bombing in Nashville
On a day that should be reserved for joy and celebration, Nashville joined the brotherhood of cities rocked by violence when a bomb exploded downtown. While the loss of life is, thankfully, seeming to be very minimal, the affects of the carnage will have far greater implications. Country music stars reacted to the news on…… MORE
Country Stars Read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Version 1)
To wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season, we’ve brought together some of your favorite country music stars to read the classic holiday poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Version 1) Feel free to follow along with the poem… Alan Jackson: Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house…… MORE
Chris Young’s First Guitar Was the Best Present Ever
Can you think of what your favorite Christmas gift was? For Chris Young, that answer is easy, “I actually got my first guitar as a Christmas gift. So, that’s one that’s always going to stand out in my mind.” Chris recalls unwrapping the present, “I picked it up and was like so excited to have it.”…… MORE
Watch Chris Young Honor Charley Pride by Singing “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” on the Opry
The Grand Ole Opry tallied its 4,954th consecutive Saturday night broadcast on Dec. 12 with a showcase featuring Scotty McCreery, Brett Young, Dennis Quaid and Chris Young. Earlier in the day on Dec. 12, news broke that Charley Pride, 86, died in Dallas, Texas, due to complications from Covid-19. Chris Young decided to honor Charley…… MORE
Chris Young Says That Some of His Famous Friends Don’t Know They’re Famous
Are you friends with Chris Young? Well, you may want to listen to his new song with Kane Brown, called “Famous Friends.” Chris says that all the names he sings about are real people in his life, but the fun part is…he says there’s a few that don’t even know that they made it into…… MORE
Chris Young Sings About His Famous Friends With Kane Brown
It’s here! The brand new song from Chris Young, “Famous Friends” is out and available now! While Chris may know a lot of well known people, the “Famous Friends” he’s singing about are the hometown characters that he knows and hangs out with, which Chris says makes this very personal to him “This song is…… MORE
Chris Young Has New Music Arriving This Friday
All weekend long on his social media accounts Chris Young was slowly giving out hints that something new was on the way. Today, he revealed the final piece of the puzzle! This Friday, Chris will release his brand new single, “Famous Friends,” and it will feature a famous friend, Kane Brown. Chris has known Kane…… MORE
Tim McGraw, Chris Young, Cole Swindell & More to Take Part in Tracy Lawrence’s Annual Benefit Concert
One of Nashville’s favorite holiday traditions will continue this year as Tracy Lawrence hosts his two-part Mission Possible Turkey Fry & Concert on Nov. 24. Tracy’s daytime turkey fry at the Nashville Rescue Mission will be followed by an all-star concert later in the evening at Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon that features Tim McGraw, Chris Young,…… MORE
Chris Young to Headline Virtual Benefit Concert to Support Boys & Girls Clubs
Chris Young will headline a virtual concert during the Great Futures Gala on Oct. 2 to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee. The annual Great Futures Gala, which will be virtual this year, benefits youth-development programs for the more than 4,700 kids served annually at 11 Boys & Girls Clubs across Middle…… MORE
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Scott Walker And The GOP Are Wrong About The Safety Net
Jill Lawrence
It’s back and Democrats are going to have to deal with it. I’m talking about the political argument that they want to lure as many people as possible into government dependency.
This is a staple of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s incipient presidential campaign, and he frames it as simple common sense. “Oftentimes when I think about the president and people like Hillary Clinton, I hear people who I think measure success in government by how many people are dependent on the government. By how many people are on food stamps and Medicaid and unemployment,” he said this week at the Florida Economic Growth Summit in Orlando. “I don’t know about all of you, but my belief in America is that we should measure success by just the opposite.”
Walker added: “I don’t remember any of my classmates saying to me ‘Hey, Scott, someday when I grow up, I want to become dependent on the government.’ Nobody signed my yearbook ‘Dear Scott, Good luck becoming dependent on the government.'”
Very funny, and a lot more appealing than Mitt Romney’s assertion that 47 percent of the electorate is dependent on government and will never take responsibility for themselves. The problem with Walker’s formulation, however, is that he’s creating straw politicians. President Obama and Clinton and practically everyone in their party — in fact both parties — talk incessantly about education, job creation, income inequality, and how to increase wages. That doesn’t sound like a yearning for Handout Nation. It sounds like people obsessing over how to make America a country of tubs standing on their own bottoms.
I’m not saying that Democrats haven’t given Republicans ammunition. The 2012 Obama campaign’s “Life of Julia” cartoon slideshow was a parody waiting to happen. From Julia’s enrollment in Head Start as a preschooler to her retirement aided by Medicare and Social Security, the sequence gave off a distinctly Soviet, cradle-to-grave vibe.
As pediatric neurosurgeon-turned GOP candidate Ben Carson put it in his announcement, “We’re not doing people a favor when we pat them on the head and say ‘there there, you poor little thing, we’re going to take care of all your needs. You don’t have to worry about anything.’ You know who else said stuff like that? Socialists.” That was less than a week after a real socialist — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — announced he was running for the Democratic nomination.
Obama came into office amid the worst recession since the Great Depression. The rolls of the three programs Walker named swelled as people lost jobs, income and health insurance. Job losses climbed to a terrifying 818,000 in January 2009, the month Obama was inaugurated. Another 2.2 million jobs were gone by the end of April. The unemployment rate was at or near 10 percent for eight months. So yes, there were a lot of people relying on government programs, for good reason. The private sector had completely failed them.
Obama’s chief economic message for years has been about sustained job creation and an unemployment rate nearly down to half its recession peak, not high enrollment in safety-net programs. Democrats do try to educate people about benefits for which they may qualify. But the goal is to get them on their feet, not lock them into dependency.
There is one area of government “dependency” that Obama and his party are proud of, and that is health insurance. The Department of Health and Human Services said this week that 10.2 million people bought private health coverage this year under the Affordable Care Act, and 85 percent of them receive federal subsidies to help pay for it. Millions more have been able to enroll in Medicaid as a result of the ACA expansion of the program to people with incomes slightly above the official poverty line. For those who believe health coverage should be universal, the numbers justify a victory lap.
People who receive insurance help, or food stamps or unemployment benefits, do indeed depend on the government — just like farmers, homeowners, corporations, and anyone else who receives subsidies or tax breaks, as well as companies that don’t provide health insurance or living wages. And just to be clear, if they are not children, disabled, or elderly, people who use the safety net often have jobs. Nearly 43 percent of all food-stamp recipients live in a household with earnings, according to the Department of Agriculture. The Kaiser Family Foundation, in a study of states that haven’t adopted the Medicaid expansion, found there are workers with full- or part-time jobs in 66 percent of the families eligible for it.
Jeb Bush has called the safety net “a spider web that traps people in perpetual dependence.” We are going to hear a lot of statements like that in the next 18 months. But that doesn’t make them true.
Follow Jill Lawrence on Twitter @JillDLawrence. To find out more about Jill Lawrence and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Past Events > 2018
The Composer Presents
26 October 2018, 15:45 - 16:30
Chamber Music Early Evening Free Events
This event will be broadcast from The Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College
Ross Griffey (Composer)
Clare McCaldin (Mezzo-soprano)
Joel Siepmann (Cellist)
James Turnbull (Oboist)
Libby Burgess (Pianist)
Ross Griffey introduces his settings of Walt Whitman, his Poem for solo cello, and a witty whirlwind of medical ailments: A Catalogue of Agonies, for voice and harpsichord
Ross Griffey
American composer Ross S. Griffey is the recipient of several national and regional awards, including an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, first prize in the Voices of Change/ Dallas Symphony Orchestra Texas Young Composers Project, and first prize in the New York Composers Circle Competition. Recent and notable performances of his work include the premiere of Night Music by the New Juilliard Ensemble, the premiere of Brooke on Love at last year’s Oxford Lieder Festival, and a performance of A Catalogue of Agonies as part of an ... Read Full Biography
Clare McCaldin
Clare McCaldin is a lyric mezzo-soprano whose presence in performance marks her out as a communicator of outstanding quality on the dramatic stage and concert platform. She is a powerful creative influence, as an interpreter of existing repertoire or commissioning and premiering new music. She enjoys a busy concert schedule, working with pianists such as Libby Burgess, Iain Burnside, Andrew West and Paul Turner. Committed to chamber music collaboration of all kinds, Clare’s work in this area ranges from commissions with the Brodsky ... Read Full Biography
Joel Siepmann
Joel Siepmann was born in Tübingen, Germany, where he started playing the cello at the age of 6. From 2011 until 2015 he studied at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen with professor Christoph Richter and completed his Bachelor degree with distinction. In 2016 he started his Masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music with Guy Johnston as his teacher generously supported by the German Academic Exchange Service. He completed the degree in 2018 with distinction and was awarded the Queens award for Excellence for best all-round st... Read Full Biography
James Turnbull
Oboist
Described by The Independent as “a worthy champion” of contemporary oboe music, James has dedicated much of his performing life to promoting and extending the oboe repertoire. James has performed frequently throughout the UK and Europe including a solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall and live on BBC Radio 3. James has released solo recordings for Toccata Classics, Champs Hill Records, Quartz Music and the ABRSM as well as featuring on a disc of Thea Musgrave’s works for Harmonia Mundi USA. Gramophone Magazine described his deb... Read Full Biography
Libby Burgess
Libby Burgess is a prize-winning pianist dedicated to the fields of song and chamber music, collaborating regularly with some of the finest singers and instrumentalists of her generation. Her diverse schedule ranges from song recitals in the UK’s major concert halls and festivals, to chamber music in obscure venues around the country or appearances on Radio 3. Libby is the founding Artistic Director of New Paths, a major festival of concerts and outreach events in Yorkshire, and is Co-Artistic Director with pianist Martin Roscoe of the... Read Full Biography
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The Grand Tour – A European Journey in Song
12 October 2018, 09:00 - 27 October 2018, 22:00
The 17th Oxford Lieder Festival will celebrate a rich tapestry of music, words and performance in European song. Our Grand Tour of song will showcase the pinnacles of the repertoire while exploring wider cultural and geographical influences. International stars, prize-winning young artists and a wide range of concerts and other related events will take us on this beguiling journey. View the ...
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Calls for urgent action to be taken to fix “dangerous” metal bridge covered in holes and graffiti
Councillor Scott Kerr said he is “astonished” the heavily corroded bridge in Houston remains in such a poor condition after three years of pressing the issue
A village councillor is calling for urgent action to be taken to fix a metal bridge in Houston which has been “left to rot”.
Scott Kerr said he is “astonished” the heavily corroded Ardgryffe bridge – which is covered in holes and graffiti – remains in such a poor condition after three years of pressing the issue with both Renfrewshire Council and current owners Taylor Wimpey.
The Conservative councillor claims the two have been at a “stalemate” during the period, with Taylor Wimpey wanting the council to adopt the bridge, while the local authority has insisted it is brought into a better condition before this can be done.
The bridge provides a vital walking route for residents – connecting Houston and Crosslee – and is used daily by schoolkids.
Taylor Wimpey has said it has “no concerns” regarding corrosion on the bridge.
Councillor Kerr said: “I am deeply frustrated the issues surrounding the Ardgryffe bridge in my ward continue to remain unresolved.
“This is an issue I have been pursuing since I was elected three years ago and I find it astonishing we remain at a stalemate.
“It is time for the council and Taylor Wimpey to discuss the matters again and commit to resolving this for the people of Houston and Crosslee.
“I will continue to liaise closely with the community council to demand the bridge is once again fit for purpose for residents in my ward as a matter of urgency.”
Taylor Wimpey said a meeting was held this week with the council and an inspection was carried out at both the Ardgryffe bridge and the wooden Crosslee bridge.
The company also confirmed it has “agreed a specification” to allow the council to adopt the bridge – hopefully by the end of next year – and is committed to carrying out necessary works.
The council said it was agreed in July last year that, subject to conditions being met, it would adopt the bridge for maintenance purposes and bosses continue to be in discussions with the developer.
A spokesman for Taylor Wimpey West Scotland said: “We remain fully committed to completing the works necessary to the metal bridge at Ardgryffe Crescent and the wooden Crosslee Bridge as part of a wider strategy to handover Crosslee Woodland to Renfrewshire Council.
“We are in regular communication with the local authority in relation to this matter.
“Following an inspection on September 10, we can advise there are no missing spars to the metal bridge, and we have no concerns regarding corrosion.
“We have agreed a specification to allow the metal bridge to be adopted by Renfrewshire Council.
“We are also addressing the remedial work that is required to the surrounding woodland to remove diseased and dying trees. However, our approved plan for this has been impacted by the current health emergency and we are in the process of engaging a new contractor.
“We will continue to work in partnership with Renfrewshire Council to resolve matters, which we anticipate could allow the Crosslee Infrastructure to be adopted by the local authority towards the end of next year.”
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World AIDS Day - South Africa on the frontline
01 December 2010 | Story by Newsroom
South Africa continues to be at the epicentre of the fight against HIV, as illustrated by the contributions by the country's research community to three major advancements in 2010, developments that will change the way in which new HIV infections are prevented in the future.
For example, a recent study showed that pre-exposure prophylaxis (a daily dose of an oral antiretroviral) was effective at reducing the risk of HIV acquisition among men who have sex with men, cutting back on infections by as much as 44%. The study involved work by the UCT-based Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, which provided one of the 11 international trial sites across six countries.
"I think this is a very significant study in that what we have here is the first proof of concept that taking an antiretroviral prophylactically, in other words taking it before exposure to HIV, would actually prevent HIV infection," said UCT's Associate Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre.v
Bekker was also part of a consortium, IAVI Protocol G, which discovered a range of antibodies that could block more than 90% of HI viruses tested. It is hoped that understanding the structure of these antibodies, and the region of the virus that these antibodies target, will help the development of more effective vaccines.
Additional promising results in HIV prevention research came out of a study by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), which found that a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral (ARV) drug tenofovir was 39% effective in reducing a woman's HIV risk. Importantly the protection was improved when the microbicide was used consistently. The microbicide gel also halved the incidence of genital herpes infections.
Professor Carolyn Williamson, Dr Jo-Ann Passmore and Dr Wendy Burgers of UCT's Division of Medical Virology and the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine are among those who are working on the CAPRISA study to understand why women get infected despite using this intervention, with the hope of improving its effectiveness.
The media statement released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US, marking World AIDS Day 2010, highlighted all three prevention studies as milestones in HIV/AIDS research across the world.
Williamson and her sibling, Professor Anna-Lise Williamson, appreciate the value of these findings. But for them a vaccine - which will prompt the immune system to produce the necessary antibodies to the HI virus - remains the holy grail of AIDS prevention.
In 2009, a candidate vaccine developed by them and others at UCT went into clinical testing (the SAAVI 102/HVTN 073 trials) at two sites in South Africa, following trials in the US. Two further trials of the UCT-designed vaccine have now been planned based on some valuable lessons learned from the breakthrough Phase III trial in Thailand that showed - albeit modest - effectiveness, reducing infections by about 31.2%.
The first trial of the UCT-designed vaccine will be an extension of the original trial, with a protein-based vaccine boost added; while a second trial will look at various combinations of prime (the main vaccine) and boosts.
"Historically, vaccines have shown to be the only interventions to eliminate or control viral epidemics," says Carolyn Williamson.
There have been developments on the socio-economic front as well. As indicated in an article, titled Special Report on the state of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, published in Global Health Magazine in August this year, and which counted the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre's Bekker and Professor Robin Wood, and Professor Nicoli Nattrass of UCT's AIDS and Society Research Unit, among its panel of expert authors. That paper lauded the improved rollout of antiretroviral treatments and services, and government's progressive policies and financial injection.
On the other hand, prevention interventions remain weak. "Even under the most optimistic of projections, about five million more South Africans will become HIV infected over the next two decades - roughly the number infected today," wrote the authors.
What's needed, concluded the panel of experts, is a focus on fundamentals and leadership.
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Topics › Famous People › Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony, between 1880 and 1906
Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a social activist and reformer; she particularly fought for women’s suffrage but was also involved in other causes, such as temperance, abolition, and labor rights.
Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts, as the second of seven children of Daniel and Lucy Anthony. In 1826, the family moved to New York, eventually settling near Rochester. Between 1839 and 1849, Anthony worked as a teacher.
Raised in a politically active Quaker household, Anthony had a lifelong interest in social issues. In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and soon formalized her involvement in the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Anthony would remain lifelong friends and work on many causes together.
Anthony was a tireless organizer and speech giver and traveled the nation for decades lecturing on women’s rights and suffrage. Controversially, Anthony did not support the 15th amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote. She believed that any suffrage amendment should include women. In 1872, she was arrested and later tried for illegally voting in the presidential election.
Over the course of her life, Anthony served in many organizations, such as the American Anti-Slavery Society, American Equal Rights Association, National American Woman Suffrage Association, and more. She also co-founded a women’s rights newspaper called The Revolution in 1868.
Although Anthony faced criticism for her work on women’s voting rights, she became a celebrated national figure in her later years.
Death and Legacy
Anthony died from heart failure and pneumonia in 1906 at age 86, 14 years before American women gained the right to vote. However, the 19th Amendment was colloquially called the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” in her honor. Anthony’s portrait was featured on a U.S. dollar coin beginning in 1979.
Susan B. Anthony remains one of the best-known figures in the American women’s suffrage movement.
Learn more about Susan B. Anthony through historical newspapers from our archives. Explore newspaper articles, headlines, images, and other primary sources below.
Articles and Clippings about Susan B. Anthony
Account of 1852 New York Women's Temperance Convention mentioning Susan B. Anthony Thu, Apr 22, 1852 – 2 · Buffalo Courier (Buffalo, New York) · Newspapers.com 1857 ad for a lecture by Susan B. Anthony on the education of women Tue, Mar 3, 1857 – Page 2 · Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Bangor, Maine) · Newspapers.com Account of a 1858 New York Teachers Association convention with a negative view of Susan B. Anthony Wed, Aug 4, 1858 – 3 · The Buffalo Commercial (Buffalo, New York) · Newspapers.com Susan B. Anthony addresses the American Anti-Slavery Society on behalf of the Women's Loyal League Fri, Jan 15, 1864 – Page 3 · The Liberator (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com Account of Susan B. Anthony's criticism of Black suffrage at 1869 Anti-Slavery Society meeting Sun, May 16, 1869 – Page 13 · The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) · Newspapers.com Excerpt from an 1869 editorial critical of Susan B. Anthony Wed, Aug 18, 1869 – 2 · The Daily Commonwealth (Topeka, Kansas) · Newspapers.com Anthony quoted saying she would be "satisfied with nothing less" than a women's suffrage amendment Fri, Nov 26, 1869 – 4 · The St. Joseph Gazette (St. Joseph, Missouri) · Newspapers.com Ad for Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "The Revolution" newspaper Thu, Jan 20, 1870 – Page 2 · Nebraska Advertiser (Brownville, Nebraska) · Newspapers.com Short biography of Susan B. Anthony's life up through 1871 Tue, Jul 11, 1871 – Page 3 · San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com 1871 newspaper images of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Tue, Jul 11, 1871 – Page 3 · San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com Newspaper account of Susan B. Anthony's 1873 trial for voting (United States v. Susan B. Anthony) Sun, Jun 29, 1873 – Page 3 · The Leavenworth Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) · Newspapers.com Editorial voicing opinion about Susan B. Anthony's trial for illegal voting Tue, Jun 24, 1873 – Page 1 · Weekly Oregon Statesman (Salem, Oregon) · Newspapers.com Summary of an 1873 speech given by Susan B. Anthony about women's citizenship and right to vote Tue, Feb 11, 1873 – 1 · The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) · Newspapers.com Susan B. Anthony speaks at opening of the International Council of Women in 1888 Tue, Mar 27, 1888 – 1 · Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com Susan B. Anthony attends 25th anniversary of National American Woman Suffrage Association Sun, Jan 22, 1893 – Page 3 · The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Virginia) · Newspapers.com Photo of Susan B. Anthony at her home in Rochester, New York, circa 1891 Sun, Nov 8, 1891 – 5 · Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express (Buffalo, New York) · Newspapers.com 1899 interview with Susan B. Anthony about women's rights and suffrage Thu, Nov 16, 1899 – Page 6 · The Leavenworth Weekly Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) · Newspapers.com Excerpt from Susan B. Anthony's obituary in a Rochester, New York, newspaper Tue, Mar 13, 1906 – Page 13 · Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York) · Newspapers.com Excerpt from a newspaper article about Susan B. Anthony's funeral in 1906 Fri, Mar 16, 1906 – Page 14 · Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York) · Newspapers.com
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A small Irish town claims victory after Biden wins
Newstalk ZB / CNN,
Mon, 9 Nov 2020, 1:49PM
Joe Blewitt - a cousin of Joe Biden - and his family celebrate their kin's election victory. (Photo / Getty)
The stars and stripes have been fluttering all week on the streets of Ballina -- the town of just 10,000 in the west of Ireland where US president-elect Joe Biden's Irish ancestors hail from.
Ten of the former vice president's 16 great-great-grandparents were born in Ireland, according to the Irish for Biden campaign, with Edward Blewitt, Biden's great-great-great-grandfather, providing the Ballina connection.
On Saturday, as CNN projected Biden's White House win, Ballina residents came out to celebrate their distant kin's success.
"I think Ballina has saved the world tonight, because without Ballina, there would be no Joe Biden," Smiler Mitchell, a local publican, told CNN.
Balloons were tied to cars and the crowd sang "The Green and Red of Mayo," a famous ballad about the county where Ballina is situated. One car with a cardboard cut out of Biden in the front seat had a license plate which read, "PENNSYLVANIA BIDEN #1."
In the lead-up to the election, the community held a "Ridin' for Biden" event around the bridges crossing the River Moy with a carousel of cars passing the town's iconic cathedral and finishing in front of a mural of the man himself, erected in the town's main square.
"Ballina has always been an underdog town in the west of Ireland, which has had its own challenges in the past," said local politician Mark Duffy.
"Now we think it's our time to shine and put our best foot forward. We look forward to welcoming as many visitors from across the US and across the political divide."
He noted that the town is in a beautiful part of the world, with lakes, mountains and urban forest in the surrounding area.
Biden still has distant relatives in the town.
Joe Blewitt, a third cousin, who has met the president-elect several times, said his namesake "is totally down to earth."
"He's a family man," Blewitt told CNN by phone.
But Ballina isn't the only Irish town with a Biden connection. On the opposite side of the country -- in Carlingford, County Louth -- a community pipe band was set to premiere an anthem for Biden at noon on Sunday.
Biden's great-grandfather James Finnegan arrived in New York on the Marchioness of Bute ship in 1850 from Carlingford, a coastal town located about 70 miles north of Dublin.
In honor of their most famous son's election win, Carlingford's local parish priest planned to ring the bells of the church with school children and members of the community in attendance.
Paul Allen, the lead organizer of the Irish for Biden campaign, told CNN the town was overjoyed with the result.
"Joe Biden is a quintessential Irish American and it shows what a combination of hard work and determination can do," he said.
The campaign had encouraged Irish people all over the world to phone a relative in America and ask them to vote for Biden.
"The nurse working in Chicago, the firefighter in Boston or the policeman in New York, the construction worker building America; that's the Irish American connection," Allen added.
The Carlingford community hosted Biden in 2016 and in advance of his visit, he wrote a letter which said: "Northeast Pennsylvania will be written on my heart. But Ireland will be written on my soul."
Ireland's Taoiseach, or prime minister, Micheál Martin was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Biden on his victory Saturday.
Back over in Ballina, more celebrations were expected on Sunday.
The town, twinned with Scranton, Pennsylvania, is also home to Ireland's first woman president, Mary Robinson, who was elected 30 years ago to the day on Saturday.
"Her message was one of hope and a light in the window for the diaspora," said politician Mark Duffy. "...30 years later to the day, one of the descendants of our diaspora, who would have left Ballina in such a dark and bleak time for Irish history, has gone on to hold the highest office in the land."
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HomeTrendingSaudi Arabia ready to invest $ 100 billion in India, after meeting PM Modi spoke Crown Prince
Saudi Arabia ready to invest $ 100 billion in India, after meeting PM Modi spoke Crown Prince
Newstracker - February 20, 2019
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman said on Wednesday that his country is looking at India as an opportunity, where he can invest up to $ 100 billion in the coming years. Following the talks between Prime Minister Modi and Saudi Arabia's Yuvraj Mohammed bin Salman, the five agreements between the two countries were signed. In this, the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding for investment in the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund.
Apart from this, there was an MOU on cooperation in the tourism sector. Both countries also made an MOU for cooperation in the field of housing. The collaboration framework has also been signed to promote bilateral investment relations between India's Invest India and Saudi Arabia's General Investment Authority. The MoU was signed between Prasar Bharati and Saudi Broadcast Cooperation.
On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "The brutal terrorist attack in Pulwama last week is another brutal sign of the Kahran of the world that has been havoc with this humanitarian threat. He said, "To deal effectively with this threat, we agree that there is a need to increase all possible pressure on countries supporting any type of terrorism."
The prime minister said that eliminating the basic infrastructure of terrorism, ending its support and punishing terrorists and their supporters is very important. On this occasion, Saudi Arabia's Yuvraj Mohammed bin Salman said that we will cooperate with India in other areas, including sharing intelligence information.
Saudi Aram is talking to Reliance for investing in petrochemicals, refinery projects
World's largest oil exporter, Saudi Aram, said on Wednesday that it is in talks with Reliance Industries and other Indian companies to invest in petrochemicals and refinery projects in India. Saudi Arabia's national oil company is excited about India's energy demand and is eager to invest here. The company has taken 50 percent stake in public sector oil companies in the $ 44 billion Refinery-cum-Petrochemicals Complex in Maharashtra with its partner UAE partner Adenok.
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Jon Stewart to Leave 'The Daily Show'
By Reuters On 2/10/15 at 8:11 PM EST
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(Reuters) - Comedian Jon Stewart will leave as the host of Comedy Central's satirical newscast "The Daily Show" later this year, the Viacom Inc-owned (VIAB.O) network said on Tuesday.
"Through his unique voice and vision, 'The Daily Show' has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come," Comedy Central President Michele Ganeless said in a statement.
Stewart, 52, has led "The Daily Show" since 1999. A replacement has not yet been named.
In December, Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert left the popular "Colbert Report" news satire program to be David Letterman's replacement on CBS's "Late Show."
Stewart's lampooning of public figures and politicians earned him a loyal following across age groups. His show has often been cited as the top news source for young people. "The Daily Show" reaches slightly more than 1 million viewers on average.
Stewart, who began his career in stand-up comedy in New York, took his satirical humor to MTV in 1993, where he hosted "The Jon Stewart Show."
He made his directorial debut with the feature film, "Rosewater," released last year.
"The Daily Show" has also been a career launching pad for several comedians, including Colbert, Steve Carell and John Oliver.
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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Calls Trump '2,000-Lie Man' After Getting 'Fake News' Award
By Graham Lanktree On 1/18/18 at 12:06 PM EST
Paul Krugman (C), Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor emeritus of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, speaks to reporters after a meeting discussing global economy hosted by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2016. Franck Robichon/Reuters
U.S. Donald Trump Fake news Trump Nobel Prize
A Nobel Prize-Winning economist given the number one spot in President Donald Trump's "fake news" awards has shot back at Trump, noting that the claim the president took issue with has long since been withdrawn.
Trump handed out the controversial awards hosted on the Republican Party's website Wednesday, after Republican Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain of Arizona condemned the move for chipping away at freedom of speech and likened it to actions under an authoritarian regime.
Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who is also a columnist for The New York Times, pushed back against his naming in the top spot early Thursday.
"I get a 'fake news award' for a bad market call, retracted 3 days later, from 2000-lie man, who still won't admit he lost the popular vote. Sad!" Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 his work on international trade economic models, wrote on Twitter Thursday.
I get a "fake news award" for a bad market call, retracted 3 days later, from 2000-lie man, who still won't admit he lost the popular vote. Sad! https://t.co/1nTalrRxxm
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 18, 2018
By "2000-lie man" Krugman appeared to refer to the more than 1,000 verifiably false claims Trump has made since his inauguration being tracked by The Toronto Star .
The day Trump won the 2016 election Krugman wrote in a short piece that the world was "looking at a global recession, with no end in sight."
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Days later Krugman wrote in his column that "I am retracting that call, right now. It's at least possible that bigger budget deficits will, if anything, strengthen the economy briefly."
American businesses have largely benefited from corporate tax cuts and the rollback of regulations under the Trump administration. The stock market has also soared.
"What this pathetic list really shows is that anti-Trump 'fake news' is like farms broken up by the estate tax: they're sure it happens, but can't find any real examples," Krugman wrote on Twitter.
What this pathetic list really shows is that anti-Trump "fake news" is like farms broken up by the estate tax: they're sure it happens, but can't find any real examples.
The Washington Post carried out a fact-check on whether the "fake news" award winners really met the definition of "fake news."
According to a Gallup/Knight Foundation study published Tuesday, Americans mostly think of "fake news" as false information that is published knowingly.
The same study found "four in 10 Republicans consider accurate news stories that cast a politician or political group in a negative light to always be 'fake news.'" So Americans have differing definitions of what constitutes "fake news."
A Newsweek story about whether Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda shook Trump's hand during his trip to Poland last summer came in 8th place in Trump's awards. The story was quickly corrected after an extended clip of their meeting was released.
Eight of the eleven stories named in the awards were misreported and quickly corrected. One CNN report about Anthony Scaramucci's meeting with a Russian led to the resignation of three employees and another saw a reporter suspended. Two awards went to tweets that were corrected, and Krugman's piece was a prediction that he then retracted.
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SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders with Losses on their Investment in Momo Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadline - MOMO
Pomerantz LLP
NEW YORK, June 17, 2019 /CNW/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Momo Inc. ("Momo" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MOMO) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, for the Southern District of New York, and indexed under 19-cv-04433, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Momo securities between April 21, 2015 and April 29, 2019, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased Momo securities during the class period, you have until July 15, 2019, to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at [email protected] or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 9980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
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Momo operates a mobile-based social and entertainment platform in the PRC. The Company operates the Momo platform that includes its Momo mobile application (or "app") and various related features, functionalities, tools, and services to users, customers, and platform partners.
The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operational and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Momo's compliance procedures and controls were inadequate to prevent, inter alia, illicit financial reporting activity; (ii) Momo's social and dating app, Tantan, was materially noncompliant with PRC law and/or regulations; (iii) Tantan was consequently at an increased risk of being removed from Chinese app stores at the direction of Chinese governmental authorities; and (iv) as a result, Momo's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On June 27, 2018, Spruce Point Capital Management LLC ("Spruce Point") issued a short seller report on Momo, recommending a "strong sell" opinion on the Company's shares citing, inter alia, possible compliance issues under PRC regulation (the "Spruce Point Report"). According to several agencies cited throughout the Spruce Point Report, Momo had a reputation for being a "sex cam" service—i.e., Momo users were using Momo's services for illicit sexual content. The Spruce Point Report highlighted how these services put Momo at an increased risk of violating the Ministry of Commerce's ("MOC") and the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV's ("SARFT") new regulations limiting the behavior of live streamers and raising accountability for platforms. The Spruce Point report also alleged various illicit financial reporting activity by Momo.
Following the publication of the Spruce Point Report, Momo's American depositary receipt ("ADR") price fell $2.48 per share, or 5.47%, to close at $42.86 per share on June 27, 2018.
On June 28, 2018, Momo issued a press release, appended as an exhibit to Momo's report on Form 6-K with the SEC, denying the allegations in the Spruce Point Report.
Despite its public denial, the Company's inadequate compliance procedures and controls came to a head on April 29, 2019, when Momo issued a press release disclosing that the Tantan social and dating mobile app had been removed from certain mobile app stores at the direction of Chinese authorities (the "April 2019 Press Release").
On this news, Momo's ADR price fell $2.51 per share, or 6.81%, to close at $34.36 per share on April 29, 2019.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
Robert S. Willoughby
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Greco-Persian Wars
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c. 500 B.C.E.–448 B.C.E.
Mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Cyprus, and Egypt
Greek victory; Persia repelled
Persian expansion
Greek city states, particularly Athens and Sparta Persian Empire and allied Greek states
Miltiades,
Themistocles,
Leonidas I,
Pausanias,
Kimon,
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Mardonius,
Datis,
Artaphernes,
Xerxes I,
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The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars or Medic Wars were a series of conflicts between several Greek city-states and the Persian Empire that started about 500 B.C.E. and lasted until 448 B.C.E. The expression "Persian Wars" usually refers to either or both of the two Persian invasions of the Greek mainland in 490 B.C.E. and in 480-479 B.C.E.; in both cases, the allied Greeks successfully defeated the invasions. Notably not all Greeks fought against the Persians; some were neutral, and others were allied with Persia.
What is known today of this conflict is derived primarily from Greek sources (mainly Herodotus), and to a lesser extent some Roman writings. The Persians enter Greek history after they conquered the Lydians and thus the Greek city-states of Ionia that were previously under the Lydians.[1] When in 499 B.C.E. an attempt to help restore the aristocrats in Naxos failed, the Ionians rebelled against the Persians.[2] Token aid was sent from the Greek mainland which did not change the final outcome of Persian victory. Mardonius campaigned in 492 B.C.E. in Thrace to consolidate Persian power but was stopped by a storm.[3] An amphibious force under Datis and Artaphernes razed Eretria but was defeated in Marathon a few days later by general Miltiades of Athens.[4] Ten years later, in 480 B.C.E., after massive preparation king Xerxes led a huge force to subjugate Greece. A small force under King Leonidas of Sparta caused disproportionate casualties at the Battle of Thermopylae but was defeated on the third day. Athens was sacked and razed by the orders of Xerxes but the Persian fleet was defeated in the battle of Salamis. Xerxes left Mardonius with part of the original force to finish the job and fled to Asia Minor. The next year Mardonius was defeated and killed in the battle of Plataea and the Persian fleet remnant in the battle of Mycale. The Greek fleet sailed to the Hellespont where the Athenians and the newly rebelled Ionians besieged Sestus.
1 Historical Sources
2.1 The Greeks, the Lydians and the Persians
2.2 Ionian Revolt
3 Darius' invasions
3.1 Mardonius's campaign
3.2 Datis and Artaphernes's campaign
3.3 The significance of Marathon
4 The next ten years in Greece
5 Xerxes' invasion
5.1 Preparation and size of the Persian forces
5.2 Persian movements until Therme
5.3 Size of the Persian fleet and movements until Artemisium
5.4 From Therme to Megara
5.5 End of the campaign
6 The Greek counterattack
6.1 The unification of Macedonia
6.2 The last joint operation in Byzantium
6.3 Formation of the Delian League
6.4 Campaigns in the Aegean and Pamphylia
6.5 Athens fights in the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece
6.6 Athens defeated in Egypt but victorious in Cyprus
7 The peace of Callias
8 Later conflicts
10 References and further reading
In the next year the Spartans under Pausanias campaigned for the last time in Byzantium which fell after a siege. Pausanias was recalled and the Athenians continued alone. They set up the Delian League to continue the fight. The Persians were first driven from Thrace and then, after the battle of Eurymedon from Ionia. The war moved to Cyprus and then Egypt after it revolted against the Persians. Sparta became alarmed with the power of Athens and declared war. Athens was eventually defeated in Egypt, came to peace with Sparta and signed the Peace of Callias with Persia. With that peace Cyprus returned to Persia which was forced out of the Aegean Sea. The war ended but the Greeks and the Persians continued to meddle in each other's affairs until Persia was conquered by Alexander the Great. European sources tend to depict the conflict as one between civilization and barbarity but the Persian Empire was a highly sophisticated culture no more nor less civilized than the Hellenic world. The non-European would often be seen as a chaotic and threatening reality that needed to be kept in check. These attitudes continue to influence political and social discourse in the modern world.[5]. It has even been suggested that Orientalism dates from the Greco-Persian wars.
Herodotus is our main source about this conflict (Bust at the Stoa of Attalus).
What is known of this conflict today comes almost exclusively from Greek sources. The historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus, after his exile from his hometown in the middle of the fifth century B.C.E., travelled all over the Mediterranean and beyond, from Scythia to Egypt collecting information of the Persian Wars and other events that he compiled in his book Ιστοριης Απόδειξη (known in English as The Histories). He begins with Croesus's conquest of Ionia[6] and ends with the fall of Sestus in 479 B.C.E.[7] He is believed to repeat what was told to him by his hosts and sponsors without subjecting it to critical control, thus giving us at times the truth, at times exaggerations and political propaganda. However ancient writers consider his work much better in quality than that of any of his predecessors, which is why Cicero called him "father of history".[8]
Thucydides picks up where Herodotus ends but gives only limited information (Bust residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto).
Thucydides the Athenian intended to write a book from where Herodotus ends until the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C.E. Unlike Herodotus, whom he mocks, he cross-checked his sources and gives rather accurate information on his book Ξυγγραφη (known in English as The Peloponnesian War). Unfortunately his work is incomplete, he is believed to have died before he could complete his work, and only gives a full account of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War and little information on what happened before. The events that interest us here are given at Book I, paragraphs 89 to 118.
Among later writers Ephorus wrote in the fourth century B.C.E. a universal history book which includes the events of these wars. Diodorus Siculus wrote in the first century C.E. a set of 40 books of history since the beginning of time, which also includes the history of this war. The closest thing to a Persian source in Greek literature is Ctesias of Cnedus who was Artaxerxes Mnemon's personal physician wrote a history of Persia according to Persian sources in the fourth century B.C.E. In his work he also mocks Herodotus and claims that his information is accurate since he heard from the Persians. Unfortunately the works of these last writers have not survived complete. Since fragments of them are given in the Myriobiblon which was compiled by Photius that later became Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the ninth century C.E., in the book Eklogai by the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos (913-919 C.E.) and the Suda a Byzantine dictionary from the tenth century C.E. it is believed that they were lost with the destruction of the imperial library of the Holy Palace of Constantinople by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 C.E.
Thus historians are forced to supplement Herodotus' and Thucydides' information with works of later writers intended for other uses, like second century C.E. Plutarch's biographies and the tour guide of southern Greece compiled at the same time by the geographer and traveller Pausanias, who is not to be confused with the Spartan general of the same name mentioned later. Some Roman historians in their works give account of this conflict. Justinus who epitomized Pompeius includes information, as are in Cornelius Nepos's Biographies. However since they are most probably based on Greek sources they cannot be considered a "third party" view.
The Greeks, the Lydians and the Persians
The Lydians of Western Asia Minor were the first foreign nation to conquer Greeks. King Alyattes II (619 - 560 B.C.E.), first made war on Miletus, a coastal city named after the Cretans who had settled there. This war ended with a treaty of alliance between Miletus and Lydia,[9] which meant that Miletus would have internal autonomy but follow Lydia in foreign affairs. Thus they sent an army to aid him in his war against the Medes. During a battle between the Lydians and the Medes a total solar eclipse took place, believed to be that of May 28, 585 B.C.E., which had been predicted by Thales the Milesian. The battle was suspended out of alarm; peace was signed that was strengthened by a royal marriage, and the river Halys was set up as the frontier between the Lydians and the Medes.[10] Croesus succeeded his father in 560 B.C.E. and made war on the other Greek city states of Asia Minor. He conquered them and force them to pay tribute but did not extend his realm to the islands of the Aegean Sea.[11]
Cyrus the Great rebelled against the Medes in 554/553 B.C.E.[12] and after four years conquered the Medes and founded the Persian Empire. Croesus saw this as an opportunity to extend his realm and asked the oracle of Delphi whether he should make war. The Oracle replied with one of its more famous answers, that "if Croesus was to cross the river Halys he would destroy a great empire."[13] Croesus did not realize the ambiguity of the statement and marched to war but was defeated and his capital fell to Cyrus.[14] The Greek city-states then sent messenger to Cyrus asking to have the same terms as under Croesus but, with the exception of Miletus, Cyrus refused, saying they should have asked while the outcome of the war was undecided, as had Miletus.[15] Cyrus then conquered Assyria[16] before he died. His successor Cambyses II
regarded the Ionians and Aiolians as slaves inherited from his father; and he proceeded to march an army against Egypt, taking with him as helpers not only the other nations of which he was the ruler, but also those of the Hellenes over whom he had power besides (Herodotus II,1, translated by G. C. Macaulay)
Persian satraps of Asia Minor installed tyrants in most of Ionian cities and forced Greeks to pay taxes for the "King of Kings." The campaign against Egypt in 525 B.C.E. was successful when the Cypriot cities,[17] Polycrates of Samos[18] (both of whom had a fleet) and the leader of the Greek mercenaries of Egypt Phanes of Halicarnassus came to his side.[19] This conquest increased discontent with the Persians due to a reduction in trade because Phoenicians, who had willingly joined the Persian empire earlier[20] took part of the market. Furthermore the fall of the Greek colony Sybaris in Southern Italy in 510 B.C.E. closed the western markets for the Ionian city states.[21] In the mean time Darius the Great, Cambyses' successor conquered Libya and part of India, thus creating a massive empire.
Ionian Revolt
German map of the Persian offensive phase of the Greco-Persian Wars
In 513 B.C.E. Darius the Great ordered a campaign into the Balkans.[22] He conquered Thrace[23] and Macedon. Macedonian king Amyntas I became a tributary ally.[24] However at that time his state was very small, composed of Pieria and Bottaia (see map below). Darius forces also crossed the Danube into Scythia as a show of force.[25] In this campaign Miltiades, commander of the Athenian forces in the Thracian peninsula was forced to follow the Persians. While Darius was across the Weston Kapp suggested to the other Greeks to burn the bridges and trap Darius across,[26] thus earning Persian ire. This plan was not followed.
In 499 B.C.E., instigated by Aristagoras in Miletus, the Ionian Revolt broke out when a force of 200 triremes manned by Ionian crew that Artaphernes, satrap of Sardis, had sent to Naxos under Aristagoras's command failed to overturn the democrats and restore the oligarchs.[27] The Ionian cities threw out the "tyrants" that the Persians had set over them, formed a league, and applied for help from the other Greeks. Athens sent 20 ships because the Persian had asked them earlier to restore Hippias, former tyrant of Athens who had been recently been removed from power.[28] Eretria sent five because Miletus had helped her in the Lelantine War (eighth century B.C.E.).[29] These ships joined the Ionian fleet and helped spread rebellion all along the coast and to Cyprus.[30] They managed to defeat the Phoenician fleet in Pamphylia.[31] The revolt did not have greater political aims, lacked unified leadership and, save for the Carians, non-Greeks did not rebel. In 498 B.C.E. the Greeks captured and burnt Sardis with ease, thereby provoking the Persian response.[32]
The Persians raised three armies and mobilized their fleet. One army was sent to Cyprus. The fleet supporting it was defeated by the Ionian fleet[33] but the army succeeded in subjugating Cyprus.[34] The other army was sent to the Propontis and forced the revolted cities into submission.[35] The third army first went to Caria, and after a series of battles[36] negotiated Caria's submission. After that Ionia was isolated. All three armies converged in Ionia and so did the new fleet. Initially unable to defeat the Ionian fleet at sea, the Persian land forces worked towards denying the Ionian fleet any safe harbors, leaving the fleet unable to repair, refit, or restock its supplies. The Greek fleet was finally crushed at the Battle of Lade in 494 B.C.E., and the Ionian cities were sacked.[37]
Darius' invasions
Reconstruction of a Greek hoplite
By 493 B.C.E., the last holdouts of the rebellion were subjugated by the Persian fleet, containing ships from Ancient Egypt and Phoenicia. The revolt was used as an opportunity to extend the empire's border to the islands of the East Aegean, many of which had not been under the Persians before, and the Propontis.[38] While the Ionian city of Miletus was sacked, its temples stripped and population enslaved or resettled,[39] the other Ionian city-states found the Persians surprisingly conciliatory in the wake of the rebellion. Darius took direct control of the resettlement of the region through his son-in-law Mardonius. The flat-tribute system was replaced with a progressive tax based on the land-holdings of each city, democracies were established in some, if not all, of the Ionian city-states, prisoners were re-integrated into their home cities, and Darius actively encouraged the Persian nobility of the area to participate in Greek religious practices, especially those dealing with Apollo.[40] Records from the period indicate that the Persian and Greek nobility began to intermarry, and the children of Persian nobles were given Greek instead of Persian names. Darius's conciliatory policies were used as a type of propaganda campaign against the mainland Greeks, so that in 491 B.C.E., when Darius sent heralds throughout Greece demanding submission (earth and water), initially most city-states accepted the offer, Athens and Sparta being the most prominent exceptions.[41]
Mardonius's campaign
In the spring of 492 B.C.E., an expeditionary force commanded by Darius' son-in-law Mardonius assembled in Cilicia. The fleet went up the Aegean coast, removed the tyrants,[42] conquered Thassos and reached Acanthus (in the isthmus of the Athos peninsula). The army crossed the Hellespont, crossed Thrace and Macedon subjugating all the people on his path. Thrace was reorganized as a satrapy, and Macedonia was reduced from an ally to a client state. The fleet however fell in a storm off Mt. Athos, losing 300 ships and 20,000 men (according to Herodotus). Mardonius thus ordered the remnants of his troop to return.[43] The Vrygians, a local Thracian tribe, offered the strongest resistance, even managing in a daring night raid to wound Mardonius, but were eventually subjugated by the retreating troops.[44]
Whether or not this campaign should be included as an attempted invasion of Greece is a matter of debate. Some modern historians have argued that Mardonius's original intention of the campaign was to subdue Athens, and this was Herodotus's opinion as well. However, as both Thrace and Macedonia had been completely cut off by the Ionian rebellion, a reconquest of the area was necessary with or without a further campaign into Greece. Whatever the true intention of the campaign will most likely never be known for certain, however the end result of the campaign was the reassertion of Persian power within the Balkan region. In any case, because in this campaign the borders of the modern-day Hellenic Republic were crossed it is included in all Greek history books.
Datis and Artaphernes's campaign
Persian soldiers. Carvings on Persepolis.
Lancers, detail from the archers' frieze in Darius' palace, Susa. Silicious glazed bricks, c. 510 B.C.E.,Louvre
In 490 B.C.E. the admiral Datis and Artaphernes gathered another Persian expeditionary force in Cilicia with the intention to go to Attica and Eretria to punish them for their earlier assistance to the Ionians. Herodotus gives only their fleet numbered 600 triremes but gives no numbers for transports.[45] He also does not give numbers for the Persian or the Greek land forces. Among other ancient sources the poet Simonides who, like Herodotus, was a near-contemporary says the campaign force numbered 200,000. Later writers gave different values, Cornelius Nepos estimating 200,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry,[46] and Plutarch and Pausanias independently giving a total of 300,000. Plato[47] and Lysias claims 500,000,[48] while Justinus, 600,000.[49]
The Persian force sailed from Samos to Naxos, where the inhabitants fled to the mountains, spread across the Cyclades, which submitted to the Great King, and then to Eretria. Eretria was besieged and surrendered after only six days; the city was razed, temples and shrines were looted.[50] While Herodotus claims that most of the population taken prisoner and held in Euboea off the coast of Attica, Eretria sent seven ships in the battle of Salamis ten years later, thus a significant part of the population must have survived and rebuilt the city.
The Persian fleet had brought Hippias, son of the former tyrant of Athens Peisistratus, perhaps in the hope of establishing a pro-Persian tyranny within Athens. Most ancient authors agree that it was upon the advice of Hippias that the army landed in Attica near Marathon.[51] Pheidippides, a professional messenger was sent to Sparta for aid, but a religious festival (the Karneia) prevented the Spartans from leaving the city,[52] or alternatively due to the helot revolt mentioned by Plato.[53] In the end, the only ally the Athenians had in the Battle of Marathon were the Plataeans, with whom Athens had formed an alliance since the late sixth century B.C.E.[54]
Pausanias claims the Athenian force did not surpass 9000[55] while Cornelius Nepos[56] and Justinus[57] claim that the Athenians numbered 10,000 hoplites and the Plateans 1000, and most modern historians accept numbers in that range. Two of the ten Athenian tribes were in the centre in four ranks (thus showing a front of 2 x 250 = 500 people) and the rest on the flanks in eight ranks[58] (9 x 125 = 1,125), meaning the total front had about 1,625 men. They were probably facing takabara light archers. If the Persians had a 2000-man front and fought in 30 ranks as mentioned by Xenophon in the Cyropaedia (though they fought even on 110 men ranks) they numbered 60,000 troops. Most modern Greek historians accept numbers in the 50-60,000 range[59][60][61] while some Western historians, like Bengtson[62] prefer numbers in the 20,000 range. After a period of waiting the Greeks attacked the Persian army at dawn, running towards the enemy who in their minds they charged the Athenians with madness which must be fatal, seeing that they were few and yet were pressing forwards at a run, having neither cavalry nor archers.[63] Yet due to their run the few Persian archers had time to take position and kill them from afar. Miltiades knew that in hand to hand combat the hoplite was superior. While the centre of the Greek formation retreated in order, the Greek wings defeated their opposites and then joined behind the Persian centre thus encircling it. The Persians broke ranks and a great slaughter followed.[64] 6,400 dead Persian bodies were counted on the battlefield and buried (though Pausanias in the second century C.E. could not find their graves)[65] against 192 Athenian[66] and 11 Plataean dead.[67] Legend has it that a runner, after the battle, was sent as a messenger back to the city to tell them the Athenians had been victorious and to resist the Persians. He probably ran the 32 km from the northern route rather than the 40.8 kilometres of the southern, from Marathon the Athens, cried "Νενικήκαμεν!" (We have been victorious!), and collapsed and died on the spot. Herodotus records no such event, and the story itself does not appear until the writings of Plutarch (46-127 C.E.) who gives him the name Thersipus or Eucles.[68] Lucian gives his the name of Philippides (not Pheidippides).[69] It should be noted that in some medieval codices of Herodotus the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta before the battle is given as Philippides and in a few modern editions this name is preferred.[70] Regardless, his legend was the inspiration for the modern day Olympic event, the marathon.
After the battle the Persian commanders had been given a signal of a raised shield and, hoping to catch Athens undefended, sailed with their fleet around Cape Sounion and tried to land at Phaleron. Athenian leaders had also seen the signal and, after leaving two tribes to guard the battlefield quickly moved the remaining forces into Athens. When the Persian came to Phaleron they found the Athenian army waiting for them. After this, the Persian fleet picked up the Eretrian prisoners and sailed back to Asia in defeat.[71]
The significance of Marathon
Apadana Hall, Persian and Median soldiers
The effects of the battle of Marathon were dramatic for both sides of the conflict. The Athenians had proven their ability to fight and win against the Persian forces, which was indeed no small feat if Herodotus's words are to be accepted. As Cornelius Nepos said:
Than this battle there has hitherto been none more glorious; for never did so small a band overthrow so numerous a host (Miltiades chapter IV, Translated by the Rev. John Selby Watson, MA)
The Greeks saw that they had the option to stand and fight, and soon after Marathon a number of city-states renounced their submission to Persia and joined with the Athenians and Spartans.
Perhaps more important was the impact Marathon had upon the Persians. Marathon was the first defeat of regular (Iranian) Persian infantry forces since before the reign of Cyrus, over two generations before. While the Ionian rebellion, the Persian inadequacy at sea, and the burning of Sardis all constituted a threat to Persian holdings in the region, Marathon signaled a threat to the whole of the Western part of the empire. While the Persians had been unable to beat the Ionians at sea, the conflict had been settled by the superior Persian ground forces. Now, with the defeat of the regular Persian infantry, the Persians had found themselves bested on land and sea by the relatively small city-state of Athens.
The next ten years in Greece
In the ten years that followed the political situation in Greece did not change significantly. Alexander I of Macedon, son of Amyntas, is believed to have declared independence from Persia and participated in the Olympic games. There he ran the stadion, the main event of the games. When his fellow runners questioned that he was Greek (the ancient Olympics then were open only to pure blooded Greeks) he proved it and in the race he was tied for first place.[72] With this very public declaration he showed what his later loyalty was to be. Leonidas I took one of the two thrones of Sparta.
In Athens Miltiades convinced the Athenians to campaign in the Cyclades Islands in order to secure their frontier.[73] He failed and was brought back wounded. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death that was commuted to a fine[74] (thus following an old tradition of punishment for Greeks that did good to their country, see Themistocles or, for that matter Kolokotronis), but died of his wound before his sentenced was carried out and buried with honor. Ostracism was first exercised in 488 B.C.E.[75] leading to the exile of politicians who advocated submission to Persia and some of their enemies. Thus a new political leadership formed in Athens with Themistocles leading the democratic party and Aristides the aristocratic party. In that time Athens went to war with Aegina. The ability of the Aeginian fleet to land unopposed at will anywhere in Attica and raid led to public frustration. Themistocles used this frustration to convince his fellow citizens to use the profits from the Lavrion silver mines to build a fleet, which he intended to use against the Persians.[76][77] Alarm came to Greece after the Persian preparations (see below) had seriously advanced, with the construction of the bridges at Hellespontus and the channel at Athos.
The Persians had the sympathy of a number of Greek city-states,[78] including Argos, which had pledged to defect when the Persians reached their borders.[79] The Alevades family that ruled Larissa in Thessaly saw the invasion as an opportunity to extend their power.[80] Thebes was willing to pass to the Persian side when the Xerxes's army reached their borders, and did so immediately following Thermopylae, though Herodotus hints that at Thermopylae it was already well known that Thebes had capitulated.
In autumn of 481 B.C.E. Sparta, in co-operation with Athens, called a congress in the temple of Poseidon on the Isthmus of Corinth. Every Greek city-state that had not then fallen to the Persians was called except Massalia and her colonies, and Cyrene. General reconciliation was preached. Athens and Aegina were publicly reconciled. Messengers were sent to the cities that had not sent emissaries.[81] The colonies of Sicily and Southern Italy were called, but reportedly refused unless the Syracusan king, Gelon, was given command, a right the Spartans refused to part with.[82] Additionally, Diodorus reports that the Persians and Carthaginians had signed a treaty to co-ordinate invasions, keeping the sizeable Sicilian and Italian reinforcements in check.[83] The only help received one ship from Crotone, which fought in the battle of Salamis. Argos[84] and Crete[85] refused to send emissaries, and the oracle of Delphi did not take part. It continued, as it had since the beginning of the century, to issue oracles that the flood of the Persian Army would drown Greece. Corcyra promised assistance, but then rescinded the offer. They sent a fleet off the Peloponnese that simply monitored the situation.[86] For the most part, the alliance was made up of the Peloponnesian city-states, Euboea island and Attica.
Xerxes' invasion
The third Persian invasion. Maps Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy.
Preparation and size of the Persian forces
Immediately following the return of Datis's expedition, Darius began preparations for a second, full-scale invasion of Greece. On the fourth year after the battle Babylonia and Egypt both revolted against Persian rule, delaying the preparations.[87] In 486 B.C.E., Darius passed away, leaving the empire and the war against the Greeks to his son and successor, Xerxes I.[88] In 480, after roughly four years of preparation, Xerxes I mounted a massive expedition against Greece. Herodotus gives the names of 46 nations from which troops were drafted. The campaign was delayed one year because of another revolt in ancient Egypt and Babylonia.[89] The Persian army was gathered in Asia Minor in the summer and autumn of 481 B.C.E. The army of the Eastern satrapies was gathered in Kritala of Cappadocia and was led by Xerxes to Sardis where it passed the winter.[90] Early on spring it moved to Abydos where it was joined with the army of the western satrapies.[91] The numbers regarding the force he mustered for the invasion against Greece, given by Herodotus, have been a subject of endless dispute. Herodotus gives the following numbers for the invasion forces:
Fleet crew: 517,610
Infantry:[92] 1,700,000
Cavalry:[93] 80,000
Arabs and Libyans:[94] 20,000
Greek allies 324,000
This number needs to be at least doubled in order to account for support troops and thus Herodotus reports that the whole troop numbered 5,283,220 men,[95] an estimate that has been rejected by modern historians. Other ancient sources give other numbers. The poet Simonides, who was a near-contemporary, talks of four million. Ctesias of Cnedus who, as mentioned earlier, was Artaxerxes Mnemon's personal physician wrote a history of Persia according to Persian sources that unfortunately has not survived, and gives 800,000 as the total number of the original army that met in Doriskos. Modern scholars have proposed different numbers for the invasion force, estimations based on knowledge of the Persian military systems, their logistical capabilities, the Greek countryside, and supplies available along the army's route, especially drinking water.
One school of thought rejects the figures given in ancient texts as exaggerations on the part of the victors. Based on analysis of the resources available to armies of the ancient era, the Persian force was between 60,000 and 120,000 combatants, plus a retinue of non-combatants made larger because of the presence of the Persian king and high-ranking nobility. The upper limit was 250,000 total land forces. The main reason most often given for these values is a lack of water; Sir Frederick Maurice[96], a British general in World War I, was among the first to claim that the army could not have surpassed 175,000 due to lack of water.
A second school contends that ancient sources do give realistic numbers. According to the texts the Greeks at the end of the battle of Plataea mustered 110,000 (Herodotus) or 100,000 (Pompeius) troops: 38,700 hoplites and 71,300 or 61,300 peltasts respectively, the difference probably being 10,000 helots. In that battle, according to Herodotus, they faced 300,000 Persians and 50,000 Greek allies. This gives a 3-to-1 ratio for the two armies, which proponents of the school consider a realistic proportion.
Furthermore, Munro[97] and Macan[98] argue for realism based on Herodotus giving the names of six major commanders and 29 μυρίαρχοι (muriarxoi)—leaders of the baivabaram, the basic unit of the Persian infantry, which numbered about 10,000 strong. [99] As troops were lost through attrition, the Persians preferred to dissolve crippled baivabarams to replenish the ranks of others.[100]Adding casualties of the battles and attrition due to the need to guard cities and strategic obtains a force of 400,000 minimum.
According to that view lack of water is not the determining force. The available surface water in Greece today satisfies the needs of a much larger population than the number Xerxes' troops, though the majority of that water is used for irrigation.
Nicholas Hammond accepts 300,000 Persians at the battle of Plataea, though he claims that the numbers at Doriskos were smaller, without explaining how the change in numbers happened. The metrologist Livio Catullo Stecchini (who was a controversial figure) argues that Ctesias' figure of 800,000 battle troops for the Persian army was accurate and that Herodotus figure of 1,700,000 includes both battle and support troops.[101] Dr. Manousos Kampouris argues that Herodotus' 1,700,000 for the infantry plus 80,000 cavalry (including support) is very realistic for various reasons including the size of the area from which the army was drafted (from modern-day Libya to Pakistan), the lack of security against spies, the ratios of land troops to fleet troops, of infantry to cavalry and Persian troops to Greek troops.[102] On the other hand Christos Romas believes that the Persian troops accompanying Xerxes were a little over 400,000.[103]
Persian movements until Therme
Xerxes had ordered the construction of two bridges made of boats in the Hellespont made of Egyptian and Phoenician ships, but they were destroyed by storm. Thus two new bridges were constructed, one made of 314 triremes, the other of 360. The army took seven days and seven nights to cross them. One of the bridges was used by foot soldiers and the other by cavalry. Five major food depots had been set up along the path: at Lefki Akti on the Thracian side of the Hellespont, at Tyrozis on lake Bistonis, at Doriskos at the Evros river estuary where the Asian army was linked up with the Balkan allies, at Eion on the Strymon river and at Therme, modern-day Thessaloniki. There, food had been sent from Asia for several years in preparation for the campaign. Animals had been bought and fattened, while the local populations had been ordered for several months to grind the grains into flour.[104]
The Persian army took three and a half months to travel unopposed from the Hellespont to Therme, a journey of about 600 kilometres or 360 miles. The largest delay was due to the reorganization of the troops at Doriskos, when tactical units replaced the national formations used earlier for the march.[105]
Size of the Persian fleet and movements until Artemisium
The size of the Persian fleet is also disputed. According to Herodotus, the Persian fleet numbered 1,207 triremes and 3,000 pentekontorous, ships with 50 rowers. He gives a detailed description of numbers and origins:[106]
Phoenicians and Syrians from Palestine: 300
Egyptians: 200
Cypriots: 150
Cilicians: 100
Pamphylians: 30
Lycians: 50
Dorians of Asia Minor: 30
Carians: 70
Ionians: 100
Cycladian Islanders: 17
Aeolians: 60
Hellespontians (except Abydos): 30
From Pontus: 100
Herodotus also claims that this was the number at Salamis, despite the losses earlier in storms off Sepias and Euboea, and at the battle off Artemisium. Herodotus claims that the losses where replenished with reinforcements, though he only records 120 triremes from the Greeks of Thrace and an unspecified number of ships from the Greek islands. Aeschylus who fought at Salamis also claims that he faced there 1,207 warships, of which 1000 were triremes and 207 fast ships. Lysias,[107] also claims there were 1200 at Doriskos. The 1,207 trireme number (for the outset only) is also given by Ephorus while his teacher Isocrates[108] claims there were 1300 at Doriskos and 1,200[109] at Salamis. Ctesias gives another number, 1000 ships, (in a fragment given in Photius's book) while Plato, speaking in general terms[110] refers of 1000 ships and more. Ephorus claims there were also 800 cavalry-carrying ships and 3000 triantakontorous, ships rowed by 30 rowers. Diodorus[111] concurs there were 1200 ships at Doriskos but gives fleet numbers as such:
Phoenicians: 300
Cilicians: 80
Hellespontians and Pontians: 80
These numbers are close but not exactly what Herodotus claims and this have been interpreted as a confirmation of the 1200 number. Among modern scholars Köster[112] Olmstead, and Green have accepted this number. Commodore Simpsas[113] interprets the 207 fast ship comment as that only these 207 were fully manned and the rest were not. Christos Romas[114] believes that there were 1200 ships gathered in Doriskos but the reinforcements that later came did not cover the losses from the storms and battles. Other recent works on the Persian Wars (Peter Green's recent revision,[115] works by A. R. Burn,[116] and Pierre Briant's recent work)[117] reject this accounting, 1,207 being seen as more of a reference to the combined Greek fleet in the Illiad than an actual accounting, and generally claim that the Persians could have launched no more than around 600 warships into the Aegean.
At Doriskos the fleet first met the army, and Xerxes set up the chain of command. A channel had been dug over the isthmus of the Athos peninsula, large enough to fit through two ships at a time with which the fleet avoided the perilous journey across Cape Athos.[118] The fleet then rejoined the army again at Therme.[119] From there, the Persian fleet traveled down the coast, capturing a few Greek ships that were sent to monitor its movements.[120] It fell into a storm off Mt. Pelion, between Casthanaia and Cape Sepias, which caused the loss of one third of the fleet.[121] This was seen as divine retribution by the Greeks, reportedly lifting the morale of the allied force. Battered from the storm, the Persian fleet rested at Aphetes.[122]
In later Greek literature the raising of a massive army and fleet, the construction of the bridges over the Hellespont and the digging of the channel in Athos was seen as a sign of hubris, of great arrogance that was to be punished by the gods.[123]
From Therme to Megara
A force of 10,000 Athenians and Spartans led by Euenetus and Themistocles was dispatched to the vale of Tempe between Thessaly and Macedon after a call by Thessalian cities that disliked the Alevades. It arrived there traveling by ship to Phthiotis and from there by land. There they blocked the pass, but were joined by few Thessalian horsemen. Alexander I of Macedon warned the allied force that Xerxes intended to pass through another pass, so they left the way they came. This happened at the time Xerxes was still at Abydos.[124] All of Thessaly then defected to the Persians, as did many cities north of Thermopylae when they saw that help was not to come. It took Xerxes 13 days to reach from Therme to Thermopylae.
At Thermopylae, a force was assembled led by King Leonidas of Sparta who was only accompanied by the 300 hippeis, literally horsemen though they fought on foot and served as the royal bodyguard.[125] The Greek army included according to Herodotus[126] the following forces
Spartans: 300
Mantineans: 500
Tegeans: 500
Arcadian Orchomenos: 120
Other Arcadians: 1000
Corinthians: 400
Floians: 200
Mycenaeans: 80
Thespians: 700
Thebans: 400
Phocians and Opuntan Locrians: 1,000
Total forces: 5,200
Diodorus Siculus[127] mentions 1000 other Lacedemonian troops sent along with the royal bodyguard, while more auxiliary troops were probably sent from other Greek cities. Diodorus gives 4000 as the total Greek troops, and Pausanias 11,200.[128] Modern historians, which usually consider Herodotus more reliable, prefer between 4000 and 7000. According to Ctesias:
His general Artapanus, with 10,000 men, fought an engagement with Leonidas, the Spartan general, at Thermopylae; the Persian host was cut to pieces, while only two or three of the Spartans were slain. The king then ordered an attack with 20,000, but these were defeated, and although flogged to the battle, were routed again. The next day he ordered an attack with 50,000, but without success, and accordingly ceased operations (Ctesias. Persica 27, Edited by Roger Pearse)
On the third day, a local man named Ephialtes betrayed the existence of a mountain path that led behind Greek positions. Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, as well as Demophilus and his contingent of 700 Thespians, proved their bravery by staying back to allow the rest of the army to escape.[129]
Greek Trireme
In the mean time a Greek naval force of 271 triremes attacked the Persian fleet off battle of Artemisium,[130] with a fleet of 75 triremes guarding against a Persian encirclement at Chalkis. The Persians had indeed sent out a strong contingent to encircle the Greek fleet, but it fell in a storm off Euboea and was damaged.[131] Herodotus makes a direct parallel between the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium, even placing them on the same day. While not a "fight to the death" as Thermopylae had become, Herodotus records that roughly half of the Athenian fleet had been destroyed or damaged beyond repair, in addition to other losses to the allied fleet overall,[132] while at the same time the small Greek fleet had done immense damage to the larger, bulkier Persian fleet, which, as would be seen again at Salamis, became trapped in the narrow strait and unable to manoeuvre. Furthermore fifteen Persian ships had been captured when they sailed in error to the Greek lines earlier.[133] When news of the withdrawal from Thermopylae arrived, the Greek fleet secretly abandoned its position.
Soon afterwards Athens was evacuated, and the Greek fleet withdrew to Salamis to aid in the transfer of the population of Attica to the island.[134] The Peloponnesians proposed a defensive line at the Isthmus of Corinth, relying on the ground forces and using the fleet to keep the Isthmus supplied.[135] Themistocles instead forced a confrontation with the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis and routed the Persian fleet, forcing it to withdraw to the Ionian coast. According to a story related by Herodotus, before the battle, Xerxes had set up a throne on Mt. Aegaleo, so he could watch his great victory over the smaller Greek fleet. However, once gain the narrow gulf provided little room for his heavy triremes to maneuver, allowing the lighter Greek ships to flank and destroy them. Herodotus claims there were 378 ships on the Greek fleet and gives the following numbers:[136]
Athens: 180
Corinth: 40
Aegina: 30
Chalcis: 20
Megara: 20
Sparta: 16
Sicyon: 15
Epidaurus: 10
Eretria: 7
Ambracia: 7
Troizen: 5
Naxos: 4
Leucas: 3
Hermione: 3
Styra: 2
Cythnus: 2
Ceos: 2
Melos: 2
Siphnus: 1
Seriphus: 1
Croton: 1
As can be seen his numbers add only to 366. It has been argued that the 12 missing ships were from Aegina guarding there against invasion. To those forces two more have to be added that defected from the Persians to the Greeks, one before Artemisium and one before Salamis. According to Aeschylus the Greek fleet numbered 310 triremes, while Ctesias claims there the Athenian fleet numbered only 110 triremes and not 180 as Herodotus claims.
After Salamis Xerxes, according to Herodotus, at first attempted to build a causeway across the channel to attack the Athenian evacuees on Salamis. Strabo, who had access to works by other authors disagrees. Describing the coast between Eleusis and Piraeus notes:
and to the passage to Salamis, about two stadia wide, across which Xerxes attempted to build a mole but was forestalled by the naval battle and the flight of the Persians (Herodotus. Geography,9.1.13, translated by H.L. Jones)
Ctesias[137] also places this attempt before the battle. In any case this project was soon abandoned. The Greek cities of Halkidiki rebelled against the Persians. Xerxes, fearing being trapped in Greece, halted his armies advance, withdrew with his family, retainers, the remaining fleet, and a large part of his army to Sardis. Artabazus who was following Xerxes besieged Potidaia and Olynthus.[138] The siege lasted five months, at the end of which he rejoined Mardonius. Mardonius with a handful of junior officers and the rest of the army had accompanied Xerxes until Thessaly. Then he returned south, wintering in Attica and Boeotia.[139]
End of the campaign
The following spring (479 B.C.E.), Mardonius twice offered Athens through Alexander of Macedon a separate peace, but was rebuffed. The Peloponnesians decided to send their army out in Boeotia to take advantage of the situation, before Athenians could change their mind.[140] Cavalry harassment of the Greek forces eventually led to the Battle of Plataea. The Greeks were warned on eve of the attack by Alexander of Macedon.[141] The Spartans and the Tegeans attacked the main body of the Persians while most of their Greek allies feigned cowardice and abandoned the battle, the notable exception being the Thebans who were attacking the Athenians.[142] Mardonius was killed, and his army routed. The remnants of the Persian army left Greece, but the largest part of them did not make it to Asia, being ambushed by the forces of Alexander of Macedon in the estuary of the Strymon river.[143] According to Herodotus, the Greek city-states fielded this many hoplites in Plataea:[144]
Sparta: 10,000
Athens: 8,000
Plataea: 600
Megara: 3,000
Corinth: 5,000
Tegea: 1,500
Potidaea: 300
Arcadian Orchomenus: 600
Sicyon: 3,000
Epidaurus: 800
Troezen: 1,000
Leprea: 200
Mycene and Tiryns: 400
Floia: 1,000
Hermion: 300
Eretria and Styra: 600
Chalkis: 400
Ambrakia: 500
Lefkas and Anactorium: 800
Cephalonia: 200
Aegina: 500
The Gallipoli peninsula as seen from space
Also 71,300 light troops were sent. Of these 35,000 were helots of Sparta, 1800 were Thespians and the other 34,500 are simply said to be from the other cities, about one per hoplite. This is a very large number for a Greek army. The Byzantine Empire rarely fielded armies larger than 100,000 while the modern Greek state raised an army of this size in the Greek-Turkish War of 1897 and the First Balkan War in 1912. Unlike the last two mentioned conflicts when only soldiers from seven or eight years were drafted what was fielded in Plataea was probably every able bodied man between the ages of 20 and 50 who owned weapons.
Among modern scholars others have accepted these numbers and have used them as a population census of Greece at the time,[145] others have claimed the light troop numbers bloated especially since they imply seven helots for every Spartiat; and others have claimed there were no light troops in Plataea, only hoplites, the light troops being nothing more than support troops.
Reportedly, on the same day as the battle of Plataea a 110-ship Greek fleet commanded by the Spartan king Leotychides routed a repaired and refitted 300 ship Persian fleet guarded by 60,000 troops in the Battle of Mycale.[146] Then they advanced towards the Hellespont intending to break the bridges. They found the bridges destroyed. The Spartans left after that. When Ionians had asked for more assistance, the Spartans suggested that they migrate to the cities in the Greek peninsula that supported the Persians.[147] The Athenians under Xanthippus continued the campaign and besieged Sestus. The Athenians continued the siege alone until the city fell a few months later.[148] This is where Herodotus ends his book.
The Greek counterattack
The unification of Macedonia
The kingdom of Macedon in the fourth century B.C.E. At the time of Alexander I, it did not include much land east of the Strymon River and the Halkidiki Peninsula
Alexander of Macedon, encouraged by the Greek success at Plataea and his victory over the Persians in the Strymon river, expanded his realm to include the other Greek tribes living east of Mount Pindus. He also conquered the land east until the banks of the Strymon river, conquering several non-Greek tribes living there.[149] He founded three cities to expand Greek influence into his newly conquered land, and managed to expand his realm east of the Strymon river, gaining part of Mount Paggaion and its famous gold mines. Thus he created the largest individual Greek state in terms of area, population, and income. However, despite its potential, the kingdom of Macedon retained a splintered and feudal style of government, with the king holding little central authority and subservient to the combined force of the aristocracy. Only in the fourth century B.C.E., when the city-states in its south were in general decline, would Phillip II of Macedon, a king with great political genius, firmly unite the Macedonian aristocracy into a strong, centralized monarchy and expand the kingdom beyond these borders and raise it to prominence.
The last joint operation in Byzantium
Encouraged by Xerxes' failures, the Greeks of Asia Minor and the Cyclades revolted again. In 478 B.C.E., a fleet composed of 20 Peloponnesian ships, 30 Athenian ships under Aristides, and other allied forces, with the general command given to Pausanias, sailed to Cyprus. There they succeeded in liberating the Greek cities, but did not succeed in their sieges against the Phoenician cities. Thus Cyprus remained a base of the Persian fleet. The Greek fleet then sailed to Byzantium.[150] Control of the Hellespont and Bosporus was of vital importance to Athens, since throughout the classical age Athens produced only 40 percent of the food required to feed her population, the rest being imported from the Greek colonies of the Black Sea.
The city of Byzantium fell after a siege. Many Persians including nobility fell prisoners to the Greek forces. Pausanias, who was of the royal house of Agis, was greatly impressed by the new way of life; he witnessed it and adopted it. He started wearing Persian dress and offering Persian-style banquets. He also mistreated the Ionian delegates. His Persian-style behavior scandalized both the Ionians and the Peloponnesians and Pausanias was recalled to Sparta. There he faced charges that he was plotting with the Persian king to become tyrant of Greece, that he was in secret communication with him and that he had asked his daughter as his wife. He was acquitted of those charges, found guilty only of mistreating individuals in their private affairs and sentenced not to lead another campaign outside Sparta.[151] Being impatient he took a warship from Hermion and travelled back to Byzantium. No longer welcome there, he crossed the Propontis to the Troas region where he stayed for some time.[152] What he did there is completely unknown. He was recalled to Sparta by special envoy where he was to be brought against charges that he was again plotting with the King of Kings and that he was planning a helot revolution. On his way back, while he was inside the Spartan state limits, he saw the ephoroi, the elected council of five that ruled Sparta, approaching and one of them signalled to him that he was doomed. He took refuge in a nearby temple, where he died of starvation several days later. Some modern historians,[153] based on that he was never condemned and that had he been in league with the Persians he would have sought refuge there and not return, claim this was all a fabrication by his political enemies in Sparta.
In the meantime, in 477 B.C.E. the Spartans had sent Dorkis as general in Byzantium with a small force. The Ionians, with the memories of Pausanias' mistreatment of them fresh, asked them to leave. Relieved, the Spartans who no longer wished to continue fighting the Persians withdrew.[154] Athens gladly filled the vacuum, forming the First Athenian Alliance, better known as the Delian League.
Formation of the Delian League
Aristides, as leader of the Athenians, had made a very good impression on the Ionians with his character. Also, since Athenians were also Ionians, they were more trusted than the Dorian Spartans. A congress was called in the holy island of Delos where the alliance was formed. The members were given a choice of either offering armed forces or paying a tax on the joint treasury. Most cities chose the tax.[155] Aristides spent the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying (according to Plutarch) a few years later in Pontus determining what the tax of new members was to be.[156]
Themistocles was marginalized politically when the leadership of the aristocratic party passed from Aristides to Kimon, son of Miltiades. Themistocles was later exiled and eventually charged of conspiring with Pausanias against Greece. After a long journey he eventually presented himself to the Persians and, following an old Persian tradition of giving sanctuary to prominent Greek politicians, he was given three cities in Asia Minor to rule. He died there a few years later.[157]
Campaigns in the Aegean and Pamphylia
Kimon, in 476 B.C.E., began a campaign against Eion, which still had a Persian guard. The city fell after he diverted the flow of the Strymon river and the walls collapsed. The campaign continued towards Doriskos, however the city refused to capitulate. With Persians out of Heion, many Greek colonies of the Thracian coast joined the Delian League. Doriskos apparently fell at a later date, though precisely when is not recorded. Finally, in 465 B.C.E., with four triremes Kimon removed the last Persians from the Thracian peninsula; thus ended Persian presence in Europe. In the intervening years, Kimon had forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered Skyros and sent Athenian colonists there, and suppressed Naxos's desertion in 468 B.C.E.[158]
In 468 B.C.E. Kimon had gathered a force of 200 improved Athenian triremes in Knidos and 100 allied triremes with 5000 Athenian hoplites and campaigned in Phaselis in Pamphylia. With mediation from Chios (a League member), Phasilis joined the league. The Persian forces that had been gathered at the mouth of the Eurymedon river were defeated and the cities of Ionia officially joined the alliance.[159]
In 465 B.C.E. Athens founded the colony of Amphipolis in the Strymon river. Thassos, a member of the League, saw her interests in the mines of Mount Paggaion threatened and defected from the League. She called to Sparta for assistance but was denied, as Sparta was facing the largest helot revolution in its history (see Third Messenian War).[160] An aftermath of the war was that Kimon was ostracized and the relations between Athens and Sparta turned into hostility. After a three-year siege, Thassos was recaptured and forced back into the League. The siege of Thassos marks the transformation of the Delian league from an alliance into, in the words of Thucydides, a hegemony.[161]
Athens fights in the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece
Ever since the battle of Eurymedon in 466 B.C.E. Athens was engaged in operations against the Persian forces in Cyprus. In 462 B.C.E. Egypt rose again against Persia. Their king Inaros asked in 460 B.C.E. Athens for assistance which was gladly rendered because Athens wished to colonize Egypt. The Persians had gathered a force of 400,000 (according to Ctesias and Diodorus)[162] to suppress the revolution. A force of 200 Athenian triremes that was campaigning in Cyprus was immediately ordered for assistance.[163] A battle took place, according to Herodotus, on Papremis in the west bank of the Nile river.[164] According to Diodorus who is our only source about Athenian engagement in this battle, the Athenian phalanx again defeated the numerically superior but individually inferior Persian archer. The Egyptians and Libyans that were previously retreating on the rest of the front followed the breach in the Persian ranks the Athenians caused and won the battle. The Persian army retreated to Memphis.[165] A sea battle took place near there, where 40 Athenian ships under Charitimedes and 15 Samian ships (of the 200 that had arrived) sunk 30 and captured 20 Persian ships, according to Ctesias.
In the mean time Athens was engaged in war in the Greek peninsula. While the helot revolution was in its final stages and Kimon in Athens, Argos rose against Sparta. The small force that was sent to quell this was defeated by a joint Athenian and Argos force in Oenoe in 460 B.C.E. The war was generalized, and the allies of Plataea found themselves 19 years later at each other's throat. Several battles followed, the most important of which was in Tanagra.[166] Using the insecurity of the Aegean as a pretext Athens moved the Joint Treasury and the seat of the alliance to Athens in 454/453 B.C.E. The war in Greece was halted in 453 B.C.E. when Kimon was recalled from exile and negotiated a five year peace with the Spartans.[167]
Athens defeated in Egypt but victorious in Cyprus
Between 459 and 456 B.C.E. the Egyptians and their Athenian allies were still engaged in the siege of the Persian force in Memphis. A large part of the Athenian fleet had been recalled to the Aegean to help with operations there. The Persians organized another force that, according to Ctesias, numbered 200,000 soldiers and 300 ships, though according to Diodorus had over 300,000 infantry and cavalry. It was led by Megabyzus. A new battle took place near Memphis. Charitimedes was killed, king Inaros escaped to the naval base that had been set up in Prosopitis island on the Nile Delta. There, assisted by 6000 Athenians and their fleet he was besieged for 18 months. The Persian generals did not dare land. They drained the land between the river bank and the island and surprised the Egyptians. The Egyptians quickly surrendered except king Inaros. The Athenians were left alone.[168] Megabyzos negotiated with the Athenians their surrender and were allowed through Cyrene to return to their home. A number of them though was kept prisoner according to Ctesias. A fleet that was being sent to relieve the force at Prosoptis unaware they had surrendered was defeated by the Persians near Cape Mendesium. The result of this loss was that Cyprus fell again to the Persians.[169] Athenians and their allies lost some 20,000 men in this campaign if Isocrates's numbers are accepted.[170] However these dead were very well remembered and Plato puts them along the dead of Euremedon and Cyprus.
Kimon after his recall and the five year peace was sent in Cyprus and Cilicia to fight the Persians. The Persians had helped several cities in Ionia that had tried to defect from the league.[171] With Kimon in Cyprus was sent a force of 200 triremes.[172] They were facing a force of 300 Persian ships in Cyprus led by Artabazus and 300,000 soldiers in Cilicia led by Megabyzus. Kimon conquered Marion and seized in Cyprus. He sent 60 ships to Egypt. During that siege of Kition he died of a wound or disease.[173] On his deathbed he ordered his army to lift the siege and retreat towards Salamis. His death was kept a secret from the Athenian army and their allies, until 30 days later the Athenians defeated both at land and sea the Persians. According to Thucydides both battles took place in Salamis.[174] According to Diodorus though the land battle took place in Cilicia where the defeated fleet had fled.[175] Thus Kimon, even after his death, defeated the Persians.
The peace of Callias
After this battle both enemies were exhausted. None of the sides were in full control of the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean. The king of Persia sent emissaries to Athens. Pericles responded favorable and, in the autumn of 449 B.C.E. according to Diodorus, sent Callias son of Ipponicus in Susa to negotiate. The exact nature of the agreement that became known as the peace of Callias remains unclear (formal treaty or non-aggression pact). According to Diodorus it was an important treaty, Thucydides doesn't even mention it. The terms, according to Diodorus were:[176]
All Greek cities of Asia were to be autonomous
Persian satraps were not to reach closer than three days walk from the sea
No Persian warship was to be in the area between Phaselis in Pamphylia and the Bosporus
If the Great king and his generals were to comply the Athenians were not to campaign against Artaxerxes.
After the peace was agreed Athenians recalled the 60 triremes from Egypt and their forces from Cyprus (apparently this was part of the agreement though it is not mentioned) and ceased operations in this front. The situation in Greece though had flared up and war continued there until the Thirty Year Peace of 445 B.C.E.
Later conflicts
The Persians and Greeks continued to meddle in each other's affairs. The Persians entered the Peloponnesian War in 411 B.C.E. forming a mutual-defense pact with Sparta and combining their naval resources against Athens (see Tissaphernes) in exchange for sole Persian control of Ionia. In 404 B.C.E. when Cyrus the Younger attempted to seize the Persian throne, he recruited 13,000 Greek mercenaries from all over the Greek world, of which Sparta sent 700-800, believing they were following the terms of the treaty and unaware of the army's true purpose. After the failure of Cyrus, Persia tried to regain control of the Ionian city-states. The Ionians refused to capitulate and called upon Sparta for assistance, which she provided. Athens sided with the Persians, setting off the Corinthian War (see Artaxerxes II). Sparta was eventually forced to abandon Ionia and Persian authority was restored with the peace of Antalcidas. No other Greek force challenged Persia for nearly 60 years until Phillip II of Macedon, who, in 338 B.C.E. formed an alliance called οι Ελληνες (the Greeks), modelled after the alliance of 481 B.C.E., and set in motion an invasion of the western part of Asia Minor. He was murdered before he could carry out his plan. His son, Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great, set out in 334 B.C.E. with 38,000 soldiers, 30 days provisions, 70 talents of gold, and a debt of 200 talents. Within three years his army had conquered the Persian Empire, brought the Achaemenid Dynasty to an end, and brought Greek culture up to the banks of the Indus River.
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↑ See for example Lysias, "Funeral oration" 27-29; or Gregory Nazianzen, Logoi, 43
↑ Dionysius Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities II,13
↑ Herodotus VII, 202
↑ Diodorus Siculus. book XI,5
↑ Herodotus VIII,8
↑ Herodotus VIII,18
↑ Herodotus VIII,42-48
↑ Ctesias. Persica, 26
↑ Herodotus. VIII,128
↑ Herodotus IX,10
↑ Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, 200
↑ Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους (History of the Greek nation)vol. B
↑ Thucydides 2,99
↑ Thucydides 1.94
↑ Thucydides I,128
↑ Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους = History of the Greek nation. Vol I, (Athens: 1972)
↑ Thucydides. 1.95
↑ Plutarch. Aristeides 26
↑ Plutarch. Themistocles 32
↑ Thucydides. I.98
↑ Plutarch. Kimon 12
↑ Thucydides. I,100
↑ Thucydides. 101
↑ Diodorus 11.75
↑ Thucydides I.104
↑ Isocrates, On the Peace, 85
↑ Diodorus 12.3
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The Steelworkers Charitable and Educational Organization
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60 Boulevard of the Allies
The Steelworkers Charitable and Educational Organization (SCEO), the nonprofit entity of the United Steelworkers (USW), supports a training partnership linking two of the largest U.S.-based industrial unions with rapidly-expanding immigrant worker centers. The Tony Mazzocchi Center (TMC), the SCEO's training body, brings together the USW, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Labor Institute (LI), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), and Make the Road New York (MRNY). The TMC provides workers and community residents with training to help prevent toxic releases, fires, explosions, injuries, sickness, and death.
The TMC training partnership has access to more than 1.2 million workers and managers at facilities located in each U.S. state and Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. They work in steel, oil, chemical manufacturing, nuclear energy, pharmaceuticals, pulp, paper, automobile parts, appliance manufacturing, cement, metal manufacturing, construction, rubber, plastics, shipbuilding, light manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, electrical manufacturing, and health care. The training partnership also reaches workers in underserved communities that work primarily as day-laborers and temporary workers. The majority of these workers are exposed to hazardous substances covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (29 CFR 1910); the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (40 CFR 311); and the U.S. Department of Transportation (49 CFR 171-177).
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The HDPTP supports a cadre of Specialized Emergency Response Trainers (SERTs) who serve as a part of the national WTP team, ready to respond to any emergency anywhere. The team is trained to respond immediately to emergencies when called upon to provide on-the-spot training to workers and communities recently impacted by a human-made or natural disaster. The SERTs team is comprised of both union members and worker center members, providing the ability to provide response training in multiple languages.
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9 states of Oregon: Portlandia -- leaning left, Portland looks to right itself
Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted May 27, 2012
By Jeff Mapes | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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To many Oregonians who live far from Portland, the metropolitan area is a hopelessly liberal, tree-hugging welter of congested suburbs and big-city wickedness.
But love it or hate it, Portlandia drives the state's economy. Its taxes pay for most of the state budget. Without its left-leaning voters, Oregon would be a conservative, rural Western state.
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The region is primarily responsible for electing Democrats to virtually all statewide offices. And the 1.4 million people of Portlandia -- the state's only major city -- provide the tourism, recreation and retirement dollars that boost communities throughout Oregon.
Now, Portlandia is at a crossroads, gripped by a crisis of confidence in the wake of some of the highest urban job losses of the national recession.
While business critics worry the region has lost its competitive edge, boosters say the region has developed a unique quality of life that is attracting the young, educated people who will be the stars of the next economic wave -- whatever that turns out to be.
Portlandia's size and wealth make it the most influential of the state's regions. Increasingly, it is obsessed more with what's happening in rival cities like Austin or Seattle than in the rest of Oregon.
At the same time, the debate over how to respond to the economic downturn has sharpened the political differences within Portlandia itself.
The urban core, dominated by the city of Portland, this year adopted the state's only local income tax to protect its schools and services.
That would be politically unthinkable in Washington and Clackamas counties, where middle-class suburbanites struggle to keep a small-town feel to their neighborhoods.
The local income tax could further heighten Portland's liberalism as tax-averse voters and businesses move to the suburbs or across the river to Washington state. And it means the region's legislators down in Salem will continue to have the sharp ideological differences that have often made it hard for them to work together.
In the end, the region's successes and failures will ripple through the state. Small-town Oregonians may dislike Portland, but it remains in their best interests to root for their big-city cousins.
"You can't take the dancer from the dance," said University of Oregon economist Ed Whitelaw. "If you take Portland out of it, the rest of the state would suffer."
A different urban livability
There once was little confusion about the metropolitan region's role in Oregon. Until two decades ago, Portland's banks, law firms and other businesses serviced the wealth that came from the vast reaches of Oregon's farms and forests.
"Everyone in the Portland Chamber of Commerce understood 100 percent why they were tied to Oregon," said Gail Achterman of the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon State University. "Everyone could understand the connections."
Then came the deep recession of the early 1980s, when high interest rates caused housing and the lumber industry to crash, unleashing statewide economic misery.
Randy Miller, a Portland businessman with a long record of civic involvement, says the Portland area went through its own re-examination that in some ways mirrors what's happening today.
"The self-flagellation that is going on in the community is paralleled by what happened in the '80s," he said. "We were so awful to each other."
But, he said, the region eventually pulled itself together, clearing the way for a future based on high-tech. Most of the growth came on the suburban fringes of Washington County, where local officials worked to prepare land along the Sunset Highway for industrial development.
When the dot-com boom swept the country in the 1990s, Washington County's Silicon Forest was poised to take advantage.
Meanwhile, the city of Portland became the driving force in promoting the idea of a different kind of urban development that emphasized compactness over sprawl, livability over economic growth at any cost. Portland found itself celebrated in all sorts of national "best of" lists.
But when the economy turned down again, the landing here was disproportionately hard. During the past three years, the region lost nearly 58,000 jobs. In September, the metropolitan area had the dubious distinction of holding the highest unemployment rate -- 8 percent -- of the nation's 51 largest metropolitan areas. The Milken Institute, which has an annual economic ranking of "best performing cities," has dropped the Portland region from fourth in 2000 to 141st this year.
The second-guessing wasn't far behind.
"There's so much focus on land-use laws and managing our growth," said Betty Atteberry, who heads the business-oriented Westside Economic Alliance, "that we kind of forgot about making sure we could continue to grow jobs."
Atteberry and other business leaders are now pushing for a big expansion of the urban growth boundary in Washington County to gain more industrial land.
Metro Council President David Bragdon said the regional planning agency is moving to provide more industrial land. But there's also resistance, particularly among Portland officials, to simply opening the gates to suburban sprawl. Portland Mayor Vera Katz said she worries that pushing out the growth boundaries too far will weaken existing urban centers.
Despite the tension over land use, Katz said she's working with business and government leaders around the region on a strategic economic plan.
And the city has tried to streamline its own permitting process after Portland -- and Katz -- were flayed when Columbia Sportswear moved its headquarters from the city to Washington County in 2001.
"The economy suffers, people always look for scapegoats," Katz said. "Unfortunately, with the help of some business voices, the scapegoat was the city of Portland."
While Portland may be working with the rest of the region, the state's largest city is also going its own way politically. The local income tax approved by Multnomah County voters this year was also matched by an increase in city and county business taxes.
Even many business leaders who worried about the impact of new taxes supported that vote because it finally brought stability to the financially struggling Portland School District.
But it appeared to lead to a small exodus of companies and individuals from the county, something that over time could increase the differences between the electorate in Portland and much of the rest of the region.
Veteran pollster Tim Hibbitts said the city once would occasionally elect conservatives like former Mayor Frank Ivancie. But as an older, more blue-collar generation has been replaced by new arrivals, the city now seems to be dominated by "liberalism verging on leftism," he said.
Portland voters have shown they are also more willing than their suburban counterparts to raise other taxes. The city last year had a property tax rate of $21.21, nearly 40 percent above the state average.
In contrast, Washington County voters have turned down eight of ll countywide tax requests in the past six years. In Clackamas County, they've voted down 10 of 11. Although both counties have been willing to increase school property taxes, they still have property-tax rates similar to the state average.
Young people drawn to Portland
Like much of Oregon, the Portland area has long counted on lifestyle refugees. Just more than 40 percent of the region's residents were born outside the state -- nearly twice the national average.
And, despite the bad economy, population growth in the Portland area still exceeded the national average for the past three years. Experts say the continual in-migration is one reason the area's jobless rate is as high as it is.
For many unemployed Portlanders, "this would have been the perfect time to pack their bags," said Barry Edmonston, who heads the Population Research Center at Portland State University, "but these folks have been staying despite their employment prospects."
Rachel McMillen, the career center coordinator at Portland Community College, said most students she talks to have one thing in common: They want to figure out what their best job prospects are locally.
"They want to do whatever they need to do to stay," said McMillen. She understands the impulse, having moved to Tualatin with her husband a year ago after getting the job that allowed them to escape California for a more affordable and relaxed life in Oregon.
"I know for a fact I plan on staying in Oregon," said Ann Sorenson, 21, a PCC student who still lives in the Southeast Portland house she grew up in. "I plan on going into nursing."
Unlike most of Oregon, the metropolitan region is also drawing large numbers of young people. While the population of 25- to 34-year-olds dropped nationally from 1990 to 2000, their numbers increased in the Portland area.
Ethan Seltzer, dean of urban planning at Portland, argued that the city and the surrounding region are a magnet for many young people because of factors ranging from the access to outdoor recreation to a lower cost of living compared with other big West Coast cities.
"It's cheap and it's green, and at a fairly early stage, people can have an impact on the culture," Seltzer said.
Joe Cortright, a Portland economist working on a study of this age group, said the relative scarcity of people in this age range makes them a valuable commodity.
"Access to smart, talented young people is shaping which places grow and which places don't," he said. "I think we're extremely well-positioned to do well as a metropolitan economy."
When the recovery comes, it will undoubtedly reshape the economic landscape of the region -- just as the high-tech boom tilted growth to the west side.
Clackamas County for years has been divided into a series of distinct communities that often had little in common. While Washington County has "been dedicated to economic growth for a long time," said Bragdon, the Metro president, "none of those conditions are really true in Clackamas County."
But most of the additional land that Metro plans to add to the urban growth boundary is in Clackamas County. The county's chairman, Bill Kennemer, said he's been trying to steal every idea he can from Washington County to make Clackamas County a stronger jobs magnet.
The region's evolution continues to reshape the area's delegation in the Legislature. The eastern edges of Washington County are becoming more Democratic as the area grows more urban. The suburban fringes, meanwhile, are often electing more conservative Republicans. And Portland legislators, who now face virtually no opposition from Republicans, have to run further to the left to survive the only competition they have -- in Democratic Party primaries.
The result, said Kennemer, is that it is "harder for our urban delegation to get together" down in Salem because there are so many competing ideologies.
Despite the problems, businessman Randy Miller said he thinks the region will find a way to market itself to a new generation of seekers looking for something special at the end of the Oregon Trail.
"What we don't want to be is like everybody else," he said. "We do have distinctive qualities and values here that are not part of the mainstream. You know, people have called us quirky before."
-- Jeff Mapes
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5.3. The Products ordered by the Client shall be delivered according to the method chosen from those available and listed on the Site when the order was placed. The Client undertakes to promptly check, as quickly as possible, that the delivery is correct and includes all and only the purchased Products, and to notify the Seller, within this deadline, of any faulty products received or any discrepancy between the order and the goods actually received, following the procedure referred to in art. 8 of this contract; failure to do so will infer that the Products shall be deemed as accepted. In the event that the packaging or boxing of the Products ordered by the Client reaches its destination visibly damaged, the Client is invited to refuse to accept the delivery from the carrier/courier or accept the delivery “with reservations”.
6. Prices, shipping costs, customs duties and taxes
6.1. The price of the Products on sale is that indicated on the Site at the time the order is placed by the Client. Product prices shown on the site are inclusive of the costs of standard packaging, VAT (where applicable) and any indirect duties (where applicable), and are exclusive of shipping costs, which will be calculated before the order placed with the Seller by the Client is confirmed, and which the Client agrees to pay to the Seller in addition to the price shown on the Site.
6.2. The total price payable to the Seller will be indicated in the Order and also indicated on the order confirmation sent via e-mail by the Seller to the Client.
6.3. If the Products are to be delivered to a country outside the European Union, the total price stated in the order and order confirmation, including indirect taxes, is net of any customs duties and any other taxes which the Client hereby agrees to pay for, if required, in addition to the price stated in the order and order confirmation, as required by laws in force in the country to which the Product will be delivered. For further information on any duties or taxes applicable in his country of residence or destination of the Products, the Client is invited to check with the relevant authorities in his country of residence or destination of Products.
6.4. All additional costs, charges, taxes and/or duties payable in any given country, under whatever title, to the Products ordered under these Conditions are the exclusive responsibility of the Client.
6.5. The Client hereby declares that where, at the time the order is placed with the Seller, the former is unaware of the costs, charges, taxes and/or duties referred to in paragraphs 6.3. and 6.4. above, this shall not constitute grounds for termination of this contract and shall under no circumstances be charged to the Seller.
7.1. Payment for Products purchased on the Site shall be made strictly within 10 (ten) days from when the order confirmation is sent by the Seller to the Client. The Client expressly agrees that processing of the contract by the Seller will commence the moment the price of the purchased product/s is credited to the Seller’s bank account.
7.2. Payments for orders can be effected by credit card or via PayPal at the conditions provided below. The Seller may allow additional payment methods, indicating them in the Website's payment section.
7.3. When payment is by credit card, the Client will be transferred to a secure site and the credit card information will be communicated directly to Global Collect Service BV, with registered office in Amsterdam, Holland, via Platenweg 43-49, 2132 HF Hoofddorp, enrolled with the Amsterdam Business Register no. 34140462, the operator designated by the Seller to handle all such transactions. The data provided will be sent securely using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) 128 bit encrypted file transfer systems. Such data remain inaccessible even for the Seller.
7.4. Orders may be paid for by bank transfer to the Seller, where the Client shall use the "Swift" and IBAN codes indicated on the order confirmation, together with the order number.
7.5. The invoice/tax records relating to the purchase will be sent to the Client, where foreseen by applicable laws in force, in electronic format to the e-mail address provided by the Purchaser during the registration process, if the products are to be delivered to a recipient in the Italian territory, or attached to the purchased product in paper format, in all other cases.
8. Seller's legal warranty of conformity, reporting of non-conformities and interventions under warranty.
8.1. The Seller, in accordance with European Directive 44/99/CE and Italian Legislative Decree No. 206/2005 (hereinafter "Consumer Protection Code"), provides Consumers with a legal warranty that the purchased products are free from material or manufacturing defects, and conform to the descriptions published on the Site for a period of 2 (two) years from the date on which the Products are delivered to the Consumer. Warranties are not applicable when Products have been used or washed in an inappropriate manner, without following the instructions/warnings provided by the Seller and/or the Owner of the product, on the information leaflets, tags or labels.
8.2. The Consumer is required to report any defects and non-conformities of the products within and no later than 2 (two) months of acknowledging the same, sending the relative form to the Seller's Customer Service by email to shopcustomercare@originalmarines.com, click here to download the RMA Request Form], clearly indicating the defect and/or non-conformity detected, along with the relative information indicated on the form itself (at least 1 (one) photograph of the Product, the order confirmation sent by the Seller and/or the receipt). Failure to do so will invalidate this warranty
8.3. On receiving the form and related documentation, the Seller shall assess the defects and non-conformity reported by the Consumer via the Owner’s service centre and, having carried out quality control tests in order to assess whether the Product does not in fact conform, shall, at its own discretion, decide whether to grant authorisation for the Products to be returned, responding to the Consumer via e-mail to the address provided by the Consumer when registering with the site or placing the order; this e-mail will include the "RMA Code" Authorisation to return the Products shall, under no circumstances, infer acknowledgement of the defect or non-conformity; this aspect will be assessed once the Products have been returned. The Products that the Seller has authorised to be returned shall be sent by the Consumer, together with a copy of the returned product authorisation e-mail indicating the "RMA Code" within 30 (thirty) days from the date on which the defect or non-conformity was reported to the following address:
TRIBOO DIGITALE C/O ARVATO SERVICES ITALIA S.R.L., VIA LOMBARDIA 21, 24060 TELGATE (BG) - ITALY.
8.4. In cases of defects and/or nonconformities, the Consumer shall be entitled to have the conformity of the Product reinstated with repair or replacement of the same by the Seller, or alternate remedies in the cases expressly foreseen by art. 130 of Legislative Decree no. 206/2005.
If the Seller undertakes to refund the Consumer for the price paid, the refund will be effected, where possible, using the same payment method used by the Consumer to purchase the product, or by bank transfer. The Purchaser will be responsible for sending the Seller, using the same e-mail address shopcustomercare@originalmarines.com the bank details for the bank transfer in his favour, and allow the Seller to to transfer the refund.
9. Defective Products Liability
9.1. With regards to potential damages caused by faulty Products, the provisions set forth by European Directive 85/374/EEC and the Consumer Code shall be applicable. The Seller, in its capacity as distributor of the Products on the Site disclaims all liability, without exclusions and/or exceptions, indicating, on receiving such request from the damaged Consumer, the identity and domicile address of the manufacturer of the product concerned.
10. Right of withdrawal
10.1 Notwithstanding the exceptions under art. 59 of the Consumer Code, and without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs 2bis.4 and 2bis.5 above, the Consumer shall have the right to withdraw from any contract concluded pursuant to these general Conditions of sale, without incurring any penalty, within 14 (fourteen) days from (i) the day on which the Product is delivered or (ii) if several Products on one order are delivered separately, from the date the last Product was received.
10.2 To exercise a right of withdrawal, the Consumer shall, before the deadline indicated in paragraph 10.1 above, access the "My Returns" page in the My Account area or, if the same is not a registered user, by accessing the designated page and entering the order number and email address used to place the order. As an alternative, the Consumer can send an explicit declaration to Triboo Digitale, using the Contact Form or email address shopcustomercare@originalmarines.com of his intention to exercise the right of withdrawal using the withdrawal form enclosed.
10.3 On completing the requirements of paragraph 10.2 above, the Consumer will receive a withdrawal confirmation email containing, in the case where the ordered product has already been received, the RMA form to be included in the package, along with the instructions on how to return the product, to be sent within and no later than 14 days to:
10.4 If the Consumer has received the product, he is required to return it to the above indicated address without undue delay and, in any event, within 14 days from the day that notice of such withdrawal was given. The deadline shall be met if the Consumer returns the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. The Consumer shall be responsible for the direct risks and costs of returning the goods, and providing proof of the same. If the Consumer exercises his right of withdrawal via the Site and wishes to use the return service provided by the Site, before confirming the withdrawal request, the cost to return the goods will be indicated.
10.5 If the Consumer withdraws from this contract, a refund of all payments received will be effected, including the costs of delivery (with the exception of the supplementary costs resulting from the choice of a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and in any event no later than 14 days from exercising the right of withdrawal. Such refunds shall be effected using the same means of payment used by the Consumer for the initial transaction, unless the Consumer requests the refund via a different means of payment, in which case the Consumer will be charged for any additional fees incurred as a result of the choice of such means. We may withhold the refund until we have received the returned goods or the Consumer has supplied evidence of having despatched the goods, whichever is the earliest.
10.6 The Consumer is liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods. Therefore, if the returned goods are found to be damaged (for instance showing signs of wear, abrasion, nicks, scratches, deformation, etc.), not complete with all parts and accessories (including unaltered labels still attached to the product), unaccompanied by the instructions/notes/manuals supplied, the original packaging and packing and the original warranty, if any, the Customer shall be accountable for the decreased value of the product, and be entitled to receive a refund equal to the residual value of the Product. To this purpose, it is highly recommended for Consumers not to handle the product other than as strictly necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the same, and
to use the original packaging of the Products plus further protective packaging that will keep them intact and protect them from writing or labels.
11. Intellectual Property Rights
11.1. The Client acknowledges that he or she is aware that all trademarks, names and other distinctive signs as well as any names, images, photographs, written text or graphics used on the Site or relating to the Products are and remain the exclusive property of Original Marines S.p.A. and/or its assignees, with no rights arising on the part of the Client in relation to the same as a result of access to the Site and/or purchase of the Products.
11.2. Unless prior specific consent is granted in writing by Original Marines S.p.A., no contents of the Site can be reproduced in whole or in part, transferred using electronic or conventional means, modified or used for any purpose whatsoever.
12. Protection of Client Personal Data
12.1. In order to proceed with the registration process, place an order and conclude this contract under these Conditions of sale, the Client is required to provide certain personal details. The Client hereby acknowledges that the personal data provided will be recorded and used by the Seller and by Original Marines S.p.A. in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Italian Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 as subsequently amended - the Privacy Code (Personal Data Protection Code), to process each purchase via the Site and, upon granting his consent, for any other activities as illustrated in the specific Information Notice on the Personal Data Protection Code provided to the Client via the Site during the registration phase.
12.2. The Client hereby declares and guarantees that the personal details provided to the Seller during the registration and purchase process are truthful and accurate.
12.3. The Client is entitled, at any moment in time, to update and/or amend the personal data submitted to the Seller via the “My Account” section on the Site, which can be accessed after logging in.
12.4. For any further information on how the personal details of Clients are processed, please refer to the Privacy Policy and read the General Conditions of Use carefully.
13.1. While the Seller takes all necessary precautions to protect personal data against loss, falsification, manipulation and improper use by unlawful third parties, due to the characteristics and technical limitations concerning the protection of electronic communications via the Internet, the Seller does not guarantee that the information or data viewed by the Client on the Site, even after the Client has provided relative login credentials, will not be accessible or viewable by unauthorised third parties.
13.2. Where data in relation to payments made by credit card are concerned, the Seller uses the services provided by Global Collect Service BV which adopts technological systems to guarantee maximum levels of reliability, security, protection and confidentiality for information transmitted over the web.
14. Applicable law, settlements and jurisdiction
14.1. Any sales contracts signed between the Seller and the Consumer under these Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the Italian laws in forces and, in particular, if the Client is a Consumer, the Consumer Code, with specific reference made to the regulations concerning distance contracts, and by Legislative Decree no. 70 dated April 9, 2003, on certain aspects concerning electronic commerce. This is without prejudice to any rights granted to Consumers by binding provisions in force in the Consumer's country of residence.
14.2. In the event of a dispute between the Seller and the Consumer, we hereby undertake to attempt to reach an amicable settlement which Consumers can submit to the RisolviOnline service, an independent settlement service provided by the Board of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, which provides the possibility to reach a satisfactory agreement, with the assistance of an impartial and expert Arbitrator, in an amicable and secure manner on the internet. For further information on the RisolviOnline regulations or to submit a settlement request, please visit the website at www.risolvionline.com.
14.3. As an alternative to the settlement proposed in art. 14.2 above, the Consumer is also entitled to access the European Online Dispute Resolution Platform (European ODR Platform) to resolve any disputes between the Seller and the Consumer. The European ODR Platform is developed and managed by the European Council implementing Directive no. 2013/11/EU and Regulation (EU) no. 524/2013, to provide out-of-court solutions that are independent, impartial, transparent, simple, efficient, fast and low-cost ways of resolving domestic and cross-border disputes which arise from online sales or service contracts between a Consumer residing in the EU and a professional residing in the EU by means of the intervention by an ADR entity (Alternative Dispute Resolution) providing such services, as seen in the list provided. For further information on the European ODR Platform, or to submit a complaint and start alternative termination procedures concerning the dispute relating to this contract, please use the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/odr. The Seller's email address to be reported to the European ODR Platform is as follows: shopcustomercare@originalmarines.com.
14.4. If no settlement attempt is made, as under section 14.2, or the attempt is not successful, exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes shall be granted to the competent court in the Consumer's place of residence or domicile address.
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Most lenders want to help you to reduce chance of foreclosure
Stef Donev, Interest.ComTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
If you want to avoid foreclosure, let's look at four simple facts that, according to a recent survey, many people don't know. First, your mortgage company knows when you miss a payment. You really cannot hide. Second, your lender does not want your house. They are lenders, not real estate agents. Third, they can help you avoid foreclosure. Fourth, lenders will help you try to avoid foreclosure if you work with them.
People, however, try to run from mortgage problems. According to a recent survey by Freddie Mac and Roper Public Affairs and Media, a market-research firm, more than half of the people who fall behind in their payments don't even try to work out a solution with their lenders. That head-in-the-sand attitude is one of the reasons the foreclosure rate climbed in every quarter of 2005, and why more than 846,000 American homes were in some stage of foreclosure last year, according to RealtyTrac, an online company that tracks foreclosures across the nation.
"Overall U.S. foreclosure numbers climbed steadily over the course of the year," says James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. "This trend appears to be moving the real estate foreclosure market back to its historic levels."
Saccacio points out, however, that the number "represents less than 1 percent of U.S. households." He adds that the increase from the third to fourth quarters last year was less than 5 percent.
"Over the last few years, we've seen historically low mortgage rates," he says. "With interest rates rising and an apparent slowing of property valuation in most markets, we'll be watching closely to see if there's a material effect on the number of foreclosures in 2006."
Florida has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. Saccacio says it accounted for "more than 14 percent of the nation's new foreclosures in 2005." Colorado was second, followed by Utah, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee.
The growing foreclosure rate is why Freddie Mac commissioned a survey that found more than half of all homeowners who fall behind on their payments refuse to call their mortgage companies to talk with them about it. They apparently would rather risk losing their homes than deal with the problem -- even when their mortgage company calls them first.
Mortgage companies track all payments and routinely send out reminders when payments are late. At a certain point, depending on individual lender policies, the phone calls start.
The survey showed that 75 percent of delinquent borrowers say they remember getting that letter or phone call -- or both. And when you look at those who remember getting a reminder, you see that more than half of them ignored it. The survey reports that 28 percent of the people said there was no reason to talk to the mortgage company, or there was no way the lender could help them. Another 17 percent said they could handle it themselves. And 7 percent said they didn't have the money, so they saw no reason to talk to their lenders. Other reasons included embarrassment, 6 percent; fear, 5 percent. The survey also shows that 61 percent of those interviewed said they did not know there were "workout options" that would help them get through their financial troubles. And 92 percent said they would have talked to their lenders had they known that "workout options" existed.
These options vary, depending upon the company and the reason you are late. For people going through a temporary, tough period, lenders will often set up an installment plan that lets borrowers repay past-due payments on top of the regular payment. In some cases, lenders will refinance the loan, including the overdue amount, over a longer period.
When finances are such that the homeowner will not be able to catch up, the lender can let the owner sell the house. When the house is sold and the loan is paid, any extra money is theirs to keep.
Freddie Mac says an earlier study showed that working out a repayment plan with a lender could lower the probability of actual foreclosure by 80 percent. You can save your house. The first step is to talk to your lender.
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Chinese Medicine for Immune Support
Dear patients and friends,
I am currently offering short consults for herbal prescriptions for immune system support. There is some evidence that certain Chinese herbs may support immune-strengthening and immune-regulating effects such as Astragalus and Andrographis (1,2,3,4,5,6,7), and that might help with an anti-viral response such as Isatis (8,9,10,11,12).
Please contact me through the Contacts section or call my practices directly to arrange for a 15-minute appointment. Please do not come to the clinic if you are currently feeling cold/flu-like symptoms. A phone or video appointment can be arranged instead.
We are currently experiencing a Coronavirus pandemic and there is currently no cure for this illness, only symptomatic treatment.
If you are experiencing symptoms such as fever, sore throat, tiredness, cough, shortness of breath; or other flu/cold-like symptoms you must contact your GP immediately, preferably by a phone call rather than a personal visit.
You can also call the Coronavirus Information Helpline at 1800 020 080.
These are some online resources placed by the Australian Government that can give you more information regarding action and prevention:
www.healthdirect.gov.au/coronavirus
www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert
www.health.gov.au/health-topics/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov#treatment
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Image Credit: Cara Faus. Taken from Flickr
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Olly Sellwood
Kolmanskop (2016, revised 2017)
for tuba and live electronics
Composer - Olly Sellwood
Written for Alex Glyde-Bates.
Filmed in Southampton in April 2018.
In my recent work I have approached the act of composition as the construction and subsequent exploration of delimited musical situations. This piece draws on this idea by using a small amount of different types of material: four musical phrases for the tuba, four audio effects that change the sound of the tuba, four different samples of found sound, and four speakers positioned at the four corners of a room. Throughout the piece the different mixtures of these materials bump against each other by layering simultaneous phrases as well as cutting between contrasting ideas.
The first pedal (when depressed) switches on an audio effect that takes the audio signal from the tuba and repeats little phrases back again. This effect is combined with an audio sample taken from a Mardi Gras celebration. The second pedal effect is a delay combined with a sample of jungle ambience. The third, a harmoniser, is linked to the sound of a brass band warming up. Finally, the last pedal is distorts the clean signal and is matched to the sound of a rock/hip-hop band. Each speaker is initially assigned one effect and one musical phrase, which is disrupted as the piece develops.
The sounds you hear are played on the tuba or activated by the performer with a pedal. This means that the performer has to engage in a small dance routine
while playing.
Kolmanskop has been performed by Out-Take Ensemble on the 23rd April 2018 at the Talking Heads in Southampton and on the 3rd March 2016 at the Hansard Gallery in Southampton.
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Labour's democracy review should be about more than selection procedures
If Labour wants to shape the future, it must reinvent what it means to be a political party.
Image, Ren, Flickr.com, some rights reserved.
The looming Labour conference is, we learnt at the weekend, to debate and deicide on a number of rule changes, which in the current climate are obviously seen as a move by the left against the right. Which of course they might be. The party’s factions, left and right, live and die by the sword in a cycle of retribution, all about who has the numerical upper hand. This instrumentalist approach to politics will be the death of Labour, whoever wins out.
The more important issue is not whether the reforms hurt or help either side – but whether they deepen democracy within the party and ultimately whether they pave the way forward for a party political formation that is now way out of date for the 21st century.
On the first challenge, we should welcome rule changes that engage more party members in decision-making but also recognises the dangers of a permanent plebiscite on party representatives. On this basis the reforms going to the Labour conference look a mixed bag. Personally, I see nothing wrong with sitting MPs being challenged once every five years – better this than the stitch ups by party officials and the parachuting in of gilded ones, sweetened by offers of places in the Lords to get old MPs out and the new in. On the other hand, any shift to move to directly elected council leaders looks poorly thought through.
There is one proposal I really support, that is the rule change to enable CLPs not to have stand a candidate at a general election if they vote not to. Standing candidates that only let in the Tories is self defeating and local parties should be allowed to excuse themselves from this waste of resources. If this had been in place at the last election, Jeremy Corbyn would now be PM. Of course, the only long term answer to our woeful first past the post voting system is a shift to proportional representation. And its great to see a flock of motions supportive of this.
So the reforms will mostly help, a bit, but they are a massive missed opportunity. Why didn’t the Democracy Review led by former MP Katy Clark start with a blank sheet of paper and ask the question: if we were starting a political party now, what would its function and therefor its form be? If they did this then that could have led to a gap analysis between how to really influence power in the 21st century and where the party actually is now – suggesting a series of transformations over time.
In this they could have leant something from the Liberal Democrats and others. The likely decision of the Liberal Democrats to open the leadership of the party up to non-MPs is a yet another signal of the revolution that needs to come if our political system is ever going to be fit for the 21st century. The move to elect a Leader who isn’t necessarily an elected member of parliament is in many ways seismic as it tacitly acknowledges three big things. First that the talent now lies elsewhere. This is not just because the Lib Dem pool of MPs is so small, finding real leadership talent in the whole of Westminster is now a tough gig. In part that’s because the life of the MP is not exactly that attractive. They get paid little in comparison to others doing similar jobs, work all hours and mostly get huge amounts of stick for not being perfect enough.
Second, and more importantly, the search beyond parliament reflects the fact that power has now escaped parliament. Nation states and certainly national economics are no longer to be commanded and controlled from the centre of government. Through the global economy and now the rise of social media and the network society, power and politics have been separated. If you want to change the world today you don’t join a political party but start a hedge fund to get rich and give it away, a tech company or new campaign organization. The Liberal Democrat’s presumably want to tap into this world and they are right to.
The successful party of the future won’t have a leader based in Westminster because that’s no longer the centre of power. Instead ‘the leader’ will oversee activity in the economy, civil society, the media (new and old), academia etc – at every point in which ideas are formed and coalitions for change built.
And all this reveals the third and biggest shift, the decline in the dominance of representative democracy. Once politics was simple. We voted for people who represented us and managed the economy and public services, took us to war or kept the peace, all on our behalf. In the complexity of a globalized and networked world it is impossible for the politician as technocrat to dominate. Of course we need representatives to make many decisions for us, but we need a deeper sense of everyday democracy too, at work and in our communities. Representative democracy now needs to be augmented by more deliberative and, when appropriate, direct forms of democracy. In the future we will shift effortlessly between these different forms in what is called Liquid Democracy.
The Liberal Democrats are trying to adapt to this new world in which the shift to proportional representation is essential. The Women’s Equality Party has already been leading the way as they allow their members to belong to other parties (who of course refuse to reciprocate) as they try to change the agenda and not just get their hands on old power, while the Greens show us the possibilities of ideas like co-leadership. Abroad party movements like En Marche in France, the Alternative in Denmark and Podemos in Spain are all part of the move to 21st century politics. With a new centre party coming down the track this party revolution is only just kicking off. This is the space Labour should have started to fill. Instead it is making a few tweaks when what is needed is transformation of the party political formation.
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ProfessionalsKannon K. Shanmugam
emailkshanmugam@paulweiss.com
email+1-202-223-7325
2001 K Street, NW
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J.D., Harvard Law School
M. Litt., University of Oxford
Marshall Scholar
A.B., Harvard University
Hon. Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court
Hon. J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group and managing partner of the Washington office, Kannon Shanmugam is widely recognized as one of the nation's top appellate litigators. He has argued 30 cases before the Supreme Court, including 12 cases in the last five years, and has successfully obtained review in five cases so far this year. Kannon was lead counsel in the successful constitutional challenge to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, described by the Wall Street Journal as the “constitutional case of the year.” He has also argued dozens of appeals in courts across the country, including all 13 U.S. courts of appeals and numerous state courts.
Prior to private practice, Kannon served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
One longtime Supreme Court reporter recently said that Kannon “has perhaps the most eloquent and elegant manner … that I’ve ever seen in my 40 years covering the Court,” adding that Kannon “projects calm, confidence, and authority from the moment he takes to the lectern.” In ranking Kannon in Band 1 of appellate advocates nationwide, Chambers USA described him as “absolutely extraordinary” and praised him as “smooth, unflappable, effective, and elegant … an incredible lawyer in all respects.” Benchmark Litigation noted that Kannon is “one of the most respected and admired appellate practitioners” in the country, and Lawdragon praised him as “dazzlingly accomplished” and “inspiring and in demand.”
Kannon has been recognized as one of the nation’s top 10 appellate lawyers (Benchmark Litigation) and top 500 lawyers overall (Lawdragon magazine). He has been named The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” three times, and a Law360 “Legal Lion of the Week” ten times for a series of victories at all three levels of the federal courts. Kannon has also been featured on numerous lists of top Supreme Court advocates, with Washingtonian magazine naming him one of its 20 people in Washington to watch.
Kannon is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He has served as the co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee and is also a past president of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, the principal bench-bar organization for appellate judges and lawyers in the Washington area. Kannon is the only practicing American attorney who is an honorary bencher of the Inner Temple, one of the four English Inns of Court. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Procedures for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Kannon has taught Supreme Court advocacy as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. In the community, he has served as chair of the board of trustees of Thurgood Marshall Academy, a charter school in Southeast Washington that is one of the city’s highest-performing public high schools. He has devoted substantial time to pro bono representation in the areas of criminal law and religious liberty.
Kannon’s significant representations include:
Successfully representing Seila Law in the Supreme Court in a recent case challenging the constitutionality of the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).
Successfully representing antitrust defendants in the Supreme Court in a case concerning the enforcement of a contractual provision delegating questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator. (Henry Schein v. Archer & White).
Successfully representing Digital Realty in the Supreme Court in a case requiring whistleblowers to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission before bringing suit for retaliation under the Dodd-Frank Act (Digital Realty v. Somers).
Successfully representing Santander in a Supreme Court case on the frequently litigated question of which financial institutions are subject to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (Henson v. Santander).
Successfully representing Omnicare in the Supreme Court in a closely watched case on the actionability of statements of opinion under the federal securities laws (Omnicare v. Laborers District Council).
Successfully representing Jesse Litvak, a Jefferies bond trader, in two high-profile appeals in the Second Circuit reversing his convictions for securities fraud (United States v. Litvak).
Successfully representing AstraZeneca in the First Circuit in an appeal from the first jury verdict in an antitrust class action challenging pharmaceutical patent settlements, in which plaintiffs were seeking up to $20 billion in damages (In re Nexium Antitrust Litigation).
Successfully representing Bank of America in the Second Circuit in its appeal from a $1.3 billion adverse judgment for civil penalties under FIRREA arising from the sale of mortgage loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Bank of America v. United States).
Successfully representing AstraZeneca in the Federal Circuit in a case providing broad personal jurisdiction over generic drug manufacturers in patent disputes (AstraZeneca v. Mylan).
Successfully representing a death-row inmate pro bono in the Supreme Court, with the Court ruling that the district attorney’s office had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by failing to disclose favorable statements made by the key eyewitness before trial (Smith v. Cain).
Successfully representing the government in a landmark Supreme Court case setting the pleading standard for federal securities-fraud actions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (Tellabs v. Makor Issues & Rights).
Kannon Shanmugam Featured on Bloomberg Law Podcast
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was interviewed on Bloomberg Law’s “Cases and Controversies” podcast.
Kannon Shanmugam and Paul, Weiss Featured in The American Lawyer for Securing More Than 10% of SCOTUS Cert Grants This Year
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam and the Paul, Weiss Supreme Court & Appellate practice group were featured in the December 17 edition of The American Lawyer Litigation Daily.
Kannon Shanmugam Featured in Original Jurisdiction for His 30th Supreme Court Argument
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was featured in an article, “What's it Like to Argue Before the Supreme Court — for the 30th Time?” published on December 9 by David Lat’s Original Jurisdiction.
Paul, Weiss Argues Supreme Court Case on Behalf of Pro Bono Client Challenging Interpretation of Federal Sentencing Statute
In a Supreme Court appeal with important implications for criminal procedure and due process rights, Paul, Weiss conducted oral arguments on November 3 on behalf of a pro bono client, Charles Borden Jr., challenging the Sixth…
Takeaways: Reflecting Forward – A View from the Inner Circle
Paul, Weiss recently hosted almost 50 senior Legal, Compliance, and Sustainability executives, directors and academic leaders in a closed-door roundtable discussion via Zoom to discuss how companies are adapting to the rapidly…
Competing Congressional and Executive Branch Proposals to Revise Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has long afforded online platforms with immunity from certain types of civil action concerning the content posted on these platforms by their users.
Supreme Court Update: High Court Ends Attempt to Impose Company Pension Liabilities on Private Equity Funds
The Supreme Court recently declined to hear New England Teamsters & Trucking v. Sun Capital Partners, et al., putting an end to years of litigation that have plagued the private equity industry.
Kannon Shanmugam Interviewed by NLJ About His Supreme Court Victory Concerning the Constitutionality of the CFPB
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was interviewed by The National Law Journal about Paul, Weiss’ role in the landmark Supreme Court decision on June 29 in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Paul, Weiss Secures Second Circuit Victory on Behalf of Hedge Fund Founder
Paul, Weiss won a major appeal at the Second Circuit when the court vacated and remanded our client Murray Huberfeld’s 30-month sentence and reversed the lower court’s $19 million restitution order against him.
Supreme Court to Determine Whether FTC Can Obtain Monetary Restitution in Federal Court
On July 9, the Supreme Court granted review in AMG Capital v. Federal Trade Commission and Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center to decide whether a federal court can award monetary relief in the form of restitution in an…
Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses $50 Billion Derivative Action Against Hedge Fund Managers for Lack of Standing
Paul, Weiss obtains dismissal of $50 billion derivative action brought by beneficiaries of the Kentucky Retirement System against hedge fund managers and others. In a unanimous ruling, the Kentucky Supreme Court held that plaintiffs…
Supreme Court Holds That CFPB’s Structure Is Unconstitutional
In Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Supreme Court recently held that the structure of the CFPB violates the constitutional separation of powers. One of the most important separation-of-powers cases in recent…
U.S. Supreme Court Rules That President Has Authority to Remove CFPB Director
Paul, Weiss represented Seila Law in the landmark decision by the Supreme Court in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Supreme Court to Determine the Effect of a Carve-Out Provision on an Agreement to Arbitrate Questions of Arbitrability
The Supreme Court agreed on June 15 to determine whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act, a provision in an arbitration agreement exempting certain claims from the scope of the agreement negates a provision clearly delegating…
U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Title VII Prohibits Sexual-Orientation and Transgender Discrimination
In Bostock v. Clayton County, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or transgender…
Kannon Shanmugam Participates in NJIPLA Patent Litigation Webinar
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was a featured speaker in a webinar, “Patent Cases at the Supreme Court: From Petitions to CVSGs to Arguments, and Everything in Between,” hosted by the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law…
Paul, Weiss Wins Second Supreme Court Petition Grant in Schein v. Archer & White
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether a carve-out in an arbitration agreement negates a provision allowing arbitrators to rule on whether a case is arbitrable under the Federal Arbitration Act.
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Standing for ERISA Plan Participants to Sue for Breach of Fiduciary Duties
In Thole v. U.S. Bank, the Supreme Court held that participants in a defined-benefit pension plan governed by ERISA lacked standing to sue for breaches of fiduciary duties if they had not suffered personal financial injury.
Supreme Court: New York Convention Doesn’t Bar Non-Signatories to an International Arbitration Agreement from Seeking to Compel Arbitration
In GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, the Supreme Court held that the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards does not preclude a nonsignatory to an international…
Appellate Litigation in the Age of COVID-19
The U.S. Supreme Court and other federal and state appellate courts are adjusting their practices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Courts are canceling arguments, postponing them, or providing for telephonic arguments and are…
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of CFPB Structure
On March 3, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kannon Shanmugam of Paul, Weiss argued on behalf of Seila Law that the CFPB’s structure is unconstitutional because it…
Paul, Weiss Wins Grant of Cert Petition in Pro Bono Criminal Case
The Supreme Court granted a Paul, Weiss petition for a writ of certiorari on behalf of a pro bono client who is challenging his sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, based on his prior convictions for “violent felonies.”
Paul, Weiss Wins Freedom for Pro Bono Client Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
After a 15-year fight on his behalf, Paul, Weiss secured the freedom of a pro bono client who was wrongfully convicted in 1996 of a murder he did not commit.
Kannon Shanmugam Featured Speaker at Constitution Day
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam will deliver a lecture, “The State of the Constitution,” at the Library of Congress.
Kannon Shanmugam to Speak at NYC Bar’s CLE Program
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam will speak at the New York City Bar’s CLE program, “Supreme Court — A Year in Review, 2018 Term.”
Kannon Shanmugam Featured in “Legal Speak” Podcast
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam is featured in the June 21 episode of “Legal Speak,” a podcast on Law.com.
Kannon Shanmugam to Speak on the Supreme Court’s 2019 Term
Litigation Partner Kannon Shanmugam will speak on a panel at the South Asian Bar Association of North America’s 2019 Annual Conference.
Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Decision in Lorenzo v. SEC
In March 2019, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Lorenzo v. SEC, concluding that, under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a person who “disseminates” but does not “make” a misstatement may be…
Kannon Shanmugam Featured in Lawdragon Article on Move to Paul, Weiss
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was featured in a Q&A in Lawdragon.
Supreme Court Reiterates That Rejection of Executory Contract Constitutes Breach
The U.S. Supreme Court held today in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC that a trademark licensee may retain certain rights under a trademark licensing agreement even if the licensor enters bankruptcy and rejects the…
U.S. Supreme Court Holds That False Claims Act Relators May Have up to 10 Years to File Suit, Regardless of Government Intervention
On May 13, 2019, the Supreme Court unanimously held in Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Hunt that the limitations period in Section 3731(b)(2) of the False Claims Act applies in all qui tam suits where the…
Paul, Weiss’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice Featured in The American Lawyer
The American Lawyer featured Paul, Weiss’s new Supreme Court & Appellate Practice in an April 30 article.
Supreme Court Deals Another Blow to Availability of Class Arbitration
On April 24, 2019, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, holding that under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) class arbitration may not be compelled based on ambiguous contract language.
Supreme Court Passes–For Now–on Rejecting an Implied Private Right of Action for Tender Offer Claims
On April 23, 2019, the Supreme Court issued a one-line per curiam order in Emulex v. Varjabedian: “The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.”
Kannon Shanmugam Featured in Above the Law
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was featured in an Above the Law article discussing his recent speech, “Arguing Before the Supreme Court,” at the Columbia Federalist Society.
U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Primary Liability under the Federal Securities Laws May Be Based on Misstatements that the Defendant Did Not Make
The Supreme Court held in Lorenzo v. Securities & Exchange Commission that under certain circumstances a person who does not “make” a misstatement may nonetheless be held primarily liable.
Paul, Weiss Secures Unanimous Win in Supreme Court Case on the Scope of the FDCPA
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Paul, Weiss client McCarthy & Holthus. In Obduskey v. McCarthy Holthus LLP, the Court addressed whether the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act generally exempts law firms and…
U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Entities Engaged in Nonjudicial Foreclosure Proceedings Are Generally Exempt from the FDCPA
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court held that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) generally exempts entities that merely engage in nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings, in accordance with state law.
Paul, Weiss Adds Kannon Shanmugam, Renowned Supreme Court and Appellate Lawyer
Kannon Shanmugam, a renowned Supreme Court and appellate lawyer, has joined Paul, Weiss as a partner in the Litigation Department and will chair the Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Group.
Kannon Shanmugam Awarded Honorary Doctor of Law from University of South Carolina
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam was presented with an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Kannon Shanmugam Featured in The National Law Journal’s 2019 Appellate Hot List
Kannon Shanmugam was named to The National Law Journal’s “Appellate Hot List” in its 2019 special report.
Kannon Shanmugam Elected as Honorary Bencher at Inner Temple
Litigation partner Kannon Shanmugam has been elected as an honorary bencher at one of the four English Inns of Court, the Inner Temple.
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Catherine Karakatsanis, P.Eng., FCAE, FEC
Chief Operating Officer, Morrison Hershfield Group Inc.
Whether it’s her executive role as chief operating officer, helping lead Morrison Hershfield Group Inc. (one of Canada’s largest engineering consultancies), or her career-long work as a volunteer leader, including appointments heading up both provincial and national engineering bodies, Catherine Karakatsanis has contributed much to Canadian engineering thanks to her natural leadership in both business and volunteer governance.
In her professional life, Karakatsanis joined Morrison Hershfield after graduating as a structural engineer, and steadily rose through several technical roles including structural engineer through to project management, technical director and into senior director and executive roles. She has worked across Canada and the US on numerous high-profile projects and has contributed significantly to engineering excellence in the areas of design, planning and engineering management. Now, as a C-level executive, she oversees all Morrison Hershfield operations across Canada, the US and internationally, and leads four business units representing very diverse business segments in both the vertical and horizontal infrastructure arenas.
And as a dedicated, career-long volunteer leader in Canadian engineering, Karakatsanis has led her profession's provincial regulator, provincial advocacy body and national organization.
A devoted advocate for creating a more diverse profession, Karakatsanis worked hard to promote engineering to young people and increase the number of women in the profession during her tenure as president and chair of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers in 2002-2003.
During PEO’s 2009-2010 Council term, she served as the regulator’s fourth female president and inspired the organization to become a world leader in self-regulation—a vision the association continues to live up to.
And as president of Engineers Canada, she worked closely with the provincial regulators to deliver national programs that continue to have a positive impact on the profession and its public profile.
Her contributions to the profession have been recognized over the years by many organizations and by many awards. Some of her recognition includes: as among the University of Western Engineering's most successful alumni by the L.S. Lauchland Engineering Alumni Medal (2008); for her dedication to supporting women in the workplace by the Ontario Women's Directorate Award 'Leading Women Building Communities Award' (2013); and for her engineering management expertise through the OPEA Engineering Medal in the Management category (2012). To recognize her cumulative contributions to engineering, management and the community, Catherine was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering as a Fellow (2011); given the Province of Ontario Volunteer 20 Year Service Award (2011); and joined a select few in 2016 to be inducted into the Women's Executive Network (WXN) Top 100. Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame after being named one of Canada’s most powerful women four years in a row in four different categories.
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It’s Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. This year the first day of the Lunar New Year was on February 16, 2018, and it began the Year of the Dog. Although Lunar New year is strongly part of Chinese culture, it is also celebrated in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mauritius, Australia, and the Philippines. Many cities in the Americas, such as San Francisco, Chicago, and Mexico City hold large Chinese New Year celebrations as well. Music is an important part of the festivities. There are many popular holiday folk and children’s songs, similar to the tradition of Western Christmas carols. One very popular song is “Congratulations - A New Year Song.” Other traditions include the Lion dance and the Dragon dance, exchanging gifts, floral decorations, taking family portraits, hanging ornamental lanterns, and travel.
Congratulations - performed by Pink Martini
Attending a Chinese New Year celebration is a great way to introduce children (and adults) to the music of another culture. Introducing students to music, along with other culutral elements such as food and visual art, promotes cultural understanding. Learning music is learning another language and by exposing your students and your own children to unfamilar sounds builds their musical fluency. Attending a performance of traditional folk music, a Chinese symphonic orchestra, or a traditional-style Chinese opera exposes students to new sounds and intriguing timbres (tone colors), including different scales, styles of singing, rhythmic patterns, and combinations of instruments and voices. Before attending a performance of Chinese music, it can be helpful to expose students to these new types of sounds. Start by introducing students to a variety of instruments, made of different materials and from different musical instrument families. There are a lot of traditional Chinese instruments. Even in Ancient China 3000 years ago, there were already more than 70 different widely used instruments
We had the opportunity to attend a Chinese New Year celebration at Symphony Center in Chicago, Ill. this past weekend. This concert featured various styles of Chinese opera accompanied by a traditional music ensemble and a guest performance by the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, which included a Chinese bone flute and Chinese percussion along with a Western-style orchestra. The Zhejiang played music by Chinese composers using Western-style symphonic arrangements with traditional Chinese-style melodies and other elements. The concert featured pre-music by local, Chicago-based community music and dances groups from the Naperville, Ill. based Dong Fang Performing Arts and the Bloomingdale, Ill. based Yellow River Performing Arts. A presentation like this is a wonderful way to expose students to both professional musicians and amateurs, so that students can see that traditional music is still a part of everyday life in the Chinese community. In this concert, seven traditional melodic and harmonic Chinese musical instruments were highlighted, as well as a traditional Chinese percussion ensemble.
This graphic shows examples of some of the most common traditional Chinese musical instruments.
Examples of Popular Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments
Ruan, also called the Chinese Moon guitar, is a four-stringed lute with a long, straight fretted neck that dates back to the Qin dynasty (about 200 B.C.E.). It is a predecessor to the Pipa or Chinese guitar. It is named after Ruan Xian, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. (The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese scholars, writers, and musicians in the third century C.E.). The ruan is most often played in Peking Opera and is also used in modern Chinese orchestras.
Pipa is a four-stringed lute with a pear-shaped body. The name “Pipa” refers to how it is played. ”Pi” means to strike outward with the right hand, and “pa” means to pluck inward with the palm of the hand. Historically, it was played with a large plectrum or pick. In today’s practice, the fingernails of the right hand have largely replaced the pick. Pipa music is known for its expressiveness and its distinctive tremolo.
"Butterfly" Guzheng Traditional Guzheng
Guzheng, also known an the “Chinese Zither,” is a plucked string instrument similar to a western zither or harp. It is different than other Chinese zithers because it has movable bridges. It dates back to Ancient China, with an early version originating in the Warring States period (475–221B.C.E.). It has 16 or more strings, which are played with fingerpicks made from ivory, tortoiseshell, resin, or hard plastic. It is usually tuned to a five-note or pentatonic scale.
Guqin, or Qin, is a plucked, seven-stringed zither. It has been popular with scholars as an instrument of “great refinement” since ancient times. There is a famous Chinese saying “a gentleman does not part with his qin or se without good reason.” It is sometimes called “the father of Chinese music” or “the instrument of the sages.” It is even associated with the philosopher Confucius. Unlike the guzheng, the bridges on the guqin are fixed.
Erhu Huquin
Erhu or Er-hu, is a bowed string instrument with two strings. It is a cousin of the Western violin. It is a member of the huqin family of bowed instruments. Hu refers to the word “foreign” or “the northern folk” and qin is a general name of stringed instruments. It is used in traditional Chinese music, but it is sometimes used in contemporary arrangements as well. The erhu is believed to have originated in Central Asia and to have been introduced to China more than one thousand years ago.
Sheng is a free-reed mouth organ. It has a sound similar to an accordion. It is one of the oldest musical instruments in China dating back to at least 1100 B.C.E. It is traditionally used as accompaniment for solo suona or dizi performances, but in the modern Chinese orchestra it is played for both melody and harmonic support. It is made of bamboo pipes (usually 17) inserted into a metal chamber with finger holes.
Suona
Suona, also called laba or haidi, is a Chinese double-reed horn. It has a distinctive loud, high-pitched sound, which carries long distances. It is often used in musical ensembles that perform outdoors, such as military ensembles and in Taoist religious processions. It has been widely used in Chian since the 16th century C.E. It is made of a wooden body covered with a copper tube with eight finger holes.
Bone Flute or Gudi
Bones Flutes, also called gudi, are the oldest known musical instruments in China, dating back to more than nine thousand years ago. They are often made of the wing bones of cranes. They usually have three to eight finger holes. The spacing between the holes determines that scale and range of the particular bone flute. The eight-holed version can play all-harmonic intervals and two octaves.
Bamboo Flute or Dizi
Dizi, also known as the di or héngdi, is a flute widely used in many genres of Chinese traditional music. Most commonly, the dizi is made of bamboo, but there are also ones made of wood and stone. It is played horizontally like a western flute. It is a versatile instrument, renowned for its ability to reproduce the sounds of nature.
Bo is a percussion instrument that is made of two metal plates that are clashed together. It is most likely the ancestor to the China cymbals used in the modern, rock drum kit or the crash cymbals you see in marching bands.
Tanggu
Tanggu is a medium-sized drum with an animal-skin drumhead.
Zhangu
Zhangu, or war drum, is a large, low-pitched drum. Its head is traditionally made of buffalo hide. It was used in ritual music and traditional wedding bands. It is played with two sticks.
I believe early exposure to new musical styles and genres is crucial for a well-rounded education. It is important to introduce non-Western, along with classical Western and contemporary culture helps create culturally literate students. The best way to guide students (or your own children) is by example. So, don't afraid to step outside your own musical comfort zone. Keep listening. Keep exploring. And, you’ll keep growing.
Performers from a traditional Chinese opera scene
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“Have the demands placed on animals for companionship, production and traction pushed them towards their biological limits?”
“How much further is it acceptable to push them?”
This ethical dilemma was debated on June 23 at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), at CABI-RVC’s fifth symposium on animal welfare.
The speakers covered a range of current issues faced by veterinarians, farmers and pet owners. Becky Whay, from the University of Bristol, opened with a presentation on the position of working equids in developing countries.
Working in difficult conditions, carrying heavy loads, the animals often work beyond their limits, and having to deal with lameness, heat stress, skin lesions and poor body condition. She said that “as owners have the best insight into the welfare of their animals, their knowledge should be combined with science and research to reach a workable solution”.
RVC’s Rowena Packer dealt with the issue of how companion animals, particularly dogs, have been pushed to the limits by breeding for certain characteristics.
The ethics of advanced veterinary treatments in dogs and cats were explored by Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana, from the University of Porto.
Peter Down from the University of Nottingham considered welfare issues associated with increasing milk yield of dairy cows.
In the final presentation, Peter Jinman, chairman of the Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC) considered the need to improve the efficiency of animal production and sustainability to meet the demands of an increasing population, whilst maintaining good standards of animal health and welfare.
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Watching The Watchers: Accessing and Challenging Control Over Our Data
Privacy International is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about privacy and issues related to control, data protection, surveillance and identity. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. Exercising the right to privacy extends to the ability of accessing and controlling our data and information, the way it is being handled, by whom, and for what purpose. This right is particularly important when it comes to control of how States perform these activities.…
Surveillance And The City: Turning Urban Centres Into A Panopticon
To celebrate Data Privacy Week, we spent the week discussing privacy and issues related to control, data protection, surveillance, and identity. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. Do you live in a “smart city”? Chances are, you probably do (or at least your city claims to be). But do you know what exactly makes your city “smart”, beyond the marketing term? And what does this have to do with privacy? Companies and governments will tell you that the more cameras, sensors…
Statement: R2K and PI join amaBhungane RICA challenge as amicus curiae
Our intervention comes on the back of mounting evidence that the South African state’s surveillance powers have been abused, and so-called “checks & balances” in RICA have failed to protect citizens’ constitutional right to privacy. Among our core arguments are: That people have a right to be notified when their communications have been intercepted so that they can take action when they believe their privacy has been unlawfully breached. Currently RICA prevents such notification, unlike…
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Thessaloniki • Phillippi • Kavala • Kalambaka • Meteora • Delphi • Corinth • Athens • Piraeus • Mykonos • Kusadasi (Turkey) • Ephesus (Turkey) • Patmos • Santorini
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Guided Tours and Tour Fees ~ Our tour guides are very caring, licensed, and well educated. Many of our guides have their PhD's.
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September 9: Departure from USA. ~ Dinner and Breakfast will be served in-flight.
September 10: Tour of Athens by bus. Dinner and overnight in Athens.
September 11: Athens ~ Start 3-day Cruise (Luis Hellenic Cruise Lines) Mykonos Our first port-of-call is Mykonos. It is the most cosmopolitan of all Greek islands and attracts many visitors from all over the globe, including large numbers of artists and intellectuals. Your coaches will take you to Hora the island's capital where you'll enjoy a walking tour in the narrow cobbled streets of the town, passing by chic boutiques, elegant nightclubs and white washed houses till reaching Alefkandra. Alefkandra is a charming corner of Hora, known also as the "Venice" of Mykonos. At one of the famous restaurants of Alefkandra you'll enjoy the sunset on Mykonos Island while drinking your refreshment accompanied by Greek meze. You'll return then to Mykonos Town (Hora) from where you'll take the ship's shuttle service back to the port to meet your ship!
September 12: Kusadasi and Ephesus (Turkey) and Patmos ~ we begin our day arriving at Kusadasi which is a lively Turkish port. Drive through the colorful town of Kusadasi to reach Mt. Koressos. Situated in a small valley, it is here where you will visit the humble chapel which lies on the site of the little house where The Virgin Mary is believed to have spent her last days. This site has been sanctioned by the Vatican for pilgrimage. Continue on to Ancient Ephesus and accompanied by your guide, walk through the Magnesian Gate which is the entrance to the ancient city of Ephesus. See the Odeon (concert hall), the Fountain of Trajan, the steam-heated Baths of Scolastika, the Temple of Hadrian and the Latrians, the Library of Celsus and The Great Theatre, where St. Paul preached, which is the largest theatre in antiquity having a capacity of 24,000 people. Walk back to your motor coach along the Arcadian Way, where Mark Anthony and Cleopatra once rode in procession. While driving back to Kusadasi and just outside Ephesus, view the Basilica of St. John, which was erected over his grave in the 6th Century AD by the Emperor Justinian. Before returning to the ship, enjoy free time in Kusadasi. Continue our journey, Patmos, where we will enjoy a short journey to the village of Chora, where the monastery of St. John is built within the walls of a strong fortification. As you walk uphill towards the entrance of the monastery marvel at this magnificent structure, which was build 900 years ago, exceptional in its architecture. View the courtyard, the monk's dining room and the old bakery before you visit the main church noting its outstanding frescoes and interior decoration. Next, see the priceless ecclesiastical treasures housed in the beautiful but small museum: books and manuscripts, mosaics, Icons, splendid medieval textiles and vestments as well as jewelry. Return to your motor coach to continue on to the nearby Grotto of the Apocalypse, where above stands the Monastery of the Apocalypse, a sub-unit of the main monastery. Walk down the steps to visit the Grotto of the Apocalypse. Here you will see the silver niches in the wall that mark the pillow and ledge used as a desk by the author of the Book of the Revelation as well as the three-fold crack made by the voice of God emphasizing the honor of the Holy Trinity. Afterwards, drive back to the port of Scala and enjoy some free time in this quaint and picturesque harbor.
September 13: Heraklion and Santorini ~ in the morning we will visit Heraklion. Heraklion is just three miles away from the fantastic ruins of the Palace of Knossos. Discovered in 1899 and partially reconstructed, the elaborate Palace is believed to be the mythical Labyrinth of King Minos and the seat of ancient Minoan culture. It is in Heraklion where Paul met the owner and captain of the ship who warned him of continuing his journey to Rome. In the afternoon we will cruise on to the idyllic island of Santorini. Santorini is perhaps the most breathtaking of all the Greek Islands. In the town of Thira white-washed houses, narrow streets, open-air cafes and glittering boutiques cling to steep cliffs, accessible by cable-car or mule. Return back to the ship.
September 14: Athens - Excursion to Corinth ~ we will visit the Acropolis to see the ruins of the Parthenon, Erechtheum and Propylae. For twenty five centuries, the panorama of this city is dominated by the rock of the Acropolis; we see the ruins of the Parthenon, the Erechtheum and the Propylae. Afterwards, we will ascend Mars Hill where Paul spoke to the ancient Athenians about the one and only God. From here we have an excellent view of the ancient agora; former center of the Athenian public life. We then drive through the city to see the House of Parliament on Syntagma Square, the Evzones in their picturesque uniforms guarding the Presidential Palace and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We also see the Library, the University, the Panathenaic Stadium where the first Olympics of the modern era were held, the temple of the Olympian Zeus and Adrian's Arch. Continue our tour to Ancient Corinth where, under the shadow of the towering Acropolis, St. Paul preached and lived for two years. The vigorous and mostly Gentile Church he founded here in 50 AD caused him much grief and prompted him to write, at least, four letters to them. Visit the ruins of the ancient city where Paul worked with Aquila and Priscilla. See the remains of the first century shops, the agora where Paul's trial by Gallio took place, the Fountain of Peirene, Temple of Apollo and the Bema. Return to Athens for dinner and overnight.
September 15: Visit Delphi, the center of the ancient world (navel) of the earth, whose prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hellenic world. On the slopes of Mount Parnassus, in a landscape of unparalleled beauty and majesty, lie the ruins of the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios. Continue to Athens which is one of the most glorious cities in the world and the cradle of western civilization as we know it today. Dinner and overnight in Delphi.
September 16: Depart for Kalambaka, visit Meteora Monasteries. Among striking scenery, perched on top of huge rocks, that seem to be suspended in mid-air, stand ageless monasteries where you can see exquisite specimens of Byzantine art. Women must wear a skirt, or have a scarf that can be wrapped like a skirt, when visiting the Monasteries. Men will need to wear long pants and have their shoulders covered. If women wear slacks, they need to bring a scarf that will cover their pants so that it looks like a skirt. Dinner and overnight in Kalambaka.
September 17: Thessaloniki city-tour ~ Paul preached in Thessaloniki during the winters of 49-50 AD and wrote two epistles to the ancient Thessalonians. See the ramparts of the city, the triumphal Arch of Galerius starting at the Via Egnatia, once a strategic artery of the Roman Empire. Arrive in Thessaloniki, Greece. ~ You will be met and transferred to your hotel. Time to relax and meet your fellow pilgrims. Dinner and overnight in Thessaloniki.
September 18: Philippi, Kavala, Thessaloniki ~ Visit Philippi where Paul delivered his first sermon in Europe, sowing the seeds of Christianity. "And from there (He went) to Philippi" Acts 16:12-18 Here Paul baptized a certain woman named Lydia, the first Christian convert in Europe. Among the ruins, located on the rocky ledge above the town's main road is the prison where Paul and Silas were thrown. Continue into the modern port city of Kavala, ancient Neapolis, where Paul accompanied by Silas, Luke and Timothy, first set foot in Europe. Dinner and overnight in Thessaloniki.
September 19: Fly back home.
Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. If this happens it will also necessitate a change in the restaurant for dinner. However, we will never sacrifice the quality of the meal, all restaurants will meet Proximo Travel's very high standards. Since we have several different trip configurations touring at the same time, it is likely that groups on different tours will be combined when their itineraries overlap in certain areas.
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You decide: The top story of 2015
From an arrest in an interstate shooting that grabbed the national spotlight and the retirement of a beloved baseball coach to a heated school board election and the identification of a local Korean War veteran's remains after 65 years, listed below in no particular order are the biggest 10 stories of 2015 as chosen by the staff of Public Opinion.
We did not choose the top story of the year. Instead, we want you, the reader, to decide what it should be. Go to http://bit.ly/1Zq8AWp and vote.
OB/GYN Dr. Raschid accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women
First came the suspension of Chambersburg physician Sohael Raschid’s license based on accusations that he drugged a 19-year-old girl at his home. But soon after patients and former friends came forward accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting them, according to court documents.
Raschid 's medical license was suspended in early March, and criminal charges began to pile up weeks later.
As of November, Raschid is charged in three sets of cases involving the drugging and sexual abuse of four women and a 13 year-old girl. Some of the women told police they remember the sexual assaults while others don’t remember.
Raschid is next due on court on Feb. 19, 2016. Raschid is being held at Franklin County Jail after being denied bail pending trial.
In heated race, voters elect new wave of CASD school board members
Called “one of the most important elections in the district's history,” by one former school board member, candidates critical of Chambersburg Area School District administrators and then-board swept the May election.
Incumbent Joan Smith and newcomers Bill Lennartz, Mark Schur and Alexander Sharpe won landslide victories during the Primary Election after emphasizing budgetary concerns and argued there was an absence of transparency by district administrators who refused to release information – such as how much the district is paying its lawyers to defend legal challenges.
Kevin Mintz, who campaigned under the same group, called Candidates for Common $ense, won his seat in November in the general election.
The April election resulted in the outsing long-time school board member Stanley Helman, along with two-term incumbent Kim Amsley-Camp and other candidates who campaigned under the umbrella of Committee for Value and Excellence in Education - all of whom supported a more positive view of the district.
CASD supporters and critics continued to spar following the election after it was discovered the superintendent and frequent CASD board attorney from Black and Davison, Jan Sulcove, backed candidates from Committee for Value and Excellence in Education – both financially and by providing campaign assistance.
From May through December, critics were quick to lash out against the school board leading up to when the newly elected board members were sworn in by questioning hiring and spending decisions, among others.
In December, the new school board members took their seats and Dr. Dana Baker was elected president of the board. He then promised transparency "as much as possible” moving forward.
Arrest made in 2014 I-81 shooting death
After more than a year and a half of investigating the shooting death of Timothy "Asti" Davison Jr. in January of 2014 on I-81, police announced in September the arrest of a man they believe shot Davison after mistaking him for someone else.
Davison, 28, was driving home to Maine after visiting family in Florida when he called 911 from I-81 near the Maryland line in the early morning of Jan. 4, 2014, to tell them someone in a dark-colored pickup truck was shooting a gun at his car. He was forced into a median before the assailant circled back and fired several rounds at him, police said.
The shooting occurred in the southbound lanes in Antrim Township, Franklin County, about 10 miles north of Hagerstown, Maryland, according to police.
In September of this year, police announced the arrest of John Wayne Strawser Jr., 38, on charges of first-degree murder. Investigators added they believe Strawser had another target the night of the incident.
Two people came forward after Strawser was charged in the homicide of Amy Lou Buckingham in Kingwood, West Virginia, in April. One of them told police they believed they were Straswer’s intended target in 2014.
Another witness led police to a field frequented by Strawser where they found a handgun that police linked to the slaying. Strawser's DNA was also found on a shell casing found at the scene of the shooting, documents state.
Strawser is in custody at the Tygart Valley Region Jail in Belington, West Virginia, where he is being held as a pre-trial felon. Strawser has been in custody since April 17.
Bob Thomas retires after 51 years of coaching
Every year in late March or early April since 1965, the same person has taken the lineup card out to the umpires before the first Chambersburg Trojan baseball game of the season.
That same person has been involved in countless comeback victories, many playoff wins and his team came out on top in three PIAA Championship games.
This spring that person, Bob Thomas, will likely be there for that season opener in baseball, but he’ll be a spectator only. After 51 highly successful seasons, Thomas resigned his position in August. He left as Pennsylvania’s winningest baseball coach and the most successful coach this area has ever produced.
Under Thomas, the Trojans compiled a record of 833-279, won those three state titles, captured 11 District 3 crowns and won their league 22 times. Only two of his teams did not have a winning record.
The new coach will be Scott Folmar, a former Trojan player. We wish him the best of luck following a legend.
Glee Club Christmas show/live nativity stays this year
A nativity scene, which is a traditional part of Chambersburg Area Senior High School Glee Club's annual holiday concert was almost axed from the holiday program to avoid a potential lawsuit.
The winter concert, timed to coincide with the Chambersburg Area School District's annual Christmas break, is a highlight of the year for Glee Club members, who must audition for the nativity parts. The concert has been a staple of the Glee Club for 67 years and includes a variety of holiday music, including secular and traditionally religious songs. The live nativity and "The Song of Christmas" is but part of the overall program. Students said generations of CASHS Glee Club members had participated in similar productions over the years.
Parents say some members of the club left CASHS in tears after being told a nativity scene was cut. It didn't take them long to pass the word to family, friends and the larger community, using word of mouth, email and social media to express their dismay. Rumors were rampant concerning how the decision was made and what had prompted it.
CASD Board President Dr. Dana Baker, said he and District Superintendent Padasak had made the decision based on an email from the district's solicitor, Jan Sulcove, who relayed the results of an Indiana case in which a federal judge issued an injunction against a school there putting on a similar production.
In 2013 the Freedom From Religion Foundation had threatened to sue CASD over the concert - and the live nativity in particular - but did not follow through.
Baker said Right to Know requests from the foundation at that time cost the district about $10,000 in legal fees. A lawsuit did not materialize at that time, but Baker said he worried that in view of the Indiana decision, the group might again target the district.
However, in response to the public outcry, Baker said school district officials reversed course and decided to keep the nativity scene in the program. Baker added the board would probably need to talk about the issue and look at options before the matter comes up again in 2016.
Standoff puts businesses on lockdown
AutoZone, McDonald's and Long John Silver's on Lincoln Way East were placed on lockdown in early April while a Vermont man held a sawed-off shotgun to his head and threatened suicide.
For two hours, police surrounded the businesses and tried talking Benjamin G. Hughes, 45, from Hartland, Vermont, into putting down his gun as Hughes paced back and forth pointing the shotgun at his head.
Failing that, officers tackled and tasered him.
Hughes was taken to a Chambersburg Hospital for an involuntary mental health commitment and evaluation and later released. Months later, Chambersburg police determined the shotgun Hughes used had been sawed off to a length shorter than allowed by state law and Hughes was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of prohibited offensive weapons.
Hughes was later ordered to pay a $25 fine on the weapons charge and additional court costs while the disorderly conduct charge was dropped in a court agreement.
Chamber of commerce president retires, almost
David G. Sciamanna stepped down as president of the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce after roughly 32 years at the helm.
Credited for building the modern chamber of commerce, Sciamanna was surprised with the unveiling of the Chambersburg Heritage center being renamed in his honor.
"It has been an incredibly rewarding experience," he said at the time. "It has been wonderful working with you."
While Noel Purdy stepped into the presidential role, Sciamanna will stay on as head of the chamber's development arm, for at least a few more years.
Football coach position remains open
The end of Mark Saunders’ reign as the head football coach at Chambersburg came to a halt in a surprising way at the midpoint of the season on Oct. 9. On the day the Trojans were set to face Mifflin County for Homecoming, Saunders handed in his resignation.
It was a tumultuous 5 ½ years at the helm for Saunders, whose final record at CASHS was 20-38. Chambersburg was 6-5 and reached the District 3 playoffs in 2012 and 2013, but had sunk to 1-9 in 2014, and were 0-5 at the time Saunders resigned.
The Trojans won the game that night and finished with another 1-9 record, with Scott Mitchell serving as the interim coach.
Saunders had plenty of backers when he began his coaching stint, but later became the target of many who wanted him fired. Prior to the 2014 season, his contract was renewed by the school board, but not until after plenty of debate. He served a one-game suspension that season for behavior unrepresentative of the school district.
A search is underway for the Trojans’ next coach. As many as 21 applicants were received by athletic director Jeremy Flores, and interviews are expected to be wrapped up by the end of the year. Flores hopes a new coach will be in place sometime in January.
Penny protest leads to change
A man who protested his $25 parking fine by attempting to pay in pennies caused more of a stir than he anticipated.
Irked that he received a ticket for parking on the wrong side of the street, Justin Greene decided to inconvenience the borough – as he was inconvenienced by the ticket - by taking rolls of pennies to the Borough of Chambersburg to pay for the infraction.
He was rebuffed, however, and told small change was not an accepted form of payment.
Had the change been accepted, borough officials said Greene would have had to stand there while a borough employee counted it.
But the Internet community grabbed hold of the story of Greene’s revenge and news of the incident spread online. Some online commenters supported Greene’s actions while others said he should have just accepted responsibility for illegally parking. Others didn’t agree with Greene while also criticizing the borough for not accepting the payment. Others criticized the Borough Manager Jeffrey Stonehill after he stated in a press release that he didn’t support Greene’s form of protest.
Stonehill later issued another statement in response to the resulting "public uproar,” acknowledged that borough personnel relied on an outdated policy when they refused 2,500 pennies. Borough council members – some grudgingly – then approved a $4,800 purchase for a coin-counting machine.
Korean War vet's remains identified after 65 years, buried at Arlington
The remains of a Greencastle man killed in action nearly 65 years ago in Korea were buried Oct. 26, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington D.C.
Advances in technology enabled scientists to identify the remains of Cpl. Robert Meyers, which were returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Meyers was one of 21 local servicemen to die in the Korea War. He was captured and later died in a North Korean POW camp.
With advances in technology, the Department of Defense in 2012 began to reexamine records and concluded that some unknowns might be identified . Each year about 74 POW/MIAs are identified .
To identify Meyers' remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used circumstantial evidence, dental analysis, and chest radiographs, which matched Meyers' records. His remains were positively identified on Sept. 4.
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Dawn O'Reilly began dancing at the age of 5 while she lived in Brampton and Mississauga. At the age of 8 she was also participating in competitive gymnastics and was accepted to the Elite Team at her local Gymnastics club. She also took classes in Orangeville from the ages of 11 to 14 and then continued when her family moved to Labrador where she continued to study dance.
Her dance and gymnastics experiences allowed her to have strong skills in performance and choreography. She moved to Orangeville Ontario in her late teens and attended Sheridan College in Brampton as she continued to dance competitively with Anne Marie’s Dance Academy before returning to Kirkland Lake to raise her family as a young adult.
Dawn’s dance training included Jazz, Tap, and Ballet. She was primarily trained with Royal Academy of Dance syllabus and completed examinations throughout her training. She has ballet training in both the RAD and Cecchetti styles of dance.
Throughout high school, Dawn lived in Kirkland Lake for 3 years. During this time she was active in Performing Arts and choreographed many productions. She sang and acted and played the lead character for several musical theatre productions. She danced for several summers as a student of JSANO. She also performed for many years in Kirkland Lake’s Kabaret as both a vocal performer, dancer and choreographer.
She has attended Dance Masters of America Teacher Training School in Buffalo New York and is currently attending ADAPT Teacher Training, Acrobatique Teacher Training, Acrobatic Arts teacher Training, and is in the first year of obtaining her certification as a coach with Gymnastics Canada. She continues to attend workshops and training courses each season. She believes that continuing her education as a teacher and continuing to learn new skills to offer students is important to the growth of the studio. She also became licensed to teach Zumba and Kids Zumba through the Zumba Instructor Network training, and also has her YogaFit certification through Yogafit Canada.
Miss Dawn has always believed that an instructor can be very qualified and have many certificates and achievements, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a good teacher, or make them good at working with children. She strives to provide every child a positive experience at her studio, where they can feel safe and accepted, develop skills as a dancer and have memories that will last a lifetime. She expects her staff to uphold the same values that she has about teaching children.
Dawn recognized that her passion for dance and performing was something she wanted to offer students in Kirkland Lake. She joined JSANO as a dance teacher in 2010 and taught their fall dance program for 2 seasons. She opened her own Studio in 2012 with the hope that she could further share her love of dance and performance with the community by expanding the programs she offered. In her first 3 years of operation, over 150 students in Kirkland Lake have joined Pulse Dance Studio each year!
Dawn has five daughters ranging in age from 6 to 19. They all share her passion for dance and performance. As a mother, she has experience in nurturing children of all ages. Many of her current students feel as though she is like a mother to them.
Pulse Dance and Fitness Studio is heading into its Eighth season of operation this year. We hope you will join Miss Dawn on her journey to bring the love of dance, theatre and voice to Kirkland Lake children.
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Boris Johnson’s reputation is riding on getting schools back next week. So can he do it?
Boris Johnson has described the return of schools as a national mission. (PA)
Eleanor Langford
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12 min read 29 August 2020
The Government’s entire coronavirus strategy rest on getting schools back open next week after months of remote learning. Eleanor Langford speaks to teachers, their unions and the chair of the Commons Education Committee to find out whether the crucial September 1 push can work.
On Friday 20 March, schools across England did something they’d never done before — they shut their gates to the vast majority of pupils, with no idea when they would reopen.
As the coronavirus crisis worsened, only the children of essential workers or those considered vulnerable were to be taught in classrooms. The rest would have to make do with remote teaching if they chose to be taught at all.
Now, six months after they left, children across England are preparing to return full-time, but to a school system very different from the one they left behind. In preparing for that return, the Government has been faced with an unenviable balancing act: weighing public health against the education of an entire generation of young people who risk being left behind.
Ministers are adamant that this balance has been struck, and that schools are “Covid-secure” provided they follow official guidance. But some teachers and their unions have a very different view of the Government’s messaging, while senior MPs believe the Government faces a major challenge in helping children who have seen half a year’s schooling disrupted catch up.
Although the teachers PoliticsHome spoke to — whose names have been changed to protect their identity — share the desire to bring all children back, they don’t yet share the Government’s confidence.
“It just feels a little bit vague,” Elizabeth, head of history at a large comprehensive, says, just days before the September 1 reopening deadline. “The school still hasn’t finalised any details. And, obviously, I know a lot of teachers from other schools in the area and further away, and most schools haven’t finalised anything yet because they’re still waiting on more guidance which I feel is a bit too late.”
Chemistry teacher Joseph says: “They seem to have given us a lot of recommendations, but not a lot of rules to follow... It almost leaves it up to us and it makes it very difficult to know if we're in the right or not.”
Alice, a history teacher and head of Year 12, tells PoliticsHome: “It feels a bit like the Emperor's New Clothes, like everyone's kind of going along with it, despite the fact that we all know that it's BS, quite frankly.”
'EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES'
Under the Government's plans, schools will be split into ‘bubbles’, usually comprising single year groups, which are kept apart to minimise spread. Official guidance does allow for some flexibility in this, with officials stressing that there is not an “all-or-nothing” approach to keeping these bubbles separate.
But Alice is among those lacking confidence in the plans, amid concern they will fall apart outside the school gates. “They've got brothers and sisters in other year groups, they’re going to go home and socialise,” she says of her pupils. “We've gone to such extraordinary measures to get the school day functioning, with different staggered start times, lunchtimes, staggered finish times. And, knowing what teenagers are like, as soon as they're outside of school they will start mixing together.”
Elizabeth fears the bubbles won’t “really work because you don’t have the staffing to facilitate that”. And she asks: “Say a student tests positive. What if the teacher has been teaching that student and they've then gone and taught another year group, what happens with that?”
"My current classroom, right at the very start when we had this two-metre rule, I worked out that I could fit a maximum of eight students in my room" - Joseph, chemistry teacher
Trying to set timetables with these bubbles in mind has also been a major headache for headteachers across the country. The Government advice is to stagger start times for different years to minimise mixing. But in many schools, that is easier said than done.
“If you're in an area of the country where children are travelling on public transport to get to schools you can't stagger them because they're all coming in on the same transport or there's not enough transport to do anything else,” says Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU).
Segregated lunch breaks also mean more time on break duty for teachers, says Elizabeth, who fears staff will face “a very heavy workload”. “Normally, I work six days a week and I can easily work 12-15 hours a day,” she says. “I don't know how that's going workf if there’s any more.”
Some schools were already struggling with capacity before coronavirus hit — a situation that only will be exacerbated by the social distancing requirements. “My current classroom, right at the very start when we had this two-metre rule, I worked out that I could fit a maximum of eight students in my room,” says Joseph, the chemistry teacher. “I've got quite a nice lab, it's a decent size. I can usually fit 35 kids in there.”
The Government has now adopted a ‘one-metre plus rule’, but even this reduced distance could present a challenge, Joseph says. “Some of our spaces, like our main corridor right through the centre of the school, I'm fairly certain I could touch both walls. So trying to keep children apart in that space is going to be incredibly difficult.”
'WE NEED SOME CLARIFICATION'
The NEU believes many of the issues highlighted by teachers could have been avoided. Courtney, the union’s general secretary, says: “They should have been preparing for this by finding extra teachers and extra teaching spaces so the class sizes could be smaller, because our country does have class sizes that are bigger than the average in European countries and that makes the possibility of spread more likely.”
One solution that some schools are considering is teaching only core subjects. But Joseph fears that even teaching just science, maths and English could be difficult.
He explains how Bunsen burners, used in chemistry experiments, can only be used in laboratories with gas taps. Chemicals can’t be used in any room that is carpeted and can be difficult to safely transport around a school. And, equipment used in physics experiments needs to be infected after each use, limiting the number of groups that can use it each day.
“There's a lot of content to cover. [The curriculum] is very content-heavy, unfortunately,” Joseph adds, “and we've already had to make decisions on what's going to be a practical, what we can learn by discovery, and what’s going to have to be a bit more prescriptive.”
One solution, he explains, is to have “some of our lab techs potentially record their demonstrations” to show them in class as videos.
But, even if teachers navigate the issues of bubbles and timetabling, some still face uncertainty about what localised lockdowns will mean for their pupils.
"I cannot see how there won't be a real significant spike after about five weeks of being back. I mean, I really hope that I'm wrong" - Alice, head of year 12
Ministers have said schools will be the last to shut in such circumstances, and they are mandating the wearing of masks at school in affected areas as an extra precaution. But, again, some teachers fear the Government is overlooking key practicalities.
“We do have some staff and some students, probably only about 10% of them, but they are currently in lockdown,” Elizabeth explains. “So we're not quite sure, if they say schools in that area are shut, well, is that the schools that are shut or is it that the students from other areas can't come in?"
She warns: “We've not been told that whatsoever. We need some clarification on that because a lot of students must have to travel between areas.”
Alice, the year 12 head, meanwhile fears that these perceived flaws will not just pile work on teachers and risk the health of students, but could take a significant toll on the wider community.
“Our school has got high proportions of ethnic minority students and I know that many live in multi- generational households,” she explains. “They're going to go home with coronavirus that their friends caught, and they're going to transmit that straight away to their grandparents or aunts and uncles. I cannot see how there won't be a real significant spike after about five weeks of being back. I mean, I really hope that I'm wrong.”
'NATIONAL PRIORITY'
Robert Halfon, the Conservative chair of the education select committee, and a critic of the way the Government handled this year’s A-level and GCSE grading row, believes the Department for Education is so far providing the support schools will need to reopen next week. “I’ve looked at the guidance on the Department for Education website and it seems pretty extensive in terms of what schools should be doing,” he tells PoliticsHome.
“And schools have, as far as I understand it, a hotline to the officials at DfE to guide them. They’ve got local authorities and Public Health England to guide them. So I do think there is a lot of information out there.”
“Lots of the questions that we're talking about now should have been resolved" - Kevin Courtney, the National Education Union
But he says: “I think what’s needed is reassurance. There needs to be more clarity and more people saying what’s on the website, and then we know that people are aware that there are lots — pages and pages — of guidance on the DfE website.”
A spokesperson for the Department for Education told PoliticsHome that the full-time return of children to the classroom was “a national priority”, describing schools as “the best place for their education, development and wellbeing”.
“This will be particularly important for disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs,” they said.
“We have always been clear in our guidance about the protective measures that schools should implement to reduce risks for staff and pupils as far as possible.”
And the DfE added: “Parents are becoming increasingly confident in their children returning to school, which is testament to the work of school staff across the country who are putting in place a range of protective measures to prepare to welcome back all pupils at the start of term.”
The NEU argues, however, that the guidance has fallen flat because the Government’s wider management of the coronavirus crisis has been “wrong over the whole time period”.
“The messaging has been not good enough, especially throughout the Dominic Cummings affair. It damages the Government's credibility,” he says. “Lots of the questions that we're talking about now should have been resolved.”
There is one area where teachers, unions and the government all largely agree. Once the public health aspect is managed, schools must next work out how to teach children who’ve been out of education for an unprecedented half a year.
“I actually think the biggest challenge is going to be looking after those children who've not been learning in the lockdown and helping them catch up,” Halfon says. “And I think that is going to be very tough.”
The Harlow MP says: “We don't know the effects on children coming back to school not just in terms of academic learning, but their mental health and what stresses they could have had, any safeguarding crises at home.”
“I actually think the biggest challenge is going to be looking after those children who've not been learning in the lockdown and helping them catch up" - Conservative MP and education committee chair Rob Halfon
Four weeks into school closures, just 0.9% of children were attending school, according to government data. As for the remaining 99.1%, one study by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) suggested that four in 10 pupils had done little or no work since schools shut. Another, by University College London, put that figure at around one in five.
Joseph says: “Even within one class all the students are going to have very, very different experiences of lockdown. So I think we're going to need to spend some time getting back into school and back into the routine of things,
“We've spoken quite a lot in my school about not examining the students as soon as we get back in. Our focus is finding that love of learning again and enjoying being back at school. So a lot of what we're going to do is going to be sort of formative assessment rather than summative.”
At Alice’s school, there is much more confidence that the pupils can catch up. “Our head teacher pointed out that students have lost only 3% of their time in school across their whole school career,” she says. “So, their message is, you haven't lost that much time.”
Her students’ mental health, however, still comes first. Alice and her team plan to meet individually with all of her 300-strong year group. “Their academic qualification is massively important, but we have a duty of safeguarding,” she explains.
Joseph fears that the impact of lockdown on young people is already beginning to show in his school. “When we had our Year 10s back in we had something like 99% attendance,” he says. “Nearly every student was in. I do worry that some of them will have missed out on that social interaction and social development. That's going to be massive.”
'SO BE IT'
At some point, Halfon suggests, it will also be necessary for the Government to understand exactly how the pandemic has affected the children living through it.
The Education Committee chairman (pictured above) says: “There’ll need to be some kind of analysis — whether it’s testing or other means, I'm pretty open minded about that — on how pupils and students have been affected by this, by what’s happened to their learning. Because unless you know that you don’t know how to proceed.”
The Government will be hoping that next week’s return to the classroom can restore its battered reputation after weeks of negative headlines over the A-levels grading U-turn, and a late-stage decision to alter the advice on mask-wearing.
But for some teachers, Alice says, it may already be too late.
“This is one time I've really seen teachers who are always saying 'we're not getting political' just become very, very political," the history teacher says.
"And [the headteacher] is basically saying, 'I'm rebelling, I'm going to do what's best for my teachers myself and the kids at this school. And if that's not in line, exactly, with government measures, then so be it.'”
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U.K. Launches First Official National Videogame Archive
9th October 2008 2 min read Andy
The videogame medium is, depending on when you start counting, 46 years old. That’s still relatively young compared to other popular media, but it’s old enough, it seems, to start preserving the industry’s rich history. To that end, the U.K.’s first official National Videogame Archive was launched earlier this week, which will house a “treasure trove” of consoles and cartridges ranging from “the humble beginnings of 1972’s ‘Pong’, to the blockbusters of the 21st Century.”
The archive was formed by academics at Nottingham Trent University, in cooperation with the National Media Museum in Bradford. The archive will, in fact, be located at the National Media Museum, and managed by Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for Contemporary Play. Interestingly, along with games and consoles, the archive will also include a wide swath of game-related media, such as advertising campaigns, artwork, and “the communities that sustain them” (which we really hope doesn’t mean they’ll be preserving the average videogame forum post).
“The National Videogame Archive is an important resource for preserving elements of our national cultural heritage,” said Nottingham Trent University’s Dr James Newman. “We don’t just want to create a virtual museum full of code or screenshots that you could see online. The archive will really get to grips with what is a very creative, social, and productive culture. It will not only be a vital academic resource to support growing disciplines in videogame studies but will also be something that the general public can fully engage with.”
The archive is similar to the archives that exist for other media, such as the National Film Preservation Foundation in the U.S. In fact, the press release for the National Videogame Archive specifically notes, as a reason for its creation, the “mistakes” made in the film industry that lead to the loss of historically significant materials in the past.
The actual opening of the National Videogame Archive will take place during the GameCity 3 festival in Nottingham, which is a three-day event set to start on October 30.
More info at source.
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surely you mean 36 1971-2008
sorry just hit the spacewar link 1962-2008. leaping b4 looking
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Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.
By Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen
HANOI (Reuters) - Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald Trump.
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) sits next to Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh as they watch a screen showing Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan (R) signing next to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during the virtual signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement during the 37th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kham
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) at a regional summit in Hanoi, is a further blow to the group pushed by former U.S. president Barack Obama, which his successor Trump exited in 2017.
Amid questions over Washington’s engagement in Asia, RCEP may cement China’s position more firmly as an economic partner with Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea, putting the world’s second-biggest economy in a better position to shape the region’s trade rules.
The United States is absent from both RCEP and the successor to the Obama-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), leaving the world’s biggest economy out of two trade groups that span the fastest-growing region on earth.
By contrast, RCEP could help Beijing cut its dependence on overseas markets and technology, a shift accelerated by a deepening rift with Washington, said Iris Pang, ING chief economist for Greater China.
RCEP groups the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. It aims in coming years to progressively lower tariffs across many areas.
The deal was signed on the sidelines of an online ASEAN summit held as Asian leaders address tensions in the South China Sea and tackle plans for a post-pandemic economic recovery in a region where U.S.-China rivalry has been rising.
In an unusual ceremony, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaders of RCEP countries took turns standing behind their trade ministers who, one by one, signed copies of the agreement, which they then showed triumphantly to the cameras.
“RCEP will soon be ratified by signatory countries and take effect, contributing to the post-COVID pandemic economic recovery,” said Nguyen Xuan Phuc, prime minister of Vietnam, which hosted the ceremony as ASEAN chair.
RCEP will account for 30% of the global economy, 30% of the global population and reach 2.2 billion consumers, Vietnam said.
‘HISTORICAL BREAKTHROUGH’
China’s finance ministry said the new bloc’s promises include eliminating some tariffs within the group, including some immediately and others over 10 years.
There were no details on which products and which countries would see immediate reduction in tariffs.
“For the first time, China and Japan reached a bilateral tariff reduction arrangement, achieving a historic breakthrough,” the ministry said in a statement, without giving further details.
The deal marks the first time rival East Asian powers China, Japan and South Korea have been in a single free trade agreement.
Despite being outside RCEP and having been in the administration that propelled the TPP, President-elect Joe Biden - Obama’s vice president - is unlikely to rejoin the TPP anytime soon, analysts said, as his government will have to prioritise handling the COVID-19 outbreak at home.
“I’m not sure that there will be much focus on trade generally, including efforts to rejoin” the TPP successor grouping, “for the first year or so because there will be such a focus on COVID relief,” Charles Freeman, senior vice president for Asia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said this month.
RCEP “will help reduce or remove tariffs on industrial and agricultural products and set out rules for data transmission,” said Luong Hoang Thai, head of the Multilateral Trade Policy Department at Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The pact will take effect once enough participating countries ratify the agreement domestically within the next two years, Indonesia’s trade minister said last week.
For China, the new group, including many U.S. allies, is a windfall largely resulting from Trump’s retreat from the TPP, said ING’s Pang.
India pulled out of RCEP talks in November last year, but ASEAN leaders said the door remained open for it to join.
Reporting by Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen; Additional reporting by James Pearson in Hanoi, Liz Lee in Kuala Lumpur, Gayatri Suroyo and Bernadette Christina Munthe in Jakarta, Hyonhee Shin in Seoul, Neil Jerome Morales in Manilla, Kaori Kaneko in Tokyo, Kirsty Needham in Sydney, and Gabriel Crossley, Roxanne Liu and Shivani Singh in Beijing; Editing by William Mallard
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Red Deer garbage man frees live skunk found trapped in garbage bag
Mamta Lulla
A Red Deer garbage man has been picking up trash for more than six years, and he has never come across a live animal in the garbage.
On Dec. 20, that changed. That’s when Marc Sinclair found a skunk trapped in a garbage bag. He posted a video on his Facebook timeline where he is seen freeing the animal.
“I grabbed a particular bag and it felt like there was a cage in it. So I threw it in the truck, as people put away cages all the time, but it just felt a little wrong, so I decided to investigate.
“So I tore the bag open and it turned out the skunk was alive and scared and freaked out,” Sinclair said Sunday.
“It wasn’t making noise or anything.”
In the many years of doing the job, the city contractor has come across dead animals, but never a live one.
The garbage bag picked up on Ayers Avenue in Anders, was closed, but it was not sealed shut.
The 36-year-old could not tell how long the animal had been caged and bagged.
Sinclair is all for hunting, but being left in a cage inside a garbage truck would be a “horrible way to go,” he said.
“To be crushed slowly and suffocated in the garbage truck is extremely, extremely inhumane and brutal and that was not cool, so I wasn’t about to do that to the thing, that’s why I also reported it (to animal services),” he said.
But it was not a short process, and Sinclair was at work, so he decided to let what he calls Mr. Skunk go.
Marilyn Moore, waste diversion specialist with the City of Red Deer, said the incident was unique and was handled well.
“It’s something that hasn’t happened that I’m aware of in the past, so there’s no procedure, but the little guy was released and all was well, and we’re happy that happened,” she said.
After Sinclair opened the cage, the skunk did not leave right away.
“He wasn’t quite sure what was going on. It looked scared, so I had to give him some space, and once he realized he was well, then he got out of the cage and scurried off into the bushes,” he said.
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Informal Meeting on Military Attacks on Refugee Camps and Settlements in Southern Africa and Elsewhere held on Thursday, 28 April 1983
Publisher UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Publication Date 6 June 1983
Citation / Document Symbol EC/SCP/27
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Related Document(s) Réunion informelle concernant les attaques militaires contre des camps ou des zones d'installation de réfugiés (28 avril 1983): Résumé des débats
Cite as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Informal Meeting on Military Attacks on Refugee Camps and Settlements in Southern Africa and Elsewhere held on Thursday, 28 April 1983, 6 June 1983, EC/SCP/27, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae68cd40.html [accessed 16 January 2021]
1 An informal meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection was held on 28 April 1983 in Geneva to discuss the report presented by Ambassador Felix Schnyder on Military Attacks on Refugee Camps and Settlements in Southern Africa and elsewhere (Document EC/SCP/26 (15 March 1983)). The meeting was chaired by H.E. Ibrahim Kharma, Ambassador of Lebanon and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme.
2 Opening the Meeting, the CHAIRMAN welcomed the High Commissioner, Ambassador Schnyder and the delegates of member States. He said that the purpose of holding the meeting was to discuss and analyze the contents of the report prepared by Ambassador and the attached Draft Declaration. He suggested that an informal summary of the views expressed at this meeting should be circulated to the member governments for their consideration prior to the meeting of the Executive Committee in October. The Executive Committee could then decide on the adoption of the report, the contents of the Draft Declaration, and whether it should be submitted to the Third Committee of the forthcoming session of the General Assembly.
3 While the subject under discussion was essentially humanitarian, it involved a labyrinth of political consideration, which must be left to other fora. Realizing that there was no magic solution, the members of the Executive Committee should work to achieve agreement on ideas and principles that could be universally accepted and observed. Most of these were reflected in Ambassador Schnyder's report and the Draft Declaration, which were to be commended.
4 The CHAIRMAN made some observations concerning certain ideas expressed and language used in the report. The description of the High Commissioner's mandate with respect to international protection in paragraph 8, while literally accurate, was incomplete in that it did not highlight the real spirit of international protection. The international protection mandate of the High Commissioner meant that he should ensure that refugees of his concern were protected and their fundamental rights as human beings safeguarded. The first and most fundamental right was the right to life, and by virtue of his mandate the High Commissioner has the moral obligation to safeguard the right to life as well as other basic rights of every refugee. The fact that the international community had not provided him with concrete physical means to ensure the physical protection of refugees did not preclude the High Commissioner from using all the means at his disposal to fulfil this moral responsibility. The measures already undertaken, with the help of concerned governments, with respect to the rescue of refugees in distress at sea and the combatting of the piracy were, examples of the role of UNHCR in safeguarding the lives of refugees. The language of paragraph 8 should be changed so as to reflect clearly and unequivocally the fundamental spirit of international protection. The Chairman would subsequently present some ideas concerning the ninth paragraph of the preamble and operative paragraphs 1, 4 and 5 of the Draft Declaration.
5 The HIGH COMMISSIONER expressed his gratitude and appreciation to Ambassador Schnyder for the excellent work which he had done on the report. The High Commissioner had found the report inspiring and hoped it would serve as a useful framework for the efforts of the Sub-Committee to return concrete solutions. He wished the delegates every success for their deliberations which he was convinced would help to resolve this important humanitarian problem.
6 AMBASSADOR FELIX SCHNYDER pointed out that in preparing his report, he had sought to address questions of principle rather than to deal directly with actual, politically sensitive situations, about which, however, he had been amply informed. This approach, necessary in order to keep within the framework of the High Commissioner's non-political task, also allowed for greater freedom in expressing his views. The problem of military attacks on refugee camps, which had brought so much grief and suffering to innocent victims and added to international tensions, called for the determined efforts of all governments and of the United Nations and its organs, among which UNHCR had a special responsibility. The endeavors of UNHCR in this area could be affective only if fully supported by the international community and accompanied by efforts in the political field outside UNHCR's competence. A clearly understood division of labour was thus required, in which UNHCR had an essential overall function, serving as an intermediary of good-will for refugees and providing international protection. Besides bringing the required help to refugees, the High Commissioner, while firmly preserving the humanitarian and non-political character of his Office, must also draw attention of governments and United Nations organs to the need for action in the political field. It was a delicate task, since there was nothing more political than the causes that lead to the emergence of refugee situations. The independence of refugee situations. The independence and autonomy of the High Commissioner's Office made it possible to keep its humanitarian work free of disturbing influences.
7 With regard to the international protection function of UNHCR to which the Chairman had eloquently referred, it was important to avoid misunderstanding and unjustified expectations. If UNHCR had neither the means nor the competence to offer refugees direct physical protection, which has to remain the primary responsibility of the governments of countries where refugees found themselves, it was nonetheless evident that the High Commissioner had the functional and moral obligations to use all the means at his disposal to obtain from governments that the basic human rights of refugees, in particular their right to life and to safety from physical attacks, were fully safeguarded. To this end the Office could have recourse to the full range of actions at its disposal, which include legal and diplomatic measures, and often material assistance or increased staff presence in the field, so as to ensure that the countries concerned or the relevant political organs of the United Nations assumed their respective responsibilities.
8 There was a link between the High Commissioner's humanitarian help and the safety measures that governments and the United Nations could be expected to take, and the closest co-operation was required. An example of this was the possibility of removing refugee camps away from endangered border areas to enhance the refugees safety - a measure (referred to in the 1969 OAU Refugee Convention) that UNHCR might support or initiate. The resettlement of particularly threatened refugee groups of individuals was another measure that UNHCR might envisage which required the co-operation of the governments concerned. Besides co-operation with governments and refugee groups, UNHCR representatives should also seek close co-operation with other United Nations organs and with agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross.
9 When UNHCR undertook a special mission to a country of asylum where a military attack against refugee camps had occurred, it might organize the mission jointly with the Secretary-General of the United Nations as had been done in the case of Lesotho so that the political and humanitarian aspects of the problem could be dealt with simultaneously. Further reason for joint action were the dangerous destabilizing effect of military attacks on refugee camps and the potentially negative influence which the insecurity created by such attacks might have upon the asylum policy of the country of refuge, and particularly upon the observance of the principle of non-refoulement. A passage from the Secretary-General's report to the 37th Session of the General Assembly - quoted in his own report - envisaged a more active role for the Secretary-General in situations where peace was endangered. In the case of military attacks on refugee camps, working with UNHCR, this might include his submission of the matter to the Security Council.
10 The possibility of a special measure such as the creation of protected neutral zones for refugee camps had been raised in connection with discussions held with ICRC and others on the applicability of the Geneva Convention to non-combatants who were also refugees. The governments and refugee organizations, assisted by UNHCR and ICRC.
11 In conclusion, Ambassador Schnyder reiterated the suggestion made in his report for the Executive Committee to involve the General Assembly to draft a solemn declaration on the subject of military attacks on refugee camps and settlements along the lines of the Draft Declaration annexed to his report.
12 The representative of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY considered that Ambassador Schnyder's report was most timely. His delegation viewed the present meeting as permitting a first exchange of views on this document in preparation for further study by the 34th Session of the Executive Committee. Ambassador Schnyder's report had emphasized in particular the responsibilities of government - as well as those of UNHCR - to ensure that refugees were not exposed to military attacks. His delegation was attracted to the proposal that refugee camps should be moved away from border areas, since this might - in addition to protecting refugees - also prove a establishing element in areas of heightened tension. UNHCR should be given access to refugee camps and settlements since it was only in this way that it could carry out its humanitarian tasks. The moral prestige of the High Commissioner, deriving from the humanitarian, non-political nature of his mandate, enabled him to appeal to all concerned parties, including the political organs of the United Nations. The suggestion that refugee camps be provided with a protection analogous to that define in the IVth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 and the 2 Additional Protocol of 1977 was attractive but had to be given further consideration, particularly as regards the respective roles of UNHCR and ICRC. His delegation believed that proposal for a Draft Declaration on the prohibition of military attacks worthy of further consideration by the Executive Committee. Some difficulties might be encountered in obtaining consensus; nevertheless the importance of the matter demand that an effort be made.
13 The representative of FRANCE stated that the report of Ambassador Schnyder which was drafted in a humanitarian and non-political spirit, contained a number of proposals which deserved close study by the international community. He stressed the particularly vulnerable situation of refugees, a circumstance which he said required the international community to identify measures to protect them from military attacks. He indicated that he supported the proposition made by Ambassador Schnyder to site refugee camps away from the border; this type of measure should be followed as often as possible. He further pointed out the relevance of certain existing norms of international law, mentioning in particular the principal that the grant of asylum was a peaceful and humanitarian act which should not be regarded as an unfriendly gesture. He recalled however that it was the responsibility of the country of asylum to ensure that refugees did not indulge in activities which were likely to cause tension between States and that they conformed to the laws of the country of asylum. As concerned UNHCR, the Office should have full access to refugee camps, since this would ensure that their peaceful character was maintained. The "good offices" role of UNHCR was an important aspect of its co-operation with other bodies of the United Nations. As concerned the Draft Declaration, the representative of France stated that while he agreed in principle with the proposal as it formulated, he believed that further drafting would be required to complete the text, which should be adopted by consensus in order to command the necessary moral authority. The matter should be further discussed by the Executive Committee at its 34th Session.
14 The representative of AUSTRALIA believed that Ambassador Schnyder's report was a helpful first step in identifying the responsibility of the various parties involved. Her delegation was attracted by several of the proposals made in the report viz. the application of the IVth Geneva Convention to refugee camps and the siting of camps away from the border. The report however was deficient in that it did not address the question of the responsibilities of other UN bodies in the matter, nor did it state in unambiguous terms the obligation of States to refrain from attacking refugee camps. She felt that these two aspects should be reflected in the Draft Declaration, together with a statement of the various responsibilities of the concerned bodies of the United nations viz. the Secretary-General, the Security Council and UNHCR. As concerns future action, she proposed that a Working Group of Sub-Committee of the Whole be set up to draft a further report, taking Ambassador Schnyder's text as a basis, which could then be submitted to the Executive Committee at its 34th Session.
15 The representative of ITALY stressed the importance of measures to ensure the humanitarian character of refugee camps and emphasized in particular that such camps should only accommodate non combatants. he made several suggested amendments to the Draft Declaration in order to divide it into two logically distinct parts. the first part should determine the legal framework, in particular the status of refugees; the second should be the operative part establishing the obligation of all the concerned parties.
16 The representative of the NETHERLANDS expressed his appreciation to Ambassador Schnyder for his report and Draft Declaration. He believed the subject required careful consideration and preparation and regarded the present meeting as a first exchange of views prior to further debate by the Executive Committee at its 34th Session and, if appropriate, by the General Assembly. he suggested that General Assembly could study the matter in a Working Group, either of the Third Committee, or perhaps of the Sixth Committee. The proposal to adopt a Draft Declaration was in his opinion worthy of serious consideration, and he pointed out that the international refugee instruments had not been widely adopted in regions where military attacks occurred and that the Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Convention had obtained only a limited number of ratification. His delegation would wish to suggest some amendments to the draft text as submitted by Ambassador Schnyder. he assumed that operative paragraph 1 of the Draft Declaration would apply to so far as camps accommodated only refugees not engaged in military activities. As regards operative paragraph 3 he recalled the relevance of the principles of international law concerning friendly relations and co-operation amongst States in accordance with the charter of the United Nations as adopted in General Assembly resolution 2625 of 24 October 1970. He saw some difficulty in securing agreement on the proposal contained in operative paragraph 5 to accord a protective status to refugee camps, but attached particular value to paragraph 6 regarding the presence of UNHCR in such camps.
17 The representative of ARGENTINA noted that military attacks on refugee camps were now occurring in almost all parts of the wold. In regard to UNHCR competence in the matter, he stressed the importance of preserving the non-political and humanitarian character of the Office, since it was on this principle that the efficacy of the work of the High Commissioner depended. UNHCR had however a clear duty, deriving from the Statute of the Office, to ensure that refugees benefitted from the principles of international protection and that their basic human rights were respected. in this regard, the High Commissioner was obliged to use all means available to him. UNHCR had however neither the means not the competence to extend physical protection to refugees which was the primary responsibility of the country of asylum. Circumstances could nevertheless arise in which the country of asylum was prevented from carrying out this obligation if e.g. the country was under occupation. As concerned the sitting of refugee camps the representative agreed that to place camps in border areas gave rise to security consideration; the transfer of refugee camps further inland might, however, make refugees less incline to return home, and thus make what otherwise might be a temporary situation into a permanent problem. As concerns the Draft Declaration, his delegation thought that a considerable amount of work would be required on the text before submitting it to the General Assembly.
18 The representative of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA believed that measures had to be addressed to deal with the phenomenon of military attacks on refugee camps. he considered Ambassador Schnyder's report to be a careful, yet realistic examination of a complex problem which was of concern to the entire international community. The report was, to his delegation's knowledge, the first attempt to describe in one document the various steps that might be taken to prevent military attacks on refugee camps. Although many of these steps were outside the realm of the High Commissioner's purely humanitarian and non-political mandate, the fact of their being stated drew attention to complementary and mutually reinforcing actions which might be undertaken simultaneously on political and humanitarian grounds. this applied particularly in respect to UNHCR access to refugee camps, if UNHCR and the government of the asylum country were to promote a more secure environment for refugees. As concerns the Draft Declaration, he agreed with other speakers who had expressed a desire for further discussions. he proposed that the matter of the Draft Declaration be placed on the agenda of the next meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection.
19 The representative of THAILAND noted that Ambassador Schnyder's report was based primarily on his observation on the problem as it manifested itself in Africa. He suggested that Ambassador Schnyder should study the phenomenon as it occurred in other countries thereby broadening the base of his report. He believed that any final text should take into account the need for preventing measures to stop military attacks occurring rather than emphasizing the responsibilities of the country of asylum.
20 The representative of SWEDEN welcomed Ambassador Schnyder's report. The problem posed two main questions; now to protect refugees in camps from military attacks and now to prevent such attacks from occurring. The suggestion that the refugee camps that are under threat to be attacked be moved away from the border areas must be the most efficient means to deal with the problem in both these respects. he felt it was necessary to distinguish between the responsibility of the various parties involved viz. UNHCR, the governments of the countries of asylum an the international community in the sense of the UN and third countries. he stated with reference to para 7 of the report that the ultimate responsibility to protect refugees from military attacks rested with the country of asylum. he appreciated, however, that the country of asylum may - for economic or other reasons - not be able to assume this obligation without calling on the assistance of the international community. Where third countries had a particular political influence in a given region they should intervene with potential aggressors in order to prevent military attacks from occurring. As concerns the High Commissioner he should use all means at his disposal to find solutions, including recourse to the great international prestige which was accorded to his Office. In conclusion his delegation could support the idea of a universal declaration to be adopted by the General Assembly and was prepared to explore this possibility further.
21 The representative of the UNITED KINGDOM believed that certain provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols could be considered as applying to refugees. He asked Ambassador Schnyder whether he maintained the suggestion in his preliminary report that these camps and settlements should be given a special status. As regards the proposal that refugee camps be sited away from the border, he recalled that such a measure was envisaged in the 1969 OAU Refugee Convention placed particular emphasis on the need for refugees to refrain from subversive measures, and for combatants to a given conflict being clearly distinguished from non combatants. His delegation could agree in principle with the Draft Declaration in the sense it was proposed.
22 The representative on NORWAY considered Ambassador Schnyder's report to be a valuable contribution to the solution of the problem of military attacks on refugee camps. His government fully agreed with the emphasis placed in the report on the need to study the problem from a strictly humanitarian point of view and to avoid political complications. His delegation also agreed with the principle conclusions of the report, i.g. that refugees should be settled away from the frontiers of States, that civilian refugees should be clearly distinguished from fighters and also as regards the role which UNHCR might play in this context. As concerns future action, his delegation hoped that the Executive Committee at its 34th Session could reach a consensus on Ambassador Schnyder's report and adopt conclusions on the problem based on the deliberations of the Sub-Committee. He welcomed the Draft declaration as submitted by Ambassador Schnyder but believed that the text required thorough discussion in order to improve some of the paragraphs relating to complicated legal and political matters, as well as what could be the role for UNHCR. his delegation believed that work on the draft text could be commenced during the 34th Session on the Executive Committee.
23 The representative of BELGIUM considered that the problem of military attacks on refugee camps should be placed in the context of the principal of non-refoulement. The phenomenon of military attacks on refugee camps could threaten the observance by States of this fundamental norm, since the possibility of such attacks occurring might make States less willing to admit asylum-seekers. His delegation believed that the presence of UNHCR in refugee camps would ensure the separation of refugees from combatants. As regards the High Commissioner's competence in the matter, he believed that the humanitarian character of his Office did not necessarily prevent him becoming involved in matters of politics. The question of military attacks on refugee camps had certain political aspects, which could not be divorced from its humanitarian ones. His delegation believed however that it was possible to devise a number of principles which could be applied to the problem. His delegation suggested that an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee be held to further discuss the Draft Declaration.
24 The representative of CHINA stressed the responsibility of the High Commissioner to use his influence to draw public attention to the military attacks on refugee camps, so as to bring moral pressure to bear on countries launching such attacks, the root cause of which lay in the policy pursued by those countries. It was not appropriate, in his view, to demand the asylum countries to take such measures as they think unfeasible. he said that if a draft declaration was to be worked out, its main points should be to concern the attacking countries and call on them to immediately stop such attacks as well as refrain from further inhuman actions. The draft declaration should be revised so that it could fully reflect the view of the great majority of member states, especially of the asylum countries.
25 The representative of SWITZERLAND found the report of Ambassador Schnyder both concise and clear, covering the whole range of problems confronting the international community with regard to attacks on camps of refugees. the need to preserve the non-political role of the High Commissioner's Office was underlined and the extent and limits of his mandate were well-defined. the report showed the relationship between the different United Nations organs concerned with this question and the role of ICRC. It was clear that the effective protection of refugee camps required the commitment of all organizations, States and parties concerned. The diverse solutions proposed of course included political aspects which were outside the competence of the Executive Committee or the High Commissioner.
26 The proposed Draft Declaration was primarily the concern of those States which are members of the United Nations. It might usefully be considered by the competent United Nations bodies so as to reaffirm the absolute necessity to respect the status of refugees whenever they have found asylum. It was now for the member Government of the Executive Committee to complete work on the text.
27 The Representative of LESOTHO expressed his government's appreciation for the support given by member States of the Security Council in condemning the recent attack by South African military forces on refugees and citizens of his country. As concerned Ambassador Schnyder's report he noted that the situation of refugees in Lesotho was somewhat unique in that, as a result of his government's policy of non-segregation, refugees were not accommodated in camps or settlements but were permitted to mix freely in local communities. A number of Ambassador Schnyder's conclusions were therefore not relevant to the problem of military attacks on refugees as it occurred in his country. His delegation however appreciated Ambassador Schnyder's report in that it focussed attention on the difficulties confronting countries such as his own, which while granting asylum to refugees, did not have the means of providing them protection against the possibility of military attacks from larger and more powerful neighbors. As regards the Draft Declaration, the text was acceptable on a general level, although he believed that further discussions on its scope and content were needed.
28 The representative of ISRAEL referred to the complex and difficult questions raised by the problem of military attacks on refugee camps and congratulated Ambassador Schnyder on the completion of his challenging task. His government was deeply concerned that acute refugee problems existed in many parts of the world. In addition to the misery and suffering which burden the refugees themselves, such problems often exacerbate international discord by further aggravating tension between States. he stressed the importance of the humanitarian character of refugee camps being preserved and of their not being transformed for non humanitarian purposes under any circumstances. His delegation believed that the conditions of refugees would be improved by the application of existing rules of customary and conventional international law, which prohibit the non humanitarian use of an officially recognized refugee camp. His government would give Ambassador Schnyder's report the closest of attention, together with the ideas and proposals made by previous speakers, particularly as regards the need to preserve the purely humanitarian character of refugee situations and the humanitarian and non-political role of UNHCR.
29 The representative of BRAZIL stated that his government shared the feeling of the international community on the question of attacks on refugee camps and settlements and welcomed the initiative by the Executive Committee to strengthen the capacity of UNHCR and the international community to address this problem. His government would consider the report and the Draft Declaration and looked forward to a more thorough discussion at the forthcoming meeting of the Executive Committee.
30 The representative of SUDAN noted the difficulty od distinguishing between the political and humanitarian aspects of the problem and underlined the importance of safeguarding the purely humanitarian and non-political character of the High Commissioner's Office. His delegation was attracted by idea of associating the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, the Security Council and various political organs in considering ways and means to provide protection for refugee camps and settlements, and supported the principle of a declaration. Like the Australian delegation he was concerned that the report was silent on the responsibility of countries of origin to refrain from military attacks on refugee camps and to abide by the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter and other relevant international instruments, and that it did not call on countries of origin to put an end to the root causes which forced refugees to leave their countries. While his delegation was sympathetic to the idea that refugee camps and settlements should be situated away from borders, this might be beyond the resources and abilities of host countries, and should not be viewed in isolation from related problems.
31 While generally agreeing that it was primarily the duty of asylum countries to protect their territory and refugee camps and that they should ensure that refugees were involved in armed activities against any state, Sudan shared the view of the representative of Sweden and Lesotho that some countries might not be able to defend their territories and that the international community was duty-bound to assist them. The Draft Declaration in fact went beyond the OAU Convention. His delegation believed that an in-depth study was needed, and that no hasty decisions should be made on such an important and difficult matter. He suggested that an expert group within the Sixth Committee was one possibility.
32 The representative of NIGERIA recalled that his delegation had been associated with the present initiative from the outset, and appreciated and endorsed the report in its totality. While appropriate international legislation was the Ultimate objective, the draft declaration was a worthwhile step which it was hoped might lead eventually to a convention. The reference to the Office of the High Commissioner as "an intermediary of good-will" was useful, for if the High Commissioner did not have political authority, he nonetheless had tremendous influence on the international community. The delegation urged the High Commissioner to maintain a presence in every large camp or settlement, both to protect the welfare of refugees and to restrain them from indulging in activities which would invite attacks.
33 The representative of JAPAN agreed that no magic formula existed to solve the problem, which involved, among other things, the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, matters concerning which it was not possible for the High Commissioner alone to take effective action even to achieve his purely humanitarian objectives. Several practical proposals had been made by Ambassador Schnyder, especially those in paragraph 9 of the report concerning UNHCR access to and presence in refugee camps which might be exposed to attacks and the possibility of giving refugee camps a status analogous to Red Cross hospitals, and in paragraph 12 concerning the transfer of camps away from endangered border areas. Further clarification and elaboration would be needed to make these proposals workable, and local voices should be heard in view of the complexity of the matter. While Japan's initial reaction to the proposal for a draft declaration was favourable, this question was still being carefully studied.
34 The representative of ALGERIA observed that the report had the value of examining the problem in a dispassionate manner. Recent attacks, in their severity, amounted to a policy of terror against civilian refugees and host countries. There was a legal vacuum which needed to be filled. The report and Draft Declaration contained many positive ideas which should be given in-depth study. Her delegation had some apprehension, however, that certain elements of the report could serve as a pretext for refoulement or for the separation of families. An undue emphasis on the duties of the asylum countries alone could also be used in attempts to justify attacks. Her delegation reserved the right to comment further on the report and declaration in the meeting of the Executive Committee in October.
35 The representative of AUSTRIA observed that although his country had been spared the experience of military attacks on refugee camps and settlements, it was particularly concerned, as a first asylum country, with the need for preventing such attacks. There were three levels at which action could be taken: (a) concrete practical action in the national, regional and international spheres: (b) recourse to international legal rules, already existing or to be developed in order to prevent the use of military force against persons on the territory of another sovereign state who are under the protection of the international humanitarian principles; and (c) influencing public opinion, for example through the United Nations General Assembly. The Draft Declaration could influence public opinion, helping develop the international community's awareness of the nature of the problem. The proposals for practical action of a humanitarian and neutral nature could also be supported by Austria. Austria would however prefer a declaration that refrained from imposing obligations upon first asylum countries, agreeing with the Thai delegate that stressing such obligations could provide arguments which might be used to justify attacks against camps.
36 Action in the field of international law was a long-term process which should be carefully handled. The sixth Committee or the discussion of legal issues. A distinction was to be made between general international law and specific humanitarian rules. International humanitarian law could appropriately be discussed at the Henry Dunant Institute or at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law at San Remo. Concrete preventive Action should be taken without delay by asylum countries in co-operation with UNHCR. UNHCR access to camps and moving camps away from borders were of prime importance. Given the inability of some countries to protect their territory, and the refugee camps situated there, against more powerful intruders, consideration should be given by the United Nations Secretary-General to a role for United Nations peace-keeping forces.
37 The representative of DENMARK was in agreement with the proposal concerning the removal of refugee camps from border areas as well as other practical suggestions in the report. While the ultimate responsibility remained with countries of asylum, it was the responsibility of UNHCR and the international community to help them fulfil their obligations. Measures should be taken to ensure that refugees did not engage in activities likely to provoke attacks, but this should not detract from the absolute character of the prohibition against armed attacks on refugee camps and settlements. Further study should be given to the legal and practical problems involved in applying to refugees the protection of the IVth Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of war and its Additional Protocols. Referring to the statement of the Representative of Lesotho he noted a policy of integrating refugees into the local population could help to avoid the problems under discussion. Denmark supported the idea of a Draft Declaration and was prepared to assist in formulating a text that could meet with a general consensus.
38 The representative of the United Republic of TANZANIA said that his country had been honoured to receive Ambassador Schnyder and to consult with him concerning his report. Tanzania's present observations were made pending further detailed study. While agreeing with the views in paragraph 7 of the report concerning violations of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of asylum countries and the primary task of the governments of asylum countries to protect their territory, serious practical difficulties were evident when one considered the wanton attacks of a powerful neighboring country on Lesotho. Countries under threat of such attacks often could not defend themselves, particularly when both refugees and freedom fighters were present. Concrete political measures were necessary in Southern Africa to assist the frontline States. The High Commissioner's potential role in this connection was outlined in paragraph 10 of the report. The measures suggested in paragraph 9 were worthy of consideration, but Lesotho's experience demonstrated that they would not ensure the refugee's safety. The credibility of UNHCR required strict adherence to its humanitarian and non-political role. this role should be strengthened in the political organs of the United Nations to include promoting the adoption of impartial and non-political measures by the Security Council. Tanzania endorsed paragraph 16 of the report, but reserved its position on the Draft Declaration which seemed to place the onus of protecting refugees on asylum countries. Further work was needed to come up with concrete proposals by the meeting of the Executive Committee in October.
39 The representative of FINLAND shared the views expressed on the usefulness and timeliness of Ambassador Schnyder's report and supported the idea od a declaration. It was clear that much work was still needed to finalize the text of the declaration in such a way as to permit wide acceptance. he suggested that countries and countries of origin, which were directly involved, should participate in the preparatory work of the final report in order to avoid any subsequent misunderstanding and misinterpretations.
40 The delegate of the HOLY SEE shared the views expressed in the report. With reference to a suggestion in paragraph 9, he felt that the High Commissioner should work with Governments, in consultation with other humanitarian agencies, to provide refugee camps and settlements with protection analogous to that defined in the IVth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949. In line with the consideration in paragraph 13, it was important to draw the attention of the public to the seriousness of attacks on camps and settlements occupied by people who had to flee their countries. He endorsed the emphasis in paragraph 16 on international solidarity with asylum countries.
41 The representative of GREECE noted the report's emphasis on the non-political and humanitarian character of the Office o the High Commissioner. It was essential that existing basic principles of humanitarian law be respected and applied by all for the protection of refugees. The Greek delegation endorsed the proposal in paragraph 9 for resettlement refugees away from border zones and the principal that refugees should refrain from acts which might incite attacks, and agreed that the primary responsibility of ensuring the security of refugee camps rested with the country of asylum. However, it felt the report should point out the international responsibility of these who committed acts of aggression against camps. Greece supported the principle of a Draft Declaration and agreed with other delegations that its form and content should be examined by a working group.
42 The representative of TURKEY considered that the report should be amplified and finalized before work proceeded on the Draft Declaration. The final report could usefully include a fuller and more balanced description of the actual situation. With regard to the Draft Declaration, it should be borne in mind that it would be considered by political bodies very different from the Sub-Committee on International Protection. It was most important that it be thoroughly discussed in the Sub-Committee or special Working Group to arrive at a formulation that would elicit broad acceptance.
43 The CHAIRMAN, summing up, expressed the hope that there would not be a "vide de volonte" as well as a "vide juridique". He observed that there did not appear to be wide divergencies on fundamentals. Rather, there were questions of the language used and of principles which needed greater highlighting or balancing.
44 The CHAIRMAN proposed that the Office of the High Commissioner should prepare minutes of the present meeting which would be circulated to member Governments, which could consider the ideas expressed and see the trends of the discussion.
45 The CHAIRMAN in consultation with the High Commissioner would organize an informal Working Group of 12 countries which would not review the basic principles of the report, upon which there was general agreement, but would reflect upon and adjust the emphasis to be given to certain ideas and perhaps modify the languages of the Draft Declaration to achieve a consensus.
46 The finalized text would be presented in October to the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection which could then transmit it to the General Assembly where it could be co-sponsored by a group of countries and submitted to the Third Committed.
47 The CHAIRMAN's proposal was generally accepted. The representative of the SUDAN indicated that he was skeptical about the need for a Working Group and felt that the report could go directly to the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection.
48 The representative of the NETHERLANDS stated that it should not be decided at this juncture that the report should necessarily be forwarded to the General Assembly. The Chairman agreed that was under discussion was a procedure for agreeing upon a consolidated and unified text, not a final decision.
49 The Chairman's proposal was then agreed to and the meeting was closed.
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New digital instrument opens for large-scale identification of vulnerable persons during the COVID-19 pandemic
The international research organization interRAI, has rapidly developed a scientific assessment instrument to identify particularly vulnerable social groups during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In collaboration with the Finnish IT company Raisoft Ltd, the instrument has been digitized in order to quickly carry out the assessments. The COVID-19 Vulnerability Screener is a self-report instrument with standardized survey questions that can be administered by a lay person (e.g., student, volunteer, health care aide, administrative staff). "This frees up valuable time for clinicians to focus on addressing the needs of complex patients during the pandemic" says Professor John Hirdes of the University of Waterloo, Canada, who is leading the international research team.
The interRAI COVID-19 Vulnerability Screener provides a brief evaluation of frailty and multi-morbidity that can increase the risk of serious, adverse outcomes for older persons exposed to COVID-19. The screener can be administered over the phone or in-person. Using the digital instrument, users will be able to quickly and conveniently identify people who have potential care needs related to COVID-19 symptoms. These symptoms are significant factors that are worrying individuals, and in combination can pose a significant threat to people at risk. The screener has been developed through more than 3 million completed interRAI assessments from nursing homes and clinics in Canada and the United States.
Raisoft and interRAI have engaged collaborators in Canada, South Africa and Europe to begin using the instrument in primary care, geriatric services, and community programs with health workers to reach out to vulnerable persons living in community settings. The screener will help to monitor and manage moderate risks related to underlying medical issues, functional problems, distress mood, or social isolation. The feedback has been very positive, the users find the screener useful and the software solution easy to use.
One project worker in Canada commented, "I have been using the COVID-19 Sceener and the Check-Up instrument to complete a comprehensive geriatric assessment on community dwelling older adults via a virtual clinic. It captures the essential aspects of a comprehensive assessment, allowing for the addition of notes which I use for more narrative aspects of the assessment and it has a longer section at the bottom where I can place my conclusions. Overall, I have found it very useful and will likely use it in my practice going forward."
Another user from Canada commented, "I find the software very user friendly and it's so exciting to be able to look at my data immediately. I have found it very easy to navigate through and the questions are very clear."
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Drake’s ‘Views’ Remains Atop Billboard 200, Ariana Grande Debuts at No. 2
Drake is still taking in Views from the top.
The Canadian rapper’s latest album remains No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth straight week, and has now spent the most weeks at No. 1 for any album by a male artist in more than four years, according to Billboard.
Michael Bublé was the last artist to have more weeks at No. 1. He had five weeks atop the chart in 2011-2012 with Christmas. However, the last non-holiday album to spend more weeks at No. 1 was Eminem’s Recovery, which had seven non-consecutive weeks at the top in 2010.
Views moved 189,000 equivalent album units this week, 50,000 of which were in traditional album sales. It also earns the top four largest streaming week for an album ever.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman debuts at No. 2 with 175,000 equivalent album units (129,000 in pure album sales). Both of her previous albums—2013’s Yours Truly and 2014’s My Everything—debuted at No. 1.
Beyoncé’s LEMONADE hits No. 4 with 99,000 units, while Rihanna’s ANTI rounds out the top 5 with 48,000 units.
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1. Drake – Views – 189,000
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3. Blake Shelton – If I’m Honest – 170,000
4. Beyoncé – LEMONADE – 99,000
5. Rihanna – ANTI – 48,000
6. Eric Clapton – I Still Do – 46,000
7. Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels – 42,000
8. Meghan Trainor – Thank You – 39,000
9. Adele – 25 – 36,000
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Power Electronics Basics
Operating Principles, Design, Formulas, and Applications
Yuriy Rozanov
Sergey E. Ryvkin
Evgeny Chaplygin
Pavel Voronin
Published April 23, 2015 by CRC Press
Power Electronics Basics: Operating Principles, Design, Formulas, and Applications
Book Description Table of Contents Author(s) Reviews Support Material
Power Electronics Basics: Operating Principles, Design, Formulas, and Applications provides fundamental knowledge for the analysis and design of modern power electronic devices. This concise and user-friendly resource:
Explains the basic concepts and most important terms of power electronics
Describes the power assemblies, control, and passive components of semiconductor power switches
Covers the control of power electronic devices, from mathematical modeling to the analysis of the electrical processes
Addresses pulse-width modulation, power quality control, and multilevel, modular, and multicell power converter topologies
Discusses line-commutated and resonant converters, as well as inverters and AC converters based on completely controllable switches
Explores cutting-edge applications of power electronics, including renewable energy production and storage, fuel cells, and electric drives
Power Electronics Basics: Operating Principles, Design, Formulas, and Applications supplies graduate students, industry professionals, researchers, and academics with a solid understanding of the underlying theory, while offering an overview of the latest achievements and development prospects in the power electronics industry.
Basic Concepts and Terms in Power Electronics. Semiconductor Power Switches and Passive Components. Control of Power Electronic Devices. Line-Commutated Converters. Conversion from Direct Current to Direct Current. Inverters and AC Converters Based on Completely Controllable Switches. Pulse-Width Modulation and Power Quality Control. Resonant Converters. Multilevel, Modular, and Multicell Converter Topologies. Applications of Power Electronics.
Yuriy Rozanov earned a Dipl.-Eng in electromechanical engineering and Ph.D in science and technical science from the National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute," Russia, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus. Previously, Dr. Rozanov served as the head of the same department and worked in the electrical industry in various positions ranging from engineer to deputy chief designer. He has authored seven books and more than 160 articles and 24 patents, been awarded the prestigious title of Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, and won the Government of the Russian Federation Award in the fields of science (2001) and education (2005). He is an IEEE fellow and a chairman of the IEEE Russian Chapter PEL/PES/IES/IAS, as well as editor-in-chief of Russian Electrical Engineering.
Sergey Ryvkin graduated with high honors as an engineer from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), earned his Ph.D from the Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS), Moscow, and was awarded a D.Sc from the Supreme Certifying Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Moscow. He is currently a professor at the National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute," Russia, and a main researcher at the ICS RAS. Dr. Ryvkin holds six patents and has published seven books and more than 130 technical papers. He is an IEEE senior member, full member of the Russian Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences and the Power Electronics and Motion Control Council, deputy editor-in-chief of Russian Electrical Engineering, and editorial board member of several international journals.
Evgeny Chaplygin graduated from the National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute" (MPEI), Russia, and was awarded a Ph.D in power electronics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Industrial Electronics at MPEI, where he has supervised 11 students toward their master’s degrees. Dr. Chaplygin has patented 70 inventions and published three books and more than 100 papers. He is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Radio Electronics of MPEI and a member of the editorial board of the journal Russian Electrical Engineering. His areas of interest include modeling power electronic devices, improving energy-matter currency converters and mains, and increasing the quality of electricity through power electronics.
Pavel Voronin earned a Dipl.-Eng in electrical engineering and a Ph.D in power electronics from the National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute," Russia, where he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Electronics. He previously worked as an assistant in the same department. He has published more than 70 papers, two books, and 31 patents in the field of power electronics. His areas of interest include power converters, multilevel inverters, soft-switching circuits, and computer simulations of power electronic devices.
"... valuable to every undergraduate or graduate student, practicing engineer or technician, industry professional, researcher, and academic willing to study the broad field of power electronics. It offers a solid background on the underlying theory, while making an overview about the latest trends in converters and control methods of the power electronics industry. The book is also fundamental for power electronics professors and instructors, serving as a textbook for undergraduate classes and as a model for more advanced courses."
—Fernando A. Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, from IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, December 2015
"... a very good manual for engineers and researchers, in which they can find the basic features of power electronics and its advantages and disadvantages. ... very useful. ... imparts readers with the basic knowledge needed for full use of the potential of power electronics. ... The authors are qualified experts in the field. ... This clear, integrated presentation that calls attention to the main features of power electronics may serve as a good tool in power electronics instruction."
—Vadim Utkin, IEEE Fellow and Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, from Russian Electrical Engineering, 2015
"… a great handbook of power electronics. It contains a deeply comprehensive and up-to-date overview of both the building blocks and the converter topologies. The book is unique in linking its main power electronics part to particular control methods as well as to particular applications. This approach helps anybody not directly experienced in this field to understand power electronics in the context of its typical use. The control engineers then can better understand specialties and limitation of particular control methods regarding power switches. Finally, for university students, this book also shall be a signpost referring additional topics that can
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What You Need To Know About The New Facebook Privacy Settings
Blog, Facebook
The recent Facebook privacy hoax threw a number of Facebook users, causing them to share a message which promised to protect their posts from Facebook owning them, despite the fact that Facebook doesn’t own anyone’s posts at all. The real privacy settings update is here, and there is no sign of post ownership rights, instead it’s all about tracking.
Tracking Around the Net
The new privacy policy, which terms are accepted upon signing in, allow Facebook to study and analyse how you use the internet outside of Facebook. Which sites you visit, what things you look for, the mobile phone apps you use, it’s all tracked. This data allows Facebook to target news and adverts specifically to a users tastes and passions, which is hugely beneficial for businesses looking to reach out to their audience.
One great feature local businesses will benefit from is the way inputting a location to show where you are now displays a list of local bars and restaurants to check out, buy effexor canada some which may not have been considered otherwise when looking for a place to eat or drink.
While this might sound like a privacy invasion, it only tracks general information and it isn’t dissimilar to how other companies and search engines have been tracking user data. It will simply help you see what you want to see, and local and big businesses can sell directly to the audience rather than resources being wasted trying to reach everyone.
If you don’t want to be part of the tracking future, you can opt out via the official site, as the privacy settings now allow for more in-depth features, such as blocking certain types of adverts and to complain about any adverts you don’t want surrounding your Facebook page.
The new features can tailor what you see, or you can avoid it all together. Much better than the idea of full ownership which was being sent around the site in January isn’t it?
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Randy JohnstonRiver Falls, Wisconsin
Randy Johnston has been working in ceramics in his Wisconsin studio for more than thirty five years. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States. He is a full-time studio potter.
His work is exhibited internationally and he is the recipient of numerous awards including the Bush Artist Fellowship granted by the Bush foundation in Minnesota and two Visual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Johnston received his MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Warren MacKenzie. He also studied in Japan at the pottery of Shimaoka Tatsuzo who was a student of Shoji Hamada.
Johnston has presented hundreds of lectures and guest artist presentations worldwide. He has work in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Art Institute, Boston Museum of fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum, Nelson Aitkins Museum and numerous International Public and Private collections.
As I work in clay, the reality that is the starting point is the choice to investigate the formal range of the vessel (pot) structure in clay, and the belief in the potential that the pieces must entertain, suggest a narrative and allude to things outside of themselves. The largest question is how to invest my art with life, force, and dignity and with a sensibility to the process and material. I am interested in this process as a means to manifest ideas and form. Categories are not important. The ongoing pursuit to enlarge the boundaries of conventional perceptions is essential.
I would hope that in my work there is a glimmer of a unity that art has enjoyed in earlier ages and other cultures, when it has been less jealous of its autonomy, and more willing to share its functions with religion and magic. This work becomes a symbol for attitudes, sensibilities and philosophies, some of which are shared, by directly articulating the perception of the user / spectator whose world the work has entered. My involvement with materials and making does not present itself as a dominant and simple factor, but rather as the center of a complex of ambiguities. I believe this work allows an aesthetic, which is meaningful, important and valid in terms of its ability to express the whole range of our emotional and intellectual response to form, color, light and texture, and is able to stand as successful visual objects.
After returning from Japan in 1975, I rebuilt my kiIn incorporating many of the subtle ideas about design that I had learned from the old kiln builders in Mashiko. These refinements had been resolved over hundreds of years of firing pots with wood, sometimes in the same families and locations.
My wife Jan McKeachie and I met in 1975. We were married in 1978 and have fired most of our work in our large wood fired Nobori gama (1972-present) or Anagama kiln(2002-present). The architecture of wood kilns makes them wonderful objects, creaking, belching, and breathing...It is an architecture completed by fire and containing the violence out of which living pots emerge. Wood firing is an aesthetic choice, the greatest issue, regardless of technique and process is quality, and does the work ask new questions? I want my work to have a distinctly marked sense of clarity, a deliberate engagement with art past and present, and continuing aesthetic discourse with the expressive and conceptual intent of functional pots.
Firing for days with wood creates a complex of layers and structures on the work and in one's mind. I wrote the following in 2006:
Awareness of this layering brings me to a sacred place, a memory of a perfect place where we can stop and play with our minds and voices. With intuition and ideas we make. Constructing, layering listening to the echoes. This space also exists often within the architectural structures of our work as we attempt to define space, design structure, and deal with symbolic interpretations. The complex of social interaction and place of our humanity within this structure is in large part a continuing expression of my conversation with the material and process of clay.
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Education Propositions Generate Controversy
Whitney Tyler, Staff Writer
Two statewide propositions and one district wide measure on the November ballot will greatly affect funding for San Juan schools.
Proposition 30 is a set of tax increases proposed by Governor Jerry Brown. Proposition 30 raises state sales tax by 3.45 percent from 7.25 percent to 7.5 percent for four years, and it raises state income tax for those making over $250,000 per year for seven years. If passed, it will provide $6.8 billion in additional revenue for the state in fiscal year 2012-2013 alone.
Four speakers came to the campus last month to discuss the ballot initiatives.
David Wolfe, a member of the Howard Jarvis taxpayers association, spoke against Proposition 30.
“California has the second highest income tax,” Wolfe said. “People will leave to states that do not have income taxes.”
“[Proposition 30] adds a tax which would not be temporary but which will affect people forever.”
Shannon Brown, President of the San Juan Teachers Association, spoke in favor of the initiative.
“If this proposition does not pass, school will be shortened by about three weeks because of furlough days,” she said.
“Businesses favor Proposition 30 because they think schools do not deserve more cuts.”
Indeed, Principal Ginter has had to move back graduation to Monday, May 20 in the event that the school can not remain open very much longer due to furloughs if Proposition 30 does not pass.
Those students planning on attending college, whether it be a UC, CSU, or a California Community College, would be affected by Proposition 30 failing at the polls. Both the CSU and UC systems would face a cut of $250 million. The California Community Colleges would be impacted by an even larger cut of $338 million. The California School Boards Association states that Proposition 30 “does not provide new funding for schools. Instead, it bolsters the General Fund with new revenue.” This means that Proposition 30 doesn’t expressly guarantee that any of the revenue it raises will be used for school funding.
Senior Tessa Stangl’s CIVITAS senior project partly covered Proposition 30. She’s against it. Her mother, a small business owner, was on a panel speaking against Proposition 30.
“It’s a total sham. It’s more taxes we’re going to be paying that isn’t even guaranteed to go to the schools,” she said. “It can be used for anything the politicians decide to use it for.”
“It’s more bureaucracy and wasteful government spending as usual.”
Another ballot initiative that would affect San Juan schools is Proposition 38. Proposition 38, proposed by attorney Molly Munger, raises state income tax for twelve years. However, a majority of the revenue raised by 38, expected to be $10 billion per year, would go towards K-12 education. Propositions 30 and 38 have generated controversy from taxpayers who feel that they’re paying enough to a state which wastes too much money on non-education related endeavors.
“I think it’s sad that the state legislature was unable to fund education and safety the way it should by putting other funds before education,” United States and World History teacher Rocco Marrongelli said. “It’s shameful to ask taxpayers for more money when education was not was not the legislature’s first choice in the first place.” Marrongelli doubts that either proposition will pass considering the political climate, with many people angry about taxes. However, he concedes that Proposition 38 would be the better of the two. “It’s probably better for schools than Proposition 30 simply because the money will go right to the schools,” he said. “Then again, it’s sad the taxpayers will have to give more to education which should be a legislative priority.” History teacher William Taylor disagrees. “Furlough days sound fun, but it means that you can’t fund colleges and by not funding colleges, it is harder for students to get into them,” Taylor said.
“You get less education. Schools will be underfunded.”
The third initiative is Measure N. Measure N would allow the San Juan Unified School District to issue $350 million in bonds to repair schools and classrooms in disrepair.
The bonds would also be used to increase energy efficiency and would be issued at a time when interest rates are historically low.
Marrongelli is okay with the bond measure.
“I’m okay with the bond measures if the people of the school want to improve infrastructure of their schools,” he said. “I can understand it to improve those areas, though I think it will be hard to pass anymore bonds considering the economic climate.”
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Club: Free seating
Rockhal Club
5, avenue du Rock'n'Roll, Esch, Alzette Luxembourg L-4361
Price: 34€ + 3,40€ presale fee
Doors: 19:30 Show: 20:15
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New date: 27.10.2021
The concert of SALVADOR SOBRAL initially scheduled for the 29th of March and postponed to the 26th of November 2020 has finally been postponed to the 27th of October 2021. All tickets bought for this show remain valid. We thank you for your understanding and hope to see you back soon at the Rockhal!
The Lisbon born Salvador Sobral emerged, fully formed, into the spotlight when his entry, Amar Pelos Dois, won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 with the competition’s highest ever winning score. The following year when he performed again at Eurovision, in a duet with Brazil’s Caetano Veloso, he hinted at the serious musical chops behind his sudden fame.
Sobral sang from a young age, and performed on television for the first time at the age of ten. In his twenties, he dropped out of psychology studies in order to explore music in Mallorca and later studied jazz in Barcelona, he returned to Portugal at the end of 2014 and began collaborating with some of the country’s biggest jazz artists, creating his first album Excuse Me (2016).
In 2017 his sister Luísa Sobral was invited by the Portuguese national broadcaster to write a song for Festival da Canção, the winner of which represents Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest. She asked Salvador to sing it and, when he won, he was off to Eurovision and sensationally won that with Amar Pelos Dois. A simple, sweet and melancholy ballad, as Salvador said afterwards, “Music is not fireworks, music is feeling”. It is today one of the most popular songs in the Portuguese language in the world.
After an absence due to severe health problems, he is back now with his new album Paris, Lisboa - a multilingual exploration of the two cities inspired by a journey between them. The record is also a homage to Wim Wenders’ classic film ‘Paris, Texas.’ Salvador will perform accompanied by musicians Júlio Resende, André Rosina, and Bruno Pedroso.
“The extreme expressiveness of Sobral turns each performance into a unique interpretation.” ABC
“Reminds us that Portuguese is quite possibly the loveliest language in which to sing soft, good, songs.” The Guardian
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