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Help Defend the Great Lakes from Asian Carp
Jordan Lubetkin | January 9, 2014
If you live in the Great Lakes region, you have a tremendous opportunity to stand up and protect them by voicing your support for a plan to keep Asian carp and other invasive species out of the Great Lakes.
A few days ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a long-awaited report that examines options to prevent the spread of various invasive fish, parasites, grasses, algae, and other organisms from the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes and vice versa.
The report shows unequivocally that physically separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems is the most effective way to stop the transfer of harmful invasive species from one body of water to the other.
Unfortunately, the report also contains options that do not adequately protect the Lakes.
Speaking up at the public hearing is a critical chance to tell the U.S. Army Corps to pursue the one real solution to defend the Great Lakes from Asian carp, because actions that do not move us toward this goal are a distraction that further delays the permanent solution so desperately needed.
Asian Carp Pose Urgent Threat to Great Lakes
Asian carp are non-native fish that pose a threat to people and wildlife. The skittish fish can weigh upwards of 60 pounds and become easily startled—hurling themselves out of the water at the sound of boats. The fish have battered boaters, making rivers unsafe for water recreation. Asian carp also gobble up food faster than native fish can, driving native fish away. In some stretches of river where Asian carp have taken hold, the non-native Asian carp now constitute between 60-90 percent of living organisms.
Many areas of the Great Lakes and the rivers that run into them are highly susceptible to an Asian carp invasion. It’s imperative to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes—like all invasive species, once they take hold, they are impossible to eradicate. And there is little room for error: It takes as few as 10 male and 10 female fish, according to a Canadian study, for Asian carp to establish a breeding population.
Asian carp have not established themselves in the Great Lakes—but they are steadily advancing toward Lake Michigan. The fish, which had been imported into this country to clean Southern fish ponds, escaped during floods. Since then, the fish has been migrating up the Mississippi River, into the Illinois River, and are now in Chicago area canals built more than 100 years ago to connect the waters of the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes.
Current Defenses Inadequate
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have pinpointed Chicago area waterways as the most likely pathway for the Asian carp to invade the Great Lakes. And it’s not just a one-way street. The artificial connection has allowed invasive species in the Great Lakes to colonize waters west of the Mississippi. This graphic that shows the stunning spread of invasive zebra mussels from the Great Lakes, through the Chicago canals, and as far west as California underscores why it’s so important to separate the two systems.
The only thing preventing Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes is a series of electric fences designed to repel the fish. But these defenses are flawed. Just two weeks ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers admitted the electric fences could be breached in a variety of ways, leaving the Great Lakes at risk. The network of electric barriers is nothing more than a Band-Aid fix to a problem that demands a long-term, permanent and comprehensive solution.
Physical Barrier Most Effective Solution
The most effective way of keeping the Asian carp out of the Great Lakes is to physically separate the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ own study identifies physical separation as the only effective solution to stop invasive species from migrating between these two iconic waters.
The Army Corps study comes two years after an independent analysis found that physically separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems was both feasible and affordable.
Now, it’s time to make the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers act. Over the next few weeks, the agency will be hosting public comment sessions around the region. It’s time for Great Lakes advocates to speak up.
Speak Up in Person to Defend the Great Lakes
Please attend one of the listening sessions below and tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers you support physically separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems.
Let us know you can attend by sending an email to info@nwa.org—we’ll send you more information and help you prepare to speak up for the Great Lakes:
Monday, January 13, 2014 from 4:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. CST
Register to Speak in Milwaukee
Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 4:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. EST
Register to Speak in Cleveland
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 from 4:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. EST
Register to Speak in Ann Arbor
Register to Speak in Traverse City
Twin Cities in Bloomington, MN
Register to Speak in Bloomington
St. Louis in Alton, IL
Thursday, January 30, 2014 from 4:00 PM — 7:00 PM CST
Register to Speak in Alton
Your voice can make a big difference in protecting the Great Lakes and its fish and wildlife now and for generations to come!
Conservation | Army Corps of Engineers, Asian carp, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Mississippi River Interbasin Study, invasive species
Written by Jordan Lubetkin
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The Silence is Broken!
Below this commentary are links taken from Face book. Suddenly, relatives and friends (ages 18-34) who are normally labeled complacent by the political pundits are speaking out. The two issues that have brought this generation to a rallying cry are the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and the imminent possible passing of two bills (Protect IP Act -PIPA in the Senate) and (Stop Online Piracy Act- SOPA in the House of Representatives).
The President has stalled the Keystone XL tar sands' bill (http://www.savebiogems.org/). If you have not been paying attention, this bill was fast-tracked by our U.S. Congress to put down a pipeline from Canada to Texas. Look it up on the links provided. It should shake your world a bit. Talk about a major target. Furthermore, we are not looking at alternative methods of energy. We really need to think outside of the box about energy. What are our alternatives?
Then these two bills in Congress are throwing the baby out with the bath water. The following link will help you understand these bills a bit more (https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/). Being a fan of the Internet, the frustrations of worms, hackers, and pirates are costly. The beauty of the Internet is its accessibility. Before the Internet, piracy was alive and well. Knock offs and plagiarism are old artifacts of our commercial culture. Censorship is not the answer. This is a country where freedom of speech has been a tenant our military fought to preserve. We cannot shrivel up and just let our legislators make a decision without hearing from us.
Kudos to all my friends and family who are rallying and working to get the word out about these issues. It is important that citizens are active in the political dialogue. Now call, write, text, tweet, or email your legislators and tell them what you think.
(http://www.savebiogems.org/) (https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/)
Women's History Month: Inspiring Women
When we talk about Women's History Month we think of Pocahontas and Sacajawea who helped the explorers of this country. We think of Abigail Adams and Dolly Madison who were on the forefront of the beginning of this country. We don't want to forget the great suffragists who worked for and won the right to vote for U.S. women. We are reminded of "Rosie the Riveter" and all the brave women of America who took over the "men's positions" in the factories. The production numbers of these women are still noteworthy to this day. We honor the women who took those brave first steps to serve and continue to serve in the military. The first scientists, teachers, humanitarians, politicians, the list continues as we look for role models to inspire and encourage us. Is there a scientist, teacher, or humanitarian who inspired you ? Share these women with my followers, audience, and me. Sh
Be Strategic: Write A Holiday Memory
The momentum of the holidays propels us into a frenzy of cooking, shopping, wrapping, decorating, entertaining, cleaning, and overindulging. Writing becomes an after thought in the midst of multiple "to do" lists. BREATH . Schedule a break, whittle some time for your writing. Utilize these small chunks of time to "Write A Memory." Exercise your creativity with the keyboard or a paper and a writing instrument to describe a "who, what, where, or how" about the Holiday Season. Find a quiet place and expound on the following events of the season or better still, scribe about something you experienced that day or during the season "to be jolly." Cookie Exchange: Do you participate in this activity? Why or Why not? If you did, what was your choice of cookie? Who participates your exchange? Decorating the Outside of Your House: Who does it? How do you prepare for it? Describe the feelings and emotions of the participants of this outdoor acti
December 2016 Book Review: Maeve's Times
Warning to all writers who scribe thoughts on bits and scraps of paper and throw them in a box to rewrite later. Those bits and scraps may be published posthumously. Maeve Binchy's husband, Gordon Snell, found her "to do later" box. He built a biography of her life with her thoughts, articles, and ramblings. Maeve's Times is dated and referenced making it easy to follow. Thank you Mr. Snell for sharing insights into her professional and personal life. Her spirit lives on with her words. This author captured my attention with Copper Beeches. Maeve Binchy wrote about what she saw, lived, and felt. Her stories reflected both Irish country and city life. Each book made me feel better about people. She wrote about hard times and working through them. She wrote about love and love lost. Her book Minding Frankie demonstrates a community pulling together to help a neighbor. Any of her titles are a "goodread."
The Dying Art of Writing Notes
Keeping Up the Shine After the Tinsel is Gone
I'M Back! Happy 2012!
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School of Engineering and Digital Arts News
News and Events from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts
EDA’s innovative Sponsored Student Scheme backed by employers in the South East
By eda-news | 14 November 2013
An innovative scheme designed to connect companies in the South east with University of Kent engineering students has been launched.
Set up by the University’s School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA), the Sponsored Student Scheme programme enables small and large organisations in the region to collaborate with engineering students at an early stage in their studies.
The programme aims to build a long-term relationship with a company and student by providing work experience outside of term time, one-year placement opportunities and mentoring opportunities throughout their studies at Kent.
It also provides students with the opportunity to undertake their final-year project for the organisation, as well as building working relationships to secure jobs for students when they graduate.
Professor Sarah Spurgeon, Head of EDA, said: ‘The scheme is successful because it bridges the gap between offering students a way to enhance their own employability, giving their CV a massive boost, and provides employers with easy access to some of our outstanding students. It also demonstrates the value that employers place on students from the University of Kent.’
Andrew Cooper, Managing Director of BMT Reliability Consultants Ltd who has signed up to the programme, said: ‘We have been delighted with this scheme, which matches the needs of forward-thinking employers seeking the best future employees with the needs of students aspiring to be that future talent. The scheme is well organised and cost-effective. We look forward to continuing co-operation with the University of Kent.’
Mark Hopkins, Engineering and Technical Manager at Procon Engineering, said: ‘This is an excellent opportunity for companies to reap the undoubted rewards of sponsoring a student over a three year period.’
Maxwell Harvey who has undertaken a summer placement with BMT Reliability Consultants, said: ‘Taking part in the Sponsored Student Scheme has developed my interpersonal skills, built my confidence and equipped me with technical skills that further my understanding of elements in my course. The scheme has given me a fantastic insight into the industrial environment and has allowed me to build professional relationships at an early stage. It’s great to be able to go to the company for advice and support during my studies.’
Michael Nash, a student who undertook a placement at Megger Instruments Ltd, said: ‘The placement gave me huge insight into the Industry; I have experiences from the factory floor to the boardroom. This opportunity has also given my CV a huge boost and now I cannot wait to get back to the world of work.’
Organisations from the South East who are already involved in the scheme include: Axicon Auto ID Limited, BMT Reliability Consultants Ltd, Megger Instruments Limited, and Procon Engineering – A Division of National Oilwell Varco UK Ltd.
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Archives’ Genealogy Collections
Archives' Blog
Genealogical holdings of the Michigan Tech Archives were highlighted in a feature article in the November 7, 2009 issue of Houghton’s Daily Mining Gazette. Here is the article:
Genealogy resources abound in Copper Country
By Garrett Neese, DMG Writer
HOUGHTON – Every year, thousands of people come to the Copper Country to research their heritage.
Fortunately for them, there are many resources available locally to help them with their quest.
Many of the records for which people are looking may be found in county courthouses. Houghton County’s clerk’s office has vital records dating back more than 150 years: births and deaths since 1867 (indexes starting 1893 and 1911, respectively), marriages since 1855 and naturalization records starting in 1848.
Some records are restricted, said Mary Sivonen, senior accounts processor with the county clerk’s office: Only family members may see birth records, while military discharge records may be seen by that person and a spouse.
Because of space and staffing constraints, Sivonen said people should call ahead and set aside a time to come.
“We limit it to just a couple at a time,” she said. “We don’t allow groups to come up because we only have a limited amount of space. The books are very large.”
Coming in to look at open records is free. There are small fees for services beyond that, including $2 for copies and $10 for any records that need to be typed.
The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections has a wealth of sources, including Upper Peninsula census reports, local newspapers, tax and immigration records, and tract books showing purchases of land from the government.
Assistant archivist Julia Blair didn’t have total visitor numbers, but said hundreds of people come per month to do research.
There are microfilm archives from about 70 local papers, which can include pertinent information such as obituaries. Copies of the Daily Mining Gazette and its predecessor, the Portage Lake Mining Gazette, date back to 1862. There are other papers both major and minor, including three months of 1908 copies of the Hancock newspaper Wage Slave.
Other information includes census records, mine inspector reports of mining accidents, and Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. records, “probably the resource that is most valuable to people who come from outside the area,” Blair said.
The archives have telephone directories from Houghton and Keweenaw counties and Chassell, as well as their forerunner, the Polk directories, which included a list of residents with their job and address (for example, the 1898 Houghton County edition includes Dagenain Frederick, a laborer who lived at 129 Hecla St. in Laurium).
Many people also use Sanborn insurance maps, which shows the layout of streets in the town, as well as the businesses there at that point in time.
“It’s possible to trace a particular family dwelling and see if that home is still there,” she said.
Recently, Blair had a woman call who was interested in what business used to be in a particular building in South Range.
But as with any kind of historical research, Blair said, people should be prepared to put a little time into it.
“We can’t just type in a name, and say ‘Oh, we have this,'” she said.
In the event there’s nothing at the archives, they will also connect them to other resources, Blair said.
“It’s rare that we can’t connect somebody to some records in the past, but it has happened,” she said.
http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/507342.html?nav=5003
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Yoojin Lee ’16, University of Arkansas Medical School
Though it was only my first day at UAMS, my schedule was jam-packed. I met Dr. Erika Petersen ’96 in the lobby at 6:45 am, and as soon as I changed into scrubs, we met the patients she was scheduled to operate on. She talked to each of the patients and their family members as they were being prepared for the operation, providing reassurance and reminding them of the operative procedures that would take place.
The first operation I observed was a laminectomy, used to treat spinal stenosis. Stenosis involves a thickening of ligaments and bone tissue that surround the spinal nerve sac, which often causes pain, stiffness and weakness. In our case, the patient was suffering from pain in his legs, and was unable to stand straight for even the six minutes needed to brew a cup of tea. A laminectomy removes the ligaments and bone tissues to widen the area around spinal nerves and give them more “breathing room,” relieving pressure. The operation took about two hours, and when we went to visit him later in the afternoon, he reported that his leg already felt a lot better. I myself gained a lot of respect for doctors by the end of this first operation; it was hard just to remain standing up for two hours—imagine how hard it would be to stand for two hours straight while operating on a patient under high-stress conditions! The stakes were even higher for Dr. Petersen because the patient was her colleague’s father.
The second operation was the first of a two-part operation for deep-brain stimulation, Dr. Petersen’s specialty. During this procedure, electrodes are surgically implanted into the brain and are later wired to a generator, which is implanted into the patient’s chest. Stimulation of these electrodes via the generator is said to relieve tremors and treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease; according to Dr. Petersen, some doctors have also used it to treat anorexia and depression. That day, DBS was used to treat a patient with dystonia, which causes tremors, twisting and abnormal postures. Although Dr. Petersen didn’t expect to see any immediate effects of DBS on his condition, the patient said his muscles felt less tight. Dr. Petersen and her staff will have to run more tests and observe him throughout the next couple of months, but things do look quite promising!
The last operation didn’t take place in the operating room, but in the patient’s ward. The patient had suffered major brain trauma from a motorcycle accident, and the resident doctor was planting an intracranial pressure sensor so that he would be able to monitor pressure changes in the patient’s brain. The operation was relatively quick, and implanting the ICP itself took only ten minutes. According to the doctor, it is impossible to tell how bad the effects of trauma will be on the patient, but hopefully long-term care and therapy will bring as much of him back as possible.
Day 2 started even earlier at six in the morning, which began with Dr. Petersen’s lecture to the anesthesiology department about Spinal Cord Stimulation—which, surprisingly enough, I understood! As its name may suggest, SCS stimulates nerves in the spinal cord, which blocks them from sending pain signals to the brain. Although DBS is Dr. Petersen’s specialty, she performs SCS operations more frequently.
After checking in on Dr. Petersen’s patients, Dr. Petersen and I entered the OR with a busy schedule ahead of us. I was able to observe five “day” operations, which means that patients both come in and leave on the same day without having to stay overnight in the hospital. The first two operations were Stage 2 DBS operations, in which Dr. Petersen and a resident physician implanted the generator used to stimulate DBS electrodes that had already been inserted in a previous operation. To connect the electrodes to the generator, the wires were literally tunneled through the head, neck and upper chest area using brute force, which was interesting to watch. The third operation involved a decompression of the ulnar nerve, which is the nerve that runs through the “funny bone” in the elbow. The area around the nerve was very tight, and by removing the tissue around the nerve, Dr. Petersen gave it more “breathing room.” Next, Dr. Petersen implanted a generator for Vagus Nerve Stimulation, which stimulates the vagus nerve originating from the medulla of the brain. The procedure was very similar to that of DBS. Finally, Dr. Petersen changed a SCS generator that had run out of battery. The last patient kept waking and yelping out in pain from time to time, but all five surgeries ended successfully, and we delivered good news to all of Dr. Petersen’s patients and family members.
At the end of the day, Dr. Petersen treated me to dinner again; this time, we had Mexican food! The bean and cheese dip was delicious; make sure to get it if you happen to visit Senor Tequila in Little Rock any time soon.
My final day at UAMS started the earliest, at 5:50 am. I met the neurosurgery residents at the Intensive Care Unit (where patients in the most critical conditions are) and listened in on their meeting, where they went over the current conditions of the patients they were taking care of. After the meeting, I joined Dr. Day (the chair of the UAMS neurosurgery department) and his residents in an aneurysm removal surgery. An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel—not only did this patient have three aneurisms, but these bulges extended from carotid arteries (arteries that supply the head and neck with oxygenated blood) located deep in the brain. A doctor from Japan who was visiting Dr. Day was very helpful and walked me through all of the steps Dr. Day and the residents took to remove the aneurysms. The surgery was intense, which is probably why the entire procedure took six hours from start to finish. Residents had to rotate from one to another, and even Dr. Day had to take a small break!
I then joined Dr. Petersen in her clinic sessions, during which she consulted patients with a variety of conditions, from brain tumors to chronic back pain to face pain. The way in which Dr. Petersen seemed genuinely devoted to her patients’ wellbeing was very admirable, and I hope to become the same kind of caring, committed doctor in the future. She was also very accessible, which is a must for any good doctor. Dr. Petersen’s patients are certainly lucky to have her.
Overall, the past three days at UAMS gave me a more than worthwhile experience. Not only did I get to observe many intense, interesting surgeries (some of which I had never even heard of before, like DBS!), but I also was able to get a good feel for what it means to be a doctor. Medicine (especially surgery) involves long hours, patients, little sleep and a lot of fatigue, but it really is worthwhile, especially when both you and your patients know that you’ve completely turned their lives around 180 degrees for the better. That one smile or token of appreciation—that feeling of knowing you’ve made a huge difference in someone else’s life—is priceless, and it keeps you going.
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Modern Eloquence: Occasional addresses
are living still. I see two men in the street, very often, who were both as good as dead in the opinion of all who saw them in their extremity. People will insist on living, sometimes, though manifestly moribund. In Dr. Elder's life of Kane, you will find a case of this sort, told by Dr. Kane himself. The captain of a ship was dying of scurvy, but the crew mutinied, and he gave up dying for the present to take care of them. An old lady in this city, near her end, got a little vexed about a proposed change in her will; made up her mind not to die just then; ordered a coach; was driven twenty miles to the house of a relative, and lived four years longer. Cotton Mather tells some good stories which he picked up in his experience, or out of his books, showing the unstable equilibrium of prognosis. Simon Stone was shot in nine places, and as he lay for dead the Indians made two hacks with a hatchet to cut his head off. He got well, however, and was a lusty fellow in Cotton Mather's time. Jabez Musgrove was shot with a bullet that went in at his ear and came out at his eye on the other side. A couple of bullets went through his body also. Jabez got well, however, and lived many years. Per contra, Colonel Rossiter, cracking a plumstone with his teeth, broke a tooth and lost his life. We have seen physicians dying, like Spigelius, from a scratch; and a man who had had a crowbar shot through his head alive and well. These extreme cases are warnings.
But you can never be too cautious in your prognosis, in view of the great uncertainty of the course of any disease not long watched, and the many unexpected turns it may take.
I think I am not the first to utter the following caution: Beware how you take away hope from any human being. Nothing is clearer than that the merciful Creator intends to blind most people as they pass down into the dark valley. Without very good reasons, temporal or spiritual, we should not interfere with his kind arrangements. It is the height of cruelty and the extreme of impertinence to tell your patient he must die, except you are sure that he wishes to know it, or that there is some particular cause for his knowing it. I should be especially unwilling to tell a child that it could not recover; if the theologians think it necessary, let them take the responsibility. God leads it by the hand to the edge of the precipice in happy uncon
sciousness, and I would not open its eyes to what he wisely conceals.
Having settled the cautious course to be pursued in deciding what a disease is, and what its course is to be; having considered how much of your knowledge or belief is to be told, and to whom it is to be imparted, the whole question of treatment remains to be reduced to system.
It is not a pleasant thing to find that one has killed a patient by a slip of the pen. I am afraid our barbarous method of writing prescriptions in what is sometimes fancifully called Latin, and with the old astrological sign of Jupiter at the head of them to bring good luck, may have helped to swell the list of casualties. We understand why plants and minerals should have technical names, but I am much disposed to think that good plain English, written out at full length, is good enough for anybody's use. Why should I employ the language of Celsus? He commonly used none but his own. However, if we must use a dead language, and symbols that are not only dead, but damned, by all sound theology, let us be very careful in forming those medical quavers and semiquavers that stand for ounces and drachms, and all our other enlightened hieroglyphics. One other rule I may venture to give, forced upon me by my own experience. After writing a recipe, make it an invariable rule to read it over, not mechanically, but with all your faculties wide awake. One sometimes writes a prescription as if his hand were guided by a mediumautomatically, as the hind legs of a water-beetle strike out in the water after they are separated from the rest of him. If all of you will follow the rule I have given, sooner or later some one among you will very probably find himself the author of a homicidal document, which but for this precaution might have carried out its intentions.
With regard to the exhibition of drugs as a part of your medical treatment, the golden rule is, be sparing. Many remedies you give would make a well person so ill that he would send for you at once if he had taken one of your doses accidentally. It is not quite fair to give such things to a sick man, unless it is clear that they will do more good than the very considerable harm you know they will cause. Be very gracious with children especially. I have seen old men shiver at the recollection of the rhubarb and
jalap of infancy. You may depend upon it that half the success of Homeopathy is due to the sweet peace it has brought into the nursery. Between the gurgling down of loathsome mixtures and the saccharine deliquescence of a minute globule, what tender mother could for a moment hesitate?
Let me add one other hint which I believe will approve itself on trial. After proper experience of the most approved forms of remedies, or of such as you shall yourselves select and combine, make out your own brief list of real every-day prescriptions, and do not fall into the habit of those extemporaneous fancy-combinations, which amuse the physician more than they profit the patient. Once more: if you must give a medicine, do it in a manly way, and not in half doses, hacking but not chopping at the stem of the deadly fruited tree you would bring down. Remember this, too, that although remedies may often be combined advantageously, the difficulty of estimating the effects of a prescription is as the square of the number of its ingredients. The deeper you wade in polypharmacy, the less you see of the ground on which you stand.
It is time to bring these hurried and crowded remarks to a close. Reject what in them is false, examine what is doubtful, remember what is true; and so, God bless you, Gentlemen, and Farewell!
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
[Address by O. W. Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (born in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1841;
--), delivered in Keene, N. H., May 30, 1884, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic.s
COMRADES :-Not long ago I heard a young man ask why people still kept up Memorial Day, and it set me thinking of the answer. Not the answer that you and I should give to each other—not the expression of those feelings that, so long as you and I live, will make this day sacred to memories of love and grief and heroic youthbut an answer which should command the assent of those who do not share our memories, and in which we of the North and our brethren of the South could join in perfect accord.
So far as this last is concerned, to be sure, there is no trouble. The soldiers who were doing their best to kill one another felt less of personal hostility, I am very certain, than some who were not imperiled by their mutual endeavors. I have heard more than one of those who had been gallant and distinguished officers on the Confederate side say that they had had no such feeling. I know that I and those whoin I knew best had not. We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win; we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluble; we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitable, and that slavery had lasted long enough. But we equally believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred convictions that were the opposite of ours, and we respected them as every man with a heart
must respect those who give all for their belief. The experience of battle soon taught its lesson even to those who came into the field more bitterly disposed. You could not stand up day after day in those indecisive contests where overwhelming victory was impossible because neither side would run as they ought when beaten, without getting at last something of the same brotherhood for the enemy that the north pole of a magnet has for the south-each working in an opposite sense to the other, but each unable to get along without the other. As it was then, it is now. The soldiers of the war need no explanations; they can join in commemorating a soldier's death with feelings not different in kind, whether he fell toward them or by their side.
But Memorial Day may and ought to have a meaning also for those who do not share our memories. When men have instinctively agreed to celebrate an anniversary, it will be found that there is some thought or feeling behind it which is too large to be dependent upon associations alone. The Fourth of July, for instance, has still its serious aspect, although we no longer should think of rejoicing like children that we have escaped from an outgrown control, although we have achieved not only our national but our moral independence and know it far too profoundly to make a talk about it, and although an Englishman can join in the celebration without a scruple. For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment-when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, It celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of acting greatly. To fight out a war, you must believe something and want something with all your might. So must you do to carry anything else to an end worth reaching. More than that, you must be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one,
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About the Maritime Silk Road
Abstract : The Maritime Silk Road history started from the Han Dynasty. In order to revive the ancient Maritime Silk Road, the initiative that China and countries along the ancient Maritime Silk Road would build together a new Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century was proposed by China.
The Maritime Silk Road was a conduit for trade and cultural exchange between China’s south-eastern coastal areas and foreign countries. There were two major routes: the East China Sea Silk Route and the South China Sea Silk Route.
Starting from Quanzhou Fujian Province, the Maritime Silk Road was the earliest voyage route that was formed in the Qin and Han dynasties, developed from the Three Kingdoms Period to the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and fell into decline in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Through the Maritime Silk Road, silks, china, tea, and brass and iron were the four main categories exported to foreign countries; while spices, flowers and plants, and rare treasures for the court were brought to China. Therefore, the Maritime Silk Road was also known as “the Maritime China road” or “the Maritime spices road”.
— History
It is known that the bulk of the raw and processed silk transported along the overland Silk Road during the Han Dynasty was produced primarily along China’s southern coast and in the coastal Wu, Wei, Qi, and Lu regions (present-day Shandong Province). Since ancient times, these areas have been thriving centers of shipbuilding as well as silk production. They were thus able to supply both commodities for export and the means to transport them across the sea. It was this combination that provided the social and material conditions necessary for the development of maritime trade during the Han Dynasty.
The maritime routes opened by Emperor Han Wudi (reigned 140-87 BC) provided access to the Roman Empire via India, marking the first oceanic route as well as the earliest maritime trading route in the world. This enabled China to actively seek out overseas markets and establish foreign trade relations, and laid the foundation for the development of the Maritime Silk Road.
Han Shu Record (also known as The History of the Han Dynasty) kept the first complete vivid record on China’s boats sailing into the Indian Ocean from the South Sea via the Malacca Strait in Southeast Asian waters. Han ships would leave from Xuwen in South China’s Guangdong Province, or Hepu in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and via the South Sea, would arrive in India and Sri Lanka — a transfer station, where pearls, colored glazes, and other exotic things could be bought. Chinese silk was transported to Rome hereafter. Such was the Maritime Silk Road.
In his book Nature History, Gaius Plinius Secundus, a knowledgeable scientist in ancient Rome, recorded, “four sailors from (today’s Sri Lanka) left for Rome (during the Caesar Era). According to one of the sailors named Rutgers, both Rome and Sri Lanka had direct trade relations with China.”
In 166 of the Han Dynasty, the Roman Emperor sent envoys to China, presenting various such gifts as ivory and hawksbill turtles to the imperial royal court, which marked the earliest friendly relations between China and European countries. A direct route from the East to the West was therefore opened up.
During the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), Chinese ships set sail from Guangzhou, bound across the South China Sea, thus pioneering the most important routes of the maritime Silk Road. In addition to transporting silk, the South China Sea routes stimulated both material and cultural exchange. Countries throughout Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, and even Europe dispatched emissaries to China via the new maritime routes to establish diplomatic relations, purchase silk, and engage of trade of all sorts. Silk, as the principal maritime trade commodity, flowed in a steady stream from China to other countries.
Profits from the maritime trade were one of the Chinese government’s major sources of revenue during this time. The Tang, Song (960-1279), and Yuan (1279-1368) Dynasties all appointed special Commissions of Maritime Affairs at coastal cities including Guangzhou (Canton), Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo), and Quanzhou. These offices were responsible for overseeing maritime trade and providing logistic support and preferential treatment for foreign merchants in China. The maritime Silk Road thus became a conduit for promoting friendly relations and linking East and West.
East China Sea Route
The photo shows a grand Hall, the biggest building in the Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, a city in southeast China’s Fujian Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Shenggui)
Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, the starting place of Maritime Silk Road. The East China Sea Route enjoys a long history of about 3,000 years. It was during the Zhou Dynasty that Ji Zi, a court official, was sent on a journey east, setting off from Shangdong Peninsula’s Bohai Gulf and navigating his way across the Yellow Sea, which led to the introduction of sericiculture (silkworm farming), filature and silk spinning into Korea.
When Emperor Qin Shi Huang united China, many Chinese fled to Korea and took with them silkworms and breeding technology. This sped up the development of silk spinning in Korea. These new skills and the technologies were subsequently introduced into Japan during the Han Dynasty. Since the Tang Dynasty, the silks produced by Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces were directly shipped to Japan. Many Japanese envoys and monks were also able to travel to Chang’an (now Xi’an) along this sea route.
South China Sea Route
Guangzhou represented the starting-point of the South China Sea Route, which extended across the Indian Ocean and then on to various countries situated around the Persian Gulf. The types goods dispatched for trade consisted mainly of silk, china and tea, while imported merchandise included a variety of spices, flowers and grasses – hence it being commonly referred to as the sea’s ‘China Road’ and the sea’s ‘Flavor Road’ .
The route was first used in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and increased in popularity from the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280) to the Sui Dynasty (581-618). Up until the Tang Dynasty Anshi Rebellions (755-762), this route was viewed as a secondary alternative to the Silk Road, However in the latter half of the eighth century, owing to the scourge of wars in the vast Western Regions, trade volumes along the Maritime Silk Road boomed as those on its overland counterpart steadily declined.
Delicate Silk Technologic advances in shipbuilding and navigation led to the opening of new sea-lanes to the Southeast Asia, Malacca, areas in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. Guangzhou became the first great harbor in China around the time of the Tang and Song Dynasties, although it was later substituted by Quanzhou in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) as the most important trade port.
The Naval Expedition to the West by Zheng He in the early part of the Ming Dynasty demonstrated the great importance of the Silk Road and was to represent the peak of its popularity. The governments of the Ming and Qing Dynasties issued a ban on maritime trade, contributing to massive decline in its use. As the Opium War broke out in 1840, the Silk Road on the Sea totally disappeared.
— 21st Century Maritime Silk Road under Belt and Road Initiative
Aerial photo taken on Sept. 1, 2019 shows the panoramic view of Male, capital of Maldives. The 2-km-long China-Maldives Friendship Bridge is an iconic project of the Maldives and China in co-building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.(Xinhua/Wang Mingliang)
As early as 2,000 years ago, the Maritime Silk Road started from China’s south-east coastal regions, traversing a vast expanse of oceans and seas to countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe.
This trading route that connects the East and the West, had enhanced the exchanges of commodities, people and culture among countries situated on the road.
In order to revive the ancient Maritime Silk Road and bring more benefits to the relevant countries and peoples, the initiative that China and countries along the ancient Maritime Silk Road would build together a new Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century was proposed by China.
Such an initiative draws inspiration both from history and from latest developments in the 21st century. The aim is to inject strong impetus in enhancing political mutual trust, deepening economic cooperation, and promoting cultural as well as people-to-people exchanges among relevant countries through joint cooperation, common development and regional integration. All countries along the Maritime Silk Road are welcome to plan, develop and benefit together from the initiative.
Since the initiative was first raised, many countries have actively supported and engaged themselves in the development of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road(the “Belt and Road” for short) .
On Oct. 24, 2014, twenty-first Asian countries signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, aiming to finance and facilitate infrastructure constructions for Asian countries along the “Belt and Road”.
The MOU specifies that the authorized capital of AIIB is 100 billion U.S. dollars and the initial subscribed capital is expected to be around 50 billion dollars. The paid-in ratio will be 20 percent.
The 21 countries are Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
At the APEC Summit 2014 held in Beijing in November, 2014, China announced to contribute US$40 billion to set up a Silk Road Fund to provide investment and financial support to carry out infrastructure, resources, industrial and financial cooperation and other projects related to connectivity for countries along the “Belt and Road”.
With more support from other countries and wider coverage across the region, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road has become an initiative not for one country but for all countries who welcome and support the initiative and are working together closely with each other for economic and social advancement as well as for the welfare of their peoples. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road has always been and will still be open to all countries along the road.
About Xinhua Silk Road
For news about the latest developments about the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, the Xinhua Silk Road website (en.imsilkroad.com) can easily be relied on. It provides 21st Century Maritime Silk Road background, countries, routes, China’s Arctic Policy, and the integrated information services for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Belt and Road Initiative portal is available in multiple languages, namely English, Thai, Italian and Chinese, for the benefit of a wider audience. It is sponsored by the China Economic Information Service (CEIS).
Source：https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/314371.html
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“That’s Life in the Big City” – Column # 16, January, 2002
On Saturday, December 15th, 2001, I finally made it to Carnegie Hall. It was a simultaneously gratifying, ironic, and thought provoking moment.
During the first part of my professional life – my other professional life, that is – I was a musician. Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated with Carnegie Hall and the Mecca of culture that was New York City. I vividly remember the concerts of Vladimir Horowitz, which were broadcast by the CBS network from Carnegie Hall in the late 1960’s.
And so, on this beautiful, fall-like, temperate afternoon in New York City, I found myself strolling down Seventh Avenue toward midtown Manhattan and Times Square, walking back to my hotel in a serendipitously inclusive perambulation. Suddenly, on the corner of 57th Street and 7th Avenue, quite by accident, I stood before this monument to the arts and music in America, where on May 5, 1891, the doors were thrown open for the first concert there in history. As I started to walk past, curiosity got the better of me and I peered through a glass door into the lobby.
There, at a security desk, sat a uniformed guard. The door was locked. I didn’t knock; I had no business there other than as a curious tourist. And so I walked on. But it got me thinking.
In this building, representing the paragon of cultural and artistic excellence in arguably the most culturally sophisticated city in the United States, if not the world, it was necessary to have a guard at the door. Why?
Because, obviously, in this city of over sixteen million people, there are some types of folk that the Carnegie Hall management doesn’t want staggering in and vomiting all over the place, nor vandalizing it, nor using it as a flop house.
But “aren’t the arts supposed to be for everyone?” The “non-PC” answer is, “No, they are not!” Drunks who are incapacitated, druggies looking for their next fix, and the chronically mentally ill and homeless looking for a warm place to flop are not the “target market” for Carnegie Hall.
I then reflected on the scene I had witnessed at Times Square the previous evening, with thousands of people in line to get “half-off” tickets for Broadway shows that evening. And then I reflected some more. In our land of “free speech”, special interest groups of every persuasion, and, at times, impractical, histrionic and vitriolic proclamations of the current “disenfranchisement of the day” (kind of like a “disenfranchisement du jour” at a swanky restaurant), I had seen no demonstrators carrying placards carrying such slogans as “No fair that we have to stand for hours for half-off tickets”, or “No fair that Carnegie Hall is locked and we can’t go in and visit if we feel like it,” or “No fair that tickets for the nosebleed seats to see ‘Phantom of the Opera’ cost almost a hundred bucks!”
No, what I saw was an acceptance of the realities of big city life. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of traveling to the Big Apple recently, here are my observations:
New York City, after Rudolph Giuliani cleaned it up, is a beautiful, relatively clean, and exciting city which is remarkably safe.
There are a whole lot of locked doors there.
Broadway plays are expensive.
The whole place is expensive.
Now the reason I happened to be strolling from the Guggenheim Museum on East 86th and Fifth Avenue all the way back down to my hotel at East 44th and 7th Avenue is simple: I was close to broke. Don’t worry: the psychiatric business is still good. But I had given myself an allotment of funds for souvenirs, sight-seeing, and an afternoon in the Big Apple, and I was running low. I had also picked up some very nice art and prints from street vendors. TV ads about the ubiquity of American Express and Visa notwithstanding, those folks don’t take plastic!
It was thus a choice between catching a taxi or picking up the requisite souvenir T-shirts for the tater tots back home. The tater tots won. And, indeed, it was a marvelously pleasant afternoon to take a stroll, anyway.
Please don’t take pity on my tootsies. I had a MARVELOUS time. I saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the east side of Central Park, making a mental note to take that one in the next time. Then I walked through Central Park (which is now SAFE during the daytime – tourists, take note!) enjoying the calm in the magnificent arboreal splendor of the place. I had some time to reflect. I also was – for a while at least – living counter to my typical tendency of going to a city for a medical meeting, putting my head down, working, holing up in my hotel room, and grinding out work so that I would have more free time when I got home – but that’s an essay for another day.
As I made the journey of the last dozen or so blocks back to my hotel, I began processing the sum total of the impressions which I had been exposed to in the previous two days in the Big Apple, and suddenly the concepts of “limits” and “boundaries” flashed into my mind.
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights,” wrote Miriam Beard, an American writer, humorist, and social activitist: “It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
These changes about “the ideas of living” which Beard wrote about reverberated in my mind again and again.
“Limits and boundaries.” Two concepts I repetitively review with my patients in psychotherapy. In my own case, there was a LIMIT to how much I could spend, and where I could go. The interior of Carnegie Hall was not an option. There were BOUNDARIES set as to where I could go, and how much it was going to cost me to see “Phantom” on Broadway. The yummy-smelling (and tasting!) roasted nuts on the street had a cost. If I wanted them, and I did, I had to pay. Most of the time, I was fairly well unaware of these limits and boundaries which extended both toward me and away from me – but they existed, nevertheless.
For example, I was relatively well dressed. The folks at the Guggenheim had no problem selling me a ticket. I didn’t see any street people in that museum, however, trying to haggle for a ticket to come in and get warm for a while. Nobody bothered or harassed me on the street. I saw no uninvited “window washers” hijacking windshields in Manhattan traffic. These are new limits and boundaries which the citizens and transients in New York City have adopted over the last decade. The behavioral dialectic is this: “you are free to do what you want, where you want, and with whom you want – but violate somebody’s boundaries, hassle them, harass them… and you go to jail.” It has worked.
My reflections have continued – not only in New York, but subsequently, as I have returned home. I have a number of patients who are working with issues. They have all been traumatized and have had their boundaries repetitively violated in the past, during their growth years, so that they honestly have had no concept of what’s “normal” or “appropriate.” Their lives are like Carnegie Hall opened up to whoever wants to wander in off the street – anytime, day or night.
One patient, when she started selling items on E*Bay, was naively shipping her items off BEFORE SHE GOT PAID. She was “certain” that people were going to be “nice” and send her the money. Fortunately for her, her politeness and e-mailing personal charm carried the day, and people were so impressed with her that they forked over their money after they got their stuff without complaining. But she was lucky, and I didn’t let her get by with it for long.
Later, she was selling off some home furniture. She would end up staying at home all morning and afternoon waiting for someone to come by and take a look, after they had “confirmed” with her that “I’ll maybe come by sometime today.” She was terrified of losing the sale if she was not physically present at their whim.
“Look,” I told her, “this is ridiculous. You’re letting these people run your life. I suggest you say, ‘I’ll be happy to show you the furniture today, but I’m very busy. I can meet you here between 12:30 and 1 p.m. After that, I’ll be gone or doing other things.’ ”
Amazingly – to her – this worked! And people conformed to the limits she had set. Later on, a woman came by and expressed interest in buying quite a lot of the furniture. Although she offered to write a check, my patient declined, because “she said she might be interested in a lot more and wanted to come back in a week.”
Back when I was partially working my way through medical school with a part-time job at a Radio Shack store, I was exposed to this maxim from my manager, John Martisek: “When in doubt, TAKE THE MONEY!” My patient hadn’t quite cottoned to this yet.
The ostensibly interested lady called back later that week. She was still interested, but wasn’t sure how much she wanted. In the meantime, the stuff wasn’t getting sold. Based on what was going on in her therapy sessions, my patient courageously (and correctly) told the lady, “I’ll be happy to sell you more. But for now, if you are interested, I will need a payment for all the furniture that you want to take.”
The lady took offense. She hemmed and hawed. She attempted to interrogate my patient. But my patient stuck to her guns and the lady relented, coming through with the payment and nailing down the transaction.
I have another 20-something patient who has similarly struggled with these issues. A one-time honor student at a prestigious school, she is currently in the work force. A repetitive theme in her life has been that her employers and managers put her down, take advantage of her, don’t pay her what she’s worth, and cheat her. And it happens over and over again.
“Why does this keep happening to me?” she has wailed plaintively.
My answer to her is, essentially, “Because people think they can get away with it.”
All things being equal, homeless vagrants who need a warm place to stay would find bedding down at Carnegie Hall, out of the elements, quite comfy.
All things being equal, those business people in managerial positions with poor ethics and lousy consciences would just as soon take advantage of my patient. Why should they pay her like they promised they were going to? They’re getting more than the normal amount of work out of her NOW, and they aren’t having to pay for it! This is pure bliss on the bottom line! Why ruin it?
Why does this happen to my hapless patient? Because she talks like a ditzy Valley Girl. She sprinkles her conversations with an overuse of “like” and “you know.” You know? Like, she’s always, like, talking like a real ditz, you know? She just, like, doesn’t get it, you know, why, like, people aren’t, like, taking her seriously. She also doesn’t use makeup, so in spite of the fact that she could come across as fabulously well groomed, she not only sounds like a ditzy high schooler, but looks like one as well.
This is a “big DUH.” I have previously, like (OK, I’ll stop!) told her that she needed to scrupulously read and review Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power, but, after looking at it, she told me, “but that’s not me… I don’t want to be like that.”
To make the implied themes manifestly clear, let me reframe: the Carnegie Hall management has limits and boundaries – to keep people out who shouldn’t be there, when they shouldn’t be there. My patient needs to adopt the same concepts: both with her speech and grooming, to keep the small insults and slights to her as a person totally out of her life, so that they don’t end up with the inevitable emotional crescendo to an unsatisfying “dynamic climax” of getting cheated, fired, or underpaid ever again.
What we have not yet had a chance to discuss – after my failed reading assignment – is that she and I can talk about the Golden Rule, “turning the other cheek,” and Emerson’s Law of Compensation until the cows come home, but if people don’t take her seriously, she’s never going to get anywhere. The irony is she can outthink every manager she’s ever had, and, on one occasion, had already read the management book that all managers at her company were required to read. The manager hadn’t. She expressed surprise to his face that he hadn’t yet read the book and she had! Oooops.
Let’s get topical about this “limits and boundaries” stuff. The latest cinematic rage is Russell Crowe in “A Beautiful Mind”, the story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. I had indirectly been exposed to Nash’s theory, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1994, through the work of Richard Dawkins and the explanation of games theory in his book, The Selfish Gene (Oxford Press, 1989)
Basically, in four papers between 1950 and 1953 Nash made seminal contributions to both non-cooperative game theory and to bargaining theory. Among other papers, Nash wrote two of particular interest: Equilibrium Points in N- Person Games (1950) and Non-cooperative Games (1951), proving the existence of a strategic equilibrium for non-cooperative games. This has since become known as the “Nash equilibrium.” He proposed the “Nash program”, which basically involves studying of cooperative games and how, ultimately, they inevitably reduce to a non-cooperative form.
One way to look at this was with a “two player” game called “Suckers and Cheats.” “Suckers” always gave away resource units and “Cheats” always took them. Paradoxically, the “suckers” did well, because they always helped each other out, but the “cheats” did poorly. The system was weighted more toward reality, however, when a third class was thrown in: the “grudgers.” Grudgers could only be taken advantage of one time by a “cheat,” after which they never shared resources with “cheats” again. The probabilistic flow thus amounted to the following:
– The “cheats” made mincemeat out of the “suckers.”
– “Suckers” were quickly driven to extinction.
– The number of “cheats” peaked, and the “grudgers” declined slightly.
– The “grudgers” then began getting wise to the cheats, and stopped getting taken advantage of.
– The “grudgers” did well with each other, because they were basically “suckers” who couldn’t be cheated any more: that is, they demonstrated, mathematically, an innate capability of altruism and cooperation when they knew they wouldn’t be “cheated.”
– Ultimately, the “cheaters” got driven to low levels for such a long time until their existence was virtually extinguished. The only ones left were the “grudgers.”
In much the same way that the manically enthusiastic pitch man for Dr. Pepper used to sing, “I’m a Pepper, you’re a Pepper, everyone’s a Pepper” what can really be said about us is “I’m a GRUDGER, you’re a GRUDGER, everyone’s a GRUDGER.” Aren’t we?! Stop and think about it.
The answer is: maybe not. Those of us with poor boundaries are “suckers.” We’ll get taken advantage of again and again. Only through social programs, welfare, and the altruistic efforts of other “suckers” and “grudgers” – who they won’t cheat – does their existence continue.
The highest and best calling in “games theory” seems to me to aspire to be a “grudger.” This is not a bad person! It’s one who is altruistic and gives, is willing to extend people the benefit of the doubt (one time only!), but who sets the limit to being repetitively cheated. And, probabilistically, with mathematical certainty, up to the “limits” of the exponential increase of the grudgers and the demise of the cheaters, there is an immutable dictum: if we want to survive, if we want to prosper, we must set limits and have boundaries.
As one of my mentors, Jim Rohn, has observed: “We all need to stand watch at the doorway of our mind.” Nash, in the crystalline, matrix-like precision of his “Beautiful Mind” mapped out the consequences of maladaptive, “co-dependent” behavior, as both of my patients displayed.
There is only a slight extension from their obvious lack of boundaries to our own. What, after all, are the limits and boundaries which we have set for ourselves? For our expectations of the way people will treat us? For our expectations of ourselves and what we are going to do with another day with which we have been blessed? For meeting our sales quotas? What are our expectations for our relationships with our bosses, wives, husbands, lovers, “S.O.’s”, friends, acquaintances and the like?
At the core of the mathematical purity of Nash’s genius, at the door of Carnegie Hall, at the perimeters of your and my own intellects and life experiences, and, like, at the doorway of the mind of my seemingly ditzy patient with her marvelous intellect – you know? – lie limits and boundaries. What are yours?
And that’s life in the big city.
© 2002 by Louis B. Cady, M.D. All rights reserved.
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CARDIGAN WELSH CORGI CLUB OF AMERICA
APPROVED CONSTITUTION
Effective as of February 8, 2019
ARTICLE I. Name and Objectives
Section 1. The name of the Club shall be The Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America, Inc. For purposes of brevity, the Club may also be referred to as “the CWCCA.”
Section 2. The objectives of the Club shall be:
to encourage and promote knowledge of and quality in the breeding of pure-bred Cardigan Welsh Corgis and to do all possible to bring their natural qualities to perfection.
to encourage and promote the organization of independent local Cardigan Welsh Corgi Specialty Clubs in those localities where there are sufficient fanciers to meet the requirements of the American Kennel Club.
to educate members, breeders and judges to accept the Standard of the breed as approved by the American Kennel Club as the only Standard of excellence by which the Cardigan Welsh Corgi shall be judged in the United States.
to do all in its power to protect and advance the interests of the breed and to encourage sportsmanlike competition at dog shows, companion events, performance events and all other events held for which the club is eligible under the rules and regulations of the American Kennel Club.
to conduct sanctioned matches, specialty shows, companion events, performance events, and all other events under the rules of the American Kennel
Section 3. The Club shall not be operated for profit, and no part of any profits or remainder or residue from dues or donations to the Club shall inure to the benefit of any member or individual.
Section 4. The members of the Club shall adopt and may from time to time revise such Bylaws as may be required to carry out these objectives.
ARTICLE I: Membership
Section 1. Eligibility. There shall be five types of membership open to all who are in good standing with the American Kennel Club and who subscribe to the purposes of this Club.
Regular Membership: open to persons 18 years of age and older. Regular members enjoy all privileges of the Club, are eligible to vote and to hold office.
Associate Membership: open to persons 18 years of age and older at a reduced dues rate. Associate membership is recommended to those members who wish to support the Club but cannot regularly attend Club meetings. Associate members enjoy all privileges of the Club except voting and holding office. Associate members are not counted in determining the quorum.
Junior Membership: open to persons 10-17 years of age. Junior members enjoy all privileges of the Club, except voting and holding office. Junior members may convert to regular or associate members upon reaching their 18th birthday.
Household Membership: open to up to two adult Regular members residing in the same household, with each eligible to vote and, for those residing within the United States or its territories and possessions, to hold office.
Foreign Membership: open to those individuals who are not U.S. residents (or its territories and possessions). Shall be entitled to all club privileges except voting and office holding.
Section 2 Dues. Annual membership dues shall be set by the Board. Dues are payable July 1st. If the Board should change the amount of the dues, notice must be sent, to the entire membership by the Treasurer or printed in an official Club publication at least 30 days prior to the first dues notice. The first notice for dues shall be mailed, or cause to be sent, by the Treasurer by June 1. Dues not paid by September 1st shall cause membership to lapse. Dues for Regular members shall not exceed $100 per year, dues for Associate members shall not exceed $75.00 per year, dues for Junior members shall not exceed $50.00 per year and dues for Household and Foreign members shall not exceed $150.00 per year.
Section 3. Election to Membership. Each applicant for membership shall apply on a form approved by the Board of Directors and which shall provide that the applicant agrees to abide by the CWCCA Constitution and By-Laws, the Code of Ethics, and the rules of the American Kennel Club. The application shall carry the endorsement of two members in good standing. Sponsors must have been a member of the CWCCA for at least one year and known the applicant for at least 6 months. Accompanying the application, the prospective member shall submit dues payment for the current year.
The names of applicants shall be published in an official CWCCA publication. Written comments are invited from the membership concerning their suitability. If no adverse comments are received within 60 days of publication, the applicant will be notified of their acceptance. Any adverse reports received concerning an applicant shall be reviewed by the Board of Directors, and an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the Board shall be necessary to elect the applicant to membership.
An applicant who has received a negative vote by the Board may be presented by one of the applicant’s sponsors at the next annual meeting of the Club, and a favorable vote of ¾ of the regular members present may elect such applicant by secret ballot.
Section 4. Termination of Membership. Membership may be terminated:
by resignation. Any member in good standing may resign upon written notice to the Recording Secretary; but no member may resign when in debt to the Club. Dues obligations are considered a debt to the Club and they become incurred on the first day of each fiscal year. Obligations other than dues are considered a debt to the Club and must be paid in full prior to resignation.
by lapsing. A membership will be considered as lapsed and automatically terminated if such member’s dues remain unpaid after September 1st; however, the Board may grant up to an additional 90 days grace to such delinquent members in meritorious cases. In no case may a regular member whose dues are unpaid as of the date of any Club vote taken be entitled to vote.
by expulsion. A membership may be terminated by expulsion as provided in Article VI of these By-laws.
ARTICLE II: Meetings
Section 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Club shall be held at a place, date and hour designated by the Board of Directors, preferably between April 15 and June 15 in conjunction with the National Specialty. Written notice of the Annual Meeting shall be given to each member at least 60 days prior to the date of the meeting. Members in good standing shall have 21 days from the mailing of the written notice of the Annual Meeting to submit items for New Business to the Recording Secretary. A detailed agenda for the Annual Meeting shall be mailed to the members not less than 30 days prior to the Annual Meeting. The quorum for the Annual Meeting shall be 10% of the regular members in good standing eligible to vote. Members in good standing may bring up, for discussion only, additional items at the Annual Meeting under New Business. Final action may be taken only on subject matter included in the agenda notice for the Annual Meeting. Any properly seconded motion, calling for a vote by mail, e-mail, or in accordance with AKC current policy on electronic balloting, must then be sent by the Corresponding Secretary to all regular members in good standing within 21 days following the Annual Meeting. All votes by mail are to be returned to the Corresponding Secretary within 30 days of the mailing.
The results of the vote are to be sent by the Corresponding Secretary to the entire membership or published in an official Club publication within 60 days following the deadline for voting.
Section 2. Special Club Meetings. Special Club meetings may be called by the President or by a majority vote of the members of the Board who are present at a meeting of the Board or who vote by mail, e-mail, or in accordance with AKC current policy on electronic balloting and shall be called by the Corresponding Secretary upon receipt of a petition signed by 10% of the regular members of the Club in good standing. Such meeting shall be held at such date, place, and hour as may be designated by the Board of Directors. Written notice of the Special Club meeting shall be mailed by the Corresponding Secretary at least 21 days and not more than 30 days prior to the meeting. The notice of the meeting shall state the purpose of the meeting and no other Club business may be transacted. The quorum for such a meeting shall be 10% of the regular members in good standing.
Section 3. Board Meetings. The first meeting of a new Board shall be held following the Annual Meeting. There shall be a minimum of three Board meetings per year. Meetings of the Board shall be held at such times and places as are designated by the President or the majority of the Board. If agreed upon by the majority of the Board, the Board may hold meetings by conference call or videoconference. Notice of each such meeting shall be sent by the Recording Secretary by mail, e-mail, or electronic methods in accordance with state law where incorporated to the Board members at least 7 days prior to the date of the meeting. The quorum for a Board meeting shall be a majority of the Board. At meetings of the Board, the President shall have discretionary powers to send any properly seconded motion to all of the Board members for a vote by mail, e-mail, or in accordance with AKC current policy on electronic balloting.
Section 4. Board Business: The Board of Directors may conduct its business by mail, e-mail, electronic methods in accordance with state law where incorporated, telephone conference call or videoconference. Items voted by telephone call must be confirmed at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting.
ARTICLE III: DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Section 1. Board of Directors. General management of the Club’s affairs shall be entrusted to the Board of Directors. The Board shall be comprised of the President, 1st and 2nd Vice-Presidents, Recording and Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, AKC Delegate, and 5 other persons, all of whom shall be regular members in good standing and residents of the United States. Except for the AKC Delegate who shall serve for a four-year term, they shall be elected for two-year terms, as provided in Article IV, and shall serve until their successors are announced at the Annual Meeting. Each retiring officer shall turn over to his successor in office all properties and records relating to that office within 30 days after the Annual Meeting. The immediate past-president shall serve on the Board in an advisory capacity until the succeeding Annual Meeting.
Section 2. Officers. The Club’s officers, consisting of the President, 1st and 2nd Vice-Presidents, Recording and Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer and AKC Delegate shall serve in their respective capacities both with regard to the Club and its meetings and the Board and its meetings.
The President shall preside at all meetings of the Club and of the Board, be an ex Officio member of all committees except the nominating committee, and shall have the duties and powers normally appurtenant to the office of President, in addition to those particularly specified in these By-laws.
The 1st Vice –President shall have the duties and exercise the powers of the President in case of the President’s death, absence, incapacity, or resignation.
The 2nd Vice-President assumes the duties and exercises the powers of the 1st Vice–President in the event of the absence of the 1st Vice-President.
The Recording Secretary, or a designee,* shall conduct the election process, send out all notices of Board meetings, keep a record of all meetings of the Club and of the Board, mail the minutes of all Board meetings to the Board of Directors within 30 days, and keep a record of all Board votes by mail and all matters of which a record shall be ordered by the Board, notify officers and directors of their election to office, and carry out such other duties as are prescribed in these By-Laws.
The Corresponding Secretary, or a designee,* shall be in charge of the Correspondence of the Club, notify members of general meetings, keep a record of all general membership votes, and carry out such other duties as may be requested by the Board.
The Treasurer, or a designee,*shall collect and receive all monies due or belonging to the Club, and shall deposit same in a reliable bank insured by the FDIC and approved by the Board in the name of the Club, and shall keep a roll of the members of the Club with their addresses. The Treasurer’s books shall be at all times open to inspection by the Board and shall be open to members in good standing upon request to the Board. The Treasurer shall furnish a report to the Board at every meeting stating the condition of the Club’s finances, and every item of receipt or payment not before reported. At the Annual Meeting, the Treasurer shall render an annual financial report of all monies received and expended from the previous annual financial report up to 60 days prior to the Annual Meeting and stating the financial condition of the Club. The Treasurer’s books and records shall be subject to audit by a qualified individual or committee upon prior notice by and at the request of the Board. The Treasurer shall be bonded, the costs of said bond and audits shall be assumed by the Club. The Treasurer shall carry out other duties as may be requested by the Board.*Designees must be approved by the Board prior to assuming duties.
The AKC Delegate shall represent the CWCCA at all regular and special meetings of the Delegates to the American Kennel Club, and shall serve as liaison between the CWCCA and the AKC.
Section 3. Vacancies. Any member of the Board who is absent from three consecutive meetings without just cause, as determined by the Board, will be deemed to have vacated the position. Any vacancies occurring on the Board or among the officers during the elected term shall be filled for the remainder of the term until the next election by a majority vote of all the then remaining members of the Board; except that a vacancy in the office of President shall be filled automatically by the 1st Vice-President, the 2nd Vice-President shall automatically fill the resulting vacancy in the office of the 1st Vice-President, and the resulting vacancy in 2nd Vice-President shall be filled by a majority vote of the then remaining members of the Board until the next election.
ARTICLE IV: The Club Year, Voting, Nominations, Elections
Section 1. Club Year. The Club’s fiscal year shall begin on the first day of July and end on the 30th day of June. The Club’s official year shall be the calendar year.
Section 2. Voting. At the annual meeting or at a special meeting of the Club, voting shall be limited to those regular members in good standing who are present at the meeting. The election of Officers, Delegate, Directors, amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws, and the standard for the breed shall be decided by written ballot cast by mail, or sent in accordance with the AKC’s most current procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs.***
The Board of Directors may decide to submit to the members by mail ballot or sent in accordance with the AKC’s most current procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs*** other specific questions. Such decisions shall be passed by a majority vote of those regular members casting ballots. Voting by proxy will not be permitted at any time in the carrying out of the Club’s business.
Section 3. Nominations. No person may be a candidate in a Club election who has not been nominated in accordance with these By-Laws. A Nominating Committee shall be chosen by the Board of Directors before October 15th prior to an election year at which the new officers and Board assume office. The Nominating Committee shall consist of three members from different areas of the United States and two alternates, all regular members in good standing, no more than one of whom may be a member of the current Board of Directors. The Board shall name a chairman for the Committee. The Committee may conduct its business by mail, in person, electronic methods in accordance with state law where incorporated, or telephone conference call.
The Nominating Committee shall nominate from eligible regular members of the Club one candidate for each office and for each position on the Board of Directors, including the Delegate to the American Kennel Club, and shall procure in writing the acceptance of each nominee so chosen. The Committee should consider geographical representation on the Board to the extent that it is practicable. By November 15th the Nominating Committee shall submit its slate of candidates, including each candidate’s written acceptance, to the Recording Secretary, who shall by November 30th mail the proposed slate, including the full name of each candidate and the name of the state in which he resides, to each regular member of the CWCCA in good standing.
Additional nominations of eligible members may then be made by written petition addressed to and received by the Recording Secretary on or before January 5th of the election year. This petition must be signed by 5 regular members and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying his willingness to be a candidate. Only one person per household may be nominated as a candidate, and no person shall be a candidate for more than one position, and the additional nominations which are provided for herein may be made only from among those eligible members who have not accepted a nomination of the Nominating Committee.
If no valid additional nominations are received by the Recording Secretary on or before January 5th, the Nominating Committee’s slate shall be declared elected and no further balloting is required.
If one or more valid additional nominations are received by the Recording Secretary on or before January 5th, the Recording Secretary shall mail by February 1st of the election year to each regular member in good standing a ballot listing all the nominees for each position in alphabetical order, with the names of the states in which they reside, and may include a biography not to exceed 75 words, together with a blank envelope and a return envelope addressed to the Recording Secretary marked “Ballot” and bearing the name of the member to whom it was sent. So that ballots may remain secret, each voter, after marking his ballot, shall seal it in the blank envelope, which in turn shall be placed in the second envelope addressed to the Recording Secretary. The tellers shall check the returns against the list of eligible voting members prior to opening the outer envelopes and removing the blank envelopes, and shall certify the eligibility of the voters as well as the results of the voting.
Nominations cannot be made at the annual meeting or in any manner other than as provided above.
Section 4. Elections. The election of Officers, Delegate to the American Kennel Club and Directors shall be conducted by secret mail ballot, or sent in accordance with the AKC’s most current procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs*** Such decisions shall be passed by a majority vote of those regular members casting ballots. Ballots to be valid must be received by the Recording Secretary on or before March 15th of the year of the election of the new Board. The Board shall appoint three election tellers who are regular members in good standing and who are neither members of the current Board nor candidates on the ballot to count the ballots and report the results to the Recording Secretary.
The nominated candidate receiving the largest number of votes for each position shall be declared elected, and all candidates shall be so notified in writing by the Recording Secretary by April 1st. If any duly elected candidate withdraws his name or is unable to serve for any reason, the vacancy thus created shall be filled by the majority vote of the new Board of Directors as provided in Article III, Section 3.
*** www.akc.org: Clubs and Delegates / Club Relations / Club Policies / Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Club
ARTICLE V: Committees
Section 1. The Board may appoint standing committees or individuals to advance the work of the Club in such matters as dog shows, companion events, performance events, trophies, annual prizes, membership and other fields which may well be served by committees. Special committees may also be appointed by the Board to aid it on particular projects. Such committees shall always be subject to the final authority of the Board. The President may make emergency committee appointments until confirmed or replaced at the next Board Meeting.
Section 2. Any committee appointment may be terminated by a majority vote of the full membership of the Board upon written notice to the appointee; and the Board may appoint a successor to the person whose service has been terminated.
Section 3. Club Credentials. Use of the Club stationery, past or present, or logos and insignia of the CWCCA, Inc., by any persons other than current officers and members of the Board of Directors, or anyone specifically authorized by the Board of Directors, is prohibited. Also, restricted is use of such stationery for any purposes other than the official business of this Club.
ARTICLE VI: Discipline
Section 1. American Kennel Club Suspension. Any member who is suspended from any of the privileges of the American Kennel Club shall automatically be suspended from the privileges of this Club for a like period.
Section 2. Charges. Any member may prefer charges against another member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or the Breed. Written charges with specifications must be filed in duplicate with the Recording Secretary together with a deposit of $100.00, which shall be forfeited, if such charges are not sustained by the Board following a hearing. The Recording Secretary shall promptly send a copy of the charges to each member of the Board, or present them at a Board Meeting, and the Board shall first consider whether the action alleged in the charges, if proven, might constitute conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Breed or the Club. If the Board determines that the charges do not allege conduct which would be prejudicial to the Breed or the Club, it may refuse to entertain jurisdiction. If the Board entertains jurisdiction of the charges, it shall fix a date for a hearing by the Board or a Committee of not less than three members of the Board not less than three weeks nor more than six weeks thereafter. The Recording Secretary shall promptly send one copy of the charges to the accused member by certified mail, together with a notice of the hearing and an assurance that the defendant may personally appear in his own defense, present evidence and/or have witnesses.
Section 3. Board Hearing. The Board shall have complete authority to decide whether counsel may attend the hearing, but both complainant and defendant shall be treated uniformly in that regard. If the hearing is conducted by Committee, at the close of the hearing, the Committee will submit its recommendations for action in writing immediately to the Recording Secretary. The Recording Secretary will submit the Committee’s recommendations to the full Board for a vote. Should the charges be sustained, the Board by a majority vote may set a penalty ranging from a letter of reprimand to a suspension of the defendant from all privileges of the Club for not more than six months or until the next Annual Meeting if that will occur after six months. And, if it deems that punishment insufficient, it may also recommend to the membership that the penalty be expulsion. Immediately after the Board has reached a decision, its findings shall be put in written form and filed with the Recording Secretary. The Recording Secretary, in turn, shall notify each of the parties of the decision and penalty, if any. Notice of official disciplinary action shall be published in an official club publication.
Section 4. Expulsion. Expulsion of a member of the Club may be accomplished only at an Annual Meeting of the Club following a hearing and upon the recommendation of the Board as provided in Section 3 of this Article. The defendant shall have the privilege of appearing in his own behalf, though no evidence shall be taken at this hearing. The President shall read the charges and the findings and recommendations of the Board, and shall invite the defendant, if present, to speak in his own behalf. The meeting shall then vote by secret ballot on the proposed expulsion. A 2/3 vote of the Regular Members present and voting at the Annual Meeting shall be necessary for expulsion. If expulsion is not so voted, the suspension shall stand.
ARTICLE VII: Amendments
Section 1. Amendments. Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws and Standard of the Breed may be proposed by the Board of Directors or by written petition addressed to the Recording Secretary signed by 20% of the regular members in good standing. The Board of Directors shall promptly consider amendments proposed by said petition. The Corresponding Secretary shall mail, or send in accordance with the AKC’s most current procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs, said petition with the Board’s recommendation to the regular members for a vote within three months of the date when the Secretary received the petition. Amendments proposed by the Board of Directors shall be mailed, or sent in accordance with the AKC’s most current procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs,*** by the Corresponding Secretary to each regular member for comment. Any comments thereon shall be returned to the Corresponding Secretary within 30 days from the date of mailing. All comments will be considered in preparation of the final amendments to be submitted to the members for vote.
Section 2. The Constitution and the By-Laws and the Standard of the Breed may be amended at any time provided that procedures set forth in Section 1 above have been followed. All ballots concerning such amendments shall be by the dual-envelope procedure described in Article IV, Section 3(d), or sent in accordance with the AKC’s most current procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs.*** Notice with such ballot shall specify a date not less than 30 days after the date of mailing by which date the ballots must be returned to the Recording Secretary to be counted. The favorable vote of 2/3 of the Regular members in good standing who return valid ballots within the time limit shall be required to effect any such amendment.
Section 3. No amendment to the Constitution and By-Laws, or the Standard for the Breed adopted by the Club shall become effective until it has been approved by the Board of Directors of the American Kennel Club.
ARTICLE VIII: Dissolution
Section 1. The Club may be dissolved at any time by the written consent of not less than 2/3 of the regular members. In the event of dissolution, other than for the purpose of reorganization, whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law, none of the property of the Club nor any proceeds thereof, nor any assets of the Club shall be distributed to any members of the Club, but after payment of the debts of the Club, its property and assets shall be given to a charitable organization for the benefit of dogs selected by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE IX: Order of Business
Section 1. At meetings of the Club, the order of business, so far as the character and nature of the meeting may permit, shall be as follows:
Minutes of the last meeting
Report of the President
Reports of the Secretaries
Report of the Treasurer
Reports of Committee
Report of Election Results (Annual Meeting)
Section 2. At meetings of the Board, the order of business unless otherwise directed by majority vote of those present, shall be as follows:
Report of the Secretaries
Reports of Committees
ARTICLE X: Parliamentary Authority
Section 1. The rules contained in the current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised, shall govern the Club in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with these By-Laws and any other special rules of order the Club may adopt.
Effective November 15, 1999
Revised April 14, 2007
Each member of the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America, referred to as the CWCCA shall consider the welfare of the Breed and Club paramount when engaging in any activities involving owning, breeding, leasing, exhibiting, and selling of the Cardigan Welsh Corgis. Acceptance of this Code of Ethics is a condition of membership in the CWCCA.
Section 1. CWCCA members are expected to comply with the following:
Each member shall take lifetime responsibility to ensure that Cardigans of his/her breeding or ownership are cared for in a safe and healthy environment. Should a Cardigan owner no longer be able to care for the dog, the owner shall take all reasonable steps to secure a new home for the dog. If the owner is unable to complete their commitment to the dog, the breeder shall resume responsibility.
Each member who contemplates breeding a litter, or who allows the use of his/her stud dog to the same end, shall direct his/her effort toward producing Cardigans of exceptional quality. Members should be forthright and honest regarding their bitch’s or stud dog’s strong and weak points, reproductive record and familial history.
A member shall not use for breeding a Cardigan showing a serious defect in type, structure, temperament and/or health. Owners of stud dogs shall not accept for breeding a bitch, the reproduction of which is likely to be detrimental to the breed.
Each member shall make an active effort to become educated with regard to inherited problems particular to the breed. Each member should screen all breeding stock for appropriate hereditary problems.
A member shall refrain from further use of a Cardigan for breeding if that Cardigan has produced offspring with serious inherited defects detrimental to the animal’s well-being, such as blindness, deafness or impairment of the vital functions, and produces like results with a different mating partner unless such defects can be managed via the use of genetic marker test, judicious breeding and offspring management. In such instances, only superior animals should be bred and only with the informed consent of all participants..
A member shall not engage in false or misleading advertising or other misrepresentations of his/her Cardigans, nor shall he/she malign his competitors by making false or misleading statements regarding his/her competitors’ Cardigans, breeding practices or person. No photographs shall be retouched to change the appearance of the dog.
Members are encouraged to use the limited registration as provided by the AKC and/or a signed spay/neuter contract when selling or placing Cardigans not to be used for breeding.
Each puppy or adult shall be placed or sold in a clean and healthy condition, including appropriate immunization for its age, and shall be at least seven weeks old (unless precluded by state law), namely old enough to make the necessary adjustment to a new home safely. The breeder/seller shall provide each new owner with a health record and written information on the feeding, health care and training of the dog.
All members should make themselves aware of and comply with their state laws regarding the breeding and selling of dogs.
Each member of the Club has an obligation to protect the interests of the breed by conducting himself/herself in a manner designed to reflect credit upon himself/herself, the breed and the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America.
Section 2. Members are expected to comply with the following rules. Failure to comply with the following may be considered to be action(s) not in the best interests of the Club or Breed. Leasing an animal does not exempt the owner from complying with these rules.
No member shall breed a bitch to cause her to produce puppies more often than twice in 18 months nor breed her before 12 months of age.
Blue Merles may be bred to blacks (with or without red or brindle points) only.
No member shall dispose of a Cardigan in a shelter or pound.
No member shall engage in the wholesaling of litters of Cardigan Welsh Corgis or the selling of any Cardigan(s) to such places as pet dealers, animal brokers, catalogue houses or commercial sources of distribution, nor supply Cardigans for lottery, raffle or auction.
When a member places or sells a Cardigan Welsh Corgi on a limited registration as provided by the AKC, the reason(s) for such shall be clearly understood by the buyer, and the breeder/owner shall have a signed statement to that effect. All other puppies or adults shall be registered or eligible for registration with the AKC. All new owners will be provided with appropriate AKC registration documents, pedigree and health record unless otherwise agreed upon in writing and signed by all parties.
No member shall knowingly exhibit a Cardigan Welsh Corgi in conformation with a disqualifying fault under the AKC-approved Standard for the Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
(1) No member shall knowingly exhibit a Cardigan Welsh Corgi in conformation with a condition that renders it ineligible under AKC regulations, including but not limited to a dog which has undergone any of the following procedures to change its appearance by artificial means as set out in Chapter 11, Section 8 of the AKC Rules Applying to Dog Shows.
The correction of entropion, ectropion, trichiasis, or disichaisia.
Trimming, removal or tattooing of the third eyelid (nicitating membrane).
The insertion of an eye prosthesis.
Correction of harelip, cleft palate, stenotic nares, or an elongated soft palate resection.
Any procedure to change ear set or carriage other than that permitted by the breed standard (does not include taping puppy ears).
Restorative dental procedures, the use of bands or braces on teeth, or any alteration of the dental arcade.
The removal of excess skin folds or the removal of skin patches to alter marking.
Correction of inguinal, scrotal or perineal hernias.
Surgery for hip dysplasia, OC.D., patellar luxation and femoral head resection.
Alteration of the location of the testes or the insertion of an artificial testicle.
Altering the set or carriage of the tail.
Revised by vote of membership April 2007
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Staging the Motions of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Syria?
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Organised by the Arab League and attended by around 70 countries, the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis on 24 February 2012 was probably one of the last chances for the resolution of the Syrian crisis through diplomatic means or it may also be argued that it was actually staged to appear in that way. Both sides of the argument could come up with strong justifications whether the Tunis conference was a genuine attempt to resolve the conflict in Syria peacefully.
BY PROF. ALP ÖZERDEM | MARCH 17, 2012
In order to look at what is happening from a more objective perspective though, this article will adopt the principles of ‘just war’ theory as well as the criteria for Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in its analysis of how the international response to the Syrian crisis would likely to develop over the next few months. In order to contextualise the Syrian case in a wider humanitarian interventions landscape, the analysis will focus on the two previous North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) interventions in Kosovo (1999) and Libya (2011).
The political crisis of Syria which started around a year ago is now turning into one of the bloodiest chapters of the so called ‘Arab Spring’ with a death toll of over 8,000 people. After the popular revolts and regime changes in Tunisia and Egypt, the transformation in Libya presented itself as a full blown civil war from March to October 2011. The uprising in Bahrain was crushed violently by the state with the military intervention assistance of the neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the political instability in Yemen still continues. Therefore, since the end of the Libya conflict with the capture of Muammar Gaddafi on 20th October, Syria has been dominating the international agenda with an increasing level of pressure from the Western countries and their allies in the region. The Tunis Conference was an important episode in this process, as it clearly indicated that the ‘friends’ of Syria led by the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), France and Turkey are in fact, no longer prepared to talk to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and they would prefer to show a clear sign of support to the Syrian opposition. The Foreign Minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoğlu, when he was asked the question of why the Syrian government had not been invited to the Tunis Conference, said that it was now time to make a distinction between ‘victims’ and ‘instigators of the violence’. The same sentiment was then echoed by the Foreign Secretary William Hague. In other words, the Tunis conference underlined the gap between ‘friends’ of Syria and ‘supporters’ of the Assad regime such as Russia and China, which also did not take part at the Conference.
The ‘supporters’ of Syria have so far managed to block a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution on Syria. This would sound very familiar for the students of international relations, as so many times before the international community has been at such an impasse, i.e. the 1999 Kosovo crisis, in deciding an appropriate response strategy for the protection of fundamental human rights in those countries affected by armed conflict and violence. As a veto by one of UNSC permanent members (China, France, Russia, UK and US) can block the process of passing a resolution, the following stages of international responses to violent political crises often turn into an exercise of circumventing such a diplomatic impasse in the UN system. Consequently, in such contexts the issues of legality and legitimacy often become fiercely debated issues. In the case of Libya for example, the UNSC Resolution 1970 and particularly, Resolution 1973 were pivotal for preparing the ground for the NATO’s military intervention as they asked to ‘establish and enforce a no-fly zone over Libya’ and ‘employ all means to protect civilians’. In other words, the military intervention in Libya was ‘legal’ from an international law perspective, which was not the case for the Kosovo intervention as NATO undertook that intervention without the permission of a UNSC resolution. However, it was then argued that the military intervention was legitimate, therefore necessary, because of the humanitarian concerns to do with the well being of Albanian Kosovars in the hands of Serbian security forces. However, the legality aspect is only one of the key issues for military humanitarian interventions and for a better understanding of the Tunis Conference within the wider response process, it would be necessary to consider other criteria for revoking R2P.
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Why You Need to Visit Bitche, France
By alison - August 31, 2011 (Updated: March 1, 2019)
Bitche, France drew us in with its name, but we discovered there are plenty of reasons you should visit this beautiful town in the Grand Est region of France.
While looking at a map, did you ever decide to go somewhere just because it had a funny name? It’s something Andrew and I love to do while on road-trips. So while planning the route for our weekend in Strasbourg, in the Grand Est region (formerly Lorraine), I couldn’t resist heading towards Bitche, simply so I could take my photo beside the sign. Little did I know, Bitche is a lot more than a town with a fun name.
Arriving in Bitche, the first thing we saw was a sign designating it as one of France’s Villes Fleurie. This is France’s version of the Communities in Bloom, in which citizens and companies volunteer to create public garden spaces throughout the town, to compete in national and international competitions.
The second thing we saw, was a huge citadel, towering over the town. Gardens and fortifications – now Bitche was a destination for both of us.
As Andrew was driving, the car pointed suspiciously towards the citadel. Up we climbed until we found ourselves in the large parking lot. The sun was already broiling, as we stepped from the car, and I was wondering how we would survive clambering around the hill-top citadel in the heat.
Luckily, most of the tour of the Citadel of Bitche took place inside the ramparts. An audio-guide led us from room to room in small groups while explaining the history of the siege of Bitche in 1870. In each room, videos of the main characters of the drama led us through the action. The acting was a bit melodramatic, but it certainly brought the history of the citadel to life and taught us about an event in French history we had never before encountered.
When we finally emerged from the depths of the citadel, we decided to brave the sun and stroll along the tops of the ramparts. The view of the surrounding countryside was lovely, and it was easy to see why this citadel was such a strategic stronghold.
View from the Citadel of Bitche
After a bite in the cafe and a cool drink, we descended from the citadel towards the Jardin Pour La Paix (The Garden for Peace). The Garden for Peace has been blooming in Bitche for eight years.
Exploring the Garden for Peace in Bitche
This garden is made up of 10 concept gardens, including garden architecture, sculptures, trees, flowers, and vegetables, with varying themes. It’s a whimsical garden full of colour, and you are urged to explore the different installations.
The Whimsical Garden
Bitche’s garden heritage is in excellent standing. It is located in the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional des Vosges du Nord, which is classified by UNESCO as part of the Word Network of Biosphere reserves. Bitche has also achieved four blooms in the Ville Fleurie program, which is the top ranking, in France. They have also won the Grand Prix National de Fleurissement in 2007 and the Trophee Fleur d’Or in 2010, making it the perfect place for a garden-lover to visit.
Pretty in Pink – Flowers in the Garden for Peace
Flowers and Bees in Bitche
Bitche is an easy two and a half hour drive from Brussels and is a lovely place to take a day-trip or to begin a tour of the Alsace-Lorraine region of France.
Yes, I finally got my photo of the Bitche sign.
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Bears Sign WR Greg Herd
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(CBS) In an effort add receiver depth after likely slot man Marquess Wilson suffered a fractured clavicle in Monday’s practice, the Bears have signed Greg Herd to a one-year deal, they announced late Tuesday.
Herd entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2013, which he spent with the Cowboys and part of training camp with the Seahawks. Herd attended college at Eastern Washington, where he had 165 catches in four years.
In another move, the Bears also waived linebacker Conor O’Neill, an undrafted rookie free agent from Wisconsin.
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on: February 01, 2010 In: Columns & Interviews, Economics & TradeTags: No Comments
When they release Copenhagen: The Movie, fast forward through the boring parts until you get to the final scene. It starts with the Queen of Denmark’s dinner on the eve of the convention’s scheduled close. Things pick up from there when world leaders make their cameo appearances and President Barack Obama is deposited on stage by Air Force One as the deus ex machina.
Obama had dramatically changed the rhetoric coming from Washington over the past year on the dangers of climate change and the need for an effective US and world response, but he was hamstrung in his efforts to lead internationally by a recalcitrant senate that was more focused on protecting parochial interests than in saving mankind.
Thus, the president arrived in Denmark with an agenda not to save the world, but to save the chances of passing US domestic climate legislation. It needed international commitments from the big developing country carbon emitters – especially China – and some means for verifying that those commitments were met.
China, however, would have rather had no deal at Copenhagen (as long as it didn’t get blamed for the failure) than one that endangered economic growth or opened up its carbon reporting to international inspection.
The country’s leadership, composed of engineers, has accepted the reality of climate change and recognizes the dangers it poses. A program has been developed that tries to balance the need for substantial economic expansion with a goal to at least reduce the growth rate of its carbon emissions. But Beijing explicitly stated in the prelude to Copenhagen that it was not interested in seeing its domestic goals turned into international commitments.
With these facts in mind, let’s cut back to the final 36 hours in Copenhagen. The Chinese delegates had steeled themselves for the moment when the leading actors would take the stage, anticipating that Western ad-libbing prima donnas would veer off-script and ruin China’s perfectly crafted lines.
If all else failed, which it did, the plan was to keep their star off the set to avoid any awkward scenes. Thus, Premier Wen Jiabao was chatting up the character actor Hugo Chavez on the back lot or holed up in his hotel room while the main drama was unfolding elsewhere. He was ultimately cornered by Obama, who (on purpose or inadvertently, the reports vary) walked into a meeting China was holding with other developing countries, and an agreement, the Copenhagen Accord, was eventually hammered out.
Beijing didn’t have a star turn on the public relations front for its role in the final days of the conference. At least in the Western media it has been cast as a scheming naysayer or pouting adolescent. While China would surely have liked better press, all in all it seems pretty pleased with how things turned out substantively at Copenhagen – and with good reason.
In the Copenhagen Accord which was "taken note of" at the end of the conference, China preserved the developed-developing country distinctions of the existing international climate negotiation framework, and achieved an agreement that its national sovereignty will not be infringed upon by any prying international inspectors.
Given the non-binding nature of the accord, it technically doesn’t "require" anything. As a developing country, if China chooses to become a party to the accord, it has until January 31 to list in Appendix II of the accord the "nationally appropriate mitigation actions" (NAMAs) it plans to implement.
NAMAs are defined by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as actions that developing countries agree to voluntarily undertake "distinct from international legally binding commitments of developed nations." Developing countries are already supposed to publish information concerning their proposed NAMAs, so China’s agreement to list them in a non-binding agreement is not a major concession.
The accord adds a provision that the updates on carbon reduction efforts that parties to the UNFCCC are required to provide every two years will now be subject to "international consultations and analysis." While some Western sources are hailing this provision as a significant win for the US, the reality is that it has no teeth. RK Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel-winning Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, admitted as much in a news conference in New Delhi in late December. "I don’t think consultation and analysis gives anybody the right to challenge anything … Of course in a consultation, any party can challenge any other party, but does that carry any weight? It does not," he said.
Beijing hasn’t offered a specific reaction to this provision, except to say that it will never accept outside checks of its plans to slow greenhouse gas emissions. In any event, on this issue China did what it does best: It structured the agreement so that further negotiations are necessary before the provision becomes operational. The "clearly defined guidelines" required to implement consultations will take months, if not years, to hash out.
As this article goes to press it is still not clear what China will list as its NAMAs. There is always the possibility that it won’t list anything, but that is highly unlikely.
China intends to reduce its carbon intensity – the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP – by 40-45% over 2005 levels by 2020. This goal is more in the nature of a quantified economy-wide emissions target than a NAMA (which would typically be something along the lines of "we will close X megawatts of small, inefficient coal-fired electric generation capacity by 2015") and listing it would certainly be a positive step. China would be acknowledging some erosion in the sharp developed-developing country divide of the existing international climate change framework, and perhaps indicating a willingness to be more flexible in future negotiations.
By only listing actions that meet the traditional definitions of NAMAs, Beijing would effectively signal its intent to continue fighting tooth and nail to preserve the existing distinction between developed and developing countries.
What China lists will be decided in close consultation with its new best friends in the G4, also known as BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China). The rise of the BASIC climate negotiating bloc is one of the biggest stories to come out of Copenhagen. These are all developing counties under existing international climate definitions, but ones that are, or have the potential to become, significant carbon emitters.
BASIC’s primary goal is to protect the prerogatives of developing countries to pursue growth and resist significant binding carbon constraints. Such limits are viewed, with some justification, as unfair given that the developed countries operated under no such constraints while they were getting rich. But the new alliance is a force to be reckoned with, and no binding international accord will be agreed to without first passing BASIC muster.
The member countries met in New Delhi in January to discuss, among other things, their January 31 Copenhagen Accord submissions.
Where does all this leave us? After the January 31 filings (assuming no major surprises), the negotiations will enter a lull. Things will pick up again in the run-up to the next official round of UN climate talks between May 31 and June 11 in Bonn. These talks are a precursor to the COP16 conference in Mexico at the end of the year.
The aspirations of Copenhagen have now been transferred to Mexico City, but achieving a binding agreement will continue to prove elusive without significant movement on all sides. A commitment to wrap up a binding agreement by the end of 2010 was dropped from the Copenhagen Accord, and, as if it anticipated a long road to a formal agreement, the accord provides that "an assessment of [its] implementation" is to be completed in 2015.
In the meantime, China will do what it planned to do all along – implement its own domestic efforts to improve energy efficiency and increase the percentage of renewable power in its generation mix.
The final Copenhagen scene made for great theater, but the dramatic twists ultimately added up to very little. Despite the bad reviews for its performance in the Danish capital, China is counting on a long and profitable run at home.
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Whose Side Is Bush On?
Published: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
There was someone in the gallery during President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech that he would not dare publicly recognize. Even though he knew she was there, I'm confident he never even bothered to look up at Gallery 5, Row B, Seat 9, because sitting in that seat was Monica Ramos, the wife of imprisoned former Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos. She was the invited guest of Republican California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Representative Rohrabacher is incensed at Bush's Justice Department for imprisoning Ramos and former Border Patrol agent Jose Alonso Compean for their actions in the shooting and wounding of a Mexican drug smuggler.
In case you missed the story, the two BP agents intercepted a Mexican drug smuggler who brought more than 700 pounds of marijuana (that we know of) across the border into the United States. In the process of attempting to capture the criminal, he pointed something at the agents, and they opened fire. He was apparently hit in the buttocks, as he turned to run. However, the smuggler appeared to not be injured, as he continued to run swiftly back into Mexico and into a waiting van. Both van and smuggler raced out of sight. The smuggler's weapon was not found.
Why, you ask, were the two agents imprisoned (for a term of more than 11 years each, no less)? For firing their weapons and not filing the proper paperwork. You read it right.
"TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing 1,500 agents, argued failure to report the discharge of a firearm is an administrative offense that, at the most, merits a five-day suspension," reports World Net Daily.
"How that translates into 11-and 12-year prison terms is beyond me," Bonner said.
Making matters worse, the Mexican drug smuggler was even granted full immunity by the Justice Department and brought back at U.S. taxpayers' expense to testify against the agents. He is even being allowed to sue the two agents for over $5 million for having his "civil rights" violated. No, he is not an American citizen. He is a Mexican criminal who entered the United States illegally for the express purpose of smuggling drugs.
More than 70 lawmakers signed a petition pleading with President Bush to pardon the two agents. To no avail. Agents Ramos and Compean began their prison terms on January 17.
Representative Rohrabacher called President Bush a "disgrace" for refusing to pardon the two BP agents. About Bush, he said, "This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen." He further said, "He [Bush] obviously thinks more of his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people and backing up his defenders."
Rep. Joe Wilson said, "Convicting Ramos and Compean is a slap in the face to every American who respects the rule of law and expects our government to enforce its own laws."
However, the story gets even more bizarre. Writing for World Net Daily, Jerome Corsi reports, "New evidence suggests prosecuting U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton of El Paso lied about how the government found the fleeing illegal alien Mexican drug smuggler, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, according to a Border Patrol advocate closely following the case of former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Campean.
"Contrary to claims, no Mexican attorney was involved as an intermediary offering to reveal the identity of the drug smuggler and bring him back to the U.S. in exchange for given immunity to testify against Border Patrol, contended Andy Ramirez, chairman of Friends of the Border Patrol.
"'It's shocking how much lying Johnny Sutton has done about Aldrete-Davila,' he told WND."
Ramirez said emphatically, "If the truth about how the government got their hands on Aldrete-Davila had been told to the jury, there is no way the jury would have believed a word of his story that he was unarmed."
Obviously, much of the prosecutor's cased hinged on the testimony of the drug smuggler that he was not armed. In the end, the jury had to decide in favor of a U.S. Attorney and a Mexican drug smuggler or the two Border Patrol agents. Pathetically, they chose to believe the Mexican criminal and the collaborating U.S. Attorney.
Worse still, President Bush ignored the pleas of members of Congress and the thousands of American citizens begging him to pardon the two agents.
In response to Bush's decision to leave the two BP agents behind bars, Rohrabacher's spokeswoman, Tara Setmayer, said that the "lives of two brave men, her husband Ignacio Ramos and Border Patrol agent Jose Compean, have been destroyed by an inexplicable policy of open borders and amnesty this administration has toward our southern border.
"If the Bush administration cared about securing our borders, these two law enforcement officers would not be behind bars, and U.S. prosecuting attorneys wouldn't be prosecuting Border Patrol agents while drug smugglers go free."
Congressman Rohrabacher even went so far as to say, "He [President Bush] talks about being a Christian, but he has shown no Christian charity." He went on to say that because of the decision of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush to prosecute the two Border Patrol agents, "The word is out that the southern border is undefended. Border agents won't dare to draw their weapons, and the drug cartel will double their effort to drive a wedge in our border."
Makes one wonder whose side George W. Bush is on, doesn't it?
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“America Needs a Coast Guard That Can Fight”–Foreign Policy
Posted on March 17, 2013 by Chuck Hill
James Holmes , professor of strategy at the Naval War College and author of “The Naval Diplomat” blog, makes the argument that the Coast Guard will need to prepare itself to again take an active role as a naval force, this time in the Arctic.
He argues that the Coast Guard already has the lead in the Arctic, and that the Navy and Marine Corp will continue to be preoccupied with China and Iran.
Professor Holmes sees changing the culture of the Coast Guard as being a greater challenge than getting the proper equipment.
I see it a little differently. Coast Guard personnel are nothing if not adaptable, and if they need to fight, they will learn how, just as they did in WWII–assuming the US Navy is willing and able to teach. The Coast Guard cannot make an not an overnight transition, but threats do not materialize overnight either. On the other hand, it does take time and planning to have the right assets available. The Coast Guard needs a clear vision of its wartime role and it needs to define its requirements with those roles in mind, even if it a case of “fitted for, but not with” the military capabilities. I don’t think we have that vision, and I don’t think the Navy has a plan for the Coast Guard either. It has not mattered much since the Soviet threat dissolved, but it is beginning to matter again. With the possibility that Chinese defense expenditures may equal those of the US by 2023, we may have a true peer competitor long before the assets we are buying today reach the end of their lives.
If the Coast Guard does not have a role in wartime, questions regarding why we have ships (NSC) that looks like a frigate and cost as much as frigate, but cannot do the work of a frigate may arise. The administration may ask why we should have large ships in the Coast Guard at all, if Navy ships using LEDETs can do CG missions in peacetime and also be ready for war.
27 thoughts on ““America Needs a Coast Guard That Can Fight”–Foreign Policy”
Timmy D. on March 18, 2013 at 6:36 pm said:
The Coast Guard is now culturally filled with individuals who like collecting full miltary benefits, but are not exactly as keen on ever putting themselves in a situation where they will be shot at. We have no kinetic capability by our own choice. The retirement of ADM Yost and the end of the Cold War gave some their golden opportunity to demilitarize the Coast Guard to what it is today: a maritime police force with a regulatory focus that conducts search and rescue as well.
Anonymouse on March 19, 2013 at 12:57 am said:
A sad but accurate assessment – and I don’t intend this to be a disrespectful comment. Today’s Coast Guard is full of people who are more suited to the life of a 9 to 5 government bureaucrat than a true military organization. Other than the UCMJ, Navy refresher training for ships, pilot training courtesy of the Navy, and the dedicated but small number of personnel who try to remain proficient in the military arts, the Coast Guard is, as Timmy D notes, a premier maritime law enforcement organization – not a true military service.
If those Coast Guardsmen who have successfully completed BUDS and a tour or two in the Special Operations community actually come back to the Coast Guard, I can only imagine how odd they will likely feel.
Bill Wells on March 19, 2013 at 11:44 am said:
In a twentieth century context, the shift from the naval position began in 1970. This coincided with the shift to the Transportation Department and the rise of “specialist” over the “generalist” officer corps. Yost was an aberration and out of touch. He failed to get the service behind him in is quest to become a mini-naval service. All one needs to do is look at the idiotic IMLET program that soon wen off the skids with a couple untrained cowboys in charge.
This is, once again, where the Coast Guard’s dismissal of its history as come back to haunt it. I bet less than a handful of people have a comprehensive view of what the Coast Guard, and its predecessor service, the RCS, were about and the causes for its yearn to be a naval force. How many biographies are there of past commandants? Just one and he was not the most important nor the best of the bunch.
The lead post asks questions that have been asked since 1799. It is strange the Coast Guard looks at itself in a generational sense, where nothing happened before and nothing will occur after one’s career. There is something refreshing about asking the same questions time and again. The same answers never evolve. This is the Alice Through the Looking Glass principle, all is better on the other side of time and space.
Are you saying it may be time to fold up and quit the charade we are a military force, Bill? Become a civil service organization like the Light House Service once again?
Nicky on March 19, 2013 at 2:09 am said:
I think after ADM Yost, the US Coast Guard started to act more like the Canadian Coast Guard and not like the US Coast Guard during ADM Yost’s time.
chuckhhill on March 19, 2013 at 6:21 pm said:
Another blogger’s take on this report, http://www.eaglespeak.us/2013/03/arctic-maritime-security-america-needs.html
eric bigelow on March 20, 2013 at 1:58 pm said:
just my persanal opinion, i think the civilian mindset is much more prevelant shoreside, again just my opinion. the uscg needs to really push historical education among the troops. those of us that read and enjoy uscg history can see a great military tradition in our past. why isn’t this being driven home?
Timmy D asked, “Are you saying it may be time to fold up and quit the charade we are a military force, Bill? Become a civil service organization like the Light House Service once again?”
Who has said the civilian agencies taken into the Coast Guard have stopped being civilian service. The LSS is now the SAR bunch (including aviation) with some add on features that is not liked, cared for, or even wanted. The vestige of the past organization is very much alive. The have the Sumner Kimball Award to keep it all going. The LHS, BNM, and environmental functions are very much civil service. Just ask how many in AtoN and Marine Inspection how much they want to be connected to the Coast Guard. Not much. What real value do they offer to the Coast Guard? All could be easily adopted to civil service.
So, what of the Coast Guard? By reducing its mish-mash of missions and different cultural segments that have never quite jelled into one Service. It could concentrate on being what it should be, part of the national protection of revenue and commerce and doing it efficiently. This is what Oliver Wolcott wrote of the cutters in April 1798, “It ought however to be recollected that Congress are providing providing a naval force for the protection of the commerce, and that a principle but not a sole object of the Cutter establishment is the protection of the Revenue.” In the glow of brighter and jazzier missions, the people of the Coast Guard have forgotten, or dismissed, just from where they came and what is their core culture.
A return to its quasi-naval/civil functions would provide the opportunity to begin again. The RCS spent its first one-hundred years in a state of confusion of what it wanted to be as well as the mismanagement of its limited resources. The second hundred years followed the first with a few bright spots from 1895-1905, some actions during Prohibition, and 1934-1945.
Chuck Hill on March 21, 2013 at 6:26 pm said:
It is certainly true that some parts of the Coast Guard seem to be more “military” than others. During WWII the surface portion of the CG certainly seemed to adapt to the war time roles faster than the aviation portion. I found it difficult to understand why Coast Guard aviation did not manage to sink a sub during WWII while Coast Guard surface forces were disproportionately successful, when in general, aircraft were more successful in sinking subs than surface ships.
One thing that surprised me, when I was researching the “Coast Guard’s” role in the Spanish American War (https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2010/04/25/the-coast-guard-in-the-spanish-american-war/), was how active the Light House Service ships and personnel were. I had never seen reference to that before.
There is always going to be some friction when people with different priorities and agendas try to work together, but would it really be better for these people to be in completely different organizations, even different departments?
Bill Wells on March 21, 2013 at 11:25 pm said:
Chuck, the LHS had no “Coast Guard” function during the Spanish-American War. One of the problems within the Coast Guard today today is the attempt to include the actions of departments, bureaus, and agencies before they were part of the Coast Guard. Their clock started with the transfer. That is their history, not the Coast Guard’s. Imagine if Hebert Hoover and FDR were able to actually place the Customs Patrol and Border Patrol within the Coast Guard as they wanted too.
As for Coast Guard aviation and sinking submarines, the aircraft had to be where the submarines were. This was not the case most of the time. The surface elements were where the subs were. It is a matter of target opportunity. Besides, Coast Guard aviation was not founded on military duties and service. To get it jump started, the Coast Guard pitched that the purpose of Coast Guard aviation was customs patrol and humanitarian work. They did this so they would not compete with the Navy. However, the U. S. Army had already proposed to take over these duties which made sense because they had the aircraft and the support in place. The Coast Guard did not until about 1926 – some ten years after CG aviation as authorized — buried deep in a Navy Department appropriation bill. This is an area not reported upon in the numbers of aviation histories available today. The first ten years are slide over as if they did not exist.
chuckhhill on March 22, 2013 at 5:03 am said:
But the LHS ships and personnel did have a military role in the Spanish American war which seems to be at odds with the opinion that AtoN people never had a military role.
Coast Guard aviation did expand during WWII. They flew PBYs out of Greenland. I don’t know the extent of the increase in CG aviation. If they expanded to the same degree as the surface side (I don’t know if they did), I would have thought they would have had at least a few of the approximately 200 U-boats sunk by US aircraft to their credit.
Bill Wells on March 22, 2013 at 2:56 pm said:
Chuck the question of whether or not the LHS had a naval role in the SP-AM War would be cleared up by their being granted, or not, war bonuses. Not all the RCS did and many, those in service before the war, were not considered to be on the “naval establishment” during the war and therefore civilians and not eligible for bonuses or pensions.
I believe one Coast Guard aircraft was initially credited with sinking a submarine in the Gulf of Mexico but this has been reconsidered in recent years. The aircraft carried but two depth charges (or bombs) so any hits at all would be more luck than accuracy.
One of PBY aricrewmen is still alive and is a friend of mine. CWO3 Arnie Adams has some great stories about WWII aviation. He is about 95 and lives near Washington, DC. He is the most senior CWO3 on the retired list today.
During the war and for several years after the crew of a Grumman Goose was credited with a sinking, but the U-boat was subsequently found and it was determined to have been sunk by a Navy sub chaser.
The breakdown for U-boat losses was roughly:
UK and other allies air: 200
UK and other allies surface: 200
US air: 200
US surface: 36
Out of the those sunk by US surface vessels, Coast Guard manned vessels participated in the sinking of almost a third.
http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/CombatVictoriesWWII.asp
Professor Holmes will be interviewed on this topic online Sunday at 5:00PM Eastern. Listeners can also ask questions on-line. The show will be archived if you want to listen later.
http://blog.usni.org/2013/03/22/midrats-episode-168-uscg-and-the-arctic-sunday-24-mar-13-5pm
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chuckhhill on March 28, 2013 at 11:29 pm said:
Professor Holmes writes another post about the Coast Guard.
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/03/28/u-s-coast-guard-meets-julian-corbett/
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chuckhhill on April 3, 2013 at 12:02 am said:
Two more supporting pieces,
one again by Professor Holmes, http://thediplomat.com/2013/03/23/americas-airsea-battle-arctic-style/
and another from a conservative think tank, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/strengthen-the-us-coast-guard-in-the-arctic
Bill Smith on April 7, 2013 at 3:52 am said:
Bill Wells makes some interesting points in his first post. One of the problems for the CG has been identity (due to the amalgamations and added missions) combined with a failure of long-term, big-picture, strategic thinking about the CG. I was hoping the creation of DHS and post 9-11 philosophy would help, but the CG seems to have continued a Commandant-by-Commandant process of wandering without absolute clear focus (although it’s better-but mostly from legislation). This lack of mission focus from within, combined with a desire to politically please everyone, hurts the CG.
The Marines have managed to fight off being absorbed into the Army with strong political capabilities, and they don’t suffer from much mission creep, either internally or being forced on them by external forces. The CG could do the same, but it will require vision and strength by a Commandant…
In my opinion, the ATON branch of the CG could be combined with the US Army Corps of Engineers (civil engineering/waterways branch) and be made into a new semi-civilian service agency. This combination makes sense and creates clear focus in the new agency. (Put it in the Dept. Of Transportation, as it would be the nautical/maritime agency for that Dept.) While we’re at it, let’s put the CG office which investigates maritime accidents in the DOT as well, just as the NHTSA and NTSB are.
As far as the CG being an LE agency, it always has been! RCS was formed to collect taxes. Other than US Marshals, that was the closest thing to law enforcement at the federal level in 1790!! It was LE before it had a military mission!
If you’ve read my posts here at Chuck’s blog, you may remember my point that the CG has a military mission already: protecting the homeland! Combine the CG’s LE capabilities (boardings, inspections, EEZ enforcement, LEDETs, etc.) with the Maritime Defense Zone Commands (especially the new Intel. Centers, and the Sector Commands concept, but also some old stuff such as the Area Commanders being the MDZ Commanders [mission focus]), and there is a great “homeland security” synergy in capability and focus. This fits in great as well with drug and migrant interdiction. Air and small boat stations (the descendents of the LSS) are and should be an integral piece in this capability, not just WPBs, WPBCs, and OPCs. (It’s a defense-in-depth: OPCs at long range-edge of EEZ and beyond; WPBs & WPBCs at 50-150 miles out; small boats close in.) In addition, the SAR aspect gives great positive publicity to the overall benefit of the agency. (Read an article ever about a state trooper or other police officer saving someone, rather than arresting a bad guy? — Yep, all about the friendly “public servant” face on the LE agency.) Finally, the Navy will never be “jealous” of this capability/mission (as long as the CG doesn’t fail at it and allow a carrier or two to be sunk at their moorings in Norfolk…), so the CG wouldn’t have to fight off the Navy attempting a take-over of it’s assets.
(Speaking of PR – Deepwater Horizon is a great example of how/why the CG should pass the environmental response baton to the EPA. CG doesn’t put enough emphasis on it, so when disaster strikes, the CG looks incapable. Bad!)
Now, in the vein of Chuck’s posts about what the CG needs to improve it’s capabilities in the military sense, if you buy into my mission-focus premise on homeland defense, the CG needs:
• An aircraft combining the ISR capability the CG needs for LE missions (EEZ & fisheries protection, drug & migrant interdiction), and both the ISR for MDZ mission (identification of vessels approaching US territory) as well as ASW (locate, identify, and track submerged contacts) along with an ability to prosecute surface and submerged contacts (Penguin, Harpoon, Mk-50, etc.). IMO, this should be a manned aircraft for MITL as well as better flexibility/capability considering the expansive range of tasks.
• Littoral ASW and surface warfare capability on the OPCs & patrol boats.
• Coastal/Harbor mine countermeasures capability.
• Short-range Coastal/Harbor ASW capabilities, probably from an upgrade/module for the MH-60s. (In the mid-90s to 2000s, I felt this would be a great opportunity for the SH-2Fs the Navy was decommissioning. They could’ve created a CG Reserve Aviation Sqdrn. on each coast with these aircraft, which would have deployed to the major ports in war-time. They are probably all cut-up or unserviceable at this point.)
Nicky on April 8, 2013 at 5:09 am said:
Bill, where do see a role for the Auxiliary and the Reserves and what do you think their Future roles and missions will be in 10 to 20 years down the road.
Thanks for the question, Nicky, but I’m not qualified to predict anything. I’m an interested and informed observer with a nack for analysis. Everything I wrote above is predicated on the assumption that the CG leadership agree with my point of view, so my opinions are probably not worth a cup of coffee. To me, what I’ve said makes the most sense given the context of this discussion and “the big picture” (past, present, and possible future).
I know the reserves have shrunk in size significantly since the 80s, and other than the couple PSUs, the current reservists are augmentees to the active units. It seems to me the budget and CG leadership need to see a worthwhile role for the reserves to expand and be more significant than they are now. I’m not sure in the current budgetary situation anything will get better in this regard, unfortunately. Now, if we’re dreamily speculating… 😉
As far as the Auxiliary, I believe it is growing, becoming more “professional,” and is a key ingredient in several CG mission areas. I think it could play a bigger role in training the regulars, playing an OpFor role, but as long as the limitation on LE authority and prohibition against military operations is in place (and I think they should be), the Aux. is pretty well maxed out. (Which is not to degrade the quantity or quality of the Aux.’s roles and contributions.) Another area they may find a Homeland Security role is as coast watchers, if a need for a formal program becomes a priority.
Bill Smith on April 9, 2013 at 1:05 pm said:
After rolling your question around in my head, I thought of another idea for the Aux. The port security mission has a need for divers, and there are a lot of qualified civilian divers who may be able to apply their skills and equipment operationally to the port security mission, but I think it would be in an augmenting role to military divers. Still, a very useful/meaningful addition to CG capabilities, if it were instituted.
Nicky on April 9, 2013 at 9:46 pm said:
Bill.
I envision the future where the Auxiliary takes on more of the reserve roles such as Medical, Disaster response, Search & rescue, Foreign Language and more Instructor training role. I also think within the next 10 to 20 years, the Auxiliary side could pick up the Port security roles and coast watch roles. Even stand up Auxiliary Diver rescue and underwater recovery teams.
Lyle on April 9, 2013 at 11:25 am said:
I hope I don’t upset you, but the RCS job was to protect the revenue of the USA not collect taxes. The laws of 1797 and 99 were the ones that militarized the cutter service. What makes me pissed is all the money we spend/waste in search of a identity to compete with the other services for money. And jobs that we are forced to do that have nothing to do with our core mission.
IMHO history has shown that the mission of the Coast Guard in times of peace and war is the same. And that mission is maritime security, or MSO. Where as the Navy’s mission is maritime defense, or in other words take the fight to the enemy. A good example of this the when the navy was away dealing with the Barbary pirates nations, the coast guard was dealing with the pirate bases along the southern US and later Caribbean.
Mine sweeping I feel should be part of AtoN. You could very easily convert a Buoy Tender into a mine sweeper. How many people here know that during the 80’s and 90’s one of there planned national defense roles was supporting minesweeping operations.
ASW should be a coast guard mission. How can you protect the merchant/auxiliary fleets from submarines if you don’t have that capability. Sure the navy has it but in war time they are going to be to busy worrying about the battle fleet instead of all the soft targets that need protected. and without them you cant win the war.
DOG(deployable operations group) I would put down and get a new DOG. What I would do first is get rid of MSST and create a program based on the marines FAST program, but go one step further and have the marines themselves do the program. Sort of like how we based our rescue swimmer program on the navy’s, but adapted it for the coast guards unique conditions. and turn the MSRT into a elite unit of that. PSU would remain the same so would the LEDET.
The biggest thing I would do besides firing all the desk admirals that the coast guard have is make the coast guard part of the Department of Defense and put it under the under secretary of defense for homeland security along with the chief of the national guard. He would be a under secretary that reported to two head secretaries which are defense and homeland security.
Tired time to go to bed.
Bill Smith on April 10, 2013 at 1:36 am said:
Hi Lyle,
You’ve said nothing at all to upset me! I was over-simplifying. RCS didn’t collect taxes itself, but my understanding was that at least part of the mission was to prevent smugglers from avoiding the customs collection, so I mis-stated it, but I think my overall point is still valid – RCS, and hence CG has always been an LE agency.
I concur with many of your points, and indeed tenders could be dandy MCM platforms, but during their peace-time role (which in the 20th century was 91% of the time), they are a huge chunk of “mission drift” from a core LE/maritime defense mission. I think they fit great with the Army Corps of Engineers, which itself, in turn, doesn’t really fit the Army’s mission focus anymore…
As far as moving into the DOD, I see two major problems.
1) Posse Comitatus. In DOD, CG would lose it’s legal authority as a civilian LE agency. This is an insurmountable problem, considering the political atmosphere, and frankly, I’m on the side that would oppose it on these philosophical grounds.
2) The CG does not have the political force of the Marines. As it is, the CG has fought off absorbtion/take-overs by the Navy on a few occasions, and if it was in DOD, doing a “coastal” or “close-in” version of what the Navy does (which is how the uninformed would perceive it), the CG would not survive as a separate service. Look at many aspects of the Navy’s new Expeditionary Warfare Command — very Coast Guardy. The Navy would make a pitch that a lot of money could be saved through efficiency by combining the CG with Expeditionary command, and, poof, no more CG. I don’t like that scenario!
chuckhhill on April 10, 2013 at 6:02 pm said:
My fear is not that the Coast Guard, if part of DOD would no longer do law enforcement, but rather that it would become simply the Master at Arms force within the Navy. The Navy’s law enforcement specialists with a few on each ship to do boardings (LEDETS to their logical conclusion).
john on February 14, 2015 at 12:43 am said:
so at the end of the day the coast guard would be able to go to war or what is its identity
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Comedies:
The Comedy of Errors – Jan. 14, 2017
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Two Nobel Kinsmen
Histories:
Richard II– Nov. 30, 2014
Henry IV, Part 1– Dec. 21, 2014
Henry V – June 22, 2016
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Romeo and Juliet – Oct. 15, 2014
Hamlet– Jan. 25, 2015 READ-ALONG
King Lear– Dec. 3, 2014
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Governor of Maryland Vetoes Bill To Prevent Public Viewing of Past Pot-Related Offenses
Posted on May 19, 2020 by Bird
A bill designed to keep marijuana-related convictions out of public view has been vetoed by Maryland’s governor.
The bill, House Bill 83, would have barred “the Maryland Judiciary Case Search from in any way referring to the existence of a District Court criminal case in which possession of marijuana is the only charge in the case and the charge was disposed of before October 1, 2014”—a proposal that, according to NORML, “would have shielded an estimated 200,000 low-level marijuana convictions from public view.” For those unfamiliar, The Judiciary Case Search is a public-access database containing legal and judicial records in the state.
But after arriving on Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s desk, the bill was vetoed, a decision that Hogan explained in a letter to legislative leaders earlier this month. Hogan lamented that the state House had failed to adequately address violent crime by neglecting to act on a series of bills he endorsed at the start of the session. While the state Senate approved those measures, Hogan said, the state House “failed to meaningfully address violent crime.”
“Last year, 348 people were murdered in the streets of Baltimore City, making 2019 the second deadliest year on record, and the fifth consecutive year with more than 300 murders in our state’s largest city,” Hogan wrote. “Since before the start of the legislative session, I made it very clear that my highest priority was to hold violent criminals accountable and stop the shootings and the murders in Baltimore City.”
Hogan said at the outset of this year’s session, he expressed a “strong willingness to consider other proposals, including some of those passed by the legislature, if they were included as part of a comprehensive crime package which included my proposals.” But because the state House did not take up his bills, Hogan fired back by vetoing a series of House-passed legislation, including HB 83.
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Coronavirus and the Renewable Energy Boom
By Consult Energy
With a coronavirus vaccine in the pipeline and the end of the pandemic seemingly in sight, the world seems to be reaching a state of covid fatigue, meanwhile some industries are utterly thriving. At a time where so many sectors are struggling to see a future at all – somehow against all odds, we’re seeing a boom in the renewable energy market. So, what gives?
Renewables have typically been slow off the mark when it comes to funding and adoption over the years, and yet during the pandemic we have seen unprecedented growth in the sector. In fact, so much so that clean sources of energy are set to account for a whopping 90% of the UK’s increase in capacity this year as the use of fossil fuels has plummeted.
The lockdown effect
Thanks to international lockdowns where people aren’t travelling to work every day much less anywhere else, we’re seeing a global downturn in the use of oil, gas, coal and petroleum. The energy industry as a whole thought this would spell trouble across the board, with demand dropping drastically and oil prices crashing as a result.
Aside from a major shift in day to day travel, the lack of overseas travel this year has not only made a dent in our carbon footprint, but in our profits too. This, of course, spells trouble for oil-dependant parts of the globe – like Nigeria and Angola who now face an even bigger recession thanks to their biggest export taking such a hit.
However, it’s not all bad news. Those who previously had seen renewable energy as a “nice to have” now had to put serious stock in cleaner energy becoming a staple of our future energy infrastructure. Where fossil fuel supply chains and projects have been disrupted by the pandemic, renewable energy providers have had a chance to swoop in, pick up the pieces and breeze ahead.
Climate change awareness
Amidst all the pandemic panic, the climate change threat hasn’t gone anywhere. In fact, while much of the world has stood still for months on end – those seeking to turn the tide on climate change haven’t quite made the strides they would have liked.
What has changed for the better is consumer behaviour. Having seen the positive impact that lockdowns have had on the environment and climate change, many are trying to make cleaner choices when it comes to their personal consumption – driving consumer demand for renewables through the roof and seeing oil, gas and coal falling behind.
In fact, it’s because of this conscious consumer behaviour that many new build housing developments are fitting their homes with solar panels as standard to make them more attractive to buyers. Some developments are actually going to the trouble of retrofitting solar panels onto recently completed estates to upgrade them for increased profitability. This is not only normalising greener energy solutions in the home, but is creating much needed jobs at a time when they’re hard to come by.
Support for green initiatives has been gradually on the rise for some time, although it hasn’t always been a smooth journey. Thankfully the government have recently u-turned on their decision to block new wind farm developments, something that was due to set the onshore and offshore wind market back a fair bit.
Not only has the block been scrapped, but the UK government has really outdone itself by opting to actively subsidise onshore renewable energy projects. These new projects aren’t exactly small fry either, with a total of 13GW up for the taking in auctions for the subsidies.
This all comes in support of the prime minister’s 10-point plan which is set to end the UK’s contribution to rising global carbon emissions by 2050.
Far from being just a flash in the pan, the future of renewable energy is looking very bright for the duration of the pandemic and beyond. With renewable electricity set to outgrow fossil fuels by 2025 and renewables spending expected to double – coal and gas may wind up a thing of the past.
We mustn’t get too far ahead of ourselves though, as that reality may come later than we’d like with many of the countries dependant on their fossil fuel exports planning on pouring funding into coal, oil and gas to recover from the recession the pandemic has brought with it.
Thankfully both government and private investors are showing no signs of slowing down their support for the renewable energy market. It seems as though the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic has given renewables the opportunity it needed to shine through as the primary resource rather than an optional alternative.
In terms of what this means for the energy jobs market: it’s very good news across the board. Not only is there a huge demand for renewable energy expertise, but also an incentive to invite new talent into the space as well as provide ample opportunities for those already in it looking to take a step sidewards into clean energy.
It’s been very encouraging as an energy and utilities recruitment consultancy to see almost no hiring freezes in our sector since the pandemic took hold. While we’ve unfortunately noticed other sectors struggling to stay afloat, the energy market has gone from strength to strength.
The renewable energy boom has been the silver lining to what has been a truly tumultuous year to say the least, there has never been a better time to be at the forefront of the clean energy revolution.
So if you’re looking for your next move in renewable energy, or would like to speak to someone about your hiring plans – don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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Boundless Physics
Rotational Kinematics, Angular Momentum, and Energy
Conservation of Angular Momentum
The law of conservation of angular momentum states that when no external torque acts on an object, no change of angular momentum will occur.
Evaluate the implications of net torque on conservation of energy
When an object is spinning in a closed system and no external torques are applied to it, it will have no change in angular momentum.
The conservation of angular momentum explains the angular acceleration of an ice skater as she brings her arms and legs close to the vertical axis of rotation.
If the net torque is zero, then angular momentum is constant or conserved.
quantum mechanics: The branch of physics that studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles; it substitutes probabilistic mechanisms for classical Newtonian ones.
torque: A rotational or twisting effect of a force; (SI unit newton-meter or Nm; imperial unit foot-pound or ft-lb)
angular momentum: A vector quantity describing an object in circular motion; its magnitude is equal to the momentum of the particle, and the direction is perpendicular to the plane of its circular motion.
Let us consider some examples of momentum: the Earth continues to spin at the same rate it has for billions of years; a high-diver who is “rotating” when jumping off the board does not need to make any physical effort to continue rotating, and indeed would be unable to stop rotating before hitting the water. These examples have the hallmarks of a conservation law. Following are further observations to consider:
1. A closed system is involved. Nothing is making an effort to twist the Earth or the high-diver. They are isolated from rotation changing influences (hence the term “closed system”).
2. Something remains unchanged. There appears to be a numerical quantity for measuring rotational motion such that the total amount of that quantity remains constant in a closed system.
3. Something can be transferred back and forth without changing the total amount. A diver rotates faster with arms and legs pulled toward the chest from a fully stretched posture.
The conserved quantity we are investigating is called angular momentum. The symbol for angular momentum is the letter L. Just as linear momentum is conserved when there is no net external forces, angular momentum is constant or conserved when the net torque is zero. We can see this by considering Newton’s 2nd law for rotational motion:
[latex]\vec{\tau} = \frac{\text{d} \vec{\text{L}}}{\text{d} \text{t}}[/latex], where [latex]\tau[/latex] is the torque. For the situation in which the net torque is zero, [latex]\frac{\text{d} \vec{\text{L}}}{\text{d} \text{t}} = 0[/latex].
If the change in angular momentum ΔL is zero, then the angular momentum is constant; therefore,
[latex]\vec{\text{L}} = \text{constant}[/latex] (when net τ=0).
This is an expression for the law of conservation of angular momentum.
Example and Implications
An example of conservation of angular momentum is seen in an ice skater executing a spin, as shown in. The net torque on her is very close to zero, because 1) there is relatively little friction between her skates and the ice, and 2) the friction is exerted very close to the pivot point.
Conservation of Angular Momentum: An ice skater is spinning on the tip of her skate with her arms extended. Her angular momentum is conserved because the net torque on her is negligibly small. In the next image, her rate of spin increases greatly when she pulls in her arms, decreasing her moment of inertia. The work she does to pull in her arms results in an increase in rotational kinetic energy.
(Both F and r are small, and so [latex]\vec{\tau} = \vec{\text{r}} \times \vec{\text{F}}[/latex] is negligibly small. ) Consequently, she can spin for quite some time. She can also increase her rate of spin by pulling in her arms and legs. When she does this, the rotational inertia decreases and the rotation rate increases in order to keep the angular momentum [latex]\text{L} = \text{I} \omega[/latex] constant. (I: rotational inertia, [latex]\omega[/latex]: angular velocity)
Conservation of angular momentum is one of the key conservation laws in physics, along with the conservation laws for energy and (linear) momentum. These laws are applicable even in microscopic domains where quantum mechanics governs; they exist due to inherent symmetries present in nature.
Conservation of Angular Momentum Theory: What it do?
Rotational Collisions
In a closed system, angular momentum is conserved in a similar fashion as linear momentum.
Evaluate the difference in equation variables in rotational versus angular momentum
Angular momentum is defined, mathematically, as L=Iω, or L=rxp. Which is the moment of inertia times the angular velocity, or the radius of the object crossed with the linear momentum.
In a closed system, angular momentum is conserved in all directions after a collision.
Since momentum is conserved, part of the momentum in a collision may become angular momentum as an object starts to spin after a collision.
momentum: (of a body in motion) the product of its mass and velocity.
rotation: The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
During a collision of objects in a closed system, momentum is always conserved. This fact is readily seen in linear motion. When an object of mass m and velocity v collides with another object of mass m2 and velocity v2, the net momentum after the collision, mv1f + mv2f, is the same as the momentum before the collision, mv1i + mv2i.
What if an rotational component of motion is introduced? Is momentum still conserved ?
Bowling ball and pi: When a bowling ball collides with a pin, linear and angular momentum is conserved
Yes. For objects with a rotational component, there exists angular momentum. Angular momentum is defined, mathematically, as L=Iω, or L=rxp. This equation is an analog to the definition of linear momentum as p=mv. Units for linear momentum are kg⋅m/s while units for angular momentum are kg⋅m2/s. As we would expect, an object that has a large moment of inertia I, such as Earth, has a very large angular momentum. An object that has a large angular velocity ω, such as a centrifuge, also has a rather large angular momentum.
So rotating objects that collide in a closed system conserve not only linear momentum p in all directions, but also angular momentum L in all directions.
For example, take the case of an archer who decides to shoot an arrow of mass m1 at a stationary cylinder of mass m2 and radius r, lying on its side. If the archer releases the arrow with a velocity v1i and the arrow hits the cylinder at its radial edge, what’s the final momentum ?
Arrow hitting cyclinde: The arrow hits the edge of the cylinder causing it to roll.
Initially, the cylinder is stationary, so it has no momentum linearly or radially. Once the arrow is released, it has a linear momentum p=mv1i and an angular component relative to the cylinders rotating axis, L=rp=rm1v1i. After the collision, the arrow sticks to the rolling cylinder and the system has a net angular momentum equal to the original angular momentum of the arrow before the collision.
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Award-winning duo Maddie & Tae are drawing praise for their new music “anchored around their stellar vocal pairings and some of the tightest harmonies on Music Row” (Rolling Stone). Maddie & Tae first broke out in 2013 with their brilliant take down of bro-country, “Girl In A Country Song,” which took Country radio by storm, skyrocketing to the top of the charts and quickly going PLATINUM. The duo became only the third female duo in 70 years to top the Country Airplay charts, also earning trophies from the Country Music Academy and Radio Disney Music Awards along with multiple ACM, CMA and CMT Award nominations. Receiving widespread praise from NPR, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Glamour and others, country music’s hottest stars including Dierks Bentley, Lee Brice and Brad Paisley have welcomed Maddie & Tae on the road, with Carrie Underwood recently inviting the duo out as direct support on her 2019 The Cry Pretty Tour 360. On April 10th, Maddie & Tae will release new album, "The Way It Feels". CD packaging includes a free poster offer, valid thru 10/1/20.
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Man Accused of Slapping Neighbor at Meeting
GREENBURGH, N.Y. - A dispute between neighbors over the construction of a proposed home turned physical last week prior to a Greenburgh Zoning Board of Appeals meeting.
Greenburgh police said officers responded to Town Hall February 16 at 8:45 p.m. after receiving a call about a possible assault. Police determined a verbal dispute had taken place between a 58-year-old woman and Micha Marom, 60, which escalated to Marom allegedly slapping the woman across the face.
Both participants were in attendance for a case before the ZBA where Marom is requesting a variance from the town's zoning ordinance to reduce the rear yard from 28 feet to 13 feet in order to legalize the construction of a 2,800-square-foot, two-story round-shaped home at 201 South Healy Ave. at Elizabeth Street in the Edgemont section of town.
Police said they have been called at least 10 times to the site since last year regarding harassment and vandalism complaints between neighbors.
Marom, a resident of Baldwin, N.Y., was charged with harassment in the second degree, a violation. He was arraigned in Greenburgh Town Court and released. He is scheduled to return to court March 16.
The female victim was treated at the scene by Greenburgh Police EMS and did not require any further medical attention.
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Elmsford School Board President Steps Down
Matthew Evans, (center) president of the Elmsford UFSD recently stepped down from his position. Photo Credit: Contributed photo
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ELMSFORD, N.Y. -- After nine years as a member of the Elmsford Union Free School District Board of Education, three of them as president, Matthew R.C. Evans announced that he was stepping down from his role as president.
“When I joined the Board, my intention was to give the children of this community the things that I didn’t have,” said Evans, an Elmsford resident, who is also a by-product of the school system.
Evans, who was elected to the board when he was 19, outlined the many successful initiatives achieved during his board tenure. They include an increased graduation rate at the high school and several collaborations with outside organizations that have proved to be fortuitous for the Elmsford Schools.
“We have given this district a seat at the table,” he added, referring to the Elmsford UFSD increasing participation in policy and implementation issues throughout the state," he said. "“This wasn’t about me, though. It was about all of us working together.”
Mayor Robert Williams, who has a daughter in the ninth grade at Alexander Hamilton Jr./Sr. High School, praised Evans’ capabilities.
“As a board member, he brought in the right people that we needed to give the best education to our students,” he said.
Superintendent Dr. Joseph Ricca also spoke about Evans’ positive contribution to the board.
“Matthew Evans’ fingerprints have been all over the innovation that has taken place in the school district over the past decade,” he said. “We thank you for your leadership, courage and determination and for always being willing to push forward for our children.”
Williams also presented a special proclamation announcing that June 1 would, going forward, be known in the village as “Matthew R.C. Evans Day.”
Joseph Ricca also contributed to this story.
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Sex Offender Convicted Of Raping Teen Reports Move In Yonkers
Donnell Richardson. Photo Credit: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
A registered sex offender convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl has reported a move in Westchester County.
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services issued an alert this week to Westchester residents regarding the residency of 42-year-old Donnell Richardson, who has moved from the Bronx to a residence on McLean Avenue in Yonkers.
The Division of Criminal Justice Services has assigned Richardson as a level two threat, which means he is at "moderate risk of a repeat offense."
According to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, Richardson was convicted of having sexual intercourse and contact with his teenage victim in October 1999 and he was convicted of third-degree rape in December the following year in Yonkers. Richardson was sentenced to a term of two to four years in state prison and is now under the jurisdiction of the Yonkers City Police Department SOR Unit.
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Get to know an organization: Black Warrior Film Festival brings a cultural experience to Tuscaloosa
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Molly Allen
Established in the spring of 2013, the Black Warrior Film Festival unites local and national filmmakers in a cultural experience designed for the entire community to enjoy.
Student filmmakers from the University of Alabama, joined by students from several other universities across the South, entertain audiences every year at the festival. Additionally, featured professional filmmakers attend the Black Warrior Film Festival for screenings, lectures and workshops with the student filmmakers.
“One of our most popular guests was Ava DuVernay, the director of “Selma,” who came to Black Warrior in 2014,” Trent Carlson, executive director of Black Warrior Film Festival, said.
Carlson said students of all majors and passions are welcome to contribute to the annual Black Warrior Film Festival, and it provides students a great opportunity to organize and manage an entire professional film festival.
“While there are clear ways for film students, or for any student who is passionate about making films, to get involved, there are also aspects of the festival that serve as fantastic ways for a student of any major to get experience,” Carlson said.
The Black Warrior Film Festival has publicity, business and outreach teams available for students who are not directly interested in filmmaking.
“The mission of the Black Warrior Film Festival is to provide a cultural experience for student filmmakers and community members alike,” Carson said. “Black Warrior strives to offer student filmmakers across the South the opportunity to experience their films being screened at a film festival. Black Warrior presents a way for student filmmakers to be recognized for their work, as well as a way to interact with industry professionals and network with other filmmakers.”
Current members of Black Warrior Film Festival are very passionate about the organization’s mission and have enjoyed being involved for the past three years.
“We put a lot into this festival, and it is incredibly rewarding to see what we are able to provide student filmmakers throughout the South. Being a part of this organization offers you with incredible experience and does so in a somewhat nontraditional way, which I know our members appreciate,” Carlson said.
The fourth annual Black Warrior Film Festival is scheduled for February 26-27, 2016.
“We’re in the process of planning out the event and we are very excited about what’s to come,” Carlson said.
To get involved and to learn more about the Black Warrior Film Festival, visit http://www.blackwarriorfilmfest.com/ or email blackwarriorfilmfestival@gmail.com.
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“The Invisible Universe” –A Primordial ‘Magnetic Soul’ Pervades the Cosmos (2020 Most Viewed)
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The world’s astronomers are increasingly probing the mystery of where the enormous magnetic fields that permeate our universe come from –from Earth to Mars to the Milky Way to intergalactic voids and beyond to the darkest, most remote regions of the cosmos.
Eerie Implications of Hawking Points –“Corpses of Black Holes from Before the Big Bang” (2020 Most Viewed)
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“If space is truly infinite,” observes Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in At the Edge of Time, “the implications are staggering. Within an infinite expanse of space, it would be hard to see any reason why there would not be an infinite number of galaxies, stars, and planets, and even an infinite number of intelligent or conscious beings, scattered throughout this limitless volume. That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable.”
“The Galaxy Killer”
New research suggests that in massive galaxies, the central black hole –those strange galactic monsters, for whom creation is destruction, death life, chaos order –is like a parasite that ultimately grows and kills off star formation. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, known as “quenching,” a new study concludes that the growth rate of black holes must change as galaxies evolve from one stage to the next, suggesting that most of the black hole growth occurs in the “green valley” when galaxies are beginning to quench.
“Unknown” –Four Never-Before-Seen Circular Objects Detected in Cosmos
Invisible radio signals from the cosmos have revealed previously unknown phenomena from prebiotic molecules in a starburst about 250 million light-years from Earth to the true rotation of Mercury. But the most famous occurred on August 6, 1967, when a squiggly stretch of high-speed recordings occupying less than a quarter-inch of astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s radio-telescope readouts revealed the first sign of something strange — an unknown cosmic mystery.
“Heading Towards Earth” –Strange ‘Red Flag’ Phenomena at Milky Way’s Center
To determine the amount of energy or radiation at the center of the Milky Way, researchers had to peer through a galaxy packed with more than 200 billion stars and harbors dark patches of interstellar dust and gas. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Bob Benjamin—a leading expert on the structure of stars and gas in the Milky Way– was taking a look at two decades’ worth of data when he spotted a scientific red flag —a peculiar shape poking out of the Milky Way’s dark, dusty center rippling with highly-energized ionized hydrogen moving in the direction of Earth.
A Behemoth –“That Brings an End to Time and Space and the Laws of Physics”
A gargantuan black hole, known as J2157, 34 billion times the mass of our sun mass, and about 8,000 times bigger than the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, gorges on nearly the equivalent of one sun every day, according to Dr. Christopher Onken at The Australian National University (ANU) about a monster of the early universe that brings an end to time and space and the laws of physics. If the Milky Way’s black hole wanted to grow to that size, “it would have to swallow two thirds of all the stars in our Galaxy,” he added.
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Insurance commissioner appointment will be closely-watched
by Arielle Levin Becker
When Governor-elect Dan Malloy chooses people to head state agencies, one of the closely watched announcements is likely to be for a once-obscure job–the insurance commissioner.
The current commissioner, Thomas Sullivan, has become increasingly visible in the wake of controversial double-digit health insurance rate increases, and his successor is likely to play a more high-profile role as health care reform rolls out, potentially producing significant changes for one of the state’s key industries.
Critics have called for the job to become more consumer-oriented, with a commissioner more willing to take on the insurance industry. Some have suggested that it become an elected position. But others have cautioned that the job should not be politicized, and say that the commissioner’s dual roles–protecting consumers and ensuring that insurance companies remain solvent–make it inevitable that some decisions won’t be popular.
Malloy’s chief of staff-designee, Timothy F. Bannon, who is leading Malloy’s transition team with Lieutenant Governor-elect Nancy Wyman, said he and Malloy have spoken about a profile for the position, but not a specific person to fill it.
The administration will look to the insurance industry as a source of growth for the state’s economy, Bannon said.
“And in saying that, the underlying premise is that it is certainly possible to grow and prosper without doing anything that is adverse to the interests of consumers,” he said.
Bannon signaled that Malloy might fill the job differently than governors have in the past. Previous commissioners have come from the industry, which Bannon said can cause consumers to lose confidence that the commissioner is watching out for them.
“With that in mind, the best person to go into the job might be someone with a strong business background, but not from the insurance industry,” Bannon said.
Bannon cautioned that he does not have a particular person in mind, and that he’s not sure there is someone who meets those criteria and would be just right for the job.
“I’m not saying that someone from the industry wouldn’t be a good candidate,” he said. “But Dan believes that we need to look at all the positions freshly.”
The federal health care reform law increases the responsibilities of state insurance departments, giving insurers new data reporting requirements and, in some states, giving the departments authority over markets they had not previously regulated.
Cristine Vogel, who is leading the state’s health reform implementation effort as a special advisor to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, said the insurance commissioner position itself will not change significantly under the law. But it is becoming more visible, she said.
“Most people didn’t even know their insurance commissioner before health care reform,” Vogel said.
Sullivan, who is leaving the job to take a position in the private sector, came under intense scrutiny in the past year. Critics called for him to lose the job last month after the department approved a series of rate increases for individual-market plans this fall, including a headline-grabbing 47 percent increase for one Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan that Sullivan and the company attributed largely to the requirements of the health reform law.
One of Sullivan’s critics, Beverley Brakeman, political representative for the United Auto Workers, said the job should be geared more toward consumers.
“You can have an insurance commissioner who is more consumer-oriented and willing to go against the industry a little more,” said Brakeman, who previously served as director of Citizens for Economic Opportunity, the group that called for Sullivan’s ouster.
Brakeman, who serves on the insurance department’s consumer council, was particularly critical of the Anthem rate increases, which she said were approved in a vacuum, with little public oversight.
Brakeman said she hopes the next commissioner can build coalitions and make it easier for consumers to find information from the department. And she hopes the appointee comes from outside the insurance industry.
“We really need an insurance commissioner who’s willing to understand the industry but also willing to push back a little bit,” she said.
Ideally, Brakeman said, the commissioner should be an elected position, although she acknowledged that that was unlikely to happen. As an alternative, she said, the healthcare advocate could be given a larger role to represent consumers.
But George Reider, who served as insurance commissioner during the Rowland administration, said it is critical that the insurance commissioner position remain nonpolitical.
“It’s not a political office,” Reider said. “The biggest mistake would be to politicize the office of the commissioner of insurance.”
In following the job’s dual responsibilities–protecting consumers from potential abuses and making sure insurers have enough money to pay claims–the commissioner might make decisions that are unpopular, Reider said.
“Not all decisions are going to be popular decisions,” Reider said. “If a company can demonstrate that they require a certain premium level in order to maintain their financial strength and it’s reasonable, it’s not taking advantage or allowing for excess profits or anything of that nature, then a commissioner has to make a decision accordingly.”
“Any competent person appointed to that position committed to fulfilling the duties of the office can do a very effective job, but they’re not always going to be agreed with,” he said. “You just know the nature of it is that you’re going to be criticized even if you have made the appropriate decision.”
Reider said it’s important for a commissioner to be able to communicate well and let people understand the factors behind his or her decisions. There’s a risk, he said, of decisions being made to mollify public opinion.
“I do think the danger is that suddenly it’s based on headlines, and that’s not the basis of an insurance department’s decision,” he said. “It has to be based on the facts, and if there’s some disagreement, sometimes you just have to take the heat for that.”
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Israel’s campaign to disrupt the Iranian war machine in Syria continues
The Israeli airstrikes that rocked the Syrian village of Aqrabah, southeast of Damascus, on Saturday night are the latest phase in an ongoing shadow war against Iran that has been described by the Israeli defense establishment as an “active defense campaign.”
The strikes destroyed an Iranian cell active in Syria commanded by Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, which was planning multiple, simultaneous armed drone attacks on northern Israel, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The Quds Force is Iran’s elite overseas operations unit. It has led efforts in recent years to build Iranian bases throughout Syria and turn the country into a new front against Israel. Those efforts have mostly been foiled by preventative Israeli actions, which rely on advanced intelligence-gathering capabilities and precision firepower.
The Quds Force also plays a central role in trafficking large quantities of weapons to Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.
Also on Saturday night, two drones crashed in Hezbollah’s stronghold in Dahiya, southern Beirut. One of the drones exploded, according to media reports, damaging a Hezbollah-owned office. Hezbollah claimed the drones belonged to Israel.
These incidents come days after U.S. officials said Israel was behind an air strike that destroyed an Iranian weapons’ storage facility in Iraq. That facility was reportedly a base run by the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces Shi’ite militia. The base may have contained precision-guided missiles or other weapons that the Iranians stationed in Iraq temporarily, as part of a longer-term plan to shift them to Syria.
Ultimately, all of these recent incidents can be viewed from a single vantage point. That perspective was spelled out by IDF Maj. Gen (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, former national security adviser to the prime minister of Israel and head of the National Security Council from 2011-13.
“We are trying to prevent Iran from building an Iranian war machine in Syria,” Amidror told JNS. “Everything else is a result of this effort.”
Asked whether the latest developments increase the chance of a broader conflict, Amidror said, “whether it leads to war, no one knows, but this must be taken into consideration and [Israel must] continue with the necessary effort.”
‘Designed to explode on impact’
During a conference call with journalists on Sunday, IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus also placed the latest strikes in the larger context.
“The Iranians have tried to attack Israel in February and May in 2018, as well as in January 2019,” said Conricus. “Each time, there is a different ‘excuse’ and ‘reason’ to attack.”
Conricus stated the inherently offensive nature of Iran’s actions and the defensive nature of Israel’s.
“I know that Israel and the IDF are fighting from within Israel to defend our civilians and sovereignty. And I know that the Iranians are, on average, 600 to 1,000 kilometers away from their borders,” he said. “They’re trying to attack Israel. We understand that the Iranians will try to continue to attack. We are ready, and preparing for such operations. … We are prepared for a large amount of different scenarios and have the necessary offensive plans to retaliate.”
Conricus provided further details on the Iranian plan Israel foiled on Saturday night, stating that the Quds Force squad had been under Israeli intelligence monitoring for some time.
Senior Iranian operatives flew into Damascus International Airport with their attack drones, he said, before heading out to a secure compound in Aqrabah and linking up with Shi’ite operatives who were waiting for them.
Additionally, in the village, the operatives formed a highly compartmentalized and secretive squad, and prepared for their mission. They lived inside a closed compound that was under the direct control of the Quds Force and contained living quarters, as well as a storage structure for drones and explosive materials.
“There was a sentry that guarded the facility so that uninvolved civilians wouldn’t wander in,” said Conricus.
The squad’s pattern of operation was “quite similar to what we have seen in other places in the Middle East,” he added, referring to Iranian drone attacks on Saudi Arabia from Yemen as one example.
“We know these are drones with a similar range and technical depth as the drones used by Iranians in [other locations in] the Middle East … they are highly accurate and are designed to explode on impact,” he said.
These drones carried several kilograms of explosives each. “We understand their intention was to fly a number of attack drones towards targets located in northern Israel,” said Conricus.
Last Thursday, the IDF spotted four operatives from the squad in the village of Arneh in southern Syria, near Mount Hermon. The Israeli military understood that the suspects were attempting a drone attack and “took preventative action that led to a temporary thwarting” of the attack, said Conricus.
“They went back, and we understood on Saturday that another attack was imminent, and that is what led to us to attack in Aqrabah, based on intelligence we had available to us,” he added.
Elements within Syria’s Assad regime turned a blind eye to the attack plan while other regime elements actively cooperated with it, according to the IDF, which said that Damascus was “definitely aware of what was happening, allowed it to happen on Syrian soil, and hence it is responsible as well.”
The IDF’s Northern Command is currently at an elevated state of alert, as the military assesses the situation, affirmed Conricus.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Tamir Heyman, commander of the Military Intelligence Directorate, said shortly after the strike in Syria that “tonight, thanks to a substantial intelligence effort, an Iranian attack was thwarted and harm to Israel was prevented. Iran’s proxies attempted in the past few days to launch killer drones at Israeli territory. An intelligence effort exposed the preparations of the force led by Soleimani, in an Iranian structure near Damascus, and made possible the thwarting of the attack.
“The Quds Force is continuing its efforts to destabilize the region. We are continuing our effort to stop the Quds Force’s attempts to harm Israel and her citizens.”
During an interview with the Kan Bet radio station on Sunday, Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister and a member of the Security Cabinet, shed light on what caused Israel to take the unusual step of publicizing this strike.
Stressing that the decision was made with the full approval of the defense establishment, Hanegbi said that inside Iran, a “deep struggle” is underway over the usefulness of Soleimani’s ongoing project to build a war machine in Syria.
“There are forces in Iran that are relatively more realist and who are pleading with [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei, [saying] stop giving him [Soleimani] a free hand to do whatever he wants. There is no chance he will succeed. Israel knows and is one step ahead of us. It destroys all of the things we invest so much money in. Let’s focus on Iran, our economy, and let’s stop this adventure,” said Hanegbi.
Making sure that everyone knows another Soleimani-led plot had been foiled will strengthen such voices, said Hanegbi.
His comments echo remarks made by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, who, speaking on July 2, hours after reported Israeli strikes against Iranian weapons facilities across Syria, said, “I believe that Iran will reach the conclusion that it is just not worth it.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
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Negev Desert hosting Israel's largest solar project to date
Negev Desert hosting Israel’s largest solar project to date
A private Israeli company on Tuesday inaugurated the largest solar project in the country, the Israeli financial daily Globes reported.
Located in the Negev in southern Israel, the Ashalim solar-energy project is the size of a small town and is currently producing enough energy to power an estimated 70,000 households, according to the report.
Shikun & Binui Holdings Ltd. chief shareholder Naty Saidoff announced the start of Ashalim’s commercial operations at a ceremony attended by Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz.
“Since I assumed office, I have used every possible means to increase the scope of renewable energy production, and by doing so, I expect to meet the government goal of 10% by the end of 2020,” Steinitz said.
“The breakthrough in this field enables us, in addition to stopping the use of coal, to significantly promote the 2030 renewability goal,” he added.
Saidoff said, “I am proud to be given the opportunity to build meaningful mega-projects in Israel and abroad, and plan to promote similar projects in the future.”
The 988-acre plant comprises approximately 16,000 parabolic troughs and about half-a-million concave mirrors and converts solar energy into steam that is then used to generate electricity. The Negev Energy Power Station has a unique system for storing thermal energy, based on molten salt, allowing the plant to operate for an extra 4.5 hours a day at full power following sunset.
Negev Energy is a joint venture of Shikun & Binui Energy (50%), the Noy Infrastructure Fund (40%) and the Spanish firm TSK (10%). It won a government tender in 2013 for the planning, design, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of a 121 MW thermal-solar plant for a 25-year period.
Read more: Israel Hayom
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Using DNA Technology, Israeli Researchers Discern New Clues to Piece Together Dead Sea Scrolls
Using DNA technology, Israeli researchers have uncovered new clues about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, providing a new glimpse into Jewish life during the final days of the Second Temple period.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, led by Professor Oded Rechavi of the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Professor Noam Mizrahi of the Department of Biblical Studies—working with colleagues from Sweden’s Uppsala University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Cornell University—have successfully decoded ancient DNA extracted from the animal skins on which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written.
By characterizing the genetic relationships between different scroll fragments, the researchers were able to discern historical connections, including questions over differences in texts found at the caves in Qumran and elsewhere. Containing some of the oldest copies of biblical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls refers to some some 25,000 fragments of leather and papyrus discovered as early as 1947, mostly in the Qumran caves, but also in other sites in the Judean Desert.
Researchers have long been puzzled over whether or not the works found in the Qumran caves only represent that of a radical sect of Judaism, known as the Essenes, or if they were a collection that reflects the broad cultural milieu of Second Temple Judaism.
Read More: JNS
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R&ER - November 2009
November 2, 2009 - 14 miles. Perkins.
November 5, 2009 - Permanent way.
November 7, 2009 - 1020, 1220, 1440. Douglas Ferreira.
November 11, 2009 - 3 miles. Perkins. 4 miles. Bonnie Dundee.
November 13, 2009 - 14 miles. Perkins.
November 14, 2009 - 1020, 1220, 1440. Douglas Ferreira.
November 16, 2009 - Permanent way.
November 27, 2009 - Ravenglass.
Perkins sits with the permanent way train at Miteside, as the p-way gang carries out maintenance on the points at the east end of the loop, 02/11/09.
Perkins at Miteside, 02/11/09.
Perkins sits on p-way duties at Miteside, 02/11/09.
Perkins, looking up the line towards Katie Caddy, with Muncaster Fell on the skyline, 02/11/09.
Side-view of Perkins at Miteside, 02/11/09.
Perkins pauses in Fisherground loop, 02/11/09.
The permanent way train at Irton Road, 05/11/09.
Lady Wakefield at Irton Road, 05/11/09.
Lady Wakefield during a mixed-traffic shunt manoeuver at Ravenglass, 05/11/09.
The rake of four-wheeled wagons at Ravenglass, 05/11/09.
Lady Wakefield with a ballast train at Irton Road, 06/11/09.
A sunny interval at Ravenglass, 07/11/09.
Douglas Ferreira on Dalegarth turntable, 07/11/09.
Douglas Ferreira at a waterlogged Irton Road, 07/11/09.
River Mite arrives at Irton Road, through the floodwaters, 07/11/09.
River Mite gets underway from Irton Road as Douglas Ferreira rolls through the saturated up loop, 07/11/09.
Scafell sits at the head of Miterdale, 09/11/09.
Lady Wakefield sits at Coronation Street, the site of a short section of track renewal, 09/11/09.
The eight length renewal job at Coronation Street, between Murthwaite Halt (2 3/4 miles) and Horsefalls Wood (3 miles), 09/11/09.
Sighting the level of the track prior to shovel-packing the ballast at Coronation Street, 11/11/09.
Shovel-packing at Coronation Street, 11/11/09.
Perkins and a ballast train at Coronation Street, 11/11/09.
Perkins sits at Coronation Street, Horsefalls Wood beyond, 11/11/09.
Perkins looks up the gradient into Horsefalls Wood, looking eastwards, 11/11/09.
The roller-coaster ride towards the 3 milepost at the foot of Horsefalls Wood, 11/11/09.
Whin Rigg and Scafell on the skyline of Miterdale, 11/11/09.
Rather appropriate, on Armistice Day, two RAF Hercules transporter planes flew over our worksite, seen here with Scafell in the background. They were two and a half hours late for our minute's silence though.
Perkins rests between ballast duties, 11/11/09.
Perkins at Coronation Street, 11/11/09.
Perkins shunts Bonnie Dundee at Irton Road. The latter had just returned from the Windmill Farm Railway, 11/11/09.
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Friday, February 14, 2020 | History
1 edition of Urban housing found in the catalog.
Urban housing
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Published 1982 by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture in Cambridge, Mass .
Architecture, Islamic
Series Designing in Islamic cultures -- 2
Contributions Ševčenko, Margaret Bentley, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
LC Classifications NA380 U7 1981
During World War II, the focus of home building was Urban housing book housing for workers who were involved in the war effort. What can cities themselves do? These units were well lighted and ventilated and had a courtyard, which was open to all and well maintained. Of the votes in its favor, only two were from Democrats, Wiener and his co-author—further proof that the housing debate involves some strange bedfellows. Times Square would still have its lights and flickering billboards, but where seedy theaters and sex shops once stood, he would find an urban version of Disneyland teeming with tourists, some of them relaxing in the rocking chairs placed there for their enjoyment. According to the U.
This is especially true when the aesthetic in question is politicized, as in the case of the crisis of housing. A majority of the German public housing experts Urban housing book social democrat or communist sympathies and were forced out of the country. However, the design of homes after the war was driven in part by health considerations, such as providing good ventilation, sun orientation and exposure, potable pressurized water, and at least one private toilet. But city planning as we know it today arose in the late nineteenth century, as a response to the growing chaos of industrial life. The United States committed to a sweeping expansion in spending for public housing with the landmark Housing Act ofand then proceeded to build fewer units than were promised, and dedicated little to maintenance following building.
Working with my research team, I developed new data on the scope and sources of urban inequality, the extent of economic segregation, the key causes and dimensions of gentrification, the cities and neighborhoods where the global super-rich are settling, the Urban housing book posed by the concentration of high-tech startups in the cities, and the alleged dampening of artistic and musical creativity as cities have grown more expensive. During World War II, the focus of home building was on housing for workers who were involved in the war effort. I do think the Millennial arguments for density and affordable housing are winning, but we need to speed up the process. When land needs to lie fallow, they move to more fertile areas.
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These structures began to find their way into what is now known as the urban setting. It is a range of building Urban housing book building Urban housing book exist in cities and towns across the country, and were a fundamental building block in pres neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods were abandoned by the government before they were occupied by new residents.
The urban optimists focus on the stunning revival of cities and the power of urbanization to improve the human condition. Rents were gradually deregulated until debate in the s led to the current rental law of theoretically balancing landlord and tenant relations.
Sealing homes and using untried insulation materials and other energy conservation actions Urban housing book resulted in major and sometimes dangerous buildups of indoor air pollutants. Cities are changing fast. Though Stein supports efforts that would increase housing construction in wealthy areas, he is clear that these policies need to be part of a broader program.
Main articles: Public housing in France and HLM Public housing of the rue Jean Fautrier in the 13th arrondissement of Paris After World Urban housing book IIthe population increased at a rate previously unknown, the rural exodus increased, while war damage had reduced the number of houses in many cities.
Land is purchased with some sort of endowment and then retained for community use. The rise of this winner-take-all urbanism creates a new kind of inequality between cities, with the economic gulf growing wider and wider between the winners and the much broader ranks of other cities that have lost their economic footing as a result of globalization, deindustrialization, and other factors.
The third, much broader, and in many ways more problematic dimension of the New Urban Crisis is the growing inequality, segregation, and sorting that is taking place within virtually every city and metro area, winners and losers alike. Immediately after World War I and during the s, city population growth was outpaced by population growth in the suburbs by a factor of two.
Manufactured housing began to increase in popularity, with mobile home manufacturers becoming some of the most profitable corporations in the United States in the early s. The urban optimists believe that urbanization will ultimately bring economic growth, rising living standards, and a growing middle class to these places, just like it did for the United States, Europe, Japan, and more recently, China.
Electric lighting was installed in Thus, in the development of the town, significant consideration was given to sanitary issues such as window screens, sewage treatment, drainage, and water supplies. Each camp describes important realities of urbanism today—and yet the one-sidedness of their perspectives has prevented us from grasping the full dimensions of the current urban crisis so we can figure our way out of it.
Some cities have relocated slum areas to cheaper real estate on the outskirts of the city, in hopes of providing an alternative to congested informal housing in city centers.
Grimy, dangerous, and violent, New York teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. One of the prime reasons for this change was that these homes were in reality no longer mobile in the true sense.
Such motivations included the use of housing as a recruitment incentive for skilled workers, a method of linking the individual to the company, and a belief that a better home life would make the employees happier and more productive in their jobs. Additionally, 1. A more significant solution would be for the state to intervene where the market fails—that is, to build public housing.
His document expressed once again the argument for housing reform and sanitation.
We need to learn the lessons of the earthquake in Iran, as well Urban housing book the Urban housing book wave in France that killed in excess of 15, people because of the lack of climate control systems in their homes. As urban economies eroded and tax revenues declined, cities became increasingly dependent on the federal government for financial support.
WRI argues that upgrading informal settlements in their existing location, with their participation, is a more effective method than relocation.
According to Hart et al. Seen in this light, the New Urban Crisis is also a crisis of the suburbs, of urbanization itself, and of contemporary capitalism writ large.
Additionally, there are types of architecture whose critiques are tied to specific philosophical and political problems, such as cultures of consumerism, or environmentalism. The originally socialist idea was promoted by some French employers in the 2nd half of the 19th century.
Although unpopular, the tenement house grew in numbers, and, by in New York and Boston, each tenement housed an average of 65 people.The Code of Federal Regulations Title 24 contains the codified Federal laws and regulations that are in effect as of the date of the publication pertaining to Federal housing and urban development programs, including equal opportunity and fair housing; Federal mortgage and mortgage relief programs; neighborhood reinvestment; and Section 8.
We have a variety of properties in the North, South and East areas of Nashville. Our properties range in size from a duplex to a unit complex. We also try to have apartments that will meet just about everyone’s budget.
Below you will see our properties and our apartment rents.
Since Urban Housing Solutions has been developing and managing affordable housing for Nashville’s homeless, low income, and Urban housing book populations.
By both constructing new buildings and transforming aging properties, we are changing the “face of affordable housing” Urban housing book revitalizing depreciated neighborhoods.Get this from a library! Urban housing forms. [Jingmin Zhou; Pdf Colquhoun] -- In this text, the authors examine a wide variety of solutions to the problem of providing affordable, well-designed housing as a vital factor in maintaining the quality of urban living.Urban Design, Planning, Housing and Inf.
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The first comprehensive history of these wide-ranging urban projects, this book reveals how housing in postwar France shaped contemporary urbanity.
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Delta Offshore Energy is paving the way for a new wave of private sector energy investments in Vietnam
Oct 1, 2020 | Press Releases
Hanoi, Vietnam. September 2020 — Ian Nguyen, Managing Director of Delta Offshore Energy which is the lead developer in a world-class consortium to the game-changing 3.2GW LNG-to-power IPP in Bac Lieu Province, Vietnam, was honored to be invited as the first investor to speak in the timely seminar on IPP investments in Vietnam chaired by H.E. Hoang Quoc Vuong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (“MOIT”) cum Deputy Chairman of the National Steering Committee for Power Development in Vietnam and hosted at the headquarters of national utility Vietnam Electricity Group (“EVN”).
Ian Nguyen’s presentation immediately set the theme for the seminar and received a lot of attention by the government officials as well as other industry investors present. Many of the speakers later continued to echo support to Ian’s presentation thus confirming the points raised in his presentation as being fundamental prerequisites for Vietnam to enable and attract more affordable international financing.
H.E. Hoang Quoc Vuong, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade cum Deputy Chairman of the National Steering Committee for Power Development & Ian Nguyen, Managing Director Delta Offshore Energy
During his speech at the event, Mr. Hoang Quoc Vuong, the Vice Minister of Industry and Trade, spoke about Vietnam’s vision of the future. Specifically about how they are taking action to stay “one step ahead of the electricity/power needs of Vietnam” to ensure growth in the country’s socio-economic development for the next decade.
“The electricity industry has taken steps of rapid development and is increasingly modern, basically ensuring supply. enough electricity to serve the socio-economic development needs of the country, the daily life of the people, and contribute to ensuring security and national defense.” —Hoang Quoc Vuong
According to industry numbers, Vietnam’s energy production has increased tenfold from 1990 thru 2019. Electricity demand has grown at an average rate of 10.1% per year since 2010, and conservative estimates place the demand increase at 7.5 to 8 percent per year for the next decade.
This alignment between the state and market creates opportunities for private investors in this country’s energy sector.
Ian Nguyen Managing Director of Delta Offshore Energy
Despite COVID 19, the Government of Vietnam continues to move forward with the development of the Energy Sector. Delta Offshore Energy is pioneering a new approach to developing power generation projects under Vietnam’s investor-friendly Law on Investment shortening the negotiation time frame from 7 – 11 years as seen in previous BOT projects to less than one year as an IPP. Thanks to the support by the Prime Minister of Vietnam to award a fast-track administration for this project of national importance which is paving the way for the future of energy generation in the coming decades. In particular, this project will address energy security for the Mekong Delta which is facing an electricity shortage of 20% as reported by MOIT, and will ensure the socio-economic development of Bac Lieu province.
The project is being implemented by The “A-TEAM” in LNG to Power, a consortium of American and European companies under a unique IPP mandate as the first mover of a Foreign Direct Investment in LNG to Power.
According to Ian Nguyen, “Vietnam has the right ingredients to be successful in attracting international capital. Vietnam is the fastest growing economy amongst key Asian peers. Vietnam is immensely successful in attracting FDI. Vietnam continues to modernize through industrialization and a greater service-oriented economy.”
The 3.2GW LNG-to-power project in Bac Lieu continues to progress at a world record pace. This project is expected to complete its development phase within 12 months from the granting of the Investment Policy Decision (“IPD”) and the Investment Registration Certificate (“IRC”) issuance to start implementation in 2021 including Financial Close.
Despite the COVID pandemic, travel limitations, economic recessions, and volatile financial markets globally, Vietnam and the Bac Lieu LNG-to-Power project continue to defy the odds. Both the country and the project serve as a shining example to the world of successful navigation through this challenging period and showcase there is hope and a brighter future.
Delta Offshore Energy Signs $3 Billion LNG to Power 3.2 GW Power Plant Agreement: Wilbur Ross, Indo Pacific Business Forum 2020 October 29, 2020
DeltaOE presented its consortium partners at the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony for the 3200 MW LNG-to-Power Plant project in Bac Lieu. October 13, 2020
Delta Offshore Energy is paving the way for a new wave of private sector energy investments in Vietnam October 1, 2020
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Rathbun Company
Life in the lumber camps
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1890s, 1900s, industry, men, Rathbun Company, timber
A recent accession to the Archives gives us an insight into what life was like for the men who worked in the lumber shanties which supplied firms like the Rathbun Company with their raw materials.
James R. Hill was born in Tyendinaga in around 1863, the son of Isaac and Lucinda Hill. Isaac died before 1871. The photograph below shows James with his mother and two sisters, Susan (on the left) and Elizabeth Josephine (standing), and Elizabeth’s daughter, Elsie. The picture was taken by Herbert Osborne, a Deseronto photographer who was active in the early 1890s.
The Hill family, c.1892 2015.19 (1)
James married Lucretia Hill on October 14th, 1896 and the couple had two children: Ruth, born in 1898 and Selma, born in 1900. In the 1901 census, James and Lucretia were living next door to Lucinda, Elizabeth and Elsie. Susan had married a Maracle and in 1902 was living in Rochester, New York.
In October 1902 James was working in Collins Inlet, near Manitoulin Island, in a lumber camp. He wrote a letter to his sister, Susan, talking about his life in the camp and his feelings about his distant family members in Deseronto.
Letter from James Hill to Susan Maracle, 2015.19 (13)
Collins Inlet Nov 30th 1902
Camp No. 1
Dear Sister Susan
I must write a few lines to you to-day, its almost six weeks since I have been at this camp. I like this place very much nearly all that are working here are from Deseronto and Reserve, we are getting good board, nice clean Camp. The Weather is fine to-day, it snowed yesterday for a little while, but it turned into rain, I got a letter from home last Friday. I am very glad to hear that Elsie likes the school so well and its also a good thing that the officers all think so much of her. I intend to go and see her before I go home and I must write to her before Christmas. I wrote to Lucretia the second Sunday I was here but she never answered me yet, and perhaps is’nt going to. Charlie Claus is here with me and we are going to stay all winter and drive the river in the Spring if we keep our health, there was about forty Indians here from our Reserve, and about sixteen Chippewa Indians from Manitoulan Island, but most of our Indians have left here for some other Camps. I suppose you see Ruth & Selma some times. If I can draw some money some time before Christmas I will send the children some money for presents, and you try and get their picture together and send it to me I think if I even had their picture I wouldn’t get so lonesom after them some times, tell them I cannot go to see them until Spring. I hope the poor children are both well kiss them both for me. This will be all Good Bye
From Your Brother
James R. Hill
Collins Inlet
Algoma District
It is not clear what happened to James after this. His wife moved to Rochester in 1906 and was working as a servant for the Babcock family in 1910. In 1911 Lucretia married William Charles Holley, with whom she had another three children. She died in Brighton, New York on September 2nd, 1957.
Perhaps the reason this letter survives is because James died young and it was kept as a memento of his life and his affection for his family. It was found in a house in Main Street, where Lucinda Hill, James’s mother died in 1933.
History Talk series: The Development of Deseronto
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, events, industry, maps, military training, people, photographs, poetry, Rathbun Company, World War I
If you missed the history talk on the nineteenth century development of Deseronto this weekend, there’s a chance to catch it again on YouTube:
Due to a technical hitch on the day, the visuals weren’t available, but this version includes the slides!
Made in Deseronto
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1890s, 1970s, businesses, featured item, industry, objects, photographs, Rathbun Company
After the iron we featured a few weeks ago, here are two more examples of Deseronto-made items. These glasses frames were manufactured at the Canada Optical Company’s factory on Main Street in Deseronto, the building which was until recently the Deseronto Fleamarket and which originally contained drying kilns for the Rathbun Company’s lumber business. It is marked number 15 on the detail of the 1895 map below:
According to an article in the Quinte Scanner newspaper of October 4th, 1972 this building had several other uses between these two:
The building which is occupied by Canada Optical at present housed a match factory in the 1920’s, a meat packing plant in the early ’30’s and a cheese factory after that. Canada Optical started operations in 1946; in 1947 an extension was added to the factory, this consisted of an old hanger from the nearby wartime airfield.
At this time the firm was called the Canada Zyl Company, (it is still known by this name to local residents) and was producing four or five different types of spectacle frames in only two colours. They were made of a highly inflammable material and had to be stored in thick walled buildings well away from the main plant.
Here is how the building looked in 1972:
The factory moved from this location in 1996 to a building at the airport on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. It closed down in 2002.
Thanks to Andrea Hinz for the donation of these frames, another piece of Deseronto’s manufacturing past.
100 years ago: Edward Walter Rathbun enlisted
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1910s, Rathbun Company, Rathbun family, veterans, World War I
E. Walter Rathbun, MPP, 1905 (CABHC: 2017-73/1)
Edward Walter Rathbun enlisted on this day in 1915. He was born in Deseronto on December 28th, 1865, the eldest son of Edward Wilkes Rathbun and his first wife, Elizabeth How Burt. After the death of his father in 1903, E. Walter Rathbun took over the running of the Rathbun Company. He was mayor of Deseronto, like his father before him, in 1914 and was also active in provincial and local politics: between 1905 and 1908 E. Walter represented Hastings East in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly.
In the 1901 census the Rathbun household comprised E. Walter, his wife Aileen and his mother-in-law Emma C. C. Blair. Rathbun had married Aileen Blair in Portsmouth, England, in 1893.
Rathbun was active in the local militia, holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel when he enlisted at the age of 49. Belleville’s paper, The Intelligencer, reported his departure in the following way on February 15th, 1915:
Farewell to Colonel Rathbun
At Deseronto, on Saturday night the opera house was filled with an enthusiastic audience of well-wishers to Col. Rathbun and his gallant comrades, who are going to the front with the guns of the 6th Brigade. An address was presented by those associated with him from boyhood, and patriotic music by local talent, led by Mr. Hercher [Herchimer] Aylesworth—a host in himself—stirred all present.
Colonel Ponton, of Belleville, carried the greetings of the Bay of Quinte District and comrades-in-arms west of Deseronto, and congratulated both the gallant Colonel and the Town on having the honor of furnishing a commander of a Brigade, which General Lessard has pronounced one of the best ever inspected in the whole Dominion in organization, spirit and efficiency.
A bountiful supper was served at the close and another of Canada’s soldier sons left for the post of duty.1
He arrived in England in March 1915, when his brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery was transformed into the Canadian Reserve Artillery. Rathbun himself was transferred to the Canadian Forestry Corps when it was established in 19162: presumably as a consequence of his experience in running the Rathbun Company’s lumbering business in Deseronto. The Forestry Corps was established to harness Canadian expertise in the lumber industry to supply the Western Front with the wood it desperately needed. It operated in England, Scotland and France. His service record shows that he was struck off in September 1917 and returned to Canada on the SS Carmania.
E. Walter Rathbun died in Deseronto on September 6, 1940. His wife, Aileen, was living in Scotland at the time with her brother, Arthur Blair, and Rathbun’s body was transported to Toronto for cremation and his ashes were then shipped overseas. There is a memorial to the couple in the cemetery at Nairn in Scotland. This image of it is from the Scottish War Graves Project‘s site. The incription reads:
In memory of Col Edward Walter Rathbun, Royal Canadian Artillery died 6th Sep 1940 and his wife Aileen Blair who died 1944.
1 Our thanks to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County for this information
2 For a history of the Corps in the First World War, see The Canadian Forestry Corps, by C.W. Bird and J.B. Davies, published in 1919.
A Santa’s-eye view of Deseronto
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1920s, featured item, photographs, railways, Rathbun Company
Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-213876
This aerial photograph is a reproduction of an image held at Library and Archives Canada. It is undated, but was probably taken around 1920, judging from the visible buildings. Right at the bottom of the picture is the chimney of the Big Mill, and on the right is the sash and door factory which took up the western side of the bayshore end of Mill Street. The two roads stretching away from the photographer are Green Street and Mill Street, both of which were lined with trees. The Arlington Hotel can be seen on the middle right of the image, with the Canadian National Railway station just in front of it, on the other side of Main Street.
The Archives will be closed on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, but will be open again on January 7th. We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy and peaceful midwinter break!
Why isn’t Mechanic Street straight?
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1910s, 1940s, industry, Rathbun Company
A recent accession from Edward Wright (2014.18) has added considerably to the Archives’ stock of information relating to the match companies which used to exist in the town. Mr Wright is a collector of matchboxes (a phillumenist) and has done a lot of research into the matches made in Deseronto in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Rathbun Match Company was only in operation for a short time between 1915, when this advertisement appeared on the front of the Canadian Grocer, to 1916, when the Town Council minutes note that it ceased operations in June.
Canadian Grocer, August 20th, 1915
The Dominion Match Company seems to have taken over from the Rathbun concern, and it is clear from the Council minutes that the firm was offered tax exemptions for its site in Deseronto. The factory was on the northwest corner of Mechanic Street and Main Street, as shown in this extract from the town’s fire insurance map:
By 1917 the Dominion Match Company was looking to expand. At a Council meeting on July 17th of that year the firm asked:
…the Council to provide for the closing of Quinte Street [the road immediately to the west of the factory] and the diverting and altering of Mechanic Street…and for both portions of said streets to be conveyed to the Dominion Match Company for use in their business and as the enlargement of their premises will necessitate the employing of a great many more hands than they have at present, it will enduce to the prosperity of the town. If the request is granted the company will waive its right to exemption from municipal taxes for the year 1917 to which they are entitled…
The Council approved the request, effectively wiping Quinte Street off the map of Deseronto, and giving Mechanic Street the shape it has today.
The postcard below shows the factory at the height of its operations.
Postcard of the Dominion Match Company, from the collection of R.N. Goodfellow
Mr Wright has a collection of boxes which were manufactured at the Dominion Match Company, including this one of the Dominion Silent Match:
A third firm called the Beacon Match Company began operations in Deseronto in September 1919, but it is not clear where this factory was located. It may have used one of the vacated Rathbun Company sites.
A report in the Deseronto Post from March 17th, 1948 notes that the Chamber of Commerce was seeking a new owner for the Dominion Match building, which had “been vacant for many years”. It was in good condition, as it had been used by the Department of Defence during the Second World War.
Today, the Deseronto Community Recreation Centre occupies the site of the Dominion Match Company’s factory and Mechanic Street still has a kink in it: the only visible evidence of Deseronto’s match-manufacturing history and the only curving road in the whole town.
Whatever happened to Third Street?
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1890s, 1910s, churches, industry, maps, newspapers, railways, Rathbun Company
The north-south streets at the eastern end of Deseronto are numbered, like those in many North American towns. We have First Street, Second Street, Fourth Street and Fifth Street, but Third Street is nowhere to be seen.
Well, that’s actually not quite true: you can see it in the Archives.
Here is a detail of a plan of the town made in about 1895:
You can see Third Street in the middle of the map and there’s also a Sixth Street on the far left. As you can see, Third Street was never a very long road, stretching only from Main Street down to the flour mill on Water Street.
On this day in 1896 (the Victoria Day holiday), most of this side of town went up in flames, destroying docks and many buildings. Newspapers across North America reported on the fire. This clipping is from the May 27th 1896 edition of the Daily Public Ledger of Maysville, Kentucky:
Fire destroyed two-thirds of the east end of the town of Deseronto, Ont., and nearly a hundred families are homeless. The Rathbun Co.’s big flour mill, storehouse and elevator, the shingle and lumber docks, the Roman Catholic church and about one hundred dwelling houses were burned. Most of the houses were occupied by workmen. The total loss will exceed $300,000.
The original Roman Catholic Church of St. Vincent de Paul stood on the north side of Dundas Street in this part of Deseronto. The church had been built in 1883 at a cost of over $4,000. Herbert A. Osborne took this photograph of it in around 1895:
When the church was rebuilt, it was located further west; still on the north side of Dundas Street but away from the more industrial areas of the town. It was completed in November 1896.
Unlike the church, it appears that Third Street was never rebuilt after the fire. By the time the map below was made for the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway in 1912, the road had vanished.
A neat example of history affecting geography!
Come to Deseronto
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1920s, featured item, industry, objects, photographs, Rathbun Company
The Archives has recently received a small collection of materials which once belonged to Cecil Elmer Argue (1888-1974), who was elected Mayor of Deseronto in 1929. Cecil and his wife Elizabeth moved to Belleville, taking a few mementoes of their time in Deseronto with them. This items have now found their way back to the town and we have scanned them and made them available online, along with some supplementary materials from the Archives which also date from 1929.
One of the 1929 objects from the Argues was this pennant:
This was from a major event commemorating the 145th anniversary of the United Empire Loyalists‘ arrival in Canada. The celebration lasted four days, as the pennant shows. One of the additional items we have digitzed is the printed souvenir and programme of the day. This document details the many events held in June of 1929, several of which would have been presided over by Cecil E. Argue in his role as Mayor. The Town called in representatives of higher levels of government to take part in the celebrations: the Premier of Ontario, G. Howard Ferguson, gave a speech, as did the Minister for Labour, Peter Heenan, and the Superintendent-General for Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott.
One of the highlights of the event was a grand Pageant with a cast of over 250 people. The members of the Pageant were recorded for posterity by the Marrison Studio of Kingston. They took a panoramic picture of the Pageant participants:
1929 Loyalist Pageant
[Archivist’s note: it can be challenging to reproduce such large photographs, but modern technology can help. In this case, we scanned the photograph in four sections and then used a free program from Microsoft Research called Image Composite Editor to automatically ‘stitch’ it back together again. You can’t see the joins!]
By 1929, Deseronto was past its industrial peak and the mills and factories of the Rathbun Company era had closed. The last page of the Loyalist Celebrations programme gives a rather beseeching plea to the reader:
We are left with the impression that the Loyalist Celebration event was seen as an opportunity by Mayor Cecil Argue and his fellow town officials to regenerate the declining fortunes of Deseronto. But with the Wall Street Crash of October in that year and the Great Depression which followed it, it seems that no-one was in a position to “Come to Deseronto” and take advantage of its “valuable Manufacturing Sites”. Cecil Argue himself did not stay in Deseronto to complete his term as Mayor: in the same year that he oversaw the Loyalist Celebration, he left the town and moved to Belleville, where he lived for the rest of his days.
Research sheds light on Deseronto light
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1880s, Flickr, photographs, railways, Rathbun Company, vessels
A recent enquiry by a researcher who is studying the region’s lighthouses has revealed some interesting facts about Deseronto’s own lighthouse. Some of its history can be traced through federal government publications, beginning with the report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for 1884 (published in the Sessional Papers for the Dominion of Canada, Volume 6,1885), where the Ontario Lighthouse Division reported that:
Unsurprisingly, it was the Rathbun Company who were contracted to build the lighthouse, for the reassuringly precise estimate of $437.49. Construction of the light had been completed by the time of the Department’s report.
We next hear of the lighthouse in the Departmental report for 1885 (Sessional Papers for the Dominion of Canada, Volume 9,1886).
Here we learn that the Rathbun Company supplied the gas to the light and that the light was constructed on the roof of the freight shed of the Bay of Quinte Railway at the Rathbun Company’s wharf. It’s interesting to see that the Rathbun Company went a little over their budget, spending a total of $455.55.
A search on our Flickr images reveals several photographs which show the light in place on that building.
A notice in the Canada Gazette of September 19th, 1885 announced the light to the maritime community:
This detail of photograph RATHCO-06-48.4 shows how the light would have appeared to the ships approaching it from the Bay:
In the background on the left, you can see the brick head office building of the Rathbun Company, from where its owners could keep a close eye on the activities of the wharf. None of these buildings survive today.
New immigrants’ experiences of Deseronto in 1906
Posted by Amanda Hill under 1900s, About Deseronto, houses, people, railways, Rathbun Company
A glimpse of what life was like in Deseronto in 1906 and 1907 has come to us courtesy of a conversation recorded in 1967. Bill and Jack Duncan were taped as they reminisced about their arrival in Deseronto and Bill’s early experiences of work in Canada. Their father, John Duncan, had been a shoe laster in Leicester, England, but his involvement in the trade union movement meant that it was difficult for him to find work there and the family relied on their oldest son, Bill, for their income (26 shillings a week).
John and his wife Maria decided to move their five surviving children across the ocean to Canada. The family spent less than a year in Deseronto before moving on to Stirling and then Toronto, but Bill and Jack had some strong memories of their time here, including loitering in the Post Office in order to get warm in the winter!
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Isothermal Community College
2017 Undergraduate Tuition
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2017 Average Net Price
After Financial Aid
2016 Student Loan
Default Rate
2017 Enrolled Students
39.9% Full-Time
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In N/A, N/A degrees were awarded across all undergraduate and graduate programs at Isothermal Community College. N/A of these degrees were awarded to women, and N/A awarded men. The majority of degree recipients were N/A (N/A degrees), N/A times N/A then the next closest race/ethnicity group, N/A (N/A degrees).
The median undergraduate tuition at Isothermal Community College is $2,432, which is $N/A N/A the national average for N/A ($N/A).
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After taking grants and loans into account, the average net price for students is $7,768.
In 2017, 52% of undergraduate students received federal grants, while N/A% of undergraduate students received federal loans.
Student Expenses
In 2017, the cost of tuition at Isothermal Community College was $2,432. The cost of tuition at Isothermal Community College is $N/A N/A than the overall (public and private) national average for N/A ($N/A).
This chart compares the tuition costs of Isothermal Community College (in red) with those of other similar universities.
Average Net Price
In 2017 Isothermal Community College had an average net price — the price paid after factoring in grants and loans — of $7,768. Between 2016 and 2017, the average net price of Isothermal Community College grew by 56.1%.
This chart compares the average net price of Isothermal Community College (in red) with that of other similar universities.
Average net price is calculated from full-time beginning undergraduate students who were awarded a grant or scholarship from federal, state or local governments, or the institution.
Other Student Expenses
The average yearly cost of room and board at Isothermal Community College was of $9,000 in 2017. During the same period, the average yearly cost of books and supplies was $1,600. The cost of room and board decreased by 33.6% between 2016 and 2017. The cost of books and supplies increased by 55.9% during the same period.
This chart compares the average student costs at Isothermal Community College (in red) with that of similar universities.
Financial Aid by Income Level
Of Undergraduates Receive Grants
N/A%
Of Undergraduates Receive Federal Loans
52% of undergraduate students at Isothermal Community College received grants or loans in 2017. This represents a decline of 1.89% with respect to 2016, when 53% of undergraduate students received financial aid.
This chart compares the average award discount at Isothermal Community College (in red) with that of other similar universities.
The average award discount is the ratio between the average grant or scholarship value, and the cost, which is the sum of out-of-state tuition, room, board, book, supplies, and other expenses.
Student Loan Default Rate
Cohort default rates only account for borrowers who default in the first three years, and some schools only have a small proportion of borrowers entering repayment. These rates should be interpreted with caution, as they may not be reflective of the entire school population.
2016 Default Rate
Number of Defaults
In 2016 the default rate for borrower's at Isothermal Community College was 40.4%, which represents 135 out of the 334 total borrowers.
A cohort default rate is the percentage of a school's borrowers who enter repayment on certain Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program or William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program loans during a particular federal fiscal year (FY), October 1 to September 30, and default or meet other specified conditions prior to the end of the second following fiscal year.
Isothermal Community College has a total enrollment of 1,929 students. The full-time enrollment at Isothermal Community College is 769 students and the part-time enrollment is 1,160. This means that 39.9% of students enrolled at Isothermal Community College are enrolled full-time.
The enrolled student population at Isothermal Community College, both undergraduate and graduate, is 75.4% White, 8.81% Black or African American, 4.77% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% Two or More Races, 0.881% Asian, 0.311% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.104% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
Students enrolled at Isothermal Community College in full-time Undergraduate programs are majority White Female (42.4%), followed by White Male (30.3%) and Black or African American Female (5.85%). Students enrolled in full-time Graduate programs are majority N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.
Full-Time vs Part-Time Enrollment
Full-Time Enrollment
The total enrollment at Isothermal Community College, both undergraduate and graduate, is 1,929 students. The full-time enrollment at Isothermal Community College is 769 and the part-time enrollment is 1,160. This means that 39.9% of students enrolled at Isothermal Community College are enrolled full-time compared with N/A% at similar N/A.
This chart shows the full-time vs part-time enrollment status at Isothermal Community College (in red) compares to similar universities.
Retention Rate over Time
2017 Retention Rate
Retention rate measures the number of first-time students who began their studies the previous fall and returned to school the following fall. The retention rate for full-time undergraduates at Isothermal Community College was 52%. Compared with the full-time retention rate at similar N/A (N/A%), Isothermal Community College had a retention rate N/A its peers.
This chart shows the retention rate over time at Isothermal Community College (highlighted in red) compares to similar universities.
Enrollment by Race & Ethnicity
Most Common Race or Ethnicity
The enrolled student population at Isothermal Community College is 75.4% White, 8.81% Black or African American, 4.77% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% Two or More Races, 0.881% Asian, 0.311% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.104% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders. This includes both full-time and part-time students as well as graduate and undergraduates. By comparison, enrollment for all N/A is .
Any student who is studying in the United States on a temporary basis is categorized as a "Non-Resident Alien", and the share of those students are shown in the chart below. Additionally, 123 students (6.38%) did not report their race.
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The most common Bachelor's Degree concentration at Isothermal Community College is N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.
The most specialized majors across all degree types at Isothermal Community College, meaning they have significantly more degrees awarded in that concentration than the national average across all institutions, are N/A.
Common Jobs by Major
Most Common Job
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The most specialized majors at Isothermal Community College are N/A.
Highest Paying Jobs by Major
Highest Paying Job
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Common Industries by Major
Most Common Industry
The most common industries for people who hold a degree in one of the 5 most specialized majors at Isothermal Community College are N/A.
Majors Awarded
IPEDS uses the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) standard, so the categories may not match the exact concentrations offered by Isothermal Community College.
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This visualization illustrates the percentage of degree-majors recipients from bachelors degree programs at Isothermal Community College according to their major.
Gender Breakdown for Common Majors
Degrees Awarded to Men
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This chart displays the gender disparity between the top 5 majors at Isothermal Community College by degrees awarded.
Most Common Male Majors
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Most Common Female Majors
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100% Completion Time
In 2017, 3% of students graduating from Isothermal Community College completed their program within 100% "normal time" (i.e. 4 years for a 4-year degree). Comparatively, 10% completed their degrees within 150% of the normal time, and 11% within 200%.
The following chart shows these completion rates over time compared to the average for the N/A Carnegie Classification group.
Graduation rate is defined as the percentage of full-time, first-time students who received a degree or award within a specific percentage of "normal time" to completion for their program.
Graduation Rate by Race and Gender
Showing demographic groups with ≥ 5 graduating students.
Highest Graduation Rate (N/A%)
The student demographic with the highest graduation rate at Isothermal Community College is N/A and N/A (N/A% graduation rate). Across all N/A, Asian Female students have the highest graduation rate (68.1%).
The department of education defines graduation rate as the percentage of full-time, first-time students who received a degree or award within 150% of "normal time" to completion.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) categorizes any student who is studying in the United States on a temporary basis as a "Non-Resident Alien", and the graduation rate of those students is shown in the chart below. Additionally, N/A% of graduates (N/A students) did not report their race.
Race & Ethnicity by Share
Most Common Student Race or Ethnicity
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N/A% of degree recipients (N/A students) did not report their race.
Race & Ethnicity by Gender
Most Common Gender Demographic
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Isothermal Community College has an endowment valued at nearly $2.05M, as of the end of the 2017 fiscal year. The return on its endowment was of $1.33M (64.6%), compared to the N/A% average return ($N/A on $N/A) across all N/A.
In 2017, Isothermal Community College had a total salary expenditure of $22.6M. Isothermal Community College employs 58 No academic ranks, 0 N/A, and 0 N/A. Most academics at Isothermal Community College are Female No academic ranks (32), Male No academic ranks(26), and N/A (0).
The most common positions for non-instructional staff at Isothermal Community College are: Management, with 35 employees, Librarians, Curators, Archivists, and Academic Affairs and Other Education Services, with 27 employees, and Office and Administrative Support with 23 employees.
2017 Endowment
growth from 2016
Isothermal Community College has an endowment valued at about $2.05M, as of the end of the 2017 fiscal year. The endowment of Isothermal Community College grew 16.3% from the previous year. The value of their endowment was $N/A N/A than the median endowment of N/A according to the Carnegie Classification grouping.
This line chart shows how the endowment at Isothermal Community College (in red) compares to that of some similar universities.
The small bar chart below shows the endowment quintiles for all universities in the N/A Carnegie Classification grouping.
Government Grants and Contracts
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$0 - State
$0 - Local
As of 2017, Isothermal Community College received $0 in grants and contracts from the federal government, $0 from state grants and contracts, and $0 from local grants and contracts.
Salary Expenditure
In 2017, Isothermal Community College paid a median of $11.4M in salaries, which represents 50.6% of their overall expenditure ($22.6M) and a 1.26% growth from the previous year. This is compared to a 2.81% decline from 2015 and a 2.05% decline from 2014.
The median for similar N/A is N/A (N/A% of overall expenditures).
Instructional Salaries
In 2017, Isothermal Community College paid a total of $3.18M to 58 employees working as instructors, which represents 27.8% of all salaries paid.
This is compared to a median of $4.65M (31.1%) for similar Associates Colleges.
Occupations by Share
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Most Common Instructor
Most Common Non-Instructional Employee
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In 2017, the most common positions for non-instructional staff at Isothermal Community College were Management with 35 employees; Librarians, Curators, Archivists, and Academic Affairs and Other Education Services with 27 employees; and Office and Administrative Support with 23 employees.
Instructors by Academic Rank and Gender
Most Common Demographic
Female No academic rank
Male No academic rank
In 2017, the most common demographic for instructional staff at Isothermal Community College was Female No academic rank with 32 employees, Male No academic rank with 26 employees, and false with 0 employees.
This chart shows the gender split between each academic rank present at Isothermal Community College.
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#romancescams | Acquired brain injuries increase the risk of falling for fraud – Monash Lens
Back in 2005, Melbourne man Colin*, now 57, was involved in a road accident. “I came off second-best,” he says. He was riding a motorcycle, and the result was a traumatic brain injury.
It would be a long road to recovery. Life would never be quite the same. The last thing he needed was to be scammed online. But that’s what happened.
It was a romance scam, which Monash University researchers now believe may be especially difficult for people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) to spot, deal with, and recover from.
There’s little or no global research being undertaken in the area, despite the consequences of an ABI making a person highly vulnerable to online scams due to impaired memory, inflexibility, disassociation, disinhibition, impulsivity and loneliness.
“Most definitely,” says Colin. “People with ABIs have a multitude of problems associated with their injuries that mean they’re open to being at risk. Many cognitive problems lie under the surface, and as such aren’t addressed until they’re made aware of them.
“Also, many are provided with payouts after their accidents, and if not provided also with someone who can handle their finances for them, it can mean that they squander that funding.”
“In rehabilitation, the most common goal is to have a girlfriend. There’s a natural human need for companionship and friendship and romance. Relationship rates are low and divorce rates are high after a brain injury.”
After his accident, Colin and his wife began to live separately. This, too, is a common outcome, and one of the many factors in leading those with brain injuries toward scammers online.
He was living in supported accommodation, and undertaking a challenging university course. In 2014, after joining dating sites, he began an online relationship with “Doris”. She presented as a Canadian nurse living in Ghana.
The eventual narrative being spun by the scammer – or group of scammers – was that Doris had fallen in love with Colin, that they were in a relationship, and she would move to Australia. She sent him photographs. He was convinced to invest in gold and send her lots of money.
The requests escalated, and he drained his savings. Then Doris said (and even “showed” Colin in a video call) that she was in jail and needed more money for legal fees. He started borrowing money and siphoning from a joint account.
His ex-wife ended up telling the bank and the police – and also Colin’s neuropsychologist, Dr Kate Gould, a Monash University researcher who also works in private practice.
“I flagged with him that we needed a hard conversation about this topic,” says Dr Gould, a research fellow at the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre and Monash’s Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health.
“We had been working together for some years and had a strong working relationship, which is important in addressing hard things together. We were coming from a place of trust.
“I wanted to listen to his perspective on what was happening, so rather than saying, ‘You’ve made a mistake, this is a scam’, it was more about trying to ascertain his level of awareness and try to draw out some sense of whether he was seeing the red flags that others were seeing.”
A two-year collaborative journey
Dr Gould found no previous research to help her work through Colin’s issues. She found plenty of online scams – and romance scams, in particular – but nothing on what she sees as a vulnerability of people with ABIs to scams.
She started the work, with Colin not just a patient or client, but also a collaborator. It was a two-year journey of recovery and insight.
As his awareness of what happened to him evolved, he presented (with Dr Gould) three times to clinicians and consumers at seminars and conferences. With the Turner Institute’s Professor Jennie Ponsford AO and Li-Ve Tasmania, they’re now co-designing an online site called CyberABIlity (with help from a grant by the Transport Accident Commission) specifically to help people with an ABI navigate their own online safety.
They’ve also won an award for clinical innovation from the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.
“Kate’s work is very important,” Colin says. “It raises the knowledge of scams among people with ABIs, as there is very little in the way of published articles that informs clinicians that this can happen.”
The techniques and trigger-points of the romance scam are important here.
Australians paying a high price
Scams overall – romance, fake charities, fake jobs, false billing, sham investments, extortions, get-rich-quick schemes – have cost Australians a staggering $132m this year; the Australian Competition and Consumer Authority’s Scamwatch website shows “dating and romance” scams as the second-highest category.
All or nearly all are online and originate from organised scamming networks in West Africa. This piece in Wired (from two years ago) shows how the same scammers are now diversifying into mining for money from corporations.
But the romance scam is different – it plays on emotions, self-esteem and basic human desires.
“There is something appealing,” says Dr Gould, “and this group is likely to be vulnerable. Seventy-five per cent of brain injury survivors are male, with an average age of 35.
Colin was “groomed” over a period of two years, she says, and the effect on him was serious. “There was a period of depression and a psychiatric inpatient stay,” says Dr Gould.
She was effectively treating him and working with him on novel treatment ideas in real time while he still believed “Doris” was real, and then, after understanding that she wasn’t, he suffered shame, embarrassment and humiliation.
“The scammer engages in such sophisticated grooming, there’s a strong emotional bond that feels real, which is potentially heightened by ABI,” Dr Gould says.
“A person might be socially isolated and online a lot without an awareness of how one can be scammed. Some people with an ABI don’t know what the word ‘scam’ means. With Col it seemed to fill a need in his life. He found it hard to switch it off and turn away.
“He was told he was loved, he was told he was in the centre of a drama around gold. But Col can’t remember a lot of these details. His memory of the scam comes from being reminded of what happened.”
He was in rehabilitation (such as occupational therapy and speech therapy) for the brain injury, but goals fell away during the course of the long-game scam.
“As a team, we all needed to be on board with that,” Dr Gould says. “The scam became all-encompassing. There was no space to explore his other goals. He was studying hard as well. He lost all social activities. Online was the only social connection.”
“The scam became all-encompassing. There was no space to explore his other goals. He was studying hard as well. He lost all social activities. Online was the only social connection.”
Dr Gould says when she surveyed 101 Australian and New Zealand clinicians in the brain injury field about their clients and romance scams, half said they had clients who had fallen victim.
Colin tells Lens: “I was under pressure. I was attempting to study two very difficult subjects while at uni, and wasn’t really aware of what I was doing online.
“Over time I became besotted, and as such, when she requested money I provided it. At the time I was also very depressed, as a close relative had passed. I was also in possession of money provided by the person that had passed, so it wasn’t felt that I really was in ownership of that money.”
Reframing identity a key factor
Dr Gould and Colin tried a series of psychological approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy to challenge the accuracy of his beliefs, addiction treatment to stop him sending money, and roleplaying.
“A big part was reframing his identity,” she says. “Helping him see that he was a victim of a scam, and then support him to become a scam survivor, and see that as a positive identity to have.”
Questions remain for the researchers. Dr Gould says they’re “pioneers” in this field, so there are more questions than answers.
Are people with ABIs more likely to be scammed over longer periods of time? Is it something about particular types of brain damage that lead to this vulnerability?
“Lots of questions like this need to be investigated,” she says.
* Colin’s surname is withheld by request.
The CyberABIlity online site is being developed. Anyone interested in the project can contact Dr Gould at kate.gould@monash.edu
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Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and bass soloist Alexey Tikhomirov in this poignant performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 (Babi Yar). Recorded live in September 2018, the ensemble shines throughout-from passages requiring the sheer sonic force of the first movement to the indelible moments provided by single instruments, reminding the listener that despite the enormity of it's theme, this is, after all, a symphony of individuals. Muti and musicians expertly navigate the intricacies of the five movements, each set to the poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko and expressing themes that were dear to Shostakovich-revolution and war, the individual's role in society, idealism in the face of easy compromise, prejudice and intolerance. Yevtushenko said, "Over people like Shostakovich death has no power. His music will sound as long as humankind exists.... When I wrote 'Babi Yar,' there was no monument there. Now there is a monument."
Label: CSO RESOUND
Artist: Riccardo Muti
1. Symphony No. 13 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar": I. Babi Yar. Adagio (Live)
2. Symphony No. 13 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar": II. Humor. Allegretto (Live)
3. Symphony No. 13 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar": III. In The Store. Adagio (Live)
4. Symphony No. 13 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar": IV. Fears. Largo (Live)
5. Symphony No. 13 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar": V. Career. Allegretto (Live)
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Current Debates > Dáil Debates > 2016
Hare Coursing Regulation (Continued)
Greyhound Industry
Leaders' Questions
Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 912 No. 1
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Deputy Clare Daly: This is another sort of Irish solution to an Irish problem, because the rules belie a reality that is very different. We have an incredible contradiction where, on the one hand, hares are protected under the Wildlife Act but, on the other, under the Animal Health and Welfare Act all animals are protected with the exception of hares to be coursed. This resulted, in 2015, in a situation where 7,000 hares were taken from the wild to be used in live coursing events. We are one of a minority of countries which allow this barbarity to continue. Contrary to the Minister's statements on the conditions hares face, the reports from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which is employed to monitor this situation, tell us that only 17 of the 75 events held in the country last year had National Parks and Wildlife Service officials in attendance and the state of many of the hares requiring assistance, which were released back to the wild distressed, is evident in its reports, which refute the information given to the Minister by Bord na gCon.
Deputy Michael Creed: It is an Irish solution to an Irish problem. I am not sure if Deputy Daly is suggesting that we should have an imported solution to an Irish problem. I highlight that a very high proportion of hares netted for hare coursing were returned successfully to the wild. For example, at the end of the 2014-15 season, 99.3% of hares captured were released in a healthy condition back after coursing. We have moved some distance in respect of where coursing was some years ago in terms of the monitoring and high standards of welfare we apply in terms of both the greyhound and the hare, something to which all parties involved can be paid tribute, including Bord na gCon, the Irish Coursing Club, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and my Department. For that reason, we have now reached a situation where we have a sustainable industry and I do not propose to ban the industry.
Deputy Clare Daly: My solution is to ban coursing outright. I speak as a Deputy who represents the only part of Dublin where this practice still continues. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has a video of this barbarity in Balbriggan, which is in my constituency. It shows agitated hares running up and down within the confines of a coursing field while coursing members shout and scream at them in that enclosure. With regard to the number of hares released back to the wild, many of those hares are in a very distressed state and die afterwards. This has also been stated by officials from the National Parks and Wildlife Service. In Nenagh, for example, some of those released included heavily pregnant hares, which the Minister has told us are supposed to be protected. The rules do not serve to protect the hares in that regard, and how could they when we have greyhounds weighing 60 to 88 lbs and travelling at 43 mph, which can do a hell of a lot of harm, even if they wear a muzzle, to a hare that weighs approximately 6 lbs. The protections are really not worth what is claimed, and this is one of the reasons the Irish hare - a unique race of mountain hare - is now becoming extinct, even though on one hand we say it should be protected.
An Ceann Comhairle: The Minister to conclude, please.
Deputy Michael Creed: I have nothing to add to what I have stated already. We have travelled some distance in respect of the supervision of hare coursing and I do not have any plans to ban it. Equally, however, I would add that all parties involved in hare coursing must operate within the law and the terms of licences issued to them in respect of hare capture and so on.
56. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to intervene in the crisis surrounding Irish greyhounds being transported to China; and if he accepts that he has a specific role to play in prohibiting Irish greyhounds from being transported to countries where they face cruelty and abuse, given his funding of Bord na gCon. [14518/16]
An Ceann Comhairle: Parliamentary Question No. 56 is in the name of Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan and it is being taken by Deputy Clare Daly.
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Deputy Andrew Doyle): All exporters of dogs are required to provide animal health and welfare certification in respect of compliance with identification requirements, fitness for the intended journey, health status and rabies vaccination requirements. Once these animal certification requirements are met, dogs, including greyhounds, may be exported internationally. Exporters are also required to comply with the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1 of 2005 on the protection of animals during transport.
I am aware that a very small number of greyhounds have been exported to Macau in the past two months. I understand that Bord na gCon, which is responsible for the governance, regulation and development of the greyhound industry in the Republic as well as the well-being of greyhounds, has developed a code of practice on the welfare of greyhounds. This sets out specific standards that all individuals engaged in the care and management of registered greyhounds are expected to meet. The code emphasises that owners and keepers must take full responsibility for the physical and social well-being of greyhounds in line with best welfare practice.
Oversight mechanisms in place regarding greyhound exports include inter-agency co-operation, co-operation with fellow members of the International Greyhound Forum and mechanisms relating to intelligence and information which is received from welfare officers during the course of investigations carried out under the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011. Where any breaches of welfare standards are identified under that Act, Bord na gCon takes stringent actions and prosecutions ensue in accordance with the Act.
Officials of my Department have recently met with representatives of Bord na gCon and the welfare members of the International Greyhound Forum - represented by the ISPCA and Dogs Trust here in Ireland - to consider the issues surrounding the export of greyhounds. Bord na gCon advises all owners involved in the export of greyhounds to export only to destinations with high animal welfare standards and that provide the expected levels of greyhound care and management as defined under the code internationally, and I endorse this view. I point out, however, that international trade takes place in a legally complex environment and that national legislation is not legally binding on activities in other states.
Deputy Clare Daly: If the Minister of State has met representatives of the ISPCA, he will know that it, the Irish Blue Cross and Dogs Trust are implacably opposed to the export of greyhounds to China. The Minister of State's response today is contradictory, as were the responses of his predecessors. On the one hand, as the Minister of State has tried to do today, we have been told previously that once the appropriate animal health and welfare certificate requirements are met in transit it does not really matter what happens to them at the end of their journey. However, contradicting that is the fact that in March of this year the Department blocked the Irish Greyhound Board from exporting dogs to China because of animal welfare concerns.
The reality is that the practice, which poses significant danger to the dogs involved, is continuing. The practice has been highlighted internationally by animal welfare organisations and has got quite a lot of global attention. Deputy O'Sullivan's question is seeking the intervention of the Minister of State in this situation and for him to play a role. To be honest, he can, because his predecessor has done it before, and the circumstances mean he should do it in this case, particularly to be in line with the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011. This Act states that anyone who trades, transports, rears or trains a greyhound has to have due regard to a code of practice. It includes situations where they are being traded and transported, so the final destination is key. If they are going to end up at a destination where they are going to be discarded, mauled and end up undoubtedly dead, we should stop that practice.
An Ceann Comhairle: As the time available has elapsed, I ask the Minster of State to correspond with the Deputy on the question.
An Ceann Comhairle: Before proceeding to Leaders' Questions, I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 23(3) and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - resourcing the Cavan-Monaghan drug and alcohol awareness services through increased funding and staffing; (2) Deputy David Cullinane - an urgent and targeted response to the Central Statistics Office's quarterly household survey for the first quarter of 2016, which shows unemployment in the south east at 12.5%; (3) Deputy Marc MacSharry - over-afforestation and the future of traditional farming and rural residential clusters and villages in County Leitrim; (4) Deputy Gerry Adams - the Government's 100 day commitment to producing its action plan on housing; (5) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan - maintenance of jobs and payment of entitlements to workers in the TicToc child care services in County Limerick following the sudden closure of services with 55 children at risk of having no places under the early childhood care and education scheme in September 2016; (6) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - pollution of beaches and bays from raw sewage seepage such as that at Doldrum Bay, Howth, County Dublin; (7) Deputy Seán Haughey - continuation of further education and training courses at the Trinity Adult Resource Group for Education and Training centre in Donaghmede, Dublin 13; (8) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - funding and delivering the Cork Events Centre; (9) Deputy Mary Butler - the need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline what action he will take to support Waterford Airport following the ending of the Waterford-Luton service; (10) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the impact on NAMA in the Republic of Ireland in light of the recent arrests by the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland; (11) Deputy Willie O'Dea - to ask the Minister for Health the efforts that are being made to secure a favourable outcome for the staff of the Central Remedial Clinic who have been affected by the sudden closure of their pension scheme and if he will make a statement on the matter; (12) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the urgent need for the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to direct Tusla to review its application of the 40 year age gap with respect to foster parenting and foster children; (13) Deputy Paul Murphy - the recent reports of over 500,000 patients waiting procedures in hospitals; (14) Deputy John Lahart - to ask the Minister for Health to make a statement regarding tonsillectomy waiting times at Tallaght hospital; (15) Deputy James Browne - the need for the Minister for Health to outline what action will be taken to address the recruitment and retention of psychiatric nursing staff and to avert industrial action by nursing staff concerned about the matter; (16) Deputy Bríd Smith - the issue of soaring costs in bin charges affecting many areas that have seen a 300% increase for some people; and (17) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the pension situation at the CRC.
The matters raised by Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Paul Murphy, Marc MacSharry and Jan O'Sullivan have been selected for discussion.
Deputy Micheál Martin: This morning, I believe, the Cabinet allocated an additional €500 million to the health service, which is extraordinary in itself in so far as it illustrates what we had all been saying at the time of the publication of the health service plan at the beginning of this year and prior to the election, which was that the budget for health was insufficient and represented a massaging of the figures before the general election. I pointed out that the figures were grossly inaccurate. The CEO of the HSE said that the health service was under a death sentence and that the level of money provided in the budget was wholly inadequate and had left a significant shortfall. The then Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, had indicated that there was a sufficiency of funding available to the health service.
If one goes back over the past three to four years, every year at budget time we essentially got false figures on health.
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Douglass-Riverview News and Current Events
This page is the main news and information section of the Douglass High School website. Compared to the National and Metro sections of a standard newspaper, news pertaining to Douglass High Alumni and the Riverview-South Central Community will be listed here, with pictures where available. View older articles by clicking "Older Posts" at the bottom of this page.
Marshall Long Passing
Marshall Allen Long, 63, passed away Sunday, December 28, 2008 at his residence with family by his side.
He was born April 20, 1945 in Church Hill (New Canton).
He lived in Gate City, VA for the past 36 years. A member of Hale's Chapel United Methodist Church and Choir and also a member of the New Beginnings Quartet. He worked for many years with Greyhound Bus Lines.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Blanche and Eldridge Lyons; sister, Cecile Leeper and a nephew, James Leeper, Jr.
Mr. Long is survived by his wife, Sarah (Susie) Long, of the home; six daughters, Pamela Mack, Gate City, VA, Shaunda Mack (Jessee), Kingsport, TN, Kedith Renay Anderson, Kingsport, TN, Carmen and husband, Brian Hurt, Gate City, VA, Yolanda Mack (Sanford), Kingsport, TN and Jonikki and husband, Ron Cope, Gate City, VA; one son, Rodney Mack (La Tonya), Kingsport, TN; thirteen grandchildren, Tylasha Mack, Terrence Mack, D'Andre Mack, Tihlee Anderson, Brandon Mack, LaKeisha Mack, Ava Hurt, Shaniquah Mack, Savana Green, Toni Cope, Jayce Green, Brianna Hodge and Zayne Reed; one great granddaughter, Adrianna Lane; one brother, James W. Leeper, Sr., Church Hill, TN; aunts, Mary Johnson, Jessie Welch, Kingsport, TN; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Gladys and Buster Stacey, Weber City, VA, George and Wanda Turner, Johnson City, TN, Wilma Lewis, Gate City, VA and Walter Turner, St. Charles, MO; special friends, Contrina and Bob Payne, Gate City, VA and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Friday, January 2, 2009 at Gate City Funeral Home and other times at the residence. Services will be at 8 p.m. in the Gene Falin Memorial Chapel of the funeral home with Rev. James Snapp, Pastor Steve Templeton and Rev. Rochelle Maxwell officiating. Music will be provided by the Church Choir, New Beginnings and Janice Sharp.
Graveside services will be conducted Saturday, January 3, 2009, 11 a.m. at New Canton Cemetery, Church Hill, TN (Community of New Canton). The family will meet at 10 a.m. at the funeral home to go in procession to the cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Gordon Wood, Jeff Parkey, Jason Shoemaker, Robert Goff, Troye Anderson and Glenn McGee.
Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Muncey, Sr., Wallace Ross, Sr., Jack Anderson, Offeyette Robinette.
Contributions may be made to Gate City Funeral Home. P.O. Box 427, Gate City, VA 24251 at the request of the family of Mr. Long.
Online guest registry is available at www.gatecityfunerals.com
Gate City Funeral Home is honored to be serving the Long family.
Posted by douglassriverview at 11:48 AM
Mrs. Henrietta Huff Horton Passing
Ms. Henrietta Joyce Huff-Horton of Kingsport went home to be with the Lord on Christmas Day. She was 57 years old.
She was born in Stonega Va., and was the seventh child of Evelyn I. Carter and Charles F. Huff.
She attended Church Hill High School in Church Hill and was retired from Tennessee Eastman Company.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Evelyn Huff; two brothers, Sylvester and Jonathan D. Huff; and a sister Gracie D. Huff.
She leaves to celebrate her homegoing her son, Brian S. Huff; three daughters, Crystal Bogus-White (Robert) Kingsport, Jacquetta Steel, Cleveland Ohio, Cherish Bogus-Fisher, Kingsport; five sisters, Zeffree Price, Cincinnati, Ohio, Reba Austin (Henry), Winston-Salem, N.C., Virginia and Kitty Huff, Kingsport, Sharon White, Columbia S.C.; four brothers, Charles Huff, Orlando, Fla., Harold Huff (Felicia) Winston-Salem, N.C., Mark Huff (Shelia), Kingsport, Sylvester (Don) Huff, Cincinnati, Ohio; 11 grandchildren, Kiowa, Sylvoski, Jasmine, Eve, Ursula, Lil Robie, Quindalyn, Jalin, Jared, Anthony, William; and one great-grandchild, JaNiah. She also leaves a host of nieces, nephews and friends.
Her physical presence will be sorely missed but her spirit will forever live in our hearts.
Calling hours are from 11 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday at the Carter-Trent Funeral Home, 520 Watauga St., Kingsport and also at the home of Crystal D. White at 415 Roller St., Kingsport. A funeral service will be at 12 noon in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Darrell Riley officiating.
Burial will follow funeral services at East Lawn Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Robert White, Mark Huff, Kijuan Huff, Brian Huff, Carl Gerard and Harold Huff.
Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Huff, Carl Gerard, Sr., Henry Austin and Ronnie Carpenter. Flower bearers will be her granddaughters.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the National Kidney Foundation of Tennessee, 4450 Walker Blvd., Suite 2, Knoxville, Tenn. 37917 or Kingsport Diabetes Association, Kingsport, Tenn. Office, P.O. Box 3952, Kingsport, Tenn. 37664.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.cartertrent.com.
Carter-Trent Funeral Home, downtown Kingsport is serving the Horton family.
Posted by douglassriverview at 8:28 AM
"Joy To The World-Togetherness In Riverview": CBS Christmas Day Concert
"Reverend Stokley was pretty good about spotting young people who were not doing something in the church," says Bernice Horton. "He could look at a child and watch them, and he'd know right away what role they needed to play in the church."
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"If you were not contributing, Reverend Stokley would find a place for you, something in the church for you to do. I miss that about him."
Mrs. Horton made that observation, as she waited in the audience for the Central Baptist Singers Alumni to present their annual Christmas Day program at the Central Baptist Church in Kingsport for 2008. This year's theme was "Joy to the World: It's Not About Us, It's About Jesus."
"All of the CBS Singers remember their upbringing," she says, while listening to Christmas music in the santuary. "They've all grown up over the years, growing closer, their voices getting better, and their relationship with the Lord becoming part of their lives."
After the opening Scripture from Minister William Dennis and Prayer from Pastor Patsy Swagerty, the Princesses of God made their Processional into the santuary, to the delight of the audience. A wonderful selection followed from the Joyful Angels proclaiming the show theme "Joy to the World."
The New Vision Youth Kids recited a Christmas cantata, using the Spoken Word to deliver the message of the Birth of Jesus. Director Johnnie Mae Swagerty once again demonstrated the power of the Church in the lives of children, who accept Christ as Lord and Savior.
The CBS Choir also showcased its talents with "You Are Holy, Lord," and "Great is Your Mercy." Then came an inspirational saxaphone selection from Casey McClintock, and a Praise Dance from Lolita Dukes. "It's inspiring to me to see the changes in Gospel Music these days," says Mrs. Horton, herself a veteran of more than 25 years of singing in the Central Baptist Church Senior Choir.
"We didn't have dancers back 25 years ago in church," she says, "but now we do. They allow the children to do interpretive dances like the Bible speaks of, and the music that they're dancing to has changed. It's just good to see a chance, and different interpretations of the Bible."
The musical group Transition also sang a new wave gospel song, that had the audience singing along with the members. It combined a popular song with gospel, with a bit of rap music put in for the young people influence. It was a big hit with the crowd.
"I remember years ago, when Louetta's son Kenneth Springs and his brother sang a song that had been a hit, and they sang it as a gospel. They asked Reverend Stokley if they could do it, and he said yes, without hesitation. They changed "You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," to "Jesus is The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me." Just a beautiful song, and it's still popular. I hear other local groups singing it."
Arron Howard also displayed his talents as a saxaphone player with a gospel rendition, which also displayed the influence of popular music with Christian music.
One of the highlights of the program was the announcement of the first annual Mrs. Pinkie Horton Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is dedicated to our own Mrs. Pinkie Horton, who along with Mrs. Bernice Horton, also sang in the Central Baptist Church Senior Choir, one of the most popular church choirs in East Tennessee's African-American community. The $1,000 dollar scholarship is actually a dual scholarship of $500 dollars for a lucky girl, and $500 dollars for a lucky boy, who send in written essays to qualify for the funds. The winners will be announced during the CBS Gospel Explosion planned for next August.
After the concert, a reception was held in the Central Baptist Fellowship Hall, with delicious food and punch. Especially moving was the birthday cake to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which capped off a wonderful evening of song, dance, inspiration, tribute, and community fellowship.
"These events are always good for the community," says Mrs. Horton. "There are people who don't get out much, but they're here tonight, and we thank Lisa Williamson for that. I'm old school, and she gives the children in the church something to remember, like Bible lessions.. little things you take for granted. "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know, For the Bible Tells Me So." Those kids, when they grow up, they're never going to forget that. Same thing with Johnny Mae Swagerty and the New Vision Kids. They'll study those lessons more, and will be more prepared for the lives ahead of them.
"There'll also come a time when they'll be ready to pass down what they've learned, to the next generation, just as they are, OUR next generation right now," says Mrs. Horton.
"Right now, they're getting the right teaching. Just like Reverend Stokley would have liked."
Posted by douglassriverview at 5:14 PM
Jesus Is The Reason For The Season
With Christmas here, REMEMBER:
Jesus is Better than Santa..
Santa lives at the North Pole.
JESUS is everywhere.
Santa rides in a sleigh..
JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.
Santa comes but once a year..
JESUS is an ever present help.
Santa fills your stockings with goodies..
JESUS supplies all your needs.
Santa comes down your chimney uninvited..
JESUS stands at your door and knocks..
And then enters your heart.
You have to stand in line to see Santa
JESUS is as close as the mention of His name..
Santa lets you sit on his lap..
JESUS lets you rest in His arms.
Santa doesn't know your name, all he can say is:
"Hi little boy or girl, What's your name?"
JESUS knew our name before we did.
Not only does He know our name,
He knows our address too.
He knows our history and future,
And He even knows how many hairs are on our heads.
Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly..
JESUS has a heart full of love.
All Santa can offer is HO HO HO
JESUS offers health, help and hope.
Santa says "You better not cry"
JESUS says "Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.
Santa's little helpers make toys
JESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.
Santa may make you chuckle but JESUS gives you joy that is your strength.
While Santa puts gifts under your tree..
JESUS became our gift and died on the tree.
It's obvious there is really no comparison.
We need to remember WHO Christmas is all about.
We need to put Christ back in Christmas.
Jesus is still the reason for the season.
May the Lord Bless and Watch over you and your loved ones this Christmas 2008..
And may He prosper and bless the work of your hands in the New Year.
Christmas Carolling in Riverview
FROM THE KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS
From left to right: I’shawn Graves, Aurie Wolfe, Asonte Lovelace and Jacob Stout sing Christmas carols with Johnnie Mae Swagerty at a house on Dale Street as they carol with New Vision Youth of the Riverview community Monday evening. The children sang on Dale Street, Maple Street and Brookhaven Manor in their third year singing together during the holiday season.
A resident on Dale Street listens as the group sings in front of her home.
At right, Ayleonna Camp joins in on the Christmas carols.
Ebony Club Starting Back Up!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
All members of the former Ebony Club (1977-2005) are encouraged to join the new social network, "The Kingsport Ebony Club Alumni Association". The site was created by Jeff Faulkerson, a 1986 graduate of Dobyns-Bennett High School. The site will be used assemble a team of volunteers to begin planning for the association's first annual Ebony Club reunion.
Questions or comments about the site should be directed to Jeff at Jfaulk28@nc.rr.com or (919) 604-4585.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE AT LEFT, TO GO TO THE KINGSPORT EBONY CLUB WEBSITE!
Kingsport General Shale Plant Closing for Good
Riverview's next-door neighbor is no more.
The Douglass Alumni website has learned that General Shale, one of Kingsport's first and oldest industries, is closing its plant between Riverview, downtown and Industry Drive.
"We are hearing that General Shale is not going to reopen at the Kingsport site," says Chris McCartt, assistant to the city manager, after checking into the situation for this article. "What the company plans to do with the property, (the city is) not sure at this point. Your observations that the plant seems to be winding down its brick shipments and is apparently dismantling equipment, appears to be true, from what we have been told."
Remember when those dusty brickyard dump trucks used to race up and down Lincoln Street back in the day in Riverview? Just playing along the street, our children took their lives in their hands, because those drivers never slowed down.
One rumor making the rounds is that Eastman Chemical has purchased the General Shale property appears to be false. For this article, we checked with the Sullivan County Tax Assessor's Office, and found that the Shale property, which lists 100 Hill Street, Kingsport as its address, is still owned at this point by General Shale. "We clarified the Shale situation with our contacts at Eastman," says Mr. McCartt, " and they tell us they are not looking to acquire the property at this time. It may be on their radar screen, but nobody knows what General Shale is going to elect to do."
It was only back in March that General Shale announced a layoff of 48 employees and a temporary shutdown of brick manufacturing at the Kingsport plant. In an article in the Kingsport Times-News, Matt Kinser, vice president of marketing and corporate development at the Johnson City headquarters, said at the time "the current state of the economy and the slowdown in the construction industry had gotten the plant to that point."
That was not the first time declining home construction has impacted the Kingsport plant. In 2006, the company laid off about 40 workers and closed its oldest brick kiln because of the downturn in the housing industry.
In the March layoffs and production halt, Kinser also told the newspaper that the company was trying to ship out a record amount of inventory that has been stored on site, and that the company decided to temporarily suspend brick production until the economy improved and sales resume.
At that time, Hilary Weigel wrote a comment to the newspaper on the layoffs. "My dad is one of the 48 employees being laid off," she wrote. "He has been working for General Shale for the past 25 years. This is the first time that he has been laid off since he started working there. Lay offs hit families hard and I understand my family isn't the first to have to go through one. I just think it's a real shame that our economy has fallen into such a slump that lay offs are such a common thing now days. I wish the best of luck to all the families being effected by the lay off at General Shale and hope this situation is just "temporary".
Apparently, the situation is not temporary. It is now permanent. "The property still belongs to General Shale right now," says Mr. McCartt, "but there will no longer be a brick manufacturing operation any longer on that property."
So, now the question is.. what will become of the General Shale property, bordered on the east side by the CSX Railroad and downtown, on the southside by Riverview, on the west side by Industry Drive, the spur railroad and the Holston River, and on the north side by what used to be the Penn-Dixie Cement plant, now part of Domtar? There is at least 100 acres of land, zoned industrial for manufacturing.
"From the city's standpoint, we have always looked at that property as industrial property," says Mr. McCartt, "so if you take it away from that, what would it become.. commercial, mixed use, or something totally different from that? That's something we just don't know yet. I would be hesitant to even speculate what it could be, because it has so many roads it could go down. Time will just have to tell."
Depending upon General Shale decides to do with the property, if it is sold or given to the city of Kingsport, could it ever be rezoned residential, and be developed into an expansion of the Riverview neighborhood?
"The answer to that is.. it's a possibility," says Mr. McCartt, "but then, so is every other speculative idea out there. The property could be anything. (The city of Kingsport) would certainly like to see it developed, and it could very well be an expansion of the residential area once it's cleaned up. It's too early to tell because, again, General Shale has not decided what it wants to do with the property."
"Any kind of development of the Shale property, whether industrial, commercial or residential has one limitation," Mr. McCartt says, "and that's the railroad. The property, as you mention, is landlocked on one side by the railroad, and on the other side by Industry Drive and the river. How do you put something in there, that doesn't have a conflict with the rail line or the river, not to mention Riverview and Domtar? It is an interesting prospect."
"We are always looking at property that comes on the market, should the Shale property become available," says Mr. McCartt. "Our criteria, as always, is: does it benefit the citizens of Kingsport for us to acquire it, because you don't want to just buy every piece of land out there. A good example of that is the old Kingsport Foundry property.. we did not purchase that, and in hindsight, a lot of people felt that perhaps we should have purchased it, given the "gateway to downtown" approach that people put on it. Quebecor is one property that was donated, and so far, that has been a benefit to the citizens. You know Calvin, it varies, and this General Shale situation is so new, so early on, that we cannot even say how quickly or how big of an interest the city would have in acquiring that."
"I do think," says Mr. McCartt, "that it will be a decision that will definitely be on our radar screen. Again, it depends on what General Shale plans to do. We don't have any plans on the table, and can't even speculate on our plans, until Shale makes a decision. We just know that they won't be back as a brick manufacturing operation."
Amber Alert FAKE!
As I suspected..
The Amber Alert below is a fake.. a phoney..
FRAUD.. and a bunch of people fell for it.
I spoke directly to the Davidson County Criminal Justice Center.. if you call the number below listed for David Gleaves, it rings the main number for the Criminal Justice Center.
A spokesman in that office, tells me the Amber Alert about a 4-year-old boy is phony, and they have been getting many calls about it. She apologized that some people have nothing better to do, than to perpetrate a fraud, especially at Christmas. So of course, I called all the other numbers listed.. 2 of them are not valid, one of them the phone is off, and the other I left a message, telling them I'm notifying everybody of the fraud they're running down on people.
Folks, I've said this before.. do not believe everything you get in an email, unless you know the person sending it. The best way for scam artists to get to you, is by email, because for some reason, everybody tends to believe everything they read in them. What makes an email more believable than any other communication?
Scam artists used to knock on your door, you stopped opening it.
Scam artists used to send you stuff in the mail, you started throwing it out.
Scam artists used to call you on the phone; you got Caller I-D.
Scam artists are emailing you..
DON'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY'RE EMAILING YOU.
This particular scam could have ended up COSTING YOU MONEY!
--Calvin
AMBER Alert? Really?
This "Amber Alert" message has been emailed to a bunch of people.. I got it from several Riverview folks:
To: A FRIENDS & FAMILY
Subject: amber alert..please forward
Please be on the lookout for this precious little boy,
The mother of this child is a member of the Victory Church on Brick Church Pike. Please forward…. You never know who knows somebody!!!! !
Please Forward!
Missing 4 year Old Boy -
You never know, who knows whom
Another child missing.
Please forward to everyone you know.
Her family needs your help finding him.
PLEASE HELP US BY FORWARDING THIS EMAIL UNTIL THIS REACHES A WORLD-WIDE AUDIENCE AND JERAMIAH IS RETURNED HOME SAFELY
David Gleaves (father) – 615-862-8269
Princess Ladd (mother) – 615-977-9653
Danyell Renwick (aunt) – 615-554-0213
Margoretta Ladd (aunt) 615-596-0132
Latesia Appleton (aunt) 615-578-5388
GOD FIRST, PEOPLE
If this was your child you would forward it.
HERE ARE THE PROBLEMS I HAVE ABOUT THIS SO-CALLED AMBER ALERT:
First of all, there is NO description of the child, there is NO picture attachment of the child, there is no FULL name given for the child, and the child is NOT listed with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on its Tennessee Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited Children. Proper procedure is to notify police about a missing child, and they will post a picture, description and other information on the TBI website:
http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/Missing_Children/miss_child.htm (copy and paste this link into your browser's address window, to see what I'm talking about). Police will also notify the news media.
Is there some reason why this family has not contacted the police?
Secondly.. in the TO: line.. A Friends and Family? Is that really a misspelling? In my consumer investigative stories, the first thing I have found out about Nigerian scam artists, is that none of them have command of the King's English.
Thirdly.. Brick Church Pike is in Nashville (my aunt lives near there), and there are a bunch of Nashville area code 615 telephone numbers in the notice listed for for you to call, BUT NOT ONE OF THEM IS TO THE METRO NASHVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Fourth.. the "reaching a world-wide audience" thing bothers me. With 4-year-old Caylee Anthony down in Florida, are the cops searching for her in Paris, Bombay or Tokyo? No. They think they found her remains a few blocks from her grandparents' house.
And finally, the clincher.. the tell-tale sign of a scam. This one comes at the end of the notice.. "If this were your child, you would forward it." It sounds to me like somebody is wanting you to send them money, knowing that Christmas is the gullible time of year that suckers will give people money because of that soft spot everybody gets around the holiday.
I am checking into this "amber alert," if that's what it is, because I do not want my people taken for a ride.
DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS THING, UNTIL I HAVE CHECKED IT OUT.
What I find out, you will see it here.
I hesitated to post it at all because of the above red flags, but since it has made the rounds to a lot of good people, I am compelled to find out for your sake, if it is legitimate.
-- Calvin
Kingsport Kitchen of Hope: 'My Heart is Full'
Kingsport, Church Hill students become guardian angels for Kitchen of Hope
‘They really found out about the true meaning of giving for this time of year.’
— Lesley Counts
This story courtesy the Kingsport Times-News, by KEVIN CASTLE
kcastle@timesnews.net
KINGSPORT — Geraldine Swagerty couldn’t stop smiling or laughing Monday afternoon. It could have been because the shelves of her soup kitchen were stocked to overflowing.
And it also could have been because of the generosity of more than 50 students from Kingsport and Church Hill paying a visit to the Kitchen of Hope bringing carloads of supplies and checks that will help to pay for many more meals.
“You walk by that pantry now, and I just see it as a work of God. I’m more at ease now, but I just knew that he wouldn’t forsake us or let us go without. He just brought a lot more angels to do the job,” said Swagerty, who started the soup kitchen in the basement of her Full Gospel Mission Church on Sevier Avenue.
It took three vehicles to bring in the donations from Indian Springs Elementary, said third-grade teacher Leslie Counts, whose class voted to forgo a $5 gift for each student in order to turn that money over to the Kitchen of Hope.
“Well, some of the students were upset that they gave up their gift. But then they saw the donations of food and things coming in, and they told me, ‘Ms. Counts, we have to get more.’ So they got it. They really found out about the true meaning of giving for this time of year,” their teacher said.
The initial project was spread out among the third-grade classes at the school, but Counts said it soon became an effort that the entire school wanted to help in.
“It caught on because other kids saw the fun and the excitement our kids were having bringing in all the supplies,” said Counts, who also presented a check of over $250 to the kitchen Monday.
The girls of the Red Cap Society — a take on the famous Red Hat Society, according to Church Hill Middle School teacher Patricia Johnson — also came to the soup kitchen with holiday cheer in the form of a check for over $200 that was collected by selling homemade Christmas ornaments.
“When other students and teachers found out what the kids were selling it for, they wanted to get as many as possible so the money would go to the kitchen,” said Johnson.
This club at Church Hill Middle School has taken on projects for the past three years to raise money for such groups as the Church Hill Community Chest, Hawkins County Animal Shelter, and raising more than $1,000 that went to a fund that benefited the late Erin Page, a student at Robinson Middle School who passed away earlier this year.
“We do what we can with the little club, but the kids cannot wait to help others. I think it is a great sign for our community’s future that this many kids care about others and will step up and do something,” said Johnson.
Swagerty says her high stress level has been taken down many notches since the beginning of the month, thanks to the kindness of so many.
“This is God’s message working through this shelter. People helping people. That’s what he put us down here to do, and you can tell that people are getting the message,” said Swagerty.
That message may have come through one of the Indian Springs third-graders, who whispered to her mom, “My heart is full,’’ after seeing the food being delivered.
Swagerty couldn’t agree more.
Douglass Alumni Trustee Board Meeting, 12/13/08
After reading of minutes from the last meeting, and their approval, trustees of the Douglass Alumni Association began discussing new businesson the upcoming reunion, various discounts at Meadowview the Douglass Alumni Association might qualify for. That idea is being checked into.
The financial report including various dues that folks have paid for the reunion registration, past due amounts from some members that they were bringing up to date, which confused treasurer Sandy Wilmer. It was decided that, rather than folks just paying money without designating where it's going, they need to keep a list themselves and turn that over to the treasury along with the monies, so that our treasurer will be able to keep a better account of what they want their money to go to.
Several titles were suggested and bounced around, as themes for the upcoming reunion.
"New Beginnings"
"What's Old is New Again"
"Moving Ahead With the Change"
"It's Now or Never"
"The Time for Change is Now"
After sometimes humorous debate, trustees decided on "The Time For Change is Now." Members voted and approved the slogan for Reunion '09.
Trustee Board Member Calvin Sneed told the group about the upcoming Dobbins Center /Douglass School renovation, which begins with the demolition of the historic Douglass Auditorium. Members were told of a plan to have two celebrations, one to be held indoors on January 10, 2009 at 12 Noon, that would be a program of music, speeches, and video presentations that commemorate the school building itself. The other celebration, an outdoor one because the inside of the building would be off-limits at that point, would be just a short program because of the cold, then the construction company chosen by the city would begin demolition. The date for that one would be announced later. Trustee Board Member Peaches Bly questioned why there needed to be a ceremony, since there had already been one for the former Riverview Apartments. Calvin said it would be a good idea to get the community together for the beginning of a significant event in the neighborhood. Peaches asked why there needed to be two ceremonies, and the need was explained that one would be to let the community in the auditorium for what would be the last time, and the other for the actual demolition, because at that point, no one would be allowed inside the building. Alumni President Doug Releford said, since any ceremony would not cost the Alumni Association anything and no one is compelled to attend either event, the Trustee Board would support both ceremonies.
Trustee Board Member Louetta Hall brought by a nice fountain pen that could be embossed with the Douglass High School name, that could be purchased by the Association as gifts to put in the souvenir grab bag that is given to folks who register for the reunion. After discussion, the Trustee Board voted to purchase blue pens to give away free, then sell matching gold pens, since our Douglass School colors are blue and gold.
At the last meeting, trustee board members had tabled a motion for discussion on raising the Alumni membership dues again, until more board members could be present. After discussion, the board decided to leave the increase as passed at the last meeting. Membership dues for two years will be 25 dollars, up from 15 dollars. Those dues are payable at any time, but will be included in the cost of registrating for the upcoming reunion, of which that cost is 100 dollars per person.. total cost: $125.00 per person.
Another all-points-bulletin has been issued for Trustee Board member George Smith, because items involving the Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament need to be discussed and finalized. No one has seen or talked to him, so it's thought that perhaps another golfing enthusiast could be found to spearhead the golf tournament, unless George is located. All golfers are now required to purchase a Reunion shirt, if they hadn't already registered for the Reunion itself, of which a shirt is automatically included. The types of shirts will be discussed at the next meeting.
Board member Peaches Bly had questions about whether the Dobbins/Douglass renovations would affect activities on Field Day, July 4th. Board member Calvin Sneed said that he's gotten no indication from the city, that construction and renovation work mostly likely will not affect activities and programs planned for the Douglass Ballfield.
A committee has also been formed to come up with a really nice Reunion commemorative booklet for the Reunion, with pictures and information.
The meeting adjourned to a pot luck lunch.
NEXT MEETING: Saturday, January 25, 2008. Time and place TBA
Daughters of Dunbar #344 Christmas Dinner
What would Christmas be without the Riverview Elks Lodge's Annual Holiday Dinner?
Folks enjoyed some real good eating this past Saturday, December 13th, courtesy of the Daughters of Dunbar Temple #344. It was good food, along with good fellowship.
"We've been hosting Christmas Dinner at least 20-25 years," says Lonnie Cox, member of the Clinch Mountain Elks Lodge #531 on MLK/Lincoln Street. "We try to do it right around this time every year for folks."
When you think of Christmas dinner, usually you think of ham, turkey and dressing, gravy, sweet potatoes, candied yams, potato salad, greens, green beans and assorted cakes and pies. Diners at the Elks Lodge got that and more, plus only the neighborhood friendliness that prevails all around the Riverview Community.
"We used to give out baskets," said Lonnie, "but we haven't done that in about 5 or 6years. Turnout for the Elks Lodge brothers' Christmas dinner was kinda low, so the Daughters of Dunbar Temple decided to hold one of their own, and the Brothers helped them out. We let 'em come down, everybody welcome to eat in or out."
Another annual tradition is the delivery of Christmas dinners to the sick and shut-in. "We served about 45 or 50 dinners to our folks that couldn't come down to the lodge to eat. They are always welcome to come, but if they can't make it, we'll get a good, hot Christmas dinner to 'em. Our folks come together every year, to make sure everybody is served."
The Christmas tradition continues!
"And to all... a good night."
Kenneth Springs Funeral Services
Mr. Kenneth Springs (Scat) 68, born on February 8, 1940 and departed this life on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center.
Mr. Springs was a retiree from Bristol Compressor in Bristol, VA and a member of New Hope Baptist Church. He was the lead singer for “The Scat Cats” band and a Veteran of the United States Army.
Mr. Springs was preceded in death by his parents’ Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lester and Janie Springs, Davidson, NC; son, Curtis Springs; brother, Carl Springs; two sister, Loretta Davis and Betty Brown.
He is survived by his loving and faithful wife, Mrs. Azarene Springs; six daughters, Vanessa Springs, Atlanta, GA, Tonia Draper, Surgoinsville, TN, Sherika Springs, Bristol, VA, Lamara Young-Butler, Bristol, VA, Santina Young, Bristol, VA and Archenia Shaw, Bristol, VA; five sons, Kenneth Wayne (Kelly) Springs, Sr., Nashville, TN, Kenneth Springs, Jr. Knoxville, TN, Jamie (Whitney)Springs, Kingsport, TN, James Young and Lafonda Young, Bristol, VA;
Eleven granddaughters, eight grandsons; three brother, Terry Springs, Davidson, NC, John (Bettina)Springs, Ocala, FL, and Erving Springs, Atlanta, GA; one sister Barbara Springs, Bristol, TN; a devoted sister-in-law, Rosa (John) Smith; a devoted brother in-law, Harrison (Alice) Cooke Columbus, GA; several nieces and nephews and a host of friends
Funeral Services for Mr. Kenneth Springs will be conducted at 12 noon Friday, December 19, 2008 at the Lee Street Baptist Church, 1 Mary Street, Bristol, VA with Rev. William J. Reid, officiating. Interment will follow at VA National Cemetery, Mnt. Home, TN. The family will receive friends from 11:00 am till the hour of service.
Robert Lee Smith Funeral Arrangements
KINGSPORT — On Dec. 13, 2008, God’s angels came to take Robert Lee Smith home.
He was born to the late Hurd Smith and Alice Whiteside in Rogersville. Also preceding Robert was his wife, Ms. Hallie B. Smith.
He moved to Rochester, N.Y. for a short period of time and later moved to Rogersville.
Robert retired from Holston Defense Company, a divestiture of Eastman Kodak Company, after 25 years of service. Raised on the family’s farm lead to enjoyment of working in his vegetable garden, raising “hogs” (as he would say) working in his yard, and canning fruit and vegetables.
Robert was predeceased by one granddaughter, Hallene Blocker; five brothers, James E. Looney, Clifford E. Looney, Will Looney, Joe Looney and Kenneth Smith; one sister, Lucille Looney; two step-children, Virgil Livingston and Marva Mack.
He leaves to celebrate his life and cherish in loving memory an only child, Mrs. Laura Blocker (JC) of Rochester, N.Y.; one step-daughter, Mrs. Bobbie Jean Allen (Joe) of Rochester; four grandchildren, Cathy Toney, Linda Gaddis (Willie), Robbie Blocker and Jason Blocker, all of Rochester, N.Y.; 18 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Mary Ann Armstrong of Cleveland Ohio; three sisters-in-law, Bessie Looney (Will), Frankie Looney (Joe) and Frankie Smith (Ken); a very close and loving nephew, Mr. Thomas Looney; a special and dear friend, Mr. Clyde Harrison; and a host of other nieces, nephews, family members, step grandchildren and friends.
The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. till the hour of service at Full Gospel Mission Church.
Funeral services will be conducted at the church with Pastor Geraldine Swagerty officiating Thursday at 2 p.m.
The interment will follow at Hawkins County Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Robert Lee Smith and family are in the care of R.A. Clark Funeral Service, Inc. 423-245-4971.
Merry Christmas Riverview-South Central Seniors
'Tis the season to fellowship, and remember friends that age threatens to take away.
The annual Christmas dinner party for the seniors in the Riverview-South Central neighborhood was held this past Saturday, December 6th, at the V.O. Dobbins Sr. Community Center.
Snow and cold weather kept some folks away.. understandable, because that cold gets in your joints and your bones, and it takes a day or two to recover, but for the ones who braved the elements, the dinner party was well worth the trip out.
Never was our old Douglass Gym more festive than for the seniors, who were treated to a dinner of ham, fried chicken, green beans, and apple cobbler, just to name a few items. On tap was also that tangy punchbowl drink, that lended spice to an otherwise wonderful evening.
Our seniors were also treated to door prizes, which left everybody watching and waiting for their lucky number to be called. Even if you didn't win a prize, just the gentle ribbing given to our seniors was comforting.
Everybody was a winner.. beautiful scented candles by Airwick were given out free to visitors, and even in that corner of the gym, there was a wonderful aroma, that just meant "Christmas is in the air."
The New Vision Kids Youth also entertained the seniors, which brought smiles and nods of encouragement. Our seniors always love to see the kids doing something positive. The kids wore their Santa caps and reminded everybody what role the season plays for young ones. But there was also the reminder that Jesus is "the reason for the season," and that they need to always keep Christ in "Christmas."
The annual Christmas dinner party is sponsored by Weed and Seed, the South Central Kingsport Community Development Corporation, and the Kingsport Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
THE KINGSPORT CHRISTMAS TREE, CHURCH CIRCLE DOWNTOWN
Mr. Kermit Boston Passing
MR. KERMIT BOSTON IS THE HUSBAND OF FAYE RUFFIN OF RIVERVIEW-SOUTH CENTRAL KINGSPORT
Kermit H. Boston (1935-2008) Esteemed Figure in the Public Service Community Passes December 7, 2008-Lifelong executive, teacher, and sage to the public service community, Kermit H. Boston, passed away on November 23, 2008.
Boston was mourned by his friends and admirers at the many organizations he was committed to, including KQED Public Media, Grace Cathedral, Sigma Pi Phi and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternities. Boston was a senior partner at BKB Associates, Inc., San Francisco, providing professional development in management leadership and diversity, employee relations, and other areas of corporate education.
From 1991-1999, Boston was Director of Corporate Education, Computer Curriculum Corporations/Simon and Schuster Technology Group, in Sunnyvale, CA. For more than 20 years, Boston held various top management positions with McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, where he became the first African-American Corporate Vice President and General Manager of two revenue divisions.
Boston began his career as a teacher before entering the world of publishing and media. Boston dedicated his life to service and that is reflected in the many organizations where he dedicated his time and support.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grew up in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Germantown, and became a member of their Trustee Board in 1964. He moved on from there to the Riverside Church of New York City, where he became the Chair of the Board of Deacons. When he came to San Francisco, he became a member of Grace Cathedral, where he was a Past Chair of their Board of Trustees and was named Trustee Emeritus.
He was past Chairman of the KQED Board of Directors, and served on the Boards of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the vice president of Lay Community of the Association of Public Televisions Stations, a founder and vice president of the Bay Area Community Development Corporation, the Bishop's representative and board member of the Episcopal Senior Communities, Incorporated.
He was a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and a past president of the San Francisco Graduate Chapter. He was also a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity - the Boulé - and was immediate past sire archon of Beta Upsilon Boulé of S.F. and was elected Regional Sire Elect for the Pacific Region in October, 2007.
Boston's commitment to his community can also be seen by many member organizations and affiliations to whose existence he contributed: Chief Learning Officer for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity University, Past President, San Francisco Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; Past President, Board of Managers, Buchanan Street YMCA-S.F.; Chairman Trustee Board of Grace Cathedral, S.F.; Chair of Elkus Ranch Board, UC Extension; Member, Board of Directors, Black Executives, Exchange Program of the National Urban League; Founding member and Vice President of the Bay Area Community Development Foundation; and a Founding member of The Western Addition Literary Reading & Discussion Group.
Boston's past member organizations and affiliations include: Member, Board of Directors, Literacy Volunteers of New York City and Member and Chairman of Board of Deacons, Riverside Church, New York. Boston earned his BS in Education from Cheyney University, Cheyney, PA and his MS in Administration from University of Pennsylvania. Among Boston's many awards are the James R. Ball Award from the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD); Outstanding Alumni of Cheyney University; Gamma Chi Lambda Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha, "Man of the Year."
Boston is survived by his wife, Barbra Ruffin-Boston; daughter, Kimberly Ketchum of Tucker, GA; grandson Markus Alixander; granddaughter, Alicia Marie; sister, Jane Jordan of Philadelphia, and a host of nieces and nephews. Memorial Services will be held in both San Francisco and Philadelphia.
The San Francisco Memorial Service will take place on Tuesday, December 9 at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street. Acknowledgements from other organizations and Omega Services: Sigma Pi Phi and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternities will begin at 1:30 pm, followed by a Memorial and Service of Thanksgiving, beginning at 3:00. Philadelphia services will be conducted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Germantown, 41 W. Rittenhouse Street Philadelphia, PA 19144.
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Omega Service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations are made in Kermit's name to: Bay Area Community Development Corp, Inc. {Scholarship Fund}, 595 Market St., Suite 2160, San Francisco, CA 94105 or The Boulé Foundation, 50 Hart Plaza, Suite 750 Atlanta, GA 30303.
Holiday Hope: Contributions Help Keep Soup Kitchen Open
‘Now that some good people have given us money to go forward, we’re going to be able to feed people for a good while.’
— Geraldine Swagerty
This Story Courtesy the Kingsport Times-News By KEVIN CASTLE
KINGSPORT — Some generous donations this holiday season will help feed many mouths at a local soup kitchen.
STEVE HUFF AND PASTOR GERALDINE SWAGERTY SHARE A LAUGH AT THE KITCHEN OF HOPE
Photo by Erica Yoon —eyoon@timesnews.net
Because of shrinking donations and supplies, Geraldine Swagerty was facing possibly closing the doors of a facility she and the Full Gospel Mission Church opened in 1999. But Swagerty’s prayers were answered earlier this month.
“It was a blessing, a gift from God,” said Swagerty, referring to several financial gifts sent to the Kitchen of Hope, which serves daily hot meals to the needy.
“It gives you hope to see all these people coming to our aid. People still care about people. I knew they always did, but God has to show you an
example of that to let you see it with
your own eyes.”
She said several contributions were made anonymously, while other donors came right into the kitchen to find her and give her the money, including Steve Huff, whose Kingsport plumbing company has been doing annual repairs at the Kitchen of Hope free of charge.
“We have a jar that we put out in the main office every year, and guys put in a dollar or their spare change every day. Near the end of the year we decide what to do with the money we collected, and this year we thought the Kitchen could use it,” said Huff, who delivered more than $250 to Swagerty earlier this week.
Every extra penny counts in this operation, where Swagerty digs right in with the cooks in the kitchen, as well as acting as her own delivery service for supplies.
“Sometimes I’ll borrow a truck to go over to buy some food and plates over in Johnson City. I don’t have a specific place to go sometimes, just where the bargains are,” said Swagerty.
“Usually, I have to make two or three trips over there in my car. But that has to be done. Otherwise we wouldn’t have any food to cook some days, and goodness knows we have enough mouths to feed, hungry people to feed.”
The Kitchen of Hope has had to undergo several projects in the past 18 months including having new concrete put down to seal cracks and meet health department regulations.
“People are struggling just like we are, and they have little ones to keep fed. They’ve told me they’ve gone without so their kids will have a meal for a day,” said Swagerty.
“Now other people can’t do that because they don’t have the money for one meal. But now that some good people have given us money to go forward, we’re going to be able to feed people for a good while.”
Evergreen of Kingsport owner Henere Valk said they are planning to help the Kitchen of Hope financially by presenting holiday workshops today at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the store at 1413 Riverport Road.
There is a $30 donation per person to participate in the workshops, which will provide each person with a centerpiece or wreath. All of the money collected will go to the Kitchen of Hope.
For more information on the workshops call Evergreen at 245-4769 or visit its Web site at www.egardenplace.com.
Contributions to the Kitchen of Hope can be made to: Full Gospel Mission, c/o Kitchen of Hope; 740 E. Sevier Ave.; Kingsport, Tenn. 37660.
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International Red Cross President and team call on Head of State
Georgetown, GINA, June 27, 2013
High level members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, (IFRC) paid a courtesy visit to President Donald Ramotar at the office of the President today.
President of the IFRC Tadateru Konoe, who is also president of the Japanese Red Cross, and a team of IFRC officials, are on an official two- day visit to Guyana.
President Donald Ramotar meets President of the International Red Cross Tadateru Konoé during a courtesy visit at Office of the President
The team was able to discuss the work of the relief organisation locally and how its efforts can be further enhanced as it seeks to offer more services throughout the Caribbean, the national society’s emergency programmes and issues related to disaster preparedness.
President Donald Ramotar with International Red Cross President Tadateru Konoé (third from left) and team. Head of the local Red Cross Dorothy Fraser is third from right
Konoe’s visit to Guyana is intended to explore ways to deepen the relationship and level of cooperation between the IFRC and the Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS), which is celebrating 65 years of service in Guyana.
President Konoe also met with officials of the Caricom Secretariat for similar discussions.
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222nd Military Police Company-- The Triple Deuce-- Heads out for Qatar Deployment
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Story by: Eric Durr - NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs
Dated: Fri, Feb 22, 2013
HORNELL-- Soldiers of the 222nd Military Police Company stand at attention during their farewell ceremomny at the Armory here on Friday, Feb 22.
“Listen to the walls” Hornell Mayor Shawn Hogan told members of the 222nd Military Police Company as they prepared to depart Hornell’s historic armory for federal duty on Friday, Feb. 22. The walls of the 100-year old armory-covered with plaques and pictures-tell the story of citizen Soldiers leaving the Hornell Armory to fight in the Spanish American War in 1898, World War I in 1917, and World War II in 1940, the mayor said. Now 134 Soldiers of the “Triple Deuce” are adding to this legacy as they leave the armory to serve in Qatar, he added. Hogan, was one of several speakers who honored the Soldiers during their mobilization ceremony. U.S. Representative Tom Reed, R-Corning, joined Major General Patrick Murphy, the Adjutant General; and Col. Jim Pabis, the commander of the 153rd Troop Command; in speaking to the Soldiers and their families. Murphy assured the families that their Soldiers were ready and that their nine-month mission to secure U.S. facilities in the small Persian Gulf state would be a good one. “The soldiers standing here are well-trained and professional,” he emphasized. “This is not necessarily a happy time but it does not have to be a sad time either,” Murphy said. Soldiers join the Army National Guard because they want to deploy and this is an opportunity for these part-time Soldiers to serve, he emphasized. He urged the Soldiers and families to stay connected by phone and e-mail while they were apart. The 222nd Military Police Company is headquartered at the Patriot Way Armory in Rochester and has a detachment at the small armory in Hornell. But the unit decided to conduct its farewell in Hornell because the community reached out to embrace the company, Pabis explained. The local Red Cross stepped up to host the ceremony and everybody wanted to get involved, he said. "This is an historic moment for the entire community and for you," Hornell Mayor Hogan told the troops. "You are the sons and daughters of the City of Hornell. We embrace you and we will be here when you return."
The Fire Chief of Margaretville, a Catskill Mountain town whose residents were aided by 222nd Soldiers following Hurricane Irene in 2011, was also there to wish the Soldiers well. The residents of the small, flooded mountain town have adopted the 222nd Soldiers as their own, he said.
Rosa brought Margaretville Volunteer Fire Department tee-shirts to distribute to all the soldiers.
The 222nd has been filled with qualified National Guard Soldiers from around the state who want to deploy, said Sgt. 1st Class Shane Stevens.
“It’s been a great unit to be in and they know that they can trust our leadership and the leadership will guide them in the right direction and we should have a pretty good deployment," he said.
Major Karl Berg, the commander of the 222nd, said he had many Soldiers with previous deployments with Afghanistan or Iraq to help the newcomers figure out what needs to be done.
It is going to be a good deployment, Berg said.
The unit is conducting post-mobilization training at Camp Shelby, MS prior to deploying.
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Inclusion in Catholic Schools: From Inception to Implementation
Christine Bonfiglio, University of Notre DameFollow
Karen Kroh, ArchDiocese of Kansas City, KansasFollow
Inclusion of students with diverse learning needs, including those with disabilities, in Catholic schools is becoming more prevalent. Despite a long history of the call to serve all learners, Catholic schools have been slow to welcome students who are academically and behaviorally diverse. Meeting the needs of all learners requires understanding the concept of inclusion, removing barriers, and implementing inclusive educational practices. This article defines inclusion and its prevalence in Catholic schools in comparison to national trends in the public domain. Identified barriers to successful inclusive education are identified and described. Additionally, effective practices are outlined and illustrated using a Catholic school example. To this end, the article aims to introduce proven effective practices for successful implementation in the hope that more Catholic schools will embrace this mission and effectively meet the needs of all students.
10.15365/joce.2302122020
Bonfiglio, C., & Kroh, K. (2020). Inclusion in Catholic Schools: From Inception to Implementation. Journal of Catholic Education, 23 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/joce.2302122020
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A touching and unusual tale about a young girl struggling with her illness (M.E.), Rory Stewart’s NFTS short Wild Horses combines some inventive filmmaking with an endearing narrative to create a truly engaging 26-minute film. Speaking to Stewart about his film (originally for Short of the Week), he explained his approach to its aesthetic, and in particular the choice to shoot 4:3:
“It was shot on an Alexa with some very pretty uncoated Cooke lenses I believe, nothing too fancy or exciting. We shot in a 4:3 ratio for a few reasons, firstly it’s a story about people failing to connect and the narrow frame made it easier to keep the frames clear of more than one character at a time (depending on the scene). 4:3 also lends itself to symmetrical compositions very well and since I wanted a feeling of artifice throughout to keep the audience uncertain as to what was real or a dream that was useful. Obviously there is the character aspect, Joan is “trapped” in a world she feels is too small for her.
We edited on Avid, mixed in Protools. I wrote the first draft in about two weeks and tweaked it as we went into pre-production, production and post! From beginning to end it probably took about 9 months or so. In terms of unusual methods… I do a fair amount of improvising with the actors, mostly just adding funnier lines or trying to see if we can push more drama out of the scene somehow by playing around.”
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Obsessed with film, the internet and WordPress, Directors Notes is the place Rob gets to brings all his interests together and really geek out. When not writing for DN he can be found on Short of the Week or Vimeo.
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Posted on February 11, 2020 February 11, 2020 19th Century, Beauty, Georgian Britain, London, Sex, The Regency, Victorian
Everything Old is New Again: Surprisingly “Modern” Fashion Trends of the Victorian Period
Mourning portrait
Looking through Victorian portraits, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all anyone ever wore was black. Mourning had its own trends and traditions—enough of them that we could write another entire article about them—but what about the rest of the time? Surely people didn’t wear black every day.
Black wasn’t even common for menswear before Beau Brummell set the trend that was to last through the next two hundred years (and counting). Famous for his hours-long morning routine as well as his feelings on boot maintenance*, Brummell’s true legacy surrounds us every day. Prior to his championing simple and elegant menswear in dark colors, many men of fashion dressed as ostentatiously as women, wearing bright colors, makeup, wigs, and high heels. Brummell’s influence changed all of that and set the tone for fashion for the rest of the nineteenth century and beyond. All clothing became more conservative, serviceable, and monochrome, right?
Studio portrait
With fashion history, there are two major things that lead to serious misunderstandings: portraits and survival bias. Photography was still rare, and mainly used for special occasions. If you only had one chance to preserve your likeness, you would probably want to present yourself in the best (and most universal way) possible—serious, capable, well-dressed. What people wore in pictures wasn’t necessarily what they liked to wear every day.
Survival bias is a term used to describe the skewed view we get by assuming pieces that have survived to the present day are representative of common sizes, styles, etc. The opposite is true: unless carefully preserved for posterity, most pieces that survived did because they were too small to be of any use to anyone. Clothing was incredibly expensive, and it was often patched until it fell apart, or deconstructed and re-fitted as a hand-me-down for someone else. Finer fabrics and useful shoes would have been worn until they were useless or actually disintegrated, while clothing and shoes too small to wear might have been kept just in case someone else needed them. Very few people could fit into a dress with a twenty-inch waist; it’s worth noting that there are far fewer surviving examples closer to the thirty-inch mark, which is where most women probably fell. Likewise, stranger trends or things that would have fallen out of fashion more quickly may be harder to find because they were rarer to begin with, not to mention less likely to be passed down.
With all that out of the way, today we’re going to be looking at a few nineteenth century fashion trends that feel like they should be too modern for the period. Every generation wants to think they’ve invented something new, but inspiration doesn’t often come out of thin air. Let’s take a look.
Unnaturally Colored Hair: Wig powder in colors like pastel pink, purple, and blue had been popular throughout the eighteenth century, but bright colors didn’t entirely leave when wigs started to go out of fashion. In the beginning of the century, Henry Cope became known as “the Green Man of Brighton” because he powdered his hair green. No one could doubt his devotion to his favorite color—his clothes, apartment, and even his poodle were also green, and he was never seen eating anything other than green fruit and vegetables.
Hot pink: In 1860, two new aniline dyes were developed for clothing: magenta and solferino (like fuchsia). Magenta was so popular that it was referred to as “the queen of colours” and was used to dye dresses, underwear, petticoats, ribbons, bonnets, and stockings. That’s right—the most popular color of the 1860s was neon pink. Black and white photography doesn’t really do it justice.
Unknown woman, 1896. I think we can all agree she is absolutely killing it
Menswear for women: Anne Lister wasn’t the only woman rocking a waistcoat. During the 1860s, traditionally masculine items like coats, jackets, waistcoats, and cravats became popular for women—who wore them tailored properly, of course. Years before Marlene Dietrich wore that tux, Victorian women slayed in top hats and cravats. While the definition of ideal womanhood became more and more constrained, there were always women who pushed boundaries and did exactly as they pleased—and more than you might expect. In the early 1860s, one of the most popular items for women was the Garibaldi jacket – a very masculine military coat in bright red with gold trim. Even when menswear went out of style again, some continued to wear more masculine clothing for their own reasons. While we don’t know for sure how common this was, the fact that menswear for women existed at all indicates that there was demand for it and that many tailors may have been more open-minded than you’d expect. Either way, it’s a good look.
Brightly colored underwear: Around the mid-nineteenth century, elaborate undergarments became a necessity for giving those enormous skirts their fashionable bell shape. Along with crinolines to hold the skirts up, women would wear corsets, petticoats, chemises or chemisettes, and sometimes knickers. Underwear could be as detailed as the dresses that covered it, and it was designed to be seen—even if only in private. To keep it interesting, all of these pieces were often dyed bright colors—especially brilliant red.
Hannah Cullwick wore a chain padlocked around her neck. Here she is in menswear giving exactly zero fucks
Patterned tights: Stockings came in more varieties than just black or beige. They came in plaid, stripes, any solid color imaginable, and some had embroidery or different patterns on them as well.
Fetish gear: In the 1870s, there was a trend for women to wear a scarf tied around their knees or very low around the hips and across the pelvis. These scarves were nicknamed “fig leaves,” and they were worn to attract men with the suggestion that the woman was “tied up at his mercy.”
Less about fashion and more about submission, Victorian housemaid Hannah Cullwick used to wear a chain padlocked around her neck to show her devotion to her lover—and later husband—Arthur Munby. They were involved in a decades-long Dom/sub relationship, and only Munby had the key.
Johanna von Klinkosch in fishnet sleeves
Goth accessories: In 1875, dog collars, chokers, and chains were some of the most popular jewelry trends. Bats, crucifixes, and insects were common motifs for accessories throughout the decade, and daggers that opened into fans were a must-have. Although it’s difficult to find written references to fishnet or fishnet clothing prior to about 1900, here’s an actual photo of Johanna von Klinkosch wearing fishnet sleeves in the 1870s. Madonna, who?
Cosmetics: The idea that no one bathed prior to 1900 is ridiculous. Victorians bathed regularly, and while being fully immersed in water might not have been as common, people would still wash with cloths, water, and a variety of soaps and skincare products. Showers had taken on their modern form by the end of the nineteenth century. Makeup did tend to focus on skincare, but rouge was worn on the lips and cheeks, and lamp black was used as mascara, eyeliner, or to darken the eyebrows. That’s right—eyebrows in the 1800s could be just as on fleek as they are today. Application was subtle, but some products packed more of a punch. Pale, semi-translucent skin was so popular that some—like Virginie Gautreau, John Singer Sargent’s Madame X—dusted themselves with violet powder to neutralize the warmth in their skin and make it appear ghostly white. By the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetics weren’t discussed as vice or virtue, but were seen as a logical part of any lady’s daily beauty regime.
Tattoos: Before the nineteenth century, tattoos in the Western world tended to be something one got on religious pilgrimages, but all of that changed during the Victorian period. Initially more common among sailors, soldiers, and convicts, tattoos grew in popularity across society throughout the nineteenth century and were even instrumental in a high-profile court case. In the 1870s, a man claimed to be Roger Tichborne, the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. The claim was thrown out when it was discovered that the real Tichborne had several tattoos, and the claimant had none.
Tattoos became popular among the elite in the 1880s. The Prince of Wales and his son, Albert Victor, both had them, and they weren’t the only ones. Several members of the aristocracy—both male and female—got them, and from there, the craze only really expanded. A number of professional tattoo artists set up shops during the late nineteenth century, and following the invention of the electric tattooing machine in 1891, the were available to almost anyone. Some tattoos were even permanent makeup—some women preferred to have their eyebrows and rouge tattooed on.
Nipple piercings: In the late 1890s, a woman wrote into Society magazine about the
Chokers and crucifixes were popular in the 1870s and the 1990s
trend for nipple rings, detailing her own experience getting them and reporting that they gave her an “extremely agreeable titillating feeling.” Society wasn’t exactly a serious publication, but this wasn’t the only report of the phenomenon. In the late 1890s, there was a trend for women—usually wealthy women because of the prohibitive cost of the jewelry—to get nipple piercings. Many had to travel to Paris to do it, but one Bond Street jeweler reported that he had pierced the nipples of no fewer than forty ladies and young women. They wore rings or studs of gold, with or without jewels, and often connected the piercings with a chain. One actress at the Gaiety Theatre was said to wear a chain of pearls connecting hers with a bow at each end. The trend was so far-reaching that near the end of the century, a New York physician published a brochure warning young American women off of them as they would encourage “unhealthy sexuality.”
This list is by no means exhaustive, and we’ll probably add to it at a later date. History is full of surprises if you’re paying attention. Next time you hear someone praise a portrait of some dour-looking Victorian lady, just remember—know in your heart—that it’s entirely possible she’s got red underwear and at least one tattoo.
Alker, Zoe and Shoemaker, Robert. How Tattoos Became Fashionable in Victorian England. The Conversation.
Blanch, Lesley, ed. Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs.
Bloch, Iwan. Sexual Life in England, Past and Present.
Cunnington, C. Willett. English Women’s clothing in the Nineteenth Century.
Murden, Sarah. The Green Man of Brighton – Henry Cope. All Things Georgian.
Pointer, Sally. The Artifice of Beauty.
Stanley, Liz (ed). The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant.
*they should be polished with champagne, because of course
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9 thoughts on “Everything Old is New Again: Surprisingly “Modern” Fashion Trends of the Victorian Period”
fascinating!!! I knew about some of these. Id love if you expanded on this. for example, you mentioned women’s nipple piercings…but dont go into male piercings… say ‘The Prince Albert!’. is it true… or just urban legend?
Moira Hawthorne Copeland , February 11, 2020 at 11:45 pm
Thanks, Moira! I’ll see what I can find about that… 😉
authorjessicacale , February 12, 2020 at 2:02 am
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in Demo Driver 8, Flash Games, Gaming, Single-Player Games
Demo Driver 8: Hammerfight (#308)
Spin round for what?
My cats have a pretty standard routine at this point that passes for the two of them fighting, and it’s kind of hilarious. They’ll both be perched on their hind legs glaring at one another, but neither one of them wants to actually hurt the other, just sort of whap the other around. The result is that for a couple moments they look as if they’re just going to glare or pounce, then one of them smacks the other without claws, and then the whole thing devolves into kitty paw-slaps and yowls. A confused mess of angry fur and smacking.
Hammerfight reminds me a lot of that. Not in the sense of adorable cats, but in the idea that it’s a confusing mess of a slap-fight. It’s got a fascinating and engaging premise, totally, but it’s an idea that never does a good job developing beyond that, and interesting aesthetics and concepts don’t make for a good game.
How is it that all of the preview screenshots look more interesting than the actual gameplay? Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
The basics of Hammerfight are kind of obvious from screenshots. You play a helicopter house with a dangling weapon. Your goal is to use a physics engine to smack other helicopter houses whilst avoiding their dangling weapon. Do enough damage to the other folks and you win. Your controls are almost entirely limited to the mouse, thereby giving rise to the whole “physics” part of the gameplay.
In other words, you don’t press a button to attack. Swing around and position your weapon properly and you can have you enemy fly right into it for massive damage. Bounce your opponent off the walls for added damage. The weapons work differently depending on which one you have, too. A ball and chain behaves differently from a hammer, which behaves differently from a long blade, and so forth. All straightforward enough, yes?
That’s in theory, at least. In practice, it comes down to a series of confused mouse twitches.
Part of the problem is that swinging the mouse around madly in hopes of achieving your goals is not a good control method. I’m not talking about using it to aim, I’m talking about swinging it around in circles so that your weapon gets up enough speed to actually do damage. By itself, it could lead to an interesting control scheme, but at the start it mostly just feels weird and unresponsive. It’s also awkward as hell to couple your every movement with attack and defense at the same time. Interesting control scheme, fine, but interesting is not the same as good.
This is not helped in the slightest by the fact that the game’s UI is utterly terrible, and figuring out what is going on during a given fight is an exercise in frustration. Enemies will frequently swing out of the viewable arena while still shooting at you, coming back like a wrecking ball to smash you against the rocks while you have no such options. Visually distinguishing between your unit and that of your enemies can be an exercise in frustration, too.
Hell, half of the challenge offered is the simple fact that the computer doesn’t have the same control scheme which you have to wrestle with. When your chief selling point in difficulty is that you’re having a hard time controlling the actual game, it may be time to send it back to design, because it’s not done yet.
“I’m looking for a hammer.”
“All right, sir, how can I help you?”
“Show me where to find the hammers.”
“Well, what project are you working on?”
“Finding a hammer.”
“What are you going to do with the hammer, though?”
“Hammer things.”
What happens, in practice, is that instead of providing you with an intricate airborne dance of death, the game quickly devolves into two helicopters ramming about one another with a combat style I can only describe as “crazy cartwheels.” AI housecopters seem to be aggressive in the extreme right from the start, which means that instead of having a smooth curve where you adapt to a control scheme that doesn’t come across as intuitive, you start learning how to flail madly and do your best to set up a zone of safety around yourself by swinging in circles and not moving much. It doesn’t help that your opponents have upgrades from the start which you do not yet have access to, because we wouldn’t want to allow the player to actually play around or feel like they have half a moment to figure out how to control this stupid game, would we?
The sad part is that I want to like this game, because its look is absolutely amazing. It’s a steampunk game with vague Arabic and Indian influences, and in an industry that can’t seem to break out of two or three stock settings it’s like a breath of hot, fresh air. Not to mention the fact that I’m a sucker for games that allow me to customize my own flying machine, because… well, do I need to go into detail on that one?
But there’s too much you’re being asked to do right from the start, a control scheme that would seem more at home in a Flash game than in a commercial product which expects you to pay money, and a UI that actively works against your desperate need for information. There are even fundamental mistakes, stuff that seems like it would be a no-brainer. Enemies can start attacking you the second the narrative ends, but there’s no warning when a cutscene will end, meaning you’ll often find yourself sitting there while your opponents hurtle toward you at Mach 1.
You don’t want to know how long it took me to find my own health bar. Which is tucked in a corner and makes it very hard to tell how well you’re doing. Not that the rest of the game makes that easier; you’re kind of swinging and hoping that a hit connects with the force you want.
I realize I’ve had a few weeks of negative demos, and I don’t want to cap off July with a third game that’s just plain bleh. But, well, I can’t fix a game I didn’t make, can I? Hammerfight seems to have obtained most of its notice via its inclusion in one of the Humble Indie Bundles, and I think that’s kind of a fair last hurrah. It’s a great concept and a great look married to a game that just isn’t worth the time to learn how to play.
Also, I’d like to note I didn’t make the obvious joke about this game from start to finish. Go me. (You can guess it if you think about something long and floppy.)
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Last month we traveled to Honduras for the dedication of the well in Mira Flores. Since we first began our mission work, one of our greatest goals has been to bring clean water to people without access to life’s basic necessity.
It has been an incredible learning process for us as we have lived beside people who spend hours of their days walking with containers, to stand in long lines, waiting at spigots for the water to slowly drip.
The more we learned, the harder it became. Unlike our neighbors, we have read the reports at the local health center which states the “potable” water is filled with e. coli and “not fit for human consumption.”
We witnessed the devastating effects of drinking contaminated water including malnutrition, vomiting, diarrhea, parasites and even death. We tried to educate the community to kill the bacteria by chlorinating or boiling the water only to learn they couldn’t afford chlorine, wood or electricity. And our inner struggle would continue of how unjust it was that we could return to our home which is always stocked with a five gallon jug of purified water.
We have spent years meeting with community leaders, town officials and experts within country and the U.S., and put many of their recommendations into practice. Progress would be made and then another obstacle and set back would occur. We’d struggle with cultural differences and expectations and question ourselves if this project was realistic. Just when we thought we had exhausted all efforts, our eyes were opened to a new opportunity which seemed obtainable.
Last November we met with the folks in the barrio of Mira Flores which had no access to water. At that time, we asked the community if they would be interested, and willing to be involved, in constructing a well. We had the opportunity to see people step forward and assume leadership roles so that their neighborhood could seek independence and legally form their own “Patranato” (governing body) Board.
We were fortunate to contract an engineer with 40 years of experience who kept us informed and involved with every step from selecting the site, deeding the land, obtaining permits, working with the electric company, constructing the platform for the holding tank and digging the ditches for the pipes.
We traveled to Honduras in February and June so we could be directly involved and our presence insured the community that this project was real.
In September, we were invited guests to the dedication of the well. The community took pride in putting on a full affair with dignitaries invited, a mariachi band hired, refreshments served, and a ribbon cutting and ceremonial plaque displayed. After an opening prayer and the church choir performing, the history of Mira Flores’ development was read. This was followed by the Honduran national anthem. As we sat looking out to the crowd, tears welled in our eyes. It was more than just a dream come true.
The people had come to express their appreciation to us, and the people of Pilgrim Church. We looked back at them with the greatest sense of awe knowing the commitment, determination and grueling work they willingly offered to make this happen. They truly valued the importance of clean water and knew their health (and their children’s) would significantly improve, and generations would benefit. Our lives have been so enriched by knowing people who face insurmountable obstacles on a daily basis with such faith, resiliency and gratitude. How true the words are “it is in giving, you receive”…we have received the greatest gift from our work in Honduras, our “purpose in life.”
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Governments consult with big tech over coronavirus pandemic
The White House has hosted a meeting with representatives from the world’s largest tech companies to discuss the coronavirus outbreak, while Boris Johnson has called a meeting of tech representatives in Downing Street.
President Donald Trump has been criticised for making sometimes false, contradictory and garbled statements about the coronavirus outbreak, including appearing to claim that US cases were falling to zero. Trump and his administration are under increasing pressure to take decisive and evidence-based action to slow the spread of the virus in the US.
Among other actions, such as banning most travel to the US from the EU, the President has consulted with tech companies about how to manage the outbreak. The White House Office of Science and Technology meeting was led by Chief Technology Officer of the US Michael Kratsios. It was largely conducted via conference call, with attendees including representatives from Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Cisc and Twitter.
Kratsios asked the companies to coordinate their efforts to remove disinformation and other harmful content related to the coronavirus pandemic. Since the outbreak began at the end of 2019, disinformation has grown around it, including dangerous 'health advice' and conspiracy theories with the potential to aggravate racism.
The Trump administration also sought help from the companies on matters such as managing research. It plans to release a database related to the virus and is requesting that the companies assist medical researchers in analysing the data with the tools at their disposal. A source told Politico that the administration also asked the companies to “provide the government with any data that can help the government track and manage the spreading virus”. However, a spokesperson for the US Office of Science and Technology Policy denies that such a request was made.
The White House also called on the tech companies to help businesses, schools and other institutions to transition temporarily to remote work and education wherever possible.
“Cutting-edge technology companies and major online platforms will play a critical role in this all-hands-on-deck effort,” said Kratsios in a statement after the meeting. “Today’s meeting outlined an initial path forward and we intend to continue this important conversation.”
Governments and other authorities around the world have been consulting with tech companies over how to manage the outbreak, particularly with regards to preventing the spread of disinformation online. Facebook has announced that it will be providing the WHO with effectively unlimited free advertising to ensure that its users are exposed to evidence-based, authoritative information about the virus.
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Sports in the New York metropolitan area
Iconic Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, home venue of the New York Yankees and the New York City FC.
The New York City Marathon is the largest marathon in the world (2013 Marathon course).
Sports in the New York metropolitan area have a long and distinguished history. New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the Women's National Basketball Association, National Women's Hockey League, and Major League Soccer.
The New York metropolitan area is one of only two metropolitan areas (along with Los Angeles) in the United States with more than one team in each of the country's four most popular major professional sports leagues, with nine such franchises. Counting these along with its two teams in Major League Soccer, the New York metropolitan area is home to a total of 11 organizations competing in the five most prestigious professional sports leagues in the United States, and have been crowned champions of their respective leagues on a combined 53 occasions. As of 2019, five of the Metropolitan Area's nine "Big Four" franchises play their full schedules within the New York City limits.
In addition, Queens is host of tennis' US Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. The New York City Marathon is the world's largest, and the 2004–2006 runnings hold the top three places in the marathons with the largest number of finishers, including 37,866 finishers in 2006. [1] The Millrose Games is an annual track and field meet whose featured event is the Wanamaker Mile. Boxing is also a very prominent part of the city's sporting scene, with events like the Amateur Boxing Golden Gloves being held at Madison Square Garden each year.
New York City hosted portions of the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the 1998 Goodwill Games. The 1984 Summer Paralympics were conducted in the city as well.
1 Major league sports
1.1 Current major league teams
1.2 Baseball
1.4 Football
1.5 Ice hockey
1.6 Soccer
2 Major league professional championships
2.1 New York Yankees (MLB)
2.2 New York Mets (MLB)
2.3 New York Giants (MLB)
2.4 Brooklyn Dodgers (MLB)
2.5 New York Cubans (NNL)
2.6 New York Cosmos (NASL)
2.7 New York Giants (NFL)
2.8 New York Jets (NFL)
2.9 New York Knicks (NBA)
2.10 New York / Brooklyn Nets (NBA)
2.11 New York Rangers (NHL)
2.12 New York Islanders (NHL)
3 Stadiums
4 Other sports
4.1 Boxing
4.2 Cricket
4.3 Fencing
4.4 Golf
4.5 Horse racing
4.6 Lacrosse
4.7 Motor sports
4.8 Polo
4.9 Rugby league
4.10 Rugby union
4.11 Running
4.12 Tennis
4.13 eSports
4.14 Ultimate
4.15 Other sports
5 College sports
6 Sports culture
7 Rivalries
7.1 Boston
7.2 Philadelphia
8 Olympic bids
Major league sports
Current major league teams
Location of major league teams in New York metropolitan area
The following New York metropolitan area sports teams play in one of the five major sports leagues in the United States:
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New York Giants NFL Football MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey 1925 8 MSG Network
New York Jets NFL Football MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey 1960 1 SportsNet New York
New York Yankees MLB Baseball Yankee Stadium Bronx, New York 1901 27 YES Network
New York Mets MLB Baseball Citi Field Queens, New York 1962 2 SportsNet New York
New York Knicks NBA Basketball Madison Square Garden Manhattan, New York 1946 2 MSG Network
Brooklyn Nets NBA Basketball Barclays Center Brooklyn, New York 1967 2 YES Network
Harlem Globetrotters Basketball N/A Harlem, New York 1926 N/A N/A
New York Rangers NHL Hockey Madison Square Garden Manhattan, New York 1926 4 MSG Network
New York Islanders NHL Hockey Barclays Center/ Nassau Coliseum [a] Brooklyn, New York/ Uniondale, New York 1972 4 MSG Plus
New York Liberty WNBA Basketball Barclays Center Brooklyn, New York 1997 0 YES Network
New York Red Bulls MLS Soccer Red Bull Arena Harrison, New Jersey 1995 0 MSG Network
New York City FC MLS Soccer Yankee Stadium Bronx, New York 2013 0 YES Network
Fans gather in front of New York City Hall in October, 1986 to celebrate the New York Mets' World Series championship
There have been 14 World Series baseball championship series between New York City teams, in matchups called Subway Series. New York is one of four metropolitan areas to have two baseball teams (Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco being the others). The city's two current Major League Baseball teams are the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. The city also was once home to the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants) and the Brooklyn Dodgers (now the Los Angeles Dodgers). There are also two minor league baseball teams in the city, the Staten Island Yankees and Brooklyn Cyclones, with numerous independent minor league teams throughout the metro area.
Football is the city's most followed sport. [2] The city is represented in the National Football League by the New York Giants and New York Jets. Both teams play in MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey. In 2014, the stadium hosted Super Bowl XLVIII. The teams have an intra-city rivalry.
Basketball is one of the most widely played recreation sports in the city, and professional basketball is also widely followed. The city's National Basketball Association teams are the long-established New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets, who became the first sports team representing Brooklyn in over 50 years when they moved to the borough from New Jersey for the 2012–13 NBA season. The city's Women's National Basketball Association team is the New York Liberty. The first national basketball championship for major colleges, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938, [3] and its semifinal and final rounds remain in the city. [4] Rucker Park in Harlem is a celebrated court where many professional athletes play in the summer league. Because of the city's strong historical connections with both professional and college basketball, the New York Knicks' home arena, Madison Square Garden, is often called the "Mecca of basketball." [5] [6] [7]
Ice hockey in New York is also widely popular and closely followed.[ citation needed] The New York Rangers play in Manhattan in the National Hockey League, calling Madison Square Garden home. The New York Islanders, play in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The New Jersey Devils also play in the New York metro area, playing in Newark, New Jersey. The Islanders' American Hockey League affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, are based in southwest Connecticut.
In soccer, New York is represented by three teams in the top divisions for men and women, including the New York Red Bulls and New York City FC of Major League Soccer, and Sky Blue FC of the National Women's Soccer League. The Red Bulls play their home games at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. New York City FC, a new team owned by Manchester City F.C. and the New York Yankees, joined MLS in 2015. NYCFC have plans to build a soccer-specific stadium within the five boroughs of the city and for the team to also develop an intra-city rivalry with the Red Bulls.
Regardless of where they actually play their home games, most of these teams carry the name of and represent the entire city or State of New York, except for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, who play in and specifically represent the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and the NHL's New Jersey Devils, who have played their home games in New Jersey since their founding in the metropolitan area via relocation and have always been in direct competition with New York-based rivals, whereas the New York Red Bulls ( MLS founding franchise once named New York/New Jersey MetroStars)–who have also always played in New Jersey–were the only major professional soccer team representing the metropolitan area during their first 19 seasons.
In New York, baseball is still regarded as the most popular sport, despite being overtaken by football in terms of perceived popularity (but not attendance) throughout the country, as based on TV ratings and consistent fan following for the entire season.[ citation needed] New York is home to two Major League Baseball franchises. The New York Yankees of the American League have played in New York since 1903. Known for iconic ballplayers such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and countless others, they play in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and have won the World Series 27 times. The New York Mets have represented New York in the National League since 1962. The Mets play in Citi Field in Flushing, Queens and have won five NL pennants and two World Series, thus making them one of the most decorated expansion teams in Major League Baseball. The " Subway Series" is the name used for all regular season and World Series meetings between the two teams. Before interleague play was introduced in 1997, the only instance these two teams could have played each other would have been in the World Series. The Mets and Yankees played for the World Series in 2000, with the Yankees winning the series 4–1.
Citi Field, home of the New York Mets in Queens
For many New York baseball fans, the most intense rivalry is between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports. [8] [9] [10] When the Mets beat the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series, many Yankee fans attended the parade celebrating the Mets' win, saying that "anyone who beats Boston is worth coming down for." [11] Another fierce rivalry for New York baseball fans is the one between the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies.
There have been 14 Subway Series World Series match-ups between the Yankees and their National League rivals; the Mets (once), and with the two teams that departed for California in the 1950s — the Brooklyn Dodgers (7 times) and New York Giants (6 times).
New York City is also home to two minor league baseball teams that play in the short-season Class A New York–Penn League. The Brooklyn Cyclones are a Mets affiliate, and the Staten Island Yankees are affiliated with the Yankees. Two independent baseball league teams also play in the New York metropolitan area. The Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League have played in Bethpage Ballpark in Central Islip since 2000. In 2011, the Rockland Boulders of the independent Can-Am League began play at Palisades Credit Union Park in Pomona.
New York has historically had many short-lived baseball clubs including the New York Mutuals, Brooklyn Atlantics, Brooklyn Enterprise, Excelsior of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Eckfords of the National Association of Baseball Players; the New York Knickerbockers, one of the first baseball teams; the New York Metropolitans and Brooklyn Gladiators of the American Association (19th century); the New York Giants (PL) and Brooklyn Ward's Wonders of the Players' League; the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League; the Brooklyn Bushwicks, Springfield Greys, Barton's Nighthawks, Glendale Farmers, Mount Vernon Scarlets, Union City Reds, Carlton's of the Bronx, and Bay Parkway, Bay Ridge, Cedarhurst, West New York, and Queens Club of The Metropolitan Baseball Association; [12] and the New York Highlanders and Brooklyn Bridegrooms, precursors to the Yankees and Dodgers. There were also two Newark Bears teams Newark Bears and Newark Bears (International League). Negro league baseball teams also were present in New York, including the Brooklyn Royal Giants, Newark Stars, Lincoln Giants, Newark Browns, New York Black Yankees, New York Cubans, and the Newark Eagles.
In 1858 in Corona, Queens, at the Fashion Race Course, the first games of baseball to charge admission took place. The games, which took place between the all-stars of Brooklyn, including players from the Brooklyn Atlantics, Excelsior of Brooklyn, Putnams and Eckford of Brooklyn, and the All Stars of New York ( Manhattan), including players from the New York Knickerbockers, Gothams (predecessors of the New York Giants), Eagles and Empire, are commonly believed to the first all-star baseball games. [13]
Two historical clubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, were among the most storied clubs in professional baseball, and were home to such players as Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays. The two teams left for California—the Dodgers for Los Angeles and the Giants for San Francisco—in 1957. The city currently has two Major League Baseball teams, the Mets (who were formed in 1962 to replace the Dodgers and, to a lesser extent, the Giants), and the Yankees.
Major League Baseball's headquarters are located in New York City, at 245 Park Avenue in Manhattan. [14]
Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers in Manhattan
The first national basketball championship for major colleges, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938, and its semifinal and final rounds remain at Madison Square Garden. The NIT has spawned a major early-season tournament known as the NIT Season Tip-Off; the semifinal and final rounds of that event are also held at the Garden.
At Madison Square Garden, New Yorkers can watch the New York Knicks play NBA basketball. Through the 2017 WNBA season, the New York Liberty also played at the Garden, but that team's main home has changed twice since then. First, the team moved to Westchester County Center in White Plains in 2018. Then, after the team's 2019 purchase by the owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, the Liberty will move to the Nets' home of Barclays Center in Brooklyn from 2020 forward. The Nets began playing in Brooklyn in 2012, the first major professional sports team to play in the historic borough in half a century. Before the merger of the defunct American Basketball Association with the NBA during the 1976–77 season, the New York Nets, who shared the same home arena ( Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum) on Long Island with the NHL's New York Islanders, were a two-time champion in the ABA and starred the famous Hall of Fame forward Julius Erving. During the first season of the merger (1976–77), the Nets continued to play on Long Island, although Erving's contract had by then been sold to the Philadelphia 76ers. The Nets transferred to New Jersey then next season and became known as the New Jersey Nets, and later moved to Brooklyn prior to the 2012–13 NBA season.
Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets, New York Islanders, and New York Liberty in Brooklyn
The Knicks have won two NBA titles (1969–70 and 1972–73). The 1970 title was particularly memorable, as there was a question before the pivotal Game 7 in Madison Square Garden as to whether star center Willis Reed of the Knicks, who had been injured in Game 5 and missed Game 6, would be able to play. But after both teams had already begun their pre-game shooting practice and warm-ups, Reed suddenly appeared at the court in uniform before an astonished crowd at Madison Square Garden, and when the game began, he started at center and hit the first two baskets for the Knicks, inspiring his team to a 113–99 victory. Reed's inspiring appearance in Game 7 is usually considered among the most dramatic sequences in NBA history and ranks third in the NBA 60 Greatest Playoff Moments. Despite the Knicks' comparative lack of championships, NBA lore has been enriched with the team's many exciting playoff battles through the years with such fierce rivals as the Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics.
The Long Island Nets, an NBA G League team, started playing at the Barclays Center in 2016 before moving to Nassau Coliseum in 2017. The Westchester Knicks started in 2014 at the Westchester County Center.
Rucker Park in Harlem is a celebrated court where many NBA athletes play in the summer league.
The NBA's headquarters are located in New York City, at Fifth Avenue's Olympic Tower. [15]
The New York Liberty are one of the original teams of the WNBA, which was formed in 1997. The team's main venue moved from Madison Square Garden to Westchester County Center after the 2017 season, and then to Barclays Center after the 2019 season. During a massive renovation project at the Garden between 2011 and 2013, the Liberty temporarily played their home games at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
From 1933 to 1935, the Newark Bears team played. They changed their name to the Newark Mules.
There was briefly a Long Island Ducks basketball team at the Long Island Arena in 1977–1978.
Long Island PrimeTime played at Louis Armstrong Gymnasium in Flushing from 2006–2007. They were part of the United States Basketball League.
MetLife Stadium, home to both the New York Giants and the New York Jets
Since 2010 both the New York Giants and the New York Jets play in MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, 5 miles from New York City. In 2014 the stadium hosted Super Bowl XLVIII. The Giants and Jets were previously located in New York City (both teams played in the Polo Grounds (Manhattan) and Shea Stadium (Queens), and the Giants played in Yankee Stadium (the Bronx)). Neither team plays in the city itself presently, as both teams are located in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, playing in Giants Stadium for many years before moving to MetLife Stadium. The Giants, a keystone NFL franchise, were founded in 1925, and exist today as one of the oldest presently active organizations in the NFL. Due to their long-spanning establishment and richer tradition of on-field success, as compared to the Jets, of the two teams, many consider the Giants to be the more popular. Founded in 1960, the originally named New York Titans, later branded as the Jets in 1963, were a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), joining the NFL as part of the AFL/NFL merger in 1970.
New York City also had many historical professional teams. The first professional team in New York was called both the New York Giants and Brooklyn Giants (unrelated to the current New York Giants), and played in the predecessor to the NFL, the American Professional Football Association, in 1921. In 1926, the New York Yankees, Newark Bears (AFL) and Brooklyn Horsemen played in the American Football League, and on the same year, the Brooklyn Lions played in the National Football League before the Horsemen and Lions merged in November and folded at season's end. The Lions' NFL franchise rights were given to the Yankees, who competed in the NFL from 1927 to 1928. When the Yankees folded, its rights were given to the existing barnstorming team Staten Island Stapletons, who played in the NFL until 1932 when it stopped league play and later folded as well.
In 1930, the NFL Brooklyn Dodgers began play at Ebbets Field. The team lasted until 1944, calling themselves the Brooklyn Tigers that last season but going winless. In 1945, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks and played one more home game in Brooklyn that season as the Yanks.
Another team going by the name New York Yankees played in the second AFL in 1936 and 1937. The league also had a Brooklyn Tigers club in 1936, but the team never played in Brooklyn and folded after only seven games. A third incarnation of the Yankees played in the third AFL in 1940 under the Yankees name, and then in 1941 as the New York Americans. Another version of the New York Yankees was a short-lived member of the American Association
In 1946, the new All-America Football Conference had yet another set of Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees teams. These clubs lasted until 1948, after which they merged with each other. The renamed Brooklyn-New York Yankees folded after one season when the AAFC merged with the NFL.
The New York Bulldogs were founded in 1949, sharing the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants, and then being renamed as the New York Yanks and playing in the NFL in the 1950 and 1951 seasons. In 1952, the team was relocated to Texas and renamed as the Dallas Texans.
In 1974, New York briefly hosted a team known as the New York Stars for the short-lived World Football League, but in mid-season the team was relocated to Charlotte and became the Charlotte Hornets.
The short-lived United States Football League had a team in the New York area. The New Jersey Generals played at Giants Stadium in The Meadowlands from 1983 to 1985. At one point, the team was owned by future President Donald Trump. The team folded with the rest of the league.
In 1988, the New York Knights played for one season as part of the Arena Football League, and then ceased operations. In 1997, the AFL added two expansion franchises, the New York CityHawks, who played at Madison Square Garden, and the New Jersey Red Dogs, who played in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The CityHawks moved to Hartford, Connecticut and were renamed the New England Sea Wolves in 1999, and then relocated to Toronto in 2001, and renamed the Toronto Phantoms. The Red Dogs were renamed the New Jersey Gladiators in 2001, then relocated and became the Las Vegas Gladiators in 2003, before relocating again and being renamed the Cleveland Gladiators. When the Sea Wolves, who were owned by the Madison Square Garden Company and had their games televised in New York City on MSG Network, relocated to Toronto, the AFL's Iowa Barnstormers relocated to Long Island and were renamed the New York Dragons. The Dragons played in New York until 2008, when the league suspended operations; no team from New York (either the city or the state) played in the league from its 2010 revival until the Albany Empire, based in the state's capital, joined the AFL in 2018.
Shea Stadium and vicinity, with Manhattan in the background, 1981
The Jets are sometimes regarded as "Long Island's Team" supported by the fact that until 2008, the team trained in Hempstead at Hofstra University, and used to play at Shea Stadium (former home of the New York Mets baseball team) which is close to Nassau County. Statistically, the largest percentage of the Jets fanbase derives from Long Island, hence, the Jets generally receive more media coverage in that part of New York. [16] Fans of both the Giants and Jets traditionally root for both the New York Yankees and the New York Mets as well as both the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA and also both the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders of the NHL.
Two attempts by Vince McMahon at creating a competing football league, both named the XFL, have been attempted in the New York metropolitan area. The first XFL league was created as a joint venture between World Wrestling Entertainment and NBC [17] in 2001, had the New York/New Jersey Hitmen playing at Giants Stadium for the only season they played before the league folded. The New York/New Jersey Hitmen finished in third for the XFL Eastern Division for the season they played. [18] In 2020, the New York Guardians of the newly revived XFL began playing at MetLife Stadium. [19] After the XFL filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 13, 2020, [20] citing the premature suspension of their season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York Guardians no longer play in the state.
Along with New York's two NFL teams, the New York metropolitan area is home to the New York Sharks women's football team. The New York Sharks are NYC's premier professional women's tackle football team. Established in 1999 the Sharks are the longest-running and most decorated team in women's tackle football having won 3 conference titles (2002, 2003, 2004 IWFL East), 6 division titles (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 IWFL) and two championship titles (2002 IWFL, 2018 WFA). The Sharks play at many fields and have no official home stadium. The season for women's football is from April to June with playoffs and the championship game occurring from June to July. As of 2011 the Sharks are now with the WFA (Women's Football Alliance [3]) along with the Bay Area Bandits, Boston Militia, Chicago Force, Dallas Diamonds, DC Divas, Kansas City Tribe, Pittsburgh Passion, and the San Diego Surge in an effort to bring together the best franchises of women's football.
The NFL's headquarters are located in New York City, at 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan. [21]
The Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, was home to the New York Islanders from 1972–2015, and the New York Nets from 1972–1976.
Ice hockey has a storied history and large following in the New York metropolitan area, which is unique in being the only metropolitan area and media market in the United States and Canada to feature three major league professional teams participating in the same sport. New York City is currently the full-time home to the New York Rangers, playing in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, and part-time home to the New York Islanders, which currently split their home schedule between Barclays Center in Brooklyn and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the Nassau County community of Uniondale, New York. The New Jersey Devils play in Prudential Center in nearby Newark, New Jersey. All three teams are historically division rivals, having all been in the same division since the Devils moved to New Jersey from Denver in 1982. Currently, they play in the Metropolitan Division.
The Rangers, established in 1926, are one of the Original Six — a term given to the six NHL teams in existence before the league doubled its size in 1967. The primary fan base for the Rangers is in the City's five boroughs, Westchester County, much of Upstate New York, and parts of Connecticut, however they maintain a sizable following within parts of the market claimed by their two local rivals.
The Islanders, established in 1972, moved their home games to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in the 2015–16 NHL season and provide their fans with an intense rivalry with the Rangers. The Islanders' primary fan base is in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island. The Islanders are planning to return to Nassau County by way of a new arena currently scheduled to open for the 2021–22 season near the Belmont Park horse racing track in Elmont, New York, adjacent to Queens. In the interim, the Islanders will be playing approximately half of their regular season schedule at the newly-renovated Nassau Coliseum in anticipation of the return to their traditional home jurisdiction. [22]
The Devils, established in 1982, provide area hockey fans with yet another intense rivalry involving the Rangers largely stemming from geographic proximity, a manifestation of a long-standing rivalry between the states of New York and New Jersey, and six playoff meetings in which the Rangers have won four. Both teams have achieved famous results for their respective fan bases in these meetings, including the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals, ending in a dramatic double-overtime goal by the Rangers' Stéphane Matteau during the 7th and deciding game. The Devils took a 3–2 series lead into Game 6 in New Jersey and jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the game. However, Mark Messier's famous guarantee and hat-trick led the Rangers to victory and a seventh game. As time wound down in Game 7, the Rangers were clinging to a 1–0 lead when New Jersey's Valeri Zelepukin tied the game with 7.7 seconds left in regulation to silence the Garden crowd and send the game into overtime, where Matteau won it for the Rangers. Most recently, in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals, the Rangers would be in a very similar scenario, but would ultimately fail to overcome the 3–2 series deficit after trailing 2-0 and forcing overtime in Game 6 across the Hudson River at Prudential Center in Newark on a series-winning goal only 1:03 into overtime by Adam Henrique. The Devils' primary fan base resides throughout Northern and Central New Jersey.
The Islanders and Rangers had a bitter rivalry in the 1970s and the 1980s, as the Islanders won four consecutive Stanley Cup titles; the Rangers won their most recent NHL championship in the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals, the fourth Cup victory in that team's history. The two teams have met eight times in the playoffs, with the Islanders winning five of those matchups. Incidentally, as the Islanders and Devils have had little success simultaneously (the Devils’ Stanley Cup success occurred in the mid-late 1990s and early 2000s) throughout their respective histories and have faced off in the playoffs only once in the 1987-88 season in a series won by the Devils, this rivalry is perceived as an afterthought in the area particularly when compared to the Rangers’ rivalries with the Islanders and Devils.
The Metropolitan Riveters, established in 2015, are one of the four charter members of the National Women's Hockey League. They play their homes games in the Barnabas Health Hockey House, [23] at the Prudential Center in Newark beginning with the 2016–17 NWHL season. In 2017, the Riveters announced they were partnering with the New Jersey Devils becoming the first NWHL team to officially partner with an NHL team. In 2018, the Riveters won their first Isobel Cup title.
New York City also had a historical NHL team, the New York Americans (also known as the Amerks, and in 1941–42, the Brooklyn Americans), who played between 1925 and 1942. They were the first hockey team to play in the city, and for most of the life of the franchise shared Madison Square Garden with the Rangers. The franchise was never a big winner, and disbanded during World War II due to financial problems and a depleted roster. The World Hockey Association team called the New York Raiders and later the New York Golden Blades played at Madison Square Garden and Cherry Hill, New Jersey from 1972 until 1974 when they moved to San Diego. A few historical minor league hockey teams played in the New York area in the Eastern Hockey League. The New York Rovers started as a farm team of the Rangers in 1935 playing at Madison Square Garden. They moved to the Long Island Arena in 1959 and became the Long Island Ducks (ice hockey) until 1973. The New York Bobcats are a USA Hockey-Sanctioned Tier III Junior Ice Hockey Team at Twin Rinks in Eisenhower Park from 2000 to the present. The New York Apple Core are a Tier III Junior A Ice Hockey Team in Brewster, New York.
The NHL's headquarters are also located in New York City, at the Exxon Building in Sixth Avenue. [24]
Pelé played for the New York Cosmos from 1975–1977
Professional soccer, as in the rest of the country, is rapidly growing in popularity in New York. The New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer (originally known as the "MetroStars" until the team's purchase by Austrian corporation Red Bull GmbH in 2006) have played in the metropolitan area since the league's founding in 1996. Since 2010 they have played at Red Bull Arena, a soccer-specific stadium in Harrison, New Jersey with a capacity of just over 25,000. [25] The Red Bulls have won the Supporters' Shield, awarded to the MLS regular season champion, on three occasions, most recently in 2018.
On May 21, 2013, MLS announced that the league's 20th team would be New York City FC, jointly owned by the English club Manchester City F.C. and the baseball team, the New York Yankees. They began playing in MLS in 2015 at Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx. Its eventual home stadium is yet to be determined, although team and city officials have stressed that a location within the five boroughs of New York City will be identified for the construction of a soccer-specific stadium which would be the permanent home stadium for the team.
The New York City area is also home to the New York Cosmos of the NPSL Members Cup, whose first iteration was arguably the most popular American soccer team ever. Playing in the original North American Soccer League, the Cosmos were known for fielding some of the world's greatest players including Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Giorgio Chinaglia. After reviving the club in 2010 from its dormant state post-1985, the New York Cosmos club returned to league play in 2013. [26] In 2013, the club won their sixth NASL championship at Soccer Bowl 2013. [27] [28] [29] The team played its first four seasons at James M. Shuart Stadium at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York before announcing a move to MCU Park in Brooklyn for 2017. [30] [31]
Sky Blue FC is one of the eight charter teams and nine current members of the National Women's Soccer League, the third women's professional league in the US. Starting in 2020, Sky Blue will share Red Bull Arena with the New York Red Bulls after having played since 2009 in New Jersey at Yurcak Field on the main campus of Rutgers University. Its first NWSL season in 2013 ended in a playoff loss to the Western New York Flash. The organization had previously been charter members of NWSL's effective predecessor, Women's Professional Soccer. The league started play in 2009; Sky Blue became the league's inaugural champion despite finishing fourth in the league during the regular season, which meant that they had to play on the road in all three WPS playoff games.
The New York Power previously played for the Women's United Soccer Association at Mitchel Athletic Complex from 2000 to 2003. The Long Island Fury are a Women's Premier Soccer League Team started in 2005, also at Mitchel Athletic Complex.
Major League Soccer's headquarters are located in New York City, at 420 Fifth Avenue. [32]
^ The Islanders currently split their home games between Barclays Center and Nassau Coliseum. They are planning to move to the new UBS Arena in Elmont, New York in 2021.
Major league professional championships
New York Yankees (MLB)
27 World Series titles
New York Mets (MLB)
2 World Series titles
New York Giants (MLB)
Brooklyn Dodgers (MLB)
1 World Series title
New York Cubans (NNL)
1 Negro World Series title
New York Cosmos (NASL)
5 Soccer Bowl titles
New York Giants (NFL)
4 NFL championships (pre–Super Bowl)
4 Super Bowl titles
1986 ( XXI)
1990 ( XXV)
2007 ( XLII)
2011 ( XLVI)
New York Jets (NFL)
1 Super Bowl title
1968 ( III)
New York Knicks (NBA)
2 NBA Finals titles
New York / Brooklyn Nets (NBA)
2 ABA Finals titles
New York Rangers (NHL)
4 Stanley Cup titles
New York Islanders (NHL)
Location of former major league venues in New York metropolitan area
Throughout the 20th century, the city has had several historic sports venues: the original Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008, before the team moved into their new stadium in 2009; Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 until 1957, which was torn down in 1960; and the Polo Grounds in northern Harlem, which was the home of the New York Giants of Major League Baseball from 1911 to 1957 (and the first home of the New York Mets) before being demolished in 1964. The Mets, who previously played at Shea Stadium, moved into the newly constructed Citi Field in 2009. Also the current Madison Square Garden, atop Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan, is actually the fourth separate building to use that name; the first two were near Madison Square, hence the name, and the third was at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue.
The 2000s have seen almost a complete revamping of the area's major sporting venues. This began in 2007, when the Devils moved to Newark, New Jersey, and opened the Prudential Center. In 2009, both the Mets and Yankees opened new baseball stadiums adjacent to their old homes, with the Mets replacing Shea Stadium with Citi Field and the Yankees building a new Yankee Stadium. In 2010, the Jets and Giants moved to a new shared facility called New Meadowlands Stadium (now MetLife Stadium) and the Red Bulls opened their own soccer-specific stadium in Harrison, New Jersey, called Red Bull Arena (the three had previously shared Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey). In 2012, the Nets moved from New Jersey to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and became the Brooklyn Nets. The Islanders left Nassau County, and followed the Nets into Brooklyn in 2015.
Other sports-related renovations and construction work is as follows:
Madison Square Garden, the home of the Knicks and Rangers, underwent a massive renovation from 2010 to 2013 which finished in time for the 2013–14 NHL and NBA seasons. The $850 million transformation included a rebuilding of the seating bowl and concourses, new luxury suites, new LED scoreboard and ribbon boards, and two new spectator bridges that span 65 feet (20 m) above the arena on each side of the playing surface.
On August 15, 2013, the Nassau County government announced that Forest City Ratner had won the bid for the renovation of the Nassau Coliseum, which was vacated by the Islanders in 2015, pending approval from the Nassau legislature and the Hempstead town government. [33] [34] Ratner's proposal called for a reduction of the Coliseum's seating capacity to 13,000 and an aesthetic revamp of the arena's interior and concrete facade designed by SHoP Architects, the firm which designed the Barclays Center, which would cost the group approximately $89 million. As part of his bid, the Islanders would play 6 games per season in the arena, the Brooklyn Nets would play one exhibition game, and a minor league hockey team would call the arena home. [35] [36]
Previously Major League Soccer was spearheading the search for a new soccer-specific stadium within city limits for use by the 20th MLS expansion team. After narrowing the locations down to six, amongst them being Pier 40 in Manhattan, Greenpoint in Brooklyn and the area near Citi Field in Queens, the league zeroed in on the dilapidated Fountain of Industry site in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens in June 2012. [37] The site was also previously discussed as a possible location for the New York Jets to build a stadium after their West Side Stadium project fell through, but the Jets opted to remain in New Jersey instead. [38] However, the Flushing site faced opposition from local communities regarding the usage of park space, as well as the New York Mets, who play nearby, and the project is possibly dead. [39] The New York City FC expansion team has since taken over the stadium search, with the Bronx as a possible location for a stadium. [40]
The Islanders now plan to return to Nassau County in 2021 with the opening of UBS Arena adjacent to the Belmont Park horse racing track in Elmont. [41]
The sport of boxing came to the United States from England in the late 1700s and took root in the 1800s mainly in large urban areas such as Boston, New York City, and New Orleans. Initially boxing was viewed as illegal and many fights and fighters operated in secrecy to avoid arrest. The New York state legislature passed “An act to prevent Prize Fighting” in 1859. [42] With the law, the act of boxing was not illegal in itself, but fighting for prize money was against public decency.
Most boxing matches of the early 1800s were conducted under the London Prize Ring Rules, which were based on a set of rules documented by English boxer Jack Broughton in 1743. A change in the rules occurred in the 1860s when Welsh sportsman John Graham Chambers wrote rules based on the use of padded gloves and got aristocrat and sportsman John Douglas, who held the title of the Marquess of Queensberry, to promote the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. The new rules came into use in the United States in the 1880s. [43]
John L. Sullivan became the first American heavyweight champion in 1882 under the bare-knuckle rules and again in 1892 he became the first heavyweight champion of the gloved era. Sullivan trained for his initial heavyweight championship in Belfast, New York. By the end of the 19th century America was becoming the center of professional boxing. The sports economic incentive rose as popularity brought larger purses and commercial success. Sullivan's championships initiated a period of over 100 years of American dominance in the heavyweight class. [44]
Boxing was again being banned in America in the early 1900’s, and was mostly outlawed in New York state. A loophole allowed fights to take place in athletic clubs, so many bars became on-the-fly athletic clubs in order to host matches. [45] The Walker Law, passed in 1920, regulated boxing in the state of New York. The law reestablished legal boxing following the three-year ban created by the repeal of the Frawley Law. On December 14, 1920, Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion, appeared at Madison Square Garden, knocking out Bill Brennam in the 12th round. The fight drew one of the largest crowds the arena had experienced in that period. [46]
In 2018, Newsday selected the 10 most notable fights that took place in New York:
Jack Dempsey KO 2 Luis Angel Firpo, Sept. 14, 1923, Polo Grounds. Dempsey's fifth title defense, over 80,000 watched him defeat the Argentinian.
James J. Braddock W 15 Max Baer, June 13, 1935, Madison Square Garden Bowl. Braddock a 10-1 underdog defeated the heavyweight champion.
Joe Louis KO 1 Max Schmeling, June 22, 1938, Yankee Stadium. World War II on the horizon, the second fight between Louis and the German Schmeling is remembered as one of the major sports events of the 20th century.
Joe Louis KO 13 Billy Conn, June 18, 1941, Polo Grounds. Behind after 12 rounds, Louis rallied to win.
Rocky Marciano TKO 8 Joe Louis, Oct. 26, 1951, Madison Square Garden. Marciano, who was 27, defeated Louis, who was 37.
Floyd Patterson KO 5 Ingemar Johansson, June 20, 1960, Polo Grounds. Patterson became the first former heavyweight champion in history to regain his title.
Joe Frazier W 15 Muhammad Ali, March 8, 1971, Madison Square Garden. The fight was billed as “The Fight of the Century”.
Muhammad Ali W 15 Ken Norton, Sept. 28, 1976, Yankee Stadium. The third fight of their trilogy.
Lennox Lewis draws with Evander Holyfield, March 13, 1999, Madison Square Garden. A heavyweight title unification bout between WBA-IBF champion Holyfield and WBC champion Lewis.
Deontay Wilder KO 9 Artur Szpilka, Jan. 16, 2016, Barclays Center. Brooklyn had not hosted a heavyweight title fight in 115 years. [47]
Other fights of note include:
Sugar Ray Robinson unanimous decision over Jake LaMotta, October 2nd, 1942, Madison Square Garden
Joey Maxim KO of Sugar Ray Robinson, June 24th, 1952, Yankee Stadium
Marciano’s Last Fight (vs. Archie Moore), September 21st, 1955
Muhammad Ali’s First MSG Fight (Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Banks), February 10th, 1962, Madison Square Garden
Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier, January 28th, 1974, Madison Square Garden
Mike Tyson’s First MSG Fight (vs. Mitch Green), May 20th, 1986, Madison Square Garden
Bernard “The Exeuctioner” Hopkins defeated Felix Trinidad for the Undisputed Middleweight Championship, September 29th, 2001, Madison Square Garden. [48]
The Daily News Golden Gloves Tournament started in 1927 when The New York Daily News took title and ownership of a city wide amateur boxing tournament with matches taking place at Madison Square Garden.
The first film ever made outdoors in New York was produced in 1895. Woodville Latham and his sons Otway and Gray Latham had invented the Eidoloscope projector, running very crudely like a film projector today. The Latham brothers had debuted test images to the press. But their real test of this device was to film something live and then display it a short time later. So on May 4, 1895, the brothers filmed a boxing match on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden, then on 27rd Street and Madison Avenue. The competitors were ‘Battling’ Charles Barnett and Young Griffo, a legendary Australian boxer. [49]
The Staten Island Cricket Club, established in 1872, [50] is the longest continuously operating cricket club in the United States. [51] The New York Metropolitan Cricket League (MCL), established in 1890, is one of the oldest cricket leagues in the country. The MCL conducts matches in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Nassau County. [52]
The New York area is home to many competitive fencing clubs. Fencers Club offers all three weapons (épée, foil and saber), Manhattan Fencing Center [53] offers foil and saber, and New York Athletic Club offers épée and saber.
National Fencing Club Rankings (NFCR) is an independent organization that provides the fencing community with objective, accurate and in-depth rankings of fencing club performance in the U.S. New York metropolitan clubs in their Top 100 ranking include: 5T Fencers Club, Atlantic Fencing Academy, Bergen Fencing Club, Brooklyn Bridge Fencing Club, Brooklyn Fencing Center, Cobra Fencing Club, Escrimeur Fencers Club, Fencers Club, Fencing Academy of Westchester, Gutkovskiy Fencing Academy. [54]
Carl Borack, a fencer from Staten Island, participated in the 1972 Summer Olympic Games. The Fencers Club claims to have trained or included more National Champions and Olympic Medalists than any other club in the United States.
Shinnecock Hills clubhouse at the 2018 U.S. Open
The Saint Andrews Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, organized in 1888, [55] is a founding member of the United States Golf Association (USGA) and is considered the oldest continuously operating golf club in the United States. [56] Opening in 1895, Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course is America's oldest public golf course. [57] [58] Richmond County Country Club on Staten Island along with North Shore Towers and Country Club in the borough of Queens are the only private country clubs in New York City. [59] Golfing greats Bobby Jones (1921 and 1930) and Ben Hogan (1953) were honored with ticker-tape parades down the Canyon of Heroes, after their British Open triumphs.
With its headquarters in Far Hills, New Jersey, the New York area has hosted just about every type of USGA championship. The U.S. Open has been played at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Englewood Golf Club, Garden City Golf Club, Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course), Inwood Country Club, Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course), Fresh Meadow Country Club, and Bethpage State Park ( Black Course, often called "Bethpage Black"). The U.S. Women's Open has been held at Winged Foot Golf Club (East Course), Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course and Upper Course), Plainfield Country Club, Sebonack Golf Club, and Trump National Golf Club (Old Course). The USGA has conducted a number of individual amateur championships in the area.
The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA), the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour Champions, and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) have had events hosted in the area.
The PGA Championship has been held at Engineers Country Club, Inwood Country Club, Pelham Country Club, Salisbury Golf Club (Eisenhower Park), Fresh Meadow Country Club, The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort (Composite), Pomonok Country Club, Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course), Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course), and Bethpage Black. The Trump National Golf Club (Old Course) is a future host of the event. The Ryder Cup has been held at Ridgewood Country Club (Composite); Bethpage Black is a future site of the event. The Presidents Cup has been conducted at Liberty National Golf Club.
For a number of years Westchester Country Club (West Course) was a regular stop on the PGA Tour with the current PGA Tour event, The Barclays, now The Northern Trust, being played at various clubs in the area. The PGA Tour Champions has held events at Meadow Brook Golf Club and Eisenhower Park (Red Course). The first U.S. Senior Open was conducted on the East Course at Winged Foot Golf Club and has also been held at Ridgewood Country Club (Composite). The LPGA tour has conducted events at Wykagyl Country Club, Upper Montclair Country Club (Composite), Pocono Manor (East Course), Deepdale Golf Club, Scarsdale Golf Club, Grossingers Golf Club, Knollwood Country Club, and Forsgate Country Club (Banks Course). In 2015, the LPGA Championship was held at Westchester Country Club (West Course).
On July 13, 1905, Isaac Mackie, the head professional at Fox Hills Golf Course on Staten Island, won an Open Tournament at the Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course, shooting 152 and holding off joint second-place finishers Willie Anderson and Bernard Nicholls who finished at 157. It was the first ever professional tournament held on a public golf course in the United States. [60]
From 1897 to 1933 an Ivy League school won the men's college golf national championship. Consequentially, many New York metropolitan golf courses have hosted the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship including: Ardsley Country Club, Garden City Golf Club, Morris County Golf Club, Nassau Country Club, The Apawamis Club, Essex County Country Club, Baltusrol Golf Club (Old Course), Greenwich Country Club, Siwanoy Country Club, Deal Golf and Country Club, Springdale Golf Club (Princeton University), and The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort (Composite).
One of the most unique golf courses in the area was the Governors Island Golf Course due to its views of the Brooklyn and the Manhattan skyline, with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop. It was considered the only golf course in Manhattan as the island is technically part of the borough. Golf was played on Governors Island from 1903 through 1996. In 2006 over $1 million was spent to temporarily restore green complexes abandoned in 1996 and an 18-hole course was routed for a charity event that also promoted the island's opportunities. The Manhattan Golf Classic was conducted in October of that year. The event was billed as the "first ever professional golf tournament in the history of New York City", although Fresh Meadow Country Club, when it was in Queens had hosted two major championships in the 1930s, and Van Cortland Park Golf Course in The Bronx and the Fox Hills Golf Course on Staten Island had conducted professional events in the early 1900s.
An extremely rare photo finish triple dead heat, recorded in a 1953 harness race at Freehold Raceway
Horse racing in the United States dates back to 1665, with the establishment of the New Market course in Salisbury, New York. Salisbury was a section of what is now known as Hempstead Plains, near Greater Westbury and East Garden City in Nassau County on Long Island. [61] New Market was the first regulated form of horse racing in North America. The races were facilitated and supervised by New York's colonial governor, Richard Nicolls, and race winners were awarded with the first known sporting trophies in the country. [62] [63]
In 1824, as regional rivalries in the country were growing, the Union Course in Woodhaven, Queens offered a $24,000 prize for a race between top thoroughbreds American Eclipse, from the North, and Sir Henry, from the South. It is believed that the race between Eclipse and Sir Henry was America's first national sporting event. [64] [65]
Major New York metropolitan racetracks, listed by the year they were opened:
Freehold Raceway in Freehold, New Jersey (1830s)
Gravesend Race Track in Gravesend on Coney Island, New York (1866-1910)
Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey (1870)
Brighton Beach Race Course in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York (1879-1920s)
Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, New York (1880-1923)
Aqueduct Racetrack (The Big A) in Ozone Park, Queens, New York (1894)
Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York (1899)
Jamaica Race Course in Jamaica, New York (1903-1959)
Belmont Park in Elmont, New York (1905)
Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York (1940-1988)
Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey (1977)
In 1908, the New York State Legislature approved the Hart–Agnew Law, which banned gambling at racetracks. Some tracks shut down permanently, but later a court ruled that oral betting was legal as the law only covered bookmakers, so activity continued. In 1955 the non-profit New York Racing Association (originally the Greater New York Association) was founded.
Belmont Park's mile-and-a-half main track is the longest dirt Thoroughbred race course in North America, [66] and it has the sport's largest grandstand. Belmont Park hosts the Belmont Stakes, an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held each June. The Belmont Stakes is the third leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in the United States.
Long Island seems to have a vast amount of elite lacrosse talent and the ability to develop top players. If you hear about a great lacrosse player, chances are that player has ties to Long Island. In 2002 more than one-third (4 of 11) of the players on the NCAA Division I All-American First Team came from Long Island high schools, with 16 Long Islanders honored overall. In the same year, the NCAA Division II All-American list was virtually all Long Islanders and nearly every NCAA Division I, II and III lacrosse team had at least one player from the area. In 2002 at the NCAA Division I championships, three of the four men's teams were coached by a Long Islander and all four had a Long Islander as a captain.
By some accounts, lacrosse was almost as big as baseball in New York City in the first decade of the 20th century. After learning the game in New York City and moving to Long Island, Jason Stranahan started the first high school lacrosse program at Manhasset High School in 1933; football Hall of Famer Jim Brown played lacrosse at Manhasset and is considered by some as the greatest lacrosse player of all time. By the 1950s, the sport was embedded across Nassau County but had still failed to reach Suffolk County. Huntington High School fielded that county's first varsity team in 1957. In the 1960s, there was a large migration to Long Island which resulted in high schools hiring a sizable number of teachers and coaches that coincidentally had college lacrosse backgrounds and the desire to build powerful programs. [67]
The New York metropolitan area is home to a Major League Lacrosse team called the New York Lizards, formerly the Long Island Lizards. The New Jersey Pride of the same league played in Piscataway, New Jersey but suspended operations after the 2008 season. The New York Titans also played in the New York area before moving to Orlando. The New York Saints were members of the National Lacrosse League at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum from 1987 to 2003. They were previously the New Jersey Saints.
In December 2018 it was announced that professional indoor lacrosse would begin play in 2019 on Long Island. The New York Riptide were the 13th team to join the National Lacrosse League. Games are played in NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum. [68]
Vanderbilt Cup race start, 1905
In 1904, auto enthusiast and railroad heir William Kissam Vanderbilt II organized an auto race on the public roads of Long Island. The prize, a massive silver cup from the Tiffany studio, known as the Vanderbilt Cup, attracted top racers from Mercedes, Packard, and Fiat. The race took place on country roads with hundreds of spectators watching cars go by at speeds close to 100 miles per hour. In 1906, several spectators were killed when a car went off the road. Vanderbilt responded quickly by building a 45-mile private highway. Races resumed in 1908, but another accident killed spectators in 1910 making organizers abandon the Long Island course for good. The Vanderbilt Cup returned in 1936 and 1937 at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, Long Island. The 1937 race was one of the greatest races in New York State's history, featuring the only pre-WWII appearance of the German racing team in the United States. Legendary driver Ralph DePalma served as the honorary starter for the race where the starting signal came from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hyde Park home via Western Union Telegraph. [69]
From 1953 until 1972 stock car races were held weekly from May until October at a 1/5th-mile asphalt racetrack on Staten Island. The local dairy, owned by the Weissglass family, financed promoter Gabe Rispoli with $700 so he could make improvements to an existing sporting facility that became known as Weissglass Stadium. [70] [71]
Oval track racing continues to this day at Riverhead Raceway, a quarter-mile short track located in Riverhead at the East End of Long Island. The track plays host to the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series for weekly short-track racing and the Whelen Modified Tour national series.
Founded in 1965, Old Bridge Township Raceway Park located in Old Bridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey hosted the SuperNationals and later the Summernationals of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) for Funny Car and Top Fuel competitions, as well as other drag racing events. In 2018, the track announced that they would cease conducting drag races at the facility due to rising costs. However, other motorsports events still occur at the facility. [72] [73]
Championship Auto Racing Teams ( CART) series held races at the Meadowlands from 1984 to 1991.
On September 21, 2016, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), Formula E, and New York City government officials announced that the New York City ePrix would be held in July 2017 at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, with a track layout presented. The New York ePrix became the city's first automobile race since 1896. On July 15–16, 2017, the Formula E race was held in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was the first FIA-sanctioned race to be held in New York City. Sam Bird won both races.
There was a plan by the International Speedway Corporation (ISC) to build an 82,000-seat speedway [74] on Staten Island that would host National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR) races by 2010. The ISC abandoned the plan in 2006 citing financial concerns, and sold the 676 acre parcel in 2013. [75] Another speedway project was proposed for the Meadowlands (Liberty Speedway) but discussions were abandoned in the early 2000s. Plans called for a Formula One race known as the Grand Prix of America, to be held on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, were scheduled to start in 2014, but those plans have been postponed indefinitely. The race was to be held on the Port Imperial Street Circuit, a 3.2-mile (5.1 km) circuit to be built using existing streets in Weehawken and West New York around Weehawken Port Imperial.
Polo, considered by some to be world's oldest team sport, has a long history in the New York area, especially on Long Island.
In 1876, James Gordon Bennett, a noted American publisher, introduced the sport of polo to New York City. He organized the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue. In the spring of 1876, a group of polo players established the first formal American polo club, the Westchester Polo Club, in New York. On May 13, 1876, the Jerome Park Racetrack in Westchester County was the site of the first American outdoor polo match. The Westchester Polo Club alternated their playing seasons between New York and Rhode Island before making Newport their permanent home. [76]
The Meadowbrook Polo Club is among the most historic polo clubs in the United States with its roots dating back to 1877 when Thomas Hitchcock Sr., Oliver W. Bird, August Belmont, Benjamin Nicoll, and their associates participated in the first polo match on Long Island. The polo match was played on the infield of the racetrack of the Mineola Fair Grounds. The Meadowbrook Polo Club, originally located in East Meadow and Jericho and currently located in Old Westbury, was formally incorporated in 1881. The Meadowbrook Polo Club's first polo field was created in 1884, leading to Long Island's role as "Polo Capital of the World" during the 1920s and 1930s.
Besides Meadowbrook other polo clubs in the area include: Equuleus Polo Club, Shannon Hill Polo Club, Greenwich Polo Club, Princeton University Polo, Fairfield County Hunt Club, North Fork Polo Club. The Rockaway Hunting Club and Piping Rock Club are country clubs with polo fields and golf courses on Long Island.
The City currently has one rugby league football club in the Brooklyn Kings who play in the USA Rugby League. New York City Rugby League have submitted a bid to enter in the UK's Rugby Football League, League 1 competition in 2021. [77]
The city has two division one rugby union teams, the New York Athletic Club RFC, which was established in 1973 and the Old Blue, both who play in the Rugby Super League ( rugby union). The city has other amateur rugby union clubs as well, paying in the Metropolitan New York Rugby Football Union. The clubs have contributed to the national team, the Eagles, who have participated at the Rugby World Cup.
New York got a professional rugby team in 2019 with Rugby United New York (RUNY) at MCU Park as a member of Major League Rugby. RUNY was formed by James Kennedy and former WWE wrestler, John Layfield. New York and USA Rugby veteran Mike Tolkin was named head coach after previously coaching the USA national side and the local club side NYAC.
Marathon runners crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge just after race start.
The New York City Marathon is a foot race run over a 42.2 km (26.2 mi) course through the five boroughs of New York City. Next to the Boston Marathon, it is considered the preeminent long-distance running event in the United States. The race is conducted by the New York Road Runners organization and has been held annually since 1970 on the first Sunday of November. The marathon attracts top professional and amateur marathoners from all over the world. Due to the popularity of the event, participation is limited to 35,000 entrants chosen by a lottery system, with preference given to previous participants.
The Millrose Games is an indoor track and field meet that has been held on the first Friday in February at Madison Square Garden since the current site of the arena opened in 1968. The meet was conducted at previous versions of The Garden starting in 1914. In 2012 the Millrose Games were moved to the Armory in Upper Manhattan. [78] The games started when employees of the Wanamaker's department store formed the Millrose Track Club to hold a meet. The featured event is the Wanamaker Mile which was first conducted in 1926.
Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx is a prominent site for cross-country running. The parks trails are some of the most utilized cross-country courses in the United States. Van Cortlandt is the venue for the annual IC4A or Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America ( ICAAAA) cross country championships. The 1968 and 1969 NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship was hosted by Manhattan College at Van Cortlandt. The distance for the championship race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).
The Ocean Breeze Track and Field Athletic Complex is a state-of-the-art indoor track and field facility in Ocean Breeze Park which is part of the South Beach section of Staten Island. On November 19, 2015 the complex became the first facility in the United States to be recognized as a certified International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) facility. [79] A project under Mayor Bloomberg’s Design Excellence initiative, the athletic complex was designed as part of the PlaNYC 110-acre Ocean Breeze regional park. [80]
Forest Hills tennis courts in Queens, New York in 1920
Tennis is said to have made its debut in the United States in 1874 on Staten Island thanks to Mary Ewing Outerbridge. The first American National championship was played at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club in September 1880. [81] [82]
The U.S. Tennis Open is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments and is held annually in late summer at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens. The main tournament consists of five championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for junior and wheelchair players.
The National Tennis Center, open to the public whenever the USTA is not holding an event, features the world's largest stadium built specifically for the sport, the 22,547-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The New York Empire began play in World TeamTennis (WTT) in 2016. Home matches were played at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.
Other teams have represented the New York City metropolitan area in WTT in the past. The New York Sets, who changed their name to New York Apples in 1977, were a charter franchise of the league and played from 1974 to 1978. The Sets originally played their home matches at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum before splitting their home schedule between the Coliseum and Madison Square Garden. By the 1978 season, many home matches were played in the Felt Forum with those featuring marquee opponents played in the Garden's main arena. The franchise won the league championship in 1976 and 1977, and featured star players Billie Jean King, Virginia Wade, Sandy Mayer and Phil Dent. The two title-winning teams were coached by Fred Stolle. Following the 1978 season, the Apples announced they were folding. Soon afterward, WTT suspended operations, and there were no 1979 or 1980 seasons.
The New Jersey Stars joined WTT as an expansion franchise in 1987, playing their home matches in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. The team went 0–14 in its inaugural season but, with a completely remade roster, reached the TeamTennis Final in 1988. Home matches were moved to Chatham Borough, New Jersey in 1989, when the team was led by Tracy Austin. The signing of Martina Navratilova in 1994 produced immediate results on the court as the Stars won the league title in both 1994 and 1995. However, the team was unable to build a fan base and relocated, as two-time defending WTT champions, to become the Delaware Smash for the 1996 season.
The New York Hamptons were added as a WTT expansion franchise in 2000, playing their home matches in East Quogue, New York. They moved to Amagansett in 2002. In 2003, Sportime NY became the team's majority owner. Home matches were moved to Mamaroneck in Westchester County, and the team's name was changed to the New York Sportimes. Led by Martina Hingis, the Sportimes won the 2005 WTT title. In 2009, the Sportimes moved to New York City, playing their home matches on Randall's Island. Before the 2011 season, the Sportimes merged with the New York Buzz, which had been based in the Capital District since 1995. Following the merger, the team played some of its home matches on Randall's Island and others in either Albany or Troy, New York. Following the 2013 season, the team was sold, and the new owner relocated it and renamed it the San Diego Aviators. Ironically, the Aviators won their first league title after relocation in New York City at Forest Hills Stadium, which was selected as the site for the 2016 WTT Final to welcome the expansion New York Empire to the league.
The New York Excelsior (NYXL) is an American professional Overwatch esports team based in New York City, New York. The Excelsior competes in the Overwatch League as a member of the league's Atlantic Division. The team is one of 12 founding members of the Overwatch League.
The New York Rumble is one of eight professional Ultimate teams that compete in Major League Ultimate. The team played in the MLU's inaugural season in 2013. [83]
The Suffolk Sting are a professional inline hockey team and part of the PIHA. They play at the Rapid Fire Arena on Long Island.
The New York Arrows represented the New York area in the Major Soccer League (MISL) from 1978 to 1984 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
The New Jersey Rockets played in the MISL with their home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey during the 1981–82 season. The Rockets filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code late in the season and folded shortly thereafter.
The New York Express played indoor soccer in the Major Indoor Soccer League at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in 1986–1987.
The Long Island Academy play at Competition Field at Adelphi University in the National Premier Soccer League as of 2006.
The Long Island Jawz played Roller Hockey at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in 1996.
The Long Island Rough Riders and Long Island Rough Riders (UWS) play soccer and women's soccer since 1994 at Cy Donnelly Stadium in South Huntington, and formerly at Belson Stadium, Mitchel Athletic Complex, Michael Tully Field, Citibank Park and Stony Brook University Stadium.
The Long Island Roller Rebels started in 2005 as a roller derby league featuring four teams: All Stars (A team, Rock-A-Betty Bruisers (B team), Ladies of Laceration, Wicked Wheelers and were aided by the Gotham Girls Roller Derby. They play in Old Bethpage.
Gaelic games have been played in New York since the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association. New York is considered a GAA county and plays in the Connacht Senior Football Championship.
The United States Australian Football League is the biggest League of Australian rules football in the United States and the New York team is called The New York Magpies it is affiliated with the Collingwood Football Club.
Squash is organized by the New York Squash which was formerly known as New York Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association which was founded in 1924 and incorporated in 1932. This organization is a not for profit. [84]
There is a thriving field hockey competition in New York City,[ citation needed] played predominantly by European and Commonwealth expats. The North East Field Hockey Association plays games at Columbia University, Hofstra University, DeWitt Clinton High School and Drew University. Teams from New York also regularly compete in indoor and outdoor tournaments around the country.
New York is considered to be the "world capital" of one-wall handball.[ citation needed]
The New York Emperors Stickball League has nine stickball teams in New York City. Stickball, a street version of baseball, was popularized by youths in working-class Italian, German, and Irish neighborhoods in the 1930s.
Although the New York area is home to numerous colleges, many of which have rich athletic histories, college sports is a somewhat less visible part of the regional sports landscape.
The following NCAA Division I schools are located in the metropolitan area, as most broadly defined. The following details about the table should be noted:
Schools are in New York state unless otherwise indicated.
The "Conference" column includes each school's primary affiliation.
All affiliations listed here current as of the 2020–21 school year.
The "Football" column indicates the following:
Whether a school sponsors the sport at varsity level.
The level at which a school competes in that sport—either in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) or the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). If a school's conference affiliation in football differs from its main affiliation, the football conference is also listed.
Army Black Knights United States Military Academy West Point Patriot League FBS ( independent)
Columbia Lions Columbia University New York City ( Manhattan) Ivy League FCS
Fairfield Stags Fairfield University Fairfield, Connecticut MAAC No
Fairleigh Dickinson Knights Fairleigh Dickinson University [a 1] Teaneck, New Jersey Northeast No
Fordham Rams Fordham University New York City ( The Bronx) Atlantic 10 FCS ( Patriot League)
Hofstra Pride Hofstra University Hempstead CAA No
Iona Gaels Iona College New Rochelle MAAC No
LIU Sharks [a 2] Long Island University New York City ( Brooklyn) &
Brookville [a 3] Northeast FCS [a 4]
Manhattan Jaspers and Lady Jaspers Manhattan College New York City ( The Bronx) MAAC No
Monmouth Hawks Monmouth University West Long Branch, New Jersey MAAC FCS ( Big South)
NJIT Highlanders New Jersey Tech Newark, New Jersey AEC No
Princeton Tigers Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Ivy League FCS
Quinnipiac Bobcats Quinnipiac University Hamden, Connecticut MAAC No
Rider Broncs Rider University Lawrenceville, New Jersey MAAC No
Rutgers Scarlet Knights Rutgers University [a 5] Piscataway, New Jersey Big Ten FBS
Sacred Heart Pioneers Sacred Heart University Fairfield, Connecticut Northeast FCS
St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers St. Francis College New York City ( Brooklyn) Northeast No
St. John's Red Storm St. John's University New York City ( Queens) Big East No
Saint Peter's Peacocks and Peahens Saint Peter's University Jersey City, New Jersey MAAC No
Seton Hall Pirates Seton Hall University South Orange, New Jersey Big East No
Stony Brook Seawolves Stony Brook University Stony Brook America East FCS ( CAA)
Wagner Seahawks Wagner College New York City ( Staten Island) Northeast FCS
Yale Bulldogs Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Ivy League FCS
^ More accurately, the Knights represent the university's Metropolitan Campus, which straddles Teaneck and Hackensack. FDU's Florham Campus, located in Madison, New Jersey, has a separate NCAA Division III athletic program.
^ The Sharks were formed on July 1, 2019 by the merger of the two athletic programs previously operated by Long Island University—the Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, representing the Brooklyn campus, and the NCAA Division II LIU Post Pioneers, representing the Post campus in the Nassau County community of Brookville. All varsity sports sponsored by either campus continue to be sponsored by the unified program. [85]
^ Some LIU sports are based at the Brooklyn campus and others at the Post campus. [86]
^ Before the athletic merger, LIU Brooklyn did not sponsor football, but LIU Post did. The former LIU Post football program now plays as the LIU Sharks. [85]
^ More accurately, the Scarlet Knights represent the school's main campus, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, which is divided between New Brunswick and Piscataway. Most of the athletic facilities are in Piscataway. The other two campuses of Rutgers, in Camden and Newark, have separate memberships in NCAA Division III.
Sports culture
Although in much of the rest of the country American football has surpassed baseball as the most popular professional sport, in New York baseball arguably still stirs the most passion and interest. A championship win by any major sports team is considered to be worthy of the highest celebration, including a ticker-tape parade for the victorious team. In the past, ticker-tape parades have been held for the Yankees, Mets, Giants and Rangers. New Yorkers, however, tend to rally around any of the local teams who win (such as the 1994 Stanley Cup champions New York Rangers, or the 2007 New York Giants).
Due to their geographic locations, New York has intense sports rivalries with the cities of Boston and Philadelphia.
See also: Sports in Boston, Yankees–Red Sox rivalry, Jets–Patriots rivalry, and Celtics–Knicks rivalry
Decades before professional baseball became popular, New York and Boston claimed distinctive versions of bat-and-ball games. A variant of baseball known as The Massachusetts Game was played in New England in the 1850s, while New York teams played by the Knickerbocker Rules set up by Alexander Cartwright. The New York rules eventually became the basis for the modern sport of baseball.
Teams in Boston and New York offer some of the best rivalries in their respective sports, none are more famous, however, then the longtime feud between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball. The viciousness and fierceness of the rivalry has led to the New York–Boston rivalry being evident between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots in the National Football League and the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association. [87] The New York Rangers have been longtime rivals with the Boston Bruins also due to the fact that both teams are members of the National Hockey League's Original Six franchises, but this has been eclipsed by the Metropolitan Division rivalries in recent years.
The rivalry has also spread to other teams not in the same league, The 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox is considered a classic especially the 6th game and the famous Bill Buckner error. The New York Giants and New England Patriots have played two classic Super Bowls: Super Bowl XLII which features the Helmet Catch and Super Bowl XLVI, There is also a rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets. While Major League Soccer has two teams in the New York area and one in the Boston area, the rivalry between New York City FC and the New York Red Bulls overshadows either team's rivalry with the New England Revolution.
See also: Sports in Philadelphia, Mets–Phillies rivalry, Eagles–Giants rivalry, Flyers–Rangers rivalry, and Devils–Flyers rivalry
In each of the four sports leagues, as well as Major League Soccer, there is intra-division competition between teams from New York and Philadelphia, as seen in the rivalries between the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies in Major League Baseball, the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League, and the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League. [88] There is also a rivalry between the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, although it is not as intense as the other three rivalries. There is another rivalry between the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers. As in the case of Boston, the rivalries between New York City FC and the New York Red Bulls with the Philadelphia Union have a lower profile than that of the two New York-area teams.
In the first season of the Overwatch League the Philadelphia Fusion was the first team to beat the previously undefeated New York Excelsior in regular season play. Excelsior was a strong team throughout the season, bringing home two of the four stage titles and entering the post-season playoffs at the highest seed. However, in a surprise upset Philadelphia knocked New York out of the playoffs and went on to come in second place in the finals as both the first and last team to defeat New York in the 2018 season. [89]
The metropolitan area's three NHL teams tend to be primary rivals with one another, although they each have their own rivalry with the Flyers. Unlike baseball and football, the local teams in the New York area are in the same division and are therefore in direct competition with one another.
Olympic bids
New York and Los Angeles submitted bids to the USOC for the 1984 Summer Olympics. The USOC voted to submit Los Angeles' bid to the IOC, which was the only bid for those games. While Los Angeles secured the right to host the 1984 Summer Olympics, New York served as host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics. [90]
In 2005, New York City bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, but lost to London. It was the first time the USOC submitted a bid from New York City to the IOC. Upon the USOC reaching a new revenue-sharing agreement with the IOC in May 2012, New York was mentioned as a potential candidate for the 2024 Summer Olympics, [91] [92] but the city declined to submit a bid to the USOC. Los Angeles was selected as the American candidate for the 2024 Olympics and ultimately secured the right to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
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The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard J. A. Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization (pre-550 BC) through Late Antiquity (640 AD). The atlas was published by Princeton University Press in 2000. The book was the winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities.
2 Period coverage
3 Naming conventions
4 Atlas volume contents
5 Map-by-map directory contents
6 iPad version
7 Current editions
OverviewEdit
The main (atlas) volume contains 102 color topographic maps, covering territory from the British Isles and the Azores and eastward to Afghanistan and western China. The size of the volume is 33 x 48 cm. A 45-page gazetteer is also included in the atlas volume. The atlas is accompanied by a map-by-map directory on CD-ROM, in PDF format, including a search index. The map-by-map directory is also available in print as a two-volume, 1,500 page edition.
According to the editor, the purpose of each map is to offer an up-to-date presentation of the important physical and covered features of the area, using all available literal, epigraphic, and archaeological data.
Most of the maps are of the scale 1:1,000,000 or 1:500,000. However, the environs of the three greater centers (Athens, Rome, Byzantium-Constantinople) are presented in 1:150,000. Some remote regions, where Greeks and Romans mostly explored and traded rather than settled (i.e. Baltic, Arabia, East Africa, India, Sri Lanka), are of the scale 1:5,000,000. Due to the nature of the base maps used for the background and time–cost restrictions, elevation lines (contours) were left in feet except for the 1:150,000 maps where they are in meters. The projection of the maps is Lambert Conformal Conic. Again due to time and cost restrictions, geo-referencing of the maps was left as a future separate project.
Effort was spent to show the physical landscape in its ancient rather than modern aspect. As expected, this task often met insurmountable difficulties, due to the lack of data. In those cases, at least an effort was made to eliminate known modern features and to restore the affected landscapes.
The atlas' production began in 1988 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and involved a team of 221 classicists and 22 map makers.[1] The effort was funded by $4.5 million—"an unusually large sum for a project in the humanities"[2]—in federal and private donations. The largest individual contributor was Robert B. Strassler's family philanthropy The Barrington Foundation which supported the project with over $1 million and for which, in accordance with the donor's wishes, the atlas is named. (The foundation, in turn, is named after the Strassler family's place of residence, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.)[3]:4[4]:23
The atlas provides an up-to-date reference for ancient geography, superseding William Smith's An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical (London: John Murray, 1872–1874), the last successfully completed attempt to comprehensively map the Greco-Roman world and reflect the state of scholarship.[5]
An ongoing wiki-like on-line large scale collaboration for maintaining and diversifying the Barrington Atlas data-set is carried on by the Pleiades Project.[6]
Period coverageEdit
The time period covered is roughly from 1000 BC up to c. AD 640, categorized as following:
Archaic period (pre-550 BC]
Classical period (550–330 BC)
Hellenistic period / Middle to Late Republican period at Rome (330 BC–30 BC)
Early Roman Empire (30 BC–AD 300)
Late Antiquity (300–640)
All eras are covered in every map (i.e. there are not separate maps for different periods of the same region).
Naming conventionsEdit
The Latin titles given to the regional categories and to the individual maps (see below) are no more than generalized identifications. E.g. Internum Mare (literally, "Internal Sea") is the region around Mediterranean Sea.
Inside maps, ancient names are underlined with specific colors, when they are applicable only to a specific era. Where modern names are used, they are printed in different (sans-serif) font. For the physical features, standard Latin descriptive terms are usually used (e.g. Lacus for Lake, Mons for Mountain). Explanations for these terms are given in the Map Key. When there is doubt whether the name correctly applies to a feature or area, it is followed by a question mark. When only the approximate location is known, the name is italicized.
Atlas volume contentsEdit
Contributors, Reviewers, Cartographers
Preface, Introduction, Guidelines for Reference
MapQuest Production Data, Map Bases
Six small-scale overview maps at 1:5,000,000:
Map Key, Internum Mare (Mediterranean Sea)
Hibernia-Scandinavia
Asia Occidentalis (Southwest Asia)
Arabia-Azania
Asia Orientalis (Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Indus valley)
Then 93 maps are divided into six regional categories :
Part 1: Europa Septentrionalis (Northern Europe)
Part 2: Hispania-Libya
Part 3: Italia
Part 4: Graecia-Asia Minor
Part 5: Syria-Meroe
Part 6: Pontus Euxinus-Persicus Sinus-Bactria
Then the provinces of the Roman Empire are presented in three 1:10,000,000 maps:
Provinces at the death of Trajan (117)
Dioceses and provinces according to the Verona List (c. 303-324)
Dioceses and provinces according to Synecdemus of Hierocles (late 5th - early 6th century)
Map-by-map directory contentsEdit
The two volumes[7] (and the CD-ROM) contain:
A separate directory for each map whose main components are:
an introductory text
a listing of names and features (with period, modern name and literature reference information)
The CD-ROM also contains the gazetteer in PDF format and an installer of the version 4 of Adobe Acrobat Reader with Search for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. However, on Windows systems with the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader already installed, installation of the version 4 might lead to incompatibility problems.
The supplied PDF index file BATLINDX.PDX is readable for Acrobat Reader versions up to and including version 9. For version X and later, using the "Use Advanced Search Options" item in the "Edit" menu may be a workaround. However, searching the complete index directory will take a while and with each new search the scanning of PDF files starts again from scratch. In general it will be faster to look for a name in the index. So, though the atlas claims to be "a reference work of permanent value",[8] a simple Acrobat Reader update will cripple its usability even for users who have the printed version of the map-by-map directory available, because the index shows only the main entries for each object.
The map-by-map directory and the gazetteer are also available in PDF format at the Princeton University Press website.[9] Until 2013, a free download of the CD-ROM as a ZIP file was offered as well.[10]
iPad versionEdit
In November 2013, PUP released an iPad 2+ App version of the Atlas which retailed at a 95% discount from the hardcover edition making it more accessible to the average reader.[11][12] It contains the complete contents of the atlas and is searchable.[13]
Current editionsEdit
Hardback (cloth) with CD-ROM Map-by-Map Directory, 2000, ISBN 0-691-03169-X
Hardback (cloth) with CD-ROM & two-volume 1,500 page Map-by-Map Directory, 2000, ISBN 0-691-04962-9
Hardback (cloth) two-volume Map-by-Map Directory, 2000, ISBN 0-691-04945-9
Digital (iPad 2+ App), 2013
^ D. J. R. Bruckner (March 4, 2001). "Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World". The New York Times Book Review. p. 22.
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Home » Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Fuel Venezuela’s Dollarization
Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Fuel Venezuela’s Dollarization
Andrea Rondon: “When the state is the trafficker, the dollar injections are much wider because it doesn’t have the natural obstacles” (Andina)
Much of the dollars now circulating in Venezuela allegedly come from money laundering and drug trafficking.
1. Aclaratoria para los que están afuera y no entienden lo que está ocurriendo en el país en este momento:
Voy a explicar lo que siento, con posibilidad de equivocarme porque vivo aquí y estoy contaminada del día a día.
— Andrea Rondón García (@arondon75) December 12, 2019
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A study carried out by Ecoanalítica and published by Bloomberg revealed that more than half of the retail transactions in American currency in a country where salaries are set in bolivars and the minimum wage is less than five dollars a month.
The dollarization, which has rebounded in the country, is due to the recent relaxation of price controls. However, prices are so high that those who depend on wages in bolivars cannot afford anything.
Although there is the talk of a kind of “normalization” of the economy in the South American country, what is happening is a “mercantilism of the 21st Century,” according to Andrea Rondon, a university professor and member of CEDICE Libertad’s academic committee.
The expert explained that the economy would not improve unless the laws and controls change. On the contrary, what we have is a “relaxation” that was forced because the state was “strangled” with sanctions.
“In these last two months there is a kind of feeling of improvement because you see inns, premises that are opening and that create the appearance of investment; and I say appearance because they are not necessarily so. Many are probably linked to money laundering,” he explained.
Rondon pointed out that the state injects a lot of those dollars that are circulating today in Venezuela.
“We must remember that one of the biggest problems of drug trafficking is to mobilize cash and launder it, but when it is the state that is trafficking, the injections are much more extensive because it does not have the natural obstacles. That is why it is also assumed that the largest injection of dollars comes from there,” he said.
The specialist explained that for Nicolas Maduro’s regime, the dollars no longer come from oil rent but from illicit transactions: money that arrives in cash and is laundered with “investments” in legal businesses.
For more than two decades, chavismo imposed laws, economic and penal sanctions on those who freely accessed the dollar. Besides, the exchange control killed more than 10,200 companies and devalued the Bolivar to its peak. However, Maduro, who had said that the dollar was a currency “without backing,” is now thanking God for the dollarization of the country.
After drowning in international sanctions, chavismo was forced to give in and allow Venezuelans to trade dollars. It is already common in the South American country to charge in U.S. currency for private medical consultations, insurance, tourist services, electrical appliances, real estate, restaurant bills, private education, and even commercial activities such as shopping in the market and transportation.
Professionals such as dentists, lawyers, surgeons, etc., offer their services in exchange for payment in dollars with no question because it is logical to assume the source of the money.
An economic bubble
Despite the talk of a supposed “normalization,” the truth is that Caracas is immersed in an “economic bubble.” According to Andrea Rondon, this is a “feeling of improvement” that is removed from reality.
“In Caracas, the lack of water and electricity, for example, continues. But there is a supposed feeling of improvement because that is where the establishments, the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian companies that are also injecting dollars into Venezuela, are visible. Caracas is the city that shows this economic bubble,” he added.
“The economy is not improving because the same policies persist. The only difference is that they have had to relax the controls because they themselves have been suffocated. The laws and controls are in force, and as long as they remain in effect, we cannot say that there is an improvement,” he said.
Venezuela has become a kind of “modern Cuba.”
Rondon explained that it is tough to provide unbiased information about what is happening in Venezuela because there are no official data available.
“There is massive economic intervention and no official information. It is impossible to surgically separate what part of the money belongs to the state, what comes from drug trafficking, what comes from private enterprise, etc.,” he added.
“Any explanation is short; the market must be transparent and give you as much information as possible. But the intervening state is the one giving the information. That makes everything uncertain, and there is no transparency,” he said.
For Rondon, Venezuela’s economy today resembles that of Cuba and what is happening in China.
“It is a kind of modern Cuba; for example, they do not have to restrict people’s freedom to leave the country. Instead, they set excessive prices and taxes making it hard to buy passports or airline tickets. We have the same shortcomings as Cuba, but it has been modernized. On the other hand, capital is injected, and that is very similar to China. It is not the capitalism of a liberal regime, but a mercantilism of the 21st century. There is no rule of law, and the state intervenes in economic freedoms,” he concluded.
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Treaty of Tripoli
The Treaty of Tripoli usually refers to the first treaty concluded between the United States of America and Tripoli, otherwise known in English as the "Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary". The treaty was signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796 and at Algiers (for a third-party witness) on January 3, 1797, finally receiving ratification from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797 and signed by President John Adams on June 10, 1797.
Soon after the formation of the United States, privateering in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean from the nations of the Barbary Coast prompted the U.S. to form a series of so-called "peace treaties", collectively known as the Barbary Treaties. Individual treaties were negotiated with Morocco (1786), Algeria (1795), Tripoli (1797) and Tunis (1797), all of them more than once.
The United States consul-general to the Barbary states of Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis was Joel Barlow, who dealt with the text of various treaties (including the Treaty of Tripoli) and supported U.S. diplomatic efforts in the Barbary Coast. Commissioner Plenipotentiary of the United States, David Humphreys, was given the right to establish a treaty with Tripoli and assigned Joel Barlow and Joseph Donaldson to broker it. It was Joel Barlow who certified the signatures on the Arabic original and the English copy provided to him. Later, Captain Richard O'Brien established the original transport of the negotiated goods along with the Treaty, but it was the American Consul James Leander Cathcart who delivered the final requirements of payment for the treaty. The treaty was broken in 1801 by the Pasha of Tripoli over President Thomas Jefferson's refusal to pay the Pasha's demands for increased payments. The Treaty was renegotiated in 1805 after the First Barbary War.
The first treaty is cited as historical evidence in the contemporary controversy over whether there was religious intent by the founders of the United States government. Article 11 of the first treaty has been interpreted as an official denial of a Christian basis for the U.S. government.
Barbary Pirates
For three centuries up to the time of the Treaty, the Mediterranean Sea lanes had been largely controlled by the north African Muslim states of the Barbary Coast (Tripoli, Algiers, Morocco and Tunis) through privateering (government-sanctioned piracy). The Barbary nations considered themselves to be at war with any nation that had not negotiated a "peace treaty" with them for a sum of money. [David McCullough, "John Adams" (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks), 2001, p. 353.] Hostages captured by the Barbary pirates were either ransomed or forced into slavery, contributing to the greater Ottoman slave trade (of which the Barbary states were a segment). Life for the captives often was harsh, especially for Christian captives, and many died from their treatment. Some captives "went Turk", that is, converted to Islam, a choice that made life in captivity easier for them. [cite web|last=Oren|first=Michael B.|title=The Middle East and the Making of the United States, 1776 to 1815|date=2005-11-03|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/11/michaelOren.html| accessdate=2008-02-11]
Colonial America had come under attack as early as 1628. Attacks continued into the 18th century, until advances in European (especially British) military power began to limit the reach of the Barbary nations. Before the American Revolution, the British colonies in North America were protected from the Barbary pirates by British warships and treaties. During the Revolution, monarchical France formed an alliance with the colonies and assumed the responsibility of providing protection of U.S. ships against the Barbary pirates. [ [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html The Thomas Jefferson Papers - America and the Barbary Pirates - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) ] ] After the U.S. won its independence with the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783), it had to face the threat of the Barbary pirates on its own. Two American ships were captured by Algerian pirates in July 1785 and the survivors forced into slavery, their ransom set at $60,000. A rumor that Benjamin Franklin, who was en route from France to Philadelphia about that time, had been captured by Barbary pirates, caused considerable upset in the U.S. [David McCullough, "John Adams" (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks), 2001, p. 352.] Without a standing navy, much less a navy capable of projecting force across an ocean, the U.S. was forced to pay tribute monies and goods to the Barbary nations for the security of its ships and the freedom of its captured citizens. As General William Eaton informed newly-appointed Secretary of State John Marshall in 1800, "It is a maxim of the Barbary States, that 'The Christians who would be on good terms with them must fight well or pay well.'" [ [http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=125 "Treaty of Tripoli." Wallbuilders.] ]
In the course of negotiating with the Barbary nations, each of the Barbary rulers continuously demanded increased payments to maintain peace, even while occasionally capturing U.S. ships. The Pasha of Tripoli was jealous of the ships the U.S. had recently given to Algeria, and demanded similar payment be made to him. On September 25, 1800, Tripoli captured the U.S. ship, "Catherine," robbed the crew and plundered its cargo. The Pasha said this was a mistake and the captain responsible for the capture had been punished. Even so, the Pasha warned Cathcart that either the U.S. send additional payments, or the Pasha would declare war on U.S. vessels within six months.
The Pasha then commenced thus: "Counsul there is no Nation I wish more to be at Peace with than yours, but all Nations pay me & so must the Americans." I answered "we have already paid you all we owe you & are nothing in arrears." He answered that for the Peace we had paid him it was true, but to maintain the Peace we had given him nothing. I observed that the terms of our Treaty were to pay him the stipulated stores [and the] cash and in full of all demands forever.... The Pasha then observed that we had given a great deal to Algiers and Tunis.... he hoped the United States would neglect him as six or eight vessels of the value of his would amount to a much larger sum than ever he expected to get from the United States for remaining at Peace.London, Joshua. "Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation." John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 2005. P 93.]
Meanwhile, the U.S. was quickly losing patience with the Barbary nations, and had been building up its Navy in preparation for armed confrontation. On May 15, 1801, President Thomas Jefferson's cabinet again advised him to send a squadron to the Mediterranean, but only as a retaliatory force. On May 20, 1801, Commodore Richard Dale was commissioned to lead three frigates and a schooner to patrol the Mediterranean sea lanes. They set sail on June 2, 1801. However, unknown to Jefferson, the Pasha of Tripoli declared war against the United States on May 10, 1801. [ [http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm Archiving Early America: Terrorism In Early America: The U.S. Wages War Against The Barbary States To End International Blackmail and Terrorism] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994562-3,00.html "To The Shores Of Tripoli." Time.] ] [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59720-2001Oct14?language=printer "Terrorists by Another Name: The Barbary Pirates." "Washington Post."] ] In sending the Navy squadron to the Mediterranean, Jefferson declared,
"To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean."cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html |title=The Thomas Jefferson Papers |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=2008-02-02]
Soon after Commodore Dale sailed into a neutral British port near the Straits of Gibraltar, he discovered that Tripoli had declared war on the U.S. Dale’s commission only authorized him to blockade adversarial ports and capture hostile ships, so he could not attack Tripoli directly. However, he notified the Pasha of Tripoli that he could negotiate terms of surrender.
Through subsequent battles, Tripoli eventually agreed to terms of peace with the United States. Tobias Lear negotiated a second "Treaty of Peace and Amity" with the Pasha Yusuf on June 4, 1805.cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1805t.htm |title=Treaty of Peace and Amity |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=2008-02-02] To the dismay of many Americans, the new settlement included a ransom of $60,000 paid for the release of prisoners from the USS "Philadelphia" and several U.S. merchant ships. By 1807, Algiers had gone back to taking U.S. ships and seamen hostage. Distracted by the preludes to the War of 1812, the United States was unable to respond to the provocations until 1815, with the Second Barbary War, thereby concluding the encompassing Tripolitan Wars (1800-1815).
igning and ratification
David Humphreys was appointed Commissioner Plenipotentiary on March 30, 1795, in order to serve with the negotiation of the treaty between the United States and the Barbary powers. On February 10, 1796, he appointed Joel Barlow and Joseph Donaldson as "Junior Agents" to forge a "Treaty of Peace and Friendship"cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm#t3 |title=The Barbary Treaties : Tripoli 1796 - Humphrey's Declaration |publisher=The Avalon Project at Yale Law School |accessdate=2007-05-08] . Under Humphreys's authority, the treaty was signed at Tripoli on November 4 1796, and certified at Algiers on January 3, 1797. Humphreys reviewed the treaty and approved it in Lisbon on February 10, 1797.
The official treaty was in Arabic text, and a translated version by Consul-General Barlow was ratified by the United States on June 10, 1797. Article 11 of the treaty was said to have not been part of the original Arabic version of the treaty; in its place is a letter from the Dey of Algiers to the Pasha of Tripoli. However, it is the English text which was ratified by Congress.
The Treaty also had spent 7 months traveling from Tripoli to Algiers to Portugal and, finally, to the United States, and had been signed by officials at each stop along the way. Neither Congress nor President Adams would have been able to cancel the terms of the Treaty by the time they first saw it, and there is no record of discussion or debate of the Treaty of Tripoli at the time that it was ratified. However, there is a statement made by President Adams on the document that reads:
Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the End that the said Treaty may be observed, and performed with good Faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; And I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill the said Treaty and every clause and article thereof.
Official records show that after President John Adams sent the treaty to the Senate for ratification in May 1797, the entire treaty was read aloud on the Senate floor, and copies were printed for every Senator. A committee considered the treaty and recommended ratification, 23 of the 32 sitting Senators were present for the June 7 vote which unanimously approved the ratification recommendation. [Citation |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(ej001383)):
title=Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1805 WEDNESDAY, June 7, 1797
publisher=U.S. Library of Congress |accessdate=2008-02-02]
However, before anyone in the United States saw the Treaty, its required payments, in the form of goods and money, had been made in part. As Barlow declared: "The present writing done by our hand and delivered to the American Captain OBrien makes known that he has delivered to us forty thousand Spanish dollars,-thirteen watches of gold, silver & pinsbach,-five rings, of which three of diamonds, one of saphire and one with a watch in it, One hundred & forty piques of cloth, and four caftans of brocade,-and these on account of the peace concluded with the Americans."cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm#t1 |title=The Barbary Treaties : Tripoli 1796 - Barlow's Receipt of Goods |publisher=The Avalon Project at Yale Law School |accessdate=2007-05-08] However, this was an incomplete amount of goods stipulated under the treaty (according to the Pasha of Tripoli) and an additional $18,000 dollars had to be paid by the American Consul James Leander Cathcart at his arrival on April 10, 1799.cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796n.htm#n5 |title=The Barbary Treaties : Tripoli 1796 - Hunter Miller's Notes |publisher=The Avalon Project at Yale Law School |accessdate=2007-05-08]
It was not until these final goods were delivered that the Pasha of Tripoli recognized the Treaty as official. As Hunter Miller describes, "While the original ratification remained in the hands of Cathcart... it is possible that a copy thereof was delivered upon the settlement of April 10, 1799, and further possible that there was something almost in the nature of an exchange of ratifications of the treaty on or about April 10, 1799, the day of the agreed settlement." It is then that the Pasha declares in a Letter to John Adams on April 15, 1799, "Whereby we have consummated the Peace which shall, on our side, be inviolate, provided You are Willing to treat us as You do other Regencies, without any difference being made between Us. Which is the whole of what We have, at present, to say to You, wishing you at the same time the most unlimited prosperity."
Two controversies are associated with the Treaty of Tripoli document and its Article 11.
Article 11 has been a point of contention in disputes on the doctrine of separation of church and state as it applies to the founding principles of the United States.Fact|date=February 2008
Article 11 reads:
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Advocates of the separation of church and state claim [ [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050221/allen "Our Godless Constitution"] , "The Nation", February 3, 2005, retrieved June 21, 2008] that this text constitutes evidence that the United States was not founded on Christian principles. The Senate's ratification was only the third recorded unanimous vote of 339 taken. The treaty was printed in the "Philadelphia Gazette" and two New York papers, with no evidence of any public dissent.
Advocates of the Christian foundation of the government point to the factFact|date=May 2008 that the purpose of the treaty was not to govern the relationship between church and state, but to deal with issues of piracy. One therefore cannot presume that everyone or anyone who voted to ratify this treaty agreed with the language of Article 11, which was arguably collateral to the treaty's purpose.
Translation controversy
The translation of the Treaty of Tripoli by Barlow has been found faulty, and there is doubt whether Article 11 corresponds to anything of the same purport in the Arabic version. [C. Snouck Hurgronje, [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796e.htm translation of Arabic text of treaty] (1930), via Avalon Project (some OCR errors)- accessed 2008-04-15]
In 1931 Hunter Miller completed a commission by the United States government to analyze United States's treaties and to explain how they function and what they mean in terms of the United States's legal position in relationship with the rest of the world. [His work on the Treaty of Tripoli can be found in Volume Two of the "Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America".] According to Hunter Miller's notes, "the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic" and "Article 11... does not exist at all."cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796n.htm#n6 |title=The Barbary Treaties : Tripoli 1796 - Hunter Miller's Notes |publisher=The Avalon Project at Yale Law School |accessdate=2007-05-08]
After comparing the United States's version by Barlow with the Arabic and even the Italian version, Miller continues by claiming that:
The Arabic text which is between Articles 10 and 12 is in form a letter, crude and flamboyant and withal quite unimportant, from the Dey of Algiers to the Pasha of Tripoli. How that script came to be written and to be regarded, as in the Barlow translation, as Article 11 of the treaty as there written, is a mystery and seemingly must remain so. Nothing in the diplomatic correspondence of the time throws any light whatever on the point.
From this, Miller concludes: "A further and perhaps equal mystery is the fact that since 1797 the Barlow translation has been trustfully and universally accepted as the just equivalent of the Arabic... yet evidence of the erroneous character of the Barlow translation has been in the archives of the Department of State since perhaps 1800 or thereabouts..."
*Barbary treaties
*List of treaties
* [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/barmenu.htm Treaties with The Barbary Powers: 1786-1836]
** [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm 1796 Treaty Text and Related Documents]
** [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796e.htm 1796 Treaty - The 1930 Annotated Translation from Arabic]
*Arguments in support of view that Article 11 shows the United States was not a Christian nation:
** [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/archive/boston_tripoli.html Joel Barlow and The Treaty With Tripoli]
** [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html Does the 1796-97 Treaty with Tripoli Matter to Church/State Separation?]
*Arguments against the view that Article 11 shows the United States was not a Christian nation:
** [http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=125 Treaty of Tripoli]
** [http://www.tektonics.org/qt/tripoli.html What About Article 11 in the Treaty of Tripoli?]
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Honda Motor Co to exhibit prototype of Pilot sport utility vehicle at North American International Auto Show in Detroit
Honda Motor Co. will present at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit a prototype of the next-generation Pilot sport utility vehicle.
Honda said the new Pilot is sleek and futuristic-looking and will have advanced safety and fuel efficiency technology.
Details about the technology and other features will be released during the auto show's media previews, said Honda spokesman Chris Martin. The previews run from Jan. 13-15.
Martin said the new version will have the same functionality as the current vehicle, which seats eight and has medium-duty off-road and all-weather capability.
"We'll basically be sticking true to what the current product does," he said.
The current boxy-looking Pilot made its debut in June 2002 as a 2003 model. The base price for the two-wheel-drive model currently is $27,595 (18,804 EUR).
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In Memoriam: Ruth Spira of Lutron
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Coopersburg, Pa.-based resident Ruth Rodale Spira, Co-Founder and Co-Chairwoman of Lutron Electronics, died August 31 in Allentown, Pa., at the age of 90. Ruth was pre-deceased by her husband of 60 years, Lutron Chairman, Co-Founder & Director of Research, Joel Spira, in 2015.
Born on December 9, 1928, to J.I. and Anna (Andrews) Rodale, Ruth earned a bachelor’s degree in Botany from Wellesley College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Muhlenberg College. Following her graduation, she joined Rodale Press which was founded by her parents. In time, she became Editor of the periodical Organic Gardening & Farming and saved up her money for a trip of a lifetime. Always adventurous, Ruth traveled to Paris at age 26 in the 1950s as a single woman, which was almost unheard of at the time. During her trip, she became fluent in French and developed a love of French and Asian food. Upon her return, she settled in New York City and became a researcher for an encyclopedia company. Soon after, she met her husband, Joel, and together they enjoyed their life in New York City. Ruth continued her love of Chinese and European food and would host many dinner parties for family and friends.
Joel and Ruth started Lutron in the spare bedroom of their Upper West Side apartment. Together, they grew Lutron from a local Coopersburg, Pa.-based entrepreneurial business that sold two products to the global leader in lighting and shading controls.
In the early days, Ruth was hand- on in the quality control area, making sure all products were properly tested. As a leader in more and more areas of the company, she always advocated for the highest quality in both product and communications.
Considered to be the cornerstone of the company, Ruth created and implemented Lutron’s familial culture of inclusiveness and community, welcoming everyone through the door as family. Today, nearly 60 years later, this warm culture is the hallmark of Lutron.
Ruth’s impact on the company could be felt worldwide. She established Lutron’s Marketing Communications department in 1982 and went on to develop much of Lutron’s marketing materials used throughout the world. She took great pride in mentoring many people around the globe and welcoming them into the Lutron family. She also took great pride in, and was very active in, giving back to the local community. For decades, she was active with numerous organizations, including the Allentown Art Museum, the Allentown Arts Commission, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, and the Lehigh Valley Wellesley College Group. She had served as a trustee for Cedar Crest College and as a board member for the DeSales University Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. She was also an active member of Lutron’s Advisory Council. In addition, Ruth co-founded Subarashii Kudamono (Japanese translation: Wonderful Fruit), a Lehigh Valley-based grower and producer of Asian pears. Subarashii Kudamono pears and pear products are sold nationally to restaurants, corporate programs, and online.
Ruth loved her family and upheld numerous traditions including Wednesday movie night with Joel. With a passion for international food and travel, Ruth was a woman ahead of her times and introduced Joel to new cultures and new ideas. She had a passion for cooking and published Naturally Chinese: Healthful Cooking for China in 1977 to offer a healthy approach to preparing Chinese food.
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How the eurozone crisis is spurring a North American buying spree
As Spain speeds toward a bailout that could rattle the world economy, North American buyers are finding a rare opportunity to snag some of Europe’s choicest assets
Nicolas Van Praet
Jun 01, 2012 • Last Updated June 1, 2012 • 4 minute read
As Spain speeds toward a bailout that could rattle the world economy, North American buyers are finding a rare opportunity to snag some of Europe’s choicest assets.
Over the past five months alone, there have been several examples of Canadian, American and Mexican investors taking over European companies or boosting their equity stakes. And the trend shows no sign of ebbing.
‘If you’re a long-term investor with financial flexibility, with cash, with no liquidity issues, then what’s happening in Europe, that’s an opportunity’
Molson Coors Brewing Co. bid US$3.5-billion for Czech brewer Starbev. Convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. offered $2.8-billion for Statoil ASA’s gas stations in Scandinavia. Pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec boosted its stake in French transportation group Keolis to 30% from 20% and spent $500-million to buy real estate in London and Paris.The latest move came this past week when Montreal technology services company CGI Group Inc. announced a $2.8-billion play for U.K.-based Logica PLC. CGI is funding the bid with a $1-billion investment from the Caisse as well as bank debt.
Not a day goes by that a chief executive or chief financial officer doesn’t show up on CBNC or BNN and voice their worry that Greece’s potential departure from the 17-member monetary union could throw the region into chaos.
Others believe it’s inevitable that Spain will need a financial rescue of some sort.
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And yet there are plenty of people betting there’s no better time to gobble up some of Europe’s hard assets.
“If you’re a long-term investor with financial flexibility, with cash, with no liquidity issues, then what’s happening in Europe, that’s an opportunity,” Caisse chief executive Michael Sabia told the Financial Post in an interview earlier this year. “Yes, it’s very challenging right now. It’s very tough right now. But therefore asset prices are pretty interesting.”
Share prices of European companies are depressed. CGI is offering an enterprise value multiple of about 6.6 times Logica’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for 2011. Couche-Tard is offering 51.2 kroner in cash for Statoil Fuel and Retail, translating into an enterprise multiple of 6 times trailing 12-month EBITDA.
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Both Canadian firms have had their eye on their targets for some time. But both are now pursuing friendly deals.
Canadian buyers in particular are being helped in their European hunts by the strength of the loonie. The dollar has gained 18% against the euro and 25% against the pound over the past four years.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair may decry our petro-dollar as a negative for central Canada’s manufacturers, whose exports become more expensive to international buyers. But there’s no doubt it’s helping our corporate champions expand overseas.
Canadian buyers are dealing with motivated sellers in many cases.
“There are a number of European companies that are desperate to raise cash,” said John Lonski, chief economist at Moody’s Capital Markets in New York. “They almost need to liquidate assets in order to make good on other obligations owing to reduce access to credit in Europe.”
Losing access to bank credit leaves companies trying to tap the bond market. But that is difficult for most European companies that are too small, Mr. Lonski said.
“This is just a great opportunity for North American businesses to purchase European businesses at bargain prices. It’s a confluence of factors coming together. Share prices, exchange rate and the desire to sell. It is very much a rare opportunity. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that the euro’s going to go down even lower. There is no sign of a bottom yet for European economic activity.”
‘This is just a great opportunity for North American businesses to purchase European businesses at bargain prices’
Another development opening the door for international buyers is the fact some of the traditional buyers of European assets, namely European institutions themselves, aren’t buying. Insurers and banks are facing tighter regulatory oversight requiring them to shore up capital, not spend it. And they’re not lending like they used to.
The result? At the very time some of Europe’s more attractive assets are coming on the market, the buyers with the strongest hands are foreigners.
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man with an estimated net worth of US$69-billion, said recently he would spend $3.4-billion to increase his stake in Dutch wireless provider Royal KPN NV. The Caisse also plans to increase its investments in European infrastructure and other assets, saying pension funds like the Caisse, CPP and Teachers can play a unique role in solving some of the continent’s fiscal problems.
Said Mr. Sabia: “If I were a European government, I would be way more interested in trying to… sell a port, sell a toll road, sell a bridge, sell whatever than I would be continuing to constantly cut social expenditures. Because there are limits to that. There are limits to the political tolerance for those things.”
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GIA and IBM Join Forces to Introduce Artificial Intelligence to Diamond Clarity Grading
In a move that promises to fundamentally change the way diamonds are graded for clarity, the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) has joined forces with tech giant IBM to add artificial intelligence (AI) to the process.
GIA, the world’s leading independent diamond identification and grading authority, and IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs, are developing an advanced AI system built on the standards of GIA’s universally recognized International Diamond Grading System . The artificial intelligence is fueled by data from tens of millions of diamonds examined by GIA’s expert diamond graders in the Institute’s state-of-the-art grading laboratories around the world.
The example, above, shows how an image captured using GIA-developed hardware trains IBM Research’s artificial intelligence software to recognize inclusions and reflections. In the computer rendering, the AI system has correctly identified the clarity characteristics, enabling the AI system to assign a clarity grade.
“GIA is uniquely positioned to leverage AI and set a new bar in diamond grading standards,” said Tom Moses, GIA executive vice president and chief laboratory and research officer. “IBM’s AI technology combined with GIA’s expertise, extensive data and gemological research capabilities enables us to deliver advancements in consistency, accuracy and speed unlike any other organization.”
The proprietary system, which is now in limited use in the Institute’s New York and Carlsbad laboratories, will dramatically expand the reach of GIA’s independent diamond grading reports. Initially concentrating on the most popular diamond sizes, GIA will scale the AI system to bring accurate and efficient diamond grading to more diamond sizes, shapes and qualities.
“Adding AI to our grading methodology reflects GIA’s commitment to protecting consumers in new ways,” said Pritesh Patel, GIA’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, who leads the Institute’s digital transformation effort. “We are proud to be the first to collaborate with IBM to bring this innovative approach to the gem and jewelry industry, especially as we prepare to adapt to the accelerated changes we know are coming. This is just the beginning.”
“This newest application of IBM Research’s AI technology for the diamond industry combines GIA’s deep gemological knowledge and data with IBM’s leadership in AI innovation,” said Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow, Enterprise Solutions at IBM Research. “This system has the ability to accurately and consistently evaluate the overall effect of diamond clarity features like never before.”
Plans are in development to expand the collaboration between GIA and IBM for future projects combining gemological evaluation and AI.
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John Lennon picked his 5 favourite songs from The Beatles
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Far Out Staff· October 15, 2020
Formed by John Lennon after he invited Paul McCartney to join the Quarrymen, The Beatles remain to this day one of the most extraordinary bands to have ever existed. A plethora of hits came from all four corners of the band and the discussion about their greatest hits has been debated by fans for decades.
While many interviewers attempted to prise personal opinion out of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, very rarely did they play ball. However, as part of Lennon’s now-iconic conversation with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, the founding member is talking about just that, a time when he openly shared some of his favourite songs from The Beatles extensive back catalogue amidst a hefty interview. With it, he offers the one fundamental theme throughout all of the Fab Four’s work; authenticity.
After avoiding a simple question from Wenner on Lennon’s favourite song he ever wrote for The Beatles, he delivers a typically flagrant response. Lennon says.”I always liked ‘[I Am The] Walrus’, ‘Strawberry Fields’, ‘Help’, ‘In My Life’,” Wenner soon interjects, “Why ‘Help!’?” Lennon delivers a typically coloured response.
The singer and guitarist replied: “Because I meant it, it’s real. The lyric is as good now as it was then, it’s no different, you know. It makes me feel secure to know that I was that sensible or whatever—well, not sensible, but aware of myself. That’s with no acid, no nothing… well pot or whatever.” Lennon clarifies his point, “It was just me singing ‘help’ and I meant it, you know. I don’t like the recording that much, the song I like. We did it too fast to try and be commercial.”
He also picks up on ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ for its raw authenticity. “We [Paul & John] wrote that together, it’s a beautiful melody. I might do that and ‘Help!’ again. Because I like them. I sing them, you know, they’re the kind of songs I like to sing.”
When asked why he liked the 1967 anthem ‘Strawberry Fileds Forever’, Lennon replied, “Because it’s real, yeah. It’s like talking you know, ‘I sometimes think no but then again I mean‘ you know, like that. It’s like that Elton John one where he’s talking to himself sort of singing which I thought was nice.”
After being drawn into speaking about ‘Girl’ Lennon quickly shares that he always hated ‘Run For Your Life’ because it was “phony”. But the former was different “’Girl’ was real. There’s no such thing as the girl, she was a dream, you know. But the words are alright. It’s about, well, ‘she was taught when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure.’ All that, there’s, sort of, philosophy quotes. I was thinking about it when I wrote it, it was just a song. And it was about THAT, that turned out to be Yoko in the end, girl that a lot of us were looking for.”
Lennon also shares a little on why he thinks ‘Across The Universe’ is one of The Beatles’ best, “It’s one of the best lyrics I’ve written. In fact, it could be the best, I don’t know. It’s good poetry or whatever you call it. Without tunes it will stand.”
It’s a testament to Lennon’s patience that he was still happy to answer these questions some years later, and it’s also a testament to the place in Lennon’s heart that he held The Beatles until his untimely death. Listen to John Lennon pick five of his favourite Beatles songs ever below.
John Lennon’s 5 favourite Beatles songs”
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’
‘I Am The Walrus’
‘Girl’
‘Across The Universe’
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“We are frequently tempted to think that holiness is only for those who can withdraw from ordinary affairs to spend much time in prayer. That is not the case. We are called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves” (Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World, Gaudete et exsultate 14). The Second Vatican Council reminds us that there is a universal call to holiness, which means that God calls every person to be in relationship with Him, and He calls each of us to be holy as He is holy (see Leviticus 11:45, 1 Peter 1:15–16). Holiness is to be lived out in one’s particular state in life, and thus for parents, it is to be attained in both their spousal and parental vocations, through the help of God’s grace. This workshop offers reflections on the lives of a few parent saints, whose witness and ways of life inspire us to be holy parents, as we seek to do God’s will in the particular circumstances of our own family life. This workshop's creation was made possible through a generous grant by the Our Sunday Visitor Institute.
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Abbreviations for Magisterial Documents
Apostolicam Actuositatem, Decree on Apostolate of Laity, Second Vatican Council, 1965.
ACCC
Adult Catechesis in the Christian Community, International Council for Catechesis, Libreria Editrice Vaticana and St. Paul Publications, 1990.
Ad Gentes, Decree on Missionary Activity, Second Vatican Council, 1965.
Catechism of the Catholic Church, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1994, second edition, 1997.
Christus Dominus, Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops, Second Vatican Council, 1965.
Codex Iuris Canonici, Code of Canon Law, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1983.
Christifideles Laici, On the Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful, John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation, 1988.
Catechesi Tradendae, On Catechesis in Our Time, John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation, 1979.
Deus Caritas Est, God is Love, Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter, 2005.
General Catechetical Directory, Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, 1971.
Dei Verbum, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Second Vatican Council, 1965.
Evangelii Nuntiandi, Evangelization in the Modern World, Paul VI, Encyclical Letter, 1975.
Evangelium Vitae, The Gospel of Life, John Paul II, Encyclical Letter, 1995.
Fidei Depositum, On the Publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, John Paul II, Apostolic Constitution, 1992.
Guide for Catechists, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, 1993.
General Directory for Catechesis, Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, 1997.
GIRM
General Instruction of the Roman Missal, Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 2011.
General Introduction, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, English-language vernacular typical edition of Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum, 1988.
Gaudium et Spes, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Second Vatican Council,1965.
Lectionary for Mass, Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 1997.
Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Second Vatican Council, 1964.
Missale Romanum, Apostolic Constitution on Promulgation of the Roman Missal Revised by Decree of the Second Vatican Council, Paul VI, 1969.
National Directory for Catechesis, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005.
Novo Millennio Ineunte, John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, 2001.
National Statutes for the Catechumenate, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1986 (Appendix III in Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults editions published in the United States).
Paterna cum Benevolentia, On Reconciliation within the Church, Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation, 1974.
Redemptor Hominis, The Redeemer of Man, John Paul II, Encyclical Letter, 1979.
Populorum Progressio, The Development of Peoples, Paul VI, Encyclical Letter, 1967.
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, English-language vernacular typical edition of Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum,1988.
Redemptoris Missio, The Mission of the Redeemer, John Paul II, Encyclical Letter, 1990.
Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Second Vatican Council, 1963.
Unitatis Redintegratio, Decree on Ecumenism, Second Vatican Council, 1964.
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Fr. Hardon's Catholic Dictionary
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Ryan Hanning is a professor of Church History and Catholic Studies. He travels throughout the US, Canada and Europe teaching and speaking at both church and academic conferences. In addition... Read more
Ryan Hanning is a professor of Church History and Catholic Studies. He travels throughout the US, Canada and Europe teaching and speaking at both church and academic conferences. In addition to teaching, Ryan has served in Diocesan Catechetical and University administration helping form the partnership between the University of Mary and Arizona State University as well as create graduate level education programs for Catholic School teachers. He taught comparative religion, and New Testament for over ten years, and for the past ten years has focused primarily on Church History, the development of theology in both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions, as well as the history and identity of Catholic Schools in the United States. He completed his undergraduate degree in Religious Studies ASU, his graduate degree in Education at NAU, studied post-graduate theology at University of Dallas, and completed his PhD in Theology at Maryvale Institute, Liverpool Hope University, UK. His studies have included time in both Oxford and Cambridge, as well as a short time at the Jagiellonian in Krakow, Poland. He and his wife homestead in Whites Creek, Tennessee with their nine children.
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Bu470 assignment 04 new | Business & Finance homework help
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The questions in Part A refer to the material discussed in Lesson 1 of this course. Respond to the following.
Describe the strategic management process. What does it mean to manage strategically?
Apply what you have learned in this lesson by reading the brief below and answer the questions that follow.
As the world’s largest beauty products company, L’Oréal SA creates cosmetics, perfume, and hair and skin care items. However, as the global economy continued down a fluctuating and uncertain path, the French company found itself with stagnating sales. According to company officials, one contributing factor was higher raw materials costs that have hit many companies, including L’Oréal, which uses oil in its products and packaging. However, weak consumer demand and currency fluctuations played a major role in the sales slowdown. In an effort to reduce its dependence on mature consumer markets such as Europe and the United States, L’Oréal’s strategy is to recruit millions of new consumers in emerging markets from Africa to Asia.
Sources: Based on C. Passariello, “Heiress Loses L’Oréal Family Fight,” Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2011, p. B8; C. Passariello and NoémieBisserbe, “Uncertainty Colors L’Oréal,” Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2011, p. B4; and C. Passariello, “Sales Stagnate at L’Oréal,” Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2011, p. B4.
a. What do you think of L’Oréal’s strategies in light of today’s environment?
b. How might strategic management be useful?
The questions in Part B refer to the material discussed in Lesson 2 of this course. Respond to the following.
1. Describe the three major driving forces of the business environment.
2. Explain the four major implications of these driving forces.
3. Discuss the three critical factors for succeeding in the business environment.
4. Apply what you have learned in this lesson by reading the brief below and answer the questions that follow.
As a pioneer of Internet TV, Hulu is one of the most-watched online video properties in the United States. Hulu operates a Web site that features video from more than 225 content providers. Offerings include TV shows from ABC, Fox, and NBC as well as from cable channels and films from studios including Sony and MGM. Most of the content is streamed free eight days after its broadcast debut. Viewers can watch shows earlier through a premium subscription service called Hulu Plus. Hulu.com attracts some 26 million visitors a month. Hulu is owned by entertainment and broadcasting powerhouses, including NBC Universal, Comcast, News Corp., and Walt Disney Co., and by a private equity firm. However, it now faces a challenging environment in which consumers have a growing number of options on where and how to access content. Hulu’s owners had been exploring a sale of the online video venture but decided in late 2011 not to sell the company. Now they have to figure out what to do with it.
Sources: Based on S. Schechner, “Hulu Puts Owners in New Quandary,” Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2011, p. B1; S. Schechner, “Hulu’s Owners End Efforts to Sell Streaming-TV Website,” Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2011, p. B3; S. Schechner and J. E. Vascellaro, “Hulu Reworks Its Script As Digital Change Hits TV,” Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2011, pp. A1+; and A. Palazzo, “Hulu Says It Will Reach 1 Million Paid-User Goal in 3 Months,” Bloomberg BusinessWeek Online, July 6, 2011.
a. What do you think Hulu’s owners should do now?
b. What is it about this situation context that’s so challenging?
c. What type of resource(s) does Hulu have? Would you call it unique? Explain.
The questions in Part C refer to the material discussed in Lesson 3 of this course.
In Lesson 2 you discussed the industrial organization (I/O) and resource-based views (RBV) on competitive advantage. You now know that competition and competencies are both major organizational concerns. In Lesson 3 we take a closer look at how to conduct an external analysis of an organization’s specific and general environments.
To demonstrate your understanding of external analysis, respond to the following.
1. Describe an external analysis.
2. Assess the benefits and challenges of doing an external analysis.
Digital technology has disrupted all types of industries—from financial services to recorded music. One industry that’s seen a significant impact is the publishing industry. E-book sales have skyrocketed, and one publisher went so far as to predict that e-books could account for as much as 40 percent of total revenue by the end of 2012. Reading those e-books requires a device and the competition in the e-book device industry is fierce.
Amazon fired the first volley when it introduced the Kindle in November 2007. As with any new product, customers had to get used to the new technology, but once they did, the Kindles were on fire! Two years later, retailer Barnes & Noble introduced the Nook, a cheaper e-book device. Amazon responded by cutting the price of its cheapest Kindle. Three months later in January 2010, Apple introduced its iPad. Although it was a more expensive tablet, its functionality and options attracted a lot of attention and sales. In response, Barnes & Noble cut the price of its Nook, and Amazon again cut the price of the Kindle.
By September 2011, Amazon dropped Kindle’s starting price to $79 and launched Kindle Fire. Then in November 2011, Barnes & Noble joined the tablet battle with its $249 Nook Tablet. And these are just the top three competitors. Other industry competitors include the Sony Reader and Endless Ideas’ Be Book Neo. As the popularity of e-books continues to grow, the “reader wars” are likely to continue.
Sources: Based on J. A. Trachtenberg and M. Peers, “Barnes & Noble Seeks Next Chapter,” Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2012, pp. A1+; J. Bosman and M. J. De La Merced, “Barnes & Noble Considers Spinning Off Its Nook Unit,” IPO Offerings.com, January 5, 2012; M. Maxwell, “Barnes & Noble’s Digital Strategy Gaining Traction,” Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2011, p. B3; J. A. Trachtenberg, S. Schechner, and G. Chon, “B&N Vulnerable to Rivals: Amazon, Apple Loom as Bookseller’s Takeover Offer Dies,” Wall Street Journal Online, August 20, 2011; A. Flood, “Hardback Sales Plummeting in Age of the ebook,” The Guardian, [guardian.co.uk], August 12, 2011; and J. Bosman, “Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show,” New York Times Online, August 9, 2011.
a. What affects the level of rivalry? Porter listed eight conditions that contribute to intense rivalry among existing competitors. Using the eight conditions, assess the level of current rivalry in this industry.
b. Which of these eight conditions do you think are the most important to the level of current rivalry in this industry? Why?
c. As the industry matures, do you think the intensity of rivalry will change? Explain.
The questions in Part D refer to the material discussed in Lesson 4 of this course.
As you learned in Lesson 3, performing an external analysis can provide information to be used in planning, decision making, and strategy formulation. Organizations that conduct external analysis are most successful when they combine this knowledge with a solid understanding of their internal strengths and weaknesses.
To demonstrate your understanding of internal analysis, respond to the following.
Define and present the characteristics of distinctive organizational capabilities.
Describe the criteria involved in judging organizational strengths and weaknesses.
Apply what you have learned in this lesson by reading the brief below and answer the question that follows.
The clothing industry isn’t an easy one to compete and be successful in. However, VF Corporation has become one of the world’s largest, most profitable clothing conglomerates by doing many things well. One thing the CEO did was buy languishing fashion brands and turn them into winners. How? By using VF’s capabilities: state-of-the-art distribution, global buying power, and keen merchandising instincts. For instance, VF bought the North Face brand for a bargain price of $135 million, revamped its sourcing, distribution, and financial operations, and was able to nearly double sales over a five-year period. As one analyst said, “The North Face is a great example of what VF can do. For VF it was easy, and it’s not easy for everybody.”
Source: Based on, “VF Corporation: Company Profile,” Datamonitor, December 30, 2011; A. J. Karr, “Global Growth Boosts VF Net,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 22, 2011, p. 2-1; R. Dodes, “VF Dresses Up Its Operations, Bucking Recession,” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2009, p. B3; and M. V. Copeland, “Stitching Together an Apparel Powerhouse,” Business 2.0, April 2005, pp. 52–54.
a. Which characteristics of distinctive capabilities does this illustrate? Explain.
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Ann S. Lieff Joins Furniture Brands International Board Members
Furniture World News on 5/25/2010
Furniture Brands International announced the appointment of a new member to the company’s board of directors.
Ann S. Lieff joined the board effective May 14. Ms. Lieff, 58, is the founder of The Lieff Company, a business consulting firm, and has been its President since 1998. Prior to this, Ms. Lieff was the president and chief executive officer of Spec’s Music, a publicly-held regional retail chain founded in 1948. Ms. Lieff is a member of the board of directors of Hastings Entertainment, a multimedia entertainment retailer, and Birks & Mayors, a jewelry designer and retailer, and the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund. Ms. Lieff had previously served on the board of directors of Claire’s Stores.
Ms. Lieff’s appointment and the recent election to the board of James M. Zimmerman strengthen the retail and general management expertise of the board. From 1988 to his retirement in 2004, Mr. Zimmerman held a number of roles with Federated Department Stores, including chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and chief operating officer. He is currently a director of The Chubb Corporation and Fossil, Inc. and has also served on the boards of the H.J. Heinz Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Convergys Corporation.
"Furniture Brands welcomes Ann and Jim to the board of directors. Their public company board service and experience with the retail consumer will complement the board’s expertise in this important commercial area," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ralph P. Scozzafava. "Our board now represents a broad cross-section of industry, financial, marketing, retail, and corporate governance experience. I look forward to working with Ann and Jim and the rest of the board to continue to drive Furniture Brands’ strategic mission."
About Furniture Brands: Furniture Brands International (NYSE: FBN) is one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers, sourcers, and retailers of home furnishings. It markets through a wide range of retail channels, from mass merchant stores to single-brand and independent dealers to specialized interior designers. Furniture Brands serves its customers through some of the best known and most respected brands in the furniture industry, including Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, Drexel Heritage, Henredon, Pearson, Hickory Chair, Laneventure, and Maitland-Smith.
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Forbidden Siren 2 – Review
Review by Rainbow Despair
Reviewed: 04/20/06
A vast improvement over the original game
Siren 2 for the PS2 (Review based on the Chinese version)
Take 1 part genius and 1 part frustration, mix them together and you had the original Siren game. The game had a very steep learning curve & was relentless in its difficult: one mistake was often all it took to be taken back to the game over screen. Many players went through the first few levels, got stuck on level 4 or 5 (out of 32), and then gave up. However, the few players who persevered and played through the entire game were rewarded with a survival horror game with some interesting gameplay mechanisms and a story that rivaled even Silent Hill 2's story in depth and complexity.
So how does the sequel compare? Read on.
Presentation: A
Siren 1 was a good looking game; Siren 2 is even better. Using a palette of mostly red & grays, the game's visuals do an excellent job at absorbing the player into Siren's creepy world. In between levels, intentionally grainy movies tell a dark story. Although the visuals look better all around, one area that has seen drastic improvement is the first person perspective camera. The first person camera is impressive in its realism: for example, reloading a gun will make the camera go down and actually look at the gun as it's being reloaded. It's now quite possible to play the game entirely in first person perspective if so desired and this provides a new and potentially terrifying way to play the game.
Audio: A
The music and sound effects in this game are designed for one purpose: to thoroughly creep out the player. They succeed. Enemies often chant or otherwise talk to themselves and the effect is unnerving to say the least. Unlike the first game, the sequel now features Dolby Surround Sound so if you have the appropriate sound system, you can expect great things.
Control: B+
The original game had some issues with control, most noticeably having to open a sub-menu to accomplish just about anything. The first level was a particularly bad offender as you had to open the sub-menu up four or five time to accomplish something that would have taken one button press in any normal game. Siren 2 is much improved in this regard. The sub-menu is still around, but now it's used entirely for generic actions like yelling, switching and reloading weapons, and directing companions. Now whenever the player reaches an item that can be interacted with, a command appears on screen, and they merely need press the action button similar to Resident Evil 4's system. In addition to that change, speed while moving in the game's stealth mode has been drastically increased, a very welcome change indeed.
Story: A+
Like the original game, Siren 2 takes an unorthodox approach to storytelling. During the course of the game, the player will have the opportunity to take control of around a dozen different characters from various wakes of life as they try to survive the horrors of Yamajima (the island of shadow). Levels aren't necessarily told in chronological order and important parts of the story are often merely hinted at. The result is an intelligent intertwining story that requires effort on the player's part to understand. And even for a veteran of the first game like myself, I found some of the levels and situations in Siren 2 to be most terrifying indeed. The story is definitely Siren 2's strongest point and to be more specific would be to risk spoiling it.
Gameplay: A-
Siren 1 introduced Sightjacking: the ability to look through another's eyes. This was used extensively in the game to solve puzzles and avoid being detected by enemies since enemies definitely had the upper hand (some characters don't even start out with a weapon). Siren 2 continues to use sightjacking extensively, but it's added a few twists to the formula as a few characters have enhanced sightjacking. One such character has the ability to sightjack into the eyes of people in the past. Another character has the ability to actually control the enemies that she sightjacks into, but only for a limited time. One especially clever scenario has the player controlling a mostly blind man who has the ability to move while sightjacking. Thus he quite literally uses the eyes of his seeing eye dog to maneuver. Between these new sightjacking additions and the addition of a few gung-ho run and gun levels, there is much more variety in the gameplay than Siren 1's sneak, sneak, and sneak some more.
Siren 2 adds a few new enemies to the series. In Siren 2, many of the new enemies can be stunned or even killed by shining light on them. This creates an interesting dilemma for the player: leave the flashlight on to deal with the Yamabito (shadow people) or leave it off so as to avoid alerting the Shibito (dead people)?
Siren 2 manages to eliminate most of the frustration involved with the first game. The result? It's now fun to be scared silly. Three levels of difficulty are available (Hard needs to be unlocked by either beating the game or having finished game data for Siren 1) thus allowing all levels of players to enjoy the game. An extensive hint system is available if desired. Levels have more checkpoints and the checkpoints are kinder; no more dying and discovering that you've been sent to the checkpoint with all of your items missing. The highly annoying 100% accurate snipers that seemed to appear every 3 minutes in the first game are almost entirely gone. The map has been made much more useful by the ability to see where exactly on the map you are instead of having to guess like in the first game. Characters can take more hits this time around and being discovered is no longer a sure-fire trip to the Game Over screen. Combat is much improved with some nice features like being able to use firearms as melee weapons and being able to pick up weapons from fallen enemies. Character AI has been improved; now allies will pick up weapons and actually try to help you instead of just looking on as you get killed by a Shibito. Finally, being able to freely drive a car around a couple of stages (complete with a realistic feeling driver's seat view) is another of the game's many appreciated additions.
One especially nice change is in the game's use of locked stages. The first game received much criticism for forcing the player to do some rather obscure and illogical things in order to unlock some of the later levels: "You mean in order to unlock this level, I need to go back to a previous level, toss a radio down a well, and then wait for a Shibito to come nearby and push it in? How on earth am I supposed to figure something like that without cheating by consulting a guide?" Although Siren 2 does require the player to go back to previous levels to unlock later levels, it now gives much more direction in what needs to be done. Checking the map will reveal a list of events that need to be done in order to unlock later levels with messages like "Pick up an item in such and such room" or "Create a new entrance to the 3rd floor of the mansion."
Longevity: About 20-60 hours
Although the main game will probably only take around 20-25 hours for an average player to complete (less if played on easy mode with all the hints on), mastering the game will take much longer as the player tries to find all of the clues scattered throughout the levels and tries to piece together the story. In addition to the main game, there is also a time trial mode, and some very neat bonus games that can be unlocked. The bonuses vary depending on the difficulty level so there's a definite incentive to go back and beat the game on hard mode.
Overall: A+ (10/10)
Siren 1 was a wonderful horror game with some horrible flaws. Siren 2 is a wonderful horror game without any major flaws. Graphics, audio, gameplay, and story all combine to create one of the most disturbing and scary horror games ever made. Although the game can still be frustrating at times (particularly towards the end), the new additions to the gameplay and a much more balanced difficulty curve ensure that everyone has a chance to enjoy this game, not just the most hardened of the hardcore gamers. Highly recommend to all fans of horror games.
Would you recommend this Review? Yes No
Genre: Action Adventure » Survival
Developer: SCE Japan Studio
Publisher: SCEE
Release: August 4, 2006
Also Known As: Siren 2 (JP, KO)
Franchise: Siren
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witness Free With PlayStation Plus in March
Starting next month, PS3 and PlayStation Vita titles will no longer be offered for free.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 28th, Feb. 2019 Under News
Free PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita titles are being retired from Sony’s PlayStation Plus service after this month. However, March promises two big PS4 titles for subscribers – Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Thekla, Inc’s The Witness. It’s only two games, but they’re certainly worth the price of admission.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is, as the name suggests, a remaster of Infinity Ward’s classic 2007 first person shooter. With revamped graphics, old-school multiplayer, and the same crazy campaign, it’s certainly worth revisiting. As for The Witness, it’s a first person puzzle adventure game designed by Jonathan Blow of Braid fame. The player walks around a mysterious abandoned island, solving puzzles for some higher purpose.
February’s PlayStation Plus titles, including Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Divekick, will be available to download until March 8th. Any PS3 and PS Vita games downloaded in the past will still remain in your library as long as you have PlayStation Plus access.
Tagged With: activision, call of duty: modern warfare remastered, iOS, pc, ps4, Raven Software, The Witness, Thelka Inc., Xbox One
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Batman: White Knight #1 (2nd Printing)
In a world where Batman has gone too far, The Joker must save Gotham City.
He's been called a maniac, a killer and the "Clown Prince of Crime" but "white knight"? Never. Until now...
Set in a world where the Joker is cured of his insanity and homicidal tendencies, The Joker, now known as "Jack," sets about trying to right his wrongs. First he plans to reconcile with Harley Quinn, and then he'll try to save the city from the one person who he thinks is truly Gotham City's greatest villain: Batman!
Superstar writer and artist Sean Murphy (PUNK ROCK JESUS, THE WAKE) presents a eight-issue miniseries of a twisted Gotham City with a massive cast of heroes and villains that, at its heart, is a tragic story of a hero and a villain: Batman and The Joker. But which is the hero-and which the villain?
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Podcast 144: Luthiers Linda Manzer, David Wren and Tony Duggan-Smith 0
On today’s podcast, acclaimed luthiers Linda Manzer, David Wren and Tony Duggan-Smith gather around Manzer's kitchen table to talk to us about their new Group of Seven guitar project.
The Group of Seven consisted of Canadian landscape painters Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Franklin Carmichael, Frank Johnston, F.H. Varley and A.Y. Jackson. These seven artist friends were prolific through the 1920s and early '30s and are now considered highly influential.
Manzer saw similarities between the bond these seven legendary artists had and the one she shares with fellow luthiers and friends who studied under Jean Larrivee, decades ago. She decided to pay homage by having seven guitars built. Each luthier would focus on a different Group of Seven member.
The luthiers participating include Manzer, Sergi de Jonge, Duggan-Smith, Wren, George Gray, Grit Laskin and Jean Larrivée. The luthiers also built an eighth guitar as a group to pay tribute to painter Tom Thomson.
The project launches May 6, 2017 at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection outside of Toronto and the guitars will be on display through October in a room right next to the art that inspired them.
http://mcmichael.com/event/the-group-of-seven-guitar-project-summer-2017/
http://www.manzer.com/guitars/
http://www.wrenguitarworks.com
http://www.tonyduggan-smith.com
This episode is sponsored by our friends at Retrofret and Dying Breed Music.
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Harajuku Kid
Japan began to emulate Western fashion during the middle of the 19th century. By the beginning of the 21st century it had altered into what is known today as 'street fashion'. The term 'street fashion' is used to describe fashion where the wearer customizes outfits by adopting a mixture of current and traditional trends. Such clothes are generally home-made with the use of material purchased at stores.
At present there are many styles of dress in Japan, created from a mix of both local and foreign labels. Some of these styles are extreme and avant-garde, similar to the haute couture seen on European catwalks. The rise and fall of many of these trends has been chronicled by Shoichi Aoki since 1997 in the fashion magazine FRUiTS, which is a notable magazine for the promotion of street fashion in Japan.
Though the styles have changed over the years, street fashion is still prominent in Japan today. Young adults can often be found wearing subculture attire in large urban fashion districts such as Harajuku, Ginza, Odaiba, Shinjuku and Shibuya.
Although Japanese street fashion is known for its mix-match of different styles and genres, and there is no single sought-after brand that can consistently appeal to all fashion groups, the huge demand created by the fashion-conscious population is fed and supported by Japan’s vibrant fashion industry. Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of the Comme des Garçons are often said to be the three cornerstone brands of Japanese fashion. Together they were particularly recognized as a Japanese fashion force in the early 80s for their intensive use of monochrome color and cutting-edge design.
As early as the 50s, there were a few brands specially catered to street fashion, like Onitsuka Tiger (now known as the ASICS), but arguably it was until the early 90s that the industry saw a blooming emergence of street fashion brands. The most popular ones include: A Bathing Ape, Comme des Garçons, Evisu, Head Porter, OriginalFake, Uniqlo, Visvim, W)TAPs, and XLarge. Street Fashion brands frequently feature collaborations with popular artists and designers and use limited edition as a selling strategy. There are also brands that target specific fashion groups. For example, Angelic Pretty is for Sweet Lolita style and Sex Pot Revenge for Punk style.
Every Sunday, young people dressed in a variety of styles including gothic lolita, visual kei, and decora, as well as cosplayers spend the day in Harajuku socializing. The fashion styles of these youths rarely conform to one particular style and are usually a mesh of many. Most young people gather on Jingu Bridge, which is a pedestrian bridge that connects Harajuku to the neighboring Meiji Shrine area.
The term "Harajuku Girls" has been used by English-language media to describe teenagers dressed in any fashion style who are in the area of Harajuku. This fashion infuses multiple looks and styles to create a unique form of dress.
The Harajuku culture has spread throughout the globe thanks to artists such as Gwen Stefani and the contents from her album Love. Angel. Music. Baby., as well as her Harajuku Girls dancing entourage, which performs along with Stefani on live performances and music videos. This also lead Stefani to create a Harajuku-related fashion accesories brand known as Harajuku Lovers.
Harajuku Kids listen to a variety of japanese music, from jPop to visual-kei. Western Weeaboo and j-goths take a lot of inspiration from Harajuku.
Info mostly from wikipedia, image from deviantart, last paragraph by me.
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K.K. DOWNING 'Shocked' Even Himself By His Decision To Leave JUDAS PRIEST
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Business Listings in Irlam, Greater Manchester
We have searched for business suppliers in Irlam, Greater Manchester a town with an approximate population of 19,933 , that at the census in 2011 had a working population (aged between 16 and 74) of 9,391 people in work, and have found 5 suppliers of services such as Wall Art, , Accountants, Plumbers & Printers in Irlam and have listed them below split into the type of service that they provide.
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Irlam Accountants
Cadishead Accountancy Services Ltd
We have been serving clients in the Manchester area for over 20 years and service businesses, small and large, across many sectors including IT, Financial Management and Retail. ( Last Checked/Updated : 2020-10-09 21:37:01)
Open Accountants Ltd
Polish speaking accountants that will help in completing the formalities when registering a company, they will conduct full accounting and advise on how to reduce costs - all so that you can fully focus on running your business. ( Last Checked/Updated : 2020-12-25 06:01:01)
Plumbers in Irlam
Irlam Heating & Plumbing
Based in Irlam near manchester we provide a comprehensive range of heating and plumbing services to Irlam and surrounding areas. Our heating engineers are fully qualified and gas safe approved. ( Last Checked/Updated : 2020-10-09 22:49:01)
Olympic Press
We have been serving businesses nationwide for over 30 years. We produce a range of litho, digital, and wide format print to suit every sector – stationery packs including business cards and letterheads, brochures, corporate folders, compliment slips, carbon-copy order pads, Point of Sale (banners and vinyl prints), and much more. ( Last Checked/Updated : 2020-12-24 14:17:01)
Canvas Prints in Irlam
Wall art suitable for interior design and office receptions, available online and shipped to Irlam. Printed to order on canvas, acrylic and other surfaces with 30 day guarantee. (Last Checked : 2021-01-16 21:25)
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About Irlam
Irlam is a village in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, it had a population of 19,933. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it lies on flat ground on the south side of the M62 motorway and the north bank of the Manchester Ship Canal, 6.7 miles (10.8 km) southwest of Salford, 7.6 miles (12.2 km) southwest of Manchester and 8.3 miles (13.4 km) northeast of Warrington. Irlam forms a continuous urban area with Cadishead to the southwest, and is divided from Flixton and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford to the southeast by the Manchester Ship Canal. The main road through Irlam, linking it to Cadishead and Eccles, is the A57. Irlam railway station also serves the district.
Irlam was anciently known as Irwellham, an outlying area of Chat Moss, a large peat bog which straddled the River Irwell. Work was carried out in the 19th century to reclaim large areas to enable the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829. In 1894, the Irwell was adjusted so that its waters were united with the Manchester Ship Canal, stimulating the growth of Irlam as an inland port. Irlam Urban District was established in the same year and was governed thereafter by its own district council until its abolition in 1974.
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Mastro's Newport Beach to Exclusively Sell Glenfiddich 50-Year For $1300 a Dram
Mastro’s Ocean Club Newport Beach has officially become the sole California carrier of Glenfiddich’s rare 50-year-old whiskey.
The haute restaurant celebrated its acquisition with an exclusive tasting event on Monday night.
Glenfiddich Ambassador Mitch Bechard, along with Mastro’s Restaurants executives Jason Miranda and Robbi Jo Oliver, hosted the private uncorking ceremony.
Being the only vendor of Glenfiddich 50 is quite a coup, as its one of the most precious expressions of Single Malt Whisky ever released by the Scottish distillery.
Mastro’s will sell the whisky by the glass at $1,300 per one-and-a-half ounce dram.
The packaging, rich with authenticity and heritage, reflects the excellence of the whisky. Design cues have been painstakingly taken from archives that record the distillery’s 120-year history and the hand-blown bottles are individually numbered and presented in beautifully hand-stitched, leather-bound cases, which were inspired by William Grant’s personal ledgers.
Said Bechard: “As the world’s most awarded Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Glenfiddich has a long tradition of innovation and setting the benchmark for quality. The introduction of Glenfiddich 50 has been a testament to the quality and pioneering spirit that has gone into the production of Glenfiddich for more than 120 years.”
Mastro’s will also hold a limited capacity “50 Year Tasting” event on Thursday, August 30.
What's on my Desk: Designer John Brevard
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Atletico sign Lyon forward Dembele
Atletico Madrid completed the signing of forward Moussa Dembele from Lyon on loan for the remainder of the season.
Dembele, 24, joins an Atletico side that is leading La Liga with three games in hand, the club are also set to take on Chelsea in the round of 16 in the Champions League next month.
Atletico needed to bolster their attacking line after the departure of veteran forward Diego Costa last month.
Dembele, who began his career in Fulham's academy before a successful spell at Celtic, was a key player for Lyon, scoring 47 in all competitions in his first two years at the club.
The France international found the back of the net once in 16 league appearances for Lyon this season and despite being tied to the club until June 2023, the club revealed he was "looking for a change".
Dembele will not be immediately available to Atletico coach Diego Simeone as he is still recovering from a broken arm suffered last month.
Lyon also announced that Islam Slimani joins on loan from Leicester City. Algeria international Slimani, 32, joined Leicester in 2016 on a then-club record £28 million deal, but had loan stints at Newcastle United, Fenerbahce, and AS Monaco. He won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2019 with Les Verts.
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About gist
Author Instruction
MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES
2.1 Original article
2.1.1 Reporting Checklist
2.1.2 Selection and description of participants
2.1.3 Research resource identifiers (RRID)
2.2 Review Article
2.3 Case Report
2.4 Editorial
2.5 Editorial Commentary
2.6 Letter to the Editor
2.7 Study Protocol
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
3.1 Title page
3.2 Abstract and keywords
3.3 Text
3.4 Author contributions
3.5 Data citation
3.6 Acknowledgments
3.7 Footnote
3.7.2 Data Sharing Statement
3.7.3 Peer Review File
3.7.4 Conflicts of Interest
3.7.5 Ethical statement
3.10 Figures
3.11 Videos
3.12 Abbreviations and symbols
3.13 Supplementary appendix
3.14 Equations
STYLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT
OFFPRINTS AND REPRINTS
SUBMITTING AND TRACKING MANUSCRIPTS
Thank you for your interest in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (Gastrointest Stromal Tumor, GIST, Online ISSN 2663-1911). GIST adheres to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals, issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (1), and the Cope of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (2), issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please refer to the following guidelines to help you prepare your manuscript. Feel free to contact the editorial office by email (gist@amegroups.com) should you have any questions. To ensure a swift peer review and publication process, manuscripts that do not adhere to the following instructions will be returned to the corresponding author for technical revision at preliminary review.
1. ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (Gastrointest Stromal Tumor, GIST, Online ISSN 2663-1911) is an international, peer-reviewed and open-access journal which focuses on gastrointestinal stromal tumor research. GIST aims to provide up-to-date and practical information on gastrointestinal stromal tumor and the specific areas of interest include, but not limited to, basic research, epidemiology, imaging, biology, drug treatment, pathology, and technical advances related to GIST. Not only could it serve as an international platform for academic discussion and exchange among practitioners to make new discoveries, but also a forum for the patients of GIST community to better understand this cancer.
2. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES
Word limit: there is no fixed word limit for research articles, but authors must use the most concise language possible, as well as succinct, structured sentences. The word count for the main text (excluding the abstract, references, tables, boxes, or figures) should be provided when the manuscript is submitted.
Abstract: Structured (Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions), 200-350 words max. No abbreviations.
Key words: 3~5.
References: No limit.
Figures/Tables: No limit, but 10 figures are deemed sufficient.
Description: Original articles should take the following format: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Original articles must have originality and clinical impact.
Original articles should include a section describing the contribution made by each author to the manuscript. See the “3.4 Author Contributions” sections for details.
If a submitted article includes any data that are not publicly available, the authors are required to fill in a data-sharing statement form, which should be submitted along with their manuscript. If the article is accepted for publication, the Data Availability Statement (form) will be published online alongside the article. See the “3.7.2 Data Sharing Statement” section for details.
When a manuscript documents any experiment(s) involving human subjects or animals, the authors must indicate an ethical statement both in the methods section and the footnote. See the “3.7.5 Ethical statement” section for details.
Please note that systematic review with meta-analysis will be categorized as Original Article.
Original Articles should be prepared according to the EQUATOR research reporting guidelines, as listed below, and each submission should include a checklist (a reformatted version has been created for the journal) as a supplementary material. The relevant page/line and section/paragraph number in the manuscript should be stated for each item in the checklist. A statement should be included at the end of the “Introduction” to indicate which reporting checklist was followed (e.g., “We present the following article/case in accordance with the CONSORT reporting checklist.” ). The manuscript should also include a Reporting Checklist statement in the footnote (see the “3.7 Footnote”). Failure to do so will result in the manuscript being returned to the authors for amendment.
Study Type Guideline* Download Checklist (reformatted for the journal)
Randomized controlled trial CONSORT (CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials) CONSORT Checklist
Nonrandomized design TREND (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs) TREND Checklist
Observational studies in Epidemiology STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology) STROBE Checklist
Diagnostic accuracy study STARD (STAndards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) STARD Checklist
Systematic review or meta-analysis PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) PRISMA Checklist
Animal research ARRIVE Guidelines ARRIVE Checklist
Clinical practice guideline RIGHT Guidelines RIHGT Checklist
*Authors may refer to the Extensions to the CONSORT Statement based on the specific study type; if a particular study type has not been included in the above list, authors can find more reporting guidelines on EQUATOR Network (https://www.equator-network.org/home/) and should indicate upon submission which guideline has been followed and provide related reporting checklist if available.
In study articles, the process of selection for observational or experimental subjects (healthy individuals or patients, including controls) should be clearly set out in the methods section. Any eligibility or exclusion criteria should be provided, along with a description of the population from which the subjects were sourced. Ideally, representative populations should be included in all study types and characteristics (such as age, sex, or ethnicity) of the study population should be described. Terms relating to sex (when reporting biological factors) and gender (identity, psychosocial or cultural factors) should be used correctly, and the sex and/or gender of the human participants, or the sex of animals or cells, should be reported, except where this is not appropriate. The methods used to classify sex and gender should also be described, where relevant. If the study focused on a specific population (e.g., only females), unless the reason is obvious (e.g., cervical cancer), the authors should explain their reasoning for this. For race and ethnicity, authors should describe how these were determined, and their relevance to the study should be explained. Study subjects should be described in the most neutral, exact, and respectful language possible. Any language that might cause the stigmatization of subjects must be avoided.
GIST is pleased to be a part of the Research Resource Identification Initiative, a project aimed at clearly identifying key research resources, aka materials, used in the course of scientific experiments. These include antibodies, cell lines, model organisms, and software tools. To help authors quickly find the correct identifiers for their materials there is a single web site (https://scicrunch.org/resources) where all resource types can be found and a 'cite this' button next to each resource that contains proper citation text that should be included in the methods section of the manuscript. Several examples of properly formatted methods sections with RRIDs can be found below:
Antibodies: "antibody against ERK1 (Abgent Cat# AP7251E, RRID:AB_2140114)."
Cell Lines: "we used the following cell lines: RRID: CVCL_1H60,..."
Genetically modified organisms: "Fgf9Eks/Fgf9+ mice (RRID:MGI_3840442)..."
Software tools: "...terminals were mapped (Neurolucida, v10, RRID:SCR_001775)."
Word limit: 6,000 words max. (including an abstract but excluding references, tables, and figures)
Abstract: Unstructured, 200-350 words max.
Figures/tables: No limit.
Description: Review articles should present a timely, comprehensive analysis of a specific topic. We welcome the submission of proposals for review articles for initial consideration.
Review articles should entail a section describing the contribution made by each author to the manuscript. See the “3.4 Author contributions” section for details.
Word limit: 2,500 words max. (excluding references, tables, and figures)
References: 20 max.
Figures/tables: 8 max. (combined)
Description: Case studies should present observations of diseases, clinical findings, or novel/unique treatment outcomes that are relevant to practitioners in related fields. The text should be arranged as follows: Introduction, Case Presentation, and Discussion. Only cases of exceptional interest and novelty are considered. For manuscripts that fail to qualify, editors may request that the authors shorten the manuscript for resubmission as another type of article.
Authors should prepare the case reports according to the CARE Guidelines and their submission should include a reporting checklist (a reformatted version has been made for the journal) as a supplementary material. The relevant page/line and section/paragraph number in the manuscript should be stated for each item in the checklist. A statement like “We present the following case in accordance with the CARE reporting checklist” should be included at the end of the “Introduction”. The manuscript should also include a Reporting Checklist statement in the footnote (see the “3.7 Footnote”). Failure to do so will result in the manuscript being returned to the authors for their amendment.
The reformatted CARE checklist can be downloaded here.
Case reports should include an ethical statement indicating whether written consent has been obtained from the subject (or their parent / guardian). See the “3.7.5 Ethical Statement” section for details.
Word limit: 2500 words max. (excluding references, tables, and figures)
Abstract: Not required
References: 25 max. (including the article being discussed)
Figures and Tables: 2 max. (combined)
Description: An Editorial is defined as a comment on an article or articles published in GIST. Editorials are generally solicited by the editorial office and written by recognized leader(s) in the field.
Word Limit: 2,500 words max. (excluding references, tables, and figures).
Abstract: Not required.
Figures/Tables: 2 max in total.
Description: The Editors extend an invitation to an expert in the field to discuss a paper, report, or event from within the past few months, or in the near future. The problems addressed by the relevant paper/report/event should be considered within the wider context of the field.
Description: We welcome the submission of letters regarding the content of the journal or other topics of interest to our readers. The journal may invite replies from the authors of the original publication, or forward letters to these authors. Correspondence is also referred to as a ‘Letter to the Editor’.
Study Protocol report planned or ongoing clinical trials, describing the rationale, criteria, and treatment plan(s), and anticipating the results. Since this type of article discusses ongoing or planned trials, manuscripts reporting work that has already been carried out will not be considered, nor will conclusive data regarding outcomes be included. The format of a Study Protocol may follow a similar format to an Original Article, and should contain the following:
The title along with the specific study type (e.g., a randomized controlled trial).
A structured abstract and a Background, Methods, Discussion, and Trial registration.
3~5 Key words.
Registration details as a final section (if appropriate).
The dates of study (stated within the manuscript).
An ethical approval statement. Protocols for studies that require ethical approval, such as clinical trials, are unlikely to be considered without having already received approval.
Full references.
Author contributions (see the ‘3.4 Author contributions’ section for details).
Funding statement.
Conflicts of interest statement.
Authors should prepare the study protocol for interventional trials according to the SPIRIT (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) Guidelines and their submission should include a guideline checklist (the reformatted SPIRIT checklist for the journal can be downloaded here) as a supplementary material. The relevant page/line and section/paragraph number in the manuscript should be stated for each item in the checklist. A statement like “We present the protocol in accordance with the SPIRIT reporting checklist” should be included at the end of the “Introduction”. The manuscript should also include a Guideline Checklist statement in the footnote (see the “3.7 Footnote” section below). Failure to do so will result in the manuscript being returned to the authors for their amendment.
In general, GIST does not accept articles that fall outside the above-mentioned categories. If you have any questions regarding the article category for submission to GIST, please contact the Editorial Office at: gist@amegroups.com.
3. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The length of manuscripts must adhere to the specifications under the section “MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES”.
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order: (i) Title page (title, running title, authors, institutions and affiliations, and Author contributions); (ii) abstract and keywords; (iii) the main text; (iv) Acknowledgments; (v) Footnote; (vi) References; (vii) Supplementary material; (viii) Figure legends; (ix) Tables (titled and with footnotes); (x) Figures (it is recommended that figures, tables and videos are provided in separate files).
Please note that changes to author information (except for the correction of grammatical errors) are not permitted after the manuscript has been accepted, nor can the manuscript be withdrawn after this point unless sufficient reasons are given.
The title page should include: a) the title of the article; b) the authors’ full names and institutional affiliations; c) the address, telephone and fax numbers, and effective e-mail address of the corresponding author(s) (extremely important for subsequent timely communication); d) a running title of no more than 60 characters (including spaces); e) disclaimers (if applicable); f) sources of support; g) word count; h) number of figures and tables; i) conflicts of interest.
The abstract must adhere to the specifications under the section ‘2. Manuscript Categories’. The abstract of an original article, as well as those of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, should be structured into four paragraphs with the following subheadings: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. The abstracts for all the other manuscript types should be unstructured. The abstract should not contain any abbreviations or acronyms, citations, figures, or tables. General statements (e.g., “the significance of the results is discussed’’) should be avoided. After the Abstract, 3-5 keywords should be provided.
Where relevant, the clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract. For studies that have a registration number, this number should be included initially when a trial acronym is used to refer to the trial in the report or to other trials discussed in the paper. For data that have been deposited in a public repository and/or are the subject of analysis elsewhere, the distinctive, persistent data set identifier, the repository name, and the number should be included at the end of the abstract.
Format: Text should be double-spaced throughout. The pages should be numbered.
Font: A clearly readable font (e.g., Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman, or Verdana) with 10 or 12 pt. font size.
Language: English. British or American spelling is acceptable but must be consistent throughout.
This section is only required for original articles, review articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. It describes the contribution each author made to the manuscript. Authorship credit should be based on: 1) substantial contributions to the conception and design of the study, acquisition of the data, or analysis and interpretation of the data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) the final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet all three of these conditions.
Note: acquisition of funding, collection of data, language editing, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship.
The ‘Author contributions’ section should be presented as follows:
(I) Conception and design:
(II) Administrative support:
(III) Provision of study materials or patients:
(IV) Collection and assembly of data:
(V) Data analysis and interpretation:
(VI) Manuscript writing: All authors
(VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors
Note: 1. With VI and VII, “All authors” is obligatory, while the other credits are case-based; 2. The ‘Author contributions’ section is not required when there is only one author.
We are committed to improving openness, transparency, and reproducibility of research, and believe research data citation through standard reference lists offers an easy way to access data for reproducible research.
To support best practice in data citation, AME has endorsed the FORCE11 Data Citation Principles (https://www.force11.org/datacitationprinciples). According to the FORCE11 Data Citation Principles, data can be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations, and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list.
Data citation is applicable for data held within institutional, subject-focused, or more general data repositories. When citing or making claims based on data, authors should refer to the data at the relevant place in the main text of the manuscript and include a formal citation in the reference list. We recommend the format proposed in the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles .
Below is an example of an in-text data citation:
[dataset] Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)
“[dataset]” should be included immediately before the reference so it can be properly identified as a data reference.
Textual material that names the parties that the author wishes to thank or recognize for their assistance (e.g., producing, funding, or inspiring the work, or assisting in the research on which the work was based).
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the ‘Acknowledgments’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include an individual who provided purely technical help, writing or language editing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. If a part of the manuscript has been presented elsewhere (e.g. meeting presentation/poster history), a corresponding statement should be provided in the acknowledgment section. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
The ‘Acknowledgments’ section should also detail all funding sources for the work in question. There must be a section “Funding” within the “Acknowledgments” section. If the research was carried out without funding, "None" should be stated in this section.
In providing details of funding, authors should adhere to the following guidance:
The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
The full official funding agency name should be given, (i.e., ‘National Institute of Health’, not ‘NIH’). Grant numbers should be given in brackets (e.g., [grant number xxxx]).
Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma (e.g. [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]).
Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (with ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
Where certain sources of funding were received by a specific author, the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number: ‘to [author initials]’.
Example: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’
For articles written in accordance with specific reporting guidelines, the author must include the “Reporting Checklist” section in the footnote and indicate, “The authors have completed the XXXX reporting checklist.”
If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author’s completed checklist will be published online alongside the manuscript.
The journal is committed to responsible data sharing in the setting of clinical trials. If an original article includes any data that are not publicly available, the authors are required to fill in a data-sharing statement form, which should be submitted along with their manuscript. If the article is accepted for publication, the Data Availability Statement (form) will be published online alongside the article. The data sharing statement form can be downloaded here.
Meanwhile, as a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), we require clinical trials that began enrolling participants on or after January 1, 2019, to include a data-sharing plan in the trial’s registration. The ICMJE’s policy regarding trial registration is explained at www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html. Should the data-sharing plan change after registration, this should be reflected in the statement submitted and published with the manuscript, and updated in the registry record.
With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, GIST has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to the journal from March 19, 2020.
The practice will see the inclusion of a “peer review file” (a record of reviewer reports and author replies) in the footnote of the corresponding article. The peer review file will be published online (only) along with the article.
For more details, please refer to: https://gist.amegroups.com/announcement/view/268.
All authors will be asked to fill in the ICMJE’s unified disclosure form (https://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/). Each author should submit a separate form and is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the submitted information. The corresponding author should use the information in the form completed by each author to create the COI statement for the manuscript. The statement (but not the forms) must be included along with the submission. The statement should include the initials of the author along with the conflicts of interest. The following examples show the format in which the Conflicts of Interest statement should appear in the manuscript:
“Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.”
“Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form. KSS and VS are former employees of Scanco Medical AG. NV is a current employee of Scanco Medical AG. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.”
If the paper is accepted, the completed ICMJE’s unified disclosure forms will be required and will be published alongside the article.
For more about the journal’s policy on conflicts of interest, visit: https://gist.amegroups.com/page/about/conflicts-of-interest.
Statement #A is a must for every article, followed by statement #B.
Statement #B should be described ①based on the type of experimental research and article type; ②both in the Methods section and the “Ethical Statement” section of Footnote.
#A. (a Must) Statement for every article
(a) Please note that all articles submitted to our journal must include an Ethical Statement in Footnote, containing the following wording: “The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.”
(b) Where illustrations include recognizable individuals, living or deceased, great care must be taken to ensure that consent for publication has been given. Patient anonymity should be preserved. Photographs need to be cropped sufficiently to prevent human subjects from being recognized and the eyes and eyebrows (at a minimum) must be masked using Coarse Pixilation to make the individual unrecognizable.
#B. (Based on research experiments type and article type)
(a) Human Experiments
For research involving human experiments, the article must include a statement that ethical approval was obtained (or a statement that it was not required and why), including the name of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s), the number/ID of the approval(s), and a statement that the participants gave informed consent before taking part (or a statement that it was not required and why). Authors should also state that the study conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013), available at: https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects. For example:
(For prospective experiments) Ethical Statement: The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. The trial was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013). The study was approved by institutional/regional/national ethics/committee/ethics board of ******* (NO.: the registration number of ethics board) and informed consent was taken from all individual participants.
(For retrospective experiments) Ethical Statement: The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013). The study was approved by institutional/regional/national ethics/committee/ethics board of ******* (NO.: the registration number of ethics board) and individual consent for this retrospective analysis was waived.
(b) Animals Experiments
For any experiments involving animals, the authors must indicate the nature of the ethical review permissions, relevant licenses (e.g. Animal [Scientific Procedures] Act 1986), and national or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals by which the research was conducted. Describe this information in both the “Method” section and the “Ethical Statement” section on Footnote. For example:
Ethical Statement: The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Experiments were performed under a project license (NO.: the license number) granted by institutional/regional/national ethics/committee/ethics board of *******, in compliance with ******* national or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals.
(c) Case Report
In general, the submission of a Case Report should be accompanied by written consent from the subject (or their parent/guardian) before publication; this is particularly important where photographs are to be used or in cases where the unique nature of the incident being reported makes it possible for the subject to be identified. Authors should also state that the study conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013), available at: https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects. Please describe this information in both the “Case Presentation” section and the “Ethical Statement” section on Footnote. For example:
Ethical Statement: The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee(s) and with the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013). Written informed consent was obtained from the patient.
C. Additional Notes:
The Editorial Office may request copies of the informed consent documentation at any time. While the Editorial Board recognizes that it might not always be possible or appropriate to seek such consent, the onus will be on the authors to demonstrate that this exception applies in their case.
The Journal retains the right to reject any manuscript on the basis of unethical conduct in either human or animal studies.
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And he laughs until he cries, then he dies, then he dies
Posted on March 18, 2016 by brucehhackett
Damn! Another major rock music figure from the late ’60s/early ’70s passed away last week. 2016 has been a particularly brutal year in that regard… Apparently this is the time in the lifespan of baby boom folks to watch as a whole slew of our generation’s musical idols leave us. And now, sadly, tragically, it’s Keith Emerson’s turn.
I’ll pause for a moment as those from other generations ask, “Who?”
From 1970 until about 1978, one of the biggest bands in the UK and the US was the British trio Emerson, Lake and Palmer, trendsetters in the British progressive rock genre and trailblazers in the sometimes uneasy merger between rock and classical music so prevalent at that time.
Progressive rock (or “prog” rock, as it came to be known in some circles) was a quirky but hugely successful genre that captured the attention of the album-buying public in the early 1970s. British bands (and they were almost all British) took their classical music schooling and melded it with their love of rock to create massive, lengthy opuses that challenged listeners to LISTEN. This was not music to dance to. It was not music to play in the background at a party. It was music to study, under the headphones, in most cases.
The fact that progressive rock topped the album charts (almost never the singles charts, by the way) as often as it did during this period is fairly astounding. During a time when singer-songwriters, Philly soul and Top 40 still ruled the roost, why did Yes, Jethro Tull and Emerson, Lake and Palmer show up so often at the top of the US and UK album charts?
Let’s focus on ELP for the moment, for it is Keith Emerson we are highlighting here. Emerson, a gifted prodigy and aficionado of classical composers since childhood, had turned heads as keyboardist for a critics’ darling called The Nice. Greg Lake, a talented guitarist and bass player with a wondrous voice that recalled John Lennon, had been an important part of the early prog rock outfit King Crimson. Carl Palmer was a bombastic drummer from under-the-radar bands like Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster.
They merged their talents in 1970 at just the right moment, and released their debut under their surnames, and enjoyed immediate success, thanks to their single, “Lucky Man” — “Ooh, what a lucky man he was…”, written and sung by Lake. Many of those who loved the single were perplexed to find that most of the rest of the album was dominated by an entirely different strain of music, much more challenging than the average rock fan was prepared to deal with.
We’re talking about lengthy pieces based on the works of 18th Century giants like Bela Bartok, Modest Muggorsky, Bach, Prokofiev, and others. For many of the kids raised on the Beatles and the early Stones, this was a bit beyond their reach, for the most part.
But not for everyone. A huge swath of rock music listeners were happy to spend the necessary hours studying this music and appreciating it for the boundaries it surpassed, and the new roads it foraged. It certainly wasn’t Top 40, but it was intriguing, and it sold.
But in fact, sometimes, certain parts of it WERE Top 40. Every Emerson Lake and Palmer album, it seemed, had at least one song that appealed to the masses. There was “From the Beginning” from 1972, “Still…You Turn Me On” from 1973 and “C’est La Vie” from 1977. All received airplay because of their pretty melodies and majestic Lake vocals.
But ELP’s music, by far, was dominated by Keith Emerson’s unusual interpretations, inventive arrangements and extraordinary keyboard virtuosity. Lake was their public face, but Emerson was their seismic core. Lengthy tracks like “The Barbarian,” “Knife-Edge,” “Three Fates,” “Tarkus,” “Pirates,” and the “Pictures of the Exhibition” multi-song presentation were monumentally challenging pieces of music. Highlighted by Emerson’s Hammond organ, grand piano, Moog synthesizer and other state-of-the-art keyboards that allowed for the presentation of amazing sounds previously unavailable, the band’s albums made the Top Five in both the US and the UK.
In 1973, ELP chose to take a heroic stab at the anthem “Jerusalem,” a nationally popular tale in which Jesus controversially made a homeland in the British Isles. Perhaps because of this, it never made a dent in the US, but it had no trouble winning the hearts of countrymen far and wide, reaching #2 on the UK charts. The album it came from, “Brain Salad Surgery,” is widely hailed as their best work, with the marvelous multi-part “Karn Evil 9” as the obvious highlight.
Similarly, Aaron Copland’s well-regarded World War II piece “Fanfare for the Common Man” was adapted by ELP with a radical version that inserted a six-minute indulgence into the middle of an otherwise respected classic. Copland gave his blessing to the ELP version, praising it but wondering curiously what they had in mind with their rather jarring middle section.
In concert, ELP pushed the envelope even more. They spent a lot of time and money exhibiting a lot of pointless theatrics that had nothing to do with the serious music they were attempting. During their 1973-1974 tour, they were hauling around nearly 40 tons of equipment. Emerson played a piano that spun end-over-end while he was strapped to a bench, Palmer would drum away on a rotating platform, and a Hammond organ was thrown around the stage to create feedback. Many progressive rock bands had taken to using the mind-blowing Moog modular synthesizer in the studio to create remarkable new sounds, but ELP was the first to take one on the road, and the result was uneven at best because heat altered its sound and made it unreliable.
For the 1977 tour, the band made the ill-advised decision to take a full symphony orchestra on the road with them. Emerson felt that since an orchestra was used in the studio on the “Works” album that year, they should use an orchestra in their live shows as well. It became clear only a couple of weeks into the tour that they were losing money at an alarming rate and had to ditch the orchestra. This strained the relationship Lake and Palmer had with Emerson, who they felt was growing more and more self-indulgent.
They had to complete one more album to satisfy their contract with the record label, but 1978’s “Love Beach” was an unqualified dud that sounded nothing like the ambitious music that fans had come to expect from ELP, and it stiffed on the charts. The band went their separate ways soon afterwards.
Emerson concentrated on film and television scores for most of the 1980s, but he also teamed up with Lake and former Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell to record an album in 1985 as Emerson, Lake and Powell that managed to reach #23 on the album charts. Palmer declined to participate, as he had been tapped as drummer for the hard rock supergroup Asia. The original trio did reunite in the early 1990s and recorded “Black Moon,” but that album bombed at #78. They tried a follow-up record, “In the Hot Seat,” which didn’t even crack the Top 200.
Ultimately, critics had grown tired of what they called “showy and overblown nonsense.” Indeed, John Kelman of “All About Jazz” summed up the band’s career this way: “An overbearing sense of self-importance turned ELP from one of the Seventies’ most exciting new groups into the very definition of masturbatory excess and self-aggrandizement in only a few short years.” Ouch.
Palmer has struggled with carpal tunnel syndrome, and Emerson suffered with repetitive stress disorder and depression over a host of surgeries he underwent in the last 15-20 years. With and without Lake on board, they still occasionally attempted brief tours or one-off reunion shows, but they found themselves playing in small venues to as few as 500 people — a far cry from the nightly sellouts at arenas in their heyday.
The rock music world got the bad news last week that Emerson, age 71, was found dead in his Santa Monica home. A day or two later, it was revealed it was a suicide, a gunshot wound to the head. Palmer issued a statement that week that said, “Keith was a gentle soul whose love for music, and passion for his performance as a keyboard player, will remain unmatched for many years to come.”
He’s the man, the man with the Midas touch
I really want to see you, Lord
Mark Frank · March 18, 2016
Thanks Hack! From the Beginning was my favorite!
CRO · March 18, 2016
Great memories of wearing out the Brain Salad Surgery 8-track. Still You Turn Me On was a classic.
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Mount Pleasant UMC celebrates Bethune’s legacy – Lifestyle – Gainesville Sun
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The legacy of an educator and civil rights activist was celebrated with testimonials, gospel hymns and a call to action.
The Alachua County chapter of the Bethune-Cookman University National Alumni Association hosted its Founders Day observance service at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church located at 602 NW Second Street on Sunday.
“We’re honoring one of my beloved historic persons,” said Betty Calhoun, who presided over the service. “She has a special place in my heart, and I hope before you leave this morning, she will hold a special place in your heart.”
The late Mary McLeod Bethune is the historic figure that Calhoun admires and so does the dozens of people who attended the service.
The theme of the service was, “Acknowledging the Past, Embracing the Future.”
Charles Chestnut IV led the opening prayer with a brief history of Bethune.
“Thank you for Mary McLeod Bethune,” Chestnut prayed. “Her dream made a difference in people’s lives and the nation. Her belief in God made her dreams possible.”
Born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, Bethune was an educator and civil rights activist.
She graduated from the Scotia Seminary, which is now Barber-Scotia College, in North Carolina in 1893.
After graduating, she attended Dwight Moody’s Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago for two years.
Afterwards, Bethune later founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, which later became Bethune-Cookman College and is now Bethune-Cookman University.
After the opening prayer, the choir sang “We Have Come This Far By Faith.”
“That word ‘faith’ is what she used to do what she accomplished,” Calhoun said.
She said people have to continue walking in Bethune’s footsteps and making sure the youths are educated.
“We have to take the mindset of Mary McLeod Bethune,” Calhoun said. “We have to take care of our own and move forward.”
Johnny Lloyd, president of the Alachua County chapter for the Bethune-Cookman University National Alumni Association, welcomed the congregation.
“We’re here to celebrate the legacy of a phenomenal woman,” Lloyd said.
He asked those who graduated from the college or university to stand and be acknowledged.
“We’re spread out throughout the country,” Lloyd said. “To all my fellow alumnus, her legacy lives on in all of us.”
Desmon Duncan-Walker sang the gospel hymn titled, “How Great is Thy Faithfulness” in honor of Bethune’s tenacity to provide education in the 1900s.
“The only way she could do that is by faith,” Duncan-Walker said. “Nothing but faith.”
She described the moment she was admitted into school and how comforting it was to walk on campus.
“When I walked through the doors in 1994, it felt like home, Duncan-Walker said. “Her spirit permeated through the campus.”
Aubrey E. Long, the speaker for the service, is a professor in the College of Business and Entrepreneurship at BCU.
He shared a brief video on the history of Bethune that included voice recordings of Bethune.
“Seeing someone you respect so much brought tears to my eyes,” he said after remembering a video of Bethune walking through campus.
Long recited the university’s motto, “Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve,” and shared how people should all be more like Bethune.
“We bend over backwards for our students,” he said. “Give your support.”
One of Bethune’s famous quotes reads: “Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”
Her faith in God and in education has left a legacy behind for generations to model after, he said.
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04/16/2019 NBA India Games 2019
Sacramento Kings announce Luke Walton as their new head coach
Luke Walton is the franchise's 10th head coach since Rick Adelman was fired in 2006.
By Yash Matange
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On Monday, the Sacramento Kings' General Manager Vlade Divac announced Luke Walton as the team's new head coach.
Luke Walton and the Kings didn't take long to move on from their previous relationships. Walton had mutually parted ways with the Los Angeles Lakers just days earlier after three years as their head coach while the Kings had fired Dave Joerger on Thursday after a 39-win season, their best season since 2006.
"We are so excited. ... We are going to build this team together and go to the next level."
Vlade Divac welcomes Luke Walton to the @SacramentoKings pic.twitter.com/crTlfS5ZTM
- NBA TV (@NBATV) April 15, 2019
Walton and Divac had played together on the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2004-05 season and the duo met on Saturday, when reports had first come out of their possible partnership, before making it official with this announcement.
In his previous head coaching job, which was the first full-time stint of his coaching career, Walton went 98-148 in three seasons with the Lakers. Leading a young team in his first two years with the Lakers and the most recent year with LeBron James as the leader, Walton never made the postseason.
Set to lead another young team in Sacramento, he could see the Kings' two most recent first-round draft picks - De'Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley III - present at the introductory presser along with few other players.
Royalty, royalty, royalty. pic.twitter.com/005OxGrJEA
- Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) April 15, 2019
Prior to the Lakers job, Walton had coaching experience in the NBA D-League (now the G-League) with the Los Angeles D-Fenders during the 2013-14 season as a player development coach. However, he made a mark as an assistant in his two-year stint with the Golden State Warriors from 2014 to 2016.
He won a championship with the Warriors in 2015 and led the team to a 39-4 record, including 24 straight wins, to begin the team's historic 2015-16 season.
As a player, Walton is a 2-time champion with the Lakers (2009, 10) in a decade long playing career where he averaged 4.7 points (.429 FG%, .326 3pt%, .715 FT%), 2.8 rebounds, and 2.3 assists through 564 regular season games.
This coming October, Walton will visit India as the Kings and the Indiana Pacers play a couple of preseason games at the NSCI Dome in Mumbai on October 4th and 5th.
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Working from home may suit some more than others, but as lockdown forced employers to turn their staff into remote workforces practically overnight, it has given serious food for thought. Remote working is possible on a far wider scale than many companies may have considered.
Whilst there are as many positives as negatives on both sides, it seems that those of us who can work from home, should do so for the foreseeable future.
Going back to the office is relatively easy from a supply of technology point of view but when you think of available space, social distancing, desktop and surrounding hygiene, telephony, sharing of kitchens, milk, tea, coffee, toilets, security access buttons and lifts, it becomes a major logistical exercise in planning.
Remote working continued
Now we are in it for the long haul, it’s time to think about what’s working and what’s not working so well.
Where broadband connections are poor, there are a number of things that could be affecting it and some simple steps may improve it. Ethernet cables can be used to hard wire your connection rather than relying on Wi-Fi. It’s important to remind people to secure routers by changing passwords from the ones that arrive on the back of the router.
There are always two sides to Cyber Security: technology and staff awareness. Virtual Private Networks are the most secure way to link to the internet. Staff need frequent reminders of good basic security, the recent scams to look out for and not to click on anything that looks unusual. It’s important to have a strong password policy that is revised regularly.
Special attention needs to be given to where you work at home and in the garden. Where you share space try to hold conversations where they can’t be overheard or position your screen where is can’t be seen by onlookers. Special screens can be provided so that information is hard to see unless you are sitting in front of it. Headsets prevent full conversations from being overheard.
In the rush to remote working, many employees may be using their own private devices. Security and productivity will improve if they have up-to-date, dedicated work devices and there is no sharing of personal and work platforms.
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The Highlands Current (https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/11/23/a-cold-spring-romance/)
A Cold Spring Romance
By Alison Rooney, Arts Editor | November 23, 2020
Writer sets latest novel in the village
There’s something to the notion of holiday-season romance in Cold Spring, with St. Mary’s Episcopal Church crowning Main Street, overnight snowfalls, candles flickering in the restaurants — all thoughts of slushy sidewalks, frozen fingertips and ever-earlier darkness be banished.
Courtney Giardina (Photo by Magen Marie)
“It’s magical,” says Courtney Giardina, a writer of romances. Her sixth self-published book, For the Love of Gingerbread, which was released on Wednesday (Nov. 18), is set in the village.
Giardina said she chose Cold Spring because “I wanted a small, quaint town where everybody knows everyone. My heroine works in New York City in fashion, and she’s coming home for Christmas. She comes out of the train station and walks from the waterfront, past the flower shop, the pizza shop and the hardware store.”
Also making appearances are the city of Beacon, The Culinary Institute of America, Poughkeepsie’s Overlook Drive-In Theatre and Mohonk Mountain House.
It’s been three years since Addie Pine set foot in Cold Spring, and a lot has changed. Her family’s bed-and-breakfast is unrecognizable, and her favorite coffee shop has a new baker named Drew. While Drew’s good looks and charm are almost as delectable as his gingerbread cookies, it’s the news he delivers that sends Addie reeling.”
~ From a summary on Amazon of For the Love of Gingerbread
Giardina, a Rochester native who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, visited Cold Spring for the first time in 2006 during her final semester at Marist College, when she had an internship at Red Parlor Records, which later relocated to Connecticut.
From an early age, she says she has “always had a knack for writing stories” and attempted many novels that were left unfinished. With support from a women’s group in Charlotte, she wrote her first novel “based on real emotions. I was in the middle of a divorce, journaling, putting things out there, and I got lots of Facebook messages saying how inspiring that was. This led me to consider whether I could turn this into something to help other women facing the difficult decision of holding on or letting go.”
The cover of Giardina’s new book, which is set in Cold Spring
Giardina’s second novel was a romance, followed by Holding on to Georgia, Behind the Strings and Slow Dancing on Main Street. Her next title is Falling in London. To promote them in a crowded marketplace, Giardina hosts a weekly YouTube show, Coffee with Court, blogs and offers giveaways.
“This year I focused a lot on building my newsletter,” she says. “I advertise on social media, create Instagram stories and started a Facebook group for fans of my books.”
There’s no shortage of readers during the pandemic shutdown, she says. “With romance books now, there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel. All of my books have a happily-ever-after, to escape from everyday reality.”
Giardina’s romances are available at courtneygiardina.com or Amazon.com in paperback or for the Kindle reader.
Type: News
News: Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.
About Alison Rooney
Arts Editor
Rooney has been writing for The Current since its founding in 2010. An accomplished playwright, she has lived in Cold Spring since 1999. She is a graduate of Binghamton University, where she majored in history. Location: Cold Spring. Languages: English. Area of Expertise: Arts
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2 thoughts on “A Cold Spring Romance”
Loretta Bernardez on November 23, 2020 at 5:51 pm said:
So looking forward to reading your story! I was born and raised in Cold Spring and, yes indeed, it is a magical place.
Courtney Giardina on November 24, 2020 at 6:01 pm said:
What a wonderful place to call home! I truly hope you enjoy this story Loretta!
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Representative Dellums recalls the unusual circumstances he and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado faced on their first day on the House Armed Services Committee.
The Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, U.S. Representative of California
Interview recorded April 19, 2012 – Deed of Gift
SCHROEDER, Patricia Scott
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “Patricia Scott Schroeder Lapel Pin,” https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2007/2007-160-002/ (January 16, 2021)
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There are two states in the American south that historically had large numbers of both African-Americans and Latinos, as well as laws banning marriage between black people and white people: Texas and Florida. However, as far as I know, the laws only disallowed marriage between African-Americans and Anglo-Americans. How were these laws applied to the local Latino populations? Were these anti-miscegenation laws applied if a white Cuban wanted to marry an African-American? How were brown Latinos treated?
I know that in other states, like New York, that had no anti-miscegenation as well as large numbers of Latinos and African-Americans it was common for the two groups to get married; because they were forced to live in a lot of the same neighbourhoods. Were Latinos in Texas and Florida in the same situation?
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Yes, in Texas, anti-miscegenation laws still applied to Latinos (Mexican Americans) as they were usually defined as White. It was much more obvious depending on the dominance of Spanish or Native lineage.
This was documented in "Flores vs. State" (1910). The law stated that a "White" person, F. Flores, in this case being Mexican, was arrested with his wife, Ellen Dukes, as she had traces of African-American lineage.
Those witnesses who testified to the fact that the woman appellant married was of negro extraction were not aware of how near she was to purity of negro blood; they did not know whether she was within the specified degrees mentioned in article 347 of the Penal Code or not.
Normally it seemed to have worked out for many mix Mexican-African American couples in Texas, as many were able to mask their lineages easier due to already being of mixed race (also typically mixed with Native American). ["Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South", Robinson]
Even if the state discovered that one of the parties in the relationship had some racial mixture, the state would then have the very difficult task of proving that the individual in question had sufficient black ancestry. Such was the case in Flores v. State (1910).
Flores and Ellen Dukes were convicted but appealed their case. The ambiguity of her lineage helped the State reverse the small court's decision.
The couple appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Although the court acknowledged that Dukes had black blood, the court held that the state had failed to prove the degree of it.
It's cases like this that show the flaws of such a system of oppression based on racial lines, with mixed races, at some point the lines are blurred. The history of slavery in Texas was more forgiving since the Mexican government forbade slavery while Texas was still under Mexican rule. The anglo colonists brought their slaves with them, and after Texas Independence, it was reenacted by zealous landowners. San Antonio remained more lenient due to its Mexican population and later German populations being against slavery. Mixed feelings on slavery existing through the civil war, with the city voting against cessation from the Union. San Antonio’s complicated history as a Confederate supply depot
The largest city in Texas at the time, San Antonio’s population separated into three roughly equal groups: Anglos, Germans, and Mexicans. The three groups did not mix, although a distaste of slavery and a resentment of the Anglo population, who held most of the property, united the city’s German and Mexican citizens, Ellsworth writes.
Robert Lee was not in the city when it rebelled, before being put back into order by Confederate hands. Twohig was a friend of his and they sympathized with one another over slavery.
Perhaps Lee felt a kinship with Twohig, who, according to Wood, was suspected of being a Unionist sympathizer. Records show the Irish immigrant purchased and freed several slaves.
You don't hear much about that in the history books. Please check out the links to read more.
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History News Network | These Are the Hard Steps that Must Be Taken to Resolve the Syrian Mess
September 30, 2015 / debneill / Leave a comment
“Russia and Iran are deeply embedded in Syria; they cannot be dislodged and will always remain a player in shaping Syria’s future. The US has little choice but to accept this simple reality.” As much as I hate the idea, I think that Alon Ben-Meir is right. Given the situation, our only option if we want to stop the conflict in Syria and defeat ISIS is to work with Russia and Iran (both of which have substantial interests in the region). What’s the alternative?
Read an overview of Ben-Meir’s solution here: History News Network | These Are the Hard Steps that Must Be Taken to Resolve the Syrian Mess
“Get Used to It Europe: Homogenous States Are a Thing of the Past” | History News Network
Lawrence Davidson prompts European nations to accept the fact that homogeneous states are no longer realistic (if they ever were!). Therefore, “from every angle, ethical as well as historical, the way to approach the present refugee crisis is to allow, in a controlled but adequately responsive way, the inflow of those now running from the ravages of invasion and civil war. In so doing we should accept the demise of the homogeneous state. Whether it is Germany, France, Hungary, Israel or Burma, the concept is historically untenable and neither raises nor even maintains our civilizational standards. Rather it grinds them down into the dust of an inhumane xenophobia.”
I agree with Davidson that ideal vision of the nation-state of the past is a fantasy and that all European nations (I would add the U.S. as well) need to step up and help these refugees. However, it’s not enough just to accept the idea that nation-states must be multi-cultural. France, for example, has been a diverse society for some time now, but that hasn’t solved the problem of creating a harmonious society. The first difficulty will be to redefine what it means to be a member of a nation. Any definition that limits inclusion to those who have the right heritage (French ancestry, for example) or religion must be abandoned in favor a more inclusive definition (all citizens are members of the nation). This will not be easy, but diversity is a reality and it can be a benefit.
What’s the alternative? Any attempt to maintain uniformity within a nation can only come at great cost. What Jefferson claimed in reference to religious uniformity is equally applicable when it comes to attempts to maintain uniformity more broadly: “is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature Introduce the bed of Procrustes then, and as there is danger that the large men may beat the small, make us all of a size, by lopping the former and stretching the latter. Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum [moral censor] over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.”
History News Network | Get Used to It Europe: Homogenous States Are a Thing of the Past
History News Network | Here Are One Dozen Reasons Why The Nuclear Agreement with Iran Is Better than the One with North Korea
This is an interesting comparison between the Iran nuclear agreement and the North Korean one: History News Network | Here Are One Dozen Reasons Why The Nuclear Agreement with Iran Is Better than the One with North Korea
“The Pope Is Coming to Get Us — At Least That’s What We Used to Think” | Edward T. O’Donnell
It’s easy to forget our anti-Catholic past with six Catholic Supreme Court Justices (Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, and Sotomayor) and a significant Catholic presence (30.7%) in Congress. “But it was not that long ago that word of the impending arrival of a pope on the shores of the United States would have triggered bloody riots and a call to arms. Indeed, for most of this nation’s history Americans saw the Pope as a sinister and dangerous leader who was determined to destroy America’s experiment in republican government,” as Edward T. O’Donnell reminds us.
It’s hard to over state the significance of this change in attitude. But rather than attribute this change to “the strength of religious tolerance in modern American society” in general, as O’Donnell claims. I think it has more to do with demographic changes (thanks to large numbers of Catholic immigrants) and the realization on the part of conservative Protestants that they have a lot in common with Catholics, who have become allies on many issues dear to Protestants. But for whatever reason, the new-found tolerance of Catholics is encouraging for the future of religious liberty.
The history of anti-Catholicism sentiment should remind us that the fears that drive intolerance are usually grounded in falsehoods and prejudices, not reality. Therefore, we should always be skeptical of malicious claims hurled at any group. They are often false. And besides, we should treat individuals as individuals, not as representatives of a particular group.
And as O’Donnell reminds us, “we must not delude ourselves into thinking our work is done on this front [toleration]. For the history of United States makes clear that this tradition of religious tolerance is one that has evolved and expanded over time to include many faiths initially deemed beyond the pale, including not just Catholics but also Jews, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. We would do well to keep this in mind as recent immigration continues to expand the nation’s religious diversity. This is especially true in the case is Islam, a religious tradition that polling data reveals many Americans view with fear and hostility not very different from that reserved for Catholics a few generations ago.”
Read the entire article here: The Pope Is Coming to Get Us — At Least That’s What We Used to Think | Edward T. O’Donnell
“The Founding Fathers: Demigods or scoundrels?” – LA Times
Some words of wisdom from the preeminent historian Joseph J. Ellis: “once we get past seeing the founders as cartoon-like characters, all kinds of lights go on along the line between then and now. Is the paralysis of the current federal government a function of the political architecture the founders designed, which is now anachronistic, or more a product of our own making? Does our own failure to arrest the catastrophic consequences of climate change help us understand why the most gifted political leaders in American history could not put slavery on the road to extinction? Does our enhanced awareness of the depth and resilience of racism in our own time modify our posture toward its virulence within the founding era? At a historical moment when the term ‘political leadership’ has become an oxymoron, how do you explain its flowering at the founding? Such questions constitute a serious conversation across all ages that is blissfully bereft of nostalgia, condescension and utopian delusions. If the founders were not flawed, they would have nothing to teach us. And they do.”
Read the entire article here: The Founding Fathers: Demigods or scoundrels? – LA Times
“South Dakota: Please Reconsider Your Decision to Dump Early American History” | History News Network
John Fea makes the case for keeping Early American history in South Dakota’s K-12 curriculum: History News Network | South Dakota: Please Reconsider Your Decision to Dump Early American History
“Donald Trump and the Ghosts of Totalitarianism” Henry Giroux
“Trump is simply the most visible embodiment of a society that is not merely suspicious of critical thought but disdains it. Trump is the quintessential symbol of the merging of a war-like arrogance, a militant certainty, and as self-absorbed unworldliness in which he is removed from problems of the real world.”
In Trump’s success Henry Giroux sees the warning signs of a society ripe for totalitarianism (anti-intellectual, militaristic, authoritarian impulses, self-absorbed, racist, ideological). While I’m not convinced that Trump is the ideal candidate to become the iconic leader of a totalitarian society (even though he has many of the necessary characteristics), I think Giroux’s critique of the current state of society is very valuable. He sets out to wake us up from our current apathy and to prompt us to think critically about the dominant neoliberal agenda in which “time presents itself as a form tyranny, an unquestioned necessity, and in speeding up the flows of work, leisure, knowledge, and everyday life it spawns a new kind of violence in which the flow of capital replaces the flow of thoughtfulness, atomization replaces a notion of shared solidarity, the spectacle undermines historical memory, privatization seeks to erase all notions of the public good, and manufactured precarity replaces any sense of security and long-term planning.”
He goes on, “What is clear in this case is that a widespread avoidance of the past has become not only a sign of the appalling lack of historical consciousness in contemporary American culture, but a deliberate political weapon used by the powerful to keep people passive and blind to the truth, if not reduced to a discourse drawn from the empty realm of celebrity culture. This is a discourse in which totalitarian images of the hero, fearless leader, and bold politicians get lost in the affective and ideological registers of what Hannah Arendt once called “the ruin of our categories of thought and standards of judgment.”[5] Of course, there are many factors currently contributing to this production of ignorance and the lobotomizing of individual and collective agency. The forces promoting a deep seated culture of authoritarianism run deep in American society.”
Read Giroux’s thought-provoking essay here: Donald Trump and the Ghosts of Totalitarianism
“There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts” – The Atlantic
Too few people are aware of this growing problem, and the problem is not just the fact that adjuncts are an exploited work force. This injustice also has broader implications for the quality of higher education.
Caroline Fredrickson at The Atlantic explains the problem, and uses an interesting analogy with companies like Uber: “With courses that need to be taught every semester led by an interchangeable set of adjuncts, the schools seem to be doing just what trucking companies, housecleaning services, and now app-driven businesses such as Uber and Lyft have been accused of doing: misclassifying workers as contractors. Especially when a teacher is asked to carry out similar responsibilities as full-time permanent staff but for less than half the salary, there may be grounds to believe that universities and colleges are evading their legal obligations as employers. And with the overrepresentation of women in these jobs, it seems possible that many of these universities could be violating not only labor laws but civil-rights laws as well.”
Read the entire article here: There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts – The Atlantic
“Why Xi Jinping’s Campaign to Suppress Western Ideas Is Bound to Fail” |History News Network
To remain in power the Chinese government must not only use the threat of punishment, it must also control what its citizens think and believe. In a battle of ideas the authoritarian regime would likely lose against the ideals of liberty, natural rights, and democracy. Knowing this, the regime has resorted to cordoning itself off from the ocean of ideas that flow freely outside its borders.
But as Peter Zarrow points out, “Because the entire family of notions associated with democracy, liberty, and rights has become Chinese, they are ineradicable. Indeed, the very categories of ‘Western values’ and ‘universal values’ are incoherent in our thoroughly globalized world. Furthermore, since the 1980s, Chinese have gotten used to freedoms that include the choice of where to live and what job to take, much less whom to marry—a particular focus of New Youth concern—and attempts to barricade off a sacred party-state from the realm of personal freedoms will require ever greater resources.” A problem that will only get worse. Let’s hope their eventual frustrated attempts to retain power will not require significant bloodshed!
Read Zarrow’s entire essay here: History News Network | Why Xi Jinping’s Campaign to Suppress Western Ideas Is Bound to Fail
A Book That Changed the Way Americans Saw the Poor: “How The Other Half Lives,” (1890) by Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis profoundly changed the image of poverty in New York City after he published his photographs in 1890. Photography was still in its infancy, so Riis actually had to invent a new method of lighting up the dark spaces in which the poor lived. His photos were so shocking that they actually brought about reforms that significantly improved the conditions of the working poor (mostly immigrants) living in New York City.
If you have not seen his photos, I would highly recommend doing so. They are shocking! I posted a few below. How The Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis:
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The Discovery of India
India Wins Freedom
Partition and Pakistan
(Author: Jawaharlal Nehru)
New Delhi: Penguin books, 2002.
Reviewed by Muhammad Fayyaz
The Discovery of India deals with the history of sub-continent since antiquity to present when the author was in jail during 1944. The book covers the whole past development in a single volume. The theoretical framework employed by the author is nationalist perspective. The methodology for the construction of past is based on linear and cyclical theory of historiography.
Jawaharlal Nehru discusses the political and social condition of the Indus valley civilization. For writer, the ruins of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reflect the glory of Indian past. The writer praised the ruler ship of Chandra Mauria Gupta and Asoka the Great. Both the rulers were responsible for building gigantic and prosperous empire. The Indus civilization was better than other civilizations in term of its rich natural resources and wealth. That was the reason that rulers could afford building large empire. Asoka was tolerant towards all the religions, and he patronized the Buddhism as well. He propagated the Buddhist philosophy during his ruler ship. After the death of Ashoka, there left no such rulers who could sustain power and bring stability in so vast empire. Thus, the empire started to disintegrate and crumbled down under the reign of incapable rulers.
Nehru keep mild attitude towards Islam. For him, the coming of Islam to South Asia enriched the culture of Hindus. He repudiated the claim that Islam had been spread through sword. He praised the Muslim philosopher, historian, sociologist and scientist Abu Rehan Al Beruni. Nehru analyzed how Kitab-ul-Hind of Al Beruni discuss the Indian culture and society in thoughtful manner. For writer, Islam spread in Hindustan through the teaching of Sufi’s. The Sufism played important role in spreading Islam, because the Hindus got impressed from the humble and pious nature of the Sufis. It was the beauty of Hindu civilization that it absorbed the foreigners and assimilates them with its culture. Nehru praised the ruler ship of Akbar the Great. He compared the statesmanship of Akbar with that of Asoka. Akbar revived the spirit of Asoka’s rule by bringing prosperity and stability in the empire through the power of Dharma. Like Asoka, Akbar was tolerant towards all the religious communities. Nehru criticizes the rule of Aurangzeb, because his rule brought anarchy and instability in the empire.
The writer discuss critically the period of British colonialism. For him, the colonizers looked down upon the Indian subjects, and were bent on exploiting the resources for their own political and economic purposes. The colonizers made alliances with landlords and feudal in order to materialize their rule. They supported princes of the states, and won over their favour as a result. The colonizers adopted authoritative attitude in their rule towards the common subjects. The British did not introduce liberal and democratic political system in the colonies. Further, the British sowed a seed of discard on religious lines between Hindus and Muslims. They want to linger their rule through divide and rule policies.
Nehru discusses the role of All India National Congress for its struggle against the colonial masters for rights and freedom. For him, the Congress could only help eliminating the political and economic backwardness of India. It could bring political unity and economic stability in the Hindustan. He also praised the Gandhi role for his struggle for the freedom of masses.
The book is overall a good study for the historians. It covers the past of India in a lucid manner. It discusses the ancient time, medieval age, Mughal era, British colonialism and the struggle Congress for freedom in a systematic way.
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Tracking court organization, administration, structure, and strategy
Jordan Singer
John Cooke chosen to lead Federal Judicial Center
I missed the press release from late July, but it’s worth noting that John Cooke, currently the Deputy Director of the Federal Judicial Center, will be promoted to be the Center’s eleventh director next month. He will replace Judge Jeremy Fogel, who is leaving the FJC to lead the new Berkeley Judicial Institute.
John Cooke joined the Federal Judicial Center in 1998 as its director of judicial education programs, and he later headed the Center’s Education Division. The Board selected Mr. Cooke as Deputy Director in 2005. Before his 20-year career at the Center, Mr. Cooke was a commissioned officer in the United States Judge Advocate General’s Corps, achieving the rank of brigadier general. In the course of his military career, he served as the Chief Judge of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the Judge Advocate for the U.S. Army in Europe, Academic Director of the Judge Advocate General’s School, and as a military trial judge. Mr. Cooke received a B.A. degree from Carleton College, a J.D. from the University of Southern California, and an LL.M degree from the University of Virginia.
Best wishes to the new Director!
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Just Eat Takeaway (JET)
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Wednesday 12 August, 2020
Half-year Report
RNS Number : 8483V
Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V.
Amsterdam, 12 August 2020
Half Year 2020 Results
Revenue up 44% to €1 billion, adjusted EBITDA of €177 million2
Statement of Jitse Groen, CEO of Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V.: "Just Eat Takeaway.com is in the fortunate position to benefit from continuing tailwinds. The United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and Brazil are performing particularly strongly. Our businesses have healthy gross margins, and all our segments are adjusted EBITDA positive. On the back of the current momentum, we started an aggressive investment programme, which we believe will further strengthen our market positions. We are convinced that our order growth will remain strong for the remainder of the year."
● The most important drivers of the network effects supporting the business model improved significantly. In the last twelve months, Just Eat Takeaway.com added a record number of new restaurants and Active Consumers. At the same time the number of Orders per Returning Active Consumer and the churn also improved, leading to a significant acceleration of top-line growth.
● Just Eat Takeaway.com processed 257 million orders in the first six months of 2020, representing a 32% increase compared with the first half of 2019, driven by strong accelerated order growth in the second quarter of 2020 compared with the first quarter of 2020.
● Revenue ² grew by 44% to €1 billion in the first six months of 2020, compared with €715 million in the first half of 2019.
● Adjusted EBITDA ² for Just Eat Takeaway.com increased by 133% to €177 million in the first six months of 2020, compared with €76 million in the first half of 2019. This strong improvement was mainly driven by gross margin growth.
● Loss for the period ² was €158 million in the first six months of 2020, compared with a loss of €27 million in the first half of 2019. The loss was mainly driven by amortisation, advisory, transaction and integration related expenses connected to the combination of Just Eat and Takeaway.com and the proposed transaction with Grubhub.
● The integration with Just Eat is on track and progressing well. To benefit from global brand recognition, all of Just Eat Takeaway.com's brands now share the same logo. Furthermore, in the first week of June, the Swiss business was successfully migrated to Just Eat Takeaway.com's central European IT platform and other markets will follow in due course.
● Management believes the Just Eat brands, despite their current strong growth, have seen underinvestment in recent years. To strengthen, expand or recapture market-leading positions throughout our territories, we have embarked on an aggressive investment programme and will invest significantly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain, France and several other ex-Just Eat markets.
● In Brazil, iFood continued its strong momentum with revenue ² growth of 261%. Order growth almost doubled year-on-year, reaching just short of 200 million orders in the first six months of 2020.
● On 10 June 2020, the Company announced the proposed all-share transaction with Grubhub. It is currently expected that the Company's shareholder circular will be published towards the end of August 2020 and the EGM will be held in October 2020. Subject to satisfaction of conditions, completion of the transaction is anticipated to occur in the first half of 2021.
For the full press release, please click here.
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CNX Resources Corporation Announces Private Offering of $400 Million of Senior Notes
CNX Resources Corporation today announced that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to offer and sell to eligible purchasers $400.0 million of senior notes due 2029 . The Notes will be guaranteed by all of CNX’s wholly-owned domestic restricted subsidiaries that guarantee its revolving credit facility. CNX intends to use the net proceeds of the sale of the Notes for general corporate purposes, …
– CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) (“CNX”) today announced that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to offer and sell to eligible purchasers $400.0 million of senior notes due 2029 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be guaranteed by all of CNX’s wholly-owned domestic restricted subsidiaries that guarantee its revolving credit facility. CNX intends to use the net proceeds of the sale of the Notes for general corporate purposes, including to repay existing indebtedness under CNX’s revolving credit facility.
The Notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and the rules promulgated thereunder and applicable state securities laws. The Notes will be offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act and non-U.S. persons in transactions outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.
This press release does not and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any notes, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of notes in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering may be made only by means of an offering memorandum.
About CNX Resources Corporation
CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) is one of the largest independent natural gas exploration, development and production companies, with operations centered in the major shale formations of the Appalachian basin. The company deploys an organic growth strategy focused on responsibly developing its resource base. As of December 31, 2019 , CNX had 8.4 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves. The company is a member of the Standard & Poor’s Midcap 400 Index.
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Hillary Clinton Apologizes For Private Email Use & More News You Need To Know
This is the most forthcoming Clinton has been in saying "sorry" for the issue to the public.
Monique John
In an interview with ABC’s David Muir on Tuesday, Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton finally came forward by saying “sorry” for using a private email account to handle government documents and communications. Clinton maintains that she was allowed to use her private account at the time, but that she should have used two separate listings to keep her personal correspondence separate from her work-related memos and that she made a mistake. Clinton also admits she could have done a better job of answering the public’s concerns about the matter when the issue first arose. So far, Clinton has turned in 55,000 pages of emails with her private email server and a thumb drive to the Justice Department. This is the most forthcoming Clinton has been in apologizing for the issue. Read more at ABC News.
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Team Leaders:
Kelsey Johnson, Program Director/Founder: As the founder and director of In My Backyard, Kelsey brings her experience as a current youth and volunteer coordinator with the National Park Service and passion for sharing the outdoors to supporting and strengthening the program. She is an 14-year veteran of the NPS, with experience in interpretation, education, and cultural and natural resource management. Kelsey has worked in seven different national parks, including the National Park of American Samoa, Olympic National Park, San Juan Island National Historical Park and Oregon Caves National Monument. She is passionate about youth engagement with public lands and making change within the NPS to be a more inclusive and equitable place to work and experience. Kelsey has a Master of Science degree in Resource Management from Central Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism/International Studies from Western Washington University. She loves her rescue dog and kittens and can found most weekends exploring the outdoors and playing with the pets. Learn more about Kelsey and how she became a park ranger!
Megan Young, Program Assistant: Megan began at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park as a volunteer intern with the In My Backyard Program in the spring of 2017. Her cohort began developing curriculum for high school students with the guidance of Klondike’s HBCUI Intern, Chanara, to create a sense of belonging in national parks. Since then, Megan has worked on various projects from social media, field trips, partnerships, community events and has continually been involved with In My Backyard. Currently, Megan serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator, connecting communities in the Puget Sound to resources and national parks. Developing and sustaining partnerships through meaningful and authentic relationships is an aspect of her job that Megan really enjoys. In My Backyard also means a lot to her; it’s where her journey began with the National Park Service. Here, you can read more about how Megan took the leap to apply to the In My Backyard Program. Megan graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree with a minor in Urban Design and Planning in June 2018. Collaborating with a team, graphic design, dogs, and General Porpoise are a few of her favorite things. You may find Megan on a soccer field, taking photographs, or watching her go-to show: Parks and Recreation.
Carole Holmson, Program Assistant: Carole has been with In My Backyard since February 2019 when she started as Klondike’s Community Volunteer Ambassador. During that year, she assisted with IMBY recruitment, program development, social media, field trips and community events around the Seattle Area. Some of her favorite memories of 2019 include cheering on National Park Service staff and volunteers in the Seattle Pride parade, working alongside youth and NPS staff at outdoor events like the Beacon Hill Fest and Big Day of Play, taking a ferry ride with the IMBYs to visit Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial and traveling to Washington, DC with Kelsey to attend the Hartzog Volunteer Awards Ceremony. Carole is passionate about sharing youth voices and connecting communities to our shared public lands. She assisted with the launch of an IMBY Advisory Committee and monthly e-newsletter for IMBY alumni to stay connected. Currently, she serves as the Seattle Every Kid Outdoors Education Coordinator – providing in-class experiences, online activities/resources and scheduling field trips to Klondike for fourth grade students to discover the Every Kid Outdoors Program. She also enjoys assisting the Youth Artist-in-Residence Program, community engagement and social media initiatives at Klondike. Carole graduated from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science in 2014. During an internship at the Scottish Seabird Centre that summer, she discovered her interest in environmental education – leading to an internship and seasonal park ranger work for the Bureau of Land Management at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area for the next four years. The opportunity to work with a youth program dedicated to stewardship and leadership in Seattle prompted her move north in 2019. In her free time, Carole enjoys hiking, running, burning through her Kindle battery, wildlife watching and baking.
Madeline Vinh, Volunteer Center Interpretation Intern: Madeline is rejoining IMBY this summer after an incredible internship experience last summer at Klondike and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. Her first formal experience with the Park Service was three years ago, when she interned at Manzanar National Historic Site. Madeline graduated in Spring 2020 from Colby College, where she led the pottery program and studied Ecology, ‘Science, Technology, and Society,’ and East Asian Studies. Through the Park Service, she has realized the importance of staying actively engaged in America’s story as a way to better contextualize current events, and is deeply invested in reexamining historical events through new lenses. After work, you’ll find her jumping into cold bodies of water, learning how to reupholster vintage furniture, or exploring Seattle’s many parks.
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Shaylee Simeone
The Holidays EP
Style: Pop / Christmas
Official Site: Official Website
Buy It: AmazonMP3
With a smoky, soulful voice and a heart for worship, singer/songwriter Shaylee Simeone has been pouring her heart out through song for the better part of a decade. Though most of her releases have been singles, her most notable work is a two-part EP series called For the Love of the Sea, released in 2016. This year, she’s trying her hand at Christmas music, and the results are delightful.
Now, this isn’t Simeone’s first take on Christmas music; she released an EP called Happy Christmas in 2013. But her new release, The Holidays, features some songs, new and classic, with some slightly different styles than six years ago. The former EP dealt mostly in piano pop and acoustic folk, which continues in the latter’s “We Three Kings” and “When You Come (Mary’s Song).” The three remaining new songs feature more of a jazz/pop leaning. It’s not quite the jazzy style of Lauren Daigle’s Christmas album, but is more along the lines of Pretty Speeches by Poema. It sounds great in “Merry Christmas Baby” and the Simeone original “The Holidays,” as well as the cover of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas.”
Shaylee Simeone is a very talented singer, and she clearly has a knack for Christmas music. Happy Christmas has a touch of the spiritual side of the holiday as well as a good dose of the heartwarming, romantic side. It’s a short EP, but all five of its tracks are wonderful choices to add to your Christmas music playlists.
- Review date: 12/3/19, written by Scott Fryberger of Jesusfreakhideout.com
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Album length: 5 tracks: 21 minutes, 6 seconds
Merry Christmas Baby (4:16)
The Holidays (4:44)
We Three Kings (3:33)
This Christmas (4:19)
When You Come (Mary's Song) (4:14)
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Home New Research Psychology Single people have richer social lives, more psychological growth than...
Single people have richer social lives, more psychological growth than married people, Study
Dating shows, dating apps – they all strive to make sure none of us end up uncoupled forever. But it turns out many single people embrace their single lives, and are likely to experience more psychological growth and development than married people, according to a psychologist who presented at the American Psychological Association’s 124th Annual Convention.
“The preoccupation with the perils of loneliness can obscure the profound benefits of solitude, ” said Bella DePaulo, PhD, a scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “It is time for a more accurate portrayal of single people and single life – one that recognizes the real strengths and resilience of people who are single, and what makes their lives so meaningful.”
DePaulo cited longitudinal research that shows single people value meaningful work more than married people, and another study that shows single people are also more connected to parents, siblings, friends, neighbors and coworkers. “When people marry, they become more insular, ” she said.
However, research on single people is lacking, DePaulo claimed. She searched for studies of participants who had never married and, of the 814 studies she found, most did not actually examine single people but used them as a comparison group to learn about married people and marriage in general.
The studies that did focus on single people revealed some telling findings, she said. For example, research comparing people who stayed single with those who stayed married showed that single people have a heightened sense of self-determination and they are more likely to experience “a sense of continued growth and development as a person, ” DePaulo said.
Another study of lifelong single people showed that self-sufficiency serves them well: The more self-sufficient they were, the less likely they were to experience negative emotions. For married people, the opposite was true, according to DePaulo.
There are more unmarried people than ever before in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2014, there were 124.6 million unmarried Americans over age 16, meaning 50.2 percent of the nation’s adult population identified as single, according to BLS. In contrast, only 37.4 percent of the population was unmarried in 1976.
Married people should be doing a lot better than single people in view of the number of laws that benefit them, DePaulo said, but in many ways, they aren’t. “People who marry get access to more than 1, 000 federal benefits and protections, many of them financial, ” she said. “Considering all of the financial and cultural advantages people get just because they are married, it becomes even more striking that single people are doing as well as they are.”
Despite the advantages of staying single, DePaulo doesn’t claim one status is better than the other. “More than ever before, Americans can pursue the ways of living that work best for them. There is no one blueprint for the good life, ” she said. “What matters is not what everyone else is doing or what other people think we should be doing, but whether we can find the places, the spaces and the people that fit who we really are and allow us to live our best lives.”
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Arlene from Israel: Looking Up.
Arlene Kushner 26/07/2016 Comments Off on Arlene from Israel: Looking Up. 2,942 Views
Credit: AP/Loren Victoria Burke.
When Hillary Clinton announced her running mate – Virginia Senator Tim Kaine – on Saturday, she declared that he “is everything Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hillary-clinton-describes-tim-kaine-as-everything-donald-trump-and-mike-pence-are-not-2016-07-23
Well. It’s very rarely indeed that I agree with Hillary. But here I do, saying Baruch Hashem (Thank Heaven) for the difference. That’s the very beginning (but hardly the end) of today’s good news.
Before you think I have gone totally bonkers, allow me to explain, beginning with a brief overview of what Tim Kaine stands for:
Declared an editorial in the NY Sun:
“Can it be a coincidence that of all the millions of Americans Secretary Clinton could have picked as her running mate, she chose, in Senator Kaine, one of the eight Democrats who boycotted Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address last year to a joint meeting of Congress? Not a chance…
“[Kaine] was also one the senators who in 2014 refused to sign a letter to President Obama warning of legislated legal constraints on funding the Palestinian Arab authority after it struck its alliance with Hamas. The letter, led by Senators Susan Collins and Ben Cardin, was signed by 88 senators from both parties.
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-wages-of-kaine/89662/
According to the JPost, Kaine was also “one of only 17 senators in April not to sign a letter urging US President Barack Obama to increase the US military aid package to Israel. (Emphasis added)
”The bipartisan letter, sponsored by Chris Coons (D-Delaware) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), urged Obama to conclude a ‘robust’ new military aid package “that increases aid to Israel and retains the current terms of the existing aid program.”
http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Kaine-one-of-few-senators-not-to-sign-letter-to-Obama-urging-increased-MoU-462273
Then last, but hardly least, Breitbart reports that he
“has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect; and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.” (Emphasis added)
See details:
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/23/clinton-vp-pick-tim-kaines-islamist-ties/
So we have clarity with regard to who Tim Kaine is. And with this, of course, comes clarity about Hillary, who selected him.
We have to be grateful for this lack of ambiguity, because it leaves no doubt about the fact the Clinton-Kaine ticket must be defeated. For Israel’s sake, yes.
But first and primarily for America’s sake. A presidential – vice presidential team that continues Obama’s embrace of Islamists is a road to destruction that cannot be tolerated.
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Having said this, I would then be quite justified in promoting the Trump – Pence ticket because it must be anyone but Hillary.
But the other reason things are looking up is that I have now moved beyond this position and am pleased to endorse the Republican team in positive terms. By the time we come close to the election, I hope I will have brought many of my readers to the same place.
On Sunday, I went to have a serious conversation with attorney Marc Zell, who co-chairs Republicans Overseas Israel. Marc participated in the deliberations and meetings of the Republican Platform Committee, which passed the most pro-Israel plank in over 25 years, if not ever, and was a non-voting delegate at the convention.
He speaks, first, about the overwhelmingly positive attitude the Republican party is expressing with regard to Israel. The support that is being exhibited, said Marc, would not have been possible without the participation and encouragement of key Trump advisors. Mike Pence, for his part, as a congressman and then as governor of Indiana, has a long history of passionate support for Israel.
Marc explored with me a number of accusations made against Trump, in each regard setting the record straight:
Trump is not an isolationist. He has simply said that the US cannot function in the greater world until she is strengthened from within – that this strengthening must come first.
To make American safe, make America strong, make America great. “…this does not mean turning inward and steering America away from the world at large. Trump and Pence have both said that in order for America to play the role she should play around the globe, she must be strong internally, economically, etc. Law and order must be restored to America. Americans must feel themselves to be exceptional and worthy of the role they must play in the world. This is not isolationism. It is good common sense…”
These are goals that a great many of us, despairing of the state America finds herself in, would gladly embrace.
“Trump wants to roll back the US-Iran Nuclear deal…Trump wants to wage a war on terror, in contrast to the Democrats who have avoided using the war analogy from the time they retook the White House in 2009…Trump wants to destroy ISIS…Trump wants to confront the Chinese through aggressive negotiations about trade policy, currency manipulation and strong measures to curb their pilfering intellectual property and cyber-theft…Trump wants to strengthen the US military…None of these clearly and frequently stated foreign policies is consistent with an isolationist world view.”
Trump, it should be mentioned here, does not advocate the US pulling out of NATO. Rather, he has protested that the US is expected to carry too much of the weight.
I have come around to thinking that the tough-guy populist persona Trump projected during the primary campaign is one he thought would resonate with the voters (and he was correct about this), but that it does not adequately represent who he truly is.
My impression was strengthened by something Marc Zell told me happened when he attended a meeting of the Oklahoma delegation at the convention. At that meeting, Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe told Marc that he had requested a meeting with Trump. Trump came to the meeting well prepared – he had been well briefed on Inhofe’s political views and Senate committee assignments and legislative program. What is more, Trump LISTENED intently throughout the meeting.
This is not how a know-it-all tough guy behaves. As a result of this meeting, Senator Inhofe is now an enthusiastic Trump supporter.
I suspect we are going to hear a great deal more in the same vein. During the primary campaign, Trump threw out ideas without elaborating on specifics, or policies that would bring these ideas to fruition. His approach was broad and open-ended, which appealed to many, but frustrated others.
Now I have learned that he is in the process of putting serious policy teams in place and that he is listening to what they have to say. And so it certainly seems that Trump as president would be much more serious and nuanced than what he has seemed to be as a candidate.
I will continue to track the situation as it evolves, and write about it regularly. Down the road, I hope many of you will assume an activist role, to help prevent the unthinkable from happening, and to bring new possibilities to America.
Credit: Getty.
Now as we go into the Democratic Convention, we see it riddled with scandal. During the primary campaign, candidate Bernie Sanders regularly claimed that the establishment system was rigged against him.
And now it turns out that it was. A WikiLeaks dump of some 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee makes it obvious that there was bias towards and collusion on behalf of Hillary. The DNC is supposed to remain impartial. See details:
https://www.rt.com/usa/352752-dnc-leaks-clinton-collusion/
Some 45% of the pledged delegates at the convention are Sanders supporters, and they do not intend to remain quiet. Many will not vote Democratic in the general election. Some may move over to Trump.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has to step down from her position as DNC Chairwoman as a result of this situation. But the story is not about Schultz, who will quickly disappear into political oblivion. The story is about political corruption. What amused me the most was the charge by Hillary that the Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC emails because they prefer Trump – a charge the Trump campaign calls ridiculous.
She is upset that the inner machinations of the DNC were exposed – not contrite about the fact that there were such machinations.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-clinton-russia-dnc-email-hack-20160724-story.html
CNN/ORC poll published Monday gave Republican candidate Donald Trump a five-point lead over presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in a four-way race, and a three-point lead in a head-to-head.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/cnn-poll-shows-trump-leapfrogging-clinton-by-5-points/
The terror in Europe only worsens, and there is no end in sight.
A great deal more that begs to be written about will have to wait until my next posting.
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Town of Nahant Provides COVID-19 Glossary
NAHANT -- Town Administrator Tony Barletta wishes to provide residents with a glossary of terms pertaining to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
April 17, 2020 Taylor O'Neil Client News, City/Town News
April 17, 2020 by Taylor O'Neil
NAHANT — Town Administrator Tony Barletta wishes to provide residents with a glossary of terms pertaining to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“During these uncertain times, our residents are being inundated with COVID-19 news and updates,” said Town Administrator Barletta. “We’ve found that while specific jargon is used often in reports and on the news surrounding coronavirus, many aren’t aware of their nuanced meanings. We wish to provide this resource to help hinder any miscommunication and to help ensure that our community members are informed.”
The Town of Nahant offers the following glossary of terms from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and Public Health Nurse Deb Murphy:
Active monitoring means that state or local public health authorities establish regular communication with the person to monitor for symptoms of illness. This communication may include telephone calls or any electronic or internet-based means of communication. In Massachusetts, this communication occurs at least weekly.
Close contact is defined as:
a) being within approximately 6 feet (2 meters) of a COVID-19 case for a prolonged period of time; close contact can occur while caring for, living with, visiting, or sharing a healthcare waiting area or room with a COVID-19 case
b) having direct contact with infectious secretions of a COVID-19 case (e.g., being coughed on).
Contact Tracing is the act of identifying and locating individuals who may have been exposed to someone with COVID-19. Close contacts of an individual who tests positive for the virus will be asked to quarantine and will be monitored regularly by local public health officials.
Coronavirus is a group of viruses that result in mild to moderate upper-respiratory illness.
A novel coronavirus is a new coronavirus that has not been identified before. There are numerous types of coronaviruses that affect humans and frequently result in mild respiratory trace illness.
COVID-19 or coronavirus disease 2019 is the official name the World Health Organization gave the novel coronavirus that has become a worldwide pandemic in 2020. Before the WHO officially named the virus, it was known as 2019 novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV.
Isolation means the separation of a person or a group of people known or reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease and potentially infectious from those who are not infected to prevent spread of the communicable disease. People in Massachusetts who are under isolation are also under active monitoring.
Quarantine means the separation of a person reasonably believed to have been exposed or potentially exposed to a communicable disease but not yet symptomatic, from others who have not been so exposed to prevent the possible spread of the communicable disease. People in Massachusetts who are under quarantine are also advised to self-monitor for symptoms.
Respiratory symptoms in relation to the SARS-CoV, typically mean an infection of the lower respiratory tract which may result in coughing, shortness of breath and/or difficulty breathing.
Self-monitoring is for people believed to have been exposed to a person with COVID-19. It means people should monitor themselves for fever by taking their temperatures twice a day and remain alert for any coughing or difficulty breathing. If they feel feverish or develop measured fever, cough, or difficulty breathing during the self-monitoring period, they should self-isolate, limit contact with others, and seek advice by telephone from a healthcare provider or their local health department to determine whether medical evaluation is needed.
Self-observation is for people who don’t have symptoms and have not been exposed to the best of their knowledge. It means people should remain alert for subjective fever, cough, or difficulty breathing. If they feel feverish or develop cough or difficulty breathing during the self-observation period, they should take their temperature, self-isolate, limit contact with others, and seek advice by telephone from a healthcare provider or their local health department to determine whether medical evaluation is needed.
Social distancing means remaining out of congregate settings, avoiding mass gatherings, and maintaining distance (approximately 6 feet or 2 meters) from others when possible.
For information on more COVID-19 related terminology, click here.
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Bamboozled: When buying gift cards, it pays to read fine print
Victoria Shahinian turned 12 last month.
As part of her celebration, she was showered with presents from family and friends, including a gift card that wasn’t what it appeared to be.
“I have received many gift cards in the past for birthdays and holidays, but I have never had any problems with them,’’ she said. “This is my first troublesome card.’’
Victoria and a friend, supervised at a distance by her mother, Catherine, were shopping for goodies in the Bridgewater Commons mall.
Victoria, armed with her birthday gift card, found something she wanted to buy.
“They tried to use the prepaid MasterCard debit card in two stores before one of the cashiers mentioned to my daughter it might need to be activated,” Catherine Shahinian said. “I have never had to activate a Borders’ or Macy’s or any restaurant gift card before, so I gave her $30 cash and said I will do my best.’’
While the girls completed the cash transaction in the store, Shahinian called the toll-free number on the card, issued by Green Dot, to activate it.
She said she used the voice prompts, answering questions about her name and telephone number. Then a question stopped her short.
“They asked for my Social [Security number], and I began to input the numbers but got an uncomfortable feeling about that, so I tried to override the prompts,” she said.
The call was disconnected, and Shahinian moved on through the mall with the girls.
A week later, she decided to try again.
Shahinian said she did everything she could to get the card activated without doling out her private information, to no avail.
She decided to do some online research.
“I read the whole laundry list of complaints with the fees associated with this Green Dot card,’’ she said.
Wanting to get the card’s value but not willing to give up her Social Security number, Shahinian contacted Bamboozled.
Needing a Social Security number to activate a gift card raised Bamboozled’s hackles.
Big time.
Before passing judgment, we called Green Dot to better understand the product.
Turns out this card, sold at supermarket checkout lines and in retail locations, is not a gift card. It’s a reloadable debit card, which falls under a very different set of rules.
“Prepaid cards don’t have the protections that other gift cards may have, and they come with a set of fees that other gift cards don’t have,” said Adam Levin, former director of the state Division of Consumer Affairs, who now serves as chairman and co-founder of Credit.com.
So, exactly what is someone buying when they purchase a Green Dot card? According to the company website, it offers prepaid MasterCard and Visa debit cards. Users can load funds onto the card, either from cash or from a paycheck, and it can be used at ATMs, for shopping or to pay bills. In essence, it can be used in lieu of a checking account.
“Green Dot’s products are not gift cards but are in fact FDIC-insured transactional accounts,” said Mark Sowell, Green Dot’s chief operating officer. “In order to help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money-laundering activities, the Patriot Act is a federal law that requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.”
That’s why Shahinian’s Social Security number was required to activate the card.
Green Dot said for Shahinian, this was a case of the person who purchased the card as a gift not fully understanding the product.
That’s a fair assessment. The gift-giver probably had thought the card was a traditional gift card.
Green Dot’s cards are quite popular. The company says in the last 12 months through September 2010, it issued approximately 6.1 million new prepaid cards to Americans, who loaded more than $9.5 billion of deposits over the same period.
But unlike traditional gift cards, these involve fees. There is a purchase fee of up to $4.95, (though that charge is waived if the card is ordered online).
Accounts will incur a monthly charge of $5.95 unless the cardholder makes at least 30 purchases or loads $1,000 on to the card. Out-of-network ATM fees are $2.50, and it costs $4.95 to reload more money onto the card, unless you receive direct deposit to your account.
Those charges may not seem excessive if you’re using the Green Dot card in lieu of a checking account, but for Victoria and other customers, it’s too much for a simple gift card.
It makes sense that Victoria’s gift-giver could make this error. Green Dot cards are easy to buy at retail stores. The fine print is there, but most customers don’t bother to read it.
As you consider your gift card purchases this holiday season, do your homework, otherwise your recipient may face a myriad of fees and a request for some very personal information.
Thanks to the CARD Act, gift cards, in general, now have an expiration of five years. In the first year, the company issuing the card can’t charge a fee. After that time, a dormancy fee can be assessed. That’s a big difference from the old days, when dormancy fees could quickly burn out a gift card’s balance.
The new rules don’t cover cards like the one Victoria received. Of those, the Federal Reserve says:
“These new rules apply only to gift cards, which are just one type of prepaid card.”
The new rules do not cover other types of prepaid cards, such as:
“Reloadable prepaid cards that are not intended for gift-giving purposes. For example, a reloadable prepaid card with a MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover brand logo that is intended to be used like a checking account substitute is not covered.”
To make smart choices for your gift recipients this holiday season, read the fine print and don’t just pick up whatever’s in front of you for convenience.
“You really have to be really careful about what you buy and be aware of all the details,” said Levin. “We are calling institutions into accountability more than ever before, and there’s a corollary. We, as consumers, have to call ourselves into accountability more than ever before.”
So, as you shop, take an extra moment and understand what you’re buying. Save your loved ones the inconvenience experienced by Victoria.
“Don’t allow your acquisition ecstasy to cloud your judgment,” Levin said.
The Shahinians say they learned that lesson the hard way.
“I was at the grocery checkout and I grabbed two gift cards at the register,” Catherine Shahinian said. “After checkout, I looked at my receipt because the total was more than I had expected: $4.95 per card, plus the cost of the card!”
She said she never realized the recipients would be asked for their personal information.
“Never again. No matter how gauche, I will give cash next time or a regular gift card,” she said.
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File your car accident lawsuit: In no-fault states like Florida, in order to be eligible to file a car accident lawsuit against the at-fault party, you will need to be able to show that you suffered a serious injury. Your Odessa car accident lawyer can help with this process. You should also know that the statute of limitations for most car accident lawsuits under Florida law is four years. Accordingly, you will only have four years from the date of the car accident to file a lawsuit. It is always better to begin working with a car accident attorney as soon as possible to prevent valuable evidence from being lost in your case. The longer you wait, the more likely it is that witnesses will not be able to remember precise details from the collision, for example, that could help you to win your case.
Contact a Odessa Car Accident Attorney
Were you injured in a car crash in or around Odessa, Florida? You should not wait to begin the process of seeking compensation for your injuries. With the help of an experienced Odessa car accident attorney, you can file an auto insurance claim, and you may be able to negotiate a fair settlement from the auto insurer. If your auto insurance policy cannot cover the full amount of your losses, you may be able to file a car accident lawsuit against the at-fault driver.
Common Questions About Car Accidents in Odessa, FL
How much does it cost to hire a personal injury lawyer?
All personal injury cases we agree to take on are handled on a “contingency fee basis.” This means you pay nothing upfront. Instead, our pay depends upon our recovering money for your damages from the insurance company. If we are unable to recover money on your behalf, you owe us nothing. In the event we are successful in recovering money, we will get paid a portion of the settlement.
What kind of compensation can I receive?
Depending on the severity of the injury, you can receive compensation for medical expenses, lost wages for missing work, and pain & suffering.
How long do I have to file a personal injury claim?
In Florida, the statute of limitations depends on the type of injury. It can range from two (2) to four (4) years and sometimes five (5) years, after the injuring incident.
Living in Odessa
Odessa, Florida is a small lake-filled suburban community that sits just a short drive from Tampa Bay. It has a population of just under 8,000 people and most of them are homeowners. Home values here exceed both the national average and the Florida average.
Odessa, which sits within both Pasco and Hillsborough counties, was historically a horse ranching community before many of its ranches became neighborhoods. Take a drive through Odessa, and it’s easy to see why its residents enjoy its small-town feeling and the lushness of the many orange groves that still dot the landscape.
According to government statistics, this is one of the safest communities in Florida. It’s home to many families and retirees who enjoy living in a relatively small community while still being fairly close to Tampa.
Odessa Local Services & Emergency Contact Information
Pasco County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Dial 911; Non Emergency (727) 847-5878
Odessa Car Accident Lawyer – (877) 941-4878
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I live in Baka, a neighborhood south of the Old City in Jerusalem. It’s a pretty Anglo, Orthodox, religious area. My family is not typical—I think it’s pretty uncommon for the conflict or peace issues to be brought up at the dinner table in other homes. I like that in our family, we discuss together and build an ideology as a family from these different perspectives because my father fought in the Israeli army and my mother has worked for various social organizations, so it is natural to talk about it. My mind is not set on one way of thinking… I feel I am pretty open-minded.
When I started at K4P I thought I was ready to go, to talk about the politics and everything. But I suddenly understood, everything was going really slow because we had the barrier of language, and I finally saw we had no way to communicate because they couldn’t speak Hebrew, we couldn’t speak Arabic, and no one could speak English that well. So very quickly it became divided and we separated into groups of Jewish kids and Palestinians.
At first this was really frustrating. I felt we were not talking about anything serious, everything was just under the surface, being careful and no one wanted to offend anyone. I was very critical about the program at that point, because everyone was just trying to make it seem like it was peacemaking, but I knew the conflict was all still hidden. Then I realized, some kids were not ready and not willing to talk about it. They weren’t aware enough, or they just couldn’t face it yet.
Our first political discussion that really made a strong impact happened years after we first met—it takes that long to really bond, and even then, not everyone spoke. We started talking about Jerusalem, and what it meant to all of us, and it was during the time that there were terrorist attacks in the city. We need to expand to open communities, deeper into the left-wing Jewish communities and the open-minded Palestinians who want peace, and then beyond both of them.
A few years ago I was talking about serving in the army, and instead of just getting defensive and telling me I shouldn’t join, a few of the Palestinian girls started asking me questions. I got to tell them about different jobs in the army, and have a conversation for the first time.
But I want to say, having these conversations has not made me all, tippy-toe, and peace-y, and not necessarily made me more liberal or less, they didn’t make me convinced of everything on their side— but it makes me research these issues. Sometimes the experience has actually made me pro-Israeli and made me want to defend myself with even more heart, but on some topics, it’s the other way. I’ve found a balance and difference between understanding the other side and agreeing with the other side. That’s the thing—many people are scared to understand what the other side is saying because they think that means they need to agree, but to be able to see beyond that, is what is important.
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With the news this week that Instagram has created a function for users to contact businesses directly on the platform, attention has once again turned to the brands using it. Many businesses, particularly B2B brands, are reluctant to use it, viewing it purely as a consumer platform left to celebrities and high-end fashion brands. However, the fact remains that, outside of China, 17% of internet users aged 16-64 say they actively use Instagram each month – a figure that has more than doubled since Q3 2013, according to Global Web Index’s quarterly Instagram report.
It is a crucial platform for businesses to engage their stakeholders on a human level and to showcase values past traditional media. It is particularly important for global businesses as fast-growth markets like Thailand (35%), Malaysia (34%) and Indonesia (31%) have the highest number of users.
For B2B brands, Instagram poses something of a challenge. Without a recognisable physical product to serve as an anchor, it can be difficult to create a coherent visual identity. And since so much of B2B content marketing revolves around providing industry peers with tips and tricks for succeeding on the job, these brands need to be extremely creative about providing value to users within the limited constraints of a single in-feed photograph. This challenge aside, there are some B2B brands that have been able to use the medium to their advantage, either by using it to give people a glimpse into their internal culture or by coming up with creative ways to show how its products and services make a difference in the real world.
Here are a few of our favourites:
Back in 2011, Maersk defined their purpose for being on social media: “to get closer to our customers… social media is about communication, not marketing. It’s about engaging, not pushing.” While this purpose is recognisable, it was forward-thinking for the time. They have done this successfully so far, posting beautifully composed images from all over the world, showing the ends of the earth that their businesses goes to in order to deliver for their customers.
Fedex’s feed is full of beautifully composed photos, many of which feature their easily-recognisable Fedex trucks and planes. In fact, you can’t scroll through the Fedex Instagram feed without feeling as though, while you’re idly scrolling, they’re hard at work. The impression, here, is that Fedex vehicles are always moving, always delivering, always there. And, for businesses who rely on deliveries being on time, that’s a really important message to be able to take away.
No B2B social list would be complete without an appearance from GE. From showcasing the people working on their various brands to the latest technology, their posts are always well-received. They are clearly proud of their technology and showcase it like works of art which don’t look out of place on a user’s feed alongside fashion brands and the latest restaurants.
So whether it’s giant shipping containers or metal cutting technology, clearly there is room for traditional B2B brands to showcase their businesses. The challenge for such brands is not one of having something interesting to say (or visualise), it’s how you present that to the world. The examples show that creativity and imagination are the only barriers between B2B brands to showcase what they do and engaging with a key audience.
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As healthcare systems across Europe strive to achieve ever-increasing levels of excellence in relation to efficacious and cost-effective treatments, patient satisfaction with services has become an increasingly important factor. Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is a service first piloted in the US in the 1970s, which, if delivered well, can address all of these issues. OPAT involves the administration of antimicrobials in an outpatient setting.
This can be delivered in the patient’s own home (through self-administration or utilising the skills of district nursing or private nursing teams) or through daily attendance at a hospital or community clinic. OPAT is now practised in a number of countries across Europe, including the UK, Italy, Spain and Germany(1,2) and its use is likely to increase, given its advantages over traditional inpatient care.
An OPAT service clearly has many benefits: reduced inpatient stay results in lower costs from fewer overnight stays in hospital (bed day saving), a reduced risk of hospital-acquired infections, the more rapid return of patients to their own home, and the possibility of an earlier return to work, which will aid the wider economy and have benefits for the patient. However, such a service is not without clinical risk and it is imperative that patients using this service receive treatment of the same standard as that afforded to inpatients.(3) Different cost pressures also apply, and the need to evaluate the clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness of any such service should not be overlooked.(3–6)
Clinical efficacy
When evaluating clinical efficacy, there are a variety of parameters that might be considered, relating both to the patient and to the OPAT service itself. Some centres list a comprehensive set of criteria;(4) however, others have classified clinical outcomes more simply, for example, the UK National OPAT Patient Management System (Table 1).(3,6,7) It is hoped that this new resource will enable information regarding clinical outcomes to be shared between centres, and will provide a useful resource for others looking to establish and assess their OPAT services.(7)
Many studies have demonstrated that OPAT is indeed an effective and safe service.(2,5,6,8) Corwin and colleagues assessed the efficacy, safety and acceptability of IV antibiotic therapy delivered through OPAT in the home compared with the in-patient setting.(8) A total of 200 patients with cellulitis were randomised to homecare (101 patients) or hospital care (99 patients). The primary outcome was time to no advancement of cellulitis, and the two treatment groups were shown to be not significantly different (1.5 days versus 1.49 days). Other outcome measures included time on intravenous and oral antibiotics, and again there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups.
Hitchcock et al report on a case series of 303 episodes of OPAT care.(5) Of these, 37% of episodes involved treatment of cellulitis; other patients had a range of infections including bone and joint infection (30%), deep abscesses, endocarditis, and urinary tract infection, demonstrating that, with the correct expertise and careful monitoring, OPAT need not be limited to skin and soft tissue infections. Readmission to hospital was required in 23 episodes (7.6%), and two patients lost vascular access, resulting in the early termination of OPAT. Of the remaining 273 episodes of care, over 95% of cases were resolved with a single course of antibiotics and few adverse events were reported.
A series of 334 episode of OPAT care was reported by Chapman et al.6 Skin and soft tissue infections accounted for 59% of all episodes, with the remaining 41% comprising a variety of other infections. Clinical outcomes were recorded as improved/cured, readmitted, no change and change of plan. A total of 87% of patients across all diagnoses were classified as improved or cured (92% when including skin and soft tissue infections only). Twenty-one patients (6.3%) were readmitted, although 12 of these were for reasons unrelated to OPAT. The group also looked to address the issue of patient satisfaction. Of 449 patients surveyed, 276 responded (61%). 272 (98.6%) rated the service as very good or excellent, and 275 (99.6%) stated that they would choose the OPAT service again.
A report looking specifically at OPAT treatment of endocarditis included patients with risk factors deemed by some to preclude OPAT therapy, for example, infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus).(9) In this series, 34 of 36 episodes were treated successfully. Further case series have also demonstrated the clinical efficacy of OPAT for endocarditis when delivered through a formal service model, and OPAT is now included in European, UK and US guidelines on the management of endocarditis.(10,11)
Matthews et al(12) reported on 2059 OPAT episodes over a period of 13 years.
This report specifically addressed whether self-administration of antibiotics in the home (administration by either the patient themselves or a non-professional carer) was a safe practice, compared with healthcare professional administration. Of 2009 cases where detailed information was available, 473 patients self-administered their treatment. Of these, 84% of patients were diagnosed with musculoskeletal (including skin and soft tissue) infections, compared with 78% in the healthcare professional group. Complications and readmission to hospital were two of the main outcomes recorded. A total of 476 of 2009 patients had any complication recorded, of which 31% were unrelated to OPAT. Complications occurred equally across both groups, with 353 (23.2%) in the healthcare professional-administered group affected versus 112 (23.6%) in the self-administered group. Complications with the IV line were more prevalent in the self-administering group; however, the difference was not statistically significant.
Costs associated with OPAT
The costs associated with running an OPAT service can be divided into two main groups: staffing costs and non-staffing costs. Chapman et al(6) estimated that it cost approximately £300,000 per year to run an OPAT service that treated 334 infections over a two-year period between 2006 and 2008. The staffing costs accounted for 42% of this expenditure. The majority of this cost was due to the employment of a team of specialist nurses to work specifically for the OPAT service. The non-staffing costs accounted for 56% of expenditure. This included payment for equipment and consumables and funding for the transport of patients. It also included payment of support services within the health organisation (for example, laboratory medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy) and overhead costs (for example, domestic services, capital costs and charges). The other 2% of costs were related to two readmissions of patients due to complications that it was felt would not have occurred if the patients had been treated as inpatients.
Antimicrobials with a long half-life that can be administered once daily are the preferred option when prescribing for patients in OPAT services. This may require the use of more expensive antibiotics such as ertapenem or daptomycin. These agents were used infrequently in the study detailed above, and only 7% of the costs were due to expenditure on drugs. In addition, there was no expenditure on the use of ambulatory pumps, which are commonly used in other areas of the world, but are rarely used in the UK for parenteral antimicrobial administration. Ambulatory pumps have many benefits, which include increasing the number of drugs that can be used in the OPAT setting. In the UK, they are relatively expensive compared with standard intravenous administration.
OPAT versus inpatient care
Many studies have shown that antimicrobial treatment in an outpatient setting is cheaper than treating the same patients in hospital for the full antimicrobial course. Chapman et al6 also compared the cost of treating 334 patient episodes by the OPAT service with the equivalent theoretical cost of treating the same patients as inpatients. The cost of treatment using the OPAT service was £601,042. If the same patients had been treated as inpatients on an infectious disease ward, the cost would have been £1,502,769, which is more than double the OPAT cost. If the patients were treated on non-specialist wards (which are likely to have lower associated costs), then treatment as an inpatient would still cost £1,312,537 (using national average costs of inpatient treatment). Similar results have been shown in Canada, where the average cost per treatment course of OPAT was calculated to be CAN$1910 compared with an average cost of $14,271 per treatment course if the patient completed the full course of antimicrobial treatment in hospital.(13)
Other studies have examined the cost-effectiveness of OPAT for specific infections. Patients with bone and joint infections often need prolonged courses of intravenous antibiotics. Nathwani et al compared the cost of treating bone and joint infections with intravenous teicoplanin by OPAT with the theoretical cost of treating the same people as inpatients.(14) They quoted a cost of £1749 per case using OPAT services, compared with £11,400 per case if the patient had been treated in hospital. The authors also calculated the likely cost of treating the same patients with oral linezolid as an outpatient. In this scenario, the cost per case would be approximately £2546, which is nearly £800 more than teicoplanin administered through OPAT. The cost of linezolid tablets would have to reduce by 32% for the treatment costs to be similar.
A study in France also investigated the potential cost saving that could be made by treating 39 patients with osteomyelitis in the OPAT setting rather than as inpatients in hospital.(15) Some patients had very protracted parenteral therapy, and the patient group overall had a total of 2147 treatment days. The actual cost of OPAT, which included medication, staff and supply costs, was $129 per day, whereas the comparative daily inpatient cost was quoted as $710. The latter figure was based on the average daily direct variable cost for care in an infectious diseases or orthopaedic unit, although no information was given as to how this figure was derived. Using these cost figures, the authors calculated that using OPAT led to a saving of $1,873,885 compared with the theoretical cost of treating these infections as inpatients.
Bed day savings
Another advantage of OPAT services is the inpatient bed days that are saved if patients are discharged earlier. Matthews et al(12) showed that in one calendar year 6200 bed days were saved through discharge of patients into an OPAT service. These extra bed days may be used for new admissions, or may increase capacity for additional operations, which will increase income for the health organisation. It may also allow for the closing of some beds again with associated cost savings. There are some countries where payment for services is based on activity. If services delivered as an outpatient or at home are not included in this payment system, then OPAT could actually lead to the organisation losing revenue.
Associated costs
One of the perceived benefits of OPAT is the reduced risk of healthcare-associated infections. These have health implications for the patient but also cost implications for the health organisation. It has been estimated that an avoidable case of methicillin-resistant S. aureus bacteraemia costs £4300 per case to treat in hospital. Hospital-acquired infections are thought to cost the National Health Service in the UK over £1 billion a year to treat. Patients treated through OPAT services are at lower risk due to not having a long period of inpatient hospital stay. A study detailing the experience of a hospital-based OPAT service saved over 39,000 inpatient bed days over a ten-year period.(16) The authors found a very low rate of healthcare-associated infections. They reported a rate of 0.4 line infections and 0.05 cases of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea per 1000 OPAT patients. There were also no reported cases of S. aureus bacteraemia in this period.
All the above studies address OPAT delivery in specific settings, but what about the overall picture? A good view of this is provided by the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption,(1) which conducted a review of OPAT use across 20 European countries in 2006. The study looked at the proportion of outpatient antibiotics that were delivered via the parenteral route, expressed in defined daily dosage per 1000 inhabitants. The average across the 20 countries was 2.04%. However, a great variation in OPAT use was demonstrated, with Russia showing 6.75% compared with <0.02% in Finland, the Czech Republic and Iceland. Italy reported the second highest OPAT use, with almost 10% of all outpatient antibiotic scripts written in 1996 being for an injectable cephalosporin.(2) The variations seen can be attributed to many factors, including cost, infrastructure and basic prescribing practices.
What is clear is that since the idea of OPAT was raised in the 1970s, a wealth of experience from across Europe, Canada and the US has been gained. Numerous guidelines and supporting documents are available to help with the development and monitoring of an OPAT service.(3,4,7) The use of OPAT is likely to continue to increase, not only in secondary care but also with the development of entirely primary care-led services. Good antimicrobial stewardship must be a key principle, and this will ensure cost-effective use of antibiotics and an efficient switch to cheaper, oral agents when appropriate.(17) Pharmacists play a vital role in providing high quality pharmaceutical care in differing settings, and a clinical pharmacist should be an integral part of any OPAT team.
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is used throughout many parts of Europe and is likely to expand further.
OPAT is clinically effective when delivered through a formal programme.
OPAT is cost effective compared with inpatient care when assessed in a range of healthcare settings.
In addition to direct comparative cost effectiveness, there are further indirect cost–benefits through improved efficiency of inpatient bed use and reduced rates of healthcare‑associated infection.
Pharmacists play a key role in the OPAT team, in ensuring high-quality antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship.
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What does the term «smart gas station» mean? What features it should have? How can IT solutions boost its operation in relying on all aspects of the non-fuel business and gas station chains? These are the question we are going to discuss in this article.
New Business Niche Brings Coffee to the Office
в HoReCa, RusHOLTS, Сoffee business
Today, we can hardly imagine a modern office without coffee. It is not just a casual beverage for employees. The drink may influence the level of productivity as well as create a harmonious atmosphere for communication and creativity. On the other hand, coffee may turn a typical office into a beneficiary niche from business perspectives. Is it possible to turn a coffee room into an efficient business model? It certainly is. We will tell you how.
Cloud-Based Solutions in Logistics
в Gas station chains - non-fuel businesses, RusHOLTS
My expert comments given to LogLerney portal appeared to be the fundamental issue for this article. I do consider cloud-based technologies have a huge potential for the entire field of logistics.
Cloud-based solutions and backup have proved to be a better alternative to traditional options. A growing number of applications and management software lets businesses reduce the costs and concentrate on some prior issues and targets. What is the idea of such advanced supply chain managing tools and how can they be implemented in logistics?
Why сonsulting does not always work?
Alexander Kuzmin, RusHOLTS CEO, spoke at the conference «Global and local markets of oil and petroleum products: the analysis, pricing, trade flows«, presenting the report on the non-fuel businesses of filling stations. Development and marketing of modern gas station chain have become relevant and even a prime-time topic for Russian gas station chains, both large and small. Request for an effective program of roadside service comes from the top of the Vertically Integrated Oil Companies’ management which is good. On the other hand it is sad that in the minds of many leaders the level of understanding of the non-fuel business development remained at the 2010 level.
Recently, representatives of the world’s leading management consulting companies have spoken a lot about the need for Russian gas stations chains to develop their potential of non-fuel businesses. In most cases, to the audience’s attention are offered the «best practices» based on the experience of more mature foreign markets with no less than half a century of history. Why are these recommendations still not massively implemented in the Russian conditions?
Is it possible to get the «George Clooney effect» coffee sales at the gas stations?
в Gas station chains - cafe, RusHOLTS, Сoffee business
Let’s talk about the habit of drinking coffee outside the home in Europe, Canada and Russia. Drinking coffee at the gas station, taking a cup of coffee to go on the way to work are the new habits of the modern metropolises inhabitants which change the coffe-drinking traditions in different countries around the world.
Mornings in the establishments of the Canadian coffee chain in any city of Maple Leaf Country starts in the exact same way. The crowd of visitors sweeps stocks of coffee and pastries in the blink of an eye — the nation is one of the most coffee-addicted in the world, which is confirmed by the impressive figures of consumption and the degree of prevalence of drink among absolutely all categories of citizens in terms of monthly income, place of residence, occupation, etc. .
In 2015, the country has topped the list of 80 countries in terms of coffee consumption, calculated in liters per capita that are bought and cinsumed in catering establishments — mostly in the cafes. In terms of absolute consumption, including the volumes of coffee beverages drunk at home, Canada is the third in the world with 152 liters per person each year. Ahead are only Netherlands and Finland coffee fiends, confirms the authoritative Euromonitor study.
Fully functional Internet of Things for gas stations is ready to take off
The Russian market of IoT solutions has a pronounced contrast compared to Europe and the United States in terms of ensuring connectivity of networks for M2M-technology devices. Its potential is regarded as a very high one. Therefore, analytical firm J’son & Partners Consulting in its research on the results of 2016 for the market of distributed systems and telemetry, remote monitoring and control services paid some special attention to the Russian Internet of Things market. Non-fuel businesses of filling stations may become the exemplary ones for the whole IoT industry, because the industry has a request for major changes to be made. It’s one thing when startups are looking for new items, and quite another one when such a request comes from the leaders of Vertically Integrated Oil Companies (VIOC).
What exactly J’son & Partners Consulting analysts evaluated?
Both the level of penetration and scale of systems that were examined in the study in the were assessed by the amount of wired and wireless devices in the segment of machine-to-machine (M2M), which are automatically (or with minimal human involvement) produce and transmit data collected by telemetry systems, and execute commands of these systems. Devices with built-in data processing functionality were not taken into account. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the prospects of transformation of distributed telemetry systems in the light of Internet of Things (IoT) future development.
Why I invite Costa Express in Russia or «Welcome and No Trespassing»
в Gas station chains - cafe, Gas station chains - non-fuel businesses, RusHOLTS, Сoffee business
«Without my friends there’s a little bit of me, but with a lot of friends there’s plenty of myself» – lines from a soviet children’s song perfectly describes the essential meaning of co-operation in any business. You can be the author of most innovative solutions, to develop breakthrough technologies, but it’s only going to be possible to bring it to a state of «finished product» by going through a complex chain of cooperation with a number of business partners.
And this is true even for applied business initiatives of the microscopic, compared to the market standards, formats. Opening a small shop selling two or three positions of coffee beverages and about the same range of pastries (i.e. we’re talking about literally micro scale of business, not even SMBs), immediately causes the owners of such an enterprise to the need to acquire the suppliers of coffee machines, cups, coffee beans or ready-to-use blends , semi-finished products for baking, microwave oven — and so on and so forth.
Costa Coffee: supply chain as a growth factor
When traditional logistic models and the organization of the supply chain have jeopardized the dynamic growth of the company, the owners of Costa Coffee went all-in. The company completely changed the leadership, adopted a new strategy for the organization of supply, hired a new logistics operator, and also introduced a new enterprise software to provide a new level of benefit from the telemetry component of its system. We believe that the final result speaks for itself.
When I was preparing this article, i was surprised by how similar problems had to be solved in RusHOLTS around the same time. An illustration of the similarity could be invention of the rad by Marconi and Popov. The problem is in the air and solution comes to those who are looking for it. Only RusHOLTS had to be tis own «new» logistics operator because of the lack of worthy proposals. No «regional partners», no services outsourcing — only our own trained and well-managed structures that guarantee the high quality of work.
Delicious coffee with the minimum human involvement. Costa Express — white starts and wins
Vending as a sales technique is good — but only when it comes to newspapers, chocolates and chips, as well as personal care products. He who presses the button is the one who got the goods. Just pushed it – and continued their own way. Coffee beverages vending business now comes with minimum human involvement.
Coffee vending tend to vary in terms of product quality from «Lord, what is this ???» to «Well, okay.» Why is that? Because making of coffee — is a complex process with a thousand of nuances. No exceptions. The only thing that differs very much from a good «vending coffee» to a vending of a bad coffee» – is a chain Costa Coffee called Costa Express Company.
Costa Express Coffee – is an unexpected example of the coffee business in terms of a combination of indicators varying from «country of origin». How this company was able to appear in the UK, a country of a totalitarian tea cult – it is a mystery. Nevertheless, it was there in 1971 when this brand appeared, which not only takes a confident second place in the World after Starbucks but represents today the very notion of «premium coffee vending» that tend to vary in terms of product quality, from «Lord, what is ???» to «Well, okay.» Why is that? Because making the coffee is a complex process with a thousand nuances. Virtually no exceptions. The only thing that is very distracting from the association with «vending coffee –is a vending of a bad coffee» – is a chain called in Costa Coffee.
Efficient Solutions to Reduce Human Factor Errors at Filling Stations
My colleagues often blame me for inventing efficient tools that reduce the influence of human factor. They often say I don’t like people.
Well, it’s true. You can’t like all the people, anyway. However, every time I share my ideas on the human factor, it does not mean I reproach filling station operators or other employees for being negligent or low qualified. You can always find a responsible and initiative person as well as those who suffer from a lack of ambitions being unable to perform an extra move. Some employees try their best to follow their duties and fulfill their every responsibility while other do not give a damn what employers expect from them. Others make efforts to be a real pain in the neck interfering with devices operation without having enough knowledge and operational skills.
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The sledge
Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections
Kansas State University History
Alternative Title: Royal purple
These Kansas State University (also known as Kansas State Agricultural College and Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science) yearbooks were published from 1891 to the present under the following titles: College Symposium of the Kansas State Agricultural College for the year 1891; Biography and History of the Class of '95, Kansas State Agricultural College for the year 1895; K.S.A.C. '96 for the year 1896; Class Book of the Class of '98, Kansas State Agricultural College for the year 1898; The Sledge for the year 1900; Sunrise for the year 1904; The Bell Clapper 1905 for the year 1905; The Banner for 1906 for the year 1906; College Annual of 1907 for the year 1907; Class of 1908 for the year 1908; and, Royal Purple for the years 1909-present. There were no yearbooks published before 1891, and none were published for the years 1892-1894, 1897, 1899, 1901-1903.
Citation: Kansas State Agricultural College. The sledge. Kansas State Agricultural College, 1900. Print.
Call number: LD2668 .A6 1900
Keywords: Kansas State Agricultural College--Students--Yearbooks; Kansas State Agricultural College--Faculty--Periodicals; Kansas State College--Students--Yearbooks; Kansas State College--Faculty--Periodicals; Kansas State University--Students--Yearbooks; Kansas State University--Faculty--Periodicals; College yearbooks--Kansas
Publisher URL: http://archive.org/details/SledgeKansasStateAgriculturalCollege
Filename: KSUL0015RoyalPrpl1900.pdf
College symposium of the Kansas State Agricultural College
Unknown author (Kansas State Agricultural College, )
Biennial catalogue of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, 1875-1877
Kansas State Agricultural College (Kansas State Agricultural College, )
Catalogue of the officers and students of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, 1870-1871
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Bombay HC Held that Conducting Entrance Exams is Valid
By Shashank Maheshwari
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A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court consisting of Justice Milind N. Jadhav and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, in the case of Maharashtra Medical Education & Research Centre & other v. State of Maharashtra & Ors., held that the colleges that conducted their entrance exams before the Supreme Court judgment Medical Council of India v. Christian Medical College are valid in law.
Brief Facts of the Case
This case has been a subject of many decisions by the High Court. The petitioner 2, a minority unaided college managed by petitioner 1, started offering a bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy in the academic year 2004-05 and a master’s degree in physiotherapy from 2010-11. Till the year 2015-16, the petitioner conducted their own entrance exams. For the academic year 2015-16, the petitioner applied to Medical Education, Maharashtra (Respondent 3) to conduct its own entrance exam, which was rejected by the authority. This lead to the subsequent filings before the Court:
Writ Petition No. 5107 of 2015: Bombay HC rejected the decision of the authority and allowed the petitioner to conduct their own entrance exam. Before the decision, the respondent promulgated an ordinance, which subsequently became an act: Maharashtra Unaided Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions and Fees) Act, 2015 for the regulation of admission & fees in unaided colleges. The Court held that the petitioner can conduct its own exam for the year 2015-16, and the act shall be applicable from the next academic year.
Civil Application (Decided on 29th March 2016): After conducting the entrance exam and declaring the merit list, the petitioner filed requisite formalities with the concerned authorities. Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik (Respondent 4), didn’t accept the eligibility proposal of the selected students on the grounds that it wasn’t made a party to the case, the copy of the order was not served, and there was no direction for the registration of selected students. The Court rejected the arguments of Respondent 4 and ordered them to follow requisite formalities to admit the students.
The issue in the present case is that after the decision on 29th March 2016, the Respondent 4 stated in a letter to the petitioner that the admission of the students is temporary and subject to the final outcome of the Apex Court. Moreover, Respondent 4 provided information containing the list of colleges in which admissions are pending, and the petitioner’s name was on the list.
Petitioner’s Arguments
The counsel for the petitioner submitted the following arguments:
The Court has already issued directions to Respondent 4 in its previous orders to accept the synopsis and admission of the students. Therefore no ground of withholding admission arises.
Bombay HC in its division bench judgment A. Inamdar v. the State of Maharashtra decided on 11th October 2018, was faced with similar facts and was decided against the respondents. Identical relief should be granted in the present case as well.
The present issue is not Res Integra and was already dealt by the Court in A. Inamdar case.
Respondent’s Arguments
The counsel for the respondent submitted the following arguments:
The Prayer made in this case is omnibus as the relief sought by the petitioners, including granting of internship certificate and degree certificate to the admitted students, is subject to the completion of the said course.
Without completion of the said internship and course, the respondent cannot grant the required certificates.
Court’s Observations
Some clarity has to be provided in A. Inamdar’s case along with certain other judgments of the Supreme Court.
In A. Inamdar case, the petitioner was an unaided minority college that filed an application before the authority to conduct entrance exams for their dental course for the academic year 2013-14, which was rejected on the ground that for the academic year 2013-14, the Dental Council of India issued some regulations according to which the admission for dental colleges shall be done through National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) exam. This was challenged in Supreme Court and in the case of Christian Medical College v. Union of India (2014) 2 SCC 305, where the Court held that such regulations are unconstitutional and allowed all the institutions to conduct their own entrance exam.
This case was reviewed, and in Medical Council of India v. Christian Medical College, (2016) 4 SCC 342, the Court reversed its previous judgment. So the basic question before the Bombay High Court in A. Inamdar’s case was whether the entrance exam held by the institution for the academic year 2013-14 after Christian Medical Council judgment is invalid? The Court held that it’s not invalid as, till the time the judgment was not reversed, it was a binding precedent.
In the present case, taking the support of P.A. Inamdar case, the court observed:
“22. The students, 30 for undergraduate and 1 for postgraduate, were admitted to their respective courses following the entrance test and admission process undertaken by petitioner No.2 on the strength of the order of this Court. Subsequently, on further orders of this Court, they were allowed to appear in the respective examinations and their results were directed to be declared. Having gone through the entire exercise on orders of this Court, it is now not open to respondent Nos.3 and 4 to question admission of those students. As already pointed out, no affidavit has been filed. Even in their respective submissions, learned counsel for respondent Nos.3 and 4 did not assail or question the entrance test and the consequential admission process on merit.”
Court’s Decision
Since the entrance exam conducted by the petitioner falls in the time before the judgment of SC in its review case, the college’s entrance exam is valid in law. Hence. the respondent can by no means withhold the admission of the students.
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LA Times Crossword Answers 17 Nov 2017, Friday
Constructed by: Alex Eaton-Salners
Today’s Theme: Great Wall
The answers on the outer edges of today’s grid form a type of WALL, with each needing the word GREAT in front in order to make sense of the clue:
39A. Landmark that, in a way, is a border feature of this puzzle and a hint to what’s missing from 10 answers : GREAT WALL
1A. “Holy cow!” : (GREAT) SCOTT!
6A. “Atta girl!” : (GREAT) JOB!
9A. Like thinkers : (GREAT) MINDS
72A. Dogs in the AKC’s Working Group : (GREAT) DANES
73A. Bonobo, for one : (GREAT) APE
74A. Wheeler Peak’s national park : (GREAT) BASIN
1D. Blue Ridge range : (GREAT) SMOKIES
13D. Considerable achievement : (GREAT) SUCCESS
42D. Oldest of the Seven Wonders : (GREAT) PYRAMID
49D. Scotland’s island : (GREAT) BRITAIN
Bill’s time: 11m 49s
9. Like thinkers : (GREAT) MINDS
14. Group that bestows a “Select” distinction on five board games annually : MENSA
Mensa Select is an award given annually since 1990 by American Mensa for “original, challenging and well-designed” board games. As a big fan of board games, I find the list of past winners to be an informative read. That list includes favorites of mine, such as:
Scattergories (1990)
Trivial Pursuit: Genus Edition (1990)
Clue: The Great Museum Caper (1991)
Apples to Apples (1999)
16. Paris parting : ADIEU
“Adieu” is the French for “goodbye” or “farewell”, from “à Dieu” meaning “to God”. The plural of “adieu” is “adieux”.
17. Arkansas’ __ National Forest : OZARK
The Ozark National Forest covers 1.2 million acres in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. The area was designated a national forest in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is home to Mount Magazine, which is the tallest mountain in the state.
18. X, maybe : TEN
The number 10 is written as X in Roman numerals.
20. Kit__ bar : KAT
I grew up eating Kit Kat bars as a kid, as the chocolate confection has been around since the thirties. Kit Kats didn’t hit the shelves in the US until the seventies. I’ve seen new varieties of Kit Kat over in the UK, such as an orange-flavored version, but haven’t seen anything like that over here.
21. Ones responsible for paper cuts, briefly? : EDS
Editor (ed.)
23. Comedian Rogan : JOE
Joe Rogan is a stand-up comedian who also has a black belt in jiu-jitsu. He started working as a color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2002.
25. 39-Acr. locale : PRC
The world’s most populous country is The People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Republic of China (ROC) is the official name of the sovereign state we usually call Taiwan.
26. Like Vivaldi’s “Spring” : IN E
“The Four Seasons” is the most famous work by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. It is a collection of four violin concerti that evoke the seasons of the year. Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” is a favorite choice for background music in elevators and elevators. Personally, my favorite use of the piece is as a backdrop to the 1981 romantic comedy film “The Four Seasons”, starring Alan Alda and Carol Burnett.
27. More diverse : MOTLIER
Something described as motley is mottled, is marked with different-colored spots. The term probably comes from the Old English word “mot” meaning “speck”. We can use the term “motley” figuratively to mean “diverse, heterogeneous”.
29. Suffix with brom- : -IDE
A bromide is a compound containing a bromide ion i.e. a bromine atom with a singular negative charge. Potassium bromide was commonly used as a sedative in the 19th century, and this led to our use of the term “bromide” to mean “boring cliché” or “verbal sedative”.
30. “Bambi” doe : ENA
Ena is Bambi’s aunt in the 1942 Disney film “Bambi”. The movie is based on the novel “Bambi, A Life in the Woods” written by Austrian author Felix Salten and first published in 1923. There is a documented phenomenon known as the Bambi Effect, whereby people become more interested in animal rights after having watched the scene where Bambi’s mother is shot by hunters.
31. Jane of fiction : EYRE
“Jane Eyre” is a celebrated novel written by Charlotte Brontë, under the pen name Currer Bell. Over the years, I’ve shared here on my blogs that the “Jane Eyre” story line is a little too dark and Gothic for my taste, but a very persuasive blog reader convinced me to look more at the romantic side of the story and give it a second chance. I watched a wonderful 4-hour television adaptation of the novel made by the BBC a while back and I have to say that because I was focused on the relationship between Jane and Rochester, I was able to push past the Gothic influences (that depress me) so I really enjoyed the story. I thoroughly recommend the 2006 BBC adaptation to fans of the novel.
32. __ Island: NYC prison site : RIKERS
Rikers Island is the main jail in New York City. It takes its name from Rikers Island in the East River on which the facility is located. The island was apparently named after Dutch settler Abraham Rycken, who bought it in 1664. The island has been owned by the city of New York since 1884, and the jail was opened in 1932.
34. Blood fluids : SERA
Blood serum (plural “sera”) is the clear, yellowish part of blood i.e. that part which is neither a blood cell or a clotting factor. Included in blood serum are antibodies, the proteins that are central to our immune system. Blood serum from animals that have immunity to some disease can be transferred to another individual, hence providing that second individual with some level of immunity. Blood serum used to pass on immunity can be called “antiserum”.
36. Director Riefenstahl : LENI
Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer. She was a noted figure moving in Adolf Hitler’s circle, and her most famous film was a propaganda piece called “Triumph of Will”. “Triumph of the Will” documents the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. We’ve all probably seen many excerpts, shots of huge crowds, Nazis marching with flags, and frenzied speeches from Hitler. Riefenstahl was arrested after the war and detained for a number of years but never found guilty of any crime. She lived a long life, a very long life. She was married for the second time in 2003, at the age of 101 years. She died just a few weeks later, as she had been suffering from cancer.
38. Buenos __ : AIRES
Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina, and is located on the estuary of the Ria de la Plata. As it is a port city, the people of Buenos Aires are known as porteños (“people of the port”).
39. Landmark that, in a way, is a border feature of this puzzle and a hint to what’s missing from 10 answers : GREAT WALL
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications that was built and rebuilt over the centuries to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire. Most of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty. This Ming wall is about 5,000 miles long. There is an urban myth that the Great Wall is visible from the Moon, or from space. NASA has shown that the Great Wall can only be discerned from low Earth orbit (about 100 miles), and that is no more or less visible than any other man-made structure.
42. Gumby’s pony : POKEY
“Gumby” is a stop motion clay animation television series that originally ran from the fifties to the late eighties. There were 233 episodes made in total, an impressive number. Gumby was a little green man and his sidekick was Pokey, a little red horse.
45. Othello, for one : MOOR
The most famous Moor in literature has to be Othello, the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello, the Moor of Venice”. The word “Moor” describes various peoples of North Africa, usually of the Muslim faith. At the height of their geographic influence the Moors occupied much of the Iberian peninsula, calling it Al Andalus (from which modern Andalusia gets its name).
46. Workers’ rights org. : NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was set up in 1935. The NLRB is an independent government agency with the roles of conducting elections for labor unions as well as investigating and rooting out any labor practices that are deemed to be unfair.
50. “… through __ window breaks?” : YONDER
There’s a famous couplet in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” spoken by Romeo as he spots Juliet above him at a window or on a balcony:
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Romeo continues with:
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
I reckon Romeo is smitten …
52. Together, in Toulon : UNIE
As well as being a town on southern coast of France, Toulon is a military port and home to the French Mediterranean Fleet. In particular, it is the home port of the French Navy’s sole aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.
54. Back to front? : -IER
Adding the “-ier” suffix (i.e. “back”) to “front” gives the word “frontier”.
55. Line score initials : RHE
On baseball scoreboards we see the letters RHE, standing for Runs, Hits and Errors.
56. Taken (with) : SMITTEN
“Smitten” is a past participle of “smite” meaning “to inflict a heavy blow”. We tend to use “smitten” to mean “affected by love, love-struck”.
58. Egg: Pref. : OVI-
“Ovum” (plural “ova”) is Latin for “egg”.
59. In the manner of : A LA
The phrase “in the style of” can be translated in “alla” in Italian and “à la” in French.
60. P.O. box item : ENV
An envelope (env.) might be found in a P.O. box.
61. Short order? : BLT
The BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) is the second most popular sandwich in the US, after the plain old ham sandwich.
62. Badminton need : NET
The game of badminton was developed in the mid-1700s by British military officers in India. There was already an old game called battledore and shuttlecock, so the creation of badminton was essentially the addition of a net and boundary lines for play. The game was launched officially as a sport in 1873 at Badminton House in Gloucestershire in England, hence the name that we now use.
63. Familia member : MADRE
In Spanish, a “madre” (mother) is a member of “la familia” (the family).
65. Tuna variety : AHI
Yellowfin and bigeye tuna are usually marketed as “ahi”, the Hawaiian name. They are both big fish, with yellowfish tuna often weighing over 300 pounds, and bigeye tuna getting up to 400 pounds.
67. Tippett’s “King Priam,” for one : OPERA
“King Priam” is an opera by English composer Michael Tippett that premiered in 1962 in Coventry in the British Midlands. The opera was one of two works (along with Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”) that was commissioned for the opening of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral that had been destroyed during WWII.
Priam was king of Troy during the Trojan War. Reputedly, Priam was father to fifty sons and many daughters with his many wives. His eldest son and heir to the throne was Hector. Paris was another of Priam’s sons, the man who caused the Trojan War by eloping with Helen, Queen of Sparta.
69. “King Priam” is based on it : ILIAD
“The Iliad” is an epic poem by the Greek poet Homer, which tells the story of the ten-year siege of Ilium (also known as “Troy”) during the Trojan war. “The Odyssey”, also attributed to Homer, is sometimes described as a sequel to “The Iliad”.
71. Argentine soccer superstar : MESSI
Lionel “Leo” Messi is a soccer player from Argentina. Messi was awarded FIFA’s Ballon d’Or (Golden Ball) award from 2009 to 2013. The Ballon d’Or is presented to the player who is considered the best in the world in the prior year.
72. Dogs in the AKC’s Working Group : (GREAT) DANES
The Great Dane breed of dog isn’t actually from Denmark, and rather is from Germany.
73. Bonobo, for one : (GREAT) APE
The bonobo used to be called the pygmy chimpanzee, and is a cousin of the common chimpanzee. The Bonobo is an endangered species, found in the wild only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest species to humans genetically.
74. Wheeler Peak’s national park : (GREAT) BASIN
The Great Basin is a large region of the US covering most of Nevada, much of Utah and some parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon and California. The 200,000 square mile area drains internally, with all precipitation sinking underground or flowing into lakes. Most of the lakes in the Great Basin are saline, including the Great Salt Lake, Pyramid Lake and the Humboldt Sink.
Wheeler Peak is the highest point in Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
1. Blue Ridge range : (GREAT) SMOKIES
The Great Smoky Mountains are a subrange of the Appalachians and are located in North Carolina and Tennessee. The “Smokies” lie almost entirely within the bounds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most-visited national park in the whole country. The name “Smoky” is a reference to the natural fog often seen hanging over the range. The fog is actually a vapor made up of volatile organic compounds released by the vegetation covering the peaks.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US. The range is noted for the bluish colors of the peaks. The blue hue is actually caused by the emission of an organic compound called isoprene into the atmosphere. The isoprene contributes to the blue haze that covers mountain ranges.
2. “The Card Players” artist : CEZANNE
“The Card Players” is a series of five paintings from the 1890s by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne. All of the paintings feature male Provençal peasants smoking pipes and playing cards intently. One painting in the series was sold in 2011 for $250-300 million, making it the third most expensive work of art ever sold.
4. Train syst. across Russia : TSR
The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) connects Moscow to the Russian Far East. At almost 6,000 miles in length, it is the longest railway line in the world. Although it is still being expanded today, the bulk of the track was laid between 1891 and 1916 at the behest of Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II. Branches of the TSR connect Russia to Mongolia, China and North Korea.
6. LAX-to-JFK flight shortener : JET STREAM
Jet streams are narrow air currents high in the atmosphere that move very quickly around the earth. The major jet streams surrounding our planet move in a westerly direction.
8. Dog star : BENJI
Benji is the main character in a series of “Benji” movies made starting from 1974. Benji is a mixed-breed dog.
12. Tragic heroine of Irish legend : DEIRDRE
Deirdre of the Sorrows is a tragic heroine of Irish legend. Her story figures prominently in Irish literature, including a play by J. M. Synge titled “Deirdre of the Sorrows”. Synge left the work unfinished when he died in 1909, but it was completed by William Butler Yeats and Synge’s fiancée, and premiered in 1910.
22. Watson’s creator : DOYLE
In the marvelous Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes’ sidekick Dr. Watson is referred to only by his family name, except for two occasions when it is revealed that his first name is John. However, in a third and final mention, Dr. Watson is called “James” by his wife, perhaps indicating a lapse in memory on the part of the author.
24. Anthem preposition : O’ER
The words “o’er the land of the free” come from “The Star-Spangled Banner” written by Francis Scott Key.
28. Offered free use of, as a library book : LENT OUT
Here in North America, we tend to use the verb “to loan” to mean “to give for a while”, with “loaned” meaning “gave for while”. Over on the other side of the pond, it is common to use the “to lend” to mean “to give for a while”, and so “lent” can mean “gave for a while”. American English favors the use of “to loan” in the context of borrowing money at interest. Well, that’s my impression …
41. Red-headed Disney princess : ARIEL
As of 2016, there are 11 “official” Disney princesses:
Princess Snow White (from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”)
Princess Cinderella (from “Cinderella”)
Princess Aurora (from “Sleeping Beauty)
Princess Ariel (from “The Little Mermaid”)
Princess Belle (from “Beauty and the Beast”)
Princess Jasmine (from “Aladdin”)
Princess Pocahontas (from “Pocahontas”)
Princess Mulan (from “Mulan”)
Princess Tiana (from “The Princess and the Frog”)
Princess Rapunzel (from “Tangled”)
Princess Merida (from “Brave”)
42. Oldest of the Seven Wonders : (GREAT) PYRAMID
The full list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is:
the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece
the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
the Lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt
43. “Très chic!” : OOH LA LA!
“Très chic” is a French term meaning “very stylish”.
47. Elsa or Nala : LIONESS
The life story of Elsa the lion was told by game warden Joy Adamson, who had a very close relationship with the lioness from when Elsa was orphaned as a young cub. Adamson wrote the book “Born Free” about Elsa, and then “Living Free” which tells the story of Elsa and her three lion cubs. In the 1966 film based on “Born Free”, Adamson is played by the talented actress Virginia McKenna.
In “The Lion King”, Nala is a lioness and the childhood friend of Simba. By the end of the story, Nala and Simba become wedded. “The Lion King” is inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, with Simba representing the title character, and Nala representing Hamlet’s love interest Ophelia.
48. Game with two-toned discs : REVERSI
The game of Reversi is also sold as Othello. The name Othello was chosen as a nod to the play by William Shakespeare.
49. Scotland’s island : (GREAT) BRITAIN
The terms “United Kingdom”, “Great Britain” and “England” can sometimes be confused. The official use of “United Kingdom” originated in 1707 with the Acts of Union that declared the countries of England and Scotland as “United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain”. The name changed again with the Acts of Union 1800 that created the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland” (much to the chagrin of most of the Irish population). This was partially reversed in 1927 when the current name was introduced, the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in recognition of an independent Irish Free State in the south of the island of Ireland.
51. Watergate pres. : RMN
President Richard Milhous Nixon (RMN) used “Milhous” in his name in honor of his mother Hannah Milhous. Richard was born in a house in Yorba Linda, California. You can visit that house today as it is on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. It’s a really interesting way to spend a few hours if you ever get to Yorba Linda …
The Watergate scandal is so named because it involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate complex is made up of five units, three of which are apartment buildings, one an office building, and one a hotel-office building (which housed the DNC headquarters). Watergate led to the “-gate” suffix being used for many subsequent scandals, such as “Irangate”, “Bridgegate” and “Deflategate”.
57. Donald Jr.’s mom : IVANA
Ivana Winklmayr was born in Czechoslovakia. Winklmayr was an excellent skier, and was named as an alternate for the 1982 Czech Olympic Team. She was promoting the Montreal Olympics in New York in 1976 when she met Donald Trump. Ivana and Donald’s marriage was very public and well-covered by the media, but not nearly as well-covered as their very litigious divorce in the early nineties.
Donald Trump Jr. is the oldest child of President Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana Trump née Winklmayr. Soon after his father was elected president, Donald Jr. was named trustee of the Trump Organization, along with his brother Eric and company CFO Allen Weisselberg.
64. Singer Carly __ Jepsen : RAE
Carly Rae Jepsen is a singer/songwriter from Mission, British Columbia. Jepsen got her start on TV’s “Canadian Idol” when she placed third in the show’s fifth season.
66. Hip follower : -HOP
Hip-hop originated in New York City in the seventies, developing in inner-city African-American, Jamaican and Latina-American communities. Some say that the term “hip-hop” was first used by the group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. I know practically nothing about hip-hop, I must admit …
1. “Holy cow!” : (GREAT) SCOTT!
6. “Atta girl!” : (GREAT) JOB!
15. Barnyard mother : EWE
19. Something to talk about : TOPIC
70. “Kidding!” : NOT!
3. Winning steadily : ON A TEAR
5. “I wanna go too!” : TAKE ME!
7. Be shy : OWE
9. Stand-up’s need : MATERIAL
10. Words often heard after “shall live?” : I DO
11. Colder : NIPPIER
13. Considerable achievement : (GREAT) SUCCESS
33. Pottery oven : KILN
35. Treated like wine : AGED
37. “You’re safe with me” : I WON’T BITE
40. Some field starters : RYE SEEDS
44. Add, as raisins to bread dough : KNEAD IN
53. Lay to rest : ENTOMB
68. Green sphere : PEA
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Gremlins, Inc.
Publishers: Yukitama Creative Industries
Gremlins, Inc. is a digital turn-based strategy board game developed by Lithuanian indie game studio Charlie Oscar, set in the steampunk world of gremlins, initially released on Steam Early Access on October 22, 2015 for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The game transitioned into full release on Steam on March 11, 2016. The game is designed by Alexey Bokulev, who previously designed another turn-based strategy video game, Eador: Genesis, and is produced by Sergei Klimov.
Greed Corp
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, XBox 360, PlayStation 3, Android, Apple IOS
Publishers: Valcon Games, Easy Tiger Media
Greed Corp is a turn-based strategy video game developed by W!Games. It was released on February 24, 2010 for Xbox Live Arcade and February 25, 2010 for the PlayStation Network. It is also available for purchase via Steam. It was released for the Mac App Store for iOS and OS X. on November 2, 2011. Linux and Android versions released as part of a Humble Bundle on October 15, 2013.
Genres: Role-playing, Strategy, Turn-based
Platforms: PlayStation 2, GameCube, XBox
Publishers: LucasArts
Gladius is a tactical role-playing video game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 2003 for the GameCube, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 video game consoles.
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Publishers: Stardock
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor, released April 30, 2008, is the second expansion pack to the turn-based strategy video game Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, following the first expansion pack Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, released February 2007. It has been affirmed by the developer, Stardock, that this is to be the last expansion.
Genghis Khan (game)
Platforms: Amiga, Microsoft Dos
Publishers: Koei
Genghis Khan, original full title Aoki Ōkami to Shiroki Mejika: Genghis Khan (蒼き狼と白き牝鹿・ジンギスカン), is a 1987 turn-based strategy game developed by Koei, originally released for the NEC PC-9801, MSX and Sharp X68000 in 1988, the DOS and NES in 1990, and the Amiga in 1990. It is actually the second game in the series, after a 1985 Aoki Ōkami to Shiroki Mejika, also for PC-88, PC-98, and MSX.
Grand Prix World
Genres: Racing, Real-time, Strategy, Turn-based, Simulation
Publishers: Hasbro Interactive
Grand Prix World is the sequel to Grand Prix Manager 2 released in 1999. The game was designed and produced by Edward Grabowski Communications Ltd, and MicroProse. It is based on the 1998 Formula One season, and is officially FIA licensed.
Global Defence Force Tactics
Global Defence Force Tactics, known in Japan as Earth Defense Force Tactics, is a PlayStation 2 turn-based strategy game developed by thinkArts.
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is the first expansion pack to the turn-based strategy game Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. It was released by Stardock in February 2007, both as a separately downloadable expansion and the combination retail box Galactic Civilizations II: Gold Edition.
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
Publishers: StardockParadox Interactive
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is a 4X turn-based strategy by Stardock for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to the original Galactic Civilizations (in turn based on the OS/2 games Galactic Civilizations and Galactic Civilizations 2), and was released at retail and on Stardock's online subscription service, TotalGaming.net, on February 21, 2006. An expansion, Dark Avatar, was released in February 2007. A second expansion, Twilight of the Arnor, was released in April 2008. Dread Lords i…
Galactic Civilizations III
Galactic Civilizations III is a 4X turn-based strategy video game developed by Stardock for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to 2006's Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. In October 2013, Stardock announced that the third installment in the Galactic Civilizations series was in production. A pre-release version was made available through Steam in March 2014, which allowed customers to play the game while it is still in development. It was the first game in the series to feature multiplayer…
Great Big War Game
Great Big War Game (commonly abbreviated to GBWG) is a modern military 3D turn-based strategy video game developed by British studio Rubicon Development. It has been released on iOS, Android and Microsoft Windows. The game is a sequel to Great Little War Game. The game features multiple environment types, and 50 levels in campaign mode and for the first time in the series cross platform online multiplayer.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Nes, Super Nes, Microsoft Dos
Gemfire (released in Japan as Royal Blood or ロイヤルブラッド Roiyaru Buraddo, Super Royal Blood or スーパーロイヤルブラッド Sūpā Roiyaru Buraddo in its Super Famicom version) is a medieval war game for the MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, FM Towns, Mega Drive/Genesis, MS-DOS, and later Windows, developed by Koei. The object in the game is to unify a fictional island by force. Players use infantry, cavalry, and archers, as well as fantasy units such as magicians, dragons or gargoyles in order to captu…
Genres: Turn-based
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, XBox One
Publishers: Xbox Game Studios
Gears Tactics is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Splash Damage in conjunction with The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is a spin-off of the Gears of War franchise and a prequel to the first game, and was released for Microsoft Windows on April 28, 2020. Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions are in development and will be released on November 10, 2020.
Publishers: Strategy First
Galactic Civilizations is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Stardock and released in March 2003. The game is a remake of an OS/2 series of the same name. An expansion pack entitled Altarian Prophecy was released in 2004. A sequel, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, was released February 21, 2006. On May 14, 2015 Stardock released Galactic Civilizations III.
Great Little War Game
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PS Vita, Android, Apple IOS
Publishers: Viacom Games
Great Little War Game (GLWG for short) is a modern military 3D turn-based strategy video game developed by British studio Rubicon Development. It has been released on App Store, Apple's App Store, Android, PC, iOS, Google, BlackBerry, and other platforms. The game features three environment types (snowy, regular, and desert), and 20 levels in the main campaign mode (10 extra in the Call of Booty campaign mode). Great Little War Game: All Out War includes the All Out War and Holiday from Hell cam…
Generation of Chaos
Genres: Real-time, Role-playing, Strategy, Turn-based
Platforms: PSP
Publishers: NIS America, Midas Interactive Entertainment, HyperDevbox Japan
Generation of Chaos, released in Japan as New Demon World: GOCIV Another Side (新天魔界 ～ＧＯＣIV アナザサイド～, Shin Tenmakai ~GOCIV Anaza Saido~) is a turn-based strategy RPG fantasy video game released for the PlayStation Portable, developed by Idea Factory and published in the U.S. by NIS America. NIS America released the game in the U.S. on February 28, 2006. An Android port of the title, developed by HyperDevbox Japan, was released on December 15, 2011. The game is the fourth in a series of Generation …
Game Boy Wars
Platforms: Nintendo GameBoy
Publishers: Nintendo
Game Boy Wars is a turn-based war simulator produced by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems that was released for the Game Boy in Japan only in 1991. It is a portable follow-up to the 1988 Family Computer war simulator Famicom Wars, making it the second game in Nintendo's Wars series. A series of sequels to the original Game Boy Wars were produced by Hudson Soft.
Gadget Trial
Genres: Novel, Strategy, Turn-based
Gadget Trial (ガジェットトライアル, Gajetto Toraiaru) is a Japanese game for Windows operating systems, which combines turn-based strategy gaming with visual novel elements, using an anime style of artwork for its character designs. It was developed by KOGADO Studio's Kuma-san Team (one of the several in-house development teams), and was released in Japan on June 23, 2006. A simplified Chinese version of the game was published by Beijing Entertainment All Technology Co. Ltd. on July 28, 2007 with the titl…
Publishers: Impressions Games
Global Domination is a 1993 strategy game modeled closely on the board game Risk. Impressions Games expanded on the game dividing the world into more territories, adding unit types which could be controlled in a mini-game, adding the concept of unit obsolescence, valuing regions higher or lower than others (for income), and adding the ability to fund intelligence operations.
Guardians of Graxia
Publishers: Petroglyph Games
Guardians of Graxia is a video game and a board game, developed by Petroglyph Games. The game has a turn-based fantasy strategy theme in a board game-style format. The PC version was released on Steam, GamersGate, Impulse, and other digital download services in October 2010.
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