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How COVID-19 pandemic affects academic activities in Kano
Agbaje Matthew
The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which originated from the city of Wuhan, China, has become a major public health challenge for countries all over the world.
The pandemic led to the total lockdown of most of the human activities in various parts of the world, which also destabilised academic activities in most parts of the world, including Nigeria.
The spread of the COVID-19 initially spared Nigeria, like many other African countries, with zero recorded cases as of Jan. 2020.
This luck, however, did not last. By the 28th of February, Nigeria reported its first case, and nearly two months later, 343 confirmed cases, 91 recoveries, and 10 deaths were recorded.
The closure of schools, colleges, and universities by the Federal and State governments was an urgent need that prevailed in most States in Nigeria.
Nigerian Government started taking preventive decisions on COVID-19 just after the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised it as pandemic disease.
However, the shutdown of most schools and colleges in some states, including the FCT and Kano, in which the academic year was interrupted, had a tremendous effect on the academic syllabus.
Schools had to concentrate on scheduling their final exams before the lockdown commenced. The affected schools and institutions had to cancel or reschedule examination dates, and other school activities, so as to curtail the spread of the virus.
There is no doubt that the interference of the coronavirus pandemic has caused so many challenges in the Nigerian education system, which Kano State was not left behind.
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In April 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with support from the World Bank, launched the COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS); a monthly survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,950 households to monitor the socio-economic impact of the pandemic and other shocks
Summary of the survey revealed that School attendance in October 2020 was substantially lower than in January/February 2019.
Among household members, aged 5-18 years, 59 percent were attending school in October 2020 compared to 74 percent in January/February 2019.
Following the outbreak, a total lockdown was declared in Kano also, to contain the spread of the disease after the mysterious deaths recorded within a short period.
The deaths have raised fears that the coronavirus pandemic could have spread far more than anyone expected in Africa’s most populous city.
Following the lockdown, all academic activities in the State were suspended, which also affected the academic calendars of schools, especially primary and secondary schools in the state.
Alhaji Abubakar Musa, a father of five children in one of the Public schools in Kano, described the situation occasioned by the pandemic as a great setback to the education sector.
According to him, the long stay at home by the students was terrible and it has really affected not only the children but also the teachers and parents.
“The impact was more severe for disadvantaged children and their families, causing interrupted learning, compromised nutrition, childcare problems, and consequent economic cost to families who could not work.
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“The lack of student to teacher interaction also led our children to feel less passionate about the integrity of their work,” he added.
Hajiya Halima Muhammad, another parent, said the closure of schools has exposed so many teachers, especially those teaching in private schools into a serious hardship which she said many of them have not recovered from yet.
“If you could remember, for over seven months, schools were closed, and parents were not paying school fees. With that situation, many private schools were not able to pay their teachers.
“It got to an extent where many good teachers lost their jobs because the school management can not afford to pay them. This is also a setback to the education of the pupils,” she said.
After the lockdown, and schools were opened, the state government ordered private schools in the state to reduce their third-term school fees by 25 percent.
Mohammed Sanusi-Kiru, the Commissioner of Education, who announced this, said the decision was necessary to reduce the economic challenges parents experienced due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
The state government has remained silent on the enforcement committee set up to ensure the 25 percent reduction in the third time school fees.
Kiru explained that the State government has the right and power to enforce the directive on any private school, but choose to negotiate with stakeholders.
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“I want to inform you that we have 99 actions that can be taken on any private school owner that failed to comply with the directive. Even though over 80 percent of them have complied.
“We set up an enforcement committee to go round all the private schools to ensure that they comply with our directive. We wanted to be fair to all, but some are trying to be stubborn.
“Even the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the states have canceled the third-term session, therefore we also have the right to do the same,” he said.
Also, the Deputy President, Association of Private Schools Owners of Nigeria, (APSON), Hajiya Maryam Magaji, said they have accepted the directive, designed to comply with the government directives for the reduction of school fees.
She said, “With a view to cushioning the effects of the economic hardship suffered because of the COVID-19 pandemic by parents in the state, the directive given to the proprietors for the reduction of the school fees was not intended by the Government to hurt anybody but rather done in the best interest of the educational development of the state.”
However, another faction of the association, the Joint Committee of Private and Voluntary Schools Association (JCPVSA), issued a statement saying they will not accept the government’s decision to reduce school fees.
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•WVU Medicine News•Bonnie’s Bus to offer mammograms in Logan, Clendenin, Salem, and Clarksburg
Bonnie’s Bus to offer mammograms in Logan, Clendenin, Salem, and Clarksburg
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Bonnie’s Bus, a 45-foot, state-of-the-art mobile mammography vehicle, will visit Logan, Kanawha, and Harrison counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.
A service of WVU Medicine and the WVU Cancer Institute, Bonnie’s Bus will be at:
Logan County Courthouse from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 10. For an appointment, call 304-792-8690.
Clendenin Health Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 11. For an appointment, call 304-548-7272.
Salem Family Healthcare from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 12. For an appointment, call 304-782-2000.
First United Methodist Church in Clarksburg from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 13. For an appointment, call 304-622-2708.
Patient and staff safety is a top priority, and extra precautions will be taken during the pandemic. Changes will include staff wearing masks, patients waiting in their car until their appointment time, and extended appointment times to allow staff to thoroughly sanitize between patients.
The screening mammograms are billed to private insurance, Medicaid, or Medicare, if available. Patients who are underinsured or uninsured and meet enrollment criteria will be assisted in enrolling in the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program (WVBCCSP) to cover the cost of their screening mammogram. Uninsured women living in West Virginia who are 40 and older can receive a free screening mammogram on the Bus through the generosity of grant funding and donations. A physician’s order is needed for a mammogram.
Bonnie’s Bus has provided more than 21,500 mammograms for women throughout West Virginia and led to the detection of more than 110 cases of breast cancer since 2009. Many of those screened are underinsured or uninsured and qualify for screening through the WVBCCSP.
Bonnie’s Bus works in collaboration with a statewide partnership of clinicians, public health professionals, women’s groups, and other community leaders working to help reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer in West Virginia.
Made possible by a generous gift from West Virginia natives Jo and Ben Statler to the Cancer Institute, Bonnie’s Bus is operated in partnership with WVU Hospitals. The Bus is named after Jo Statler’s late mother, Bonnie Wells Wilson.
For information on Bonnie’s Bus, see www.wvucancer.org/bonnie.
Attention reporters and editors: If you are interested in covering Bonnie’s Bus when it visits your area, please call Heather Bonecutter, WVU Medicine communications specialist, at 304-285-7256 in advance. Out of respect for patient privacy, please do not show up at the location without scheduling an appropriate time for interviews and/or photos.
For media inquiries: Heather Bonecutter Communications Specialist, 304-285-7256
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That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas
Men have been rightly called the masters of the world, says the introductory text, but there's one place they can never go: the ladies lounge. I'm sure political correctness has fixed this by now, because such a thing is probably deemed sexist, but it was still restricted in 1941. I'm not sure why this is important though, because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with anything. What we really care about here is the hiccups, because Mrs Jill Baker keeps getting them. Her friends send her to Dr Vengard who suggests that everything is her husband's fault.
So even though she's really happy, so happy that the magazines call her and her husband the Happy Bakers, she starts watching everything he does and like anyone under the magnifying glass he comes up wanting. For instance, he has the sheer audacity to sleep better than she does, to gargle in the morning and to poke her in the stomach and say 'Keeks!' There's no explanation for this either but he has to stop doing it because his wife is sensitive to everything now. Maybe if he'd kept it up it would have scared her hiccups away.
Instead he stops poking her in the stomach and she starts hanging out instead with Alexander Sebastian, who she meets at Dr Vengard's. He's a character, and in the hands of Burgess Meredith, he's a thorn in everyone's side. He's for nothing and against everything, he has an utter inability to be happy and he appears to have no sense of humour whatsoever, even though he's a dry riot to we, the audience. He introduces her to music and modern art and suddenly the Happy Bakers aren't so happy any more.
Burgess Meredith does not play a likeable character here in the slightest. In fact it's hard to imagine anyone wanting to hang around with him, let alone leave your husband for him, but he's nigh on impossible not to watch him for the first half of the film. He's a mystery on top of being the catalyst in this little story for Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas to act around, but they can't compete with him in the slightest. Then halfway through, the mystery is explained and he becomes vastly less watchable and more intensely annoying. From then on the characters mean less and the story means more, but the question is whether it means enough for us to care.
In fact the longer the film runs the less we care. At least for the first half we can sympathise with the Bakers, whose flaws merely make them human, but as time goes on we sympathise less and less because they do things that sympathetic people just don't do. They get petulant and childish and it's hard to either feel sorry for them or wish them any luck in their endeavours. We just want to slap them instead. There are a host of films that run through this sort of storyline but manage so much better with both the sympathy and the romantic comedy. Uncertain indeed.
Posted by Hal C. F. Astell at 12:34 am
Garden State (2004)
Spider Forest (2004)
Day Watch (2006)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
The Passionate Friends (1949)
Public Enemies (2009)
The Merry Widow (1934)
Mean Streets (1973)
Ned Kelly (1970)
Phaedra (1962)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
The Loved One (1965)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
A Song is Born (1948)
The Spirit of St Louis (1957)
No Way Out (1950)
Human Desire (1954)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Robo Vampire (1988)
Kung Fu vs Yoga (1979)
Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Princess Aurora (2005)
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(177b) Back to the Future: Chemical Looping Beyond Combustion
Group: Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Future Directions in Reaction Engineering
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 3:40pm-4:05pm
Veser, G., University of Pittsburgh
The clean and efficient use of the world’s energy and materials resources is arguably one of the prime challenges of our time. At present, the world’s energy needs are met predominantly through the combustion of fossil fuels, with no significant change predicted for at least the next ~30 years. In combination with the continuous increase in global energy demand, fossil fuel based energy production is hence expected to result in a strong increase in anthropogenic CO2 emissions, motivating major efforts to develop more efficient energy systems and economically viable CO2 capture and sequestration technologies. At the same time, the vast expansion of recoverable gas reserves through new developments in drilling technology is creating a renaissance in the development of natural gas based processes which could supplement or even replace oil-based processes in the near future.
In this context, Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) is emerging as a particularly promising novel combustion technology which offers an elegant and efficient route towards clean combustion of fossil fuels. In CLC, the combustion of a fuel is broken down into two, spatially separated steps: The oxidation of an oxygen carrier (typically a metal) with air, and the subsequent reduction of this carrier via reaction with a fuel. CLC is thus a flame-less, low-NOx combustion process, which produces a pure mixture of CO2 and H2O as combustion gases, from which highly concentrated, high-pressure (i.e. sequestration-ready) CO2-streams can be produced via condensation of the water.
While initial interest in chemical looping was almost exclusively focused on combustion, the underlying reaction engineering principle – periodic processes in circulating fluidized beds – is in fact neither new nor limited to combustion, but rather represents a flexible reaction engineering principle: For example, by controlling the degree of carrier oxidation, the fuel oxidation can be controlled such that incomplete, i.e. partial oxidation to synthesis gas (CO + H2) results. Similarly, replacing air with steam or CO2 as oxidizers yields the chemical looping analogue to steam and dry reforming. However, in contrast to conventional reforming processes, chemical looping reforming results in the first case in the direct formation of high purity (i.e. fuel-cell ready) hydrogen streams without the need for further CO removal, and, in the second case, in an efficient process for CO2 activation via reduction to CO. Finally, we have recently demonstrated that appropriate selection of oxygen carrier materials even allows using the chemical looping process scheme for simultaneous, integrated desulfurization of the effluent stream, resulting in highly efficient conversion of S-contaminated fuel streams.
Drawing upon examples from our own research, I will discuss the potential of chemical looping processes for methane conversion, an area which is likely to shape reaction engineering developments for the next few decades due to the vast expansion of natural gas reserves. In particular, I will discuss the design of engineered carrier materials for chemical looping processes as an example of the role of materials chemistry as an enabler for emerging reaction engineering concepts. Overall, I will argue that “chemical looping” represents a widely applicable reaction engineering approach towards the development of strongly intensified processes, which in particular offers exciting possibilities in the development of novel processes for C1 chemistry.
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Government needs to provide clarity on possible jobs across the UK created by 3rd runway
Date added: February 27, 2017
When the Government announced Heathrow as its preferred option in October 2016 it downgraded the economic benefits of a 3rd runway substantially. The Airports Commission Final Report assessed the economic benefit to the whole of the UK, over 60 years, might be up to £147 billion (their assessment of need scenario). Heathrow often uses a much higher figure of “up to £211 billion” and omit to say it is for all the UK, over 60 years. In October, the DfT, calculating the possible economic benefits in a different way, thought a more likely figure was £61 billion. This is benefits only. But if the costs are taken off, the benefit falls to something more like £6 billion (£2 – 11 billion or so range). Heathrow, and the DfT, say there will be huge benefits to the regions, and large numbers of future jobs. The figures Heathrow has on its website are based on the £147 billion estimate. These have not been corrected, in the light of the reduced DfT estimate. So what is the actual value of a third runway to the English regions, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland? All that we do know is that it will be considerably less than the promises made by Heathrow to so many MPs and local councillors. The onus is on Heathrow and the DfT to come up with revised estimates of the employment benefits to the regions. So far, it has failed to do so.
The Economic Benefits of a Third Runway Officially Downgraded
When the Government announced Heathrow as its preferred option in October 2016 it downgraded the economic benefits of a 3rd runway substantially.
The Airports Commission (Final Report July 2015) used a range of scenarios for Heathrow in the future, and each came up with different amounts of economic benefit.
The scenario with the highest growth in future was their “Global Growth” scenario, and in this – by some rather unusual and unconventional economics – they assessed the economic benefit to the whole of the UK, over 60 years, might be up to £211 billion.
The scenario with much lower economic benefit, but more realistic was the Commission’s “Assessment of Need” scenario. That came up with economic benefit to all of the UK, over 60 years, might be up to £147 billion. [“…the overall effect of Heathrow expansion could be to increase GDP by 0.65-0.75% by 2050, amounting to £131-147 billion in Present Value terms with carbon emissions traded over the 60 years following the opening of any new runway capacity. “]
This was the figure the Commission most often quoted.
Heathrow sometimes used the £211 billion figure, and sometimes used the £147 billion figure. [And they say it is by 2050, though the Airports Commission said it was over 60 years after the runway opens – ie. to around 2085].
They had a report done, by a small consultancy called Quod, of possible economic benefits and extra jobs for the regions. It is undated, but probably in the last quarter of 2015.
It set out the alleged economic benefit to the regions of the 3rd Heathrow runway, based on the £147 billion estimate.
However, on 25th October 2016 the DfT came up with a new assessment of alleged economic benefit of the runway. This used a rather different measure (so not comparing “apples with pears”) but came up with a figure of the benefits to the UK and to passengers of just £61 billion, for all the UK, over 60 years.
Those numbers add up all the benefits – but do not take off (as should be done) the costs.
You can see a comparison of some of the Airports Commission figures, and the DfT’s more recent figures, here https://www.airportwatch.org.uk/2016/10/heathrow-overvalued-by-86-bn/
Other attempts to estimate the possible economic impacts of the runway come up with much smaller figures. Indeed the Airports Commission’s estimate of “Net Present Value” (NPV) of the runway was between £11.8 and £1.4 billion, (carbon traded, or carbon capped) and the DfT’s October 2016 estimate of NPV was £0.2 – £6.1 billion. These are for all of the UK over 60 years.
The Heathrow website is still showing the figures below, based on the £147 billion estimate, for benefits to the UK regions:
Leaving that aside, the number of jobs that the regions have been promised are an issue.
Jobs across the UK
Heathrow held a large number of promotional events around the country last year, talking to Chambers of Commerce and other local gatherings. These were told of the huge economic opportunities from more passengers, and more freight. They were given suggested figures (from Quod) of the numbers of jobs that would result, from the existence of the 3rd runway.
The table below is from the Quod report, for Heathrow (undated but somewhere before November 2015)
(these numbers are still on the Heathrow website here)
However, all these estimates were based on a presumption of about £147 billion of economic benefit (which does not deduct costs to the UK of the runway).
The actual regional benefits, and the actual number of extra jobs that might – or might not – materialise in the regions has not been amended, even though the DfT reduced the assessment of benefit from £147 to £61 billion.
The Government has not provided a break-down for the English regions, Scotland,
Wales or Northern Ireland.
The government estimates that, overall, the aviation sector currently contributes around £18bn – £21bn per annum to the UK. Even if the 3rd runway contributed £61 billion (over 60 years) rather than just the NPV of £6 billion, that comes to all of £1 billion per year.
That is an increase of 5%.
The question mark remains:
What is the actual value of a third runway to the English regions, Scotland,
Wales or Northern Ireland?
All that we do know is that it will be considerably less than the promises
made by Heathrow to so many MPs and local councillors.
The onus is on Heathrow and the DfT to come up with revised estimates of the
employment benefits to the regions. So far, it has failed to do so.
Posted: Monday, February 27th, 2017. Filed in General News, News about Airports, Recent News.
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One Year Later: Chimpanzee Productions
When they began to work on the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) last year, Executive Director Thomas Allen Harris imagined igniting a movement where family photos are kept, cherished and used as the basis for storytelling and oral histories. They expressed interest in partnering with public organizations, such as the New York City Housing Authority, but had not yet launched any partnerships.
A year later DDFR has an active project or partnership in each of the five boroughs and has seen an explosion of interest in their work. Through working with their partners and listening to and adapting to their needs Chimpanzee has also become more flexible in their working methods and adapting their original vision to serve a greater number of community members. The movement they imagined starting is well on its way to taking shape.
The DDFR project uses audiovisual experiences that illuminate the search for family and identity with a focus on communities of color. Harris explains that DDFR aims to “empower people to use storytelling as an activist tool and demonstrate that history is made by each one of us.” DDFR invites participants to share family photographs in a facilitated conversation, which they record and produce into a video.
In addition, they digitize participants’ photo archive and share it with participants at the end of the process. With support from the Rockefeller NYC Cultural Innovation Fund Chimpanzee Productions hoped to use the DDFR project as a catalyst to create a larger movement. They wanted to take time to create a greater number of partnerships, and educate other organizations about DDFR’s mission and overall, increase the impact of the project.
Chimpanzee Productions has built a tremendous amount of interest in the DDFR project, taken on new partners and hosted several large, well-received events. After hearing their audio postcard last year, a coordinator of Healthy Families Brooklyn, which is located in the NYCHA’s Gowanus Houses, reached out to them. They built a partnership with the group and held a media literacy workshop and discussions about photos for the women involved, who range in age from seven to eighty.
Chimpanzee has also partnered with Brooklyn College to present a campus wide event this fall that will bring together the college community and residents in the surrounding neighborhood. Other partners now include the Sandy Ground Historical Association in Staten Island, which documents the history of the island’s Black community, the Schomburg Library, and the Louis Armstrong Museum in Queens.
Don Perry, the Chief Operating Officer of Chimpanzee explained that DDFR, “Ignited a tremendous amount of interest and its been an excess of success. We’ve gotten more partners and with those, more complicated relationships.” Balancing the needs, input, goals and schedules of different groups to make these partnerships successful at first threw Chimpanzee off the timeline they had originally envisioned for the project. However, they have turned this challenge into an organizational strength by adjusting their approach to facilitating community workshops and photo sharing sessions.
Chimpanzee Productions had to shift their initial thinking about the project in order to successfully address the challenge of working with their new partners. They learned that:
By adopting a more flexible format they could engage a greater number of community members: Perry explained that “As a direct result of our successful experiences we have been able to change up the format of our documentary production, and be more flexible with how we engage community members to not only achieve the aims that we have, but the aims of our partners.”
They can respond to increased demand by leveraging the skills of their partners: As demand increased for more production crews to film larger and multi-part events, Chimpanzee found they could work with partners with production skills, such as a youth media literary program, in order to accommodate their needs.
In addition to upcoming projects with Brooklyn College, the Sandy Ground Historical Association, and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection, Chimpanzee is pursuing an even more open model of an event with the Schomburg Center. Entitled “Harlem’s Treasures” it will invite community members to nominate living “treasures” who they feel “Put the Harlem in Harlem,” to be featured in a DDFR documentary.
Perry explains this new process, “Before, we were responsible for curating the interview subjects and now our partners help us to curate the subjects. Currently, we are moving to group events where subjects curate themselves and on to ‘crowd sourced’ events where a community tells us who they want to see interviewed.”
With the overwhelmingly positive response to the DDFR project, Chimpanzee has found that innovation and partnership has required them to open up and rethink their original approach the project. Harris explains, “It has been about letting go to let it grow, breathe and being flexible enough to evolve with it.”
Topics: Engaging the Public
Tags: Chimpanzee Productions, Eleanor Whitney, Fall 2012 CIF Updates, Karina Mangu-Ward, Project Updates, Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund
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Alex Thomson Racing
Alex Thomson departs Cape Town and ‘heads for home’ onboard HUGO BOSS
09 Jan 2021 By Alex Thomson Racing
Alex Thomson today departed from Cape Town, South Africa to begin the 6,500nm journey back to the UK onboard his HUGO BOSS boat.
After being forced to retire from the Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race – which is still under way – Thomson sailed his IMOCA yacht to Cape Town where the boat remained over the Christmas and New Year period.
Thomson and members of his technical team this week returned to Cape Town, successfully replaced the boat’s starboard rudder – which was damaged beyond repair, causing the skipper’s withdrawal from the race – and have since been preparing to sail the boat back to the south coast of England. The delivery is expected to take Thomson and his three crew members around three weeks to complete.
“I’m looking forward to getting back out on the water sailing again” said Thomson, as he prepared to leave the V&A Marina in Cape Town today. “Of course, this is certainly not where we expected to find ourselves. We were expecting to be up there, competing with the leading boats in the Vendée Globe. But we’ll be watching the race closely and wishing all the skippers the very best for the rest of the race.
“For us, the next three weeks provide a very good opportunity to get some more miles under our belts and to learn even more about this beautiful boat and what she’s capable of. We’ll also be continuing to develop some of our game-changing onboard technology projects alongside the team at Nokia Bell Labs”.
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The Doyle brand stands for global leadership in high performance sails as well as having a reputation for being proven innovators in sail technology. Everything we do starts with our clients and our mission to provide sailors around the world with quality sails and unparalleled personal service. No other sailmaker works as hard to satisfy the unique needs of every client and project.
Doyle Sails is extremely proud of their longstanding collaboration with Alex Thomson Racing as the official sail supplier since 2009.
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Gleistein Ropes is one of the world’s leading rope manufacturers. Founded in 1824 as a supplier for the vast north German shipping industry, the Gleistein group today provides premium solutions across a broad range of sectors.
In addition to servicing the top class yacht racing market and meeting the needs of the super yacht industry, Gleistein also services both the commercial and recreational marine markets, as well as catering to diverse industrial applications.
With a strong focus on performance, reliability and durability, the company is recognised across the globe for its advanced textile rope production capabilities and innovative finishing technologies. As well as manufacturing a diverse spectrum of synthetic fibre ropes types, Gleistein also provides tailor made solutions for any specific application.
Gleistein is Official Rope Supplier of Alex Thomson Racing.
Founded in 2004, Oceanvolt is a leading manufacturer of clean electric power and propulsion systems for boats.
Oceanvolt offers clean, safe, reliable and state-of-the-art electric motors, which promote sustainability.
Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Oceanvolt has received numerous awards for its innovative systems, including a 2017 DAME Award (machinery, propulsion, mechanical and electrical systems and fittings), 2016 and 2013 Pittman Innovation Awards and a 2012 Clean Design Award.
Official Supplier of the Electric Propulsion System and Batteries to Alex Thomson Racing, Oceanvolt’s cutting edge electric motor technology and batteries are featured on the HUGO BOSS IMOCA 60 race boat, which launched in summer 2019.
Rich Energy is a premium British energy drink.
Both a stand-alone energy drink - fuelling extreme athletes - and a peerless mixer, Rich Energy boasts a clean, crisp and refreshing taste. Made with pure Alpine mineral water and luxury ingredients, Rich Energy takes the energy drink sector to a new level of excellence.
Rich Energy is Official Energy Drink Supplier to Alex Thomson Racing, a partnership perfectly aligned in its commitment to innovation, high performance and endurance.
Founded in 2000, Dream Yacht Charter is a world leader in yacht chartering.
Operating more than 1,000 boats, in more than 50 locations internationally, Dream Yacht Charter offers the largest and most diverse fleet - in terms of model and manufacturer - in the world.
Offering bareboat, crewed and by-the-cabin charters, Dream Yacht Charter also offers the widest range of destinations, from the pink sands of the Caribbean and the tranquil waters of the Maldives, through to the beautiful islands of the Mediterranean.
Dream Yacht Charter is proud to be an Official Supplier to Alex Thomson Racing.
Alex Thomson Racing today added Exposure Lights to the list of specialist suppliers that it will partner with in the lead up to the 2020-21 Vendée Globe.
As Preferred Supplier of torches, Exposure will equip the Alex Thomson Racing team with a complete range of LED spot lights, MOB torches and head torches for use in training and testing, as well as during offshore races including the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre in 2019 and the Transat New York to Vendée race in 2020.
Base Camp Food has the UK’s widest range of lightweight meals, designed for all outdoor adventures.
They are delighted to be working with Real Turmat to support Alex Thomson Racing.
Real Turmat believe good food is made with patience. Every supplier is handpicked and the origin of every ingredient is known. Perfect cooking, combined with advanced freeze drying processes mean taste, energy and nutrition are locked inside each and every meal.
Helping people all over the world go further, Base Camp Food and Real Turmat are very proud to be a Preferred Supplier to Alex Thomson Racing.
UBI MAIOR ITALIA designs and produces first-class sailing deck equipment according to exceptionally high quality standards. The company combines the newest production techniques with time-tested traditions, and the experience of highly skilled professionals who have made their passion for sailing into a life’s work.
UBI aims to design and manufacture highly functional elements, which ensure the easy management and optimal performance of the boat, thanks to the reliability and long lasting quality of products. For this reason all of UBI’s products are manufactured by the mechanical processing of only the highest grade structural materials.
UBI MAIOR ITALIA is proud to be Preferred Supplier to Alex Thomson Racing.
Created in 2004 by Marin Clausin, Karver Systems specialise in deck hardware. Headquartered in Honfleur, France but with a network worldwide, the business has developed a reputation for its commitment to technological performance and use of robust, ultra-resistant materials.
Through its products - including a high quality furler range, recognised for its advanced performance capabilities – Karver Systems combines simple and efficient technology with sleek design. Karver works alongside a variety of clients across the cruising, super yacht and racing industries.
As a result, major races such as the Vendée Globe, La Route du Rhum and The America’s Cup are marked within the company’s DNA.
Raymarine is a FLIR Systems brand. Founded in 1978, FLIR Systems is a world-leading industrial technology company focused on intelligent sensing solutions for defense, industrial, and commercial applications. FLIR Systems’ vision is to be “The World’s Sixth Sense,” creating technologies to help professionals make more informed decisions that save lives and livelihoods.
Raymarine products are engineered to deliver the very best in visual navigation information and with a legacy of marine navigation technology spanning over 80 years, Raymarine products are renowned today for their ease-of-use, rugged design, and reliability. We are constantly innovating to deliver best-in-class sensors and intelligent navigation systems - making your time on the water safer and fun.
Gochermann Solar Technology is a manufacturer of custom solar arrays with very special features required in solar race events such as the Australian World Solar Challenge and other events around the globe, powering cars, boats and airplanes. The company’s lightweight solar arrays meet and exceed all requirements with respect to optical, mechanical, and electrical properties.
In just six years, Highfield Boats has become the world’s number one aluminium hulled RIB manufacturer. Established in 2011, Highfield Boats has developed into worldwide boat builder with a complete line of rigid-inflatable hull boats (RIBs). Highfield now offers small tenders from 2.4m, all the way up to a full line of heavy-duty RIBs at home on any ocean. With dealers and distributors in 38 countries, Highfield Boats has become the top choice worldwide for families, yacht clubs, even international mariners.
Highfield rigid hull inflatable boats (RIBs), featuring exclusive powder-coated aluminium hulls, can trace their design heritage to the Australian line of Swift Boats. Developed to handle the tough conditions found along the Great Barrier Reef, Swift rigid-hull inflatable boats are renowned for their durability and performance.
Highfield is committed to providing you with well designed, professionally built boats distributed via a network of professionals at very affordable prices
Survitec is a global leader in survival and safety solutions to the marine, defence, aviation and Energy markets. Across its 160-year history, Survitec has remained at the forefront of innovation, design and application engineering and is the trusted name when it comes to critical safety and survival solutions.
Crewsaver is a world-leading design house and manufacturer of marine safety equipment and clothing, most commonly known for its award winning lifejacket designs and ground breaking technologies for the commercial and leisure marine, defence & energy industries. Champions of the #LifejacketSafe campaign Crewsaver is the only company to hold an exclusive contract to supply lifejackets to the UK government’s Environment Agency, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) & Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM).
Whether pushing the boundaries on the forefront of innovation, defying expectations in design and technology in water sport apparel or kicking back after the race and watching the sunset, Zhik is never far from the water. Zhik challenges the status quo, identifies problems, and finds breakthrough solutions to continually set the benchmark. Tested and proven, Zhik gear is the choice of Olympic and world champions around the globe.
Zhik started through the need for innovation in the dinghy sailing market post Athens Olympics 2004. After building a reputation as the industry leader in the dinghy classes, Zhik set about revolutionising yachting gear for racing sports boats and offshore yachting, which culminated in winning its first entry into the 2017-2018 Volvo Ocean Race with Dongfeng Race Team. Zhik has always innovated and is expanding on its research and development with new projects in material science likely to change many facets of performance apparel including eco-friendly alternatives for a more sustainable future. Zhik is now growing to include new technical products that will appeal in a larger set of outdoor and marine applications.
Leyton is an international consulting firm with over 1,500 employees, based in 32 offices across 12 countries internationally. For more than 23 years, Leyton’s team of highly qualified tax and technical experts have provided concrete innovation funding solutions for clients’ businesses, contributing to their growth and enduring success.
Leyton shares the values of team spirit, innovation and sustainable development with Alex Thomson Racing and the firm remains dedicated to the economic, ecological and social development of organisations around the world. Leyton was also one of the first companies to have helped shipping companies switch to sustainable energies. An example of this is cargo shipping, where the team helped a company to finance the construction of wind powered boats.
Alex Thomson Racing has fast tracked its innovation, research and development capabilities by utilising the services of the Leyton Group, Europe’s leading R&D specialist.
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Tsvangirai urges Zimbabwe mediation
Prime minister-designate says intervention is needed in stalled power-sharing talks.
Mbeki, right, brokered the initial deal between Tsvanigrai and Mugabe [EPA]
He did not mention the former South African leader by name, but referred to a “facilitator”.
“We have declared a deadlock and therefore the process cannot move forward except in the presence of the facilitator … We have asked him to come over and he has said he will come over,” he said.
Mbeki’s spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
Political deadlock
Tsvangirai’s comments came more than three weeks after the power-sharing deal was signed.
“It’s clearly an indication that there is no movement,” Nelson Chamisa, the spokesman from Tsvangirai’s MDC party, told Al Jazeera.
“There is a deadlock on the key, outstanding issues – namely the issue of cabinet ministries or posts, as well as the issue of governors”
Nelson Chamisa,
Movement for Democratic Change spokesman
“There is a deadlock on the key, outstanding issues – namely the issue of cabinet ministries or posts, as well as the issue of governors,” he said.
“To unlock that impasse and lack of progress we need a helping hand … by way of Sadc [the South African Development Community] and the African Union.”
Tsvangirai defeated Mugabe in a first round of presidential voting in March, but pulled out of a June run-off, accusing the Zanu-PF of violence against his supporters.
Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, the leader of a breakaway MDC faction, signed a power-sharing deal, brokered by Mbeki, on September 15.
Under the agreement brokered by Mbeki, Mugabe remains as president while Tsvangirai takes the new post of prime minister.
But efforts to form the government have bogged down over disputes about who will control the most important ministries, such as defence, home affairs and finance.
Hyper-inflation
“On the day we signed the agreement, the people of Zimbabwe breathed a sigh of relief and their hopes for a final resolution of this crisis were raised.” Tsvangirai said.
“Unfortunately no progress has been made since then to bring the Zimbabwean people to the beginning of the path of recovery. Instead the economic crisis has worsened.”
State media announced on Thursday that Zimabwe’s inflation rate had soared to 231 million per cent in July – the highest in the world.
The United Nations estimates that nearly half of the population will need food aid, with 80 percent of the population living in poverty.
Zimbabwe rivals to sign unity deal
African leaders converge in Harare to witness Mugabe and Tsvangirai bury differences and share power.
Zimbabwe rivals agree cabinet posts
Opposition MDC and Mugabe’s Zanu-PF set to sign power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwe power-sharing deal agreed
South African president mediating in talks announces end to months-long impasse.
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POTTER, Susan Jacobs
Parent Category: Research
Category: Obituaries O-P
Susan (Jacobs) Potter
BELMONT, N.Y. - Susan (Jacobs) Potter, 73, of 4545 State Route 19 S, died peacefully on April 15, 2019 at Hart Comfort House in Wellsville after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on Jan. 16, 1946, in Wellsville, the daughter of the late Leland "Yale" and Ruth (Wightman) Jacobs. On May 6, 1967, in Belmont, she married Lloyd Potter, who predeceased her on April 20, 2014
Susan graduated from Belmont Central School in 1964, Alfred State College in 1966 with a degree in Executive Secretarial Sciences. She was formerly employed at Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES for 31 years. She was an active member of many Board of Directors including Genesee Valley Central School for six years, C-A BOCES for 10 years, Belmont Free Library for four years and the Office of the Aging for one year. She was an active member of the Belmont United Methodist Church.
Surviving are two children, Kerri Potter and Randy (Angelique) Potter, both of Belmont; three grandchildren, Forest Beauchamp, Ryan Dodge, and Brook (Donny) Kane; two great-grandchildren, Carsyn and Carmyn Kane; a sister, Audrey Filter of New Hampshire as well as several nieces and nephews and her faithful puppy, Pippy.
She was predeceased in addition to her parents and husband by two twin sisters and their husbands, Joan and Ed Sailor, and Jean and Bill Smith; and a brother-in-law, William Filter.
Friends are invited to call on Friday, April 19, 2019 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the J. W. Embser Sons Funeral Home Inc. in Belmont. The funeral will be Saturday (April 20, 2019) at 11 a.m. in the Belmont United Methodist Church with Rev. Richard Hurd and Rev. Stephen Crowell presiding. Burial, will be in Forest Hills Cemetery in Belmont.
The family suggests memorial donations be made to Hart Comfort House Wellsville, N.Y. @ www.hartcomforthouse.org; the Belmont Free Library, 2 Willets Ave., Belmont, N.Y. 14813; or the Belmont United Methodist Church, 7 Park Circle, Belmont, N.Y.
To leave online condolences, please visit www.embserfuneralhome.com.
Published in Wellsville Daily Reporter on Apr. 16, 2019
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Jun 2, 2017 - Economy & Business
Gary Cohn: "We're not America Alone"
Alayna Treene, author of Sneak Peek
Kathy Willens
President Trump's economic advisor Gary Cohn rejected the criticism Friday that withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris accord is an "America Alone" policy.
"We're not America alone. We're part of a world, an important part of the world," Cohn told CNBC. "World leaders look to us. I was with the president at the G7 meeting in Italy last week. ... I saw the interactions he was having with the other G7 leaders. We have a very important seat at the the table. The other world leaders are always involved with us and we're involved with them. And we're going to continue to have that position in the world."
As for Goldman Sach's CEO first-ever tweet arguing that leaving the Paris deal was a bad idea? Cohn said he was "caught off guard" when he started tweeting that last night.
On the jobs number coming in below the year's average: "We're not worried about slowing job growth. .. the fact that the [unemployment] number is down by 1% since inauguration day, we're clearly bringing people back into the job force."
On the president taking credit for a million jobs this year: "The federal government data was not out yesterday when the president made his speech. So, as you know, there's just different ways of looking at data."
On concerns the debt ceiling won't be raised by August: "If we need to get things attached to get [the bill] through, we'll attach things. At the end of the day, Congress is going to raise the debt ceiling because they have no other choice."
Is he interested in the Fed Chair job? "No. I have a great job right now. Serving the president has been a dream come true. I come into work every day and I'm very excited to be in the White House."
Flip-flopping on coal: "I said [coal] is not the most efficient feed stock today because of the price... that could change very quickly. We all have been around markets long enough to know that predicting the price of commodities is very difficult in any long-term scenario."
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May 16, 2019 - Politics & Policy
On tech speech, White House goes it alone
Sara Fischer, author of Media Trends
Illustration: NurPhoto/Getty Images
While world leaders joined with tech companies to sign a pact to combat terrorists and extremists online, the Trump White House broke from the agreement and offered its own tool Wednesday for countering what it sees as censorship by tech platforms.
Why it matters: The move is a signal that the White House is looking to step up its fight against Silicon Valley companies over accusations of bias rather than work with them and its allies to reduce online threats.
Driving the news: On Wednesday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris announced a call to action that will addresses the abuse of technology to spread terrorist content and extremism.
Over a dozen other countries endorsed the effort, including the U.K., Australia, Canada, the European Commission, Germany, Indonesia, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, the Netherlands, Norway, Senegal, Spain, and Sweden.
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter put out a statement also endorsing the Christchurch Call. (Sources tell Axios' Ina Fried that Twitter's Jack Dorsey was the only tech CEO to show up to the meeting in Paris.)
Facebook also announced new restrictions on the use of its Facebook Live video service, which the New Zealand shooter used to broadcast his rampage.
But the Trump administration said in a statement citing free speech concerns that the U.S. "is not currently in a position to join the endorsement” of the Christchurch Call. The statement said that, instead, “the best tool to defeat terrorist speech is productive speech.”
The Christchurch Call itself consistently declares that efforts against extremist speech should be made "in a manner consistent with the rule of law and international human rights law, including freedom of expression."
Hours later, The White House launched a new tool that will allow any U.S. citizen to submit a complaint if they think they were unfairly censored on social media platforms.
Skeptics were quick to point out that the online form was not very sophisticated and could be easily gamed by anyone who wanted to troll the administration.
The White House says the tool is meant to help people share stories about ways social media platforms unfairly targeted their free speech, but the online form where users can submit requests also appears to be a mechanism for collecting their email addresses.
The big picture: Social media bias has become a major talking point for President Trump and conservatives who argue that Silicon Valley companies are biased against their viewpoints.
Be smart: This attitude demonstrates a reversal of candidate Trump's welcoming view of social media platforms.
At that time, the president told Axios that he liked platforms like Twitter and Facebook because they allowed him to reach voters in an unrestricted way, unlike the mainstream media.
Today, Trump uses Twitter as his main communications vehicle, often sending dozens of tweets in a single day, even as he ramps up the bias accusations.
What's next: Expect questions from Congressional Democrats and free speech activists about what the White House intends to do with the data and responses it collects from its new complaint tool.
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TF?
TF, 2 letters that signify at the same time Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography). 205TF is a type foundry that brings together the work of independent typeface designers, some of them well known, others closer to the beginning of their career, all highly talented. Each of them developing characters where a certain French spirit can be felt. 205TF is a foundry on a human scale, and beyond the distribution of their work, it supports typeface designers by making their creations available to a wider audience, allowing for greater recognition of their work.
205TF makes a choice of quality: a small number of creators, a precise selection of characters. The number is of little importance, the quality however is essential.
All of the characters are developed according to common standards (set standard, set pro and set spécial). The typefaces have – at a minimum – an extended set of characters (Latin extended) and this allows them to be used for compositions in a wide range of languages. With an Opentype format, they provide access to specific characters such as small capitals (according to the characters), different series of figures (aligned, old style, proportional and tabular), ligatures, fractions, etc.
This format allows access to specific typographic settings according to the characters. - For the group of characters – functions “All caps”, “Case sensitive punctuation”, “Tabular lining figures”, “Tabular old-style figures”, “Proportional old-style figures”, “Ligatures”, “Fractions”, “Ordinals”, “Contextual alternates”, “Localized forms”, etc.
For certain characters — “Small capitals”, “Capitals to Small Capitals”.
The presentation and interest of each function are detailed in the typeface specimens that can be downloaded for each typeface.
The groups of characters function with both MacOs and Windows platforms and have been tested for Office and Adobe applications. They can then be easily installed on the vast majority of computers and the direct transfer of a file that uses 205TF typefaces from one platform to another and from a Macintosh version of software to a Windows version of software is a process which is seamless.
For cases involving a specific and/or proprietary operating system or specific software, please contact us directly.
Thomas Bouville
1987, Thiais, France
How did you get involved with typeface design? What led you to this practice?
Initially, I studied Graphic Design at the École supérieure d’arts appliqués of Bourgogne, and then at the École européenne supérieure d’art of Brittany. After that I chose to specialize in Typeface Design and decided to pursue my training at the École supérieure d’art et de design of Amiens and then in the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT).
What influences you? Are there typeface designers whose work you appreciate in particular?
On one hand, I would say that I am attracted to projects which question the objectivity of the typographic form. Kai Bernau’s Neutral or Kris Sowersby’s Untitled highlight precisely one of the paradoxes of Typeface Design: the creation of a new form which appears to be “transparent”.
On the other hand, I have a real admiration for all of the typographic creations of the 18th century. I appreciate the typographic color of these transitional designs that I find to be very particular. Among the punch-cutters for whom I have a real admiration, I could mention Jacques-François Rosart, Philippe Grandjean, Joann Michael Fleischman and Pierre-Simon Fournier the younger.
As a graphic designer, I am also interested in more experimental projects which question the limits of the typographic sign by subjecting them to systems of construction. Karl Nawrot’s various experiments to do with the creation of normographs or the generative project Sign-generator by studio Norm are notable examples of this.
In your opinion, what is the point of creating a new typeface when so many already exist?
Most of the time, I begin to design a typeface in the context of a Graphic Design project that I’m working on, where I haven’t been able to find what I’m looking for in existing type families. And so I create my own tools. As each project has a quite particular context, this naturally leads me to quite specific typographic forms.
In other cases, my Type Design projects begin with a concept for a family of typefaces. My attention is not necessarily focused on the design of a style, but more-so on the relationships that exist, and on the tensions that emerge from the confrontation of the latter within the same layout.
It is through the assertion of these relationships that, little by little, I manage to define my different designs.
Is it really possible to create something new in the field of typeface design?
I am convinced that this is the case, as developments in technology and new uses of reading allow new needs to emerge. What’s more, the democratization of tools for creating typefaces leads new people – with different points of view – to tackle this design exercise. The possibility of being able to create a typeface relatively rapidly has changed its economy, and it is not rare to be in a position to create a customized font for a small scale graphic design project, whereas in the past this would have been quite an unrealistic endeavor.
How do you begin work on a new typeface? Do you have a particular process?
I don’t believe that there is any specific recipe to which I adhere.
Because, often, the need to create a new typeface arises in the context of the commission of a graphic design creation, it is in this back and forth between graphic language and type design that I feel most at ease.
What interests me most about type design corresponds to the creation of a particular optical appearance, of a reading experience in effect.
What is your relationship with the history of typography? What is your relationship with technology?
I am quite sensitive to the modern history of typography, where typography moves away from notions of ductus and appears as a construction. This concept obviously evokes the typography of the early 20th century designed by the avant-gardes, however the relationship with characters created in the 18th century also interests me greatly. I like the contradiction which emanates from a construction of utopian letters, on principle outside of any scriptural tradition, and yet still part of the linear history of typography. The graphic impact which is generated by the brutality of these characters is of particular interest to me.
In the context of my previous commissioned projects, up to this point technology has served as a tool to develop and accompany my work. I have more of a tendency to exploit and develop more experimental tools in the context of my personal research. The research project Re-typographe, which I began at ANRT, in partnership with a team of researchers in the field of applied mathematics, is an example of this. We sought to develop a semi-automatic tool for analysis of ancient books. The observation of historical documents through the prism of technology allows me to look at canonic typographical forms from a different angle.
Why have you chosen to distribute your characters and typefaces with 205TF?
The Kelvin family might appear atypical if one bases one’s point of view on the usual standards of development of contemporary typographical creations. The relationship that exists between the different styles of Kelvin is not a common one: it is not a question of variations of forms based on the same structure, but rather distinct designs which can only be considered to belong to the same family because they share similar values. It was then for me primordial to conserve the concept which serves as a basis for the construction of the Kelvin family, something that 205TF understood and supported.
Do you think that typography can save the world?
Typeface Design is intimately connected to language, which gives it a particular status. A typographic character can invest any type of domain and any type of medium where there is a message that needs to be spread. But the creation of new typefaces was often connected to much more ambitious projects. For example, the creation of Romain du Roi, at the end of the 17th century, was part of an editorial project which described the arts and trades of that time. This typeface family reflected the ideological and technological achievement of the intentions carried by the publication.
On a much more modest level I would say that typography is an expressive tool of language. Used judiciously, it allows one to specify a discourse and to convey one’s intentions, thus allowing a more precise communication between emitter and receiver of a message.
Do you teach? If so, where, and why does this role of transmission seem important to you?
I work in different schools (Ésad — Reims, Ésaab — Nevers, Ésal — Épinal) in the form of workshops. Depending on the curriculum and its goals, I propose interventions in typeface design or graphic design. As quickly as possible, I create hybrid projects where the question of typography is dealt with both on the level of the sign and of composition.
What type design project are you currently working on?
My days alternate between macroscopic and microscopic tasks. I am currently woking on a family of typefaces for the visual identity of a museum in Paris, while at the same time continuing to work on graphic design projects. I also set aside some time to consider and think about new typeface design projects.
Juliette Collin
1991, France
After finishing my studies in Paris, I trained with Jean François Porchez, in order to concentrate mainly on typography and its applications. He taught me a very academic approach to type design and that was a real point of departure for me. Afterwards I decided to pursue my studies at the ECAL where I graduated in June 2017. While there I was lucky enough to be guided by renowned masters, such as François Rappo who taught me a lot and who helped me to have a keener eye, along with Kai Bernau and Matthieu Cortat.
All of the different professionals whom I met during my time studying in Lausanne were a source of inspiration at one time or another. Whether in the fields of photography, graphic design, or more specifically typography. The ECAL is in effect a highly enriching context where different disciplines intersect and overlap. We are very lucky to receive advice and guidance from people who are passionate about the work, coming from very different backgrounds, who nourish our thinking and help us to develop our practice. In general, I would say that I have a strong interest in type designers who are also graphic designers, like Christian Schwartz, Laurenz Brunner and Radim Pesko.
Typography is first and foremost a tool, with functionality and ergonomy being its two central pillars. Creating new typefaces allows new needs to be met, and allows us to provide our graphic design with a new identity. I don’t think that there is really any limit. I would even go so far as to say that it is important to develop one’s visual environment in line with one’s epoch. By renewing existing forms, one also renews the visual experience that reading can provide. Often, graphic designers know exactly what they are looking for but may sometimes opt for more intuitive choices.
It’s true, there are already a lot of typefaces available. But designers manage to create something new while being inspired by ancient forms. There are so many possibilities, there is so much left to explore! The typographic landscape that many describe as saturated forces designers to propose coherent projects with strong identities.
In recent years I have been working essentially on revivals. The difference between the very precise trace of ink left by lead characters on vectorial drawing paper implies a complete deconstruction of the typeface in order to extract its essence. So it is essential for me to always see the printed version of my typeface, and to correct it by hand. I also try to consider all of the possible solutions, without modifying the original idea. For the Salmanazar typeface, the question of making it smoother was at the core of my process. I worked on a lot of versions before returning to my initial drawings. Ultimately, I chose to leave it with quite a rough appearance, with all of its imperfections and subtleties so that it could retain its quite sculpted appearance, and so that it would have a “taste”, a tone of grey different to what one usually finds.
Typography has its tradition, and always refers to a period of history. I believe that it is important to be aware of the context in which a typeface is created, to understand its origins and to attempt to know where its proportions come from, to understand the intentions behind it, etc. When one starts with an older model, one can find a wealth of information that will allow one to make one’s own interpretation. One discovers a multitude of subtleties that one might choose to emphasize, or not.
Digital tools are like any other tool. They allow for easy deconstruction and reconstruction, for the creation of variations – thanks to interpolations for example – to understand the impact of what one wishes to infuse them with. Today it is possible to “quickly” develop large families, even if I do think that it is more interesting to design and draw each style.
The Salmanazar typeface possesses a very strong identity. I don’t think that it would be at home in every kind of foundry. 205TF brings together independent designers with very different practices, but at the same time it continues to be a small foundry with a very precise selection. I think that Salmanazar really suits the catalogue. I would even go so far as to say that the project has been inspired by a French historical model and that I am really quite happy that it is distributed in France.
I’m probably going to disappoint you here. I’m sure of it. But I will say that it enables communication, and that’s already pretty good!
After my Master, the ECAL gave me the opportunity to do a six month residency in Hong Kong, where I gave conferences, organized workshops and worked with students in a design school. It was a very rich experience which allowed me to broaden my vision and to experience a new way of doing things, through the prism of the culture and heritage of a country. In addition to being very stimulating, it was a real challenge to teach as I had barely left school. I returned to France recently, and am certainly not objective enough, but what I can say is that sharing my experience and knowledge over there was a real pleasure.
I’m currently working on a customized version of a typeface for an Italian magazine that I started while still a student. Also I’ve taken charge of the development of an existing project. It is a little known Didot that proposes a particularly interesting version in terms of legibility.
Matthieu Cortat
1982, Delémont, Swiss
How did you get involved with typeface design? What led you to this practise?
During my studies in Visual Communication at the Ecal in Lausanne, I was introduced to typeface design by François Rappo, as well as in workshops with Norm and Underware. It was there that I was lucky enough to meet Hans-Jurg Hunziker who convinced me to persevere along this path, and who spoke to me of the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, in Nancy, where I pursued my education. Once my studies were finished, I moved to Lyon, carrying out both my work as a typeface designer and as a mediator, then scientific advisor in the Museum of Print and Graphic Communication (Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique) in Lyon.
Is there something specific about your approach to typeface design?
Thanks to my work in the Museum of Print and Graphic Communication, most of my typefaces are anchored in history. This doesn't make them revivals however, as I take a lot of liberties with regard to the models from which I begin my work. Let's say that I try, for each creation, to bring a contemporary feel to an atmosphere, a style drawn from the history of Typography. Sometimes it is a matter of revisiting a classic; other times of rediscovering a lost typeface; often it is a nod to a reference.
I don't really have any idols. I have a certain appetite for the British (Johnston, Gill and, slightly closer to home, Paul Barnes) and the French (Mandel, Mendoza, Jou) for questions of style. When it comes to questions of finishing and a certain rigour in development however, I am firmly on the side of the Swiss, Frutiger, Miedinger, the Optimo and Lineto foundries, for example. The American and Dutch typographers are somewhat a mystery to me. I would place myself nearer to typeface designers that are “sculptors” as opposed to “calligraphers”.
If you could only choose one typeface, which one would it be?
For what use exactly? Choosing a single typeface is like choosing a single food, a single garment. The choice of a typeface depends on the context. For a body text, let's say a book, I'd lean of course towards my last born, Helvetius, that will be soon available through 205tf.
Ask fashion designers why they launch collections every season? Or car manufacturers why they release new models every year? Or furniture creators? Architects? Musicians?
Is it really possible to create something new in the field of type design?
No. In the sense that, a letter must, at a moment or another, be even just slightly legible. The reader must then be in a position to recognise it. And to recognise it, it has to resemble something that already exists. So then, to create something completely new, one would have to create a new writing.
No, not really. It could be a question of historical models, intentionally badly scanned so that I can leave a lot of room for interpretation. Or, in the case of a commissioned typeface, a sketch provided by a graphic designer. More often than not, I scribble a few far from perfect sketches to clarify what I am looking for, and then design directly on a computer.
I've already spoken about my relationship with history. I'm up to my neck in it. I know too much to just naively create fonts and imagine that they are revolutionary; and not enough to not get excited when I come across a specimen that I've never seen before.
Beyond the shared infrastructure that allows a greater functionality that would be complicated to put in place for an isolated designer, there is the choice of the catalogue: few typefaces, but well chosen, with high standards, designs, spacings and kernings all being verified by a number of people.
While the “great foundries” have catalogues that seem to go on forever, and look like supermarkets, 205TF is a gourmet food store: a more refined choice, and filled with quality.
Let's not put that much weight on the shoulders of typography.
You teach at the ecal. Why does this role of transmission seem important to you?
What typeface designer doesn't want to see the general level of publications (on paper or screen) improved? And for that, people need to be trained, they need to have their minds opened and their vision educated. This requires time, patience and energy. Like all things that are worth doing.
I have never really been satisfied with the Gill and its different digital adaptations: too thin, too marked by their era; and, in general, by the humanistic lineals that are often too mannered. So I am working on a character in this style, with a very strong “bold” and sober italics.
Thierry Fétiveau
1987, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
I have been interested in calligraphy for a very long time, and practice it as an amateur. I began studying graphic design in Nantes where I had the opportunity to see the exhibition by the Type Directors Club and to attend the conferences that accompanied the event. I found Jean-François Porchez’s conference particularly striking as, at the time, I wasn’t really aware how important typography and the profession of type designer was. You could call it love at first sight really. In my final year, I did an internship with Typofonderie and my degree project was the creation of the Andersen typeface. This allowed me to combine my interest for typography, and my relationship with reading and teaching that I had experimented with as a primary school teacher. The project was quite well received, and led to me studying in the post graduate program, “Typographie et langage” at the ESAD in Amiens. I developed the Latin/Arabic typeface, Batutah.
Following that I worked as a freelance designer for a while and then in Lille with Ateliers 59, a studio that specializes in visual identity and signage. Currently, I live in Nantes where I work with the Collectif Sans Sherif as a freelance type designer and teacher.
Many things inspire me. I follow the work of contemporary graphic designers like Kris Sowersby, Underware, Nikola Djurek, Kristyan Sarkis... I’m also have a strong interest for historical sources: specimens, posters, magazines… I’m interested in vernacular lettering, which I also collect. I always try to have one foot in the past and the other in the present.
This questions comes up regularly with the people that I bump into who don’t work in the creative fields. I often answer with a different question: “Why create new clothes, new cars, new music?” For the same reasons: because people’s tastes evolve over time, according to geographical locations and trends. Software and Opentype code allow us to do things that were previously impossible, such as the principle of interpolation. New needs also arise and new uses appear. There is also the development of systems of writing other than Latin, such as Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew and Devanagari which all possess great potential.
If that wasn’t the case I wouldn’t be involved in this profession! Yes, it is possible to create new typographic forms. Indeed this is where the interest of the profession lies: managing to create new forms while at the same time taking into account a certain tradition, proportions, reading habits and the presence of typefaces which already possess striking and innovative qualities.
When I start designing a new typeface – whether it be a “retail” project, or even a “custom” one – I set out a brief containing the project expectations at the very start: number of thicknesses or weights, set of characters, functions, uses, styles, universes, references… The more detailed this brief is, the easier it is for me to know where I’m headed. This is followed by a phase of research with drawing and then, quite quickly, I begin using software to design a couple of glyphs. In my case I use the word “vaphosie” which doesn’t mean anything but which is useful as it provides the key characteristics which will help me to develop the rest of the alphabet. I do a number of tests, advancing in steps, and once I feel that the design is stable I develop the whole typeface.
Whether we like it or not, typography originates in a context, in a specific period and this is also the case with very contemporary typefaces. For me, the history of typography is important as it allows us to understand the origin of the forms, and it is also a huge source of inspiration. It is also difficult to avoid technology that allows one to work in a more rapid and efficient way. The technological aspect of our professions develops quickly. This is one aspect of the profession which stimulates me.
I have followed the evolution of 205TF since its creation and was already well aware of the work of Bureau 205 and their strong interest for typography. I was already convinced of the high quality and serious nature of the project. My first typeface, Lewis is distributed on Myfonts who are simply distributors. I was looking for a structure which chose quality typefaces and which worked closely with creators. 205TF is a great fit.
Absolutely! As a wise man once said: no typography, no salvation! On a more serious note, while it may not save the world, typography can, at its level, attempt to improve things a little. For example, the Balkan Sans typeface is composed on two levels, an upper one and a lower one, simultaneously presenting Latin and Cyrillic letters in an attempt to reconcile a Serbian population that has diverse influences running through it. Eco-font consumes less ink thanks to the empty areas inside the lines of the letters. The Homeless project fonts propose typefaces that are inspired by writing done by homeless people, and the proceeds from the sale of this typeface go to an association which works with homeless people. Beyond these projects, the development of typefaces or systems of writing that are in the danger of disappearing seems of primary importance to me as this helps the survival and transmission of languages.
I work in the ECV Nantes and at E-Art Sup Nantes. In addition to that, I animate workshops and conferences. This role of transmission seems important to me as typography is a discipline that students – and thus future professionals – will be faced with on a daily basis whether it be for print of digital media. I try to pass on to students not only my know-how in relation to typeface design but also my knowledge of other subjects like the Opentype functions or how user licenses for typefaces function for example.
I’m currently working on a number of projects: the development of the Latin/Arabic typeface Batutah that I created when I was a student, the development of a lineal in a number of thicknesses for the Latin and the Cyrillic and finally a commission for a festival: a titling typeface inspired by the Art Deco movement.
Roxane Gataud
I passed my baccalaureate in Applied Arts in 2008 before studying Graphic Design at the École Estienne. It was later while I was studying at the École supérieure des Arts appliqués de Bourgogne (ESAAB), in Nevers that something clicked for me with typeface design. Up until that point I took real pleasure in using typefaces but had never felt the need to design one myself. For my degree I knew exactly what kind of typeface I wanted to work with, but it was impossible to find something that suited me in the meagre library of typefaces in my possession at the time. This drove me to study typeface design! So I joined the “Typographie & Langage” post graduate programme in the École supérieure d'Art et Design (Ésad) in Amiens, where I had previously graduated with honours, in February of 2014. I designed the Bely, my first original typeface that is currently distributed by TypeTogether.
Since then I have lived and worked in Paris as an independent Type Designer. In 2016 I received the Catalyst Award, given by the American association SOTA, that each year awards a young designer with a promising future for their accomplishments in the field of Typography. I have worked with different international and French foundries and I am currently actively working with 205TF. When I am not helping other designers, I work on my own creations.
I became interested in Typography as the result of a graphic design need. The question of the use of the characters that I design is thus fundamental in my practice. I leave a lot of room for formal experimentation and experimentation. This is often the pretext for the development of a new project. In reality, I've only been designing typefaces for a short time and still consider myself a beginner. The multitude of styles that I haven't explored yet are like new playgrounds to me. I still haven't found one particular approach!
There are so many things that inspire me and that influence my work. I was lucky enough to collaborate with different designers, and each of their unique practices have enriched my practice and allowed me to develop my own way of working. A lecture, an exchange or even a type specimen from the beginning of the century can be of great inspiration to me. I nonetheless admit to being very sensitive to the typographic creations of designers that also have a Graphic Design practice, such as Gareth Hague or Radim Pesko, to name only two.
That's such a difficult question! Probably the Times, so that I could continue to read books without destroying my retina.
There's so much left to explore! There's a lot of room to invent new forms and new families.
A lot of my work is based on intuition. I quickly draw my ideas on paper. Sketches are for me a way of quickly creating the basis for a new idea. Nevertheless, my sketches are not at all refined! It's more a matter of structures and diagrams. I move on quickly from vectorial drawings and try to make all of this “work”. Then there is a lot of back and forth between screen and paper. The documenting stage comes before or after, depending on the projects.
The two are inseparable. Good knowledge of both domains seems important to me in the understanding and production of contemporary characters.
If only...
I really have too many ongoing projects. Hopefully I'll be able to find enough time to push these experiments towards more defined families of characters and characters that will be available shortly!
Damien Gautier
1971, Beaune, France
I fell into typography when I was already grown up, having finished some training in the field of science, a little by accident, by love... I studied in the typeface creation studio in the Estienne school, run by Franck Jalleau and Michel Derre among others.
I like to take characters that have been drawn or designed by non-specialists as a source of inspiration. I pay particular attention to vernacular typographic signs that we all come across daily but don't really take in on any conscious level. They are often awkward, but can sometimes display real ingenuity.
Gerard Unger's characters were a real revelation for me when I began. With the Swift I discovered a design driven by an approach that allowed one to achieve radical characters, rid of any useless frills. With his other characters, I realised that history and contemporary creation could go hand in hand
I'll answer your question with one of my own! What is the point of a designer creating another model of chair? It will have a seat, four legs and a back like every other chair before it, and yet it is hard for you to imagine having four chairs in your dining room that clash with the rest of your home.
It is exactly the same thing when it comes to typeface design. Sometimes you feel the need for a specific character that is perfectly adapted to your needs or desires! So you design and draw it!
I never think in those terms when I draw and design a character. I draw the character that I need in my role as a Graphic Designer. Then, I imagine that if I find it suitable (because I always use my typefaces before making them commercially available), it could also be of interest to other designers.
That depends. Sometimes I start work on a new typeface because I need it for a specific project. Its design is then driven by the use that will be made of it. I work constantly until I can make the first tests and then verify the result. I rework the design until I obtain a result that satisfies me. At other times, I feel the need to start a new project having discovered a typographic sign that inspires me and gives me a glimpse of a potentially interesting character.
At that moment, I draw my first signs. I look for a logic of forms and I am attentive to each sign. I often need time to do this and come back to the work at different moments. So, with that in mind, I am usually working on a number of characters at the same time. Sometimes I give up. However, once I am convinced by my design of the letter a, nothing can stop me!
History and technology are inseparable. Though the creation of a digital typeface is currently quite a technical endeavour, typeface design can not be done without a careful look at earlier forms. Typeface design is far from being the simple result of a technical process. It must be inspired!
Because I absolutely believe in the efficiency of a stringent distribution and prefer that my typefaces be part of a thoughtful selection rather than finding themselves lost among thousands of other typefaces.
If we consider that typography is people speaking, exchanging and working together, then yes I dream that it can at the very least make the world a better place.
You teach at l'école des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Why does this role of transmission seem important to you?
The apprenticeship of type design has brought me a lot in terms of my practise as a designer. I like the idea that the time dedicated to teaching can help students in their future practise by giving them a greater visual acuity with regard to the forms that they are handling. Also, teaching, allows one to move away from the commission/ project rhythm, and to step back from a pace that can sometimes be alienating, while discovering emerging personalities and universes in the process of becoming, and by helping them to structure their projects.
I really like long projects! So I have been working with the Plaak typeface, adding lower case letters to it. With its 24 styles I have my work cut out for me! I am also continuing my thinking on the numerous family of Maax. After the Maax, Maax Mono and Maax Rounded, soon the Maax Raw, a raw lineal in three styles.
1977, Dôle, France
I was a student at the School of Fine Arts of Besançon, where I discovered typography. I was self taught when it came to typeface design, using Fontographer, I threw myself into the design of Garaje, a typeface that I presented for my Fine Arts diploma. At that time it was a family of twenty or so fonts, that nourished my thinking around the geometrisation of the typographic sign, in vernacular inscriptions and in the European avant-gardes. Just after that I entered the ANRT, in 2001 – 2002, where I could dive fully into typeface design, by drawing and designing the lowercase M, a character for very small type sizes.
A number of things are very important to me. To never move too far away from Graphic Design and to never lose sight of the way that typefaces are used: my activity as a designer provides me with a lot of pretexts to create characters, whether I am requested to do so or not. It is a way for me to appropriate the commission, and to add an element of typographic investigation to it.
As to the design itself, there are probably forms that we find from one character to another: nonetheless, I enjoy trying a new ways of designing for each character: not only another formal register, but testing another process. This is what stimulates me most.
What are your influences? The references and typeface designers whose work you particularly appreciate?
Graphic Designers have certainly marked me the most (like Experimental Jetset, Norm); when it comes to typeface designers, I admire the variety of drawings and designs of Carter or Frutiger, and the creations of Henrik Kuebel, for example.
If you had to choose only one typeface, which one would it be?
That's an extremely difficult question, and life would be incredibly sad with only one single typeface. If I had to give an answer I'd go with Akzidenz Grotesk Bold, old school.
Do we ask this question when speaking of painting or photography? There are indeed quite a few in existence, but I don't believe that any limit exists.
Of course, there are so many things to explore, everywhere: in history, technology, the writings of the world...
I try to avoid following the same recipe each time, and adapt my methodology to the character that I intend to develop.
I am nourished, like most of us, by historical forms, but I try not to dive too deeply into them as it can very quickly have a paralysing effect. To quote Carter, I try to look at history for what it can nourish in the present and not for nostalgic reasons. As for technology, I am very interested in it: excellent tools are available to us today, and we have a relatively unprecedented capacity to adapt those tools to our needs. I am not a beast when it comes to development, far from it, but the whole field interests me greatly. Here too, as with history, we have to be careful not to confuse the means with the ends.
I have always worked independently, and even if I had been in possession of a foundry since 2007, the distribution of my characters has never been of interest to me, and I have no time to take care of it anyway. My friendship with the people behind the project, and the format that 205TF proposes suits me perfectly, I didn't hesitate for a second.
You teach at l'ANRT (Atelier national de recherche typographique, Nancy). Why does this role of transmission seem important to you?
I have always been a full time teacher, and I find it very important for my own equilibrium. I like interacting with students, working with my colleagues, organising things and doing research. These different activities (type design, Graphic Design, teaching) complement and nourish one another and I find this very stimulating.
A custom typeface for a huge hotel in Las Vegas that was commissioned by an agency. Class, American style! Its a glyphic serif; I've never designed one before and it's been very pleasant so far.
Clément Le Tulle-Neyret
Yoann Minet
1988, Tulle, France
I designed a typeface for the first time in 2010, during an exchange with the University of Laval in Quebec. My timetable gave me the time to develop a project under the watchful eye of René Lemieux, Director of the Graphic Communication programme. Then, to quickly summarise my path, I studied at the École de communication visuelle of Bordeaux, then at the Typographic creation studio in the École Estienne; I worked at the Typography Cabinet with Ludovic Balland; in the Production Type foundry, founded by Jean-Baptiste Levée; then finally in 2015, I created a Graphic Design studio, Bureau Brut, with Julia Joffre and Camille Prandi. I also think that certain encounters have been very important in my training, I'm thinking of Hugo Anglade, Nicolas Oulès, Simon Masse and many others.
I am not totally convinced that there is, because I don't have only one approach. Effectively, my approach varies according to the projects, the commissions, or just because I saw something in a street one morning. I think that the best way to renew one's practice is not to restrict oneself to a type of form or indeed to search for the perfect form. I consider that a drawing or design done at a particular moment represents that moment, and if I work on it again a month later I'll end up taking it in a different direction. This allows me to have an open mind with regard to my approach to typeface design.
The very first book that helped me to discover Typography was Fonts & Logo by Doyald Young. The author analyses the Sabon, a typeface that has remained one of my references for a very long time. The work of Roger Excoffon and the Olive foundry constantly comes to mind, I feel very close to his approach and his forms. But I also think that for me the most important influences come from encounters.
Such a choice seems impossible to me, a typeface in itself is not a big deal, it is the use that turns it into a finished object. But, if I absolutely had to choose, I would take the Vendôme from the Olive foundry because it continues to delight me, in its design, its details, its grey, its rhythm.
Typography is a game with rules and conventions. There is no absolute form, only canons established over time and the importance of their uses. As a designer I always try to position myself with regard to these conventions and these canons, to upset them, to go beyond them and to develop them.
One must really find the “right music”. Afterwards I draw without references, without models because I prefer to trust what I have in mind, the forms that I have remembered. I only document my work once the project has been started. This allows me to analyse and understand what is intuitive and what is referring to something else.
What is your relationship with the history of typography? What is your relationship with
technology?
I think that it is important to know the major events in the history of typography to be able to understand certain forms and certain movements, but I am not a specialist or historian. I am closer to the amateur, the observer. It is also important to master one's tool (drawing) to avoid being “dominated” by it.
Nonetheless, I pay very close attention so that history and technology don't become a vector for creation as such. The technical challenge can be stimulating and attractive but it shouldn't overpower the design itself. In other words I attempt to be as accurate as possible with regard to commissions or particular uses.
The quality of the publications made by bureau 205 can only be a sign of good things to come for 205TF. I am certain that my typefaces are in good hands. What's more, there is an important panel of creators that are embarking on this adventure, and so it is an honour for me to count myself among this gathering of French contemporary creators.
In as much that music can't save the world but can make it less grim.
Sandrine Nugue
1985, Lyon, France
In 2011 I was preparing my degree in graphic design in the école des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (which has since become the Haute école d’art du Rhin). I had developed a passion for the mechanics of reading thanks to research done by Stanislas Dehaene. Discovering the developments and transformations of our system of reading and writing led me to design a first typeface for use in film subtitles. At the time I was totally self taught. By a stroke of luck, Barbara Dennys was president of the panel who judged my degree. This led to my participation in the “Typographie & Langage” post-graduate program at the Ésad in Amiens where I was delighted to learn how to design typefaces. Ganeau, a family of latins designed in various optical sizes, is the result of that month of learning. I have been working as a freelance graphic and type designer, two disciplines which are closely connected in my practice, since 2013. My strong interest for systems of writing took shape while I was working on Infini, a free to use typeface family which I designed for the Cnap in 2014.
During my time as a post-graduate student I was attracted to the generous typographic forms of Roger Excoffon, José Mendoza y Almeida and Ladislas Mandel (my teacher, Sébastien Morlighem played a vital role in my discovery of these three designers). At the same time, I am fascinated by very straightforward, very terse designs, similar to the typefaces of Rudolf Koch, or Berthold Wolpe with his Albertus or even Louis Oppenheim with Fanfare, and of course Vendôme by François Ganeau.
When responding to a graphic design commission, I do my best to design a typeface which is made to measure, whether it be for a visual identity, for signage or a logotype… Typeface design is a means which allows one to accurately respond to the needs of the commission. They are tools that I design and the notion of “made to measure” is very important to me. I try to be as precise as possible and typefaces contribute to this. Each project is specific in nature and may require its own character.
This is one of the main motivating factors in type design, how to juggle the existing with the new. Clearly we are not starting from scratch. Forms which influence matters of legibility exist, each medium and use come with their own set of restrictions. To this can be added our stylistic references. I try not to look too much at my preferred typefaces out of a fear that I might try to redesign them, I keep my distance from them so as to avoid copying them.
What I love more than anything else about typeface design is the question of nuances. Tiny modifications can totally transform a text and the possibilities are endless!
When beginning too design a typeface, I pay close attention to the commission while analyzing its context. Then I seek to formalize all of this through new forms – those most adapted to each project – rather than beginning with an existing typeface. The first steps are always drawn by hand and then quickly digitized. I like taking my time when doing research and testing, but sometimes a sense of urgency does give rise to interesting surprises.
A knowledge of the history of typography seems essential to me for both understanding the typefaces which surround us and for creating new ones. History is a source of inspiration and provides a base which allows me to create a framework. It also allows me to play with appropriate references. I am currently questioning type classification by developing a typeface intended to be unclassifiable, which will at the very least represent the intersection of a number of references.
Technology has developed greatly in recent decades. We are lucky because it allows us to be both efficient and productive. I try to consider it as being helpful, and it is indeed precious, while at the same time keeping it at arm’s length in order to avoid it structuring my projects. It is, first and foremost, a tool in the service of design.
From my time as a student, I have followed and admired the designs produced by Bureau 205. In their capacity as graphic designers they have a healthy awareness of the needs and desires of their fellow graphic designers. By opening the 205TF type foundry, they are daring to propose a catalog which is quite unlike anything found in the more traditional models. Various different kinds of typefaces can find a home. Injurial for example, a display typeface composed solely of capitals.
Typography is a tool for communication that can help people to gain a better understanding of the world. A sufficiently admirable vocation for its frail shoulders.
I have been teaching, regularly or occasionally, in various different schools at different levels for around five years now. I also run workshops for children and provide training for graphic designers. Thanks to these different activities I can share and transmit my passion for typography and type design, and also introduce people to the major issues in the field today. I am constantly concerned with questions of transmission and discovery. I do my best not to approach things in a traditional way, and often I use play in my work. If one does not take pleasure in one is doing, one cannot learn.
I am currently designing a type family for the université de Sciences-Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye. They have also asked me to design their visual identity.
Tassiana Nuñez Costa
1983, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I grew up in a bilingual family in Rio, Brazil, and was very much influenced by my mother who was a linguist. It’s pretty clear to me that my taste for typography comes first and foremost from my love for languages. Later on I studied design and visual communication at university. It was there that I discovered typography as the graphic expression of language.
I decided to move to Paris in 2008 to continue my studies at the ENSCI - Les Ateliers as part of a master’s program in creation and contemporary technologies. My master’s project dealt with augmented reading, which allowed me to collaborate with various Service Design startups and to specialize in reading interfaces. It was while working with the layout of digital text that I was struck by a desire to acquire a deeper knowledge of typography and, more specifically, type design for the screen.
This interest led me to begin a typeface design project as part of the Typography and Language post graduate program in the Esad of Amiens that I concluded in 2015 with the beginnings of Thelo, a type family that explores the idea of optical sizes for the screen.
Since finishing the post graduate course I have continued my work in Service Design for businesses while simultaneously working on my personal projects around typography. I consider them to be two passionate and complementary approaches to design.
I have noticed that I am often visually attracted to typefaces created by Dutch designers. I can’t really put my finger on exactly why, but I believe that there is something a little offbeat, a little unconventional and at the same time very effective in the Dutch aesthetic that appeals to me. For example it was love at first sight when I discovered the work of Bram de Does, and I was lucky enough to be able to consult the original drawings for his Lexicon in the archives of the University of Amsterdam during a study trip.
I have also been heavily influenced by the work of Matthew Carter, and in particular by his approach to typeface design for screens and the way that he integrates the different constraints of the screen display into his drawings. I had the opportunity to meet him when he participated in the Rencontres Internationales de Lure in 2018 and I really learned a lot from my contact with this very inspiring and accessible person.
This is a question that I often ask myself. I tend to answer that it is like any form of creation. What is the point of writing a new novel or a new song? For me the possibilities for exploration in the artistic domain are truly infinite.
We have all been marked by the legacy of the great designers who sought to push back the boundaries of letterforms. Beyond historical influences, the production constraints and contexts of use are constantly changing. The way that each type designer assimilates their influences and projects themselves into an original context leads to the emergence of new issues and new research.
As with every other design project, before starting I need to appropriate the context and understand the issues involved. I seek to develop formal responses that are anchored in the associated constraints. Then, little by little I refine my sketches through a process of iteration, which consists of working simultaneously on an individual point of view of the letterform and within the overall nature of the typeface. I particularly like this work of experimentation in which one must work on a level of detail while not losing sight of its impact within the type color, doing this until a balance, an equilibrium, a satisfying response is obtained.
They are both intimately linked. In my historical references I have often sought to understand the technical context of typeface design and this is a great source of inspiration to me. But though my Service Designer side feels comfortable with the exercise of responding to a particular need, I also have another more instinctive side that feeds off the formal and cultural aspects of the history of typography, not focusing too much on technique. To be honest, this relationship can be somewhat conflictual: moving forward while holding on to what has been left behind, having a technical and historical framework while simultaneously trying to move beyond it. For me this is the essential mission of a designer, irrespective of the field in which they work.
I like the idea of being represented by a French foundry, as I learned everything that I know about type design in France and from French teachers. I also identify with the fact that 205TF is a business that operates on a human scale and one that represents independent designers. Ultimately the determining factor in my decision was the quality of the work of the range of designers that makes up the 205TF catalogue.
I think that typography can be quite powerful in the manner in which it conditions the reader and thus plays a key role in the transmission of messages, in the learning process and in the various aspects of this close connection that written language has with humanity. However it is doubtlessly through articulation with other disciplines that typography can provide its greatest contribution to the world.
For the last two years I have occasionally taught in the Gobelins, working with Design et Management de l’Innovation Interactive master students in workshops and on specific subjects related to Service Design. I have also begun to work with students who are writing their dissertations and also participate in teaching panels to whom the students present their work.
It is truly rewarding to be able to place one’s experience in the service of young people who are in the process of defining themselves as future designers. In reality transmission is a two way street. For my part I find it highly stimulating to be in contact with them and to explore the subjects that drive them in their work.
I am currently working on a book of typographic illustrations that compare French and Portuguese expressions. It will be the second publication in the collection that I began in 2019 with Loufoquerie, in collaboration with Cássia D’Elia.
For me this project is a way of creating a dialogue between my passions for typography, Graphic Design and languages.
Alice Savoie
After a Baccalaureate in Applied Arts followed by a degree in visual communication at the Ésaa Duperré in Paris, my initiation to typography really began at the École Estienne. There I learned the basics in calligraphy and typeface design with Franck Jalleau, Michel Derre, Margaret Gray... Previously I had been lucky enough to meet teachers who were passionate about typography, like Hervé Aracil at Duperré, who had already transmitted their enthusiasm for the subject to me.
I then continued my education in the UK, with a Master in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, graduating in 2007. I then worked as a Typeface Designer for Monotype for a number of years before starting my own practice in 2010. I also embarked on historical research with a PhD at the University of Reading, which I completed in 2014.
My influences are quite diverse. I like to draw on historical sources (with a sweet spot for type specimens from French foundries from the end of the 19th century). I am instinctively drawn to typefaces that tell a story, that create a unique vibration. Cyrus Highsmith, Laura Meseguer, Alejandro Lo Celso and Frantisek Storm are among the contemporary typeface designers that I admire for example. They have the common trait of developing a singular typographic style, each one in a very different tone but always with great mastery.
Typeface designers often use the analogy of the chair, or the garment, to justify the fact of designing new typefaces: there are already many type families in existence, some more classical, some more fashionable; some tend to be functional and others are more ornamental, archetypal or unique… But like for any design object, it is always necessary to renew existing forms in order to respond to the needs and the spirit of a time. Moving beyond this analogy, typefaces are fundamental tools for communication, and in that respect they have to respond to certain technical requirements and cultural needs, which are constantly evolving. It is therefore up to the type designer to identify these evolutions, in order to propose meaningful typographical tools to users.
Generally the process depends on the nature of the project. My design process varies depending whether it is a third party commission or a self-initiated project. A lot of my personal work is inspired by historical forms, or find qn origin in handwriting. I generally have a need to appropriate these forms and to bring them to maturity through drawing by hand, although digitization does arrive very early on in my process. Both approaches nourish each other in parallel. I generally work on the development of “the DNA” of a typeface, by developing a restricted set of letters, this way I can explore different leads before settling on the most convincing one to then extend my set of letters.
Having embarked on a PhD in type history with a subject that takes a very close interest in the development of 20th century typesetting technologies, these two topics are definitely at the heart of my preoccupations. Understanding where letterforms, and the typographical tools that we manipulate, come from, is for me an essential element of my type design practice. This has allowed me to develop a critical point of view regarding the design processes that we put into place. It is not a matter of a logic of “recycling” of typographical forms, but rather to put different eras into perspective so as to better understand the context in which we practice typeface design today.
Typography remains an essential tool for communication and the circulation of knowledge, and in this it seems that it has an important role to play in our societies. It may not save the world, but it can certainly allow the world to communicate more easily. Projects such as Noto, run by Google or “Missing Scripts” that we are developing at the ANRT in partnership with the Universities of Mainz and Berkeley are moving in that direction. This seems to me to be a good start.
You teach at Atelier national de recherche typographique and Écal in Lausanne. Why does this role of transmission seem important to you?
Art schools provide an extremely rich and stimulating environment. The students arrive with their personalities, their intuitions, their curiosity and their experiences, and it is extremely stimulating to work with them. I think that my idea of teaching becomes tangible more-so in the exchanges rather than in transmission as such, even though, of course, I do accompany the students, sometimes guiding them and sharing my experience and my skills with them, particularly in typeface design.
The ANRT is a particular case as we have been developing a number of research projects in typography in partnership with laboratories that operate in very different fields such as linguistics, computer sciences, egyptology… These projects have a prospective dimension and lead us to answering questions that we haven't necessarily been faced with before now, and to developing specific ways of working. This research dimension implies that we are all constantly learning, whether speaking of our students or the teaching staff. It is a privileged work environment for the researcher and typeface designer that I am.
I am working on a new typeface family loosely inspired by Linotype’s legibility group, a series of metal typefaces from the Twentieth century that was aimed at newspaper composition. But right now a significant part of my time is occupied by a research project entitled ‘Women in Type’, which is a historical study of women’s contribution to typographical drawing offices. This is a research project based at the University of Reading, and there are three of us in the team: Prof. Fiona Ross, Dr. Helena Lekka, and myself.
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As if to affirm its originality, this character is developed in two styles: sans serif and serif. This character, a priori used for titles, reveals itself to function particularly well when it is used in small bodies.
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The Black Eyed Peas Experience dance game brings BEP's music, moves and style to gamers. It features fun dance moves as well as hit songs from The Black Eyed Peas multi-platinum selling albums. This Wii game features play comparable to Ubisoft's hit Just Dance titles -- with easy-to-play movements of the Wii Remote, gamers can follow the moves of the The Black Eyed Peas' on-screen avatars.
The Black Eyed Peas Experience takes that concept even further, and features a comprehensive selection of The Black Eyed Peas hit music tracks as well as dance routines arranged by the group's famed creative director and choreographer, Fatima Robinson.
Start the party in your own home with the world's most popular pop group in the world's coolest new dance game. The Black Eyed Peas Experience includes 30 explosive tracks from The Black Eyed Peas, including the greatest hits that they yielded worldwide success! Enter iconic dance moves on the part of Apl.de.ap, Fergie, Taboo and Will.I.Am. Professional choreography is specially developed for the group. Take the group on tour around the world and experience the energy and memorable venues from the video clips and shows. The Black Eyed Peas Experience is the ultimate dance game and the ultimate way to get the party popping.
Get the party started: Transform your living room into the ultimate party experience with 25 chart topping tracks from the world’s hottest group, The Black Eyed Peas, including all their record-breaking hits from The Beginning, The E.N.D., Monkey Business and Elephunk
Rock Your Body: Feel the beat and rock the hottest dance moves in 25 exclusive choreographies developed in collaboration with The Black Eyed Peas’ creative director and professional choreographer, Fatima Robinson
Get the full multiplayer experience: Dance with up to 4 friends at the same time and get a group score to reach the next level together or face-off against your friends in competitive dance battles
Take the Party Worldwide: Travel around the globe with The Black Eyed Peas and party in locations inspired by the group’s shows and music videos
Get into it: Get into the music through will.i.am’s groundbreaking productions, Fergie’s melodies, Taboo’s electro vibes and apl.de.ap’s lyrical beats. Use the on-screen lyrics for the full experience.
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Ray J Robert served his country in World War II with the 485th Bombardment Group .
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The True Sign
"Again He went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis." Mark 7:31, R. V.
It was in the region of Decapolis that the demoniacs of Gergesa had been healed. Here the people, alarmed at the destruction of the swine, had constrained Jesus to depart from among them. But they had listened to the messengers He left behind, and a desire was aroused to see Him. As He came again into that region, a crowd gathered about Him, and a deaf, stammering man was brought to Him. Jesus did not, according to His custom, restore the man by a word only. Taking him apart from the multitude, He put His fingers in his ears, and touched his tongue; looking up to heaven, He sighed at thought of the ears that would not be open to the truth, the tongues that refused to acknowledge the Redeemer. At the word, "Be opened," the man's speech was restored, and, disregarding the command to tell no man, he published abroad the story of his cure.
Jesus went up into a mountain, and there the multitude flocked to Him, bringing their sick and lame, and laying them at His feet. He healed them all; and the people, heathen as they were, glorified the God of Israel. For three days they continued to throng about the Saviour, sleeping at night in the open air, and through the day pressing eagerly to hear the words of Christ, and to see His works. At the end of three days their food was spent. Jesus would not send them away hungry, and He called upon His disciples to give them food. Again the disciples revealed their unbelief. At Bethsaida they had seen how, with Christ's blessing, their little store availed for the feeding of the multitude; yet they did not now bring forward their all, trusting His power to multiply it for the hungry crowds. Moreover, those whom He fed at Bethsaida were Jews; these were Gentiles and heathen. Jewish prejudice was still strong in the hearts of the disciples, and they answered Jesus, "Whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?" But obedient to His word they brought Him what they had,--seven loaves and two fishes. The multitude were fed, seven large baskets of fragments remaining. Four thousand men, besides women and children, were thus refreshed, and Jesus sent them away with glad and grateful hearts.
Then taking a boat with His disciples, He crossed the lake to Magdala, at the southern end of the plain of Gennesaret. In the border of Tyre and Sidon His spirit had been refreshed by the confiding trust of the Syrophoenician woman. The heathen people of Decapolis had received Him with gladness. Now as He landed once more in Galilee, where His power had been most strikingly manifested, where most of His works of mercy had been performed, and His teaching given, He was met with contemptuous unbelief.
A deputation of Pharisees had been joined by representatives from the rich and lordly Sadducees, the party of the priests, the skeptics and aristocracy of the nation. The two sects had been at bitter enmity. The Sadducees courted the favor of the ruling power in order to maintain their own position and authority. The Pharisees, on the other hand, fostered the popular hatred against the Romans, longing for the time when they could throw off the yoke of the conqueror. But Pharisee and Sadducee now united against Christ. Like seeks like; and evil, wherever it exists, leagues with evil for the destruction of the good.
Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Christ, asking for a sign from heaven. When in the days of Joshua Israel went out to battle with the Canaanites at Bethhoron, the sun had stood still at the leader's command until victory was gained; and many similar wonders had been manifest in their history. Some such sign was demanded of Jesus. But these signs were not what the Jews needed. No mere external evidence could benefit them. What they needed was not intellectual enlightenment, but spiritual renovation.
"O ye hypocrites," said Jesus, "ye can discern the face of the sky,"--by studying the sky they could foretell the weather,--"but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" Christ's own words, spoken with the power of the Holy Spirit that convicted them of sin, were the sign that God had given for their salvation. And signs direct from heaven had been given to attest the mission of Christ. The song of the angels to the shepherds, the star that guided the wise men, the dove and the voice from heaven at His baptism, were witnesses for Him.
"And He sighed deeply in His spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign?" "There shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas." As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, Christ was to be the same time "in the heart of the earth." And as the preaching of Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so Christ's preaching was a sign to His generation. But what a contrast in the reception of the word! The people of the great heathen city trembled as they heard the warning from God. Kings and nobles humbled themselves; the high and the lowly together cried to the God of heaven, and His mercy was granted unto them. "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation," Christ had said, "and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." Matthew 12:40, 41.
Every miracle that Christ performed was a sign of His divinity. He was doing the very work that had been foretold of the Messiah; but to the Pharisees these works of mercy were a positive offense. The Jewish leaders looked with heartless indifference on human suffering. In many cases their selfishness and oppression had caused the affliction that Christ relieved. Thus His miracles were to them a reproach.
That which led the Jews to reject the Saviour's work was the highest evidence of His divine character. The greatest significance of His miracles is seen in the fact that they were for the blessing of humanity. The highest evidence that He came from God is that His life revealed the character of God. He did the works and spoke the words of God. Such a life is the greatest of all miracles.
When the message of truth is presented in our day, there are many who, like the Jews, cry, Show us a sign. Work us a miracle. Christ wrought no miracle at the demand of the Pharisees. He wrought no miracle in the wilderness in answer to Satan's insinuations. He does not impart to us power to vindicate ourselves or to satisfy the demands of unbelief and pride. But the gospel is not without a sign of its divine origin. Is it not a miracle that we can break from the bondage of Satan? Enmity against Satan is not natural to the human heart; it is implanted by the grace of God. When one who has been controlled by a stubborn, wayward will is set free, and yields himself wholeheartedly to the drawing of God's heavenly agencies, a miracle is wrought; so also when a man who has been under strong delusion comes to understand moral truth. Every time a soul is converted, and learns to love God and keep His commandments, the promise of God is fulfilled, "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you." Ezekiel 36:26. The change in human hearts, the transformation of human characters, is a miracle that reveals an ever-living Saviour, working to rescue souls. A consistent life in Christ is a great miracle. In the preaching of the word of God, the sign that should be manifest now and always is the presence of the Holy Spirit, to make the word a regenerating power to those that hear. This is God's witness before the world to the divine mission of His Son.
Those who desired a sign from Jesus had so hardened their hearts in unbelief that they did not discern in His character the likeness of God. They would not see that His mission was in fulfillment of the Scriptures. In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Jesus said to the Pharisees, "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." Luke 16:31. No sign that could be given in heaven or earth would benefit them.
Jesus "sighed deeply in His spirit," and, turning from the group of cavilers, re-entered the boat with His disciples. In sorrowful silence they again crossed the lake. They did not, however, return to the place they had left, but directed their course toward Bethsaida, near where the five thousand had been fed. Upon reaching the farther side, Jesus said, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." The Jews had been accustomed since the days of Moses to put away leaven from their houses at the Passover season, and they had thus been taught to regard it as a type of sin. Yet the disciples failed to understand Jesus. In their sudden departure from Magdala they had forgotten to take bread, and they had with them only one loaf. To this circumstance they understood Christ to refer, warning them not to buy bread of a Pharisee or a Sadducee. Their lack of faith and spiritual insight had often led them to similar misconception of His words. Now Jesus reproved them for thinking that He who had fed thousands with a few fishes and barley loaves could in that solemn warning have referred merely to temporal food. There was danger that the crafty reasoning of the Pharisees and the Sadducees would leaven His disciples with unbelief, causing them to think lightly of the works of Christ.
The disciples were inclined to think that their Master should have granted the demand for a sign in the heavens. They believed that He was fully able to do this, and that such a sign would put His enemies to silence. They did not discern the hypocrisy of these cavilers.
Months afterward, "when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another," Jesus repeated the same teaching. "He began to say unto His disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." Luke 12:1.
The leaven placed in the meal works imperceptibly, changing the whole mass to its own nature. So if hypocrisy is allowed to exist in the heart, it permeates the character and the life. A striking example of the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, Christ had already rebuked in denouncing the practice of "Corban," by which a neglect of filial duty was concealed under a pretense of liberality to the temple. The scribes and Pharisees were insinuating deceptive principles. They concealed the real tendency of their doctrines, and improved every occasion to instill them artfully into the minds of their hearers. These false principles, when once accepted, worked like leaven in the meal, permeating and transforming the character. It was this deceptive teaching that made it so hard for the people to receive the words of Christ.
The same influences are working today through those who try to explain the law of God in such a way as to make it conform to their practices. This class do not attack the law openly, but put forward speculative theories that undermine its principles. They explain it so as to destroy its force.
The hypocrisy of the Pharisees was the product of self-seeking. The glorification of themselves was the object of their lives. It was this that led them to pervert and misapply the Scriptures, and blinded them to the purpose of Christ's mission. This subtle evil even the disciples of Christ were in danger of cherishing. Those who classed themselves with the followers of Jesus, but who had not left all in order to become His disciples, were influenced in a great degree by the reasoning of the Pharisees. They were often vacillating between faith and unbelief, and they did not discern the treasures of wisdom hidden in Christ. Even the disciples, though outwardly they had left all for Jesus' sake, had not in heart ceased to seek great things for themselves. It was this spirit that prompted the strife as to who should be greatest. It was this that came between them and Christ, making them so little in sympathy with His mission of self-sacrifice, so slow to comprehend the mystery of redemption. As leaven, if left to complete its work, will cause corruption and decay, so does the self-seeking spirit, cherished, work the defilement and ruin of the soul.
Among the followers of our Lord today, as of old, how widespread is this subtle, deceptive sin! How often our service to Christ, our communion with one another, is marred by the secret desire to exalt self! How ready the thought of self-gratulation, and the longing for human approval! It is the love of self, the desire for an easier way than God has appointed that leads to the substitution of human theories and traditions for the divine precepts. To His own disciples the warning words of Christ are spoken, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees."
The religion of Christ is sincerity itself. Zeal for God's glory is the motive implanted by the Holy Spirit; and only the effectual working of the Spirit can implant this motive. Only the power of God can banish self-seeking and hypocrisy. This change is the sign of His working. When the faith we accept destroys selfishness and pretense, when it leads us to seek God's glory and not our own, we may know that it is of the right order. "Father, glorify Thy name" (John 12:28), was the keynote of Christ's life, and if we follow Him, this will be the keynote of our life. He commands us to "walk, even as He walked;" and "hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments." 1 John 2:6, 3.
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About MORRIS KING, JR.: Black, Pro Tennis Coach and World Class!
Is The World Ready For This???
(protennisexpose.net)
AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE EXPOSÉ ABOUT RACIST DIRTY DOINGS IN PRO TENNIS
Against One Of The World's Best-Ever Tennis Coaches
Whose Existence Is Being Purposely Hidden
(Originally released Dec. 1999; Updated December 14, 2013)
"If blacks take over coaching like everybody wants them to,
there is not going to be anything left for the white people."
~ former CBS Sports commentator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder (1988)
CURRENT STATUS: No changes, corrections or justice for Coach King to date.
If the world is ready, then why is black world class tennis coach Morris King, Jr., of Jacksonville, Florida, who assisted Richard Williams with Venus' rise in the WTA world rankings from #89 to #10 in 1 year, and with Serena's unprecedented 7 month rise to #30, having such a difficult time in tennis?
Is it because he shaves his head? I THINK NOT!
Why is Morris King, Jr. NOT a hometown (Jacksonville) hero, and why did Jim Nasella, then-sports editor of the local newspaper, The Florida Times-"Onion" (officially Union; but it is called the "Onion" because when you read it, it makes you want to cry), "blackball" him and refer to him as a "fake" since the original articles, when that very same newspaper broke the story of his having been asked to coach the Williams sisters with an exclusive interview with Richard Williams (click here for the 4/8/97 Florida Times-Union article)? (That interview still remains the ONLY interview that Richard Williams has given to a member of the press regarding another coach coaching his famed daughters. Neither Macci, Bollettieri, Reneberg or any others can make the same claim.)
This is the same newspaper that for two months in 1991 HID the extreme, anti-black, racially derogatory statements and insults of a racist circuit court chief judge named John Santora; statements made during an interview with "Onion" reporter Robin Lowenthal (10/91, finally published 12/22/91), that eventually led to the judge's removal by the Florida Supreme Court.
And, it is the same "rag", that came under fire in January 2000 for insensitively editorializing that slavery was short lived, no different than the circumstances of other cultures and of little consequence (T-U, January 10, 2000). Onion editor in chief Patrick Yack issued a rather stoicly unapologetic apology in February, that summarily indicated that all was okay because the black community didn't riot (apparently his sign of domestic tranquility and acceptance).
What does it mean when an organized group of "UNACCOMPLISHED" Jacksonville area country club tennis instructors (acting similarly to the Ku Klux Klan), such as Danny Witt (USPTA, NFPTA - United States Professional Tennis Association, North Florida Professional Tennis Association member), formerly of Queen's Harbor CC and now Tennis Director for Deerwood CC (also the United States Tennis Association (USTA) area training center head coach, along with being on staff with Todd Martin Tennis); Louis Ballantyne (USPTA, NFPTA member) of Florida Yacht Club (which, in recent past history, disallowed black membership); and Barry Curley (USPTA, NFPTA member) of Marsh Landing CC (to name only a few that there are witnesses against), have been able to successfully implement an economic "blackballing" of Morris King, Jr., dating back as far as 1993 when "calling campaigns" were begun, by defaming him to whites (and anyone else who would give an ear) in the tennis community merely by playing the "race card" and by spreading vicious lies & rumors in order to keep people from doing business with Morris, which includes former Florida junior player and former University of South Carolina standout Danielle Wiggins (now Head Coach, Jacksonville Bolles School through Todd Martin Tennis - a high school, by the way, that refused to hire world class coach Morris King Jr. to be its Head Tennis Coach, some time ago, but saw fit to hire his former student in Wiggins) and her mother, Ingrid, who left Morris and joined in on the verbal assaults, and were rewarded with grants and other monies every year subsequently, including non-performance related tennis honors, from sources heavily influenced or controlled by the "clique" boys?
Their slander even drifted all the way to the offices of the Florida Times-Onion.
Joining the blackballing was Onion tennis reporter Chase Goodbread, who was tested 3 times in less than a year, prior to March 2000, in refusing to report anything about Morris King, Jr., including tournament results for his students and tennis events that were submitted. However, Goodbread did not fail to publicize his favorites, Witt and Ballantyne (who was falsely given credit for Wiggins' powerful groundstrokes), when called upon to do so. In fact, the Onion published "feature" stories on these two, attached to NO significant event, 5/7/99 & 10/17/99, respectively, with Goodbread having written the latter.
Why have people in Jacksonville's tennis community (and others) favored "rooty poot" country club tennis instructors over Jacksonville's 1ST world class tennis coach?
I know the answer to this one. It's because country club tennis instructors are better simply because they are located at the country club. They don't have to produce at a world class level; the "silver spoon" in their mouths and their skin color (if they are white) automatically produce for them, although NO ONE can find the results or proof.
Yet, they aren't being blackballed and called "fake" by the racist dogs down at the Onion or by Jacksonville's tennis community on a continuous day to day, year to year basis.
What did it mean when the famed teaching pros at the ATP Tour headquarters' tennis club in May '96 attempted to STEAL one of Morris King, Jr.'s nationally ranked foreign juniors, the Bosnian born muslim Amer Delic (now a former ATP Tour pro and current Director of Tennis at The Polo Club in Austin, Texas), by giving the, then, junior player over $700 (that's right, $700) worth of ATP Tour gear and merchandise as well as to have sent the ATP Tour's chauffeur driven car for the, then, 14 year old Bosnian kid?
No other tennis coaches have had to deal with an attack against them utilizing the vast resources of the ATP Tour as a weapon and with such lack of ethics from the ATP Tour's club personnel, which included Brian Gottfried (as of early 2000, the former general manager of the ATP Tour club and now one of the heads of Todd Martin Tennis) and Ricardo Acuna (United States Professional Tennis Registry (USPTR) member, a former USTA Player Development senior coach, and now a staff coach at the Evert Academy).
ATP Tour officials not only refused to discipline their personnel but also refused to respond to Morris' written complaint, including a refusal to respond to his phone calls, specifically Flip Galloway, then the ATP's Chief Financial Officer (later COO) and supervisor of Gottfried and Acuna.
(Eventually they got Delic and did little with him in comparison. Also, Delic joined in on the slanderous lies against Morris; even having claimed that Morris never taught him, and therefore was not responsible for his powerful serve (among other things). Delic, apparently, forgot that those sessions were videotaped. He concocted an incredible lie that his Bosnian coaches taught him the serve technique when he was a child and told him that he would grow into the serve, when ALL witnesses confirmed that Delic had NO flat or slice serves when he arrived in America. (See update note at bottom as well as the "Amer Delic Coach Controversy" photo page HERE))
It is important to note that former ATP Tour club assistant teaching pro Bret Hinman, who is white, was fired by Gottfried (at the urging of Ricardo Acuna) when he went and trained with Morris King, Jr. while still working at the Tour's club. The excuse given was that Hinman had attempted to steal students from the club. Hinman said that he chose Morris because he considered Morris the best available, especially after having seen the others coach, weighed against Morris' track record of producing national and world class players. Hinman added that the ATP Tour club had been sold to the YMCA because of its financial woes and therefore parents were looking for places to relocate their kids for tennis lessons. Accordingly, WHEN ASKED for a recommendation, he gave one because the ATP Tour club was closing, in keeping with the much publicized deal. And yes, it was to train with Morris King, Jr. (AFTER the change, the YMCA mysteriously stepped away from the deal citing irreconcilable differences)
To date, Hinman has been effectively forced out of tennis. But, on the other side, Gottfried (for all scholars of metaphysics that can understand this revelation), ironically, has been proven to be the dragon's obvious choice to ROB black tennis coaches of opportunities, once having been deceptively manuevered or finagled into position as one of 4-5 simultaneous (white) coaches of black, pro tennis player Alexandra Stevenson. And remember that he, also, coached MaliVai Washington, a former touring pro who also is black.
Additionally, Gottfried was given yet another opportunity to coach by having been called in to work with much heralded junior player Ashley Harkleroad (who is white), who had been dubbed as "America's Anna (Kournikova)". No matter what Gottfried does to people (or does not do as a coach), the USTA, its representatives (like his USTA player development or "high performance" coach "sidekick" Ricardo Acuna) and its allies seem to always find more and more opportunities for him. Even, to date, Todd Martin Tennis has provided an opportunity for him!
How interesting and ironic considering that no one has been able to find just one (1)... one out of millions of opportunities... for an exceptional talent, mentality and coach as Morris King, Jr.
Perhaps if Morris had been a convicted pedophile, like ex-con Dr. Pete Fisher (a former Sampras coach in juniors), he would have been given the opportunity to coach a number of tennis students and pros such as Justin Gimelstob, Vince Spadea and (yet again) Alexandra Stevenson, as the ex-con Fisher had been able to do since having been released from prison.
And as it relates to the international or world tennis community, why have the player agents of such tennis management agencies as the International Management Group (IMG), Octagon Athlete Representation (formerly Advantage International), SFX/Marquee (formerly Pro Serv), B.E.S.T. and Lagardere Unlimited refused to recommend Morris King, Jr. to their clients over lesser accomplished white coaches when vacancies arise; or, over those "happily" RECYCLED coaches that everyone loves to re-hire after repeated dismissals, over and over and over? This peculiar illogic dictates that the more these coaches are released or fired, the greater their experience level and hence their value to the game, i.e. the number of terminations, now, means the opposite of what it does for everyone else in the working world.
Is it because there's a "good ol' boy" system in tennis that stereotypes blacks? You know, "it's not their sport".
Finally, why is it that if a white coach was even remotely tied to the success of, not 1, but, 2 superstar pro tennis players that that coach would have been in great demand in direct contrast to the treatment that world class tennis coach Morris King, Jr. has had to endure?
Even, why hasn't the "national governing body of tennis", the USTA, attempted to hire Morris, itself, considering his tennis ability and accomplishments along with his educational (the Ivy League Columbia University) and professional backgrounds & experience (see his website that is linked below for his biographical highlights)? Also, it is important to question, at least, the subliminal message that the USTA is sending by NOT having distanced itself from those perpetrators indicated herein that have positions within that organization; they haven't been investigated, chastised, asked to resign or fired for their unscrupulous, counterproductive and racist actions.
Is this a silent sanctioning by tennis' equivalent to the KKK? The USTA has hired, promoted or financed, respectively, any coach or player that has taken an active role against Morris King, Jr., e.g. Gottfried, Acuna, Witt, Delic, Wiggins et al. Also, are we now seeing Todd Martin Tennis pick up where the USTA left off, by hiring those that are guilty of having attacked or actively worked against Morris? Todd Martin Tennis even has hired two of Morris' former top ranked students, in Wiggins (mentioned above) and Liana (Aguero) McCormack. Hmmmmm...
And with all of this being a microcosm of the greater picture in tennis, is there yet still a question about why tennis is not as prominent as the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball or even golf?
Yet, the dragon keeps protecting these demonic perpetrators by denying Morris King, Jr. access to any good players, so that no one in the general public will be able to compare actual and visible coaching skill levels and results. Is the dragon afraid that his prize picks will be shown up by Morris?
Then there's Morris' alma mater, the ever football winning University of Florida, who in 2001 had both men's and women's tennis team coach positions to become open. Morris applied for both positions and was the ONLY world class tennis coach to apply. Morris didn't get even an interview from AD Jeremy Foley! (It's interesting to note that years later, Foley would actually hire one of Morris' former students, Amer Delic, as a men's tennis team coach)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you attempt to cut off or sabotage a person's income or money in this economic system, you are attempting to destroy that person's ability to feed, house and clothe themself and/or their family. Therefore, you are attempting to murder that person or those persons.
Now then, who will prosecute this form of attempted murder; this form of "racial terrorism"? NO ONE (and they know that)! Everyone continues to practice the aryan protocol that says "you've got to go along, in order to get along".
When victims like these begin to strike back, non-violently or violently, in order to fight for their RIGHT to exist and survive as well as for their RIGHT to live life to its fullest, NO ONE should complain or utter the slightest disparaging remark or denunciation. Additionally, everyone must acknowledge that NO affirmative action programs are involved here; just "hard work" that is being sabotaged by those that oppose affirmative remedies as constituting "reverse discrimination". So what message does the sabotage of a black man's hard work send? Morris is not looking for a social program or a hand-out! So now, what 's the next excuse?
This exposé, since its inception, has met nothing better than sheer indifference. To date, NO individual or organization has made any effort to correct any of this, including the "Onion", the ATP Tour, the USTA and the United States Department of Justice. Morris even petitioned the United Nations for a hearing before the International Court of Justice as well as having filed an official complaint with the UN Human Rights Commission for violations of articles 1, 2(b,c,e), 3 - 6 of the UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and articles 2, 3, 5 & 6 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Be forewarned to remember the scientific law: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction".
"Black, Pro Tennis Coach and World Class!
Is The World Ready For This?
Obviously NOT!!!
Many readers of this exposé, I'm sure, will delve into the mysterious depths of psychological denial. To them, I say, "Get Well Soon!" This exposé is IN NO WAY intended to deride or castigate white people or any other demographic group as a whole. Instead, it IS intended to attack those whose malfeasance have gone unchecked, undenounced and/or supported in whole or in part.
All major individuals, organizations, tennis management agencies, local & national media, national news, sports & tennis publications and TV news journals/shows as well as governing groups, organizations & bodies (including the USTA and the US Department of Justice), that have reviewed this exposé, remain indifferent, utilizing Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1967 "Kerner Commission Report" recommendation of "benign neglect" in the handling of race related (black) dissension; the same type of shocking neglect that apparently was applied towards New Orleans' black citizens during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Subsequently, nothing positive or "just" has happened for Morris and he continues to NOT be able to get pro players to hire him or local competitive tennis students or any other tennis jobs. The above referenced are ALL precipitators and catalysts of social unrest and potential, violent discord.
(Noteworthy, Amer Delic, indicated above, won the 2003 NCAA Men's Singles Championship in his 3rd year at the University of Illinois. Ironically, Delic, at 14 years old and while being coached by Morris, was beating up on NCAA division I players. In fact, Delic, under Morris' tutelage, was the ONLY 14 year old in the boys 16s draw of the renowned Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, where now-veteran pro Marat Safin was the #2 seed and long-running #1 ATP ranked Roger Federer failed to make the draw. Yet 6 years later an NCAA championship is heralded as progress? On June 19, 2003, Florida Times-Onion sports writer Gene Frenette wrote a page and a half article on Delic's championship and life, yet indicated ONLY the white coaches, with the highly questionable ethical practices listed above, as keys to Delic's development. There was no mention by Frenette and the Onion of the lone black tennis coach that yielded the most prolific and prodigious results in Delic's tennis life. Morris says "Amer should have been completing his 6th year as a pro, competing against the likes of Safin, Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick; not still working towards defeating Division I players. That's not development or progress for a person who already had accomplished that at the young age of 14".)
Morris King, Jr. continues his marketing efforts utilizing his excellent, "award-winning" website for his MAGIAN WORLD CLASS TENNIS (magian10S.com). (Incidentally, the Florida Times-Onion, in January 2001, refused or failed to list Morris' award-winning website in its ".(dot) com" directory, which gave free listings to Jacksonville area websites. In April 2001, they finally included it.)
And if all of this isn't enough, in May 2004, the E! Network broadcast a show entitled "The E! True Hollywood Story: The Williams Sisters" where the show attempted to suggest subliminally that the sisters' success was due to whites, as E! only interviewed white coaches... a purely white supremacy based inference. Of course, Morris (or any other black coach) was not mentioned in the slightest as having contributed.
Morris says that "that was a malicious attempt by E! to defraud the public through the use of artful concealment, as defined in law. The trick even involved calling it "True"."
"Exclusive Interview with Williams Sisters Ex-Coach: Racism in USTA (and Pro Tennis) Coach Hiring" (December 2011)
Morris King,Jr.'s Interview on BlackTennisPros.com (May 2008): Part 1 Part 2 Q & A
PRESS RELEASE - PRACTICE OF HIDING BLACK PRO TENNIS COACHES ATTACKED!: Tennis Week Magazine and ESPN Assailed (March 2007)
PRESS RELEASE - TENNIS WEEK MAG ACCUSED OF FOSTERING RACISM: Pro Tennis Coach Responds to Delic Lies In Interview By Tennis Week (February 2007)
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Conducted by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the NISVS was the first national survey to look at intimate partner violence (IPV) in lesbian, gay, and bisexual relationships. \"It's important to be aware that it's happening here in Austin too,\" Crumrine adds.\nFindings show that bisexual women are at the highest risk: 61% have experienced some form of physical violence, rape, and/or stalking, while 44% of lesbians have suffered some form of partner abuse. Bisexual cisgender men experience IPV at a rate of 38%, which is similar to that of heterosexual women (35%). Heterosexual (29%) and gay (26%) men reportedly suffered the least from IPV. The NISVS only looked at the LGB community, and large-scale numbers reflecting what IPV looks like within the transgender community are hard – if not impossible – to come by.\nThe survey has slowly been gaining traction in organizations working to end domestic violence.\n\"We're working to cover more LGBT topics – specifically intimate partner violence,\" says Crumrine about APD's training curriculum. \"But adding to the syllabus is a process. It won't just happen overnight. I'm hoping that within the year we'll have more of a focus on these issues.\" Once approved for cadet training, the LGPOA will lead the sections on queer violence.\nThe need for queer-specific IPV and sexual assault training might not be apparent to everyone, but Crumrine and Erin Goodison, the director of Supportive Housing for SafePlace, are clear that the issue needs to be specifically addressed. \"There are a lot of aspects that are unique to the LGBT community,\" says Crumrine, citing everything from the way mainstream society visualizes domestic violence (male aggressor, female victim), to the fear of being outed by either an abusive partner or a police report.\n\"Part of understanding the difference is recognizing the way [America] looks at intimate partner violence,\" says Crumrine. \"When it happens in a same-gender relationship, it's hard for us to wrap our minds around, because in lesbian relationships we don't look at women as aggressors. With men, and the trans community, we have a difficult time establishing an aggressor. As a society, we do a good job of preparing women to be victims, but we don't warn men it can happen to them too. So men who've been victimized go through a huge mental processing.\"\nThe often unspoken belief that IPV does not penetrate queer relationships – nor happen to men – is no more than urban myth. \"Violence doesn't happen in healthy LGBT relationships, but we're humans who grow up in a really violent society, so it absolutely does occur in LGBT relationships and can be very hard to address,\" explains Goodison. \"One tactic that seems to come up again and again is the threat that 'Well, no one will help you because you are X or we are Y,' which is sometimes reinforced.\"\nAnd that reinforcement from police officers is exactly what Crumrine and the rest of the LGPOA want to end. In general, IPV is a hugely under-reported crime, and with the aforementioned barriers, seeking help and legal aid can be exponentially more difficult for queer victims. Crumrine, however, believes that with the June 26 passing of nationwide marriage equality, things might start to shift. \"I suspect that ... we'll see an increase in reporting. It's important to remember that it won't mean an increase in violence, but an increase in acceptance and normalization of LGBT relationships.\"\nDue to confidentiality, Goodison could not divulge the number of LGBT clients SafePlace serves, nor do they ask clients to identify their sexual orientation. But they do support the LGBT community – as well as male survivors in general, who, contrary to popular belief, are sheltered on-site. Melinda Cantu, vice president of SafePlace, notes that \"members of the LGBT community often choose to not involve law enforcement and come directly to us,\" so SafePlace could not speak to APD's handling of queer IPV. However, an attorney with Texas Advocacy Project, a statewide nonprofit that offers legal aid to domestic violence victims, recalls a specific case where an officer made a point to respect a transgender victim's correct gender pronouns despite having to use her legal name. \"The officer treated them as a legally married couple and handled the case exactly as he would've handled a heterosexual couple,\" says the attorney, who chose to remain anonymous. \"Victims often are quick to let us know if they felt the police were disrespectful. All in all, I remember this victim being quite satisfied with her experience with APD, as much as one can be in the situation.\" TAP reports that this year alone they've closed 32 LGBT cases. Already, that's four more than last year, when they closed 28.\nSo even while Austin waits for a more comprehensive same-sex IPV training to come to APD, Crumrine still endorses the city's police force. \"In my experience, APD is sensitive to LGBT issues. Both my organization and APD want people to know that if they need us we're here and we will believe you.\"\nCopyright © 2021 Austin Chronicle Corporation. All rights reserved."
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Chicago economics: From old to new
Conference: Living the Legacy: Chicago Economics through the Years
The notion of a “Chicago School” of economics may have begun with a chance encounter in a Washington, DC delicatessen around 1941. The story of the term’s earliest known mention, unearthed by Steven G. Medema of University of Colorado, Denver and shared at a session of The Legacy of Chicago Economics conference, began when Herbert Stein bumped into Jacob Viner at lunchtime.
Stein was working in the U.S. Office of Price Administration (and would later receive his doctorate in economics from University of Chicago); Viner, who was on the University of Chicago faculty in 1916 and between 1919 and 1946, was working at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Stein later recalled that Viner asked him what he was up to at the time, “I replied, callowly (sic): ‘I’m working at the OPA. They don’t have much use for the Chicago School there.’ To which (Viner) responded: ‘Chicago School, Chicago School! What’s that? I’m not a member of it.’”
From the delicatessen exchange, the term continued its contentious and winding path into everyday use. Between 1942 and 1962, it grew rapidly, garnering many mentions in the economics literature as well as in popular media, such as Fortune magazine. By 1962, “Chicago School” had what Medema called its first “big hit presence” in the economics literature. Henry Johnson, who was then editor of the Journal of Political Economy (and “no friend of the idea of a Chicago School”), published a paper by Laurence Miller of the University of California-Los Angeles. The paper was the “first expansive attempt” to define the Chicago School; Miller argued that the Chicago School was “noteworthy, first and foremost, for its advocacy of a private-enterprise economy and limited government.”
Two dissenting opinions came from Chicago’s own: faculty member George Stigler, PhD’38 and Martin Bronfenbrenner, PhD’39. In comments published with the article, both objected vehemently to Miller’s proposition of a Chicago School. Stigler dismissed it altogether as a useless term; Bronfenbrenner said perhaps there was an earlier school and a later school, but mostly shared Stigler’s view.
In a classic academic plot twist, Medema later discovered that the first two people to ever mention the idea of a Chicago School in the economics literature were none other than George Stigler and Martin Bronfenbrenner. Both mention it in separate articles from 1949. Stigler penned a review of A Survey of Contemporary Economics by Howard Ellis of UC-Berkeley for the Journal of Political Economy. He skewered the book because, he said, “It ignores a big slice of the literature, all the work of the institutionalists, and all the work of the Chicago School, including (Frank) Knight, (Henry) Simons, and Viner.”
Later that same year, Bronfenbrenner used the term four times in a review of the same book for the Journal of Economics and Sociology. He argued that the Chicago School held a basic faith in the effectiveness of the financial system and a dim view of unions, among other characteristics.
Medema’s analysis set the stage for the revelation of a document showing the University of Chicago’s faculty recruiting deliberations. David Mitch of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, discovered a list in the department minutes of the candidates, faculty votes, and tabulations for their 1946 hiring decision to fill Jacob Viner’s empty position after he left for Princeton University —the vote that ended in an offer to Milton Friedman.
Pulled from among the papers of then department chair T.W. Schultz, the minutes show the final order of how faculty ranked each of five candidates to fill Jacob Viner’s empty position after he left for Princeton University: John Hicks, Albert Hart, and classmates Stigler, Friedman, and Paul Samuelson.
Mitch concludes that this ranking, which also included how each faculty member voted, was shaped by a “reasonably clear right versus left split between the two groups in political ideology.” Knight, Simons, Lloyd Mints, and H. Gregg Lewis, who shared a similar free market view, supported Stigler. Marschak and Tjalling Koopmans, who favored government action in fiscal and monetary policy, supported Hicks.
Throughout the deliberations, Friedman was under no illusions about his place in the process. In a letter to Arthur Burns, Friedman wrote, “The stand on me seems to be that there is no one in the department who opposes me, but most everyone would put someone else higher in the priority list.”
Hicks, Mitch concluded, lost out because his candidacy was too divisive within the department. Hart had already committed to Columbia University and was therefore out. The offer would have gone to Stigler, but it was vetoed by the university’s administration, who found him underwhelming. This left Friedman and Samuelson. The university invited Friedman for a well-regarded visit and then invited Samuelson, who was less well received and whose candidacy continued to be divisive within the department. The 1946 offer to join the University of Chicago Department of Economics went to Milton Friedman. He accepted—and the rest is history.
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British consulate employee Simon Cheng released from detention in Shenzhen
By Kirsty Needham
August 24, 2019 — 3.21pm
Beijing: British consulate employee Simon Cheng was released from detention in Shenzhen and returned to his family in Hong Kong on Saturday, 15 days after going missing.
Simon Cheng has been missing for days. Credit:Silk Road EDRC
His release came as Hong Kong subway operator MTR angered protesters by shutting down five subway stations ahead of a planned protest march.
Cheng’s family released a statement saying he had returned to Hong Kong and thanks “everyone for your support”.
“Simon and his family wish to have some time to rest and recover, and will not take any interview for the moment... we will explain more later,” it said.
Chinese state media reported that Shenzhen police had said Cheng was released “after a penalty of 15-day administrative detention for violating the law of the People’s Republic of China”.
The British foreign ministry had expressed its serious concern after Cheng, a trade official who is a Hong Kong citiizen, failed to return to Hong Kong after travelling by train to the neighbouring mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen to attend a one-day event.
The Canadian consulate in Hong Kong banned its local staff from travelling to mainland China after Cheng’s detention.
Chinese state newspaper The Global TImes, which has been leading attacks on Hong Kong companies and western governments over the Hong Kong protests, launched a smear attack on Cheng while he was detained.
His detention came as multiple journalists, as well as Hong Kong citizens, reported having their phones and laptops checked by Chinese officials at the Shenzhen border for photographs of the protests.
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China issued a statement condemning the use of border powers by Chinese authorities to target journalists for search and detention.
In the wake of a front page attack by The Global Times on Friday, Hong Kong’s train operator, MTR, obtained a court injunction against unlawful and wilful obstruction in its railway stations and trains.
In an unprecedented move, MTR on Saturday shut down multiple subway stations in the vicinity of a planned protest march in Kwun Tong. The protest march had been authorised by police.
The organiser of the march, Ventus Lau, told Radio Television Hong Kong: “I think the people will be very angry, and this anger will be targeted towards MTR as well. MTR is trying to suppress the freedom of expression of the people.”
Global Times, which earlier led an attack on airline Cathay Pacific, had chided MTR for facilitating travel by protesters. MTR is majority owned by the Hong Kong government but also has contracts to run subway lines in Beijing and Shenzhen.
MTR said some of its stations had been recently been painted with graffiti by protesters, who had also verbally abused staff on one occasion.
An attack on protesters at the top of an escalator by police using batons, tear gas and rubber bullets inside an MTR station a fortnight ago had drawn public criticism in Hong Kong.
Kirsty Needham
Kirsty Needham is a former China Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Clean, unmarked, tight. Illustrated in black and white. Index. Fold-out map. 13 x 19.5 cm. 318 pp. Item #14062
Ivor Evans, most of whose career was spent as a museum curator in Peninsular Malaysia, was a pioneer in Malaysian ethnography and archeology. It was on this first posting to British North Borneo (now Sabbah and part of Malaysia) in 1910 that the happy idea of devoting his life to studying the cultures of that country first occurred to him, and he fell permanently under the spell of the land and people. He died there in 1957.
Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo, which was published in 1922, encompass ethnographic observation, cultural history and colonial and personal perspectives, but it also doubles as a vivid and enjoyable piece of travel writing. It is written in an unpretentious and frankly subjective style and has all the intimacy of a notebook. Nothing since published on North Borneo quite matches its good-humoured enthusiasm, and Ivor Evans's enchantment with the country of Sabah shines through on almost every page. The reprint is introduced by Dr Brian Durrans of the Museum of Mankind, London.
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Ruth van Beek, or a theatre of archival images
by Sophie Puig
Until May 3, the NContemporary Gallery in Milan features the multitalented Ruth van Beek. The exhibition, entitled How To Do the Flowers, Act II—Rehearsal I,” is designed as an extension of the artist’s oeuvre. It offers a survey of this somewhat Dadaist body of work that straddles photography, painting, and collage.
Rehearsal 1, 2014 © Ruth van Beek and The Ravestijn Gallery
Archival images as raw material
Photographs, old books, advertisements—the photographic archive is Ruth van Beek’s source material. As she has explained on numerous occasions, her approach consists in perusing vintage images (books, manuals, etc.), taking them out of their context, and assembling them in a new setting, most often against a colored background. Dealing with forms, colors, and materials, her work appears to transcend photography and collage and take a cue from sculpture. Van Beek’s compositions create depth, opening up a new dimension. Sometimes called surrealist, her productions are above all abstractions constructed around notions of space and time.
Rehearsal 1, 2014, vue d'exposition © Ruth van Beek and The Ravestijn Gallery
A theater of recovered images
As she works in the archives, the artist looks above all for “the animate and the inanimate, reality and fiction, the past and the now.” Her approach is driven by the desire to capture the hidden essence of well-known but forgotten images in order to give them a second, abstract and poetic, life. In an interview devoted to It’s Nice That in 2018, she compares her work process to a mise-en-scène: the colored backdrop is like the stage and the shapes are the actors. As she puts it again in an interview given to Self Publish, Be Happy: “I am interested in the way the human mind can read images on a subconscious level. How the meaning of images changes when they are combined with other images.”
The desire to breathe new life into images has led to individual works as well as books (thus coming the full circle). The exhibition, built in resonance with van Beek’s publication How To Do the Flowers, forges a dialog between the two mutually reinforcing formats in order to better take advantage of the idea of re-entry into circulation.
Ruth van Beek’s work nudges us toward reflection on our own capacity to sort, manage, and finally to sublimate the flux of images we absorb on a daily basis. As Marc Valli aptly puts it in issue 26 of the Foam Magazine: “We are living through a period of ‘cultural global warming’ in which an excess of information in our atmosphere is condemning all manner of experience to early, almost instantaneous extinction; which is where the work of artists such as Ruth van Beek comes into play, rescuing experience, sensation, perception, possibly even feeling out of the rubble of contemporary experience, out of its moraines of information.”
Ruth van Beek, How to do the flowers Act II - Rehersal I
From March 27 to May 3, 2019
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Memorial Day Message from Senator Burr
As we celebrate Memorial Day, let us take a moment to remember the true meaning of the holiday: to honor those service members who have sacrificed for our nation. Upon entry to the United States military, these brave men and women take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, our country, and our freedom, even if it means paying the ultimate price. For those who pay this price, we express our deepest gratitude.
Let us also remember the families who were left behind - they paid dearly for our freedom as well. Remember to honor them just as we would those who have fought on the front lines. Because of their sacrifice, we owe them the support and care they deserve.
As I spend time reflecting on the great sacrifice our fallen soldiers have made, I think of a recent trip I took with members of theCommittee onVeterans' Affairs. We visitedeightoverseas American cemeteries as part of a Congressional Delegation. The American Battle Monuments Commission uniquely serves our country by acting as the guardian of America's overseas cemeteries and memorials that honor the service and sacrifice of our military. The Commission maintains these cemeteries and memorials by caring for the landscape, gravesite upkeep, and visitor center restoration; more importantly, it acts as a liaison and storyteller between the cemeteries' rich history and the public. Guides are passionate about their positions and understand the importance of keeping the stories alive. They ensure that even though these brave men and women are gone, they are never forgotten.
During the visit, a wreath was laid at each cemetery honoring those who gave their lives for our freedom. We also had theprivilege of visiting the gravesites of menand women from our home state. At Lorraine American Cemetery in France,Ivisited the graves ofMajor George Preddy and First Lieutenant WilliamPreddy,twobrothers from Greensboro, North Carolina. The Preddy brothers were both pilots with the U.S. Army Air Forces and fought in World War II, flying P-51 Mustangs. The Preddy brothers both died while serving their country and are buried alongside one another.
While visiting Florence American Cemetery in Italy, I also had the honor to learn of Technician 4th Class Harry B. Morgan from Charlotte, North Carolina. Morgan was an Army still photographer assigned to the 3131st Signal Service; he and other members of his unit are mentioned in the book, The Last Farewell, Army Sgt. Edmund Burke O'Connell's final farewell to post-war Italy. On November 12, 1944, Morgan was wounded in action and later died.
Every headstone has a story; these are just two of the many inspiring tales told by thedocentswiththe American Battle Monuments Commission. If you ever have a chance to go overseas, I highly recommend researching and visiting one of the memorials or cemeteries, witness their humbling beauty, and speak with those who tell the stories first hand. Most importantly, honor the men and women, buried abroad and at home, for their sacrifice.
This Memorial Day, let us remember all of those who fought in our nation's wars and gave their lives for us. Without their service, the America we know would not exist. Without their sacrifice, we would not live in a country where we may live and speak freely without fear of punishment. To the men and women who died for our freedom, and to their families, thank you and God bless you.
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The document that concludes the sale and transfers ownership from the seller to the buyer is the title deed.
The title deed is a public act, which is stipulated before a notary, and serves to fine-tune the agreements already reached in the preliminary contract.
For it to be valid, it must contain precise information and details on the dates, agreements and the parties in question.
The importance of the notary in the title deed
The notary, acting as a public official, makes the deed of sale legal and clarifies what exactly it entails.
When the title deed is reached it is good practice to let the buyer choose the notary. However, if a house is yet to be built, it is advisable to trust the seller’s notary, who, already being in possession of all documents, may act in a fraction of the time.
The notary verifies first of all that the property has everything in order to be sold, whether there is, for example, collateral, whether there are obligations, and whether it is present in the house and urban registries as it should be.
The notary still clarifies the identity of the parties, the legality of the deed and the truthfulness of how much is declared.
Moreover, it is up to them to collect taxes owed by the buyer on behalf of the Treasury.
What happens during the stipulation of the title deed
The notary must read the title deed in its entirety to the parties involved.
Usually one requests only the presence of the buyer or seller, but it is not rare for them to be accompanied by witnesses.
It is important for the notary to explain the contract to the defendants, because the content and its judicial effects ought to be clear for everyone.
The missing documentation would make them legally responsible for the crime of forgery of a public document.
If after reading, the parties agree on the content, they can sign the title deed.
Duration of the title deed
The notary must register the title deed at the regional agency within twenty days, and arrange for payment to the treasury of the taxes received from the seller during the stipulation of the title deed.
Once registered, the contract is made public. Anyone can oppose it if irregularities can be found.
The successive transcription of the change of ownership, or transfer, at the revenue agencies, happens one month after the registration. This is again carried out by the notary.
The title deed as confirmation of the preliminary contract
The title deed, in order for it to be valid, must contain information already declared in the preliminary sales contract.
The identity of the stakeholders and the value of the property at the moment of transfer must be confirmed. What must also be shown is the future payment and potential distribution of deposits, the absence of ties or collateral and the reception of land registry information.
The case of a mortgage
If, in order to acquire a property, a mortgage is granted, it is formalised straight after the signing of the contract, in order to allow for the distribution of the finances.
There is also the possibility that the mortgage is not granted because of the delays of the credit institution, in which case a credit transfer order can be signed, which safeguards the buyer until the financing is obtained: it will provide the payment when it is financially able to do so.
The unknowns of transcription times
The title deed process concludes with its transcription in the real estate registry by the notary. Unpleasant episodes can occur, mainly at the expense of the buyer in the period of time that passes between the deed and its transcription.
In fact, the seller, if dishonest, could sell the same property to other people, pocket the money and disappear. But they could also be subjected to a foreclosure (whether expected or not), or take out a mortgage on the property.
In case of more sales, by law, the one that is deposited first is valued, notwithstanding that the scammer would in any case face criminal consequences for their actions.
In all cases, the best advice is to contact a lawyer straight away.
Suspending a title deed
The remote possibility exists of having to revoke a title deed, and allowing it is a law that came into being during the Second World War.
Royal decree no. 267/1942, in paragraph 67 of the bankruptcy law, sets out the suspension of the deed if it happened “in the year before the declaration of bankruptcy, in which the services accomplished or the obligations caused by bankruptcy surpass a quarter of what was given or promised to him.”
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Aaliyah's Estate Updates Fans on Bringing Late Singer's Music to Streaming Services
How Alternative Radio Powered This Year's Biggest Crossover Hits
By Josh Glicksman
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Iann Dior and 24kGoldn pose ahead of the MTV EMA's 2020 on October 24, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
By championing genre-blurring artists this year, the format encouraged a rap-rock wave.
When Barry Weiss signed 24kGoldn to his RECORDS label in late 2018, he thought he had found a rap star in the making. That changed when Weiss heard the 20-year-old’s “City of Angels,” a single off the artist’s 2019 debut EP, Dropped Outta College. Weiss recalls the reaction he shared with his colleagues at Columbia Records, senior vp pop promotion Brady Bedard and senior vp rock formats and public radio promotion Lisa Sonkin: “We were like, ‘This is a f--king alternative record.’ ”
Chartbreaker: 24kGoldn is ‘Post Malone Meets Will Smith,’ With a Smash Single To His Name
Indeed, the guitar-laden track became a top 10 hit on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart in June, as part of an ongoing trend of alternative radio powering crossover rap-rock hits. Sonkin believes it’s a direct response to the influence of younger listeners, noting that the desire for genre-blurring music is apparent in “everything from streaming data to radio research. Most programmers realize it’s in their best interest to be open-minded as the demographics of their listenership shift. Alternative was always meant to be cutting edge.”
As a result, in 2020, the format embraced artists it previously wouldn’t have recognized. Machine Gun Kelly’s rollicking “Bloody Valentine” has been a staple on alternative rock stations since the summer; the late Juice WRLD made his Alternative Airplay chart debut in October with a posthumous top 10 hit, thanks to the Marshmello-assisted “Come & Go”; and in July, 24kGoldn not only returned to Hot Rock & Alternative Songs but topped it with “Mood” (featuring iann dior), which also reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. (As 10K Projects founder/CEO Elliot Grainge told Billboard earlier this year, 21-year-old Puerto Rican rapper-singer iann dior is “one of the founding fathers” of the emerging rap-rock lane.)
Iann Dior Is Strategically Blurring Pop, Rock and Hip-Hop
Mike Kaplan, Entercom senior vp programming and alternative format captain/brand manager for WNYL New York and KROQ Los Angeles — the first station to give “City of Angels” airplay — says the format has always been at its best when it represents the culture of the moment, particularly for younger, left-of-center listeners. And, as 2020 brought global protests against racial injustice, alternative program directors say they’ve had to address the representation of the artists getting played on their stations and recognize a need for change.
“We’re giving a voice to traditionally marginalized people and diversifying perspectives to amplify non-Caucasian, non-gender-specific voices,” says Kaplan. (To his second point, on the Alternative Airplay chart dated Dec. 5, Clairo, the female-fronted Cannons, Royal & The Serpent and Billie Eilish all sat within its top 10.) “The forefront of the audience is more ethnically diverse than ever before.” Yet Kaplan and Sonkin say that some stations are hesitant to evolve. “There are alternative programmers that question our game plan and think that genre-blurring music is a mistake for the format,” says Sonkin. “We see the success and are fully committed to keep trying.”
Adds Kaplan: “We have to keep one foot grounded in our history, but not get stuck in the trenches of that point in time. We’re growing and infiltrating other aspects of music — this niche format is driving popular culture.
This article originally appeared in the Dec. 19, 2020, issue of Billboard.
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WNBA MVP Delle Donne says league denied her medical waiver
by: DOUG FEINBERG, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 13, 2020 / 11:21 PM GMT-0500 / Updated: Jul 13, 2020 / 11:21 PM GMT-0500
FILE – In this Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones, left, and guard Courtney Williams, right, huard Washington Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne during the first half of Game 5 of basketball’s WNBA Finals in Washington. Delle Donne is waiting to have her case heard by the league’s independent panel of doctors to see if she’ll be medically excused for the season, according to the Mystics.
The Mystics star, who was the league Most Valuable Player last year, has battled Lyme Disease since 2008 and would potentially be at a higher risk for serious illness if she contracted the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Elena Delle Donne’s request to be medically excused from the WNBA season was denied, according to the league’s reigning MVP.
The Washington Mystics star said in a statement Monday that the independent panel of doctors the league and union agreed upon to decide whether players should be medically excused deemed her not to be “high risk, and should be permitted to play in the bubble.”
Had Delle Donne been medically excused, she would have earned her entire salary for the season. Now, if she chooses not to play, the defending WNBA champion Mystics wouldn’t have to pay her.
Delle Donne has battled Lyme disease since 2008. The disease is not included on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of underlying conditions that could put someone at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
“I love my team, and we had an unbelievable season last year, and I want to play! But the question is whether or not the WNBA bubble is safe for me,” Delle Donne said in the statement. “My personal physician who has treated me for Lyme disease for years advised me that I’m at high risk for contracting and having complications from COVID-19.”
Delle Donne’s statement was first obtained by ESPN.
“I’m thinking things over, talking to my doctor and my wife, and look forward to sharing what I ultimately plan to do very soon,” the 30-year-old said. “My heart has gone out to everyone who has had to choose between their health and having an income, and of course to anyone who has lost their job, their home, and anyone they love in this pandemic.”
The league declined to comment, citing privacy concerns about player health matters.
Delle Donne’s new teammate Tina Charles also was waiting for a decision from the medical panel. If both players miss the season, the Mystics would be down to 10 players on the roster.
“As with all of our players, we have and will support Elena throughout this process. The health and well-being of our players is of the utmost importance,” Mystics coach and general manager Mike Thibault said.
Charles and Delle Donne did not travel with the team to Bradenton, Florida, last week. The WNBA is using IMG Academy as a single site for its season which will begin on July 25.
There are a handful of players who are waiting to have their cases heard by the three-person panel. Phoenix forward Jessica Breland, who missed a year while at North Carolina to be treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was deemed high-risk and was medically excused, the Mercury said.
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France-EDL for the Treasury network of embassies on the absence of closure of production site
Actualités • Communication - Press
France - Measures taken to Guarantee the continuation of the French Economy
To slow the spread of COVID-19, the government has decided that establishments open to the public which are not essential to the life of the Nation can no longer greet the public, until April 15, 2020.
As a reminder, these establishments are as follows:
• Audition room, conference, meeting, performance hall or multiple use rooms (cinemas);
• Shopping centers;
• Restaurants and drinking places;
• Dance halls and games rooms;
• Libraries, documentation centers;
• Exhibition halls;
• Covered sports establishments;
• Museums.
Inversely, all establishments receiving the public essential to the life of the Nation remain open to the public, notably food markets, food trade (including Food Drive), pharmacies, service stations, banks, tobacco store and press distributors.
In the same spirit, the closure rules cannot therefore apply to industrial production and storage premises. Restrictive measures also do not presume on the movement of goods within the internal borders of the European Union, which remains authorized and free.
Furthermore, since March 17, 2020 at 12 :00 p.m., for a minimum of fifteen days, travel is prohibited with exceptions, including that of moving from his home to his workplace when teleworking is not possible.
However, the containment and closure measures do not mean the end of the economic life of France and its companies. On the contrary, in order to guarantee the continuation of the French economy and to allow a good recovery in the future, all production, logistics and service activities, which cannot be carried out by telework, are intended to remain open and their employees to go to their workplaces.
More generally, it is therefore crucial that production plants, supply chains and service companies continue to operate on French territory, in compliance with barrier gestures and appropriate safety instructions, that they that they can set up, when teleworking is not possible. They are, also, essential establishments for the life of the Nation.
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Maturity Number 3
Life Path #7
Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, Egyptologist and diplomat.
He was born on Monday March 19th 1821, in Hertford, England.
In later years Richard Francis Burton will be surrounded by loyal friends and have ample time to explore his creative talents. This is founded on Richard's earlier years of spending much time bringing his creative talents and ability to bring the best in others to the forefront, and learning to put the color and thrill into his and the lives of those around him.
As Sir Burton matures, he will find himself becoming increasingly extroverted and optimistic about his future. His self-expression and creativity improve markedly. Richard Francis Burton may become inspired to take up some type of artistic endeavor, such as writing, acting, or music, if he is not already involved in one of these areas.
His ability to communicate will substantially improve. Richard is naturally more fluent and may find himself dressing with a certain flair. He must be careful though not to fall victim to superficial appearances, or chasing after glamour and extravagance.
With a 3 Maturity Number Richard can look forward to a pleasant and social latter part of life. His attitude will be increasingly positive and his popularity will rise.
If Richard Francis Burton already has several 3s in his chart, especially in his core numbers, he may have a tendency to scatter his energies and take his responsibilities less seriously, but if he has few 3s, Sir Burton will experience a great relief from the tension and seriousness of life, and will be more relaxed and capable of enjoying life.
With the promise of enjoyment, close friendships, and much happiness, Maturity Number 3 is a blessing in the latter part of Richard Francis Burton's life.
You and Richard
About Richard's Maturity number
Richard Francis Burton's Maturity number indicates an underlying wish or desire that gradually surfaces around age thirty to thirty-five. This underlying goal begins to emerge as Richard gains a better understanding of himself.
With self-knowledge comes a greater awareness of who Sir Burton is, what his true goals in life are, and what direction he wants to set for his life.
Read more about our numerological interpretation of Richard Francis Burton's maturity number . . .
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Robin Williams (1951-2014)
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Bernie Sanders (1941)
An American politician who is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, planned to be the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, has served as the junior United States Senator from Vermont and as U.S. Representative for the state's at-large congressional district, is an advocate of social democratic and progressive policies, and is known for his opposition to economic inequality and neoliberalism
Michael Kors (1959)
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Beyoncé (1981)
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Caitlyn Jenner (1949)
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Serena Williams (1981)
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Sofía Vergara (1972)
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Ralph Lauren (1939)
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An American actor, best known for his television roles as Bright Abbott in Everwood and Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation, and for being ranked as #2 on People magazine's 2014 annual list of Sexiest Men Alive
Richard Francis Burton Numerology -- Maturity Number 3 | © Copyright 2009-2021 Celebrities Galore and Master Numerologist Hans Decoz
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Christopher Mellon Net Worth
How much is Christopher Mellon Worth?
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Christopher Mellon Net Worth:
Christopher Mellon net worth: Christopher Mellon is an American former United States Deputy Assistant of Defense for Intelligence and Security and Information Operations who has a net worth of $100 million. Christopher Mellon was born in Topeka, Kansas in October 1957. He has also served as the Staff Director of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Mellon's great grandfather William Larimer Mellon co-founded Gulf Oil. Christopher Mellon graduated from Colby College and Yale University. He worked on Capitol Hill for 12 years in a variety of positions. Mellon worked as the Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 10 years and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 1999 to 2002 and for Security and Information Operations from 1998 to 1999. He has worked in various other capacities including as the Minority Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee for Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV. Mellon is on the record saying that UFOs exist.
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By Cablefax Staff | October 2, 2015
Sebastian Dungan
Lifetime has hired Sebastian Dungan as vp of original movies. Before joining the company he was founding partner of independent production company 72 Productions, where he produced Jill Soloway’s award-winning film “Afternoon Delight.” He also produced the film “Inequality for All” from Jacob Kornbluth and developed and produced “Transamerica.” He began his film career at Paramount Pictures and Witt-Thomas Films. Sebastian tells us he was raised in both Paris and Los Angeles. We also learned that he was a child actor, starring alongside Blythe Danner and Martin Sheen in the adaptation of Erich Segal’s “Man, Woman and Child” and appearing as Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows’ wish of a perfect child on Fantasy Island.
Ben Tappan
Ben Tappan has been hired by EPIX as vp of scripted programming. He’ll start by working on the production and development of the net’s first two originals, “Graves” and “Berlin Station,” and continue to pursue additional projects. Tappan was svp of television for Landscape Entertainment previously. Ben tells us he was born on a Navy air station in Lemoore, CA, into a family of Navy fighter pilots. “My grandfather, my step-grandfather, my father and my uncle were all Navy aviators,” he says. He also admits he’s always been a tech geek and an early adopter. “I think I still have the original TiVo somewhere in my attic.” Hobbies included snow skiing, sailing and cycling, and he tries to spend time in Utah and Colorado every winter and Maine and Nantucket in the summers.
Sabrina Padwa
ABC Family has tapped Sabrina Padwa as svp of business affairs. She comes from sister-company ABC Studios where she has been vp of business affairs since 2006. Her new post entails oversight of business affairs function, strategy and negotiations on development and production deals for series and event, and managing the business affairs team. Prior to ABC Studios, she served as general counsel and head of business affairs for global production company Radical Media. She also worked in entertainment law at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein and Selz in New York. In her spare time, Sabrina likes to do the Argentine tango, salsa and Latin ballroom dancing.
Hayley MacKay
ONE World Sports hired Hayley MacKay as director of production. She’s responsible for direction production on the linear channel and digital platforms. She previously served as head of production at Perform Media and oversaw live sports and sports news content for clients like ESPN, FOX Sports and Cricket Australia. MacKay served as executive producer prior to that and was a show runner, series producer and production manager at SBS, FOX Studios and Network Ten. Hayley hails from Sydney, Australia, and tells us that prior to staring a career in production she was training to become a diplomat. In her spare time, she likes to work on documentaries that have a global and humanitarian focus. “The latest one is about land mines and the effect they have on the people of South East Asia. I think it’s really important to push boundaries and venture outside of your comfort zone. As part of the documentary I spent time in live mine fields in Cambodia and Vietnam, which I thought was critical to fully understanding the situation.” Hayley is thrilled with her career choice, we learned. “If someone had of told me when I was in high school that there was a job where you get to travel the world attending some greatest sporting events and make some TV, I would have signed up then and there!”
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Discover and know the Hemisfèric
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Apollo 11. First Steps Edition
Finished event
Experience, with the help of original images, the preparation, liftoff, landing, and return of one of the greatest achievements of mankind: the trip to the Moon.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Rating: Rated 'G' for General Audiences
Languages: Room sound in Spanish with the possibility of choosing a language through the Personalized Listening System in Valencian, English and French
The film "Apollo 11: First Steps Edition" tells the story of the first steps taken by man on the Moon through original, never-before-seen images of this special mission carried out between July 16th and 24th of 1969. The movie combines well-known materials with treasures that were lost for some time and later rediscovered in a National Archives warehouse, and said images have been digitally remastered for the first time since their discovery. The only narration that film has is that of the period: viewers are guided by the voice of the late CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite and the radio exchanges between the astronauts and Houston, all of which has been set to the images.
The cameras located at Cape Canaveral captured the most important moments of the ship's liftoff. Those images, combined with the scenes filmed inside the rocket ship itself, offer an intimate glimpse into the feelings experienced by the astronauts during their mission. Join Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins –as well as Mission Control and the millions of spectators from around the world– to relive those momentous days of 1969 when mankind took a giant leap towards the future.
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Remove Discriminatory Restrictive CovenantsCurrently selected
Virginia Restrictive Covenant in Deeds
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55.1-300 and 58.1-810 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55.1-300.1, relating to restrictive covenants, deeds of reformation.
[H 788] Approved April 6, 2020
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 55.1-300 and 58.1-810 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 55.1-300.1 as follows:
§ 55.1-300. Form of a deed.
Every deed and corrected or amended deed may be made in the following form, or to the same effect: "This deed, made the ______ day of ______, in the year ____, between (here insert names of parties as grantors or grantees), witnesseth: that in consideration of (here state the consideration, nominal or actual), the said ________ does (or do) grant (or grant and convey) unto the said ________, all (here describe the property or interest therein to be conveyed, including the name of the city or county in which the property is located, and insert covenants or any other provisions). Witness the following signature (or signatures)."
No deed recorded on or after July 1, 2020, shall contain a reference to the specific portion of a restrictive covenant purporting to restrict the ownership or use of the property as prohibited by subsection A of § 36-96.6. The clerk may refuse to accept any deed submitted for recordation that references the specific portion of any such restrictive covenant. The attorney who prepares or submits a deed for recordation has the responsibility of ensuring that the specific portion of such a restrictive covenant is not specifically referenced in the deed prior to such deed being submitted for recordation. A deed may include a general provision that states that such deed is subject to any and all covenants and restrictions of record; however, such provision shall not apply to the specific portion of a restrictive covenant purporting to restrict the ownership or use of the property as prohibited by subsection A of § 36-96.6. Any deed that is recorded in the land records on or after July 1, 2020, that mistakenly contains such a restrictive covenant shall nevertheless constitute a valid transfer of real property.
§ 55.1-300.1. Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants.
Any restrictive covenant prohibited by subsection A of § 36-96.6 may be released by the owner of real property subject to such covenant by recording a Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants. The real property owner may record such certificate (i) prior to recordation of a deed conveying real property to a purchaser or (ii) when such real property owner discovers that such prohibited covenant exists and chooses to affirmatively release the same. Such certificate may be prepared without assistance of an attorney, but shall conform substantially to the following Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants form:
"CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OF CERTAIN PROHIBITED COVENANTS
Place of Record: ____________________
Date of Instrument containing prohibited covenant(s): ______
Instrument Type: _________________________
Deed Book ______ Page ____ or Plat Book _______ Page_____
Name(s) of Grantor(s): ________________
Name(s) of Current Owner(s): ________________
Real Property Description: ______________________
Brief Description of Prohibited Covenant: ______________________
The covenant contained in the above-mentioned instrument is released from the above-described real property to the extent that it contains terms purporting to restrict the ownership or use of the property as prohibited by subsection A of § 36-96.6.
The undersigned is/are the legal owner(s) of the property described herein.
Given under my/our hand(s) this ________ day of ________, 20__.
(Current Owners)
Commonwealth of Virginia,
County/City of ____________ to wit:
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me by ____________ this ________ day of ________, 20__.
My Commission Expires: ____________
Notary Registration Number: ____________
The clerk shall satisfy the requirements of § 17.1-228."
§ 58.1-810. What other deeds not taxable.
When the tax has been paid at the time of the recordation of the original deed, no additional recordation tax shall be required for admitting to record:
1. A deed of confirmation;
2. A deed of correction;
3. A deed to which a husband and wife are the only parties;
4. A deed arising out of a contract to purchase real estate; if the tax already paid is less than a proper tax based upon the full amount of consideration or actual value of the property involved in the transaction, an additional tax shall be paid based on the difference between the full amount of such consideration or actual value and the amount on which the tax has been paid; or
5. A notice of assignment of a note secured by a deed of trust or mortgage; or
6. A Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants pursuant to § 55.1-300.1.
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How The New Doctor Who Showrunner Will Approach Casting A New Doctor
Mick Joest
Published: Feb. 20. 2017 1:18 PM
With Peter Capaldi exiting his role of the Doctor, on BBC's Doctor Who, the search is on for a replacement. Season 10, which premieres this year, will not only be the actor's final season, but the last season for current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat, with Chris Chibnall taking over next season. A lot of fans have their eye on Chibnall and are very curious to figure out who he has in mind for the 13th Doctor. Chris Chibnall doesn't appear to have found anyone for the role yet, but recently explained his plans for finding the next Doctor for the series:
We'll cast the role in the traditional way: write the script, then go and find the best person for that part in that script. You couldn't go out and cast an abstract idea... The creative possibilities are endless, but I have a very clear sense of what we're going to do, without even knowing who's going to play the part.
Seeing as Season 10 hasn't even premiered yet, it's safe to say that the script for Season 11 has yet to be completed and that there are no decisions being made regarding the next Doctor at this moment. It will be interesting to see what direction the series goes in after Peter Capaldi's departure, and who the series will cast in the role following his exit. Will Chris Chibnall opt to go back to the formula of young and attractive doctors, or stay with older men like Capaldi and the classic Doctors? Of course, Chris Chibnall's quote to the Telegraph seemingly hints at something fans of the series have talked about for a long time. Will Season 11 be the premiere season of a non-white Doctor of the male or female variety?
The discussion of a non-white and/or female Doctor has been on the table of discussion for awhile now, and Chris Chibnall could be the one to pull the trigger. Historically, The Doctor has been white, male, and from the UK. While I don't imagine too many people are expecting the next Doctor to be from another country, the show could very well go in a different direction with the casting. The only real question is if it is in the cards, who?
Popular betting odds fall on legendary actress Tilda Swinton, but I think she's a bit too high profile for the role. The actress last appeared on television in a 2012 episode of Getting On, and before that she hadn't appeared in any role but narration since 1993. London raised Hayley Atwell has shown interest in the series, and has gained some fan support in saying so. As far as non-white men for the series, former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has said the role oftThe Doctor was offered to a black actor prior. While Moffat wouldn't say whom, specifically, he did say that ultimately things didn't work out.
Before we get crazy with speculation, let's just remember that all this quote from Chris Chibnall states is that they're open to casting "whoever" and it doesn't necessarily guarantee the new Doctor won't be white, male, or from the UK. Even the mere suggestion though has me feeling like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber saying "There's a chance!" Ultimately, I don't care who the new Doctor is as long as the series picks the right person for the job. Doctor Who will return for Season 10 on April 15th along with other new series Class. You can check both out on our midseason premiere guide.
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High Kings bring Irish music to 21st century
Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll
It's high season for the High Kings, an Irish folk band coming to Cape Cod Community College as part of a U.S. tour.
It’s the high season for the High Kings.
The two months around St. Patrick’s Day have brought the acclaimed Irish folk band on a new tour of the United States, with 40 concerts in 21 states over 52 days. One of three Massachusetts stops will be Friday at Cape Cod Community College.
It’s an exhausting schedule for the band that Ireland’s Sunday World tabloid honored in January as the most successful Irish folk band worldwide. But member Finnbar Clancy is happy for the high demand.
Even on weekday shows in the United States, he says in a phone interview, “we’re still getting the crowds because … people just want to come see us. It’s fantastic. The appetite is alive and well in America for Irish culture, for Irish folk music.”
Why? Millions of Irish Americans “want to get in touch with their roots, want to get in touch with their heritage, and when they hear something like the High Kings, they think ‘This is cool, this is catchy, and it’s Irish and I’m Irish,’” he says. In addition, “the songs tell such a story, it’s like an oral history of the country. It just connects to people.”
The band also has a lot of fans who claim no Irish heritage, though. “They just got into the music. I think it’s the rhythm of the music, it’s the pattern of the music and it’s the story,” Clancy says. “It’s just the whole package that I think is appealing to people who like good music.”
The High Kings are celebrating 12 years of bringing a contemporary twist to traditional Irish folk songs and ballads as well as performing their original songs in that style. The foursome of singers/instrumentalists had a quick rise after forming in 2008 in Dublin: The first album, with the same name as the band, reached No. 2 on Billboard’s World Music Chart. While older listeners enjoyed the return to music like the type popularized by predecessors the Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers, younger audiences have responded, too.
Spotify reported what the High Kings website described as “amazing” numbers regarding the band’s popularity: 26.2 million streams of its songs in 2019 alone, with 1.8 million listeners in 79 countries. The 1.44 million hours of streaming in 2019, Spotify pointed out, was equivalent to 16 decades of listening.
The group’s concerts draw multiple generations: Clancy notes fans have told them their children started asking to hear the High Kings on rides to and from school. So now, some teenagers, interested in Irish culture, arrive at concerts after knowing the group for a decade, he says.
The appeal of High Kings, for all ages, Clancy believes, is that “we try to modernize the sound of Irish folk songs. We try to bring Irish folk music into the 21st century,” including using newer instruments, high energy, driving rhythms and close harmonies in modern arrangements.
Hits have been both fast-paced songs and slow ballads. The biggest? While “The Rocky Road to Dublin” and “Galway Girl” have been popular, “The Irish Pub Song” was a phenomenon.
“That was never on any album,” Clancy says. “It was brought to us as a promotional video, and that’s all it was. It took on a whole life of its own. People started asking for it, and we started playing it, and now it’s by far our No. 1 biggest download, especially around St. Patrick’s Day. We did stick it on ‘Decade’ (in 2017), the only album where it’s available; before that it was only available on YouTube. It was amazing how quickly it gathered momentum.”
The High Kings have a new album that’s not yet available for streaming: “Live and Kicking,” which combines older and newer songs from live performances at a few U.S. concerts last fall. The album is only for sale now at concerts like the one Friday in West Barnstable: “We’re just putting ('Live and Kicking') out there for people when they come and they enjoy a show and … want to bring a part of it home,” Clancy says.
That album and the concert tour reflect the band with its current members: original members Clancy, Darren Holden and Brian Dunphy, plus Paul O’Brien, who joined in July as the second replacement following original member Martin Furey’s retirement in 2017. Clancy is enthusiastic for what O’Brien adds, particularly multiple instruments that include tin whistle and harmonica, and Clancy happily reports that the band is “sounding as good as it can sound right now.”
O’Brien, who had been playing a similar type of music as a solo act, knew members of the band and had seen the High Kings perform several times. “He got us; he knew where we were coming from in our approach, where we wanted to get in the end, and was just able to seamlessly kind of fit in,” Clancy says. “It was exactly what we wanted. … He’s the whole package.”
For the concert tour, Clancy was looking forward to returning to the Boston area, where he once lived in Chelsea for four years, and says he loves “the great moxie in Boston, the great spirit there and great characters.”
He knows Cape Cod, too: An early memory is painting the old Irish Embassy Pub in Falmouth when he was 18. Laughing as he notes he’ll be celebrating his 50th birthday just before the West Barnstable concert, Clancy says, “I have such a history with the Cape.”
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Leadership as a relationship: Why "we" matters more than I"
Leadership as a relationship
By Dr. Annette Towler, 21.01.2018
This CQ Dossier focuses on the importance of relationships within the leadership literature. It addresses the theories of leader-member exchange (LMX) and servant leadership to describe how effective leaders build quality and strong relationships with each of their followers to gain commitment to the organizational mission. The dossier describes how particularly servant leadership theory goes beyond transactional approaches that emphasize compliance to embracing approaches that focus on the growth of the individual to build a strong community.
Relational leaderhip focuses on the importance of building trust and confidence
Leader-Member Exchange Theory (LMX) describes the relationship that develops between leaders and followers
Servant leadership is based on the assumption that leaders are not in a position of power above followers
Servant leaders listen, reflect, and consider the merits of everyone in the group
Servant leaders are self-aware and have strong ethical standards and values
Servant leaders view the organization as an institution that exists for the greater good of society
Stewardship means serving the needs of others to serve the greater good
Servant-leaders are committed to nurturing individuals and their potential
Role modeling helps build communities that hold together
Relational leadership theories emphasize the importance of building quality relationships
Key take-aways
References & further reading
The management gurus James Kouzes and Barry Posner discuss the importance of relational leadership in their book, The Leadership Challenge. They state, “When leadership is a relationship founded on trust and confidence, people take risks, make changes, keep organizations and movements alive. Through that relationship, leaders turn their constituents into leaders themselves” (Kouzes & Posner, 2007).
This CQ Dossier focuses on two theories of leadership that regard the process as a relationship–leader member exchange (LMX) and servant leadership. Both theories focus on the importance of building strong relationships for leaders and subordinates to work effectively together.
The first leadership theory is leader-member exchange (LMX) and focuses on the relationship between leaders and followers. This theory focuses on the relationship between the leader and each subordinate or dyad, so the theory posits that leaders develop an exchange with each of their subordinates and is a two-way interaction. The theory suggests that each of these relationships are unique and that the quality of the leader-member exchange relationships influence subordinates’ responsibility, decisions, and access to resources and performance (Bauer & Ergoden, 2015). The relationships are based on trust and respect and extend beyond transactional, business relationships. Subordinates who develop strong emotional attachments with their mentors tend to engage more fully within the organization and become effective team members (Day & Miscenko, 2016).
The servant leadership theory is based on the premise that leaders are effective when they first serve their followers. Essentially, the leader is not in a position of power above the followers, but the emphasis is on the leader meeting the concerns of the followers (Northouse, 2013). An effective servant leader empathizes with their followers and nurtures and empowers them to help them reach their full potential (Greenleaf, 2012).
There are ten characteristics that are central to the concept of servant leadership. They include
listening,
awareness,
persuasion,
conceptualization,
stewardship,
commitment to the growth of people,
and building community.
Communication is an important skill for all leaders yet servant leadership emphasizes the value of listening intently to others. The servant-leaders seeks to identify the aims and goals of the group and helps them fulfill this mission. The servant-leader is receptive to what is being said within the group. One of the hallmarks of a servant-leader is the ability to balance listening with periods of reflection to consider what they can offer the group (Greenleaf, 2012).
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The servant leader also strives to empathize with others and accepts their individual characteristics. So, although the servant-leader might not like something that they did, they choose not to reject them as people. Effective servant-leaders are also able to heal through forgiveness of themselves and of others.
Servant leaders recognize that they have the ability to help those who have been emotionally hurt and so they strive to help them when they come into contact. Greenleaf describes this healing process in the following way, “There is something subtle communicated to one who is being served and led if implicit in the compact between servant-leader and led is the understanding that the search for wholeness is something they share.”
Another characteristic of servant-leaders is that they are self-aware and so have strong ethical standards and values. Having this strong sense of morality enables servant-leaders to have a holistic view of the organization. Servant-leaders have an inner peace yet are also able to tackle and challenge thorny issues within the organization that are based on their code of ethics (Greenleaf, 2012).
Servant-leaders also eschew power relying instead on rational persuasion to convince others to make decisions that are right for the firm. In particular, they dislike coercion and compliance from subordinates and use consensus to build agreement within groups. Servant leaders also use conceptualization to form a big picture for the community and organization. They think beyond the daily realities of organizational life and yet are still able to maintain a balance between a focused approach and conceptual, long-term thinking.
Servant-leaders also show foresight so they are able to determine the consequences of decisions for the future. Foresight is a characteristic that enables the servant-leader to understand the lessons from the past, the realities of the present, and the likely consequence of a decision for the future. It is also deeply rooted within the intuitive mind. Foresight remains a largely unexplored area in leadership studies, but one most deserving of careful attention. One promising area that sheds some light on this topic is agility and agile leadership.
There are three characteristics of servant-leaders that show a commitment to the community and people in organizations. These are
commitment and
building community.
Stewardship occurs when the servant-leader views the organization as an institution that exists for the greater good of society. This stewardship emphasizes the main goal of servant-leadership which is first and foremost a commitment to serving the needs of others coupled with an ability to persuade and to be open rather than to control others.
This stewardship is also revealed in the commitment that servant-leaders have for the growth of people. Servant-leaders believe that people have an intrinsic value beyond their contributions as employees so they engage in nurturing each individual within the organization.
Finally, servant-leaders are adept in building community particularly after change has occurred and people feel they have lost some of the familiarity of old-style organizations. Greenleaf believes that in order to build and rebuild communities, servant-leaders just need to show the way through demonstrating their own unlimited liability. In fact, Greenleaf believes that mass movement is not needed but just for the servant-leader to be an excellent role model for others (Greenleaf, 2012).
In conclusion, this CQ Dossier focuses on two relational-based leadership theories: leader-member exchange theory and servant leadership. Both theories emphasize the importance of leaders building quality relationships with their followers in order to achieve individual and organizational effectiveness.
Both theories demonstrate the importance of effective communication that allows both leaders and followers to build trust and commitment. The theories also show how power and coercion are unnecessary sanctions that only exist to harm the organization. The most effective leaders are those who are open and transparent with their followers and serve the community in a way that benefits everyone.
Subordinates who develop strong emotional attachments with their mentors tend to engage more fully within the organization
Leaders are effective when they first serve their followers
An effective servant leader empathizes with their followers, listens, and is self-aware
Servant-leaders nurture each individual within the organization
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Day, D & Miscenko, D (2016). In Bauer, Talya & Erdogan, Berrin, eds. Leader-Member Exchange (LMX): Construct Evolution, Contributions, and Future Prospects for Advancing Leadership Theory. New York, NY 10016: Oxford University Press.
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Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice.
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CLARIN ("Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure") is a research infrastructure initiated from the vision that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment for the support of researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
The CLARIN infrastructure is governed and coordinated by CLARIN ERIC, which is a consortium of countries, represented by their ministries, see here for more details on the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) as stated by European Commission.
Organisational overview
The organizational chart below clarifies the relations between the different bodies that play a role in CLARIN ERIC.
The highest decision taking body in CLARIN ERIC is the General Assembly (GA), consisting of representatives of the ministries or funding agencies of the member countries. It is assisted by an international Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
The day-to-day management is in the hands of the Board of Directors (BoD) which receives their guidelines from the GA, as well as input from other committees, and reports to the GA.
The Board of Directors consists of the Executive Director and a number of other directors, approved by the General Assembly.
The BoD can create Thematic Committees (called working groups in Article 14 of the statutes) and provide them with terms of reference. These committees help implementing the strategies and they report to the BoD.
In their work, the BoD, the National Coordinators' Forum, the Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres, and the Thematic Committees are supported by the CLARIN Office, based at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
CLARIN’s infrastructure operations are run and financed by the member countries. Each member country is committed to setting up and funding a national CLARIN consortium, which may consist of various types of centres (See the list of the National Consortia). The National Coordinators' Forum (NCF), consists of the heads of the national consortia, while the Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres (SCCTC) consists of the centre directors (or representatives designated by centre directors) of one technical centre per CLARIN member or observer. NCF and SCCTC are the CLARIN ERIC bodies through which the cross-centre and the cross-country collaboration, integration, and interoperability of the infrastructure components are ensured.
Each national coordinator is responsible for his/her country to follow the GA’s policies and strategies. The NCF and the SCCTC are responsible for ensuring the coordination of the implementation of the GA’s policies and strategies.
Instructions from the GA go through the BoD to the NCF, and the NCF reports to the BoD.
The Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical centres has responsibility for ensuring consistence, coherence and stability of infrastructure services. It reports to the BoD.
Overall, various committees, as well as recurring workshops and conferences bring together experts from the CLARIN community to discuss and solve problems of common interest. Currently, five Thematic Committees have been established: the Centre Assessment Committee, the Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure Committee, the Legal and Ethicial Issues Committee, the Standards Committee, and the User Involvement Committee.
The Statutes of CLARIN ERIC describe all governance aspects in full detail.
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News Sports Opinion Magnolia Mississippi State Obituaries E-Edition Legals
Adams' last-second block seals MSU bowl victory
The Clarion-Ledger
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Three times this season Mississippi State walked off the field in despair after a final play resulted in a loss.
A fourth walk of shame appeared imminent in the St. Petersburg Bowl as Miami (Ohio) lined up for a 37-yard field goal with 14 seconds remaining in Tropicana Field.
But Nelson Adams’ final act as a Bulldog turned a dire situation into a euphoric celebration Monday. He blocked the attempt, securing a 17-16 win.
“We noticed from game-planning that kicker kind of hits line drives,” Adams said. “All that was going through my mind was get your hands up as fast as you can.”
The block lured a few players onto the field. The celebration exploded after MSU (6-7) took a knee sealing the fifth postseason win under Dan Mullen in seven bowl trips.
“The end result just leaves a great smile on your face,” Mullen said. “A lot of frustrating things happened during the course of the game for us but you’re proud.”
The game symbolized the entire 2016 season.
KELLENBERGER: How else could this season have ended for Mississippi State?
Nick Fitzgerald, MSU’s game MVP, finished with more than 100 yards passing and 100 rushing. He displayed the speed, like he did in the regular season, to pull away from defenders with a 44-yard score that cut into a 16-7 deficit.
He struggled through the air though, completing 50 percent of his passes (13 of 26) and had two defenders drop easy interceptions.
“There were just times where we weren’t putting anything together,” Fitzgerald said. “We’d have 10 guys doing the right thing and one guy miss an assignment.”
The defense mimicked its performance in terms of points allowed that it showed in the season finale against Ole Miss. It surrendered 16 points with a shutout in the fourth quarter. MSU also forced the RedHawks’ St. Petersburg Bowl MVP Gus Ragland to throw his first career interception.
For the most part, however, MSU played like the team that allowed the most passing yards in the SEC. Ragland completed 21 of 29 passes for 257 yards and two touchdowns and guided Miami (6-7) to the MSU 20-yard line for the potential game-winning score.
“I thought about (going for the touchdown). We had two timeouts. I thought about it,” Miami coach Chuck Martin said. “We were sitting on a 35-yard field goal to beat Mississippi State. I’d be a pretty stupid head coach if somehow we got a sack or a turnover.”
Instead, Mississippi State blocked its second kick of the game. The Bulldogs smothered the RedHawks’ extra point in the second quarter.
“They are good at getting pressure, and they’re big and they’re so long. Even if they don’t get penetration, they’re 6-(foot)-5 and their reach is incredible," Martin said. "They’ve blocked some kicks. They blocked an extra point earlier. I was very concerned we’d get it blocked.”
Twice this season, a last-second field goal attempt handed Mississippi State a loss. The season began with Westin Graves missing from 28 yards.
The Bulldogs bottomed out after a 51-yard make by Kentucky that dropped their record to 2-5 for the first time since 2008.
“We’re here because we didn’t give up,” Mullen said. “We’re here because we kept battling all the way through the last game of the season.”
Mississippi State trailed 16-7 midway through the third quarter. It erased the deficit in a matter of eight minutes.
The rally started with the 44-yard Fitzgerald rush around the end. The season came full circle with Graves handing MSU its first lead with a 36-yard field goal.
Nothing came easy for a team that qualified for a bowl game with a 5-7 record. It was only fitting that the season ended in similar fashion.
“It’s great lessons for everybody," Mullen said. "If you continue to grind, if you continue to work, in the end it’s going to go your way.”
Contact Michael Bonner at mbonner@jackson.gannett.com. Follow @MikeBBonner on Twitter. Like Michael Bonner Clarion-Ledger on Facebook.
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Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse hopes to flip $185 million upgrades into concert industry gold
Country megastar Shania Twain performs the final concert at Quicken Loans Arena in June 2018 before its transformation into Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.cleveland.com
By Troy L. Smith, Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A figure like $185 million might seem like a lot to concertgoers. But it’s rather paltry for an industry that’s booming financially.
The first major event at the renovated Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse will take place on Monday, Sept. 30, when The Black Keys come to town. The much-hyped transformation will help the arena be even more competitive in a concert industry that will reach $31 worldwide billion in four years. Ticket sales make up $24 billion of that, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The list of upgrades (funded from $70 million in public money and $115 in private funds) includes 2,200 square-feet of LED panels, 279 wireless access points, new membership spaces, over 60 reimagined suites, more than 700 flat screen TVs, various new food and beverage options and an expanded glass-enclosed atrium Clevelanders have been marveling at for weeks.
“Lack of evolution leads to extinction,” says Antony Bonavita, executive vice president of facility operations. “For us, we wanted to make sure we remain relevant and provide the best opportunity for fans to enjoy a concert. The big concerts will come if the fans come.”
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Event Level
Rock Mortgage FieldHouse’s pricey renovation was certainly inevitable. In a concert industry with a seemingly endless number of festivals and mid-size venues, arenas still reign supreme. According to Billboard, indoor venues holding 10,000 or more fans accounted for 71 percent of total attendance and 76 percent of total ticket grosses for the bulk of 2018.
Thus, venues like Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse have been spending millions upon millions on renovations over the past few years. For instance, Seattle’s KeyArena will soon close for two years for $700 million in renovations. In the same city, the Tacoma Dome recently re-opened after a $30 million renovation.
And the list goes on and on, with upgrades and renovations taking place at Madison Square Garden, Rupp Arena in Kentucky, Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., PNC Arena in North Carolina and Talking Stick Resort Arena in Arizona, all to improve concert experiences. Closer to home, Nationwide Arena in Columbus reportedly plans to spend much of its 2019 revenue on things like new spotlights, roof repairs, metal detectors and upgrades to corporate suites.
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse competes with several of those venues in terms of drawing major artists. No one knows this better than Brooke Bockelman, vice president of booking and events at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Bockelman previously served as director of booking for Columbus Arena Sports & Entertainment, which held events at Nationwide Arena, the Schottenstein Center and Ohio Stadium.
“Artists are looking at a lot data metrics like YouTube plays, streaming numbers and other data to see where their fans are geograhiclly,” says Bockelman. “For some artists, we might be competing with Columbus. Pittsburgh, Detroit, Kentucky, Indianapolis and Buffalo. So, when it comes down to it being between us and them, we made sure we had experiences that were difference makers.”
Several of those new experiences focus on the connection between fans and artists. New technology and expanded space allow Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse to offer luxury VIP experiences that include backstage access and rubbing elbows with headliners.
Carrie Underwood’s upcoming show includes several VIP packages ranging from $199 to $975 that feature early entry, access to an “ULTRA-Exclusive Center Pit” on an expanded floor and photo opportunities with Underwood herself. Meanwhile, upgraded tickets to The Lumineers’ concert on Feb. 8 come with a pre-show experience inside one of the arena’s new lounges.
Fans attending Elton John’s final show in Cleveland can pay $1,775 for a photo on-stage with John’s piano and a behind the scenes backstage tour. It’s that kind of ticket upselling that helped the top 25 tours of 2018 -- including Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and Beyoncé -- gross 20 percent more year-over-year than the top 25 tours in 2017, according to Billboard.
“Some of these artists are so big they can play a majority of the markets,” says Bonavita. “But when it comes to a jump ball as to whether it will be Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh or Detroit, we want to win it nine times out of 10, if not every time. And we feel we can do with that with our new offerings, relationships and backstage experiences.”
Prior to the renovation, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (then known as The Q) was no slouch in the concert industry. The arena ranked 18th in the U.S. and 40th in the world based on ticket sales in 2017, according to Pollstar data. The venue’s 30 shows produced the highest attendance for concerts the arena has seen in a single year. The recent upgrades could vaultt the arena even higher in the rankings.
“When you come to the facility, you truly will not recognize it,” Bockelman proclaims. “Every inch of space you touch looks different. The ability look updated and fresh, and have innovative things going on in the building will be appealing to both fans and artists.”
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse: High tech
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse opened to the public Saturday, Sept. 28, after $185 million in renovations. A grand-opening ceremony and open house drew thousands. We’ve been exploring the transformation with a series of stories and photo galleries this week, looking floor by floor at the many improvements and exploring everything from new dining-and-drink options to the Cavs new locker room. Here’s a recap of our coverage:
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Commander Tony Holmes enlisted in the Navy in 1988. After naval nuclear power training in Orlando, Florida (Nuclear Field “A” School, Naval Nuclear Power School) and Ballston Spa, New York (DIG Prototype), he performed tours as a Machinist Mate on USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) and USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74). In 1998, he was assigned as an instructor at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, where he taught and advised over 700 students during their initial pipeline training in the Naval Nuclear Power Program – during which the command’s location moved from Orlando, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. He was selected to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in 1998, attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison State College in 2000, and attained a Masters of Arts degree in Computer Resources/Information Management from Webster University in 2001.
After commissioning via OCS in 2002, his initial tour of duty was on board USS ROBERT G. BRADLEY (FFG 49) where he served as Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer and qualified as Surface Warfare Officer. Following his initial tour as a Surface Warfare Officer, CDR Holmes reported to Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, where he earned a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering in June 2007. As an Engineering Duty Officer, CDR Holmes served his qualification tour at SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING GULF COAST, where he was assigned as Ship Superintendent of USS NEW YORK (LPD 21), overseeing the government/industry Team through successful launch, construction, sea trials, and delivery of the ship to the crew. From 2010-2011, CDR Holmes served his Individual Augmentee (IA) tour in Umm Qasr, Iraq, where he performed duties as PMS 325 Project Manager for the newest class of Iraqi Swift Class 35-meter patrol boats being built for and delivered to the Iraqi Navy.
Upon return from his Iraq tour in 2011, CDR Holmes transferred to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, where he served as Land Attack Department Officer, overseeing execution of all major programs within his Department’s portfolio. From 2014-2016, CDR Holmes was assigned to Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program Office in Dahlgren, Virginia, where he served as Project Manager for AN/SPY-1 Refurbishment Program and as Baseline Manager for Aegis BMD 4.1 and Aegis 5.4 Baselines. From 2016 – July 2019, CDR Holmes served as Officer in Charge, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, White Sands Detachment, where he was responsible for oversight and safe execution of all Navy-sponsored testing efforts in support of Aegis, Standard Missile, Hyper-Velocity Projectile, Electromagnetic Railgun, and NASA Sounding Rocket Programs at White Sands Missile Range, NM -- to include responsibility for the safe design, build/integration, and launch execution of Sub-Orbital Vehicles for ballistic missile targets in support of Navy, Missile Defense Agency, and other sponsors’ testing objectives. In July 2019, he reported to Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, Virginia as Commanding Officer.
CDR Holmes’ personal decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (2 awards), Army Commendation Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (3 awards).
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Natural Forces, Not Man, Causing Global Warming, Scientist Says
By Kevin Mooney | July 7, 2008 | 8:24pm EDT
(CNSNews.com) - Natural forces, not human activity, are primarily responsible for any global warming taking place, prominent atmospheric and space physicist Fred Singer declared Monday at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York City.
What's more, the preponderance of scientific evidence about natural forces causing global warming is so great that the issue is settled, Singer said.
"The science is settled in the sense that we have evidence that most of the climate change taking place today is caused by natural forces and not by human activity," Singer said during his luncheon address at the conservative Heartland Institute.
As was previously reported by the Cybercast News Service, Singer is a long-time critic of the "alarmist" view of global warming.
He was among 100 speakers and panelists taking part in the climate conference, which was attended by scientists from a dozen countries, including Australia, Canada, England, France, New Zealand, Russia and Sweden.
The conference is designed to give so-called "contrarian" scientists the opportunity to freely express their views on climate change. In a letter to the conference, Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast praised the scientists for taking a stand against political correctness and for protecting the scientific method at personal cost to themselves.
A summary of "Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate," Singer's latest report, was released at the conference. Singer discussed some of the study's major findings in his address.
The report, published by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), is a rejoinder to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Singer said.
The IPCC, he said, has failed to produce any hard evidence suggesting that humans are largely responsible for the planet's current warming cycle.
The same information and data used by the U.N. IPCC was also applied in the NIPCC's exercise, Singer said.
However, in contrast to the U.N. study, an effort was made in his work to "connect the dots" between greenhouse model outputs and actual observations, Singer explained. In the end, no significant amount of warming resulting from human activity could be detected, he said.
The consequences of these results are "far reaching," especially as they pertain to public policy, said Singer. Since natural variability is responsible for climate change, it logically follows that warming and cooling periods are unstoppable and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, he noted.
Unfortunately, the political class has already attached itself to another set of assumptions that sees a strong correlation between man-made emissions and global warming, said Singer.
For this reason, "the train is already moving in the opposite direction" with all three leading presidential candidates embracing views that do not hold up under scientific scrutiny, he said.
Marc Morano, a spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), agrees with Singer. "Consensus is a political construction," Morano said in an interview with Cybercast News Service. Nevertheless, the alarmist view that argues in favor of substantial human contribution to global warming is actually losing supporters, he said.
On average, there are anywhere from two to four new scientists per week in the English-speaking world who are publicly announcing their skepticism about claims that human activity is primarily responsible for climate change, said Morano. (Disclosure: Marc Morano is a former investigative reporter for Cybercast News Service.)
Most of the speakers gathered for the conference agree that there is no genuine consensus on global warming and man-made emissions.
In fact, international survey results show that almost half of the climate scientists polled in 2003 disagreed with what is often portrayed as being "the consensus" view, according to a booklet published by the Heartland Institute.
Most recently, Dr. Joanne Simpson, an atmospheric scientist who previously served with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, outlined her views in a blog cautioning against excessive reliance on climate models.
"Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization or receive any funding, I can speak quite frankly," she wrote.
"For more than a decade now 'global warming' and its impacts has become the primary interface between our science and society. ... There is no doubt that atmospheric greenhouse gases are rising rapidly and little doubt that some warming and bad ecological events are occurring," Simpson added.
"However, the main basis of the claim that man's release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models," she said. "We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system. We only need to watch the weather forecasts."
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Credit Suisse Group reports 1Q14 results
Credit Suisse 1Q14 Core pre-tax income of CHF 1,940 million for strategic businesses; reported Core pre-tax income of CHF 1,400 million
Return on equity of 14% for strategic businesses; reported return on equity of 8%
Strong performance in Private Banking & Wealth Management with increased pre-tax income of CHF 1,012 million; lower expenses and substantial asset inflows with strategic net new assets of CHF 16 billion and total net new assets of CHF 13.7 billion
Solid returns in Investment Banking with pre-tax income of CHF 827 million; strong performance in key businesses
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Improved profitability in Private Banking & Wealth Management:
- Total reported pre-tax income of CHF 1,012 million; good profitability in strategic businesses with pre-tax income of CHF 965 million, up 28% compared to 1Q13, and a return on capital of 33%
- Significantly increased cost efficiency, with improved cost/income ratio of 68% compared to 72% in 1Q13
- Improved Wealth Management Clients net margin to 29 basis points from 23 basis points in 4Q13
- Strong net new assets from strategic businesses of CHF 16.0 billion and total net new assets of CHF 13.7 billion in Private Banking & Wealth Management, with continued strong inflows in Wealth Management Clients from Asia Pacific and Switzerland, and in Asset Management in alternative investments and index strategies
Solid returns in Investment Banking:
- Total reported pre-tax income of CHF 827 million amid challenging market conditions
- Strategic businesses with pre-tax income of CHF 1,124 million; strategic return on capital of 21%
- Strong performance in key businesses including securitized products, credit, underwriting and advisory and solid equities results, offset by significantly reduced first quarter seasonal contribution from rates and certain emerging markets than experienced in previous years
Resilient capital base and leverage ratio:
- Look-through Basel III CET1 ratio at 10.0% as of the end of 1Q14; Look-through Basel III total capital ratio at 15.1% as of end of 1Q14; strong capital position notwithstanding impact of progress in resolving litigation matters in 4Q13 and external methodology uplifts to risk-weighted assets of CHF 13.5 billion in 1Q14
- Leverage exposure at CHF 1,140 billion as of end of 1Q14; phase-in Swiss leverage ratio of 4.8% as of the end of 1Q14; Look-through Swiss leverage ratio of 3.7% as of end of 1Q14, within reach of the 2019 requirement of 4%
Continued progress toward cost reduction targets:
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SPRING TALKS SEX: Murder by misogyny?
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mi∙sog∙y∙ny noun. 1. a hatred of women (Merriam-Webster [3]).
Laci Green, self-described sex-ed activist, uses the phrase “misogyny as murder” in her YouTube rant about the May 2014 [4]murder of six people and wounding of 13 others by Elliott Rodger in California. People seeking out the definitive answer to “how could this have happened” fall all along the blame continuum that runs from blaming his family life and early mental health issues [5], to the medications that he was prescribed [6], to his blatant hatred of women, and to easy access to guns and ammunition. The latter is of course refuted by the gun lobbyists who continue to assert that guns don’t kill, people do—citing their right to bear arms. Interestingly, in their effort to deflect attention from Rodger’s modus operandi, some gun lobbyists have put all the blame on prescription medication [7].
Rodger’s particular form of male entitlement—expecting the world to work entirely in his favour—is exemplified by his hate-filled video in which he blamed women for his persistent state of virginity. Yet despite this evidence, we will never really know the reason why he carried out this heinous crime. Despite all the “ink spilled” over his and similar crimes, it is time for a more nuanced discussion that does not attribute blame to a single issue, although misogyny continues to figure large in this picture. It is also time to start putting together a prevention package.
Zoe Mintz’s article in the International Business Times [8] is not, in my opinion, part of that package. She states, “In the field of ‘threat assessment’, which is dedicated to studying school shootings and other school-based attacks, notable outcroppings in personal histories is known as ‘leakage.’ An individual may indicate his distress long before the crime is committed…Elliot Rodger created YouTube videos and a 140-page manifesto that shed light on his mind-set before the killings.” She never once mentions misogyny, aside from this oblique reference to Rodger’s “mind-set.”
On the other hand, Anne Theriault’s response to male entitlement in her May 31st Belle Jar blog [9] explores the negative feelings she experienced about her own late entry into partnered sex:
“And you know what? Literally at no time ever did I think, gee, I should go on a killing spree.
I never felt entitled to men’s bodies just because I wanted them.
I never blamed all men everywhere for my inability to get it on.
Never. Not once.”
I agree with Laci Green and Anne Theriault. We need to begin building our prevention package by addressing male sexual entitlement. Readers of this blog may be tired of hearing it, but healthy sexuality education begins at home. This is where societal mores begin, and where they begin to change. From infancy, relaxing and blurring rigid gender roles, expectations and responsibilities promotes much more than the achievement of a child’s full potential; it is an integral part of crime prevention.
Boys need to learn about girls’ essential humanity to develop into empathic individuals. Girls need to learn how to have agency in their lives. Young people need to fully comprehend the horror of denying and violating that agency.
I was profoundly shocked to read more than one story these past few years about sexual assaults of young women that had been filmed and posted on the Internet. Why did they not empathize with the victim/survivor? Perhaps because rape culture promotes sexual violence as entertainment. Reasoning that it was crucial to teach students the potential reactions and harms suffered by someone who is sexually assaulted, I included a list of these after-effects in sexual health education materials intended for the use of educators across the country. I only hope that they accept the challenge of this particular call to arms.
Few would dispute that a sense of male entitlement and rage has fuelled sexual assault, physical assault and murder. Rape culture starts with the objectification of women, promoting both the notion of the right to unlimited access to women’s bodies and its subsequent violent expression. This twisted ideology will flourish as long as we continue to ignore its impact; namely, distrust and fear, and ultimately, criminal acts. Interestingly, those very social media platforms that allow the promotion of rape culture have found their match on Twitter (See #YesAllWomen [10]).
The International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict [11] extends this analysis to a broader context: the use of women (and men) as pawns of war. The “othering” of one’s enemies was raised decades ago in Susan Brownmiller’s book Against Our Will (1975). It is much easier to hurt, and kill, what has been objectified. The recent kidnapping of Nigerian girls and young women may very well result in sexual abuse, as Boko Haram has threatened to sell them in “marriage.”
The theme of women as property is echoed in the rallying cry of men who kill their partners, “If I can’t have you, no one can.” I have often quoted Maya Angelou to students over the years:
“Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”
Elliott Rodger was steeped in misogyny, blaming and hating women for not wanting to be with him. Aside from his legal access to firearms and ammunition, as mentioned above, the question has also been raised about his use of anti-depressant medication. Because psychotropic medications alter brain chemistry, an overdosing of—or a rapid withdrawal—from a number of medications in this class can lead to behaviour that is out of character for the person taking them. This may include erratic or even homicidal behaviours. Although the latter may be rare [12], for the many people who take these medications and feel they are being helped by them, it is often hard to believe in or make that connection.
Consider the following conclusion to the online article published in PLoS Medicine, “Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law” [13]:
“The association of antidepressant treatment with aggression and violence reported here calls for more clinical trial and epidemiological data to be made available and for good clinical descriptions of the adverse outcomes of treatment. Legal systems are likely to continue to be faced with cases of violence associated with the use of psychotropic drugs, and it may fall to the courts to demand access to currently unavailable data. The problem is international and calls for an international response.”
Which brings me back to that other prescription, the one for prevention. We need:
improved education for health care providers about psychotropic medications, and better monitoring of their patients;
sexual health education that promotes equity in all its forms;
campaigns targeting male entitlement that engage men as allies (#AllMenCan [14]);
comprehensive gun control on both sides of the border.
Rx: #NotOneMore.
Talk to me: springtalks1@gmail.com [15]
Additional Resource:
Robert Whitaker on Psychiatric Drugs [16], The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio
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[2] https://www.cwhn.ca/print/46579
[3] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misogyny
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPFcspwbrq8&bpctr=1401823560
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/elliot-rodger-killings-in-california-followed-years-of-withdrawal.html?_r=0
[6] http://www.cchrint.org/2014/05/26/will-lawmakers-investigate-elliot-rodgers-psychiatric-drug-use-or-ignore-it-that-is-the-question/
[7] http://libertycrier.com/nearly-every-mass-shooting-last-20-years-shares-one-thing-common-weapons/
[8] http://www.ibtimes.com/does-elliott-rodgers-isla-vista-killing-spree-offer-any-lessons-about-therapy-or-threat-1591559
[9] http://bellejar.ca/
[10] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23YesAllWomen&src=typd
[11] http://www.stoprapeinconflict.org/
[12] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030372#pmed-0030372-t003
[13] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030372
[14] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AllMenCan&src=typd
[15] mailto:springtalks1@gmail.com
[16] http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/features/2014/06/08/robert-whitaker-on-psychiatric-drugs/
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Tennessee Walkers of Mill Creek
By Victoria Cox
Writer’s note: I’m dedicating this column to a beloved friend, Claude Shiflet of Asheboro, who passed away on Dec. 7. Claude, according to The Walking Horse Report, was a famous national Tennessee Walking Horse trainer and was an American Saddlebred Hall of Fame member, UPHA Tom Moore Hall of Fame (1997) and World Championship Horse Show Hall of Fame (2002) awarded horse trainer. He is survived by his wife, Alice; children; and great-grandchildren.
Growing up, I got to have what some kids only dream of — a yard full of horses.
Everyday my grandma and grandpa would come over and feed the five horses we had in the pasture next to our house. They had four of their own at that time.
When I was little, my favorite horse was Beamer, or Blank Check as his papers said. Beamer was the sweetest horse anyone could ever desire. He would put his nose to the ground so I could pet him more easily, and would be ready to be scratched on his behind as well. The memories I had along the creek with the horses were very memorable and were a highlight of growing up in Randolph County.
Over the early years of my life, I remember watching people come and go with horses of their own, some for boarding and some for breeding to our stallions, Beamer and Doc.
I can still remember all the excitement in spring and summer when breeding season was upon us. The foals were few when my sister and I came along, but our horses were already in their teenage years by then. But the fun never stopped!
Beamer and Doc would put on a show for us as they ran across the pastures after seeing a horse trailer pull up to the barn, swinging their heads and lifting their tails, feeling the wind in their manes as they ran along the side of the pond. The sky would be a beautiful North Carolina blue, sunny, warm, and maybe a cloud or two.
Beamer, the black stud with a white spot on his forehead, would run full force towards the fence. Sometimes I thought he may run through it! But he never did. He would turn sharply and keep prancing around, beautiful and stunning, a true Black Beauty.
Doc was white with black spots. His mane and tail were also white and black, and he had a bit of pink to his nose. I thought Beamer was the prettiest, but I also loved the movie and story of “Black Beauty,” so I may have been somewhat biased in my opinion.
Beamer would spend most of his days in the pasture eating grass, then hay and oats twice a day that my grandpa would feed him. A beautiful horse with a great personality, Beamer would play around with our mare, Midnight, a black filly with a lot of bossiness.
Beamer and Doc have since have passed away, but my memories of them are still very much present; and even though all the horses are older now, in their mid-twenties, about my age, Midnight gets to play in the pasture with new friend, Shiloh. Midnight and Shiloh also like to play around with Genius who has been around since I was small.
The three amigos, as I like to call them, spend their golden years eating, sleeping, playing and frolicking in the pastures along Mill Creek. All love their senior treats, except for when we give them apples; Midnight has never cared for them.
Also, one year during a Christmas parade, Midnight took it upon herself to go in front of the grand marshal. The tiniest horse must lead an entire parade, and I guess that is why “big things come in small packages.”
Victoria Cox is a member of the The Courier-Tribune’s 2019 Panel of Guest Columnists and will be returning in 2020 as a guest columnist. She looks forward to sharing her stories with readers. A recent graduate of Randolph Community College, she is pursuing a degree in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Contact: vlcox36684@gmail.com
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Arie Fokkens
Born: 6 October 1957
Died: 7 November 2009
Arie was born in Voorburg near The Hague in The Netherlands, and subsequently lived in Utrecht. His first composition was an arrangement of a song of the Antwerp Songbook, when he was in the university choir of Enschede. After moving to Utrecht, he joined the Domcantorij where he learned much of the vast repertoire of a cappella choir music ranging from Renaissance to 20st Century. From then on, his interest in composing grew. Some of his works have been performed by the Domcatorij.
In the latter years of his life, Arie was working as a graphic designer with a main interest in typography and incorporated this into musical typesetting.
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Rethinking The First Signs Of Spring
For eons in New England, a First Sign of Spring has been sap oozing from a maple tree. In northwestern Montana, officials at Glacier National Park report that a long understood First Sign of Spring is the appearance of a bear — emerging from hibernation. In other parts of the country, the telltale signs have long been natural recurrences, such as the appearance of crocuses, sandhill cranes, great blue herons and stinging nettles.
But the world is changing and maybe it’s time to reconsider and draw up a new list. Where do we look in 2014 for that initial hint of spring – the season’s on-button?
Time was, the arrival of robins used to herald the oncoming of spring in Washington. But these days, lots of robins spend the whole winter rocking the Mid-Atlantic and, according to Robert K. Musil, president of the Rachel Carson Council, the robins that do migrate “are showing up about three weeks earlier than they did in Thoreau’s day, according to his notes.”
The Rachel Carson Council is a nonprofit group, based in the Washington suburbs, that carries on the environmental monitoring and education begun by Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring.
It seems, Robert says, “we need a new harbinger of spring in these days of a warming world and wildly varying and disrupted climate patterns.”
Robert suggests that the best New First Sign of Spring might be the Black Vulture. “These used to be purely southern birds and they are not noted — except rarely– in the careful notes and observations of Washington nature writers and observers from the past .”
He is talking about John Burroughs in the 1860s, Elliott Coues in the 1880s, Florence Merriam Bailey 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1900s and Louis Halle, Rachel Carson and Roger Tory Peterson in the1940s and 1950s.
Today, Black Vultures have moved northward, Robert says, and now are resident around the National Zoo, the C&O Canal and other Washington spots. “If you look up,” he says, “you may see one hovering over you… We’ve moved, thanks to climate change, from the cheery robin to the scary circling of the Black Vulture.”
Traditionally for baseball fans, the First Sign of Spring was the day that pitchers and catchers reported to spring training.
Sportswriter Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post says that has shifted. The best professional baseball players, especially the team leaders, no longer report on the day they are supposed to, Boz says. “They report when, as adults, they think they should.”
So spring this year, Boz says, began when Washington Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond reported to spring training in Viera, Fla. — a week before the mid-February date on which pitchers and catchers reported “and almost two weeks before regulars like him are supposed to report.”
Desmond showed up early, Boz says, “so he can work on fielding mechanics and learn the new manager’s ideas on advanced-metrics defensive positioning. He’s been doing drills by throwing to first base from his knees and studying spray charts of opposing hitters to use new defensive shifts.”
The New First Sign of Spring, when it comes to baseball, has changed in recent years, Boz says, because “players are much more serious now. Those $50-to-$250-million contracts get your attention. And Desmond, for example, may get a $75 million to $125 million deal within two years –from the Nats or somebody else.”
So greed has reset spring’s alarm clock? “It’s not just greed,” Boz says. “It’s professionalism.”
Khaki shorts. Spring dresses. Seersucker suits. Clothes have long proved to be sure First Signs of Spring.
In 19th century Chicago there was a man named Popcorn John who sold bags of popcorn year round. “He never wears a coat,” according to a Chicago Tribune reporter in 1896, “except during the coldest days of winter.” And then when he put the coat away, “the sleeves of his clean white shirt flap in the wind … and the flutter of those same sleeves is the first sign of spring.”
Fashions change, of course, so according to Glamour, New Signs of Spring 2014 include wide-leg trousers and tea-length skirts.
But in some places in America, the First Signs of Spring pretty much stay the same year after year. At least that’s true at one naturist resort. “I don’t think nudists are much different than in the past regarding the seasonal change to spring,” says Don Kiester of Nature’s Hideaway Nudist Resort in Osage, Oklahoma. “As the weather warms, we take advantage of the weather by enjoying the sunshine, while working around the resort in the nude.”
Have the First Signs of Spring changed where you live?
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Tennis Executive Apologizes After ‘Lady Player’ Comments Spark Anger
His comments about female tennis players were in “poor taste and erroneous,” Indian Wells CEO Raymond Moore says, after a backlash over his comments that women are along for the ride in a sport that’s carried by men. Among those displeased: Serena Williams.
Here’s part of what Moore said Sunday that caused the outcry:
“In my next life, when I come back I want to be someone in the WTA,” Moore, 69, said with a laugh, “because they ride on the coattails of the men.”
Moore, who was speaking at a news conference Sunday, continued:
“They don’t make any decisions and they are lucky. They are very, very lucky. If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they’ve carried this sport. They really have. And now the mantle has been handed over to [Novak] Djokovic and [Andy] Murray, and some others.”
Moore is the tournament director of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. He went on to say of his tournament, one of many elite events on the tour that awards equal prize money to male and female athletes, “We have no complaints.”
Moore also drew criticism for what he said moments later, when he said that several “very attractive players” could lead their sport the way Serena Williams has. When asked whether he was referring to their physical appearance or their game, he answered, “I mean both.”
A former player from South Africa, Moore has been associated with the Indian Wells tournament since at least the 1980s. He became the head of both the tournament and its home facility in 2012, taking over for longtime friend and business partner Charlie Pasarell.
When he spoke Sunday, Moore called Serena Williams “arguably the best female player of all time” and said that the quality of women’s tennis has improved greatly. But those admiring words, and the showcase day of the tournament he runs, were overshadowed by Moore’s remarks about women’s place in the game.
Williams, who won her first Indian Wells title in 1999, sharply criticized Moore’s comments Sunday afternoon, saying they left no room for interpretation as anything other than offensive.
“I speak very good English. I’m sure he does, too,” she said. “You know, there’s only one way to interpret that. Get on your knees, which is offensive enough, and thank a man, which is not … we, as women, have come a long way. We shouldn’t have to drop to our knees at any point.”
Williams is the world’s No. 1 in the WTA’s singles rankings — a spot she first held in 2002, and which she has currently held for three years. On Sunday, she admitted being surprised at Moore’s remarks. And she cited some recent history to counter his view:
“Yeah, I’m still surprised, especially with me and Venus and all the other women on the tour that’s done well. Last year, the women’s final at the U.S. Open sold out well before the men. I’m sorry, did Roger play in that final, or Rafa or any man play in that final that was sold out before the men’s final? I think not.”
In addition to selling out of tickets for its women’s final before its men’s contest, the U.S. Open also saw a spike in ticket prices, as fans clamored to see Williams vie for winning all four majors in the same season.
Responding to Moore’s comments, both Williams and Victoria Azarenka, her opponent in Sunday’s BNP Paribas final, invoked tennis legend Billie Jean King, who founded the WTA and blazed a trail for women as professional athletes.
King had her own thoughts about Moore’s words, saying in a tweet that he was “wrong on so many levels.”
Apologizing later for his comments, Moore said they “were in extremely poor taste and erroneous. I am truly sorry for those remarks, and apologize to all the players and WTA as a whole.”
The men’s winner Sunday was Djokovic, who said that Moore’s comments were “not politically correct,” as the BBC relays — but the news agency adds that the Serbian star also called for men to fight for more money. From the BBC:
“Djokovic, 28, said women ‘fought for what they deserve and they got it,’ but claimed prize money should be ‘fairly distributed’ based on ‘who attracts more attention, spectators and who sells more tickets.’ “
The BNP Paribas tourney at Indian Wells carries a total purse of more than $10 million. As one of several elite mandatory tennis tournaments featuring both men’s and women’s fields, it awards prize money equally. Those tournaments rank one slot below the four Grand Slams, which have awarded equal prize money since 2007 — when Wimbledon followed the same path the U.S. Open took back in 1973.
Moore’s initial comments came on the same morning as the women’s final, in which Williams fell to Azarenka, 6-4, 6-4.
Addressing the controversy after her match, Azarenka said she has a problem in general with men making derogatory comments about women.
Making what she called a simple case, Azarenka said: “Every single person on Earth was brought … was born by a woman, right? I think that’s a good comment. And I think people should remember that sometimes.”
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Pregnant Women May Be Able To Get Answers About Zika Earlier
Last November, a couple from Washington, D.C., took a weeklong vacation. They visited Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. And got bitten by plenty of mosquitoes.
Two days after they returned home, the woman — who was pregnant — fell ill. She had muscle pain, a fever and a rash.
“At first she didn’t think much about it,” says OB-GYN Rita Driggers, who saw the woman at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “But then all the news started coming out about Zika, so the woman went and got tested.”
The test came back positive. And then the big question became: Was her baby going to be OK?
At first, everything looked good on a standard ultrasound, Driggers says. Even during the 20th week of the pregnancy, the fetus didn’t have microcephaly or calcifications in the brain — two telltale signs of a Zika infection.
But when doctors ran MRI on the fetus, the good news quickly faded.
“There were severe abnormalities within the brain,” Driggers says. “The width of the brain was very, very thin. … Some structures were completely missing.”
The woman decided to terminate the pregnancy. And she allowed Driggers and her colleagues to study the baby. The case — published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine — offers insights into how Zika infects a fetus and suggests ways women may be able to find out earlier whether babies will have birth defects.
First, the virus lingered in the patient’s blood for months after she got sick. Usually a person’s immune system clears out Zika in a week or so. But in this case, Driggers thinks the virus was hiding out inside the fetus — and repeatedly infecting the mother.
“So if you’re seeing the virus in the mom’s blood more than a week after symptoms,” Driggers says, “then perhaps what’s going on is that the baby is infected with Zika.”
Second, looking only for microcephaly isn’t enough. Right now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends doctors measure the size of the fetus’s head with an ultrasound near the 20th week of the pregnancy to check for Zika-related problems.
But with this new case, doctors could see brain abnormalities by MRI before there were signs of microcephaly.
“This is very alarming,” says Dr. Carla Janzen, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at UCLA, who wasn’t involved in the study. “If we see more cases like this, the [CDC’s] guidelines will probably have to change” to include MRI screening or more intensive ultrasound tests.
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The Evolution Of The Michael Jordan Crying Face Meme
No matter which teams win or lose in this weekend’s NCAA tournament Final Four games, at the final whistle, there will inevitably be one iconic, unavoidable face.
It will be Michael Jordan’s. And it will be crying.
The meme of the basketball legend’s tear-stained countenance is the sports world’s go-to symbol of sadness in defeat, so expect to see at least a few renditions of Jordan’s watery mug superimposed onto losing players, losing fans, losing mascots, losing coaches, or anyone or anything else who is at all associated with a loss.
If you’re not on Twitter and have no idea what I’m talking about (Mom, this is for you) here’s the deal: In 2009, when Jordan was inducted into basketball’s hall of fame, he delivered an infamous, often-rambling, very emotional speech. An image of his face — eyes swimming, cheeks glistening — was turned into a meme some years later. The Internet, especially Twitter users, latched on tight, employing it to comment on any number of sports failures.
Golden State Warriors’ win streak ends:
Vikings kicker Blair Walsh misses a game-winning field goal:
N.Y. Mets lose in the World Series:
New England Patriots lose:
Since the meme took off in early 2015, people have used it to express disappointment, mock opponents, gloat — and, increasingly, not just regarding sports. The website Complex compiled a list in March 2015, called “The Definitive Guide to Using the Michael Jordan Crying Meme,” that suggested use in such instances as “When Your Mom Eats Your Halloween Candy,” “When Your Barber Laughs at Your Hairline,” and other less family-friendly scenarios. Vice Sports went meta, tacking MJ’s crying face onto actual photos of Michael Jordan in a post titled “Stunning Photos of Michael Jordan, Ruined By Crying MJ Face.” The Huffington Post published a printable cutout of the sad Jordan face to use as a Halloween mask.
The meme had such clout that the Arizona Cardinals even used it to troll themselves when they were getting trounced by the Carolina Panthers in last season’s NFC Championship game.
Crying Jordan could not be stopped. Its pervasiveness expanded to politics, the lottery and a certain unfortunate courtroom sketch.
In an online environment where trends come and go in the span of hours, only a handful of memes reach the level of ubiquity necessary for Internet immortality. The MJ crying face, as it’s come to be known, is one of them.
Is it funny? Yes, for its obvious absurdity, but also for the anticipation of seeing how the meme will be deployed — that’s been as much a part of the fun as actually seeing it pop up on social media.
Yet as more and more people have glommed onto the joke, plastering the meme everywhere in hopes of getting a retweet, the usage of sad Jordan has become less creative and therefore less funny.
For example, take this edition of Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo after the team’s upset loss to Middle Tennessee State in the first round of this year’s NCAA tourney.
The meme was as predictable as the 2-seed’s early tournament upset was unexpected. There’s nothing special about it, except the craftsmanship — take a moment to admire the seamless merging of Jordan’s face and Izzo’s head.
At certain points, when Twitter timelines were especially saturated, users called for the meme to be retired.
There was hopeful speculation that MJ crying face would drop off in 2016, though that didn’t pan out, as Jordan’s son Marcus ruefully surmised in January.
Even recent questions about possible copyright infringement for using and sharing the meme haven’t dampened enthusiasm for the sad Jordan face. The Associated Press took the original photo and could take legal action to protect the image’s copyright, ESPN reported.
“We own the rights in our photo, which was taken in 2009,” AP spokesman Paul Colford wrote in an email to ESPN. “We could enforce those rights depending on the use and other factors, as is the case with all AP photos.”
A spokesperson for Jordan said he was aware of the meme’s popularity, according to The Chicago Tribune.
“I don’t recall when we first started noticing it — everything explodes so quickly on the Internet, and suddenly it was everywhere. Everyone seems to be having fun with the meme, and it just keeps going,” Estee Portnoy told the Tribune. “We haven’t seen anyone using it to promote their commercial interests, which is something that we’re monitoring.”
The lawyers had better stay on their toes, because the MJ crying meme endures.
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Justice Dept: ‘Devastating Consequences’ When Tech Exported To The Wrong Hands
Early this year, President Obama granted clemency to seven men with ties to Iran, part of a high-profile prisoner swap that left some in federal law enforcement circles seeing red. Among the detainees who won release were men accused of breaking export-control laws by shipping sensitive materials to Iran.
But this month, the Justice Department signaled it remains determined to bring cases over export violations, even if it takes a long while for justice.
Authorities extradited Lim Yong Nam, a citizen of Singapore, to Washington, D.C., to face six-year-old charges that he played a role in a conspiracy to send radio frequency modules to Iran. Federal agents say they traced the serial numbers on those parts to at least 16 unexploded improvised explosive devices they found in Iraq. The discovery prompted a major response from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, because about 60 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq came from explosive devices like them.
Michael Steinbach, executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, said the challenge for investigators is figuring out when materials that could have a legitimate purpose, such as connecting computers and printers in offices, is actually threatening national security.
“When the material is exported individually,” Steinbach said, “it may not look to be anything, but when you start to add up those parts and put together a puzzle, you see those dual use items are for nefarious purposes.”
Lim, 42, has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has been ordered detained in Washington. He appeared at the federal courthouse for a brief status conference Monday, when a judge ordered both sides to return next month for an update. His defense attorney, Shanlon Wu, said, “he takes these allegations very seriously and he is anxious to get the case resolved.”
The unidentified Minnesota company that made the modules is not accused of wrongdoing. Instead, the indictment said, Lim and other defendants in the case arranged for 6,000 devices to be purchased and sent overseas by misrepresenting that the material would end up in Singapore.
John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security, pointed out the allegations still need to be proved in a court of law. But in general, Carlin told NPR, “It’s very important to keep technology that can cause the loss of American lives and others out of the hands of those that would do us harm, be they rogue nations or terrorists.”
Carlin said people trying to evade export laws sometimes use “deceit and fraudulent documents to create a whole false narrative purposely aimed at throwing investigators off the trial. But I think what this case shows is that … we are going to prioritize them because of the they can have devastating consequences on our service members and others and with hard work we can figure out who did it and when we do we are going to chase them to the ends of the earth to make sure they’re held accountable.”
Timothy O’Toole, a lawyer at Miller & Chevalier who closely follows export cases, said that many clients, particularly international ones “have a difficult time understanding how they can be governed by U.S. criminal law … for doing things that are legal in their own country. It’s a jurisdictional theory that’s met with a lot of surprise overseas.”
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Gallaudet worker: ‘Pro-democracy,’ not anti-gay
Gallaudet University’s embattled chief diversity officer said she wasn’t taking an anti-gay stance when she signed a petition advocating for Maryland’s same-sex marriage law to be put to a vote, the Washington Post reports. Instead, Angela McCaskill says she was joining 200,000 others in standing up for the rights of voters to make decisions at the ballot box.
“I thought it was important that as a citizen of the state of Maryland I could exercise my right to participate in the political process. I am pro-democracy,” McCaskill explained at a news conference Tuesday in Annapolis, speaking out for the first time since the university’s president placed her on administrative leave last week after it became public that she had signed the petition.
McCaskill’s attorney said repeatedly that McCaskill had never publicly taken a stance on gay marriage, that she is not anti-gay and that she has supported gay students at Gallaudet…
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Public vote now open for Mayor's Pride of Dudley Award
The three nominees for the Mayor’s Pride of Dudley Award have been announced, with a public vote now open to decide the winner.
Mary Stevens Hospice Pantomime Company, All Stars Youth Club and Growing in the Park by Dudley Mind will all vie for votes to take the award.
The three organisations have been selected personally by the Mayor of Dudley, Councillor David Stanley, following hundreds of visits made across the borough during his year in office.
The award will be given out as part of the Mayor’s Ball and Civic Awards, due to be held at The Copthorne Hotel in Brierley Hill on Friday March 27.
Mary Stevens Hospice Pantomime Company is made up of a committed group of actors, dancers, backstage crew, directors and choreographers who give up their time and volunteer to put on shows in aid of Mary Stevens Hospice.
The group has now performed three sold out pantomime runs at Stourbridge Town Hall over the past six years with guest stars including Wagner from X Factor, BGT finalist Donchez and Benefit Street’s White Dee.
The most recent pantomime, Aladdin, played at the town hall to more than 3,000 people over eight shows at the end of last year. It raised a staggering £17,000 and has been shortlisted for “Best West Midlands Pantomime” in the prestigious What’s On Readers Awards.
Amanda Bowen, head of fundraising at Mary Stevens Hospice, said:
We are extremely proud of everyone involved with the Mary Stevens Hospice Pantomime Company.
From actors to backstage crew, costume dressers to sound and lighting technicians, we are in awe of their talent and commitment to the cause.
The funds raised from Aladdin and the other two pantos have helped us to continue to provide the vital specialist care to those in our borough who are at the end of their lives.
All Stars Youth Club caters for young people with special educational needs and disabilities, from the age of eight to 30 years. The youth club offers a range of activities such as arts and crafts, sport, cooking, day trips and residentials.
It is run entirely by volunteers from Himley Road Methodist Church on Tuesday evenings and costs £3 per session. In charge are mother and son Victoria and Kyle Harper, who is just 15.
It’s absolutely amazing to be nominated for this award, not just for me and my mom but for everyone who gives up their time to help out.
We want to expand the club and get even more people in, so hopefully this nomination will raise our profile a bit more and alert people to where we are and what we are doing.
Growing in the Park by Dudley Mind is an award-winning project which seeks to support people struggling with mental health issues through gardening. Anyone over the age of 18 can attend the sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays at Wollescote Park, where the group looks after the walled garden.
The project provides activities, skills training and friendship for people with, or at risk of, isolation and poor mental health.
Jill Hogan, horticulture projects manager at Dudley Mind, said:
Dudley Mind is thrilled to have been nominated for the Mayor’s Award for their Growing in the Park project in the walled garden at Wollescote.
Winning would be fantastic recognition for the gardening team who volunteer their time to maintain and develop the garden for the benefit of the whole community.
Some people join when they are at a very low point in their lives and find that working together, in the fresh air and seeing the results of their efforts brings friendship, new skills and a sense of achievement, helping to improve their own wellbeing in the process.
The public vote is open until Tuesday March 17, and people can vote at https://www.mayorofdudley.org.uk/mayors-award
Councillor David Stanley, the Mayor of Dudley, said:
We have three nominees this year and the public vote is now open, so I would urge people to get in touch and vote for their favourite.
Whoever wins will be fully deserving of such an award, and I look forward to seeing the result on March 27.
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Patrick Crayton: Before the Drops
By Adam McGill Published in FrontBurner January 15, 2008 9:20 am
As Cowboy fans enter Day Two of Mourning, they still look for the appropriate person, place, or thing to blame. Richie did an excellent job of spreading out the scorn. But as I watched on Sunday, it was obvious that at least one FOX telecast producer thought the largest chunk of responsibility fell on the shoulders (and slipped through the hands) of Patrick Crayton. Seems like there was a cutaway shot of Crayton on the bench after every single play in the fourth quarter.
Years ago, back in the summer of 2005, I had an idea for D to do a “What It Feels Like Feature.” If it sounds like it’s stolen from the pages of Esquire, it is. (I like to think of it more as an “homage” than outright theft.) In it, we would talk to Andrew Litton for What It Feels Like to Conduct a Symphony, Sai Gunturi for What It Feels Like to Win a Spelling Bee — stuff like that. I also wanted to know what it feels like to score an NFL touchdown. DeSoto-native Patrick Crayton seemed like a good guy to ask. At the time, he’d only scored one — a game-winning, last-minute catch against the rival Redskins in his rookie season. The piece never ran. But I offer Crayton’s retelling of his first touchdown here, for all to reminisce.
I didn’t feel any different that morning. It was the day after Christmas, though. Good Christmas with the family and everything, so. Got up that morning at the hotel, went back home for a second like I always do, get my stuff and everything, then I head to the stadium, like usual. Regular warm up and stuff with the wide outs, the receiver coach, the quarterback and everything. One of the things I always do, I’ve always done it since college, I always eat gummy worms before every game. Once we come back in from warming up and stuff I start to get ready, I eat my gummy worms, listen to my headphones. It was just a regular Sunday to me, basically. We were playing the Redskins, though, so it was a rivalry. We wanted to keep the winning streak we had against them going, other than that, it was a regular Sunday game. Just trying to get a victory.
[final minute] I’m on the sideline, my coach says Crayton, get in there. Get Cop out; he’s winded. I go in there, it’s fourth and 10. He calls F-Dig, which is a formation we have. I run it, it’s like a 16-yard square in. I get it for 15, it was fourth and ten. Keep the drive going. You know, for a few more plays. I’m noticing that Sean Taylor, throughout the whole game he and Keyshawn had been going back and forth. Keyshawn had gotten in his head, veteran that he is. We have a play against their cover-2. He’s supposed to be deep man, but he’s not paying attention to me at all. And the corner’s supposed to have a re-route and get the jam on me.
I wasn’t getting too pumped up. I was glad we kept the drive going, that was number one. We still had some time left to catch some passes if we needed to catch some in the middle, catch em there, get up to the line, spike it if we need to and what not. We’re on their 39 yard line now, so we’re in good field position. Come down. The corner’s supposed to get a reroute on my, help the safety out, so he can widen out. Well he doesn’t get any kind of jam or anything on me, and I just got on the sideline. We were told to get width, away from their safety. So I got my width on the sideline, Vinny laid out a perfect shot. Caught it in stride on about the six or seven. Walk in untouched.
I was thinking, it’s coming my way. Let me catch this and get in the endzone.
I told myself, if I let this ball go, I’m not getting it back. I wasn’t letting that ball go. Keyshawn was pointing to the goalpost, saying, “Dunk it.” I’m shaking my head, “No.” I’m not letting this go.
It was a real big thrill. Especially growing up in the Dallas area, that’s all you watch: Cowboys-Redskins. From Crazy Ray to those fans with the pig snouts on their noses.
Get back to the sidelines, everyone’s beating up. Flozell Adams knocked me down by the goalposts first. I get back to the sidelines, everybody’s hitting me in the head. It’s kinda crazy.
[after, interviews]
It kinda reminded of college, how it was in the national championship. But a lot bigger.
I actually slept pretty well that night. Pretty good. I didn’t really play it back in my head too much. My focus was New York. I enjoyed it that night, and then that next day, get ready for New York.
Patrick Crayton
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Welcome to the Blue, Darin Ruf & Darnell Sweeney!
The Dodgers have made their second trade of the winter. They sent infielder/outfielder Howie Kendrick to the Philadelphia Phillies for first baseman/outfielder Darin Ruf and minor league infielder/outfielder Darnell Sweeney.
As you'll recall, word recently spread that Howie Kendrick was unhappy with his role this past season as a roving left fielder/second baseman -- even though only four other Dodgers' (Corey Seager, Adrian Gonzalez, Justin Turner and Chase Utley) had more at-bats than him. Nevertheless, he wanted a more consistent position, and apparently the Phillies are able to abide. BTW, Kendrick has a one-year contract remaining at $10 million.
In exchange, we received two players who could very well fill that kind of utility role for the Dodgers next season. Per a Dodgers press release:
Ruf, 30, appeared in 95 games in 2016 for the Phillies’ Triple-A Lehigh Valley, posting a .294 batting average with 20 home runs and 65 RBI. He also played in 43 games for Philadelphia last season, batting .205 with three home runs and nine RBI, and has appeared in 286 big league games in five seasons with the Phillies from 2012-16, batting .240 with 35 homers and 96 RBI. He has done most of his damage against left-handed pitchers posting a .299/.379/.542 career slashline. In the Majors, Ruf appeared in 139 games (92 starts) at first base, one game at third base, 76 games (64 starts) at left field and 29 games (27 starts) at right field.
In parts of eight minor league seasons, Ruf has hit .295 with 184 doubles, nine triples, 95 homers and 414 RBI in 675 games, earning Eastern League’s Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year in 2012. The Omaha, NE, native was drafted by Philadelphia in the 20th round of the 2009 MLB First Year Player Draft out of Creighton University.
Sweeney, 25, returns to the Dodger organization after being sent to the Phillies on August 19, 2015, in a trade that involved Chase Utley. The Hollywood, FL, native spent the 2016 campaign with Triple-A Lehigh Valley, batting .233 with 17 doubles, five triples, six homers, 35 RBI and 12 stolen bases in 118 games. He saw his first big league action with Philadelphia in 2015, hitting .176 (15-for-85) with four doubles, a triple, three homers and 11 RBI in 37 games. Sweeney, who was originally drafted by Los Angeles in the 13th round of the 2012 MLB First Year Player Draft out of the University of Central Florida, has hit .272 with 124 doubles, 36 triples, 45 homers, 251 RBI and 134 stolen bases in 567 career minor league games.
It seems that Ruf is a potential answer to our left-handed pitcher problem that was so glaringly obvious this past postseason. He might potentially fill a role as a spot starter with an emphasis on pinch-hitting. Sweeney is another super-utility type of player who has yet to see his bat translate in the Majors.
In celebration of Ruf and Sweeney's trade to Los Angeles I made the above fantasy cards for them. For the Ruf card on the top-left I used a photograph grabbed from Zimbio/Hunter Martin/Getty and the 1957 Topps Baseball card design. For the Sweeney card on the top-right I used a photograph grabbed from Zimbio/Getty and the 1958 Topps Baseball card design.
Check out Darin Ruf's career stats below, via Baseball-Reference below:
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By ernest at Friday, November 11, 2016
Labels: Card Creations, Darin Ruf, Darnell Sweeney, Howie Kendrick
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The Elton John AIDS Foundation is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with a new Emergency Fund to support our frontline partners.
Key facts & figures
“No one should suffer from stigma, fear or lack of access to treatment anymore – everyone deserves the right to a healthy life.”
Elton John, Founder
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The HIV Commission urges action to end new hiv cases in england by 2030
Testing for HIV whenever blood is taken in England – regardless of the person’s gender, ethnicity or sexuality – is crucial to meet the Government’s pledge to end new HIV cases by its 2030 goal.
That’s the step change being called for on World AIDS Day (1 December) by England’s first ever HIV Commission, which has released 20 clear recommendations to meet this life-changing target that will see no new cases past 2030.
Because, while the Covid-19 death toll continues to mount and restrictions impact all aspects of daily life, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for England to end its five-decade long battle with another virus that has devastated far too many lives.
New data from Public Health England shows there are significant missed opportunities to accurately test for HIV – with over half a million eligible people last year not tested in sexual health clinics alone [1]. That’s why it is vital that testing becomes standard practice when registering for a GP, at routine smear exams, in pharmacies and in accident and emergency departments.
It’s estimated that currently around 5,900 people in England are living with undiagnosed HIV, which drastically increases the chance of unwittingly passing this virus on. Similarly, someone who receives a late diagnosis has an eight times greater risk of death compared to those diagnosed promptly.
The UK has been very successful in reducing transmission and in improving treatment so that people with HIV live normal lives. Now, the HIV Commission is calling for everyone to know their HIV status in a move to make the population more conscious of transmission. Without a significant step change in HIV testing, England will waste its opportunity to become the very first country to end HIV cases within the next decade.
The HIV Commission was established by leading charities Terrence Higgins Trust, National AIDS Trust and Elton John AIDS Foundation to help ensure consistent progress is made every year between now and 2030. Chaired by Dame Inga Beale, the commissioners’ wide ranging recommendations are based on available evidence and engagement with experts across England, as well as people living with HIV.
The commissioners are highly successful figures from sectors unrelated to HIV, including finance, technology, politics and business, and includes people who understand the realities of living with HIV.
Test for HIV whenever blood is taken
The message from the HIV Commission is clear: England is not on track to meet the 2030 target. This is despite all of the tools necessary to stop anyone contracting HIV, including HIV prevention pill Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), condoms, accurate and fast testing options, and effective treatment for people living with HIV that means the virus can’t be passed on.
But these highly effective prevention methods are being woefully underused – with vast disparities in awareness and access across different parts of the country and different groups impacted by HIV.
Worryingly, there were over half a million (549,849) missed opportunities to test eligible people in specialist sexual health clinics last year, according to Public Health England. Half of those (46%) were not offered a test, while the other half declined.
These numbers become even starker when you look at different demographics. Few gay and bisexual men refuse a test (4%) compared to 20% of Black African heterosexual women and 9% of Black African heterosexual men. This disparity comes despite these being the two groups most impacted by HIV in England.
These numbers led the HIV Commission to recommend no one leaves any sexual health services without being offered a test regardless of gender, ethnicity or sexuality. Being offered a test should not be something that’s seen as offensive or perceived as a moral judgement.
Highly respected bodies – including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the British HIV Association – already recommend testing across healthcare but the commission found this is not even close to being implemented.
Maternity leading the way on HIV testing
Maternity services are currently an exemplar when it comes to routine HIV testing, while other parts of our health care systems lag behind. Opt-out testing is routine for pregnant women and there is now a 99% testing coverage. This has led to almost no babies being born with HIV in England.
Now GP surgeries, A&E departments, termination clinics, pharmacies and gender clinics should follow suit – with the funding made available to do so. Many people will never attend a sexual health clinic but will regularly visit their GP while pharmacies are an ideal place to test for those in rural areas or smaller towns.
Over to the Government
The HIV Commission’s recommendations must now inform the Government’s own HIV action plan, including the allocation of sufficient resources and funding to drastically scale up HIV testing across England’s healthcare systems.
The Commission is also calling for the Government to further commit to an 80% reduction in new diagnoses by 2025, which would see cases drop from 2,861 in 2019 to fewer than 600 in five years’ time. That’s because it believes ‘finishing the job’ will be the hardest task.
If all of this is put in place, England will become the first country in the world to eradicate HIV after a five-decade long fight.
READ THE FULL REPORT
Dame Inga Beale, Chair of the HIV Commission, said: ‘Zero new HIV cases in England by 2030 isn’t a pipedream or social media-friendly date plucked from the air – it’s 100% achievable. That’s why, after a year of gathering evidence, I’m very proud to launch our HIV Commission’s clear and actionable recommendations. We are calling on Government to read, respond and set out what it needs to achieve each year between now and 2030.
‘Our vision for 2030 is a realistic one. It will require a significant increase in funding to enable the much needed step change in HIV testing across our healthcare systems, but will save our NHS money in the long run. Because only by testing everyone – regardless of ethnicity, gender or sexuality – can we truly normalise testing for HIV and make it a standard part of everyday healthcare. I’m excited to see this vision become reality.’
Sir Elton John, long-time HIV campaigner, said: ‘One thing we’ve learned this year is the importance of testing and testing for HIV is at the core of ending new cases of HIV in England. It’s so important for everyone to know their HIV status to protect themselves and others. Making HIV testing available and normalised throughout the health service not only means people can be treated but by testing becoming routine, this removes some of the stigma that’s holding us back.
‘The HIV Commission report released today highlights this as the overwhelming recommendation to reach the UK government’s commitment to end new HIV cases in England by 2030. We have the chance for England to lead the way and be the first country to end new cases of HIV. We must not miss the chance at this legacy.’
Anne Aslett, Chief Executive at Elton John AIDS Foundation, said: ‘The Commission’s report and findings stress that ending HIV in England cannot be measured by cost alone. But, in a world of competing priorities, cost is a critical factor. When an HIV test costs under £10, and data from an opt-out testing model in South London suggests that early diagnosis could save the NHS between £200,000 and £500,000 per patient diagnosed early, the implications of the Commission’s opt out testing recommendations in high and very HIV prevalence settings is really significant. This work can not only save lives, it can save precious funds too.’
Mercy Shibemba, HIV Commissioner and campaigner, said: ‘As someone living with HIV, I can say with confidence that it’s one of the most highly stigmatised health conditions there is. Our HIV Commission process found that those three letters – HIV – still strike fear in people’s hearts and make them too scared to come forward to test. If we’re to reach our 2030 goal of ending HIV cases, we also need to take the urgent and drastic action to address the stigma and discrimination still surrounding HIV outlined in our report. That includes addressing significant health inequalities to ensure no community is left behind. Because either all of us make our 2030 goal or none of us do – that’s how it works.’
Ian Green, Chief Executive at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: ‘Terry Higgins was one of the very first to die of an AIDS-related illness almost 40 years ago and this virus has devastated both lives and communities. Incredibly, we now have the end of England’s epidemic in our sights if we work harder, test more and grab it. World AIDS Day is an important time each year to remember all those lost too soon to the HIV epidemic – including Terry. But it’s also an opportunity to look to a brighter, achievable future where no one else receives that life changing diagnosis.’
Deborah Gold, Chief Executive at National AIDS Trust, said: ‘It’s extraordinary that we’re in a position, with the tools at our disposal and a clear roadmap from the HIV Commission, to end new HIV cases nationally in the next decade. To squander this opportunity would be unforgivable. We must make this a reality with urgent action now. The Government must provide strong leadership, additional resources and much wider access to HIV testing to set England on course to end new HIV transmissions. Let’s make sure we mark World AIDS Day in 2030 confident that we did all we could to reach this goal.’
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The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley delivered the Inaugural Address at India Investment Summit 2016 in Delhi on February 4, 2016. The Finance Minister also launched the Logo of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) on the occasion.
The Finance Minister said that India is definitely on the move. He said that whenever there was a global economic turmoil in the past, India has always showed resilience. He said that in the last 19 months, the present Government has taken various initiatives and has opened India's economy for investment in different sectors. He said that not only Central Government but State Governments and local bodies are working towards ease of doing business and make process transparent.
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Peace in Burundi, almost
Building from scratch
Hutus and Tutsis get along better
Middle East & AfricaAug 14th 2004 edition
ON EVERY corner, hopeful residents have piled building materials: clay and mud bricks, sand and cement. Amid the debris of a decade of war, new shops and huts are sprouting. Best of all, the men with guns are getting along well. Burundi's rebels used to hide in the shanty-towns of Bujumbura, the capital, prompting the army to unleash its indiscriminate wrath on the civilians they hid among. But now the rebels have swapped their khakis for government camouflage, and swagger through the streets with their former enemy. “Things have really changed,” sighs a war-weary but happy Burundian.
After 11 years and 300,000 deaths, Burundi's civil war appears to be winding up. It began in 1993 when a gang of renegade officers belonging to the minority Tutsi tribe murdered a president from the majority Hutus. In 2000, the Tutsi-dominated regime signed a peace accord that brought most Hutu rebel groups into a transitional government. That government's mandate expires on October 31st, when an election is supposed to be held. The poll seems increasingly unlikely to be held on schedule, but few people expect a return to war.
Sixteen of Burundi's 17 provinces are now quiet, thanks primarily to a deal in November 2003 between the government and the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), the main Hutu rebel group. Unlike previous ceasefires, this one not only held, but gave way to hand-in-glove co-operation between the FDD and the army to root out the most stubborn group of Hutu rebels, the Forces of National Liberation (FNL). Conventional wisdom had held that the FNL, a rugged force of farmers-by-day and guerrillas-by-night, could not be defeated militarily. But combined operations have squeezed its fighters into a small slice of territory south of Bujumbura. The FNL still refuses to negotiate with the government, but in June it contacted the head of the new UN peacekeeping mission in Burundi, who believes that the group can be talked round.
The country's economy is also bouncing back, albeit from one of the world's lowest bases. The UN mission and expatriate Burundians have brought enough hard currency into the country almost to eliminate the spread between the official and black-market exchange rates.
Yields of beans and rice, crops that grow quickly, are already up, and sugar and cotton should follow. Peasants are also paying more attention to their coffee plants, which account for 80% of Burundi's export earnings. Traders are even getting a measure of relief from army and rebel extortion. “They make gentle demands, and if you say no, it's okay,” says one businessman.
Burundi's Tutsi-run political parties make less gentle demands. Though only 14% of Burundians are Tutsi, they want a Tutsi vice-president with a veto on important decisions. Hutu parties, who have already offered them 40% of the seats in the national assembly, have refused. But, as the negotiations creep ahead with the help of patient UN mediators, at least the nation's soldiery is acting more like the servant of a civilian regime, rather than its master.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Building from scratch"
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Inspire young minds... at the Children's Festival
Visit the Edinburgh International Children's Festival More amazing Edinburgh Festival experiences
If you've never taken tea with a trio of wolves, then the Edinburgh International Children's Festival is just the place to start.
It's at this wonderful Festival that young minds will be thrilled, inspired and challenged by truly world class theatre and dance such as Little Red (above) from Barrowlands Ballet.
Companies from the UK, Europe and across the world converge on Edinburgh every spring to present work which is aimed at children without any compromise on artistic quality.
With shows for young people ranging from ages 0-18, there's entertainment and fun to be had, but also harder-hitting work exploring the issues faced by children and the world in general. For young fans of culture, the Children's Festival is an absolute must.
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Policy directors for top White House contenders discuss climate change, energy policy
Aired: Thursday, May 24, 2007
With all the focus being paid to climate change internationally, on Capitol Hill and throughout the United States, the issue will likely play a major role in the 2008 presidential elections. During today's E&ETV Event Coverage of a recent Brookings Institution panel discussion, policy directors for four major candidates discuss climate change and energy policy. Panelists include, James Kvaal of John Edwards for America, Denis McDonough of Obama for America, John Raidt of McCain 2008 and Todd Stern of the Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee. They discuss the candidates’ goals for climate and energy, whether nuclear and coal to liquids will play a part in future energy policy and whether or not the United States should wait for an international agreement on climate policy.
Rick Klein: Happy to be with you this morning, and thanks, everyone, for attending. This panel is going to be a little bit different than the last one. We're going to take some of the lessons we learned before, some of the things we know already, and move it into the context of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
And as you all know, this is an issue that's very ripe right now. We're not hearing a lot about it yet in the 2008 campaign, but we will continue to hear about it, and we've seen really this entire issue change over the last few years in a pretty extraordinary way, where there really isn't a major debate in Washington anymore over whether climate change is happening, it has moved to what we're going to do about it.
But there's been, I think most would agree, very little action on that front, and that's really where our panel comes in. We have representatives from four of the Presidential campaigns. I should also note that we extended invitations to the Romney and Giuliani campaigns and they declined to send participants, although they did express an interest in perhaps doing so at a later date. So I'd like to just briefly introduce the panel, and we'll get a discussion going, and then leave a lot of time for questions at the end. Starting right here on my right, we have Todd Stern, a policy adviser for the Hillary Clinton Presidential Exploratory Committee. Mr. Stern is part of the Wilmer Hale practice here in Washington and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
James Kvaal, policy director for the John Edwards campaign joining us today from Chapel Hill; thanks a lot for making the trip. And Denis McDonough, policy adviser for the Obama for America campaign, also with the Center for American Progress. And via video conference, thanks for joining us, John Raidt, who is a senior policy adviser for John McCain and a long-time aide to Senator McCain.
I'd like to start the discussion, just instead of opening statements, just asking everyone to go down the line with one particular question, and that is, what the single most important thing that the next President can do to address climate change. What are we going to see in the first hundred day, say, of the presidency of the various campaigns that you represent? Mr. Stern.
Todd Stern: Well, I would say most broadly, Rick, that -- I think that Senator Clinton would completely reverse the approach that this Administration has taken by reasserting the White House leadership, both the domestic, front, and abroad, and recognizing that we have a moment here, I think we have a genuine moment of challenge and opportunity with respect to the climate and energy issue. This Administration has been in a state of denial for the last six and a half years, and both oil dependency and the greenhouse gas problem has gotten a lot worse. I think Senator Clinton is a believer in solving problems and a believer that the American people rise to the challenge if they're given that challenge and they're given some leadership.
I think there's three ways fundamentally that you can reduce greenhouse gas; one is to significantly improve the efficiency in the way to use fossil fuels, second is to substitute out other kinds of fuel, other kinds of energy instead of fossil, and the third is to capture and sequester omissions from fossil, and she's going to move on all three fronts.
And I think decisively three I think main areas, policy areas in which she's proposing to do that, one is an aggressive cap and trade program, another is significant, robust efficiency standards for cars linked together with manufacturing incentives so that Detroit can get onto the field in a competitive way with respect to high efficiency cars, and then in addition, she propose a strategic energy fund which is really designed to kind of divert, move incentives away from oil companies into clean energy.
And then finally, I think that she's quite aware that this is a global problem that's got to be addressed globally. And I think the only viable way to go with that is, first of all, to reestablish U.S. credibility by enacting a convincing program here at home, a convincing mandatory program, and then in addition, an active effort diplomatically, at all levels, not just the broad U.N. level, but also the smaller groupings, like the G8, and in an aggressive bilateral diplomacy, in particular with China and other key countries.
James Kvaal: I would certainly agree with what Todd said, that this is both a huge challenge and a huge opportunity, that's how Senator Edwards sees it, as well. Global warming requires some dramatic changes without really rethinking how we power our economy in the coming decades.
We're going to have potential for tens of millions of refugees every year, ultimately hundreds of millions of people starving to death. So this is something that we need to start acting on now, but it also creates a tremendous opportunity for us by building what he calls the new energy economy.
We can create new jobs across American, we can revitalize rural areas with bio fuels, wind and solar, we can revitalize our manufacturing industry, we can take advantage of the same innovators that led the internet boom and are now investing in clean tack in Silicon Valley.
I think the single most important piece of that is putting a price on carbon omissions, to send the signal that our economy is going to be run different in the future. Senator Edwards has endorsed a goal of reducing carbon omissions by 80 percent by 2050, and that's based upon what the latest science says is necessary to prevent the worst impacts of global warming. So he thinks it's important that we take the steps that are necessary to protect our climate and not begin compromising before it's over. He also has proposed auctioning off $10 billion of these permits to finance the new energy economy fund, which would invest in renewal of energy, energy efficiency, and also help some industries make the transition to the new energy economy, the auto industry and the coal industry in particular.
So that I think is the single most important thing that he has proposed. And from the reaction that he's getting out on the campaign trail, I think people are ready for it. One of his biggest applause lines is that it's time to ask the American people to be patriotic about something other than war and to try and make the transitions we need to address global warming and shift to cleaner for energy.
Denis McDonough Thanks, Rick. If I had to put a word on it for Senator Obama's efforts on energy and climate, it would have to be urgency. I think that he recognizes very clearly that this is an urgent problem that we've now lost far too much time in addressing and that it can't, frankly, wait until he's in the White House, but when he is in the White House, he will make this a principal assignment that's handled, issue priority area that's handled from the White House itself that will allow a multi-faceted domestic energy conservation efficiency effort, coupled with a very aggressive international diplomatic effort, to make sure that no only are we taking the right steps, but the next generation of leading admitters are doing the same thing.
Let me just give you a couple of examples. I think, as both Todd and Jim said, that the easiest step that we can take is also the cheapest, which is efficiency. There's no reason that we can't save as much as 20 percent of the energy that we currently consume in this country by just being more efficient about how we use it.
Secondly, we have to ultimately look for alternatives to fossil fuel. And Senator Obama, again, is not waiting for 2009, January 20, 2009, he's actually moving now. He just introduced a very innovative alternative fuels standard, a low carbon fuel standard, that seeks to incentivize the use of lower carbon alternatives to oil and gas for our transportation fuels by setting -- mandating a very aggressive target at 2015 and 2020, so that we get to that point in 2020 where we're already well along the way toward the notional goal that Jim just talked about, which is an 80 percent reduction over 1990 levels by 2050.
And then lastly, it's just, as I think you'll hear from each of us, far past time for the United States to not only join the rest of the world, but lead the rest of the world in an effective cap and trade system that mandates very aggressive reductions, but also creates the incentives and creates the capital to make sure that we have revenue to fund the next generation of low carbon alternatives, be they electricity alternatives, transportation fuel alternatives. At the end of the day, the cap and trade is the start of that effort.
And again, he's not waiting for 2009 to do that, he's aggressively supporting as many proposals as he can in the Senate to get that done. And I think you'll see during the debate, in the Senate in June and July, his aggressive efforts to do just that. So at the end of the day, if I could put one word on it, it's urgency.
This is a problem that's far past its prime. There's not even any debate about whether it's a problem or not, which is actually progress in Washington, but it now has to be confronted with the urgency that it demands.
Rick Klein: Mr. Raidt.
John Raidt: Rick, thanks again for letting me join you, I appreciate the opportunity. I think if I would have to choose one word, it would be leadership. We're at a very critical time where the confluence of three great challenges, and the national security implications of climate change, the economic security of climate change, and the environmental challenges, we have this confluence of these three great challenges, and it's really going to take leadership to bring all sectors of a society together to move forward in a responsible way. Senator McCain is certainly no newcomer to this issue, he's been talking about it for a long time, and had a proposal in the Senate a number of years co-sponsored by a number of his colleagues including Senator Lieberman, and so he's been with this for a while and will continue to show the leadership necessary to move forward.
Rick Klein: I'd like to get into a little bit the way that we're going to see this issue play out in the politics of the primary campaign since we're in the midst of that right now. And I'd like to start with you, Mr. Raidt.
I happened to notice the other day, the Associated Press had been asking the various presidential candidates to name the last book of fiction that they read, and Tom Tancredo a Congressman from Colorado who's running for president said, "Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore.
Now, Tom Tancredo is, you know, not among the top tier of candidates right now, but there is a major segment of the Republican Party who continue to believe that global warming is not occurring. Obviously, James Inhofe's greatest hoax that was perpetrated on the American people line has become famous.
Does Senator McCain plan to challenge the other candidates on this issue, to say them it's no longer a question of whether it's happening, we have to move beyond the debate, and to get beyond the slogan on it? Can he do that without risking some kind of backlash in the Republic Primaries?
John Raidt: Yeah, I don't think he worries about backlash. He believes what he believes, he believes the facts are clear, the consequences warrant -- are moving forward, and other candidates are going to believe what they believe, and the best he can do is stick by his convictions.
He delivered a speech a couple of weeks ago at the Center for Strategic International Studies where he laid out his views about the importance of climate change and that we are past the debate on science.
There's always a rhythm to these issues, they go back to clean air after any of the major environmental laws that have been passed have been beneficial. First there's the denial that there's a problem, and then once that is over with, then people start talking about the fact that, well, let's study it some more, and then there's the voluntary aspect of it, and then it becomes partisan, and then finally, because the public is demanding something, we get over the partisanship and actually pass something that's necessary.
So I think this issue is going to take that same path as these others have, and I think Senator McCain will just continue to focus on what the facts are and what he sees as the path forward that's best for the country and let other candidates speak for themselves.
Rick Klein: Coming at it from the other side of the political perspective here is the idea of a carbon tax. And we heard Greg Easterbrook talk about it a few minutes ago, and certainly it's what all economists who studied this issue will tell you is the most effective way to go if you really want to control omissions.
It's not enough to do cap and trade, maybe you compare it with cap and trade, but really, a carbon tax is where it's at. We're hearing that from Senator Dodd on the campaign trail. To this date, I don't believe he's got anyone with him; why not? Let me ask the surrogates for the -- the Democratic candidates, why not a carbon tax, is it just too politically difficult to get through, do you think it's bad on policy grounds?
Todd Stern: Well, you know, I think that a carbon tax is certainly an idea that is out there and a lot of economists look at. I don't think there's quite as much uniformity as you might suggest. I think there's two ways fundamentally to, in effect, impose a price on carbon.
I think everybody, Denis or somebody said here that, or James, that what's crucial is putting a price on carbon so that people in businesses and everybody in the country acts accordingly and makes judgments accordingly. I think that's clearly right. You can do that through a carbon tax, you can do that through cap and trade. I think that cap and trade has a significant advantage over carbon tax in that you get a lot more certainty with respect to the ultimate goal, which is to limit the amount of omissions. So in a cap and trade, you say omissions can go to X level, and you have a greater level of certainty in doing that than you would with carbon tax.
Senator Clinton has a lot of focus actually on taxes, but her focus is on reorienting the way tax incentives work right now, which are way too heavily skewed toward the oil industry and oil companies, and her strategic energy fund proposal or legislation that she's proposed in that regard would, again, would reorient those tax incentives toward clean energy, and her sense is that that's the best way to go right now.
Rick Klein: James, why not do both?
James Kvaal: Well, I'm not sure I see the advantage of doing both. You know, they are -- I think this idea out here that if you were brave and honest that you would be doing a carbon tax is not necessarily true.
As Todd said, a cap and trade -- well, I mean the way I look at it, a carbon tax is a tool to get at your goal by raising the price of carbon, but it doesn't actually set the goal itself. A cap and trade system sets the actual goal and provides some certainty that you will actually achieve the level of omissions that you're looking for. It's not -- you don't have to guess at what level of tax to set. So I think that's a big advantage of a cap and trade, especially when we're dealing with an issue as important as global warming, where we really don't want to step across the red line and create, you know, the vicious cycle of feedback effects that could be irreversible.
Another advantage of a cap and trade system is that it's consistent with the rest of the world, and so I think it's going to be easier for us to go to other countries and put our commitments on the table and show that they're comparable to their commitments if we have a global cap and trade system.
Rick Klein: Denis, I'd like you to address, and also if you can talk about how do you avoid the pitfalls in the European model; do you have any ideas?
Denis McDonough You know, Rick, it's a good question. It's astounding to me that sometimes when it's time to emulate something that's happening in the rest of the world, we say that, well, they failed at it so we're going to fail at it, too, when, in fact, the American -- more often than not is that regardless of how the rest of the world does that, we can succeed at it.
And I think the cap and -- the EEUETS is a perfect example of that. I think that there is gallons of ink being spilled on American papers at the moment about how failed that system is, and as a result, how failed our system would be, as well, when, in fact, a more pertinent and more accurate experience is the sulphur market and the acid rain market in the northeast and over the last two decades here in this country, which got to reductions by using a cap and trade model, got to reductions much quicker, much more cheaply, and much more effectively than we might have -- than all the nay-sayers were saying at the time.
So at the end of the day, I think we ought to certainly take advantage of the experience that has been developed in Brussels through the EEUETS, but there's no reason that we should think that the country that came up with a very effective model on acid rain cannot do exactly the same thing as it relates to carbon omissions.
Rick Klein: John, if you want to address what you think about a carbon tax.
John Raidt: I would; and obviously, Senator McCain has been a foremost proponent of cap and trade. The problem with a tax is that it won't work, it'll end up just raising money for the government, for bureaucrats, there's no guarantee where that money would go as opposed to setting a standard that has both economic and environmental integrity and letting America do what it does best, and that's innovating -- to meet a goal.
This idea of just slapping a tax on, it doesn't hold water, and I don't think it has support among the public, nor does it have support in Congress. So cap and trade is a market driven, proven, we've done this before, we can do it again and get it right.
Rick Klein: I wanted to talk a little bit about other energy sources that we could be developing here, and a couple of questions, first with regard to nuclear; do you see a role, do your candidates see a role, a major role for nuclear energy as part of an effort to achieve energy and dependence? And we'd love to throw around the slogan about energy independence, energy security. There's been a lot of concerns about nuclear over the years, have those concerns been answered? Maybe to vary it up, we'll start with Denis, if you don't mind.
Denis McDonough Well, I think that Senator Obama believes that, particularly in a carbon constrained economy, where we are taking account of the -- urgently taking account of the impact of carbon omissions on the world, that nuclear should be on the table. At the same time, however, there's a lot of different things that -- principally three big variables that need to be addressed, and first, obviously, is some kind of resolution on waste.
Senator Obama has been very solidly against using Yuka, and it seems to be that the insistence of the Administration on that has helped create this paralysis on getting some other workable solution.
Obviously, there has to be a very aggressive effort to increase public confidence, and waste is one variable of that. And ultimately, we also have to make sure that we're doing a better job on reactor safety. So, look, it's got to be on the table, particularly in a carbon constraint, but it's not going to get there unless we can resolve these three outstanding questions.
Rick Klein: James, does Senator Edwards see that nuclear is part of the equation?
James Kvaal: He's said that he does not think that we should be building more nuclear power plants until we resolve the waste question. Obviously, there are a lot of problems with the Yuka Mountain depository, which is what we've been pursuing now and spent billions on, and there are still questions about whether it can be kept safe from water, which is a primary threat, of course.
And so in his view, we should not be building more nuclear power plants until we know that we can dispose of the waste safely.
Rick Klein: Do you think that's realistic, Todd, to talk about this without talking about nuclear?
Todd Stern: Well, no, I think Senator Clinton thinks that nuclear has a role. I think, once again, there's a lot of violent agreement running around this room. But I think that her view is probably quite similar to the one that Denis just expressed with regard to Senator Obama.
Nuclear right now supplies 19 percent of our electricity. If you imagine that those plants just faded away, you'd have 19 percent of the nation's electricity that suddenly was -- if it wasn't replaced by renewables, it would potentially cause more greenhouse gases going to the atmosphere. So you've got plants that exist, you've got plants that have to get their licenses in some cases renewed. I think that it needs to be part of the equation, but you've got four big issues which are cost, safety, proliferation, and waste, and all of those are going to have to be dealt with.
So I think that Senator Clinton sees this as part of the equation, but with some very difficult questions that need to be wrestled, but that we need to wrestle with, not just that we should say they're tough questions, so we shunt it aside, but that we've got to wrestle with them.
Rick Klein: John, any thoughts on nuclear? And let me throw a clean coal in the mix, too. There's another one that we see some disagreement, whether it even exists, whether clean coal technology is realistic to expect.
John Raidt: Right; first on nuclear, Senator McCain has been a long standing proponent of nuclear power. He doesn't believe you can be serious about the problem of global warming and not serious about the nuclear part of the answer, and as Todd had mentioned, is 19 -- 20 percent of our current electric production, and the fact of the matter, it will be going away, because as the plants start decommission, that's going to get a lower and lower and lower figure, and unless we build more plants, it's not even going to maintain its 20 percent figure, which again, in this carbon constrained world, it's vital that it be a part of the mix. So when you look at other countries, whether it's Belgium, or France, or Japan, and see the percentage that they're using, America knows how to -- we've got over 100 plants, we need to be able to replace and build more to meet our goals. And I think that's why you see a lot of former opponents of nuclear power taking another look at it.
The former head of Greenpeace has become somewhat of an advocate, and others, so it's clear we have to do this.
Speaker: -- whether it even exists, whether technology is realistic.
Speaker: [inaudible] long-standing proponent of nuclear power. He doesn't believe you could be serious about the problem of global warming and not serious about nuclear as part of the answer. As Todd had mentioned, it's 19 to 20 percent of current election production and the fact of the matter is it will be going away because as plants are decommissioned, that's going to get a lower and lower and lower figure and unless we build more plants, it's not even going to maintain its 20-percent figure which again in an carbon-constrained world it is vital that it be a part of the mix.
When you look at other counties whether it's Belgian, France, or Japan and see the percentage that they're using, American -- we've got over 100 plants and we need to be able to replace and build more to meet our goals and I think that's why you see a lot of former opponents of nuclear power taking another look as the former head of Greenpeace has become somewhat of an advocate and others.
One more thing on nuclear, Senator McCain, among the first items that he -- remember Congressman Udall was a great advocate of the environment, he and Udall worked together on nuclear power and building plants that can be standardized and Udall saw the importance of nuclear to the future given air quality and climate, et cetera, and so it is important to move forward.
On the coal issue, we've got to be able to use our abundant resources of coal. As a matter of energy security, it's just essential. Senator McCain in his speech at CSIS talked about countries, including China, being able to use our abundant coal sources in a way that meets our environmental needs -- it's essential.
Speaker: Clean coal? Yes.
Speaker: Rick, let me just put one thing on the table, too, before we go to -- which is the overall usage of electricity in this country can actually come down. I think you have heard that in as Todd would say violent agreement. In California they use half the per capita kilowatt that the rest of the country does. Denmark has seen robust growth over the last 10 years despite the fact that their energy usage has basically remained the same. So efficiency is vital.
Secondly, on clean coal, I think that Senator Obama has been very clear that coal will have to be used in this country. He has also been very clear that things like coal to liquid should be on the table when we can sequester the carbon greenhouse gas byproduct of that technology. Last year China brought online as much electricity capacity as there exists in the entire U.K. So in 1 year China has brought on so much robust electricity capacity to fuel that growth in that country and it is overwhelmingly powered by coal. So if we can't get the technological advances and the innovation that will lead to not only our using coal cleaners but also then leading the world to use coal cleaners and in so doing generate jobs on this side of the ocean, then I think we're all going to be in a world of hurt. So clean coal technology is definitely on the table. It's going to take some leadership in the White House, and that's exactly what he's going to do.
Rick Klein: Any other thoughts of any of the panelists on coal?
Speaker: Yes. I would say unlike nuclear where nuclear plants are very expensive to build and take a long time to build and are never going to be a large part of our solution, like it or not, we're going to be using a lot of coal for a long time. We have a lot of it. So we need to find a way to use coal in a way that does not contribute to global warming.
Senator Edwards has proposed requiring all new coal plants to be built with the technology we need to capture carbon emissions so that those carbon emissions can be pumped underground. We don't have all the technology we need to do that successfully. Senator Edwards has proposed spending a billion dollars a year to accelerate that technology as quickly as possible. But at the same time, we need to start building coal plants now that have the capability to capture these carbon emissions because if we let coal plants get built now without that capability, we're locking in decades of very high carbon emissions levels.
Speaker: A few points on coal, and we do have a little moment of disagreement on this point, not on the broad front. The broad front is coal is absolutely a critical part of this equation. Eighty percent of our electricity is generated by coal which translates into about a third of all of our carbon emissions in the economy. They were not that many years ago talking about coal as part of the solution. Coal is sort of a dirty word in more ways than one, but it is a critical part of the equation now because it's a plentiful and cheap fuel and we're not going to banish it overnight or even for the next decade. So we have to pursue it.
The elements of the technology are all there. What hasn't happened is that they haven't been put together and demonstrated at scale and in full-blown demonstration plans. That's got to happen. The MIT report, a very good report, came out recently on the future of coal and calls for I think something like five domestic facilities, full-scale facilities in different geologic circumstances and overseas as well. Senator Clinton has called for $3-1/2 billion I believe to support RD&D, research, development and demonstration for such plants as part of her strategic energy fund and this needs to go forward rapidly.
The one little point of disagreement I would say is that I think Senator Clinton would be at least skeptical about the coal to liquids equation. Coal to liquid is a high-carbon creating form of fuel. If you don't sequester the carbon, it's about twice as polluting as oil, and even if you do sequester 90 percent of the carbon, it still going to be a bit more polluting than oil.
We have two challenges here which is oil security, we want to depend less on foreign oil but less on oil altogether for national security and other economic reasons, but also the climate challenge. We don't want to solve one, the oil security problem, while creating a bigger problem on the climate front. So at least some healthy skepticism on the coal to liquid side.
Rick Klein: One more round before we move to questions. This round I would like to start with our one Republican. Sorry to pick on you here, John. What can the next administration really do, and tell me what specifically President McCain would do to exert leadership on this question? Because as we know when we talked about the growth in energy use in China and India and others, if we do this alone, we are not going to be addressing climate change. We can get others to follow our lead, but that's a lot different. As step one obviously we're doing what we're talking about on this panel. Step two I would imagine is getting the world to follow. What can President McCain do on that level?
John Raidt: That's correct, and as Gregg had pointed out, we didn't anticipate that China's image would exceed ours for quite some time -- happens next year, it may even happen this year. What Senator McCain has said is that there are many reasons domestically why we need to have a cap and trade system and reduce greenhouses again as a matter of energy security, as a matter of environmental security, and as a matter of economic security. The technologies and the processes and energy sources that this would need going forward, that America should be at the forefront of developing those. So I don't think he thinks we should wait until the rest of the world acts for us to exercise traditional American leadership. So there are plenty of domestic reasons why to do that. I think that as we do that for our own reasons, reaching out, and as president I'm sure this is what he would do, reaching out to other countries not only as a matter of commerce, but here, we have the way to do this, to be able to have the abundant economical and environmentally safe technologies that we can sell the rest of the world.
And then I think one of the things that his bill does is allow us offsets from other areas. In other words, if you have a cap and trade system, that you're able to buy credits elsewhere. I think that naturally will involve other markets, et cetera, but I think it is a matter of, one, doing it because it's the right thing for America to do, exercising our leadership, and then working with other countries to bring them in not only just as a matter of politics but a matter of commerce.
Rick Klein: How about using trade pacts as a way to bring environmental standards and force other countries to boost their standards?
John Raidt: That is always a very sensitive issue because free trade is an important thing from any standpoint and it's always difficult when you complicate it with a lot of other issues that tend to make trade agreements never happen which is a negative for the United States. But I think on its own merits, the rest of the world is perceiving a need and an interest in doing this. I think just as you get over the learning curve and the urgency that is apparent to us, it's going to be apparent to other countries as well. I know China has a long, long way to go as does India and other countries, but I think they are going to come to see the importance of this for their own self-interest as well.
Rick Klein: How about President-Elect Edwards? What will he do to exert world leadership, to get the world to go along?
James Kvaal: There is no question that it's a critical part of solving this problem. He says that the first step is of course to get our own house in order and we are now one of three countries that is not signed on to Kyoto. So the first step is to start making some real commitments of our own to restore our own standing.
The second step is to offer to work with some of these countries and share the energy efficiency and the clear energy technology that we're developing and that is something that will not only help them along the road but also create markets for exports for American businesses. Finally, yes, if we're having trouble bringing along, he has said many times that he believes trade deals should have labor and environmental standards and he is open to making global warming commitments a part of that.
Rick Klein: Denis?
Denis McDonough I think that Senator Obama would see trade agreements and environmental standards as a very useful tool. I also think that when you looked at, Todd talked about developing the technology for carbon sequestration, the European Union currently has a pilot project that they're working with China on. There is no reason that we shouldn't be looking for ways innovatively to develop this technology overseas, obviously keeping in mind our intellectual property rights which is also astounding why the administration took 6 or 7 years to enforce the existing WTO agreement with China.
And then just some very simple things. The Export Import Bank reported last year in its annual report that it supported the export of $16 million in low-carbon energy from this country and upwards of $4 billion in hydrocarbons, simply backwards. At a time of huge profits for the oil companies we have the full bureaucracy of the American government aggressively supporting the export of technology for hydrocarbons. It's not the way it should be.
Consider further that the United States, the biggest economy in the world, if the fourth-largest producer of wind technology. It's lower than that on solar. These are tomorrow's technologies. You're looking at according to the Stern Report in any case by 2050 a half a trillion dollar market year on year. We ought to be getting a piece of that market, but we ought to be doing it today using the tools that are at our disposal, not underwriting the export of hydrocarbon, highly carbon-intensive technology, but looking at tomorrow's technology and tomorrow's jobs to make sure that we're doing it.
Rick Klein: Todd?
Todd Stern: First of all, I agree emphatically with the comments that Denis just made. I think that we ought to be using our export credit agency and I think we should be encouraging other OECD countries to be doing the same thing. I think we should be encouraging the World Bank to do much more in the way of financing the right kind of energy and not the wrong kind of energy. I think all of that is absolutely right.
On the broader and diplomatic question I think again there are two fundamental things that need to happen. First is that the U.S. simply has to establish its own credibility here and that means enacting a really serious and convincing domestic program. I don't think these things happen in sequence, I think these things happen in parallel, but that's got to happen so that the U.S. has a voice at the table based on what's doing itself.
Secondly, it has to in fact reengage in a way that it absolutely has abdicated. There was sort of a signature moment early on. I digress for half a second, but Bill Antholis and I wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post a month or so into the administration saying that Bush could be Nixon in China on this issue, but he of course went exactly the opposite direction.
The U.S. has to get back into the diplomatic area at all levels which is to say not just at the broader multilateral level, although it does need to go there, but it also needs to engage at smaller groupings. Tony Blair at the Gleneagles G-8 meeting 2 or 3 years ago brought in several of the top developing country emitters, climate change was a central focus of that meeting, and brought China, India, and Brazil and some of the others into that meeting. That is an important kind of forum for interacting and I think that the U.S. has to develop a very serious bilateral approach to key countries and in particular China. China and the U.S. are the 800-pound gorillas here. There is just no question about that. We have a common interest and this is an area where a real partnership is possible done the right way, but the issue has got to not go to the bottom of the talking points and the bottom of the list of the president's priorities, but have to be a central part of U.S. diplomacy at the bilateral, the small multilateral, and broader multilateral levels.
Rick Klein: I would like to turn to questions for the remainder of our time here. We've got about 20 to 25 minutes, so hopefully get some of them answered. Feel free to address questions to individual panelists or to the panel more generally. There in the middle in the gray shirt?
Richard Meyer: Thank you guys very much for coming. My name is Richard Meyer from American University. Tom Friedman has been writing a lot about the climate and energy issue lately and he has been quoted as saying green is the new red, white, and blue. By this obviously he means that the focus on green and environmentalism, specifically on sustainable technologies, alternative energies, and leadership on the climate change issue could really propel America and specifically the candidates running for president forward in the race for president.
Specifically he means by this we can create new jobs, keep America competitive in the international world on a globalized scale through new technological exports, and also build new diplomatic relationships. He characterizes this as a national security issue, global warming as a health issue, it's a religious issue, and it's an energy issue.
I wonder as a general question about how all the candidates feel about taking this approach looking at this. I guess I'll just throw it all at you guys since I'm nervous up here. Thanks.
Rick Klein: Does that contradict what anyone is talking about here?
Todd Stern: I entirely agree. I think Senator Clinton would entirely agree with that general orientation. Tom Friedman has been one of our most important writers in this area. It's not that many years ago when it was very difficult where the national security did not recognize this issue as really a central part of their focus and I think is dramatically changing. I was saying to somebody before the panel began that we are I think really in the middle of a tipping point kind of moment and more and more people have seen that. Bill alluded to the really interesting report that a group of I think 11 former generals and admirals put out recently which focused entirely on the national security threat not of the oil problem, that's also very real and very legitimate, but of the climate change problem per se and talked of climate change being a threat multiplier of security risks particularly in unstable states. So it is kind of uniquely maybe a problem that knits together economic national security, environmental, and if you will moral concerns, and I think Senator Clinton sees it that way.
Rick Klein: Any other responses?
James Kvaal: I would just add that it certainly has been a centerpiece of Senator Edwards's campaign. It was one of the very few priorities that he mentioned when he announced that he was running for president last December when he gave a very detailed speech on it and one of his first policy speeches was global warming. But also it is important to recognize that's much more than a political issue, and for Senator Edwards he sees this as something that can't wait after the election and so he has tried to involve people in addressing the climate change issues now. He is running a carbon neutral campaign, he is not the only one I don't think, but he announced that he going to attempt to have a zero emissions political campaign. He has a group of volunteers called One Corps which has held I think two National Days of Action to use energy more efficiently and address global warming issues. And he went to the National Step It Up rallies that were held last month. So it is a very important political issue, but it's also much more than that, it's something that we all need to start addressing now.
Denis McDonough I would just say that I think Senator Obama agrees fully with the Friedman doctrine. I think frankly something that's even more interesting that was written in the popular press in the last couple months was the Sports Illustrated edition that was fully dedicated to this challenge and that the world's largest ski resort in Bolivia will no longer be skiable in the next several years. Mr. Friedman is from Minnesota as am I and when I was home at the holidays there was no ice fishing this year for the first time that I can remember in a long time.
So this is a challenge that is here now, hence the urgency, and for each of those reasons we have to do something about it.
Rick Klein: John, any thoughts? Does Senator McCain see this as a patriotic issue?
John Raidt: Absolutely. I'm at the University of California at San Diego with the venerable Scripts Institution and a lot of the early climate research was done under contract from the Office of Naval Research. This is a national security issue on many angles. We talked about the consequences and I think Tom Friedman has mentioned that as well. But I think the important thing to focus on is that the details matter. What we do and how we do it is going to have consequences and usually they have unintended consequences and so we need to be very careful how we move forward.
I would just say from a Republican perspective too one thing I think we do have to be careful of is the age-old issue of throwing money at the problem. I think Senator McCain's view is that government's role is to set a framework, set standards, and allow the private sector to use its skills and capital flows with innovation to meet it. We have been through six major oil shocks since World War II and I think in recent history the big issue is you have an energy bill and that usually makes a promise to spend a lot of money and here we are in ostensibly the same position that we were at the 1972-1973 oil shock. So we need something that changes it and we've got to stick to our principles.
Rick Klein: Right here in the second row, blue shirt.
Mark Flanagan: Thank you. Mark Flanagan from the State Department. I just had a quick question for the entire panel if you don't mind. France, Europe in particular, but France especially most recently has taken some strong action with new President Sarkozy appointing Alain Juppe as a very powerful new Minister for Sustainable Development basically linking environment, transport, and energy policy. In terms of your administrations, would you look more toward a re-engagement with Europe on climate change issues and what would your administrations think of this type of more concrete action from the federal level? Thanks.
James Kvaal: I think that President Obama, I don't know if he would create a Ministry for Sustainable Development, but there is just no question that this has to be a fundamental part of every agency in the government. This has to be, again sticking to this urgency, something that at the end of the day informs all the decisions that are made at various agencies.
Now I think that at the end of the day also that the North Atlantic Alliance was fundamental to the last several security challenges that threatened us during the 20th century, and into the 21st century this is one of the principal threats. So there is just no question that we ought to be working more closely with our European allies, learning from their mistakes, frankly, but also learning from their successes.
Todd Stern: I would make one comment. Absolutely I think we have to be engaging in a very serious way with our European friends. I don't know that you were specifically asking about whether we ought to be creating a similar kind of agency here, but I just want to comment. I think that the U.S. system the kind of interagency process that done right gets thrown out of the White House can be very effective and was actually a strength for us back in as I recall back from the time that I served with President Clinton and worked on this issue, because we were able to bring together agencies that had an economic focus, that had a science focus, that had a diplomatic focus, and an environmental focus, and have everybody in the room at the right level and hash out and hack out what the policy should be. And I think that I very much recall a perspective being at Kyoto in 1997 and Buenos Aires in 1998 where a lot of the other governments in Europe really had kind of offshored the issue to their environmental agencies, period, without a lot of input from the economic side of the equation, and I thought that wasn't useful. I'm not saying that the Europeans ought to do it the way we do it, they've got their own traditions, but I think if you've got the right kind of leadership, which is to go back to a word I emphasized at the very beginning for Senator Clinton, I think that the right kind of leadership out of the White House can absolutely make our system work and work well.
Rick Klein: Further questions.
John Raidt: I would just say on that issue, too, that classic bureaucratic fights should be a thing of the past. All the oars should be pulling in the same direction where our national interest is involved, and I think with respect to the question from the audience, cooperation is important where it make sense, but I think also competition can do a lot. Again, where we see this as a means of capturing markets and trading the products and the processes and everything that goes with it that the world demands that that can get a lot done too. So we do need cooperation where it makes sense, but let's not forget the competition aspect of it as well.
Shannon Beebe: Shannon Beebe, Department of Defense. I wanted to a little bit to the CNA report and view the environment and climate change through a security paradigm. Conspicuously absent from what we have discussed is what we can do here and now from an engagement standpoint with areas that are most affected by climate change, most affected by environmental shock. A lot of my work deals with Africa and of course the floods over there, the droughts, things like that, when Anthony Zinni was Central Command Commander he had a team that dealt with environmental security as an engagement strategy and his saying was, "I do two things as a commander, engagement in war fighting. If I do engagement right, I don't have to worry about the war fighting." I'm just curious why there hasn't been more discussion of leveraging a dynamic taskforce or partnership not only within DOD but across the interagencies as well as the World Wildlife Fund and some other agencies to go in as a proactive type of a paradigm and in a constructive manner as opposed to an exclusive type of foreign policy and a destructive type of paradigm. I would like your thoughts on that.
James Kvaal: Actually, Senator Edwards is giving a speech tomorrow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that addresses a lot of topics, but this is one of them and you may want to check it out.
Rick Klein: No preview?
James Kvaal: Wish I could. I don't do foreign policy.
Rick Klein: We've talked a little bit about this as being a security issue and a defense issue as well. How does it interact do you think?
Todd Stern: I think that in the CNA report as I alluded to earlier, the report talks about climate change being a threat multiplier and part of what it's talking about is precisely the kind of vulnerabilities that the questioner referred to, things like water shortages, things like disease, the vulnerability of countries for example in sub-Saharan Africa is quite dramatic. The way paradoxically or just unfortunately I suppose this issue interacts with the world is that countries that are the poorest and countries that are the most in need are precisely the countries that are at the greatest risk. So I think that an absolutely vital part of the diplomacy, and I think this is going to be very much part of Senator Clinton's approach, is going to be to factor in countries that are at real risk. The reality is we have to talk about in the vernacular of this issue, both mitigation and how to reduce the carbon footprint here and all over the world, and adaptation because there are places where like it or not if we did everything right tomorrow, the climate system is such that there are already built-in problems that aren't going to go away and they're going to get worse and we are going to have to spend real energy both at a human level and a national security level.
There is an interesting article in The Atlantic from April I think that talks about some of the climate underpinnings to the Darfur crisis and these are very real problems, very real national security problems both at a human and national security level and we've got to pay attention to that.
Rick Klein: Questions?
John Raidt: If I can comment on that, Senator McCain has talked quite a bit about the link between security and its nexus of climate and fostering global security which is a direct assault on our national security. General Jones who is the Commander for EUCOM talked about the importance of the interagency in doing what he was doing within his AOR and having not only DOD at the table and the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, and Energy, and Commerce and a whole other agency to be working within the AOR as -- to help solve issues, to help be an early alert system to what problems that the locals perceive and try to stop problems before they arise, and I think that's definitely the approach that Senator McCain would be interested in [inaudible] president.
Speaker: Rick, let me just say one thing on this, too.
Rick Klein: Sure.
Speaker: I mean, I think that Senator Obama couldn't agree more with what you said. I mean, you have at the moment -- the OECD did a recent set of case studies where it said that 60 percent of some existing ODA in some countries is at climate risk. So, 60 percent of what we're investing today is not even taking into consideration the likely meteorological impacts of a change of climate. So, be that mitigation or adaptation or simple overseas development assistance, we have to do a much better job of that. So, I think you'll see him calling for exactly that kind of assessment to make sure that at least when we're digging the hole here we stop digging to make sure that we're investing the little researches that we are investing at the moment in in the right way.
And then additionally over that -- that's why he's called for a doubling of the foreign assistance and overseas development assistance accounts so that we can invest in exactly these things so that you don't get into the failed states and the dark corners where some of these very threatening characters lurk and where they plan.
Rick Klein: Right here on the end in the tan blazer.
Darren Samuelson: Hi. Darren Samuelson, reporter from Greenwire. In the 2000 presidential campaign, President Bush said that he supported poor pollutant legislation controlling CO2 emissions from power plants. Although I didn't really question him on it and it really wasn't a campaign issue in 2000, hearing you all today, you're all sounding very similar at least from one Republican and the three top Democratic front runners. How do you make this more than just a teach-in for the American public and actually make this a presidential campaign issue?
Rick Klein: That's a really good question, and I'd add one element. I mean, do we run a danger If the candidates -- if the major party candidates agree on this, do we run the danger of missing an opportunity? I mean, if this isn't a point of distinction between the candidates, will it not become an issue in the presidential race to the degree that people really understand the challenge and what has to be done about it?
Speaker: I think that's one of those good problems. I think if we have, you know, strong commitment, I think the strong commitment you've seen from all the Democrats is really something that's quite exciting and unprecedented, and from some of the Republicans as well, and if we have a general election where the question is how fast and how quickly do you cut carbon emissions, I think that's great.
Rick Klein: But does that -- I mean, to throw it out to the other panelists, does that change the equation in Congress if we have a White House [inaudible]?
Speaker: I think the Republicans should nominate Tom Tancredo.
Todd Stern: No, I -- you know, I think it's -- I actually think that -- as I said before, I think that a -- that there's really been quite a dramatic move among the public between 2000 and now, which is borne out in the wrong manner of polling, which is borne out by just looking at magazine covers that are on the newsstand every other month, whether it's News Week of Sports Illustrated or Vanity Fair for the third time or -- and obviously the success of Vice President Gore's movie and the likes. I think that this issue is -- has moved way up on the scale.
If you end up -- I mean, if John's candidate, Senator McCain, is a Republican nominee, for example -- I mean, he's got a great record on these issues and if any of our candidates is nominated you're going to have -- you're going to have a lot of agreement, so you're not going to have people fighting so much, but I think it will still be -- I think this is a -- this issue has caught fire in a completely different way than was the case seven years ago and so that it will still be important, but obviously if they're not sparring over it, it will have less juice in that respect.
Speaker: I think Todd's right. I would only say this. I think we -- but I don't think any of us do, but let's not underestimate the difficulty when you get into the details of how this happens. I mean, there is a certain -- and you get -- commerce and industry are coming around. You can -- obviously since 2005 -- that other date that's important in climate history was that since the Senate resolution that passed saying let's have mandatory constraints that don't significantly harm the country - all that is very good stuff, but when we get into the details of exactly what's required and then the special interests on K Street and elsewhere start bubbling up, I expect there will be fights, and we all know this is, again, a very serious economic and environmental business. If this were easy, we'd have done it a long time ago. So, I think there will be plenty of time for dissent -- healthy dissent.
You know, I think some of the skepticism that's expressed by others -- you know, it -- whether it's Tom (inaudible) -- and that's good for the system. I mean, we should be able to answer the hard questions and be able to answer those who still need to be convinced. And, again, the critical massive support within the public, which is the key to getting something passed, is rising. But this is going to be difficult stuff.
Speaker: I would just say that I mean I think that -- I've been in Washington only about 10 years, but I've never seen an issue that the Capitol was so far behind the public on. And it is so evident, and I think each of the candidates hear this when they go out to campaign, they hear it at home, they hear it in letters.
I would just say two things. One is President Sarkozy -- we heard about him before. One of the top three issues he mentioned -- he's the conservative candidate in France. One of the top three issues he mentioned he was going to dedicate his presidency to was climate change.
Second thing is I happen to be in London late last year when Tony Blair gave his last Queen's Day speech, which is where he outlines his plan -- writes [inaudible] plan up in a speech and the Queen delivers it to the Parliament. It was going to be his last and it was his last Queen's Day speech. A tremendous political brouhaha broke out, because the Tories got to the left of Labor on climate. Labor was not setting a hard enough, fast enough, soon enough targets to reduce carbon emissions. I think that's a good thing, so at the end of the day I think that political change where it's hard to tell that on this particular issue the difference between the conservatives and the liberals in many developing economies -- I don't think that that's far from where we are, and I don't think that's a bad thing by any means.
Rick Klein: Yeah, right down the middle.
Charles Trots: I'm Charles Trots. I'm a free-lance economic consultant. Just a few days ago for some of us there was some interesting news, and that is what some of us think might be (inaudible) something like a climate problem, and that is the move by the Administration to have the law to sea ratified. It's only 30-some years since that was, I thought, courageously put together bipartisanly in the 1970s, but it was torpedoed by President Reagan, and nobody had the courage to try to bring it up again except on the periphery. But it's encouraging, because that was the realization that the oceans were common property resource. The atmosphere is also a common property resource, and that battle went through a number of issues. It's not just trying to save the manganese nodules and pay royalties on those, but it had to do with fish stocks. We've lost the (inaudible) in the Grand Banks and the (inaudible) banks. Those stocks are now, some people think, beyond resuscitation.
Do you think that this is a joke? Or is there a really serious attempt, because this would be one way to rally the full international community into a common approach to the climate change problem?
Rick Klein: Any thoughts? I see a couple of signs here. Anyone?
Denis McDonough Senator Luger certainly made this a signature issue. Senator Obama serves on the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Luger has been pushing this treaty now for several years, and at the end of the day here we -- it's 67 votes, so at the moment I think there's pretty widespread support for it. I don't know if it's got 67, but I think adding the climate change view toward it certainly won't hurt.
Speaker: Just one small comment. I echo what Dennis said and just say as a general matter that any movement in the direction of being able to actually ratify these sometimes quite good treaties that get done internationally would be terrific, and if you -- it could at least serve as a useful precedent [inaudible].
Rick Klein: One last question. Yeah, there on the end.
Chad Dobson: Chad Dobson from OXFAM . It was good to hear about K Street being raised when we talked about the details, and I guess I'm wondering from the panelists how we'd make sure that the forests in this country and abroad are being considered during the transition and as we move forward in this, because they don't have the K Street lawyers and I'm concerned that when we deal with the details they may not have standing that we need.
Rick Klein: [Inaudible].
Todd Stern: First of all, I want to make clear that I did not -- was not for a moment suggesting that there wouldn't be all sorts of fights. I just was suggesting that if the Republicans actually managed to nominate John McCain that there wouldn't be so many fights between the presidential candidates. There's always plenty of fights as these issues go forward.
With respect to the question, though, I think a number of the bills that have been proposed so far, for example, include elements of -- [inaudible] trade bills I'm talking about -- include elements in which some of the permits that would be distributed would be auctioned as well as just divvied up. An auction -- and some of those auction's funds would be -- it would be particularly set aside for people who are hard hit, for people who are poor, and I think that kind of -- Senator Clinton is a cosponsor of a couple of those bills, and I think that -- I think that that kind of orientation and that kind of focus is important here, and it's obviously important abroad.
I mean, the question from DOD raises a similar kind of question. I mean, we cannot -- we will not be successful internationally if this issue is perceived as being in sharp conflict to the needs of development. I mean, there's an enormous number of people around the world who don't even have electricity. I mean, there's a shocking of number of people who live on extraordinarily low amounts and so these issues -- this can be done.
I mean, there -- we don't have to replicate the industrial revolution pass that we took to energy. There are better ways to get energy, but the message can't be you're not going to get it, we do have it or that the way to fix climate change is to keep you down. It's never going to -- it's just not going to work, and it's not the right thing to do, and I think that would be Senator Clinton's orientation.
Rick Klein: Senator [inaudible] says a lot about poverty, but I haven't him talk about this issue as it relates to poverty. What do you think?
Speaker: It is, obviously a central issue for him -- poverty -- not just in the United States but around the world, and I do think that the good news here is that there are substantial resources available to address some of these questions. If we -- you know, if we were to sell the carbon emissions permits, by some estimates that's $50-100 billion a year that's available, and there's a lot we can do with those resources. Some have suggested payroll tax cuts to help low-income people adjust to higher energy prices if there are higher energy prices. You know, some of the -- there's clearly some industries in some areas that are going to feel the transitions more than others, and that's true here in the United States and it's also true in other countries which, seen from the IPCC reports, the impact is disproportionately felt in poor countries, and in some ways we're fortunate to be living where we are. So, there's no question that those distributive questions have to be central as we're designing how [inaudible].
Rick Klein: OK.
Speaker: I would just say that the world's poor don't necessarily have K Street lawyers, but they do have OXFAM , they do have Catholic Relief Service, they do have very aggressive advocates who are looking at exactly this question and have raised it in this context, which is people least responsible for the greenhouse gas stock that's currently in the atmosphere are most vulnerable to the immediate impacts of it and are least able to spend money to mitigate it -- at the end of the day are ultimately going to create a whole series of national security threats not only in their own countries but here. So, it's -- an instance of overlapping national interests here, and I hope that we can get down to work, resolving it.
Rick Klein: John, some final words?
John Raidt: I would say particularly there's costs on both sides. There's the cost of inaction and what global warming does and it affects some of the most vulnerable populations cross the world, and then there's the cost of action -- are you raising the cost of energy? That's what makes this -- you know, you have to be very careful about what we do and how we do it, and I think the great hope is inhibition driven by cap and trade , talking about in telephony countries that never had the money to put in lines for telephones, this technology skipping, going right to sell. It's cheaper, it's easier, and our hope is that the inhibition driven by cap and trade , what America is great at, to develop the types of products and energy sources and ways of using energy that are cheap, economic and have both -- have environmental integrity and that that is something that as a great hope that I think we can afford to.
Rick Klein: Well, good.
Thank you very much to our distinguished panel today. Thanks to Brookings for fostering us. Thank you all for coming. I think this was an illuminating discussion, and we appreciate it. Thank you.
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EFL Remembers: Royal British Legion - the story of Joe Mercer
Through November this year, the EFL and all 72 member clubs are uniting.
They will pay tribute to fallen servicemen, women and former players as part of Remembrance Sunday commemorations and the First World War Centenary, with the 18th November marking 100 years since the end of the Battle of the Somme.
Read more: Click here to read more about EFL Remembers
Across all of the 72 member clubs between 12-19th November, there will be a minute's silence and an EFL wreath laid on the pitch prior to kick-off to remember and honour all of those that have fallen in battle.
As part of the commemorations, we have linked up with the Royal British Legion’s ‘Sport Remembers the Somme’ campaign to share just some of the stories of footballers from league clubs who fought in the First World War.
Here, we tell the story of Joe Mercer...
Shot, gassed and a POW - brave Joe Mercer’s War
Joe Mercer was never the same again after the war. The Nottingham Forest centre-half was wounded, gassed and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war. Apart from his injuries, he suffered psychologically and died before his time aged 37. His stoic bravery was typical of many who fought at the Somme.
Born in 1889 in Higher Bebington, south of Birkenhead in what was then Cheshire, Mercer became a bricklayer at Burnell’s Ironworks, Ellesmere Port. A clever 13st 6ft 2in centre-half who took no prisoners, he played for the factory team and Ellesmere Port FC before being snapped up by Nottingham Forest in 1910.
A football for his little son
England manager Joe Mercer's earliest memory was his dad coming home from the war. Joe Mercer Snr, a stranger, walked in, undid his kit-bag, pulled out a football and gently lobbed it to his four-year-old son. It was an apt beginning for Joe Jr, the man who would win league titles as an Everton and Arsenal player, create the great Manchester City side of the late 1960s and see the England job pulled from under his nose in favour of Don Revie.
Sergeant Joseph Powell Mercer Snr hadn’t been a bad player himself. But never fully recovered after he was wounded at the Somme, shot again and gassed at Oppy Wood in 1917, captured and spent 18 months in three German PoW camps.
"He's good but he’ll get us thrown out of the league"
Everton too had been interested but when a scout went to watch him play, Mercer was a little too rough with the opposition. William Cuff, who would manage at Goodison Park for 17 years before becoming chairman between 1921 and 1938, reported back: "He's a good player all right, but had get us thrown out of the League!"
Forest were struggling in the nether regions of the Second Division but it did not stop Mercer developing into an impressive player in his 149 games and he was said to be close to an England cap.
In the summer he would come home to work on the building sites. And despite being a star at one of Britain’s oldest clubs, when he married Ethel Breeze in 1913 he put his occupation down as bricklayer. Joseph Jnr, the first of four children, arrived five days after war was declared.
Just over three months later, on December 16, 1914, a day after the 17th Middlesex 1st Football Battalion was established, Mercer Snr travelled to London with Forest teammates Tom Gibson and Harold Iremonger and joined up.
Surviving three POW camps
Surrounded by some of the best players in England, Mercer was in and out of the 17th's team, playing against Reading in front of 3,000 during training and again several times behind the lines. In August 1916 at the Somme, he he was hit in the head by shrapnel. Two months later his Forest teammate Private Tim Coleman joked about Mercer’s style of play when he wrote to the club: "Joe Mercer is just getting into form again, you know what that means. Look out for another Big Push."
Promoted to sergeant at Oppy Wood, after 20 months at war on April 28, 1917, he was gassed, hit in the shoulder and shot in the leg when his unit overran a village and became isolated. He lay in a shell hole for hours under a British artillery barrage and was captured by a German machine gun party as he tried to find his way back to his line.
In 1919, back in Ellesmere Port, Mercer gave an extraordinary account of his survival in three PoW camps to the Chester Observer, which strangely failed to print a single word of his words, preferring to deliver the story in reported speech. Here is an edited version.
"He was taken to... Langensalza [central Germany], a three days’ journey by train. The food was such that no wounded man could tackle it at all. He was pleased to see Britishers helping in the hospital and Jim McCormick, Plymouth’s right half-back.
"The food...was terrible and often included raw fish and black bread. Only the Russians could eat it, and they were almost at starvation point. Sergeant Mercer states it reminded him of Woodward’s Sea Lions [a famous travelling show].
"[In] Giessen [north of Frankfurt]...five-a-side football contests were arranged. They had to buy wood from the Germans to make goalposts and nets were string taken from parcels from England. The commandant at Giessen was usually very fair and held the British up as a pattern to other nationalities in the camp for their cleanliness.
"Sergeant Mercer left [for] Meschede [near Dortmund] on 17 March 1918 and his new camp was known to be one of the worst in Germany. Those who lived through this ordeal were in a terrible state, but quite 25 per cent died, and as many as five Britishers were carried from the train dead on arrival at the camp. No one had been allowed to take them any food, the prevention of disease being the excuse made by the Germans, and special guards were provided carrying switches of barbed wire with which they used to strike at any prisoners trying to take food over the fence.
"One day, a man brought in a bath of so-called soup and the starving prisoners absolutely mobbed him. There was such a rush that as soon as one man got a bowl full it was upset in the crush and all the soup was wasted. The camp accommodation was [for] 10,000 and this number had increased to 22,000.
"The Germans pillaged the prisoners’ supply of medicine. A tunnel was made with a view to escape but it was discovered and prisoners from the whole barrack, about 250, had to do 21 days "dark cells" in batches of 30.
"Sergeant Mercer was not ill-treated himself and says that the Germans never tackled anyone strong. He adds that it was fine the way the Britishers stuck together under all circumstances and if a man is a prisoner of war it soon brings out the bad or good in him. Except for the stiffness in his arm, Sergeant Mercer is sound in wind and limb, and soon hopes to be able to take up football in real earnest."
Never lived to see his son's football glory
But of course Joe Mercer was never able to play properly again. He went back to Forest then signed for Tranmere Rovers in 1921, playing 21 games in their first season in the Third Division (North). Mercer Jr was not impressed. "I watched my father play for Tranmere and I did not think he was much of a footballer – he did not dribble!" he said. "Yet his old pals tell me that he was a better footballer than I ever was!"
Joe Mercer Jr won three league titles and an FA Cup with Everton and Arsenal, played five times for England, plus 27 games during World War Two when he was a PT instructor at Aldershot and internationals were not recorded officially, and in 1950 was the writers footballer of the year.
He led Manchester City to their greatest successes before recent times, winning promotion to the First Division in 1966, the league in 1968, the FA Cup in 1969 and the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970. In 1974, he was caretaker manager of England for seven games before the job was given to Don Revie. If only the old man had been there to see it.
When Joe was 12, Mercer Snr died aged just 37 after a spell in a sanatorium, his physical and mental health destroyed by the sufferings of his war.
Remembering the Somme
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The Royal British Legion is calling on communities across the UK to take the time out from their daily lives to honour those who fell. We have created a Somme 100 toolkit which contains everything you need to organise a Remembrance event in your community.
Make your own commemoration to Sergeant Joe Mercer or one of the other casualties of the First World War by simply placing a virtual poppy in their memory on the Every Man Remembered website.
This story is reproduced with thanks to the Royal British Legion – to read more stories like this visit their website here.
For more details about Football Remembers and the EFL’s activity commemorating the centenary of the First World War click here or search #FootballRemembers on Twitter.
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Heath Pearce Q&A
May 11, 20105:31PM CDT
Melanie Jarrett
FCDallas.com
FC Dallas defender Heath Pearce has been chosen among the 30 players U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley has selected for the squad’s preliminary roster for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Pearce will join the U.S. National Team training camp in Princeton, N.J. on Sunday following FCD’s contest at Philadelphia. The U.S. squad will train there for two weeks, playing friendlies against the Czech Republic and Turkey before the final 23-man squad is announced on June 1.
A native of Modesto, Calif., Pearce joined FC Dallas in September 2009 after spending four years playing first with FC Nordsjælland of the Danish Superliga and later with Hansa Rostock of the German Bundesliga. He has started every game for FC Dallas during the 2010 MLS season, appearing as both a defender and a midfielder on the left and right sides.
We caught up with the 25-year-old Pearce, who has more than 30 caps with the U.S. National Team, just after learning of his selection.
FCDallas.com: How does it feel to make the 30-man U.S. roster?
Heath Pearce: It’s a great feeling, it’s an honor. It’s been a long four years that I’ve been part of the U.S. National Team and to be able to be part of this final 30 is a great honor. I’m really excited about going into camp.
FCDallas.com: Going into camp, what will be your focus on the field toward proving you deserve a spot on the team?
Pearce: I think going into camp my main idea is to take each day one at a time and make the most of it each day, to remember that it’s things that I’ve done prior to this that have gotten me there but it’s going to require a lot more to make that final 23.
FCDallas.com: If you were to make the squad, what would it mean to you to represent your country at the World Cup?
Pearce: To represent my country at the World Cup is the highest honor you can have in soccer. Any time that you put on the jersey and you’re representing your country, no matter what the game is, you’re an ambassador for the sport and an ambassador for your country. You have to wear it with pride, and to be able to do that at the highest level would be a dream come true.
FCDallas.com: How important is your play this spring for FC Dallas toward your chances of making the squad?
Pearce: I think it’s extremely important. I think the most important thing is the results we’re getting as a team. Any time that you’re getting the results as a team and doing well as a team, it’s always going to make individuals look better. It’s always important to be consistent and continue to develop, and I think FC Dallas has really helped me to become a better player. So in terms of increasing my chances, I think it’s about getting the results that we’ve been getting and putting ourselves in a position to win each game.
FCDallas.com: Has it helped you to play multiple positions for FC Dallas and perhaps show your versatility?
Pearce: I think it’s definitely helped me become a better player because any time you can play multiple positions it gives you a better chance of being selected. With the World Cup looming, to be able to show that I can play multiple positions can only increase my chances.
FCDallas.com: Regardless of whether you make the World Cup squad, how does the experience of playing with the USMNT improve your game?
Pearce: I think it’s just the overall level of training and level of games. The international level is just a whole other level from the club level, so to play with the U.S. National Team and train with them day in, day out like I have on numerous occasions, it steps your game up. It teaches you to play fast, think fast and really increases your confidence to be able to play at a level with players that you see playing on TV every weekend.
FCDallas.com: You’ll be leaving the team after the Philadelphia game to head to training camp – with the team on a win streak right now, any mixed emotions?
Pearce: I think the team has been doing really well. I feel like I’ve helped contribute to getting results, but I also think that we have a number of players who are able to do that, and during that time that I’ll be gone I know there’s a player capable of stepping in and being a contributor right from the start. It’ll be sad to miss the games that I’ll be missing, but on the other side it’s been a real honor so far to play for FC Dallas and hopefully I’ll get to play many more games with them.
Also see: Pearce uses versatility to earn U.S. call
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Star Trek: Picard – a few thoughts ahead of the season 1 finale
26th March 2020 | by Daryl Baxter | Comments
A few spoiler-y thoughts on the first season of Star Trek: Picard as it heads towards its final episode.
Spoilers for Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: The Next Generation lie ahead.
This weekend sees the concluding episode for the two part finale of Star Trek: Picard‘s first season. This is the series that, of course, has seen the return of Patrick Stewart in the role of ‘Admiral’ Jean Luc Picard.
The series has attracted a mixed reception at best. There are some who find it a real return-to-form, others less convinced. Whichever side of that debate you land, it’s certainly been an audience success. For me, after the episode with Troi and Riker, a pace seems to be building, especially so with the two-part finale, which concludes on Friday.
Overall, I’ve enjoyed it, but it’s not been without faults. It feels like there’s a better series in there than we’ve actually got.
Examples? There have been very sudden changes in character development across the season, not least with the character of Raffi. Picard’s former first officer, during the Romulan evacuation mission we see her suddenly leaving the crew, visiting her distant son in one episode, getting rejected, coming back to Picard’s crew on the ship, and then in the next episode we see that she’s now locked up in her quarters. It’s very fast, very sudden, and it’s not allowed time to build empathy towards the character. It feels as if the writers have quickly scribbled Raffi’s backstory in, and in turn that feels quite jarring.
It’s not unique to Raffi, either. Other characters are affected, and there’s a sense that some episodes are left feeling really quite rushed. Also, threads such as the romance between Soji and the Romulan struggle to land.
I’d argue that there’s an issue with the central character, too: Jean-Luc Picard. Granted, it’s been 20 years since we last saw him in Star Trek: Nemesis, but it feels as though we’re watching Sir Patrick Stewart play Sir Patrick Stewart in places. Which is, of course, a lot of fun to do. But also, I can’t lose the feeling that there are scenes where Picard would have said things slightly differently, regardless of his irrelevance in these times at Starfleet.
These may be first-season faults that can be worked on in future seasons, and you may well disagree with them. Star Trek: The Next Generation certainly had early teething problems before it hits its stride (albeit in an era where a show had more space to make an impact). But for me, I wonder if it’s time to introduce other characters who better work with Picard now, once this ‘season of the synths’ concludes.
Perhaps, then, we may get one or two of the following in Friday’s finale, or in season two of the show. Characters who can help build the show up.
Q: It feels like a sure thing for Q to appear once again. He was last seen in Star Trek: Voyager, but with Picard, they last appeared together in the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘All Good Things’. At that point, Picard had been put on trial for ‘crimes against humanity’, but throughout his time-bending mission, he was also given the news that he had a degenerative brain disease. Yet towards the end of the episode, as things were coming together, Q had uttered the line “see you, out there”.
But is he out there? And could he make a return in the Picard finale? Q and Picard have always been a fantastic double-act, no more-so than the episode ‘Tapestry’ in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6. It makes sense for the trial to be ongoing behind the scenes, and maybe what we’ve been seeing has perhaps all been another test, similar to the finale of TNG. With Picard under house-arrest, while Seven-Of-Nine and her crew are working to fix the Artefact, it looks like a huge conflict is about to begin, so to see Q in the middle of this would be a great cliffhanger to take us towards season two.
Guinan: It’s already confirmed that Whoopi Goldberg is reprising the role of Guinan for the second season of the show, after Patrick Stewart invited her to return. Picard and Guinan have had a friendship that has differed from anyone else in Trek, even Data. It’s similar to having a close friend but seeing them as a relative; a close brother or sister, completely platonic.
With the crew of three currently, alongside Seven of Nine and Elnor, it would be a breath of fresh air to have someone like Guinan appear now and again throughout the season, to help give Picard some guidance, especially with the degenerative brain disease he now has. And it’d be a welcome surprise to see Goldberg back in the Picard finale.
Ever since the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ‘Q Who’, it’s been implied that Guinan and Q have history too, and even powers to possibly defend herself against Q. The return of that conflict is something that season two of Picard could well pick up.
The Enterprise: With an armada from Starfleet seemingly on its way thanks to Admiral ‘F**king Hubris’ Clancy, it would be very welcome of course to have the newest Enterprise appear in some fashion. By now, the ship that was in Nemesis has surely been decommissioned, so to see a ‘1701-G’ appear, perhaps even with Wesley Crusher at the helm to rescue Picard and crew, could be a great way to end the season. There were great moments in ‘All Good Things’, where Picard in the ‘fake-future’ and ‘fake-past’ was taking it all in. The ship, the crew, and sitting in the captain’s chair. To see him on the bridge of the Enterprise again, alongside Q appearing, would be a great way to end it on a cliffhanger.
Next Generation ended with a poker-game, and Picard began with a poker-game. Whether the season ends again with more cards remains to be seen, but it’s where the show sends the character of Picard next that feels the most tantalising. He may well go back to Starfleet as an Admiral, but I do think that Data won’t be coming back. He’s almost become a character in the same vein as Uncle Ben, Anakin Skywalker, and Tony Stark. They’ve all had an important reason as to why they died, and if Data was to come back, it may take away all that anguish and pain that has been a running theme of Picard, and his friends so far.
Job one though for Picard, at least for me, is to tighten the pacing and narrative. And to give us a finale and second season that shows us just how Picard can soar at Warp 9 again…
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Features Blogs Flashpoint
By Peter Sells
Jan. 7, 2014, Toronto – It has been pointed out to me that the apparatus involved in the Nipissing, Ont., incident was a pumper, not a tanker as I described in my blog of Dec 31. I apologize for that inaccuracy; I was using information from media reports. That’s not an excuse, I should have done my homework more thoroughly.
Also brought to my attention is the fact that section 22 of Regulation 340/94 under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act says, in part, that a firefighter holding any classification of driver’s licence (other than the junior classifications in the graduated system, and not considering motorcycle licences) may drive a motor vehicle of any class, including a vehicle equipped with air brakes, other than a motorcycle, on a highway in an emergency and in the performance of his or her duties.
The same regulation allows police officers the same rights, which is understandable when you consider the original intent. Both amendments to the regulation were enacted in March 2003, as the SARS outbreak was in its first wave, primarily in the Toronto area. The main intent was to allow firefighters and police officers to drive ambulances, which they would not otherwise be licenced to drive. At that time, all services had to adapt to the unanticipated situations brought on by SARS. For example, classes were cancelled at the Ontario Fire College to mitigate the chance of someone bringing a contagion along that could then be widely distributed across the province. Paramedics were in short supply. Some had been quarantined due to fear of early exposure. Patient contact was being minimized as much as possible, which created a need for cops and firefighters to take the driver’s seat in many ambulances.
So, although the intent of the amended regulation was not to allow firefighters to drive apparatuses without the proper licence, the letter of the regulation implicitly does allow exactly that.
There is no way to fault any fire officer in Ontario for taking advantage of this loophole in an emergency, provided that the firefighter is properly trained and familiar with the apparatus.
The danger of relying on this loophole – a loophole big enough to drive a fire truck through – is that the employer is drifting away from taking “every precaution reasonable in the circumstances to protect workers.” That language is excerpted from the Ontario Occupational Health & Safety Act, which supersedes all other legislation (“Despite anything in any general or special Act, the provisions of this Act and the regulations prevail”), including the Highway Traffic Act.
A convenient exemption could potentially create a less urgent need to get licencing done, which could then evolve into an unwritten standard practice. That’s not finger pointing, it’s simply human nature.
Let me extend my thanks to the two readers who helped me correct and update this blog. This is not about bureaucracy and covering municipal assets – it’s about fewer funerals for young firefighters.
Retired District Chief Peter Sells writes, speaks and consults on fire service management and professional development across North America and internationally. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the University of Windsor. He sits on the advisory council of the Institution of Fire Engineers, Canada branch. Peter is president of NivoNuvo Consulting, Inc, specializing in fire-service management. Contact him at peter.nivonuvo@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter at @NivoNuvo
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Moderna Named Top Employer by Science for Fifth Consecutive Year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2019-- Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced it has been named one of the global biopharmaceutical industry’s top employers in Science and Science Careers’ 2019 Top Employers Survey for the fifth consecutive year. Modernawas ranked 11th on the list this year.
“Moderna’s recent positive Phase 1 readouts from our cytomegalovirus vaccine and chikungunya antibody therapeutic show both the caliber of our science and the relentlessness of our teams to push forward bold ideas,” said Stéphane Bancel, CEO at Moderna. “Many thanks to our employees who have helped make Moderna a Science top employer for five years in a row.”
Since its inception, Moderna has been committed to diversity and creating an environment where all employees can do their best work. Each year, the company has added new industry-leading benefits, including 16 weeks of paid parental leave and 16 weeks of caregiver leave, a sabbatical program that offers four weeks of paid time off after five years of full-time employment with the Company, paid time off for volunteering, and subsidized childcare and public transit.
The annual employee survey evaluates companies in the biopharmaceutical industry in categories such as leadership and direction, work culture and environment, and academic and intellectual challenge. The Science and Science Careers’ 2019 rankings were based on a total sample of 7,658 respondents. The vast majority of survey participants came from North America (72%), Europe (19%) and Asia/Pacific Rim (7%).
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Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. mRNA medicines are designed to direct the body’s cells to produce intracellular, membrane or secreted proteins that have a therapeutic or preventive benefit with the potential to address a broad spectrum of diseases. Moderna’s platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing the Company the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and cardiovascular diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Moderna currently has strategic alliances for development programs with AstraZeneca, Plc. and Merck, Inc., as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past five years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.
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MRAs Aren’t Just Terrorizing Women — They’re Hurting Men, Too
The very first International Conference on Men’s Issues happened over the weekend, in the unlikely surroundings of a VFW Lodge in Detroit. The thought of a bunch of men’s rights activists converging to swap stories of how good women have it these days isn’t one that fills anyone with joy (unless they’ve been on the Reddit red pills for a while), and I’m loath to give it any more publicity — but fuck it, the event has already happened, and it provided a pretty good snapshot of where the MRA movement, such as it is, is at in 2014. And, perhaps most frustratingly, its very existence basically precluded any sensible discussions of the issues it professed to address. Good job, everyone.
It’s easy to write off MRAs as lunatics — any group who can call feminism “a multibillion-dollar hate industry” isn’t exactly asking to be taken seriously, especially since I’m writing this on a day when the Supreme Court just decided that a corporation’s right to believe in whatever bullshit it likes is more important than a woman’s right to insurance-subsidized birth control. If you want proof that the world is still biased very much in favor of men, have a read through Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent on the Hobby Lobby case, and then meditate on this for a bit:
There are many things to dislike about r/RedPill types. Many, many things. But here’s the issue: quite apart from their hatefulness, they do their “cause” — such as it is — absolutely no good at all. As with extremists in many other areas, they hijack and polarize a discussion that is worth having.
Clearly, on balance, you’re inevitably better off being a man in this world than a woman. Quite how much so varies depending on just where you are — there are openly patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia, where the extent of women’s oppression is extreme and unapologetic. But even right here in the good ol’ US of A, it’s a whole lot better to be the average man than the average woman, just like you’re better off being white than a person of color, and heterosexual and cisgender than anywhere on the LBGT spectrum, and so on. The world we live in is one in which being a straight white man is pretty great; being anything else is pretty fucked. So has it ever been.
This isn’t, of course, to say that there aren’t areas in which it’s disadvantageous to be a man — especially if you happen to also be a person of color. The prison population is the example that springs to mind immediately: in 2008, one in every 18 American men was in prison, compared to one in every 89 women. (And, of course, the vast majority of those men are black.)
Intuitively, you’d think that gender relations are the archetypal zero-sum game. Anything that elevates men oppresses women, and vice versa. If you accept this view, then you see why MRAs feel the way they do about feminism: by the same rationale, anything that elevates women oppresses men, and thus feminism is by its very nature bad for men. It’s a short hop from this to thinking that it must therefore be driven by hatred of men, which explains the fondness in these circles for throwing around the word “misandry” at regular intervals.
This, of course, is bullshit. A society in which both men and women can flourish is substantially healthier than one in which both sexes are shoehorned into predetermined, arbitrary roles for which they may well be ill-fitted. What feminist theoreticians refer to as the patriarchy is exactly this: as Carole Pateman writes in The Sexual Contract, it’s a society wherein “the patriarchal construction of the difference between masculinity and femininity is the political difference between freedom and subjection.”
If MRA types and sympathizers stopped with their anti-feminist drumbeating, they’d perhaps realize that this is a system that helps almost no one. Clearly, it privileges men above women. But it also privileges a few men above most other men. If you don’t fit the mold, you’re out of luck. And I don’t just mean that this is the case if you’re a sort of stereotypically effeminate boy who doesn’t like football — look at how traditional institutions of masculinity, like the military (and, um, the football team), demand conformity.
The point that patriarchy oppresses men as well as women isn’t exactly a revolutionary one — but it’s one that’s studiously ignored by MRA types, who prefer to blame women and, particularly, feminism for their woes. In this respect, nothing has changed in 2014, because the conference on “men’s rights” seemed to entail more bitching about feminism than finding solutions to what were ostensibly its central issues.
Our friends at ANIMAL New York drove out to Detroit for the conference, listening in on the press conference. The results make for fascinating, if depressing, reading — because, again, there are kernels of truth lodged in the avalanche of shit. In amongst a bunch of declarations along the lines of, “Radical feminism is without doubt a female supremacy ideology that’s driven by misandry; a hatred for men and boys” and “It’s time to stop talking about overturning a patriarchy that doesn’t exist,” there are points that have at least some currency.
The thing is, there’s no causal link between feminism and any of the issues that the MRA brains trust (lololol) identifies as problems that disproportionately affect men. Most of these problems are systemic, and long predate the existence of feminism, let alone the supposed existence of “female privilege.” Young men have been dying by the thousands in stupid wars for millennia, for the empowerment and benefit of other men. (MRAs should actually see feminists, who fought to put women on the front lines alongside men, as their allies on this issue.) The decline of traditionally male jobs, and the alienation that’s induced in a certain male demographic, is a problem precisely because there are traditionally male jobs — in other words, because of the existence of predefined gender roles to which both sexes are expected to conform.
The family court, another favorite point of MRA anger, is another manifestation of the patriarchy — women tend to be granted custody, and men expected to provide child support, precisely because women are expected to be carers and men providers. The prison industrial complex uses male bodies as free labor for the enrichment of a privileged elite… who are pretty much entirely white men.
And so on. These are problems that afflict men more than women. Does this mean that men are somehow uniquely disadvantaged in society? On balance, no, of course it doesn’t. Anyone who wants to argue otherwise is someone who’s possessed of the ability to perform mental gymnastics like blaming the mother of a kid who records a video talking about how much he hates women, then goes out and shoots a bunch of women, as if the whole thing is somehow her fault. (No, I’m not making this up — you can watch the video via ANIMAL.)
But these are issues. And their solution lies in the abolition of the patriarchy — something that’s just as true in 2014 as it was not even a century ago, when women first won the right to vote in the US. If the assclowns who profess to care about their fellow men just want something to complain about, feminism will always be a convenient scapegoat. If they want to actually fix the problems they’re complaining about, though, they need to stop blaming women and start looking in the mirror.
(Feature pic: Aymann Ismail/ANIMAL New York)
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Poyet: Fair play table is unfair on Black Cats
By FourFourTwo Staff 14 March 2015
Sunderland head coach Gus Poyet has blasted the Premier League's Fair Play Table, branding the system "unfair".
In addition to struggling to stay out of the bottom three, the Wearsiders also find themselves at the foot of the Fair Play league with 198.25 points.
Points are awarded based on six different factors: red and yellow cards, positive play, respect for opponents, respect towards the referee, behaviour of team officials and supporter behaviour.
No side has accrued more yellow cards than Sunderland, who have 85 to their name and have also scored poorly in terms of the conduct of Poyet and his backroom staff.
But Poyet said: "I don't care who's in charge of the fair play rules, but they're not fair. It's an invention. Somebody told me we were bottom, but I don't know how they give the points. I don't know if they're from Newcastle. It's so superficial.
"I've not seen anything that makes me think we're dirty so why we're bottom I don't know. I'd like someone to explain. But there would be no explanation, just words that don’t make sense. I don't accept it. I don't care what they say, it's not true.
"Maybe when I wave my arms about it's minus one. Maybe the club will have to tie my arms behind my back. How do they come up with the points? How many points is it for spitting at someone, three million?
"Yellow cards are part of the game. What about the spitting, stamping, head-butting and elbowing people in the face? Until two months ago we hadn't had a sending off, so how can we be bottom?"
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Oak Creek teacher, coach accused of inappropriate contact with student pleads not guilty
Oak Creek High School Teacher in court today
An Oak Creek High School teacher accused of having sex with a student is due in court today for a preliminary hearing.
MILWAUKEE COUNTY -- An Oak Creek teacher and coach, accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a student, was in court Tuesday, October 24th for his preliminary hearing.
39-year-old Michael Jossie waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial. He has pleaded not guilty. A scheduling conference was set for November 1st.
Michael Jossie
Jossie taught special education at Oak Creek High School and served as the head basketball coach. He’s been described as a well-respected and popular teacher.
Jossie is facing two counts of second degree sexual assault of a child.
According to a criminal complaint, on Monday, October 9th, police said a female worker at the school unlocked a classroom. Inside, she discovered Jossie and a 15-year-old girl sitting on a counter with the girl’s shirt up, exposing the girl’s torso. Jossie was observed standing in front of the girl. The maintenance worker reported that when Jossie saw her enter the room, he “quickly pulled open a cabinet that was above his head and told the student to get her homework done.”
“The principal then went to the room and basically confronted the teacher and student at that point,” said Chief Steven Anderson, Oak Creek Police Department.
“We’re shocked and we’re sickened to learn that Oak Creek High School teacher Michael Jossie was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child,” said Superintendent Timothy Culver. “We’re shocked because the misconduct with which Mr. Jossie is charged is inconsistent with his reputation.”
Oak Creek High School
Prosecutors say the Jossie and the 15-year-old student had a close relationship for about a year. Jossie told police he realized his feelings for her when he took her to dinner at an expensive restaurant. Jossie stated to investigators he had, “more feelings than you are supposed to have as a teacher” for a student.
The complaint says the student told investigators they had sexual encounters 10 times. Jossie told investigators they had sex in August at the La Quinta in New Berlin, and in October. He said they had sex inside his classroom and office this fall, most recently on October 4th.
According to the criminal complaint, after one sexual encounter, Jossie told police he gave the student $70 to buy the morning after pill.
“This was a very well-respected coach, authoritative figure in our community. I think there’s a lot of parents and students who are in shock over this right now,” said Chief Anderson.
Jossie has been in the Oak Creek School District since 2010. He has been placed on unpaid leave, and the district will ask that he be fired.
The Milwaukee County charges are not all.
After the police investigation discovered incidents at a hotel in New Berlin, police on October 12th picked up Jossie again and brought him to the Waukesha County jail for possible charges. This, after he posted his $25,000 bail in the Milwaukee County case.
The Oak Creek police chief has asked parents to speak with their children to see if any other child may have had an inappropriate relationship with Jossie, and if so to report it to police.
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Fences: Even When The Emotional Snot Flew Hard & Fast, Viola Davis Deserved That Oscar [Blu-ray Review]
Keven Skinner reviews March 14, 2017 March 14, 2017 August Wilson, Denzel Washington, Fences, Jovan Adepo, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, Stephen Henderson, Viola Davis 0 Comment
From Paramount Pictures and director/star Denzel Washington, based on the stage play of the same name by August Wilson comes the Academy Award winning Fences. Also starring Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby and Jovan Adepo, the film is available to own March 17, 2017 on Blu-ray and DVD.
Fences is the story of Troy Maxson, a mid-century Pittsburgh sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career, but was too old when the major leagues began admitting black players. He tries to be a good husband and father, but his lost dream of glory eats at him, and causes him to make a decision that threatens to tear his family apart.
Denzel Washington directs and stars in Fences as a sanitation worker who lives by a very specific and humble set of rules and expects his wife and children to do the same. He’s an oldschool man, he does his job, walks home with his best friend and the two take turns sipping whiskey while talking about life and shit. You know – what people used to do before there was TV or hell – the internet. Washington’s dialog flows so well that you forget he’s one of the most recognisable actors on the planet – because he transforms into Troy Maxson.
I wasn’t familiar with the original play, but James Earle Jones was originally the lead when it came out in the 80’s and for this film adaptation – they actually managed to get most of the original stage cast to reprise their roles from 2010’s production. Viola Davis is incredible as Troy’s wife, who is forced to keep her family together and adjust to some gut-wrenching revelations that her husband shares with her during the course of the film. I’m usually not a fan of Davis’ work because she always seems to be ‘trying too hard’ or something…However, even when there’s snot flying from her face in Fences, it all seemed very genuine for once. She truly deserved that Oscar for her performance here.
Fences is all about conversations. There are no action sequences, there are no car chases, there are people talking to one another and propelling the plot forward simply by engaging in interesting and moving conversations. There are alotta emotions swirling around this film… You will be impacted one way or another watching Fences, whether you relate to the social aspects of the film or not, this is a movie about family and how even when family fails you, it’s how you deal with the curveballs that determine how you live life. It’s some deep stuff and Washington is ferocious. I don’t think you’ll hear him speak that much in any other project he’s been a part of. August Wilson’s play is a masterwork in dialog and seeing that film translation was wonderful.
If I had any issues, it would just be the design of the film — it’s a stage play adapted into a 2.5 hour film that is faithful as possible to the original. That means — a shitload of talking. So the film might drag at certain times if you can’t relate to the conversation, but I did find the movie bounce back halfway through and I was hooked more-so from the second half onward. Mykelti Williamson does a tremendous job too playing the mentally disabled brother of Washington’s character. Easily his best supporting role since Forrest Gump.
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I had no idea that pretty much the entire cast of the Tony-Award Winning Fences production from 2010 had returned for this film adaptation six years later. It was really, really cool seeing how Washington directed the film and how it translated from the stage to the big screen. There’s some great background on August Wilson as well who wrote this slice of genius, so I’m very satisfied with the features included on this Blu-ray.
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Framed George Henry Andrews Wall Art
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by George Henry Andrews
George Henry Andrews (Born 1816 – died 1898) was educated to be an engineer in his early life but he had a strong leaning towards the arts. He became a professional engineer but at the same time he was an illustrator, watercolorist and marine painter. He was born in Lambeth, England and by the age of 24 he was already active in book illustration, and by the age of 31 he was on the artistic staff of the Illustrated London News. Andrews began exhibiting his art in 1840 and in 1856 he was elected a member of the Old Watercolor Society. He later became the Royal Navy Artist and in 1860, Andrews accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of Canada. This is when he was at the peak of his career. The Prince of Wales later became Edward VII. Andrews is remembered for his large format water-color showing “the Hero”, the prince’s ship. Uno Langmann Limited acquired the piece in Vancouver when it appeared in Eastern Canada in a collection. The art, worth approximately between $200,000 and $300,000, was later sold and is now in a permanent collection in Canada. Langmann’s gallery specializes in North American and European paintings from the 18th century to the early 20th century. Andrews produced many other pieces of art in the course of his carrier. Many of them were produced as framed George Henry Andrews art which came ready to hang with all the requirements. That’s why they are found in many galleries in nearly all corners of the globe.
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Home/American Shipper/TMM SUFFERS 4Q, ANNUAL LOSSES
TMM SUFFERS 4Q, ANNUAL LOSSES
American Shipper StaffMonday, March 3, 2003Last Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Grupo TMM, the Mexican multimodal group that owns the railroad TFM, suffered a deficit in both the fourth quarter of 2002 and the whole year ended Dec. 31.
Group net result for the latest quarter was a loss of $12.4 million, as compared to a net profit of $1.6 million in the corresponding quarter of 2001.
Grupo TMM said that the results “were primarily impacted by the direct and accounting effects of a 12.8 percent peso devaluation.”
Group operating income also fell, to $41.2 million, from $47.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2001.
Consolidated fourth quarter revenue was $255.7 million, marginally down from the consolidated revenue of $258.2 million for the same period of 2001.
Reduced revenue was reported in the latest quarter at the group’s TFM and Tex-Mex railroad businesses, and for its specialized maritime and logistics activities “due to sluggish trade growth, automotive sector revenue declines in transit and at outsourcing facilities, and from dry docking of some tanker vessels.”
For the full year, Grupo TMM reported a net loss of $46.2 million, as compared to a net income of $8.9 million in 2001. The latest annual result was impacted primarily by the Mexican peso devaluation.
Annual operating income decreased to $184 million, from $189.1 million, due to increased costs at ports and terminals for increased security and other factors.
The company reported annual revenues of $1.01 billion for 2002, compared to $1 billion for 2001.
Broken down by activity, Grupo TMM’s revenues for 2002 showed: a 2-percent fall in railroad revenue, to $712 million; a 3-percent increase in specialized maritime services revenue, to $123 million; a 12-percent jump in port revenue, to $113 million; and a 3-percent rise in logistics revenue, to $79 million.
Specialized maritime services include the operation of supply ships and tankers.
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USDCHF Currency Pair
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US Dollar – Swiss franc (USD/CHF)
The USD/CHF currency pair is among the most commonly traded pairs in the global forex market, presenting the sixth-largest volume worldwide according to the most recent survey by the Bank for International Settlements.[1] The popularity is tied to strong trade and investment connections between the U.S. and Switzerland, in addition to the Swiss franc's long-held reputation as a safe-haven currency for investors around the globe.
Switzerland is a significant destination for U.S. direct investment. With direct investments of US$129.8 billion, the U.S. is the third-ranking country of origin for foreign direct investments in Switzerland. The U.S. is Switzerland's top destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), accounting for a fifth of the total Swiss FDI abroad, and receiving more Swiss direct investment than Germany, France, Italy and the UK combined. Switzerland ranks as the sixth-largest foreign investor in the U.S., with more than US$209 billion in direct investment there.[2]
Additionally, the U.S. is Switzerland's second-largest trade partner after Germany, accounting for a 10% share of Switzerland's foreign trade. Switzerland is the U.S.'s 17th-largest trade partner, accounting for a 1.4% share of the U.S.'s total trade. Together, the two countries exchange an average of more than US$50 billion in goods and services annually.[3]
The Swiss franc, which launched in 1850, has long been recognised as a safe-haven currency for international investors. This is because of conservative management and stability of the Swiss economy, in addition to the country's history of maintaining bank secrecy laws that protect the privacy of investor accounts. As a consequence of these factors, the currency has traditionally shown low volatility and is one of the most highly sought and traded currencies around the globe.[4]
In addition to the attractive qualities of the Swiss financial rules for foreign investors and the country's efforts to maintain a low inflation rate, the Swiss franc's low volatility is owed in part to the Swiss National Bank's commitment to maintain the franc at a level stronger than 1.20 versus the euro through the selling of francs and purchases of euros. With this peg, the franc-dollar trade tended to track the euro-dollar trade very closely, for the most part.[5]
The Swiss central bank, however, abandoned that program in January 2015, allowing the franc to plummet more than 30% to 0.85 per euro ahead of the European Central Bank's move to begin a large-scale bond-buying program aimed at quantitative easing for euro-area monetary policy. The bond-buying program was seen increasing demand for safe-haven currencies such as the Swiss franc and making the EUR/CHF ceiling difficult to defend. The move to eliminate the ceiling, which left the franc trading stronger against the euro, came as a surprise to most traders. This in turned caused extremely thin short-term liquidity, sharp volatility and some painful aftershocks for Switzerland's stock market and its key export and tourism sectors.[6]
Although the franc has remained relatively stable since then, the move had the effect of altering the perceptions of traders about the possible risks involved in trading even what seemed the most liquid currencies, like the Swiss franc.[7]
Doubts have also arisen about the Swiss franc's future status as a safe-haven currency after the U.S. government launched an aggressive campaign to penalise Swiss banks for hiding information about U.S. taxpayers holding bank accounts in the Central European nation.[8]
These developments may allow for some surprises in USD/CHF's rate in the future. However, traders note that because of Switzerland's historically strong financial and trade ties with the eurozone community, the franc will likely remain highly correlated to the euro. Correlation between movements in the two currencies in 2015 was at a level considered high in forex markets. This relationship results in a negative correlation for the currency pairs of USD/CHF and EUR/USD, meaning in 2015 they often moved in differing directions.[9]
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U.S. Dollar (USD)
Currency overview: The U.S. dollar is the most widely used currency around the world and considered a reserve currency for most central banks. Global commodities prices and trade statistics are usually expressed in dollars.
Central bank: The Federal Reserve System
Currency code: USD
History: The dollar was launched in 1792 as the official currency of the U.S.
Economy: The U.S. economy is the largest in the world with a GDP of US$17 trillion.
Currency subunits: Cent (¢) = 1/100 of a dollar
Denominations: Bills: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100; Coins: 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1
Countries using the U.S. dollar: United States and territories, Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius), Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama
Currencies pegged to the U.S. dollar: Bahrain dinar, Cuban peso, Djibouti franc, Eritrea nafka, Jordan dinar, Lebanon pound, Oman rial, Panama balboa, Qatar riyal, Saudi Arabia riyal, United Arab Emirates dirham and Venezuela bolivar.[10]
Currency overview: The Swiss franc is one of few independently traded currencies in Western Europe not included in the eurozone and is widely considered a safe-haven currency for investors globally.
Central bank: The Swiss National Bank
Currency code: CHF
History: The Swiss franc was introduced in 1850 as the official currency of Switzerland.
Economy: The Swiss economy is the 40th largest in the world with a GDP of US$700 billion. It is highly diversified, with strong manufacturing, financial and service sectors.
Currency subunits: Rappen = 1/100 of a franc
Denominations: Bills: 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 1,000 francs; Coins: 5, 10, 20 rappen, and ½, 1, 2 and 5 francs
Countries and territories using the Swiss franc: Switzerland and Lichtenstein.[11]
Any opinions, news, research, analyses, prices, other information, or links to third-party sites are provided as general market commentary and do not constitute investment advice. Friedberg Direct will not accept liability for any loss or damage including, without limitation, to any loss of profit which may arise directly or indirectly from use of or reliance on such information.
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Partner Nik Makarenko and Associate Ashley Vest win Summary Judgment in Gwinnett County
August 17, 2020 - Partner Nikolai Makarenko and Associate Ashley…
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Partner Joseph Kaiser and Associate Ankur Trivedi win Summary Judgment in DeKalb County
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Partner Jay Eidex wins Summary Judgment in Fulton County
July 15, 2020 - Partner Jay Eidex obtained Summary Judgment…
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Partner Joseph Kaiser Prevails in the Georgia Court of Appeals
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Partner Jay Eidex secures Defense Verdict in Hall County
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Groth & Makarenko announces the additions of Attorneys Ryan O. Bell and Douglas A. MacKimm to its growing civil defense practice
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Halifax to host 2020 North American Indigenous Games
This will be the first time the games will be hosted in Atlantic Canada and will be the largest multi-sporting event to be held in Nova Scotia
May 3, 2018 6:23 PM By: HalifaxToday Staff
Members of the North American Indigenous Games site evaluation team and the 2020 Halifax bid committee visit with members of the community at the Millbrook Cultural Centre. (From left) Stacey Oxner, Gordon Pictou, Chief Bob Gloade, Vance Kruzewski, Tex Marshall, Paul Forest, Ken Thomas, Neal Alderson, Mike LaLeaune, Rose Inglagasuk, Jason Peters, Angela Dennison, Kevin Winkler, Colin Bernard, Jeff Turner and Mattea Bernard (Photo credit Communication Nova Scotia)
NOVA SCOTIA PREMIER'S OFFICE
Halifax (K'jipuktuk) has been chosen to host the 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), which will be the largest multi-sporting event to be held in Nova Scotia. This also marks the first time the games will be hosted in Atlantic Canada.
Premier Stephen McNeil extended congratulations, on behalf of all Nova Scotians, to the Mi'kmaq Sport Council of Nova Scotia on their winning bid.
"This is a very proud moment for the Mi'kmaq Sport Council, our Mi'kmaw communities and all Nova Scotians," said Premier McNeil, who is also Minister of Aboriginal Affairs. "The games will be an exciting opportunity to showcase our province and celebrate Mi'kmaw culture and heritage as we cheer on the athletes."
The decision was announced today, May 3, in Montreal. Halifax won over competing bids from Ottawa and Victoria.
"We are honoured the North American Indigenous Games Council has selected Nova Scotia to host the 2020 games and look forward to welcoming the participants," said Norman Bernard, chief of Wagmatcook and president of Mi'kmaq Sport Council. "I am confident the games will provide opportunities for all Nova Scotians to learn more about the contributions of our Mi'kmaw and Indigenous culture across the province and North America."
The Government of Nova Scotia has committed $3.5 million to support the games. The event will take place over eight days, which will include more than 5,000 Indigenous participants from over 756 nations in 15 sporting events. Events will be held at various locations in Halifax Regional Municipality and in Millbrook.
"I am so excited about Halifax hosting NAIG in 2020, sharing our Mi'kmaw culture with athletes from across North America," said Mattea Bernard, an athlete from Millbrook. "I hope I will get the chance to compete during the games and this news will provide the motivation I need to get there."
The bid was prepared by the Mi'kmaq Sport Council of Nova Scotia with the support of Nova Scotia's 13 Mi'kmaq communities, the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, Halifax Regional Municipality, Discover Halifax, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, Sport Nova Scotia, the Halifax Stanfield International Airport and several community supporters.
"It is an honour for Halifax to help make the 2020 NAIG the biggest sporting event our municipality has ever experienced," said Halifax Mayor Mike Savage. "Hosting NAIG will showcase Mi'kmaw culture and strengthen our understanding of the vibrant Indigenous cultures across North America, while offering excellent sports entertainment and bringing significant economic activity to the region."
The 2017 North American Indigenous Games were hosted in Toronto.
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The UK’s Best TV Shows of 2019
16th July 2019 No Comments
One of the things that probably will never get old is watching TV shows. It’s just something we all can agree. Watching your favorite TV show every night is just a relaxing moment that will keep you entertained. A movie marathon with your friends and family or even by yourself is guaranteed an enjoyable moment.
Here’s a UK TV Guide to know UK’s Best TV Shows of 2019.
1. The Travel Show
Watch The Travel Show see the biggest stories and the best destinations around the world with their team of travel reporters. If you are up for the best travel journalism from the world, this is a show you’d want to watch. It airs on BBC News at 3:30 AM.
2. The Space Race
This TV show by PBS features the key events of the race between the United States and the Soviet Union for almost two decades. It airs at 12:45 AM after NOVA.
3. True Crime’s Trace Evidence: From the Case Files of Dr. Henry Lee
This TV Series features some of the cases of forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee. In this show, Dr. Lee reconstructs how these cases were solved during his 40 years working as a forensic scientist. You can watch it on True Crime at 12 midnight.
4. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Brooklyn Nine-None is an American live-action sitcom that features the funny heroics of the hilarious police precinct in New York City. It airs at 12:35 AM on E4.
5. Live at the Apollo
Who doesn’t want a good laugh, right? If you want to watch cutting-edge stand-up comedy, watch this show on BBC One at 12 AM. You are guaranteed to enjoy watching stand-up comedy program that has been performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in West London.
6. Generation Porn
Channel 4’s Generation Porn at 11:40 AM shows how pornography has drastically changed and how convenient it has become that it is just a click away for any of us. It discusses the opinions and experiences of different people.
7. The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors
Istanbul skyline Rageh looks across the roof tops of the inlet known as the Golden Horn in Istanbul.
Watch this show on BBC Four to explore the roots of the Ottoman Empire – the Muslim Emperors of Europe.
8. Judge Judy
CBS Drama’s Judge Judy shows a no-nonsense judge presiding over small-claims cases in the courtroom. It’s a successful reality series that has actually led to some judicial imitators.
9. The Strangers
Some nights you definitely just want to have a good scare because horror movies are definitely exciting. If you are up for that, watch The Strangers on the Horror Channel. This story is all about three masked intruders terrorizing a young couple in their country house which happens to be in a secluded area.
10. Shocking Emergency Calls
This TV show is a documentary series that features the real story behind the dramatic calls to emergency operators. You’ll see shocking emergency calls in this documentary with never before seen footage, heroic accounts, as well as exclusive interviews. You can watch this TV show on More4
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With Steinberg gone from IMG, what's next for Woods?
By Sam Weinman
IRVINE, Texas, -- Mark Steinberg is out as managing director of golf for North America at International Management Group, sources familiar with the situation tell GolfDigest.com, and that raises this compelling question: Will Tiger Woods go with him? Steinberg, who took over the golf operation at IMG after financier Ted Forstmann purchased the company in 2003, has represented Woods since 1999 and has remained close to Woods during the recent scandal involving Tiger's personal life. It is difficult to imagine the two of them going in different directions.
*Mark Steinberg has been Woods' agent since 1999. Photo by Getty Images
The sources say Steinberg entered contract talks with IMG on Tuesday fully expecting to negotiate a new deal for his pact that expires in June. However, those talks quickly reached an impasse and Steinberg left, perhaps after being offered a contract the company knew he would turn down, sources say. In addition to Woods, Steinberg is the agent for Annika Sorenstam and Steve Stricker. Sorenstam, reached by text message, said she first learned of the situation only hours earlier and said she had yet to decide what she will do in terms of management.
Woods has been an IMG client since 1996, when he turned pro after winning his third consecutive U.S. Amateur title. His original agent at IMG was Hughes Norton, who negotiated a rookie deal for Woods that was several times higher than most other agents believed was possible. "Do you know why we got as much for Tiger as we did?" then head of IMG Golf Alastair Johnston said to Golf World some years back. "Because we knew we could."
Norton negotiated deals for Woods right out of the box with Nike and Titleist that were worth more than $67 million. Several years later, however, Woods and Norton split over a dispute involving the percentage of Woods' income being taken by IMG. Under a deal signed off on by Tiger's father, Earl Woods, IMG's take reached more than 20 percent as the value of Woods contracts escalated. The new arrangement, managed by Steinberg, reduced the percentage taken by IMG to below 10 percent.
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If Woods does leave IMG -- and sources say contract language allows him to do so -- it will not be the first time a major player has left the company, and not the first time a player has left and taken an IMG employee with him. Greg Norman did it, as did Nick Faldo. Jack Nicklaus also left IMG, but later returned. The most loyal of IMG's clients has been Arnold Palmer, who formed the company in a handshake with Mark McCormack 50 years ago.
Two recent developments make the departure of Steinberg less surprising than it would have been even two years ago. The first is the scandal involving Woods' personal life. While Woods has said no one in his inner circle knew about his infidelities, that was hard to believe for several reasons, one being the decision by Woods to pose for a cover shoot for Men's Fitness magazine, a publication owned by the parent company of the National Enquirer, which broke the story of Woods' affairs. That photo shoot was not likely done by Woods without the knowledge of his agent.
More recently, Forstmann was diagnosed with a brain tumor. When Fortsmann Little Inc., purchased IMG for $750 million after the death of McCormack in 2003, it was assumed they there doing so in order to turn the company over at a profit. Fortsmann streamlined the company, laying off people and jettisoning unprofitable divisions, but had yet to sell it before his illness forced him to step aside as head of IMG. Sources also say that Fortsmann and Woods were not close.
The departure of Steinberg -- and the assumed departure of Woods -- clears up that matter from hanging over any impending sale. If Fostmann Little wants to sell IMG, it now can do so with the knowledge that Woods will not be part of the deal. All in all, it is only the latest twist in an unusual ride that began Nov. 27, 2009, when the car containing Tiger Woods hit a tree and a fire hydrant outside his home in Windermere, Fla.
Since that accident, not only has scandal after shocking scandal been revealed about Woods, but his game has gone into steep decline. For more than a year and a half now, he has not won a golf tournament. And now he is sidelined with an injury to his left Achilles and his left knee, which has already been operated on four times.
What happens next, both in a business sense and for Woods competitively on the golf course, is very much up in the air. That's about the only thing we know for sure right now after the latest development in one of the most bizarre stories in the history of sports, all beginning that Thanksgiving night in Florida.
-- Ron Sirak
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Women in our lives
Joey Conception Founders Corners February 25, 2010
This coming March is Women’s Month, a recognition of what women empowerment is all about and a reflection of how far the influence of women has reached. It seems that the power of women has been growing stronger throughout the years. The influence of women in our lives has always been so strong.
My own mother’s influence on our values has been quite strong when we were growing up, as my dad was busy working hard. It was my mother who made sure that we followed the rules. She did the budgeting and gave us our allowances, which was actually not enough during those days. It was Mom who pushed us to the limits. In a way, we are what we are today because of our mother’s influence. Now that we are married, our wives have somehow taken over that role, setting the balance in our lives and reminding us to give time for family and spiritual life.
Today, women occupy top positions in our government. PGMA has been our president for nine years. President Cory has also fulfilled a full term for six years. Come to think of it, since the first Edsa Revolution, presidency has been occupied by women for 15 years compared to the nine years occupied by the men. Women power is everywhere, as Cabinet Secretaries, Undersecretaries, Senators, Congresswomen and LGU leaders. Even in the corporate and NGO world, women hold the power. The Philippines seems to be the country that has empowered women. In fact, maybe there must be a Philippine Commission for Men to reassure our rights.
When I was still in college in La Salle Taft, there were more males. I had only five classmates who were girls. Now, I am told that the school is gradually being dominated by females (not counting those in between).
I have five children and four of them are girls. They are really adorable, but they have this certain way of getting what they want, especially the youngest who is only two years old. When it comes to curfew extensions, the teenagers prefer to call me rather than their mom, since I normally give in. Even in the simplest situations, you can see that women always have ways.
In the past four years of our advocacy in helping microentrepreneurs, it is very clear that majority are women. Our research study on entrepreneurship in our country also revealed 70 % of enterprises are started by women. They are naturally quite enterprising, persevering and diligent. Women also have this certain patience for details, which men rarely have. They have a good perception of their negosyo environment. There are also many cases here in our country when women look for other opportunities to augment the family income. They either find jobs or start small negosyos.
Our Filipina women are among the most beautiful and endearing in the world. Even with these qualities, the Filipina is also clearly a fighter who will work for better life and future for her family.
For the last two years, Go Negosyo has partnered with the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) headed by Chairperson Myrna Yao, who is also a very dynamic entrepreneur. She is the Founder and COO of Richwell Trading Corp., a leading distributor of children’s products. PCW is an advisory body on programs and policies on the advancement of women. They have a strengthened advocacy on the development of programs and projects that would push for women empowerment.
I asked Myrna about her vision for the Filipina women. She replied, “My vision for the women of the Philippines is to empower the poor to alleviate themselves from poverty and to empower our women to be globally competitive, because with empowered women we can build a stronger nation.”
On March 8, we will have the second Women Entrepreneurship Summit at the World Trade Center. Last year, we were surprised to see a huge crowd that reached 15,000. The result of the first summit reassured us that women really are the change agents in most families. This year, the Go Negosyo: Babae Tagumpay Ka ng Bayan Women Entrepreneurship Summit will even be bigger.
We will also be launching our fifth book on inspiring stories of 100 small entrepreneurs. It is also interesting to note that 80% of the featured entreps are women. This book will show how they triumphed over poverty and other challenges in life. Our Angelpreneur-Chief Motivator Francis Kong provided the interesting Lessons Learned part that captured the common success factors that can help others as well. The 100 entreps will be in the World Trade Center and will be recognized as an inspiration to many other Filipinos.
In the morning, we will also be honoring eight women who have had an impact on the Philippine society and who serve as an inspiration to others.
We have also prepared a whole day of informative and exciting programs and sessions with topics such as: Making a difference by having an enterprising mindset; Women and their influence on society; and Business opportunities for Women and men. We have invited industry-experts, negosyo mentors, professionals, celebrities and entertainers to give you only the best. There will also be seminars rooms with different negosyo and women-related topics. More than 300 booths and exhibitors will also be present to showcase different negosyo frameworks and products. It is an open event for women (and men), aspiring and starting entrepreneurs, and the youth. This summit is for free and we encourage everyone to take advantage of this one-day activity as we celebrate Women’s Month.
March 8 is dedicated to the selfless sacrifice of our Filipina women. Congratulations to all of you for being an inspiration to both men and women.
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How Many Companies Are Listed On The BSE And NSE?
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By Sunil Fernandes
| Updated: Monday, April 16, 2018, 12:32 [IST]
The two big stock exchanges in the country are the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. More popularly these are known as the BSE and the NSE. BSE is Asia's first stock exchange. The Bombay Stock Exchange is located at Mumbai and it was established in 1875. The National Stock Exchange or NSE of India Limited is the leading stock exchange of India, located in Mumbai. It was established in 1992.
All of the listed companies in India are listed either on the BSE or the NSE.
What is listing of companies in BSE NSE?
Listing the term refers formal admission of a security to the trading platform of the Exchange. That is the company whose shares are traded on an official stock exchange. It should be in accordance with the listing requirements of that exchange. This may include how many shares are listed and a minimum earnings level.
In BSE, the securities can be of any public limited company, Central/State Government or quasi-governmental and other financial institutions or corporations, and municipalities, etc.
Why are we listing companies?
There are many objectives we aim while listing companies in BSE and NSE. The objectives of listing are mainly to
Provide liquidity to securities
Mobilise savings for our economic development
Protect the interest of investors
How to list a company in BSE and NSE?
The Exchange has a separate Listing Department to grant approval for listing of securities of companies. The department functions in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, Companies Act, 1956, Guidelines issued by SEBI and Rules, Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957, and Bye-laws and Regulations of the Exchange.
There are listing fees applicable to the companies listed on BSE and NSE. The listing fees depend on the companies paid up capital at both NSE and BSE. The initial listing fee at NSE is Rs 7,500. The initial listing fee is Rs 20,000 at BSE.
The annual listing fees for a company with a paid-up capital up to Rs 5 Crores is Rs 10,000 at BSE. For NSE it is Rs 8,400. BSE charges Rs 15,000 for a company with paid up capital between 5 to 10 crores, and NSE charges Rs 10,000.
Take a look at how many companies are listed on the NSE and BSE
On the Bombay Stock exchange, which is the oldest stock exchange in the country, there are approximately 5000 companies listed. This is the highest number of companies. The BSE has a record of being the only bourse with highest number of listed companies in the world.
The National Stock Exchange or the NSE is a relatively new exchange as compared to the BSE. Therefore, it has lower number of companies listed which would be to the tune of around 2000 companies.
But, we must mention here that the exchange is the biggest in the country in terms of daily turnover. While, the number of companies listed is far lesser than BSE, in terms of share volumes and value of turnover it remains much bigger than the BSE.
Also read: Is it bettter to buy shares on the BSE and the NSE
What if shares are listed on the BSE and NSE, but not traded?
Out of the 5000 listed share on the BSE, only around 2000 could be actively traded. Most companies are hardly traded and some have been wound down and become sick units.
There are others that are thinly traded and you might even struggle to sell these shares due to lack of volumes in the counter.
In case you do not find the shares traded on the BSE and the NSE, you can contact the corporate directly. However, there could be many companies that have been referred to the Board of Industrial and Financial reconstruction.
Should you buy shares on the BSE or the NSE?
There is always a price difference in the share prices of the BSE and NSE. If you are buying you should check the rates at both the exchanges before buying. For example, if Reliance Industries is traded at Rs 970 on the BSE and Rs 971 on the NSE, you are better-off buying the share from the BSE. And, if you are holding shares and want to sell, you can sell on the NSE as the price is better in the above example.
What is the BSE and NSE?
BSE stands for Bombay Stock Exchange and it is one of the oldest stock exchanges in Asia and deserves to have the largest number of listed companies in the world. Overall it has around 8900 stocks listed in that only 3000 stocks will be traded daily. It is the world's busies stock exchange with a median trade speed of 6 microseconds. BSE is the world's 11th largest stock exchange.
NSE stands for National Stock Exchange, and it is a platform where the shares of a company are traded. The NSE's index value, NIFTY is arrived at by taking the market capitalization value of 50 companies from various industries to give a good mix. It is also called NIFTY 50 for this reason.
Listed companies on the BSE and the NSE are high, but, the shares traded are a few thousands. NSE has far lesser number of companies traded. Generally, you can buy on the NSE or the BSE and a broker who has membership for both, provides you with the same brokerage charges. Most brokers are listed on the BSE and the NSE.
However, there maybe some brokers who are not listed on one of the exchanges. So, if you have an account with such a broker, you might lose out the opportunity of buying in another exchange, which offers cheaper rates.
Also read: Understanding the difference between the Sensex and the Nifty
But the diference is very insignificant.
It is also important to note that the number of listed companies on the NSE and the BSE , undergo a frequent change, as new companies get listed and old companies are replaced.
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Green Party calls for a halt on the Trans-Pacific Partnership after leak of secret docs
posted by Hillary Kane | 2049.40sc
Green Party calls for a halt on the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the publication by Wikileaks of secret documents from the trade deal
• Congress should reject President Obama's request for fast-track authority on the secretly negotiated pact, say Greens
• Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on corporate power and globalization: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-corporate.php
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party today called for an immediate halt in the Obama Administration's closed-door negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), following the publication by Wikileaks of the TPP's intellectual property chapter on Nov. 13.
Greens also demanded that Congress reject President Obama's request for fast-track authority to implement the TPP, a proposed commercial pact between the U.S. and 11 Asian and Latin American countries.
The leaked intellectual-property documents reveal that President Obama is seeking terms in the pact that would impose limits on Internet freedom and allow increases in the price of life-saving medicines in the U.S. and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. 28 more TPP documents remain unavailable to the public.
"The texts published by Wikileaks confirm our fears that the President has sided with multinational corporations over the needs of Americans and people in other nations. President Obama has kept the negotiations a secret, while allowing 600 corporate representatives to assist the U.S. Trade Representative in the TPP drafting process," said Dr. Julia Willebrand, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl) and Green candidate for New York City Comptroller in 2013.
The Obama Administration has also pressed for language in the TPP that would allow tobacco companies to sue governments in demand for taxpayer-funded compensation for public-health regulations.
"The publication of these documents proves that Wikileaks has been essential for democratic accountability, in the face of official secrecy and betrayal of the public trust. We hope that these leaked documents scuttle the reckless and harmful demands posed by the Obama Administration and prevent further bullying of smaller nations on behalf of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco," added Carl Romanelli, Pennsylvania Green and member of the International Committee.
The Green Party of the United States strongly opposes the TPP and other "free trade" agreements that establish rules and international bureaucracies that privilege corporate interests, send jobs across the border, and impose privatization and other damaging "structural adjustment" schemes.
"Greens believe in fair trade. International trade agreements must uphold labor rights, environmental protections, public health, and democratic sovereignty, with full transparency and openness to public scrutiny," said Cheri Honkala, 2012 Green nominee for Vice President and co-founder of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/8581).
Throughout the 2012 election year, Green presidential nominee Jill Stein frequently discussed the dangers posed by the TPP to the rights and welfare of working people, public health, and the environment. President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney refused to mention the TPP during the race, confirming that they agreed on the pact and the secrecy of negotiations.
"Breaking News: WikiLeaks publishes Secret TPP Text; Complete IP Chapter Revealed"
Public Citizen, November 13, 2013
http://www.citizen.org/Wikileaks-publishes-TPP-IP-Chapter
"Breaking: Wikileaks Releases Full Text Of TPP Intellectual Property Chapter; Leaked Documents Reveal Obama Administration Push for Internet Freedom Limits, Terms That Raise Drug Prices in Closed-Door Trade Talks"
Flush the TPP!, November 13, 2013
http://www.flushthetpp.org/breaking-wikileaks-releases-full-text-of-tpp-intellectual-property-chapter
Full text of the secret TPP's intellectual property chapter (PDF)
http://wikileaks.org/tpp/static/pdf/Wikileaks-secret-TPP-treaty-IP-chapter.pdf
Green Party of the United States (press releases):
• "Green Party: Approaching climate change 'point of no return' requires defeat of tar sands pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership," October 1, 2013
http://www.gp.org/index.php/green-party-press-releases/details/4/644.html
• "US Green Party signs international Green statement against 'secret' Trans-Pacific Partnership pact," October 1, 2012
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=553
"TPP report raises serious questions about inequality and trade policy"
Richard McIntyre, U.S. Trade Representative in the Green Shadow Cabinet, September 26, 2013
http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/comment-tpp-report-raises-serious-questions-about-inequality-and-trade-policy
"Independence Day Resolution: Revolt against the TPP and global corporate rule"
Green Shadow Cabinet, July 4, 2013
http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/independence-day-resolution-revolt-against-tpp-and-global-corporate-rule
"Control over food is at stake with the TPP"
By Mark Dunlea, Jim Goodman, and Brian Tokar in the Ecology Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, June 19, 2013
http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/control-over-food-stake-tpp
"Wikileaks Leaks Key TPP Documents: US Isolated In Corporate Advocacy"
Popular Resistance, November 13, 2013
http://www.popularresistance.org/wikileaks-leaks-key-tpp-documents-us-isolated-in-corporate-advocacy/
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[Please note: This original post from March 2009 has been updated and replaced by a new version of Capitalization of Academic Degrees, published on January 31, 2018.]
Perhaps you’ve wondered if and when academic degrees (bachelor’s, master’s, etc.) should be capitalized.
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) recommends writing academic degrees in lower case except when directly preceding or following a name.
Orlando is pursuing a bachelor of science in civil engineering.
He introduced Jennifer Miller, Master of Fine Arts.
He introduced Master of Fine Arts Jennifer Miller.
The Associated Press Stylebook (AP) recommends no capitals when referring to degrees in general terms (bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, associate degree) but always capitalizing specific degrees (Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science), whether or not they directly precede or follow a name.
Orlando is thinking about getting a Bachelor of Science degree.
Orlando is thinking about getting a master’s degree.
He introduced Orlando Cruz, Bachelor of Science.
Our recommendation is to pick your resource and then be consistent.
There is agreement, however, that abbreviations of academic degrees are to be capitalized. CMOS recommends omitting periods unless required for tradition or consistency (BA, BS, MA, MS, PhD), but AP prefers retaining the periods (B.A., B.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D.).
The keynote speaker tonight will be Juris Doctor/juris doctor Michael Abercrombie.
The textbook was authored by Azizah Bakar, Master of Science/master of science.
Eleanor is finally reaching the end of her studies for her Doctorate in History/doctorate in history.
After studying hard for so many years, I definitely feel that I’ve earned my MS/M.S. in biology.
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205 Comments on Capitalization of Academic Degrees
205 responses to “Capitalization of Academic Degrees”
Jennifer Knight-Johnson says:
Can you write MA, MPH, PH.D. at the top of your resume?
There are many different styles of résumés, with no one “right way” to do it. However, we recommend you follow either CMOS style without periods (MA, MPH, PhD) or AP style (M.A., M.P.H., Ph.D.) and be consistent.
Caralee says:
How do you write BA with distinction or with honors/honours vs cum laude? What do you capitalize/italicize? Distinction? Honors?
It is not necessary to capitalize. Because it is a Latin phrase, cum laude should be italicized.
BA with distinction
BA with honors
BA cum laude
You offer “He introduced Jennifer Miller, Master of Fine Arts.” as an example of correct capitalization according to the CMOS. But as far as I can tell, the CMOS only recommends capitalizing job titles, degrees, military ranks, etc. in a sentence when the title precedes the name (e.g., President Jones; Master of Fine Arts Jennifer Miller). If I understand correctly, “Jennifer Miller, Master of Fine Arts” would only ever be correct if it was being used formally, e.g., in a signature, on a diploma, or on an event program where Jennifer is listed as a speaker. Can you provide some clarification?
Please see our reply in the updated 2018 version of the post Capitalization of Academic Degrees.
CRM says:
What about “She graduated with an honors degree”? Should it be “She graduated with an Honors degree”?
We see no reason to capitalize “honors degree.”
I am writing a cover letter for a job application. “I recently received my Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies with a concentration in Globalization and Sustainable Development and a minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies” Please let me know the correct way to write this specifically for a cover letter. Thank you!
As the post states, our recommendation is to pick your resource and then be consistent. The following are acceptable:
“I recently received my bachelor of arts in global studies with a concentration in globalization and sustainable development and a minor in environmental and sustainability studies.” OR
“I recently received my Bachelor of Arts in global studies with a concentration in globalization and sustainable development and a minor in environmental and sustainability studies.”
Ralph S Poore says:
I see both of the following and would like to know which is correct: “Associate’s Degree” vs. “Associate Degree” and “Bachelor’s Degree” vs. “Bachelor Degree.”
Please see our November 28, 2013, reply to Melissa Bailey and our June 21, 2016, response to DEJ.
Mouna says:
Thanks this is very helpful. I’m a master student first year, specialized in applied linguistics. Is the last sentence correct concerning capitalisation.
Your capitalization is correct.
I quickly scanned the long list of questions and perhaps missed the answer to this question: If I list diploma and degrees in a questionnaire, do I capitalize them or not?
High School Diploma vs High school diploma va High School diploma
Associate’s Degree vs Associate’s degree
Thanks in advance for any help!
We recommend no capitalization when referring to degrees, diplomas, and the like when referred to generically. However, preparing resumés or answering questionnaires can fall outside guidelines for formal writing and become a matter of personal preference.
I saw this mentioned in another comment, but I am still confused. If I want to list board certification for a medical specialty should it be lower case? Specifically, I would like to use it in a cover letter and will write it in a sentence (I am board certified in neurology and pediatric neurology). From what I understand, it should be lower case in this setting, but I am wondering if the reader may consider it to be a title and think it should be capitalized.
board certified in neurology and pediatric neurology
We recommend “board certified in neurology and pediatric neurology.”
Afshin Danesh says:
Which one is correct?
Dr. Ross or Dr Ross
The abbreviation of Doctor is with period or w/o ?
In American English we use a period.
I need your help, please! In my bio section of my website I wrote this….
“…she moved back to New Jersey and received her master’s in fine arts at Montclair State University….”
I feel like this is incorrect. Please advice…..or advise? Oh man! Not another one!
The excerpt from the bio is fine. If you are seeking advice, write “Please advise.”
Which is the preferred punctuation for these titles?
M.D., MACP
MD, MACP
M.D., M.A.C.P.
There is no definitive answer to your question.
The Chicago Manual of Style says, “Use no periods with abbreviations that appear in full capitals, whether two letters or more and even if lowercase letters appear within the abbreviation.” Examples include MD and PhD.
However, the Associated Press Stylebook says:
Use periods in most two-letter abbreviations: U.S., U.N., U.K., B.A., B.C.
Use all caps, but no periods, in longer abbreviations when the individual letters are pronounced: ABC, CIA, FBI
In cases like these, we recommend choosing your method and staying consistent.
Tania M says:
Is the below correct??
Lee graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 2005 with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and a commission in the U.S. Army. An active member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity since 2006, he also earned a master’s degree in management in 2009.
Mrduck says:
If I am talking about a fellow associate (Should associate be capitalized?).
When used to mean “a colleague,” the word associate is not a degree or title. Do not capitalize.
I have a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. While earning my degree, and for many years after graduating, the A.P. Stylebook was considered the only source of style for journalists. I realize there are now other sources, and that these sources occasionally conflict with each other, so I have a question in reference to an earlier post. Isn’t it redundant to use both a title and degree: “Dr. John Doe, Ph.D” or “Dr. Bill Smith, M.D”?
Thank you very much, and I’m delighted to have discovered your website!
The Chicago Manual of Style is in agreement that social titles are to be omitted when an academic degree or professional designation follows the name.
We too are delighted that you have discovered our website.
He earned bachelor of arts degree from ABC University with majors in Math and French. (It is a double-major, not double degree).
We recommend adding the article a before the term bachelor of arts degree. Majors do not require capitalization unless they are themselves a proper noun.
He earned a bachelor of arts degree from ABC University with majors in math and French.
DEJ says:
Is it correct to say, associate degree or associate’s degree; or Associate degree or Associate’s degree. I know it is not associates degree or Associates degree. Also, I never use the apostrophe in associate and I am being told I am not correct, nor do I capitalized “associate” unless I write the complete title of the degree such as…Associate of Arts in Business Administration. What is correct way to write associate degree? Thanks!
The Chicago Manual of Style finds either “associate degree” or “associate’s degree” to be reasonable and logical, while The Associated Press Stylebook prefers “associate degree.” Educational institutions are inconsistent regarding this term and both are widely used. We recommend that you simply be consistent once you decide on one or the other. When used generically, there is no need to capitalize.
Christopher Fuentes says:
June 9, 2016, at 11:09 am
When is it correct to use “degree” after the proper name? For instance, “John earned his Master of Science in 1975” or “…earned a Master of Science degree…?” AP’s rule seems to infer that no “degree” is needed with the proper name since it is a noun and not an adjective. Is that correct?
“A master’s degree” or “master’s” is acceptable, usually with the specialty.
Gaylene Hinkle says:
So for a business card or name plate in ALL CAPS
FIRSTNAME LASTNAME, ED.D. OR
FIRSTNAME LASTNAME, Ed.D
We prefer Ed.D. Note too that the title Ed.D. contains two periods.
Maria Tan says:
Which is the correct way of writing the degree on an approval sheet (a page on a thesis book)?
Master of Arts in Theology, major in Pastoral Ministry or Master of Arts in Theology, Major in Pastoral Ministry
whether to write the word Major (with capital M) or major (lower case m).
According to the Chicago Manual of Style there should be no capitals in the degrees listed. Do not capitalize the word major.
So just to confirm, the following is correct:
bachelor’s degree in business administration
If you are following the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style, and the academic degree does not directly precede or follow a name, it is generally correct. Example: I am working on my bachelor’s degree in business administration.
As the post indicates, there are exceptions. Degrees are often capitalized on business cards, on diplomas, in promotional material, or when displayed in a directory or resume. If you are following the rules of the Associated Press Stylebook, the degree is capitalized.
Writing a thank you to an alumni.
How do I reference liberal arts education?
Is it ” a Liberal Arts education” or ” a liberal arts education”?
We recommend “a liberal-arts education.”
Is that correct if I say
I am going to study in Architectural Technology program.
We cannot tell from your sentence how to advise you. The sentence is not written in standard English.
Kelsey Blanc says:
January 21, 2016, at 11:41 am
So, would saying:
“I am a senior in the department of communications with a concentration in journalism and citizens media” be correct? or would Department of Communications be written as such?
As we mention in our section Capitalization Rules, there are many gray areas and exceptions. We favor all lowercase in your example, but if your academic institution always capitalizes Department of Communications, then you may wish to follow that example.
I would like to ask if this sentence is correct: “I am a registered nurse and a registered professional teacher major in bioscience.” Should I capitalize registered nurse and registered professional teacher? Thank you.
Lowercase is fine. We recommend that you rewrite your sentence to read “with a major in bioscience.” Also, in American English we usually say “certified teacher” rather than “registered teacher.”
Sommer says:
If I am writing content for a website and I want to say “Hunter College offers two Master’s programs: a MA in Psychology and a MA in Animal Behavior and Conservation (ABC).”
Is “Hunter College offers two Master’s programs”correct? Master’s does precede the title of two degrees.
The word master’s is an adjective describing the noun programs. It does not need to be capitalized. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends lowercase for the specific program names. Either omit the article or use the article an before MA.
“Hunter College offers two master’s programs: MA in psychology and MA in animal behavior and conservation (ABC).” OR
“Hunter College offers two master’s programs: an MA in psychology and an MA in animal behavior and conservation (ABC).”
Dimitar says:
What is the right way to write your qualification in a CV?
Bachelor in Computer Science
B.Sc of Computer Science
B.S of Computer Science
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science?
There may not be one “right way” to do it. The Chicago Manual of Style advises “Capitalize degrees on business cards, on diplomas, or when displayed in a directory or résumé [CV].” We prefer to minimize capitalization. Bachelor of Science in computer science or bachelor of science in computer science are options.
Can I say: I am officially a Bachelorette in dental surgery?
We don’t know about “officially,” but we would not capitalize the word bachelorette.
Karley Abner says:
What would I put in my Journalism article:
… and then will continue with the Accelerated Master’s Program for social work…
We recommend “accelerated master’s program for social work.”
Can you tell me if the following sentence below follows the Associated Press Stylebook guidelines? Thanks!
Scott holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University.
May 7, 2015, at 12:11 pm
AP Stylebook does not capitalize the terms “master’s degree” or “bachelor’s degree.” AP spells academic departments and programs in lowercase except for words that are proper nouns or adjectives or when the department name is part of the official and formal name preceded by the university or college. Therefore, write “Scott holds a master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from the George Washington University.”
I visit your site frequently and always find helpful advice to guide me when producing and editing documents for work in the higher education sector and in my postgraduate studies. Thanks so much!
I am a member of the girls’ basketball team.
This question is more appropriate for our blog Apostrophes, but we recommend girls’.
Ayesha says:
Is the following correct?
#1) “Lisa holds a bachelor in computer science degree and a MBA.”
#2) Is it correct to write “John holds a MBBS degree…” or does the abbreviation need to be written out?
Please let me know, thanks.
In your first sentence we would write “… and an MBA.” In your second sentence we would write “John holds an MBBS degree …” We assume the abbreviations would be spoken as written; otherwise you’d be better off writing them out.
What is this correct? In 2011, she graduated with a bachelor degree in clinical exercise physiology. In 2014, she graduated from The University of Mississippi Medical Center with a master of occupational therapy?
Should it be bachelor’s degree in clinical exercise physiology instead?
Should it be Master of Occupational Therapy?
Just curious about the capitalization and the apostrophes with the degrees?
In 2011, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in clinical exercise physiology.
In 2014, she graduated from the University of Mississippi Medical Center with a master’s in occupational therapy.
Amy Morgan says:
I just received a Master’s of Science in Counseling: Applied Behavioral Science degree. Even my university couldn’t tell me if I should use MS or MSC or something else to identify my credentials. Can you tell me what I should use, and how it should look after my name? Th anks!
The style manuals do not offer any specific recommendations for the abbreviation of your credentials. In addition, the style guides do not agree on how to form abbreviations for degrees. The Associated Press Stylebook uses periods, and The Chicago Manual of Style does not recommend the use of periods in the abbreviation.
I am have a similar issue. I obtained my bachelor’s of arts in applied behavioral science and I have no clue how to list this on a signature line following my name also how is it listed on a resumé. Presently I have it listed on my resumé as:
Bachelors of Art in Applied Behavioral Science-September 2013
Also is this how it would be written as a title
NAME,BA,Applied Behavioral Science
Since there is no agreement among the leading style manuals, we recommend being consistent in your use of capitalization when writing your degree. The Associated Press Stylebook recommends capitalizing a degree specialty on a resume only if it’s a proper noun (Bachelor of Arts in applied behavioral science, Bachelor of Arts in English). The Chicago Manual of Style recommends capitalizing degrees on business cards, on diplomas, or when displayed in a directory or resume, but placing them in lowercase in running text. Therefore, you may write “Bachelor of Arts (or BA or B.A.), Applied Behavioral Science” on your resume, business cards, or signature block if you wish. However, in generic, running text we recommend lowercase; for example, “I received my bachelor’s degree in applied behavioral science in 2013.”
Terrance Keller says:
In earlier posts I read that both the following were correct.
He has a B.A. in Criminal History.
She earned her BS in history.
Why is one upper case and the other lower.
My particular situation applies to a translation I’m doing where the person holds a B.A. in visual and media arts, which I have left in lower case because in my view it is not part of the title. This would be different if it were Bachelor of Fine Arts. What is your thinking on this?
In your examples, we would lowercase the area of study: B.A. in criminal history.
Do I capitalize nursing in the following sentences:
I intend to major in nursing.
I have chosen nursing as a major.
Do not capitalize the word nursing in either sentence.
This has been very helpful! Perhaps you can help me understand how to properly punctuate the credentials for a board-certified physician assistant. Would the correct punctuation be:
CMOS Style –> PA-C
AP Style –> P.A.-C
Yes, that is correct. The Chicago Manual of Style advises against the use of periods with abbreviations that appear in full capitals and AP Stylebook recommends using periods in most two-letter abbreviations.
Tifa says:
How about the capitalization of Degrees and Name in plaque??
Should I capitalize all of the name including the degrees??
such ASSOC. PROF. GIRRA MARTINDA, M.B.A or Assoc. Prof. GIRRA MARTINDA, M.B.A.
Thanks in advance for your help??
The Chicago Manual of Style says, “Display items like plaques support a number of treatments, none of which is the only correct choice. You should make your decision and strive for consistency within the plaque.”
Melissa Bailey says:
LOVE this page! Thanks so much for providing this reference.
I am working on job descriptions, and we start out the Education section with something like this:
“Bachelor degree/Technical School”
Should I use “Bachelor’s” instead?
Also, should the words “Technical School” be capitalized or should they be lower-case?
Thank you for the compliment. The Associated Press Stylebook recommends bachelor’s degree. Since the terms bachelor’s degree and technical school are not part of a name or a list, they do not need to be capitalized; however, such terms are often capitalized in institutional settings, especially in promotional materials.
Is there any usage of associate’s degree or associates degree that is correct or are these just a frequent errors people make?
The Chicago Manual of Style recommends either “associate degree” or “associate’s degree.” Educational institutions are inconsistent regarding this term and both are widely used.
Amy Rittenhouse says:
I am still a little confused on capitalization. Would this grammar be correct? I am not sure if subject matter should be capitalized or not.
Ms. Rittenhouse holds a bachelor of science degree in Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Studies from Michigan State University and a master of public administration degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin.
We recommend not capitalizing “environmental and natural resources policy studies.”
Nissa says:
What if you are writing to say “Graduated with Honors in Litigation.” Or is it better to write “Graduate Cum laude with a concentration in litigation? Even though cun laude can not be italicized.
Because it is a Latin phrase, cum laude should appear in italicized lowercase letters. Therefore, if you cannot italicize cum laude, it might be better to write “graduated with honors in litigation.”
Why could she write: “…graduated with cum laude [italics] in litigation.”
The term “with cum laude“ is not grammatically correct. The following are correct:
graduated with honors in litigation
graduated cum laude with a concentration in litigation
Ed Case says:
I like German. All nouns are capitalized. Simple and end of discussion. It’s too bad English didn’t adopt this methodology.
I find a contradiction in the following two examples:
Could you please clarify? Thank you.
Your first example sentence is given in regard to the statement “The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) recommends writing academic degrees in lower case, except when using the degree as a title.”
The second example sentence pertains to “The Associated Press Stylebook recommends using lower case when referring to degrees in general but capitalizing when they follow a name.”
The style manuals have different rules. As we stated above, our recommendation is to pick your resource and then be consistent.
Mary Wogec says:
Thanks so much for the references. And thanks for a great website!
I’m looking for information not on academic degrees but on certificates and licenses issued by the State of California. This is for state regulations, but unfortunately the State offers no guidelines. We issue various certificates (Certified Phelbotomy Technician I and II, Medical Laboratory Technician, Clinical Laboratory Scientist, etc.) Should these titles be capitalized? Below are two examples:
1. (b) To be certified as a Certified Phlebotomy Technician I, a person shall meet the following requirements:
2. (i) Under the supervision of a physician and surgeon licensed under Chapter 5, physician assistant licensed under Chapter 7.7, clinical laboratory bioanalyst or clinical laboratory scientist licensed under Chapter 3, registered nurse licensed under Chapter 6, or certified phlebotomy technician with three years of experience in the previous five years;
I would like to capitalize in the first example, but not in the second, but I need firm grammatical ground on which to stand. Could you offer any?
The style manuals do not specifically address certificates and licenses. The Chicago Manual of Style‘s rule 8.28 says, “Names of degrees, fellowships, and the like are lowercased when referred to generically.” However, they do state in their Q&A section, “Cap a degree on a résumé, business card, or diploma, in an alumni directory, or wherever it looks like a title rather than a description of what degree you have. Lowercase it in running text. You can’t go too far wrong with this if you’re consistent within a given document.” Since certified phlebotomy technician, medical laboratory technician, and clinical laboratory scientist look more like titles and the printed certificates might be considered similar to diplomas, you could have an argument to capitalize them. The most important thing is to be consistent.
Should I capitalize anything here (aside from the first word and the names of the schools?
She received her art education certification from State University and her yoga teaching certification from Yoga University.
No other capitalization is necessary.
Bebby says:
May 9, 2013, at 9:03 am
I frequently have to write descriptive bios for young professionals who want to emphasize their academic honors. Is it correct to write: “She earned her BS, magna cum laude, in history…”? Or perhaps, “She earned her BS in history, magna cum laude,…” Or is there another, better way to express this? I have searched high and low and cannot find a recommendation on this in any of my reference books. Thanks.
Grammatically speaking, either option is correct; however, we think it makes more sense to keep the name of the degree with the major. Therefore, we recommend writing “She earned her BS in history, magna cum laude.”
Birdie says:
This is an argument I find myself in all the time. I cannot seem to understand what AP suggests. In the following sentence, I don’t think corporate communications and management should be capitalized because they are just concentrations, not the title of the degree. Or maybe they are and should be capitalized? So confusing!!!
She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2008 with a BA in English for corporate communications and management.
Since you specifically asked about the Associated Press Stylebook’s rule, their advice reads,”The specialty is lowercase unless it’s a proper noun: bachelor’s degree in French history, master’s degree in natural resources, doctorate in English literature.”
She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2008 with a BA in English in corporate communications and management.
Rex Carlos says:
Would it be correct to write Doctorate’s Degree for one with a PhD?
The word degree does not follow the word doctorate. It is simply written as a doctorate.
Just wondering how to handle degree abbreviations when the name appears in ALL CAPS, as would be the case if a name appears in a section title or book title. Specifically I’m wondering which of the following is the best option:
JOHN DOE, PHD
JOHN DOE, PH.D
We would stick with the standard abbreviation PhD. A more conservative practice would be to include the periods: Ph.D.
I’m currently formatting my resume, and I’m wondering how to list my degree and majors according to Chicago style. I double majored like one of the other posters above, and I’m struggling to find the best/most accurate way to convey this information.
I started with
Bachelor of Arts, English and history, May XXXX
Then I switched to
I fret that the first example looks odd and/or inconsistent because of the lowercased “history,” and might draw attention to itself for the wrong reasons. But the second example kind of looks like I majored in a singular field of study called “English and History.”
Would you be so kind as to help me out with this one? Thank you!
The Chicago Manual of Style’s Rule 8.84 says, “Academic subjects are not capitalized unless they form part of a department name or an official course name or are themselves proper nouns (e.g., English, Latin).” CMOS does advise that academic degrees be capitalized when used in lists or when displayed on a resume, however, CMOS does not specifically address academic majors on lists or resumes. In the case of a resume, you could interpret “academic degree” as including the major and capitalize both the degree and the major on a resume.
Other possibilities for listing your degrees could be:
Bachelor of Arts, English, May XXXX
Bachelor of Arts, History, May XXXX
Bachelor of Arts in both English and History, May XXXX
September 19, 2012, at 12:41 pm
I was wondering if the following is correct when capitalizing certain words (degrees and kindergarten teacher). Here is the beginning of my letter of intent for an elementary teacher position.
I am interested in applying for the elementary teacher position at ______ Elementary School. Your opening for an elementary school teacher relates directly to my experience teaching K-6 grade school level in the ____ Elementary School District. I am highly qualified having earned a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential with CLAD and a Supplementary Subject Matter credential in Introductory English K-9. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development and a Master of Arts in Education from Azusa Pacific University.
For the 2011-2012 school year, I was a temporary contracted kindergarten teacher at _______ Elementary.
Our blog Capitalization of Academic Degrees says, “The Chicago Manual of Style recommends writing academic degrees in lower case, except when using the degree as a title.” Also, we agree with lower case for “kindergarten teacher.”
When referring to a specific university in a sentence, Boston University for example would the sentence say: “While at the University golf course you were found in violation of speeding on a golf cart.” Or would university be lower case?
Our blog Capitalization of Governmental Words addresses this dilemma. The rule says, “When you refer back to a proper noun using a shortened version of the original name, you may capitalize it.”
Gulmira says:
hello, can you please tell me , if in my degree written as my name first and my dad’s name second and my surname is last, is it the acceptable way in my further education? as in the most of the way it supposed be written as first surname and first name, then father’s name…i am so confused
We are guessing that you are writing from a country outside the United States. In the U.S., our standard or most common naming convention is to have first and middle names that may or may not have any relationship to our parents’ names followed by our surname, which is our family name. Generally, high schools and universities in the U.S. will issue your diploma using the name that you used when registering or will ask you how you want your name to be printed on your diploma. We hope this answer is helpful to you. If not, please write back including a specific example or two illustrating your question.
I’m making a survey of sorts and asking people about their academic degrees. However, I’ve found somewhat conflicting information about the grammar. Are associate and doctorate followed by “degree” or not? Should they have an apostrophe or not?
Academic Degrees (check all that apply)
Associate Degree (Ex. AA, AS)
Bachelor’s Degree (Ex. BA, BS, AB)
Master’s Degree (Ex. MA, MS, MEd, MPH)
Doctorate Degree (Ex. PhD, EdD, MD, JD)
The word degree does not follow doctorate. It can in the case of the three others. Associate degree and doctorate have no apostrophes. Both bachelor’s degree and master’s degree do. Also, since they are used generically, you do not need to capitalize the words, just the abbreviations.
doctorate (Ex. PhD, EdD, MD, JD)
I also can’t find anything that truely clears up communication and communications…
The company I want to apply for adds “S”. But in a resume and using AP Style, what is correct?
Pursuing an opportunity with (ABC Company) to build strong relationships with external and internal audiences through the marketing communication (company used communication(s))specialist position
Associates Degree, communication(or communication(s))
Associates Degree, Communication(s)
AP Stylebook says, “The AP spelling would be guided by the specific college degree, business name or professional title. So the word could be singular for some cases, plural for others.” We recommend using the s if the company uses it and listing your degree the way your college spells it. You can either write associate of arts or associate degree. We think associate of arts looks better on a resume. The major or program name should be lowercase.
Associate of arts, communication(s)
I’m writing my resume and wanted to stick with AP Style.
When using my degree as a title, is it okay to capitalize degrees in AP Style?
For example, “Dual Bachelors of Arts, public relations & journalism”
Yes, AP Style does say to capitalize academic degrees. Do not capitalize the word “dual” unless it is the first word of a sentence. Also, use the word and rather than an ampersand (&) in formal writing, especially on a resume.
dual Bachelors of Arts, public relations and journalism
I have a question regarding how to write degrees for a wedding announcement. Should it read he received both an Associates and Bachelor of Science in Nursing. He also received a Master of Science in Nursing and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Nursing.
Unless the groom is insisting on listing his entire academic history, generally the highest degree earned is sufficient, especially since his degrees are all in the same field of study. Since you are not using the degrees as part of a title, do not capitalize:
He received a master of science degree in nursing and is currently pursuing a doctorate in nursing.
L.G. says:
The position title is capitalized within the body of a job announcement. If I apply the ego rule, repeat its “error,” and capitalize the job position in my cover letter, how do treat the other job titles I mention later in the same letter (previous positions held)? It’s my inclination to leave those titles lowercase in running text, but I’m concerned about consistency.
Thanks for a very helpful Web site!
We agree it would be more consistent to capitalize your previous positions held. If you use lowercase, the people reading your cover letter might interpret your previous positions as less important than the one announced. Will they look favorably on that or not? It is your call.
May 9, 2012, at 10:32 am
she received her BA in politics at Hendrix College
she received her BA in Politics at… ??
The Chicago Manual of Style says, “Names of degrees, fellowships, and the like are lowercased when referred to generically.”
She received her BA in politics at Hendrix College.
Suresh G says:
I am confused about this usage, How the order of academic degree should be written with a person’s name?
Dr. Bill B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Dr. Bill Ph.D., M.S., B.S.
Which usage is correct ?
Grammatically speaking, there is no preferred order. Usually, degrees are listed in the order in which they were earned, which generally corresponds with increased academic level. Some people choose to omit earlier degrees.
Dr. Bill, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Bill M. says:
There is no right answer. These are rules made up by people like you and I. Write how you want and be happy!
For formal writing, we advise people to follow the rules of proper grammar and punctuation, rules which have been well established but do evolve over time and become recognized by such leading reference authorities as The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press Stylebook and which we reflect on our website and in The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation.
I have a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineer and a Masters degree in Environmental Management but I’m not really sure how to specify my titles when writing my name?
should it be: Eng…Name…… MEM ?
Name……, Eng. MEM
Our blog Capitalization of Academic Degrees addresses this. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends writing academic degrees in lowercase except when using the degree as a title. The Associated Press Stylebook recommends using lowercase when referring to degrees in general but capitalizing when they follow a name. Both stylebooks agree that abbreviations of academic degrees are to be capitalized. Also, the degrees would be capitalized if appearing on a resume or in a list. My recommendation is to pick your resource and then be consistent.
Willie Smith, BS, MS
Willie Smith, BS, Industrial Engineering; MS, Environmental Management OR
Willie Smith, BS, industrial engineering; MS, environmental management
Willie Smith, bachelor of science in industrial engineering; master of science in environmental management OR
Willie Smith, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering; Master of Science in Environmental Management
We have a question about whether certain medical terms or words should be capitalized. Such as Diabetes Mellitus, rotator cuff tear or repair, cardiac arrhythmia, etc.
Generally, medical terms are lowercased except when proper names form part of the term, such as Alzheimer’s disease or Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Quick question – if all surrounding text is in caps, would you cap all the letters of Ph.D. or not?
JANE DOE, PH.D. OR JANE DOE, Ph.D.
It is not a sound policy for text to be in all caps unless it is a military, police, Coast Guard, or National Weather Service bulletin, or you are sending a telegram. By definition “all caps” means all capital letters.
Eden Carr says:
Regarding the question above: if the individual’s name is in all capital letters, do you capitalize the degree or not? I am listing a speaker’s name on an invitation. Which of the following versions is correct when printing an invitation or social media post announcing the speaker for an event:
As we indicated, we do not recommend writing names in all capital letters; however, invitations do not always follow standard rules of capitalization and punctuation. Your style preference can determine which treatment you use.
brenda Komater says:
January 5, 2012, at 10:31 am
For new hires–are their degrees capitalized in the body of the announcement? Or, if everything lowercase?
January 6, 2012, at 10:04 pm
Our blog Capitalization of Academic Degrees addresses this by citing other authoritative references. The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) recommends writing academic degrees in lowercase, except when using the degree as a title. The Associated Press Stylebook recommends using lowercase when referring to degrees in general but capitalizing when they follow a name. My recommendation is to pick your resource and then be consistent.
Juan Perez, bachelor of science OR
Juan Perez, Bachelor of Science
CMOS advises that academic degrees be capitalized when used in lists
Our new marketing team includes:
Lane Bridges, Bachelor of Science
Carol Hudson, Bachelor of Arts
Justin Weber, Master of Business Administration
Arah Pinson says:
Are items in a series capitalized in a chart if those items are being emphasized?
If these “items in a series” are displayed like Rule 3 of Colons, they may be capitalized if desired.
Isn’t it redundant to follow up many of these terms with “degree?” I would prefer to see “I earned a bachelor of science” to “I earned a bachelor of science degree,” but which is correct?
Bachelor of science is a phrasal adjective describing the word degree, so I do not consider it redundant. The use of “bachelor of science” without the word degree is just a shortened form. Either one is grammatically correct.
marlene harper says:
Actually I have a question is grammatically speaking using in a sentence : His “son” might come by tonight. vs. His “Son” might come by tonight. I know the later “Son” denotes Diety (Jesus the Son) but does “son”.
“His son might come by tonight” indicates you are speaking of normal human beings, not deities.
Is the capitalization in this sentence correct? Even though I’ve read to not capitalize degree titles in AP style, it seems odd for them to be lowercase.
Katie studied journalism at the University of Memphis and graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts with emphasis in public relations.
Degree titles are often capitalized in institutional settings (and on business cards and other promotional items); however, they should be lowercase in normal prose.
Catharine says:
Do I say: “I will pursue a Master of Science in International Politics” or “Master’s of Science…”
And, how about: “I will work towards a Master of Philisophy/Doctor of Philosophy in War Studies” OR a “Master’s of Philosophy/Doctorate of Philosophy…”? (in the British system an MPhil is upgraded to a PhD).
I’m writing applications and really need to make sure this is correct! Thanks!
The Chicago Manual of Style says, “Names of degrees, fellowships, and the like are lowercased when referred to generically:
a master’s degree; a doctorate; a fellowship; master of business administration (MBA) Therefore, “master of science” or “master’s degree in science” would be grammatically correct as well as “master of philosophy” or “master’s in philosophy.”
So then when the discipline follows it, all remains lower case? As in, “he earned a master of science in biotechnology at the…”
What about if it is a program title, then I can capitalize, right? For example, “He was accepted into the Master of Science in Biotechnology Program.”
Thanks for your feedback. Great site!
Yes, you are correct. Most specific programs and course titles tend to be capitalized.
Very interesting read. I am still confused though in some areas. For sentences that I would appreciate help on are:
She has completed several programs that include computer analyst programmer and business adminstration.
She holds a computer technology certificate and a masters certificate in project management.
She is currently pursuing her master of business administration.
She holds a bachelor of science degree and has completed programs related to information technology management.
Since The Chicago Manual of Style recommends writing academic degrees in lower case, except when using the degree as a title, your sentences are correct without the capitalization. Also, master’s certificate should have an apostrophe and please note the spelling of administration.
What is the proper form for doctor’s degrees? Is their area of expertise capitalized? Please advise what should be caps in this paragraph: “He is board certified in Internal Medicine and board eligible in medical oncology. Dr. Doe practices general medical oncology and hematology, but has a particular clinical and research interest in lung cancer. Having helped establish and direct our multi-disiplinary lung cancer clinic.”
Is there a website or other form of reference materiall I can refer to in the future.
Since this is such a specialized area, I will defer to The Chicago Manual of Style which recommends, “The following paragraphs offer only the most general guidelines. Medical writers or editors should consult the AMA Manual of Style or Scientific Style and Format.
Names of diseases, syndromes, diagnostic procedures, anatomical parts, and the like are lowercased, except for proper names forming part of the term. Acronyms and initialisms are capitalized.
The full names of institutions, groups, and companies and the names of their departments, and often the shortened forms of such names (e.g., the Art Institute), are capitalized.”
Regarding degrees, “Spelled-out terms, often capitalized in institutional settings (and on business cards and other promotional items), should be lowercased in normal prose.”
You do not indicate whether this paragraph is for an institutional setting or normal prose. If it is normal prose, only the doctor’s name and the names of any specific departments would be capitalized. If this is for an institutional setting, the specializations could also be capitalized, but not the diseases.
Wondering if there is a specific rule for referring to a masters (apostrophe or no) – as in earned her masters in nursing. Thanks for your help.
According to the AP Stylebook, “Use an apostrophe in bachelor’s degree, a master’s, etc., but there is no possessive in bachelor of arts or master of science.”
Hugh O. says:
August 3, 2011, at 12:45 am
I just finished another program.
Am I now a “B.A., J.D., CPht, M.S.”….are the degrees by chronological order or ranked by level of study accomplished?
Grammatically speaking, there is no preferred order. In general, degrees are listed in the order in which they were earned, which usually corresponds with increased academic level. In some cases it is customary to leave out earlier degrees, and in some cases people choose to omit lower-level degrees. It’s up to you.
June 7, 2011, at 10:28 pm
Thank you so very much for providing this information on the internet.
You’re very welcome, Robin.
I just love this stuff. My idea of pleasure reading. I’m an English teacher and always wonder about this stuff. It’s so fluid.
We are so glad you enjoy it!
nicolas jorizzo says:
do we capitalize things like academic titles …like chartered accountant?
for example ….this report was written by Nicolas Jorizzo, Chartered Real Estate Broker…do i capitalize all words in my title?
March 24, 2011, at 10:41 pm
We do not recommend capitalizing “chartered real estate broker” in your title.
Dr. CM says:
I wonder about professional or learned titles such as Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology or Fellow of the Royal Society. I would think they should be always capitalised but what about the following?
“Jane’s general practitioner told her that he was preparing for his exam for the Royal college. ”
How many errors did I make in the above sentence?
We see no reason to capitalize general practitioner in your sentence; however, we would capitalize the entire proper name Royal College.
Please see our posts When to Capitalize People’s Titles and Capitalization of Job Titles for more information.
sue sperber says:
What should be capitalized?
“She received her b.a. degree in art, with a concentration in painting and special studies in old masters’ reproductions” ?
There are so many options regarding capitalization with degrees. Yours is correct; however, the most common method may be as follows:
She received her BA degree in art, with a concentration in painting and special studies in Old Masters’ Reproductions.
I capitalized the last bit because of its specificity.
Isn’t it redundant to say “master’s of arts degree”? A master’s of arts is a degree; there should be no need to say ‘degree’ after it.
Master of arts is a phrasal adjective describing the word degree, so I do not consider it redundant. The use of master of arts without the word degree is just a shortened form. Either one is grammatically correct. On a resume, it would be preferable to write master of arts or master’s degree. Note that the apostrophe s is not used with master of arts or bachelor of arts, but is used with master’s degree and bachelor’s degree.
Can “Master of Art” also be viewed as a noun phrase?
You could write “He is a master of art” meaning “He is an artist of great and exemplary skill.” The term “master of art” here is a noun phrase and is not capitalized. You could also write “master of arts” without the word degree and it would be a noun phrase rather than an adjective. Example:
He earned his master of arts at Northwestern.
I am confused about whether to capitalize specific centuries.
Fifth Century B.C. or fifth century B.C. I see it as a common noun, such as the eleventh hour. In that case, it would be written in lower case. However, I also see that it is a specific point in time, leaving me to believe that it should be capitalized. Please help. Thank you!
The Chicago Manual of Style says this:
Particular centuries are spelled out and lowercased.
the twenty-first century
the eighth and ninth centuries
from the ninth to the eleventh century
the eighteen hundreds (the nineteenth century)
When does one use an apostrophe in writing degree names? Do I write, “Carrie earned a master’s degree?” or “Carrie earned a masters degree?” What about, “I’m working on my masters/master’s degree?” I see it both ways. Is it plural or is the degree belonging to the master or master category.
I found contradictory answers on the AP Style Manual site:
A. Keep the apostrophe in the plural forms: “The university offers bachelor’s degrees in ….” 2007-02-11 (Source: Ask the Editor, Singular/plural)
A. No apostrophe for simple plurals: Ph.D.s or Ph.D. degrees. (Source: Ask the Editor, Spelling)
I cannot find anything in The Chicago Manual of Style, at least not yet. Therefore, it seems that you can either use or not use the apostrophe according to your own “taste.”
If you choose to use the comma and it is plural, then wouldn’t it be, “the university offers masters’ degrees” with the apostrophe plural possessive position after the ‘s’?
It is only the word “degrees” that should be plural in your sentence: “master’s degrees.”
“Bachelor of Arts degree” would be the correct way of writing it, right?
bachelor of arts degree, not Bachelor of Arts degree
When saying Bachelors of Art degree, is the word “degree” capitalized?
According to The Chicago Manual of Style, degrees should not be capitalized at all: “Names of degrees, fellowships, and the like are lowercased when referred to generically.” Yet this is on another page:
BA Bachelor of Arts
This is confusing, isn’t it? I recommend writing bachelor of arts degree.
Yvonne Condo says:
I’m so confused; which is correct: I received a bachelor of arts in Criminal History or I received a bachelor of arts in criminal history?
I was under the assumption that I should capitalize the course title according to “The Gregg Reference Manual”
I love getting your weekly grammar quizzes –
The answer to your first question is “I received a bachelor of arts in criminal history.” I agree that course or program names should be capitalized.
Wait, so are these all correct:
1) He earned a bachelor of arts in Criminal History.
2) He earned his bachelor’s degree in Criminal History.
3) He earned a BA in Criminal History.
No, those are all incorrect; “criminal history” should be lowercase.
Those are all the same…
They are all the same degree, but Kristin worded all three differently.
Thank you for providing this resource and continuing to answer questions. It’s very helpful.
I am trying to create a style guide for a college catalog with some clear rules for capitalizing program names. Should one capitalize them in all cases when the specific program name is used or only when it is used in certain contexts?
1. The School of Arts and Sciences awards associate degrees in liberal arts and sciences, chemical technology and computer science. (These are all names of degree programs, so should they be capitalized or not in this context?)
2. Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics
3. The Applied Math and Computer Science degree programs
Names of specific course titles should be capitalized, but general academic subjects are not. In your first example “liberal arts and sciences, chemical technology and computer science” are referred to generically, therefore do not capitalize. Names of academic degrees are not capitalized, however, specific program names are generally capitalized. Therefore, we recommend writing “bachelor of science degree in Applied Mathematics” and “The Applied Math and Computer Science degree programs.”
Anne Marie says:
This is all clear as mud to me.
I’m a quality assurance analyst for an internet marketing company, and part of my job is to proofread website content. We work specifically with oral surgeons, so we see a lot of profile information about their education and training. Our team is developing a writing style guide, and I’m still struggling with differentiating between general academic subjects and specific degrees or programs, so it’s hard for me to settle on what to capitalize and what not to capitalize. Essentially, how do I tell the difference between an academic subject (not capitalized) and a specific course/program title (capitalized)?
* He earned a bachelor of arts in medical biology. (I know that this is correct, but I can’t understand why. To me, medical biology is specific and should be capitalized, whereas just biology is general and should not.)
What about internships, residency programs, etc.?
* “After completing his dental studies, he entered a six-year residency program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at….” Should oral and maxillofacial surgery be capitalized or not? Currently, we are capitalizing in these instances.
Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated!
An academic subject is an area of knowledge that is studied at the school. A course is a specific class taken at the school. Medical biology is one of those tricky terms that could be used as a subject or a specific course title. You have to look at the way it is used in the sentence to identify it. “He earned a bachelor of arts in medical biology” implies that this is a subject area, not the title of a specific course. Specific programs are generally capitalized.
Lassy says:
Bachelor of Arts in Criminal history
Write academic degrees in lowercase.
Lamar says:
I have earned a Master’s Degree in Education, History Major and Political Science Minor.
Please correct what I just wrote with an explanation.
On a resume how would I style/abbreviate that?
Lamar —–
M. Ed. Hist & Pol Sci
M. Ed. h & ps
I’m confused.
The Chicago Manual of Style says, “Capitalize degrees on business cards, on diplomas, or when displayed in a directory or resume.” Otherwise, academic subjects are not capitalized. The abbreviation for master of education is EdM. We assume that your undergraduate degree was in history with a minor in political science. There is no one correct way to write this. A couple of possibilities might be:
Lamar _____
Master of Education, Bachelor of Arts (or bachelor of arts) in history with a minor in political science
EdM; BA in history, minor in political science
I am working on a brochure and someone sent me this description. Is this correct?
He has a degree from the University of Iowa in English and a degree from St. Cloud State University in theatre education.
Gloria Gibson says:
Should I write: Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education or Bachelor of Arts in music education?
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) recommends the following except when directly preceding or following a name:
bachelor of arts in music education
bachelor of arts degree in music education
The Associated Press Stylebook (AP) recommends the following:
I believe there’s so much confusion because CMOS and the AP aren’t in agreement on the subject. I don’t think the way CMOS treats the question is logical at all, as far as the rules of grammar are concerned. A Bachelor of Arts or Master of Education, for example, are names, and names and titles are capitalized. The field of study shouldn’t be capitalized unless the word is a proper noun in itself, such as English, French, etc. I have a BA in history, or a Bachelor of Arts in history. In both examples, the capitalization is correct. In my view, the only time ‘history’, or any other program of study, whose name isn’t a proper noun, should be capitalized is when it’s truly part of the degree’s name; therefore, ‘Bachelor of Arts, History’ is correct, at least according to the only infallible source I’m aware of, the rules of grammar for the English language. Our language is complicated, and mastering it often proves to be tremendously difficult, especially for non-native speakers. Unfortunately, it seems that mastery isn’t easily achievable for a disproportionately high percentage of those identifying English as their mother tongue. I’m sorry for going off on a tangent and ranting a bit. I’m just so tired of the determined effort to dumb-down our language because there are too many sub-par English teachers who are saddled with lazy and/or incompetent students these days. I thank my lucky stars that my mother was an exceptional English teacher, and that my father was equally proficient. As a child, they drove me crazy with correcting my mistakes, but I’m so glad they didn’t give up on me. I appreciate the work you do in helping to disseminate correct information on grammar and other related issues. Too few understand the value of such knowledge.
Now, about the confusion which seems to be pretty rampant within the comments section, I think there are a couple factors contributing to it. I believe you were right in including what the AP and the CMOS recommend, but, because the recommendations are completely at odds with one another, readers might have had difficulty understanding that you were simply providing both views, rather than strictly stating what is correct, and what is not. A single rule was most likely expected, but one doesn’t exist. There are nuances involved which probably caused some of the bewilderment. Since you provided information about something you already were knowledgeable about, I doubt that you’re aware of another likely contributing factor to the confusion. You began the article by stating what CMOS recommends, and then provided appropriate examples. You then did the same with the AP Stylebook recommendation, again sharing pertinent examples. I think it would’ve made things easier had you prefaced the sharing of CMOS and AP policies by stating that you were going to detail two different approaches because there’s no hard and fast rule on the subject. I agree with you that one way should be adopted and consistently followed, but you only alluded to the two contrasting opinions when you said, near the end, that both guides agree on the capitalization of the abbreviations for degrees. A lot of people have trouble summarizing what they’ve read, and this was probably made more difficult because the reader had to decide for himself which way was right for him. The comments show me that a lot of your readers probably just wanted to be told what to do, rather than having to make their own decision. You answered appropriately because sharing only your personal preference would have provided an incomplete picture. What I found mildly irritating with CMOS is that they think it’s correct to capitalize abbreviations for words they say should not be capitalized. That seems pretty ridiculous to me. And while I’ve pointed out that some of the people commenting seemed a bit confused, I do want to say that it’s refreshing to read questions asked by obviously intelligent people who were seeking clarity about something because they cared whether or not their writing was free from mistakes. Isn’t it sad that such an attitude has become fairly rare today? The opposite is what I stumble upon far too often, usually numerous times per day.
I don’t want you to think I’m being critical because that certainly isn’t my intention. I know how it is to edit your own writing, which I’d imagine was the case when you wrote this years ago. It’s difficult to catch errors or identify any ambiguity when you’re proofreading your own work. And you’d need a proofreader who’s unsure about the capitalization of degrees, courses of study, etc., in order for you to receive good feedback. Obviously, I love grammar, writing and all that’s related to it, so I couldn’t control myself in writing this post. It’s a lot longer than your article! I’m sorry! This is what happens when delirium sets in from lack of sleep. And please excuse my referring to the CMOS and AP guides in the 3rd person plural. I tried not to, but I gave up on trying to rewrite every thing where I’d used “they” or “them”. I wonder what it’s like not to be OCD about all of this stuff. I’ll never know because I refuse to accept what many folks no longer consider to be erroneous, simply because of widespread misuse. I’ll never treat ‘disrespect’ as a verb, nor will I use a past participle without its helping verb (“I seen it.” ). ‘None’ and ‘neither’ is singular. And I will always use a subjective or nominative pronoun following the conjugated form of the verb ‘to be’, even if others believe I’ve made an egregious error. I can live with that more easily than if I were to disregard all that my sweet mother taught me. Thanks for passing on your knowledge, and for allowing me to ramble on and on and on.
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PEF, a bio-based potential substitute for PET
Using a plant-derived solvent called GVL (gamma-Valerolactone), University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering James Dumesic and his team have developed an economical and high-yielding way of producing furandicarboxylic acid, or FDCA. One of 12 chemicals the U.S. Department of Energy calls critical to forging a “green” chemical industry, FDCA is a necessary precursor to a renewable plastic called PEF (or polyethylene furanoate) as well as to a number of polyesters and polyurethanes.
“Until now, FDCA has had a very low solubility in practically any solvent you make it in,” says Ali Hussain Motagamwala, a UW-Madison graduate student in chemical and biological engineering and co-author of the study. “You have to use a lot of solvent to get a small amount of FDCA, and you end up with high separation costs and undesirable waste products.”
Motagamwala and colleagues’ new process begins with fructose, which they convert in a two-step process to FDCA in a solvent system composed of one part GVL and one part water. The end result is a high yield of FDCA that easily separates from the solvent as a white powder upon cooling.
The team’s techno-economic analysis suggests that the process could currently produce FDCA at a minimum selling price of $1,490 per ton. With improvements, including lowering the cost of feedstock and reducing the reaction time, the price could reach $1,310 per ton, which would make their FDCA cost-competitive with some fossil fuel-derived plastic precursors.
“We think this is the streamlined and inexpensive approach to making FDCA that many people in the plastics industry have been waiting for,” says Dumesic. “Our hope is that this research opens the door even further to cost-competitive renewable plastics.”
A crystal of furandicarboxylic acid, or FDCA, a plastic precursor created with biomass instead of petroleum.
Credit: UW–Madison image by Ali Hussain Motagamwala and James Runde
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6 Interns Hired by Their Host Company: How They Got The Job Offer
By Dan Elias Bliss . December 27, 2018
An internship abroad is all about gaining the skills and experience needed to land your dream career. Through an international internship, you get to meet people from around the world, explore different cultures, learn new perspectives about life, and develop as a person.
For these six alumni, their internships impacted their lives in a major way — their host companies offered them a position! Keep reading to find out more about our alums’ stories and their advice on turning an internship into a job offer.
1. Alyssa L. - Marine Biology Intern in Sydney
From the very beginning, Alyssa knew Australia was the place she wanted to end up. Before she could turn that dream into reality, she had to figure out how to turn a one-year holiday visa into a lifetime. After her internship ended, she decided to stay with her company as a volunteer and help finish up a few projects. Her supervisor was eventually able to find Alyssa a role as a research assistant, and her dream of staying in Australia came true.
“Hard work and commitment to the projects that you start during your internship is key to show that you stand out. Make sure that you give your internship everything you have because your supervisors will notice! Also, take as many opportunities as you can to knock on some doors and meet some new people within the company. Networking is the best asset anyone can have, and it can provide you with so many unimaginable and unbelievable opportunities.”
As Alyssa puts it, “I am forever grateful for the opportunities I was given after the internship.” Alyssa is having the time of her life living in Australia and consistently finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone and discovering new passions.
2. Angela H. - Non-Profit Intern in Barcelona
Angela had always wanted to experience somewhere outside of the United States, and with an international internship, she was able to do exactly that. Barcelona gave Angela the chance to explore the Spanish culture that she had always found so interesting. Angela’s background and passion for working with non-profits made an NGO internship in Barcelona the perfect placement.
Angela’s internship allowed her to work on a variety of tasks, but her favorite project was teaching English to children at a summer camp. “It was really fun teaching and interacting with kids from an entirely different culture.” Angela wasn’t extremely surprised when she got the chance to stay on longer, but she was “extremely happy.”
“I was asked to keep working for my company because I got along so well with my supervisor! She had mentioned while I was there that she wished I could stay and continue to work on her projects with her, so it wasn't a total surprise.”
3. Julie Q. - Human Resources Intern in Barcelona
Before even deciding to intern in Barcelona, Julie had a huge desire to travel but didn’t want to take time off school. She decided an international internship was the perfect way to the see the world while still focusing on her academic and professional careers.
Julie felt that Global Experiences, and the Barcelona program in particular, were exactly what she needed to accomplish her goals. While in Barcelona, Julie had the opportunity to intern with a cutting-edge recruitment company. It wasn’t until the last two weeks of her internship that she learned her host company wanted to keep working with her.
“Advice I'd give to someone who wants to turn their internship into a full-time role would be to never stop working hard and showcasing your talents to your employers. If you are excited about the work you do, make it clear! And never be afraid to ask questions. Opportunities are always just around the corner and never out of reach.”
Julie was thrilled to get the offer to stay on longer with her host company. She recently returned to the United States and is continuing to work for her host company remotely.
4. Ciara C. - Art Museum Intern in London
Ciara traveled all the way from Bard College in New York to London for her art internship. She wanted to have the chance to explore a new culture and different art scene. Ciara said the biggest difference between the two creative cities was that “London has a very strong film and ceramics scene.” Building a network in a new country where she didn’t have any connections seemed intimidating at first, but with the help of Global Experiences and her amazing internship, Ciara was able to further her art career.
“Interning at the Foundling was such an incredible experience. The people who work there are so kind and lovely and if you work hard and they like you can get some great opportunities from it. I now teach art with two nurseries in the museum’s education program, I work events there (even meeting amazing artists who show for temporary exhibitions, helped run a protest choir, and still work front of the house on occasion).”
Ciara felt honored when she was offered a job through the museum. She is excited to have a small intimate work environment and, “it’s a place I look forward to going to work at.”
5. Giiovanna A. - Architecture Intern in Florence
Being part of a new culture and experiencing her career from another point of view were what drove Giiovanna to intern in Florence, Italy. While in Florence, Giiovanna interned with a high-end architecture and design company that works with clients from all over the world.
A large part of Giiovanna’s internship was working with 3D perspectives of different scenarios “in order to understand the spaces and its particulars characteristics such as colors, materials, furniture.” Giiovanna was extremely grateful for her internship and before leaving Florence was offered the chance to keep working with her host company.
“First of all, be sure that you feel comfortable working with [your employer], and then show your enthusiasm for being there, so they will realize that you are enjoying your time there and that their time teaching you has been worth it. At the end it is all about that, what you give is what you get in return. And be always grateful for that.”
Back home, Giiovanna kept working with the design company in a remote role. Despite being halfway around the world, Giiovanna discovered the “distance wasn't an actual problem.” She found that she could continue doing the same work even if she wasn’t in the same place.
6. Lode D. - Business Intern in Barcelona
In the fall of 2016, Lode traveled from Belgium to Barcelona for his internship with a company aiming to identify society’s most relevant concerns. After his internship, Lode returned to Belgium to complete his studies, but never lost contact with his host company. The next summer, Lode jumped at the chance, packed up his things, and moved to Spain on a permanent basis.
“If you enjoyed your internship and you feel that your company can offer you growth, then do it!”
Lode’s new role gave him much more responsibility and the chance to work on long-term strategies. The biggest lessons Lode took away from his experience were the importance of investing in the right people, and of course, “have joy and fun at work.”
While we can’t guarantee you'll be offered a position following your internship, we do provide you with as much guidance as possible through professional development, career coaching, and advice throughout your entire internship process. The rest is up to you!
Set up a call today with one of our Admissions Counselors to discuss the places you can go and internships you can have through Global Experiences.
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The New York Times Lets Economic Pundit Disappear TPP’s Economist Critics
By Jim Naureckas
Global Research, April 28, 2015
FAIR 27 April 2015
Theme: Global Economy, Media Disinformation
Nobel Prize winners Paul Krugman (left) and Joseph Stiglitz are just two of the economists opposed to the TPP deal who Greg Mankiw pretends don’t exist. (cc photos: Prolineserver, Raimond Spekking)
The New York Times(4/24/15) handed its readers an exploding cigar this weekend–in the form of an “Economic View” piece by Greg Mankiw headlined “Economists Actually Agree on This: The Wisdom of Free Trade.” In this piece, Mankiw–an economic adviser to George W. Bush and Mitt Romney who writes regularly for the Times–put forward an argument in favor of fast-tracking the TPP and TIPP trade pacts whose logic was so tortured it might shock Dick Cheney.
“The issue at hand,” wrote Mankiw,
is whether Congress will give President Obama “fast track” authority to negotiate a trade deal with our trading partners in the Pacific…. Among economists, the issue is a no-brainer…. Economists are famous for disagreeing with one another…. But economists reach near unanimity on some topics, including international trade.
So all economists are for TPP because TPP is a “free trade” bill and all economists are for “free trade.” Simple, right? The only reason Congress wouldn’t pass fast track, Mankiw suggests, is if politicians listened to voters who were “worse than ignorant about the principles of good policy.”
You would never know, reading Mankiw’s piece, that many economists in factoppose TPP and fast track. Or that economists can and do reject the characterization of TPP and the like as “free trade” bills. Or that there is no consensus in the economics field that free trade necessarily benefits most people.
These positions advanced by reputable members of his profession disappear as Mankiw dismisses any objections to his argument as “irrational beliefs.”
Some of the prominent economists who oppose TPP, a species that Mankiw pretends doesn’t exist, have in fact been published by the New York Times, like Joseph Stigliz (3/15/14) and Paul Krugman (2/27/14)–both of whom, for what it’s worth, have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Unlike Mankiw, both Stiglitz and Krugman acknowledge there are people in the economics profession who disagree with them, and they actually grapple with the arguments of those opponents. Stiglitz, in particular, could be responding directly to Mankiw’s column–if it weren’t for the fact that it was published more than a year later:
Free trade was a central tenet of economics in the discipline’s early years. Yes, there are winners and losers, the theory went, but the winners can always compensate the losers, so that free trade (or even freer trade) is a win-win. This conclusion, unfortunately, is based on numerous assumptions, many of which are simply wrong.
The older theories, for instance, simply ignored risk, and assumed that workers could move seamlessly between jobs. It was assumed that the economy was at full employment, so that workers displaced by globalization would quickly move from low-productivity sectors…to high-productivity sectors. But when there is a high level of unemployment…there can’t be such complacency.
Pretending that there is no serious disagreement to your point of view implies that your point of view can’t stand up to disagreement. Such a pretense may be the best strategy for getting fast track passed–but it does a disservice to democracy, and the New York Times is facilitating an antidemocratic gambit when it allows its economic pundit to disappear serious economic critics of the TPP deal.
You can send a message to the New York Times at [email protected], or to public editor Margaret Sullivan at [email protected]. Please remember that respectful communication is the most effective.
The original source of this article is FAIR
Copyright © Jim Naureckas, FAIR, 2015
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Working from home does not save cost in the short term
"Tiger" Tyagarajan CEO
As working from home has become more pervasive and people have settled into a rhythm, there's a groundswell of opinion that goes something like this:
When you work from home, you have higher productivity because employees don't commute and you also save on real estate, creating a net cost savings for the business.
Like most things in life and in business, it's more nuanced than that.
Let's start with productivity and commute times
It is incorrect to assume that all travel and commute time should be applied toward additional transactional work, which would then lead to higher productivity. The last 100 days have shown that it's prudent for leaders to build in casual networking time, one-on-one catch-up conversations, and similar activities that seemingly “break the monotony." Without these opportunities to change the pace, home pressures coupled with the continuous flow of work at high intensity and focus levels can drain employees both mentally and physically. In fact, there becomes a higher propensity to feel distracted or in need of a break and a higher risk of burning out.
The sustainability of productivity in a home environment needs to be studied carefully. All the interventions needed to make it run effectively would likely result in the same productivity as in an office environment at best – that's the assumption that should be made.
Now let's get to costs
The most common assumption is that a work-from-home model will reduce real-estate costs. But remember: these costs are not flexible in the short term, so they're still incurred. The question then is whether these costs are eliminated in the medium-to-long term and become a benefit? Intuitively, the answer is yes, although it's simply too soon to tell.
Real-estate costs are not the only costs to consider in the work-from-home environment – IT, InfoSec, and data privacy can become much more expensive than in an office environment. In an office, employees can use the same IT assets to support two or three employees across different shifts. In a work-from-home environment, however, everyone needs their own devices, which means that new assets need to be purchased. Having a distributed workforce means the security of the network must also be distributed. It is easier and less costly to build and maintain a secure network for one location housing hundreds or thousands of employees than it is across tens of thousands of locations, each housing one employee.
All of this doesn't take into account the softer elements of infrastructure such as ergonomic chairs, a reasonable workstation, and all the incremental costs an employee or business has to pay, such as secure, high-quality internet and office supplies.
The even larger question is the kind of homes that people live in, the number of people in those homes, the space they work from, and whether that space is conducive for knowledge work. It cannot be assumed that everyone has an acceptable workstation let alone a private, quiet room at home.
Bottom line: The whole discussion of cost being the advantage of a work-from-home environment misses a far bigger point: working from home provides flexibility as well as an opportunity to access talent that does not want to spend their valuable time commuting to an office or live too far from business operations.
It's the flexibility and opportunity for people to balance their work and personal lives differently that are the biggest reasons to pursue work from home models. Humans like to have choices. When work provides the opportunity to balance going to an office to interact with teams in person with avoiding travel to get work done in a quiet, focused setting, it becomes more than work – it's a passion and a pleasure.
Even if the overall economics are higher in the short term for work from home and at best equal in the long term to the office environment, there is undoubtedly value to be unlocked in the long term.
"Tiger" Tyagarajan
Based in New York, Tiger Tyagarajan is credited as one of the industry leaders who pioneered a new global business model and transformed a division of GE (formerly GE Capital International Services) into Genpact, a global professional services firm that makes business transformation real.
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Germantown Native Named to University of Maryland Softball Coaching Staff
Maryland softball head coach Julie Wright announced that Germantown-native Victoria "Tori" Finucane will join the University of Maryland softball team coaching staff as assistant coach for the 2018-2019 season. Finucane will serve as the Terrapins' pitching coach. Finucane grew up in Germantown and has been a lifelong fan of Maryland's softball program.
"This is by far the biggest dream come true," Finucane said. "Getting to come back home - coming back to my home state - is one of the most surreal experiences I think I've had. I'm so incredibly grateful for this opportunity from Coach Wright and the staff. I could not be more excited to get to work with these girls and have such a great and competitive season. I'm very much looking forward to the road ahead."
Finucane joins the Maryland softball coaching staff after serving as the assistant softball director at Starters Sports Training in Shakopee, Minn. With Starters Softball, Finucane coached the 16U Minnesota Starters travel team, oversaw training programs for player development, and generated lesson plans for camps, clinics and private lessons.
"We are so very excited to add Tori to our coaching staff," Head Coach Julie Wright said. "Her knowledge, skills, work ethic, and energy will add so much to our team and program. She is just the type of example I want our student-athletes to follow. We are thrilled she is now a Terp!"
Before her time with Starters Sports Training, Finucane played the 2017 season with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, making 10 starts as pitcher going 5-1 with a 2.82 ERA and 51 strikeouts. The Gophers set a program record that season by finishing 56-5 overall, won the Big Ten regular season title as well as the Big Ten Tournament Championship, and held the No. 1 national ranking in the NFCA/USA Today Coaches Poll.
Prior to transferring to Minnesota, Finucane spent three years with the University of Missouri softball team. She excelled as a freshman, winning SEC Freshman of the Year compiling a 1.73 ERA with a 21-6 record in 190.1 innings pitched. She also received first team All-SEC and freshman All-SEC honors as well as NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team distinction. As a sophomore, Finucane compiled a 21-8 record and received second team All-SEC honors. Her junior season at Missouri was limited due to injuries.
Finucane graduated from Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington, Va. in 2013 after an illustrious high school softball career. In her two years at O'Connell, she held a 55-2 record and topped the 300 mark in strikeouts both years, establishing new single season school record for strikeouts. She spent two years at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney before transferring to Bishop O’Connell.
Top: Germantown native Tori Finucane will join the softball coaching staff at the University of Maryland as the pitching coach for the 2018-2019 season. She completed her college career pitching for the University of Minnesota.
Next: Tori Finucane attended Good Counsel High School and Bishop O’Connell High School.
Photos courtesy the University of Minnesota.
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Old Town Tequila and Tortillas
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
From US$ 69 per person
Get a taste of Mexico in San Diego’s most historic neighborhood! Explore the origins of the birthplace of California as you sample local delicacies such as handmade tortillas and tacos and sip some of the world’s best tequilas.
Starting time 1:00 PM
Explore San Diego’s most historic neighborhood
Gain a unique insight into Mexican culture in the region by exploring the Old Town’s original adobes, shops, and church
Sample handmade tortillas from authentic tortilla makers and try authentic street tacos
Choose from a vast selection of tequila varieties at an authentic tequileria that boasts a collection of thousands in its museum
Take a short hike up Presidio Hill to where Europeans first settled over 250 years ago
As the birthplace of California, Old Town San Diego has seen its fair share of history. Today, it’s also widely regarded for its restaurants, margaritas and souvenir shops. And you’ll get to experience all of it and more on this cultural foodie tour! Start your exploration at the Adobe Chapel which served both as a home and church in the 19th century. Then, you'll be treated to handmade tortillas, a world-famous dish that dates back to before Columbus landed in North America. After that, continue the tour and see one of the oldest brick buildings in Southern California, best known for its haunting ghost stories. Marvel at the wonderful examples of Victorian architecture, including San Diego's first Synagogue. The nourishment from the tortillas will be handy as you'll start a brief hike to the original European settlement on the West Coast of the U.S. You'll see the outline of some of the 18th-century structures and learn about the history of indigenous people living on this land upon the arrival of European settlers. Once back in town, visit a hundred-year-old Catholic church, followed by a stroll through a landmark cemetery with graves dating back to the 1850s. By now you might be thirsty, so take a brief walk to a local tequileria boasting a collection of thousands of bottles. Here you will learn about the many different types of tequilas and be treated to a tasting of one of the best tequilas in the world. (This sample is included as part of your tour price, but you may instead choose a margarita, beer or another beverage of your choice). You’ll bid adios here, but feel free to linger over another drink, or dig into some great Mexican food. Or, if you want to keep moving, you can continue shopping and exploring this great San Diego neighborhood.
Local English-speaking guide
One handmade tortilla
One shot of tequila (or a margarita, beer, or soda of your choice)
Two street tacos
Additional food or drink
Tips and gratuities for your guide
3963 Conde St, San Diego, CA 92110. The meeting point is in front of the Adobe Chapel.
Please wear comfortable footwear for uneven sidewalks, walkways, and a brief hike
This tour is a must when you visit San Diego. Patti was very knowledgeable of Old Town, tequila and tortillas/tacos. Her knowledge of Old Town was jaw dropping. She even knew flowers and plants. I really enjoyed the conversations about Old Town's history of the building and locations not on the tour; which we pointed out and asked questions about. The tacos were delicious and the tequila was a lesson by itself.
Reviewed by Dwayne – United States
Brooke was a fantastic tour guide. We enjoyed the tour very much and her company as well.
Reviewed by Kimberly – United States
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NZ Health Strategy update
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New Zealand Health Strategy update
The Ministry has updated the New Zealand Health Strategy.
From 27 October to 4 December 2015, the Ministry of Health consulted on the draft update to the New Zealand Health Strategy and road-map of actions We conducted approximately 90 meetings; talked face-to-face to more than 2,000 people, more than 7,000 consultation documents were downloaded and more than 100 comments were posted on our discussion forum.
We also recorded a number of comments during the consultation meetings and assembled many of them in this video.
Title: New Zealand Health Strategy Consultation 2015
[Jill Bond, Executive Director, Ministry of Health] We’ve had a fantastic response from people to engage in the consultation process for our draft New Zealand Health Strategy. Consultation has now concluded and we’re really busy having a look at all the feedback and information that we’ve gathered through this important process.
On behalf of the Ministry I’d like to say a huge thank you to everybody who’s been involved in this important work.
As well as more than 400 written submissions received, we’ve heard first hand from more than 2,000 people who have taken part in 100 formal meetings around the country.
[Dr Michael Chen-Xu, New Zealand Medical Association] Wouldn’t it be great if MSD was looking a housing policy, looking at health literacy in education policy and looking at health policies in various other areas of government and their impact on health outcomes – it could be a really good way of ensuring that people not only get well in the health system but live well and stay well.
[Derek Milne, Chair, Wairarapa DHB] I’d like to think we see our over 65s fairly early on to see if they’re actually heading towards diabetes: what’s driving that, are they too obese, not taking enough exercise, heading towards diabetes and actually giving them an early warning about this and saying, hey, you’re going to have a pretty unpleasant end to your life but you can do something about it.
[Mark Peterson, CMO, Hawke’s Bay DHB] You need to do that at 45, not 65 I have to say.
[Derek Milne, Chair, Wairarapa DHB] Well, yeah, yeah.
[Jill Bond, Executive Director, Ministry of Health] The conversation has been mature and thoughtful and the interaction between people has been enthusiastic. This has generated a lot of very useful feedback and worthwhile suggestions, which we are considering as we finalise this Health Strategy.
[Chai Chuah, Director-General of Health] There’s a consistent theme for the Saturday meeting – I haven’t been to all of them, I’ve been to some of them. I think one is the willingness of people to come and contribute and they come and contribute with great passion. So this morning I’ve met someone from public health, I’ve met someone from smoking cessation, I’ve met some board members, I’ve met practice nurses, I’ve met people from other government departments. All these people come with the desire to actually want to contribute and make something different.
If you watch around the discussion in the room there’s no lack of energy and that’s a good indication to me that people actually want to make a difference here and that they want this Strategy to make a difference.
[Jill Bond, Executive Director, Ministry of Health] We’ve also had a big response on-line. More than 6,500 people have visited the consultation website and the consultation documents have been downloaded nearly 7,000 times. Around 2000 people have visited the online discussion and left more than 100 comments on it.
People are enthusiastic about the five themes – people-powered, closer to home, value and high performance, one team and smart system. Here’s some of the comments we’ve received during consultation.
[Dr Margaret Wilsher, CMO, Auckland DHB] So we want the focus to be on the person in the home. We want to focus on health before sickness. We want people to maintain their health for as long as they can but when they become sick we want them to be able to direct their own support and their own care.
[Karen Orsborn, General Manager, Health Quality & Safety Commission] I think we should have consumers involved at all levels of the health system. I think that’s the one thing that would make a difference because it would be a catalyst for driving change to make services be more responsive to consumers.
[Vivien Pole, Manager Service Development and Integration, Alliance Health Plus] I like the five areas of focus of the Health Strategy that they’re looking at and People Powered is exactly what I was referring to in touching peoples’ hearts, because when they own it they feel empowered and they make change because you can’t force somebody to make a change. The People Power will definitely be helpful but you have to deliver it in a way that people will embrace it and support it and take it on board. We need a system that responds to the needs of the community.
[Dr Kathleen Logan, Office of the Children’s Commissioner] I think children’s services should include parenting support information for parents so they can learn about nutrition and the other things that children need to grow up well – behaviour support so their mental health can be supported as well and their cognitive development can proceed well and all those things will make for better childhood.
[Tony Kake, CEO, Papakura Marae] It was really good to hear this morning the intent to drop down those silos, to break into an interactive model. So you know I am encouraged by that. I really want to support that happening. It’s kind of like the approach we have here on a marae anyway. We don’t just deal with the health issues in isolation. My doctors, my nurses up at the clinic interacting with my social services arm, nurses, our driver’s licence programme. Those are the things that our whānau really need. That’s just part of our approach to integration.
[Stephanie Erick, Director, Action on Smoking and Health] I was really excited to hear about the move towards health services in schools and bolstering that up a bit more. Perfect for Pacific communities. You know we come from homes where people are busy. A lot of parents are working. A lot of parents don’t have transport to get to the services they need to get to so if children are able to learn at a younger age to consider their health then perhaps when they turn into young adults they will use health services rather than figure it out from friends or Facebook and so forth. So I think that’s a really good opportunity.
[Boy] Doctors.
[Interviewer] What makes you healthy?
[Boy] Fruit.
[Maioha] Motivate them more, try and get more social sports out there and encourage the young ones to give it a go.
[Te Aho] Make it compulsory for Year 9s or whatever in high school to do sports. You’re able to do more things and play sports when you’re older as well.
[Dr Kathleen Logan, Office of the Children’s Commissioner] Well, the thing I put down was children’s access to Well Child Tamariki Ora services. I think it’s something if all children at access to them - and I mean all children, nobody missing out – it means that you’ve got a better start in life and if you start in life well it means all the other things you spend money on in terms of health care have a better outcome. So that more children can start off with more access to the health care they need because they don’t know when they need to go to the doctor. They always depend on other people to get them the health care they need. So the services need to be quite joined up, culturally competent and delivering to all children.
[James (Hemi) Hokianga, Consumer representative] It came to a point where I’m in a small community and they had all these other places, courses, group sessions I could attend to deal with certain parts of your life. One would be alcohol and other drugs, one was diabetes and by the way that’s awesome, really awesome. I did four. I was really hooked into it because the dietitians were able to explain how food works, and how the body reacts to food as well. So that was a real eye-opener.
[Matiu Rei, Executive Director, Ngāti Toa Rangitira] I think the closer to home services is about knowing who your people are and know your services and if you can get that understanding, know that we’re here to help and we will do it in ways that’s more accessible to them.
[Brendan Boyle, Chief Executive, Ministry of Social Development] So, how are we going to bring ourselves together in a way that we can make it easier for them and given the complexity of a lot of the issues it actually requires much more than one particular agency to solve these kind of problems?
It’s actually information sharing, data analytics, shared ways of describing and understanding our clients, where they cross over the multiple agencies. So structuring information and having that information readily available is very important.
The other component which is probably under-estimated but is probably the biggest issue is cultural. It’s actually people in government agencies being prepared to share, being prepared to work together and in some cases being prepared to let go and allow others to fill a gap where it might currently exist.
[Musa Memo Chief Executive, New Zealand Nurses Organisation] I don’t think it’s particularly one thing – I think there are multiple which would be connected but I think the biggest challenge I see now is actually rethinking the funding model. That in turn results in the way services are either commissioned, purchased and then the workforce to support them.
[Emma Hickson, Nurse Educator, Capital & Coast DHB] Working in the system I see there’s a huge duplication of assessment as an example, which is why it’s so important – there’d be great efficiencies if we could only stop the duplications and share information among clinicians from health to social sectors. You know it’s across the board and so instead of everybody going in and asking the same questions of the poor consumer we should actually share that information and collaborate and know each other’s roles better as a consequence of that.
[Ashley Bloomfield, Chief Executive, Hutt Valley DHB] Oh look, the one thing from where I’m sitting now in a DHB CE role would be for us to really think about the progress we’ve made over the last six years in moving services into primary and community and progress has been quite limited. What is it that we have to do from a policy, funding, a workforce and infrastructure perspective that means over the next 15 years we absolutely are able to make that shift, as we have to speed up that process.
[Dr Mark Peterson, CMO, Hawke’s Bay DHB] The biggest difference? I think it’s actually addressing the social determinants of health and that’s actually income and social welfare and the equity problems we have.
[Sally Faisandier, Principal Research Advisor, ACC] Sign up to this. Get serious about it. Build it into the Statement of Intent, then the targeting, then the KPIs and keep it going and have people who are really championing the approach. And this isn’t just about the Ministry of Health actually. It’s about all other agencies as well so it does need a community to support it.
[Kathryn Cook, CEO MidCentral DHB] One of the things I’m picking up here is the need to challenge some of the established norms, the way we do things, the values and behaviours of our system, leaving behind things that are not making a difference. I think talking about a different way of contributing, working and I think that’s really refreshing.
[Dr Ros Gellatly, Chief Medical Advisor – Primary, Nelson Marlborough DHB] To teach everyone to use the Model for Improvement so that everybody – consumers, providers right across the whole system – are looking at testing and improving things all the time, measuring what we are doing, knowing if we’re making an improvement. It just empowers people to say we’ve got a good idea, let’s test this out, let’s do it.
[Kate Wang, Wellington Free Ambulance] If we can break the boundaries and make some flexible. Of course you measure the outcome of what we’re trying to achieve but I think that’s the most important thing to me.
[Te Puea Winiata, CEO, Turuki Health Centre] I also want to mention that with the Health Strategy, workforce development is of ongoing importance for bringing services to be more culturally competent and more responsive, more whānau-centric.
[Forum attendee] I think a nationalised health IT system. I think everybody would agree on this as being a good idea but I think it has some massive practical challenges.
[James (Hemi) Hokianga, Consumer representative] The main thing is the system. I feel there’s not enough connections to different departments where they can gather this information. A patient comes in and they can only gather information from certain departments.
[Erin Reeves-McMillan, Consumer representative] There’s not enough connection I think across the whole country and between DHBs in terms of medical records and what happens to people and when people move and things. It’s quite hard to access all of that. And I also think that the investment in the information technology is the key thing as well.
[Dr Richard Medlicott, Island Bay Medical Centre] We know that computer algorithms can often come up with better decisions around relatively simple stuff for example warfarin dosing to thin your blood, or managing your diabetes with insulin dosing. So that gives us more time to talk with the patient about what diabetes means to them or why are they on that agent that thins their blood. So it gives us more time to communicating the meaning of it with the patient.
[Jill Bond, Executive Director, Ministry of Health] These are just a few of the many comments that we’ve heard during the course of consultation on the Strategy. We also heard a lot over the consultation period about the need to focus on a better end of life. Shortly we will be releasing new principles and guidelines called Last Days of Life. This is a great example of the sector, the Ministry and consumers working together to produce something that is tangible and clearly needed. This is an example that we expect to see more of in the future and we’ll be able to have these discussions in future forums when we come together to discuss really important things that matter not only to the system but to the people of New Zealand.
[Te Puea Winiata, CEO, Turiki Health Centre] I’m very excited about the Health Strategy and the direction we’re travelling on. I think it is important that the Strategy framework will encourage innovative spaces for whanau and providers and the sector to work in, ensure we understand what success looks like to them, what wellbeing looks like to them. It’s important that the Strategy supports collaborative working together, using resources, wisdom, collective support to encourage better outcomes.
[Jill Bond, Executive Director, Ministry of Health] We’re hearing people want change and they want that change happen with pace. So here at the Ministry we’re making changes so we are better able to lead that Strategy and to work alongside the sector and our colleagues across government to make a difference. Achieving outcomes for all New Zealanders will require us to work really smartly with DHBs, with consumer groups, with PHOs and NGOs and this will require us to build to our strengths, know our roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and make a real difference together.
[Chai Chuah, Director-General of Health] I think one of the things we’ll be looking at is keeping the momentum up so this is not a process that we run just during consultation. Each year we’ll be looking at holding at least one of these so we use the opportunity for people to hear our feedback about what’s gone well, what we’re thinking about for the following year and actually get their feedback as well. I think this is a great success.
We appreciate the time people have put into this process and the thoughtfulness of feedback. We want to make a difference to the way the New Zealand health system supports New Zealanders during the next 10 years and the way with which people have engaged with this process has helped enormously. A summary of the consultation feedback has now been published.
The Ministry of Health considered all feedback it received on the draft strategy and a final version of the updated New Zealand Health Strategy was launched at the Powering Up Our Future Symposium on 18th April 2016.
Background to the strategy update
The updated Strategy sets a clear direction for healthcare services over the next ten years.
It has two parts:
The Future Direction outlines a new high-level direction for New Zealand’s health system over the next 10 years under five strategic themes – people powered, closer to home, value and high performance, one team and smart system.
A Roadmap of Actions identifies 27 areas for action over the next 5 years to put the Strategy in place. It will be updated annually and serves as a practical guide for DHBs, PHOs, NGOs and the wider sector to support their planning and prioritisation of work to deliver the Strategy.
The New Zealand Health Strategy closely aligns with the New Zealand Disability Strategy, He Korowai Oranga: The Maori Health Strategy, and Ala Mo’ui: Pathways to Pacific Health and Wellbeing.
In addition to feedback received through the formal consultation process, the Ministry developed the Health Strategy with input from clinicians, leaders and organisations in the health, disability and social sectors. This included a series of meetings and workshops.
We also took into consideration other government programmes and initiatives, for instance, Better Public Services targets; independent reviews on sector funding and sector capability and capacity; and the Productivity Commission's 2015 report on social services.
This review was established to provide recommendations on how health funding settings can best support Government policy and ensure a sustainable health sector. Read more
This review was established to provide recommendations to ensure that the updated New Zealand Health Strategy will be well supported. Read more
Page last updated: 28 June 2016
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A Hungry Winter: Colonialism in a Cold Climate
Liza Piper, University of Alberta
Times of hunger and starvation were part of life for northern Indigenous peoples. Dene, Inuvialuit, and Gwich’in shared lessons about planning to avoid starvation, the need to show proper respect and gratitude for good hunts and successful fishing, and how to eat after a period of hunger.[1] These ancient stories were essential education for subsistence that relied on migratory creatures (caribou, birds), animals that experienced cyclical population crashes (lynx, marten, Arctic hare), and others sensitive to weather and water conditions (beaver, muskrat). It took great skill and expertise, rooted in generations of experience on the land—knowledge in place in deep time—as well as some luck, to live off and with the land along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers in the nineteenth century.
Map of the Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers, 1860-1940. Some Indigenous place names are unofficial and spellings vary.
In the late 1880s, fortune failed and starvation came. The winter of 1887-88 was exceptionally cold: Hunters who traded at forts Providence and Liard in the Mackenzie district found beavers dead in their lodges. In these regions, beavers survived long winters by building up fat in their tails before the onset of cold and then eating saplings they stored below the ice. In a long winter, with deep freezes, beavers starved.[2] Fur returns were poor that year, made worse by scarce marten. There were also ominous reports that there were no “rabbits” (mostly snared for food) to be found.[3] The cyclical crashing of hare populations, followed by the abrupt declines in their predators—marten, lynx, and sometimes foxes—was underway. Early in the winter there had been some hunger but thankfully the snow was deep and the moose numerous; with successful hunts, hunger soon abated.
If the winter of 1887-88 was exceptionally cold, the next year was even worse: “the hardest winter in 30 years” according to the Hudson’s Bay Company district chief Julian Camsell.[4] The temperature record preserved at Fort Good Hope shows that it was not extreme cold that made the winter so bad, but rather the dramatic fluctuations in temperature, followed by a deep-freeze in February. The bad weather had started with a “summer of rain” as Oblate missionary Jean Séguin wrote from Fort Good Hope.[5] The winter saw “frequent thaws and very little snow,” which made it impossible to hunt larger game animals -- caribou and moose.[6] The climatic conditions were then joined to the cyclical collapse of marten, rabbit, and lynx populations and the absence of caribou from some of their normal routes.[7] In the winter of 1888-89, people across the Mackenzie district had to rely on fisheries and provisions (mostly dried fish, but also dried meat and flour). Fort Simpson sent ten sled loads of provisions to nearby Fort Wrigley. After January the Company's servants at Simpson were “reduced ...to eat the furs in store.”[8] By spring the stores were empty. In reports to his superior, Camsell detailed “the privations and hardships experienced …during the past winter,” which saw forty-seven deaths across the district attributed to starvation.[9] This was by far the greatest mortality from that cause in any year in the late nineteenth or twentieth centuries.
Original Caption ~ Roman Catholic Mission and Potato Garden on Mackenzie R., Ft. Good Hope, 8 miles south of Arctic circle. Source: Canada. Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys / Library and Archives Canada / PA-019475
Original Caption ~ Mammoth Cabbage – Good Hope, 1928. Source: Alf Erling Porsild / Canada. Dept. Indian and Northern Affairs / Library and Archives Canada / e010933893
Climate and climate history are foundational to the colonial histories of the lands along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers. Nineteenth-century climate discourses shaped perceptions of the desirability of northern environments for colonization. Twentieth-century climate discourses shaped the willingness of Canadian governments to provide in situ health care, rather than relocating sick northerners to southern institutions. Climate governed the possibility to extend the temperate agricultural systems that were integral to settler colonialism elsewhere in Canada. The limitations of agriculture along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers profoundly shaped the character of northern colonialism, not least by feeding an intense anxiety among colonizers as to their own prospects for good health and survival in northern places. The trade networks that flourished early on and served as a foundation for colonial relations, adapted to the annual break-up and freeze-up of waterways – the opening and closing of the region to the south. This created rhythms in the long-distance movement of people, goods, and pathogens that endured into the 1950s. And, through all of this, technologies for meteorological investigation accompanied explorers, scientists, missionaries and traders. The North was essential to the network of national (and international) meteorological observatories erected from the mid-nineteenth century onward, used to acclimatize colonizers to the ‘new worlds’ they sought to claim.
Break-Up, June 3, 1868. Source: Originally published in Émile Petitot, Exploration de la Région du Grand Lac des Ours (Paris: Téquis, 1893), 247.
The network of instrumental temperature observations (that dates back to the 1880s) also facilitates historical research into the role of weather, climate, and climate changes in shaping good and ill-health during this period of colonisation. It shows, for instance, that while the winter of 1887-88 was exceptionally cold, it was the temperature fluctuations the following year, alongside independent variation in animal populations, that made for Camsell’s “hardest winter.” There is nothing simple or straightforward, that is, about weather or climate descriptions in this period. Just as Mary Black Rogers’ classic essay on ‘starvation’ demonstrated the instability of this word and its many meanings in the fur trade, so too “extreme cold” and “harsh winter” have to be situated in their colonial context in order to be understood.[10]
Petitot’s sketch of a sun dog west of Great Bear Lake. Source: Originally published in Émile Petitot, Exploration de la Région du Grand Lac des Ours (Paris: Téquis, 1893), 123.
Exceptional weather brought dire hunger in the winter of 1888-89 and with it the first prolonged discussion among missionaries, traders, government agents about their responsibility to help northern peoples – on lands at the time not ceded by treaty – in a moment of great need.[11] Northern peoples stayed away from the trade posts (where there were fewer prospects for subsistence than on the land), broke up into smaller groups, and shared what they had. Officials with the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) saw themselves as benevolent and did not want to be tarred with the same brush that condemned British colonial officials for their role in the Great Famine that led to over 5 million deaths in India.[12] But the criteria that governed how much relief to provide was how much the DIA was willing to pay, not how much was needed to sustain life in a period of great hardship. The perception of the north as an intrinsically unhealthy place, rooted in intersecting discourses of climate, health, and “race” in the late nineteenth century, reinforced the notion that providing relief to northern peoples was an expense that needed to be contained.
The experiences of the winter of 1888-89 resituate a well-known theme about historical struggles for subsistence in subarctic and arctic places within the context of colonialism. This episode appears in a larger book project examining the intersection of health and environmental change as part of the process of settler colonialism along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers (today’s Yukon and Northwest Territories) between 1860 and 1940. To read more of the findings to date from this project, please see the following publications:
“Freeze-up, Break-up, and Colonial Circulation,” Journal of Northern Studies 13, no. 2 (2019): 17-41.
“Climates of Our Times,” in The Nature of Canada, ed. G. Wynn and C. Coates, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019): 318-333.
“Chesterfield Inlet, 1949 and the Ecology of Epidemic Polio,” Environmental History 20, no.4 (2015): 671-698. doi:10.1093/envhis/emv101.
“Chronic Disease in the Yukon River Basin,” in Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health, ed. E. Dyck & C. Fletcher, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011): 129-49.
I wish to gratefully acknowledge the Inuvialuit Cultural Centre, the Gwich’in Tribal Council Department of Cultural Heritage, and the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Heritage Department for granting access to unpublished interview transcripts with elders as part of the research for the larger project discussed here.
[1] George Blondin, When the World Was New: Stories of the Sahtu Dene (Yellowknife: Outcrop, 1990), 40; Charles Arnold, Wendy Stephenson, Bob Simpson, and Zoe Ho, eds. Taimani: At That Time, 3rd ed. (Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, 2011), 18.
[2] Michael Aleksiuk, “The Seasonal Food Regime of Arctic Beavers,” Ecology 51, no. 2 (Mar. 1970): 267.
[3] Post Report dated Fort Smith, August 30, 1888, B. 200 /e/17, Hudson’s Bay Company Archives.
[4] J.S. Camsell to Joseph Wrigley, Fort Smith, Sept. 10, 1889, B. 200/b/39, vol. 3, HBCA.
[5] J. Séguin to his sister, 18 février 1889, acc# 71.220, file 7346, Provincial Archives of Alberta.
[6] Camsell to Wrigley, Sept. 10, 1889.
[7] Richard Hardisty, Inspection Report Mackenzie River District, Summer 1889, B.200/e/18, HBCA.
[8] Extract from the Commissioner’s Letter to the Secretary, 30 Sept. 1889, RG 10, Vol 3708, File 19,502, Parts, 1,2,3 Reel C-10124, Library and Archives Canada.
[9] Camsell to Wrigley, Sept. 10, 1889. The number of deaths is tallied from Oblate, HBC, and government records.
[10] Mary Black-Rogers, “Varieties of ‘Starving’: Semantics and Survival in the Subarctic Fur Trade, 1750-1850,” Ethnohistory, 33, no. 4 (1986): 353-383.
[11] See correspondence in RG 10, Vol 3708, File 19,502, Parts, 1,2,3 Reel C-10124, Library and Archives Canada.
[12] Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (London: Verso, 2001).
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Energy Bills Set to Double in 5 Years
Posted on 11th July 2011
Posted on July 11, 2011 (February 5, 2018) by Katie Anderson
A move towards green living in Britain is being blamed for rising energy bills, which are expected to double in the next five years.
This week, Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is set to announce plans for a further departure from fossil fuels towards more environmentally friendly methods of power generation.
Predicted to cost some £200 billion, the move will see a surge in solar, wind and nuclear initiatives. Unfortunately, the cost of reducing carbon emissions will be absorbed by consumers, whose bills could double within five years.
The news is likely to upset many people who already feel that energy providers are being allowed to drive consumers towards fuel poverty in an effort to protect record profit margins.
Ahead of Mr Huhne’s announcement, UniCredit, a banking organisation operating across Europe, said: “According to our analysis, a typical UK energy bill could rise from the current level of £1,000 per year to over £2,000 per year by 2015. As investment occurs, bills could double every five years until 2020, in our view”.
Current Government estimates paint a different picture, with energy bills predicted to double only once in the next two decades. Mr Huhne has gone on record as describing UniCredit’s analysis as “extraordinarily rubbish”.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Huhne added: “We’re not going to have the highest prices. That’s absolute nonsense. The reality is we have some of the lowest energy prices in Europe. We could get them even lower”.
Mr Huhne’s comments were made shortly after British Gas announced gas bills would increase by 18 per cent on average, with electricity bills expected to rise by 16 per cent. The new prices would take effect from the 18th August 2011.
Phil Bentley, the Managing Director of British Gas, said: “We are buying in a global energy market and have to pay the market rate. Rising wholesale costs is an issue facing all energy suppliers”.
Rejecting Mr Bentley’s argument, the Chief Executive of Consumer Focus, Mike O’Connor, said: “Wholesale costs have gone up but they are still around a third lower than their 2008 peak. Yet in this time British Gas’ prices alone have risen by around 44 per cent on gas and 21 per cent on electricity and suppliers have made healthy profits”.
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Concerning the steep rise in energy bills within in the next 5 years. As a BG duel fuel customer and a pensioner I am very concerned about the costs and the need to save energy.One method besides insulation that I haven’t seen anything on is a co-operative method of buying fuel at a discount in summer as some customers of oil and solid fuel have in place.How viable would this be for duel fuel customers?
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Advanced Prostate Cancer Cases Are Rising: Are PSA Screening Standards to Blame?
Written by Dan Gray on June 1, 2020 — Fact checked by Maria Gifford
Experts say guidelines that fewer PSA screenings have caused early prostate cases to go undiagnosed and develop into later stages of the disease. Getty Images
Changing guidelines have led to a reduction in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer.
This blood-testing method can lead to unnecessary treatment, but experts say it is still a powerful tool in detecting early cases of the disease.
They say the guidelines have led to more cases of advanced prostate cancer and fewer cases of early stage prostate cancer.
Experts say that PSA testing is effective, and early diagnosis should be treated with active surveillance rather than unnecessary treatments and biopsies.
A new study shows that cases of advanced prostate cancer in the United States are on the rise while cases of early stage prostate cancer are declining.
The study appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and was authored by researchers from the American Cancer Society.
Researchers say the seemingly paradoxical figures are likely due to the changing landscape of screening and testing over the past 2 decades.
In essence, researchers say, earlier cases of prostate cancer aren’t being detected due to fewer screenings. Those cases are then discovered when they advance to a later stage.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States, so experts say the study emphasizes the importance of public education in preventing the disease.
To understand why the messages surrounding prostate cancer screening have changed so much, it’s important to know the history.
Dr Gary Kirsh, president of The Urology Group, told Healthline that a specific type of screening — prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening performed via a blood test — has been at the center of the medical debate.
“In the early days of PSA testing, there was a lot of cancer found that hadn’t been found previously, and there was a lot of treatment for early cancer that hadn’t been done previously,” Kirsh explained. “As a result of that treatment, there were some side effects to those treatments that men didn’t experience in that many numbers previously.”
At this point, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) — a panel of experts that develops recommendations for doctors — took note of the PSA screening method.
The USPSTF determined that the benefits didn’t outweigh the risks and in 2008 recommended against PSA screening for men 75 and older.
In 2012, the task force revised this restriction to include all men.
Finally in 2018, the guidelines were changed once more to recommend against PSA screening for men aged 70 and up.
Kirsh explained that there’s some merit to the decision-making as PSA testing may diagnose early stage cases of the disease, potentially prompting unnecessary treatments and biopsies.
“The problem with that kind of thinking, while it has some truth, is that it did not recognize doctors’ ability to change and understand the use of the test over time,” he said. “So what happened was that the USPSTF threw the baby out with the bathwater. Years later, the chickens have come home to roost, and we’re now beginning to document a shift in the amount of diseases preventing in a noncurable state.”
As a result of the changing guidelines, PSA testing rates declined.
According to Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD, lead author of the study and scientific vice president for surveillance and health services at the American Cancer Society, there has been a potentially deadly trade-off in recent years.
“These data illustrate the trade-off between higher screening rates and more early stage disease diagnoses (possibly overdiagnosis and overtreatment) and lower screening rates and more late stage (possibly fatal) disease,” Dr. Jemal wrote in the study.
Kirsh says the USPSTF’s changing guidelines caused many doctors to eliminate a perfectly good method for detecting early cases of prostate cancer.
Early detection still critical
While overdiagnosis has been a top-of-mind concern for the USPSTF panel, experts say PSA testing is still critical in detecting early cases of the disease.
“It’s a test that has to be used with wisdom, and the wisdom is that everyone with an elevated PSA doesn’t need to be biopsied, and, more importantly, everyone with a small amount of early, nonaggressive prostate cancer doesn’t need to be treated,” explained Kirsh.
“Detecting cancer before it spreads can mean the difference between curable and incurable, life or death,” explained Jamie Bearse, chief executive officer and president of ZERO – The End of Prostate Cancer. “The PSA test is similar to a pap smear for women in detecting cervical cancer in that it has a fair amount of false positives and false negatives. Still, the PSA test is safe and the only first effective step to detect prostate cancer.”
Steven Eisenberg, DO, a California oncologist who specializes in prostate cancer, told Healthline that the potential risks of PSA testing don’t negate its positives.
“There have been concerns of overtreatment of early stage prostate cancer,” he said. “However, when screening is diminished, we are catching fewer cases in the earliest stage. True, fewer early diagnosed cases would prevent overtreatment. However, a higher percentage of men would be expected to present in a more advanced stage.”
To bridge the divide between overtreatment and potentially missing a diagnosis, Eisenberg favors a measured approach.
“In my opinion, thoughtful communication and an individualized approach is best,” he said. “For example, men who are screened and diagnosed with early stage, less aggressive disease based on several factors can be followed closely utilizing active surveillance.”
Kirsh emphasizes that the USPSTF guidelines were a good faith effort by the experts on the task force but were ultimately misguided.
Now, with several years of data, he said it’s possible to quantify the damage done.
However, the toothpaste can’t be put back in the tube at this point, and the medical community will have to correct for the damage as it moves forward, he said.
“Really, the only thing we can do is public education, and this new study, along with others, is important,” said Kirsh. “We need to get the word out about what has happened over the last decade to get the attention of the public and physicians.”
Eisenberg says patients and doctors need to form a “powerful partnership,” one with open dialogue pertaining to the relevant issues.
“The big issue is the need for conversations covering individualized intelligent screening,” he said. “These talks should commence at age 50 for most men. For individuals with a family history, or are African American, the conversation should begin earlier, at age 40.”
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Tara Discusses TNA, WWE, Her Longevity & Future In Wrestling, Gail Kim Returning
Posted on January 12, 2021 by HelenAtAmarIt
Former WWE Women’s Champion and TNA Knockouts Champion, Lisa Marie Varon, better known as Tara in TNA and Victoria in WWE, joins us for an exclusive interview about her career.
Lisa talks about many topics including her time in WWE, her current run in TNA, the reaction to her YouTube video with Brooke Tessmacher about the “Thanksgiving Thong Thunder” match, what it’s like teaming with Brooke and writing for Chicago Athlete magazine. Plus, Lisa reminisces on the “good old days”, the golden era of the Divas division, what it was like being part of the first ever Divas cage match (this week is the anniversary of that match) and much more.
The full interview is available here.
Highlights below:
Talking about her longevity in wrestling and being on TV for nearly 10 years: “I’m very lucky. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had injuries — a torn ACL in 2002, my elbow in the cage match with Mickie — but I don’t know how nothing has taken me out. I do work out hard and listen to my body when I need rest. It was hard in WWE to travel four days a week and maintain the healthiness in your body. I was very lucky to get seriously put out.”
“It’s very unusual for a 40-year-old to be competing against 20-year-olds coming in the ring. It’s tough. It’s a bit intimidating for me. I’m looking for the fountain of youth as well. But I think I have accomplished a lot, because I’m still good out there in the ring. I don’t feel like I’ve lost my flow.”
“My age was 29 and a half when I started in this business. I get a lot of people on Twitter, they always ask me, “Am I too old to get in the business?” and I hate saying that you’re never too old to get in the business, but when they look for the wrestlers, they do generally look for the 18-25 year olds that they can mould and create into their own. There’s always that special 30-year-old. I was better in my 30s than in my 20s, like being physically in shape and at my peak. I like to be a positive role model for people my age, even though I don’t act my age. [Laughs]”
Her future in wrestling & wanting to stay at her best: “When I do sign my contract, I sign year-to-year with TNA. I had the option [to do that] which I was very lucky [to have]. I have to listen to my body. I want to be on TV as long as I’m at my best. I don’t want to be where you see me limping down to the ring and feel sorry for me. That’s kind of why I left WWE. I don’t know if you remember the last couple of years of my career at WWE, what did you think of me? You kind of felt, “Oh my gosh, she’s not a champ”. I was helping the new talent look good in the ring, so that wasn’t really my best. I was really flattered that I was able to do that and everybody had confidence in me to make people look good in the ring but that didn’t make me feel like I was giving the fans the best Victoria. I wasn’t happy doing that, so I moved on. But I had a terrific, terrific career there.”
On Gail Kim’s TNA return: “You know what? That girl! I’m gonna kick her butt. I text her and I said, “I heard you’re coming today”. She goes, “Where’d you hear that from?” I didn’t want to say who I’d heard it from so I said, “Oh, just a rumor on the internet” and she goes, “You can’t believe everything you read”. I know that was my favorite saying. You can’t read every internet site. There are some things that are reported wrong. I saw her at the show and I go, “What the heck?!” and she goes, “Hahaha!” I said, “I knew you were coming! I don’t know who you’re trying to pull one over!”
“But I’m so excited to have her back. Her and I were travel partners. We get along so well and I’m so happy to have an old friend back in the ring. I wanted to win that number one contender’s match, though. I’ll be honest with you, because Gail Kim and I can really throw down in the ring. We never got the opportunity in WWE. We had a couple of matches but it was just a match thrown here and there, but I think we can really work up to something dangerous. I’d like to do another cage match, maybe, with her. That’d be awesome!”
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We have heard the bluster for years about the electric car revolution, but America is a long way from switching to charging - just vehicles. As many models become more affordable and charging points are built at convenient stops, many Florida residents are switching to electric vehicles in search of a more convenient and affordable alternative to conventional gasoline cars. And with over 75 locations, ports in local neighborhoods make it easier than ever to find the energy you need to drive.
In fact, there will be more than 200 public charging stations in Florida from 2018, not including private charging stations or private charging stations. For example, residents of Fort Myers Florida have access to more than 100 public charging points in downtown.
The average salary for Helix Quality Control is $55,925 per year, ranging from $55,903 to $57,847, with a median salary of $65,200. Note: We have been denied access to data on the average salaries of employees in the electrical industry. In fact, the median salary for a full-time electrician in Florida is more than $75,000, and the median salary is more than $60,000, according to the National Association of Electric Power Professionals (NAPP). In Fort Myers, Fla. (the second largest city in South Florida), for example, HelIX Electric's average salary was $35,400, compared with $25,300 in 2015, at $45,700.
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The average Helix Electric employee earns an annual salary of $44,916 a year, but different jobs can earn dramatically different salaries. Employers pay salaries according to the training they receive in the workplace, which leads to an increase in pay.
If an apprentice notices that he is late in submitting work documents, he will receive a deduction of 10 points from his grade. At the end of the school year, students who have successfully completed their grade level and meet all the requirements of the academic year for their grade level and receive a promotion certificate from FEAA will receive a promotion certificate from Helix Electric for the 4th and 5th year of education. At the beginning of each year in the third year, the apprentice must record and receive a 10-point deduction for late rotation - in records and if he does not record or submit a late work record, then he cannot obtain the certificate and / or the promotion to a higher level of education of FE AAA. After every 4 years, the trainees receive their certificates and promotions back to the second and first year of a new job in another company.
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Earl Sweatshirt, real name Thebe Kgositsile, is an American rapper from Los Angeles, California. Closely linked with rap collective Odd Future, he has collaborated with Frank Ocean and Vince Staples on mixtapes.
The rapper is sent to Samoa to a school for at-risk young men, Coral Reef Academy, resulting in a two-year hiatus from music.
He returns to USA where he joins Odd Future on stage at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.
Earl Sweatshirt’s full length debut Doris drops, featuring guest appearances from Odd Future members Tyler, the Creator and Frank Ocean, along with Vince Staples, RZA, and Mac Miller. The release was met with widespread critical acclaim and debuted at number 5 on the US Billboard 200, cementing the young rapper as one of hip hop’s hottest properties.
Earl’s sophomore record I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside surprise releases, with claims the record label gave him no notice they would release the album. Earl maintains I Don’t Like Shit… was his first album.
The rapper unveils his new clothing brand DEATHWORLD featuring a collection of subtle staples.
Sweatshirt releases his third studio album, Some Rap Songs.
Early in the year the rapper says that Some Rap Songs will be his last album with Columbia Records and that he is “excited to be free because then can do riskier shit.”
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'Terrified' Karrueche Tran staying away from home after filing restraining order against Chris Brown
Tran took legal action claiming that Brown had 'threatened to shoot' her after abusive incidents in the past.
By Sutrishna Ghosh
Updated February 22, 2017 11:13 GMT
Once again Chris Brown has become the centre of controversy for his violent altercations. After the rapper's ex Karrueche Tran filed a restraining order against him following alleged death threats and physical assault claims, a new report says that the model is spending time away from her own home.
According to Hollywood Life, Tran is "terrified" that her former partner would do something "terrible" now that she has taken the legal course to keep him away.
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"Kae is definitely terrified about what Chris will do now," a source told Hollywood Life. "She knows he can snap and do something terrible. She's not even staying at home now she's so scared, so instead, she's staying at friends until things die down."
The 28-year-old model made some explosive claims about Brown in the court filing obtained by TMZ.
The R&B sensation had reportedly "threatened to shoot" his ex-girlfriend and "take her out" after abusing her in the past. Tran also claimed that the Royalty artist had "punched" her in the stomach and pushed her "down the stairs".
Following Tran's restraining order, Brown took to social media to respond to the accusations made against him. In a casual Instagram video, the rapper asked his fans to ignore "all this b******t."
He says, "make sure y'all don't be listening to all this b******t man. I don't know what the f**k they're talking about. Don't believe all that b******t, bro." While the video message was subtle, Brown's follow-up post worried fans as he shared an animated photo of fictional serial killer Jason Voorhees on the picture-sharing site.
This is, however, not the first time that the rapper has been accused of violent outbursts. In 2009, the Party hitmaker stirred quite a controversy when he admitted to attacking his then ex-girlfriend Rihanna after a Grammy party.
After things cooled off between him and Rihanna, Brown was linked to the American model-cum-actress until Tran too decided to part ways in 2014. The pair's relationship hit a serious roadblock when the model discovered that Brown had fathered a child, Royalty, with fellow model Nia Guzman.
"One can only take so much. The best of luck to Chris and his family. No baby drama for me," Tran had tweeted in 2015 making her split from Brown public.
Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran split in March 2015 after it was revealed that he had fathered a child with another woman Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty for H&M
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Pianist Jeremy Denk
7:00 PM - 11:59 PM Davies Symphony Hall
Date: March 20, 2016 to March 20, 2016
Where: Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, California, United States, 94102
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From soloing with the L.A. Philharmonic to concerts at Carnegie Hall, Jeremy Denk has proven himself to be among America's foremost pianists. Join the musician The New York Times called, "a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination," as he visits San Francisco for a thrillingly diverse program at Davies Symphony Hall. Showcasing his astonishing versatility, Denk will soar through styles and eras ranging from Bach's beautiful baroque harmonies to the rousing ragtime dances of American composer Charles Ives. Along the way, you'll hear works for piano by the likes of Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert and more.
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Distracted driving injuries and fatalities
On behalf of Jacobs & Dow, LLC | Feb 3, 2015 | Car Accidents, Firm News
While most Connecticut drivers know that distracted driving is extremely dangerous, they may not know just how serious it can be. In fact, every day, it is estimated that nine people lose their lives in crashes that are caused by distracted drivers. Additionally, more than 1,100 people suffer injuries in associated crashes.
The number of fatalities directly linked to distracted driving crashes in 2012 was more than 3,300. An estimated 421,000 people suffered injuries that year in accidents that involved a distracted driver. While the numbers decreased slightly from 2011, a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that dangerous behaviors, such as texting or emailing while driving, is still widespread.
There are certain groups of people who are more likely to be distracted when they drive than others. Drivers who are under the age of 20 appear to be the most at risk as those in this age group are the most likely to be involved in fatal distracted driving crashes. Additionally, young people who ride with a drunk driver or drink and drive are more likely to text or email while operating a vehicle.
While steps are being taken to reduce the number of drivers who operate their vehicles while engaging in texting or talking on a cellphone, all motorists and vehicle occupants are at risk for becoming involved in a serious crash caused by a distracted driver. Should a vehicle occupant suffer a serious injury in such an incident, an attorney may use police reports and other evidence as part of a personal injury lawsuit to show that another driver was responsible for causing the crash.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Distracted Driving”, accessed on Feb. 2, 2015
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A dream comes true: South Dakotan will take a horse to Kentucky Derby
Written By: Marcus Traxler | Sep 1st 2020 - 9am.
Wayne Scherr, pictured at his Wagner home with the saddle cloth of his horse, Necker Island, will have his horse compete for the first time in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (Matt Gade / Republic)
WAGNER, S.D. — Wayne Scherr has always been a dreamer.
And while the 61-year-old former teacher, coach and bricklayer has accomplished a lot, he’s set to have a lifelong dream come true on Sept. 5.
That’s when Necker Island — a horse he knew almost nothing about three months ago — is slated to load into the starting gate and run for Scherr in the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Ky., in horse racing’s most famous race.
“It’s one of those things where you hate to go to bed at night because you’re afraid to wake up the next morning and find out it’s a dream,” he said. “It’s an incredible feeling.”
Scherr’s ownership is making South Dakota history. Based on the family’s research, he’s the first South Dakotan to own a Kentucky Derby horse in at least 50 years. All of it has come together in a short period of time, just 12 weeks from when Scherr and a couple of other owners made a $100,000 claim to when the Derby takes place. The 1 1/4-mile race has a $3 million purse, with more than $1.8 million expected to go to the winner.
Scherr and his wife, Candy, plan to be at the post draw event on Tuesday at Churchill Downs, which is when the 20 horses in the field are drawn to their starting gate positions. Scherr plans to be in Louisville for the race as well, but considered watching from home in Wagner with friends and family because of the limit on tickets due to COVID-19. But he will have a party of 16 at Churchill Downs to enjoy the race in person, and many more watching from his "mancave" in Wagner.
He estimated he could have filled at least 100 ticket requests from friends and family, if conditions would have allowed it, but the racetrack announced earlier this month it won’t have public tickets for the race due to the pandemic.
This will be the fifth time Wayne Scherr has witnessed the Kentucky Derby in person, and his start in horse racing is a big reason why he’s going to be a part of the 146th annual race.
If not for his father, Alvin, Wayne Scherr never would have dreamed of the Kentucky Derby. Alvin Scherr, of Napoleon, N.D., was one of 14 children, and Alvin took to horses and racing at a young age. That was passed down to Wayne, who rode horses in races when he was just 5 or 6 years old. In the corner of Wayne’s mancave at his Wagner home, he has an original saddle that weighs about 12 ounces that he would ride as a kid.
“We went to some county fair and had this little stock saddle on this horse and they basically strapped me down on the saddle,” Wayne said. “And that was my first time ever coming out of starting gates or anything like that.”
When Wayne was old enough to drive, he was carting area boys around to ride horses Wayne was training.
“It was his passion and his joy,” Wayne said.
Alvin died in 2016 at age 87, three years following the death of his wife, Lois. When the Kentucky Derby is about to begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, Wayne said he will be thinking about his parents, and because of how the last three months have gone, he believes they’ve helped make this opportunity happen. He’s sold 5% of ownership in Necker Island to each of his three brothers, making the Kentucky Derby truly a family cause.
“I know it's something that my mom and dad would be proud of, and they'll be looking on and say, 'That's the way this is supposed to be,’” he said.
Necker Island jogs down the backstretch and in front the famous Twin Spires at Churchill Downs on Aug. 22 with rider Hillary Hartman in the saddle during a workout. (Coady Photography photo via Churchill Downs)
Dreaming big
When Wayne Scherr moved to Wagner in the mid-1980s, it was to be a wrestling coach. And horse ownership was out of the picture.
An accomplished high school and college wrestler in North Dakota, he moved to the small town to teach and coach wrestling, and he coached the Red Raiders to a pair of state wrestling team championships in 1992 and 1994. He later served on the Wagner school board and ran his masonry business.
But thoroughbreds and horse racing never left his mind and about 10 years ago, one of his former jockeys encouraged him to get back into it. Scherr agreed that he would at the maximum cost of $25,000 for a horse.
“I never thought about the invoice or anything like that,” Scherr said. “So he calls me back and he goes, ‘OK, we got a nice horse here. We paid $37,000 for it. And I told him I couldn’t go any more than $25,000.”
Scherr said he came home a few days later to find his wife, Candy, holding the invoice envelope and shaking it at him.
“She doesn’t mind me telling the story now, but she was not happy at all,” he said. “We’ve been married for 37 years and that’s the only time we’ve gone three days without talking to each other. You know, what’s the old saying, ‘It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.’ That’s how that went.”
Since then, Scherr estimates that he’s owned at least 100 horses. Almost all of them have had “Dream” somewhere in the name — Grandpa’s Dream, Cowboys Dream, Neverquitdreaming, Don’t Quit Dreaming — to varying levels of success and ups and downs.
In his words, he had owned good horses, but nothing ever close to Kentucky Derby quality.
The math isn’t in his favor. There’s about 20,000 thoroughbreds foaled every year in the U.S., and the Kentucky Derby takes only 20 3-year-old horses, making the odds of making the Derby field about 1 in 1,000. That doesn’t include horses qualifying from Japan and Europe, who are also normally eligible for one spot each in the race.
A horse saddle from Wayne Scherr's youth is pictured at his home east of Wagner. (Matt Gade / Republic)
About five years ago, Scherr admitted that he didn’t know if he’d ever get to the Kentucky Derby.
“At that point, I told Candy, this is getting tough,” he recalled. “I don't know if we're ever going to make it in this thing.”
It was around this time that Scherr met horse trainer Chris Hartman and the owner made it clear that he was only looking for a trainer who could get him to the Kentucky Derby.
Hartman met the challenge, but only Scherr’s fortunes didn’t improve that much. More money was spent on various horses and Scherr reached a point where he had the following ideals: even if the Derby wasn’t going to happen, he was still going to have fun with it and never going to give it up.
That might be what makes what happened June 13 such a surprise, even for Scherr. Hartman called and said he was watching what he believed was a legitimate Kentucky Derby contender — Necker Island — prepare for a $100,000 allowance optional claim race at Churchill Downs. A claiming race is one in which the horses are all for sale for essentially the same price until the race starts.
Scherr made the moves to make the claim on the horse in the span of about a half hour, he said. In a career with nearly 1,400 wins, it is Hartman’s first Kentucky Derby horse, as well.
“I knew that it was a risk, but I’ve taken so many other risks in this business already,” Scherr said. “But I had to trust my trainer because he would never call me otherwise if he didn’t think it was worth it.”
The saddle cloth of Necker Island is pictured at Wayne Scherr's home near Wagner. The horse took third at the Indiana Derby on July 8 and it was the first of two results strong enough to get Necker Island into the Kentucky Derby field on Sept. 5. (Matt Gade / Republic)
Getting a good shake
Necker Island ran fourth in the race, which was won by another Kentucky Derby favorite Art Collector. The claim process went to a shake, which is a random process involving a numbered pill in a pill bottle being shaken out to determine who wins the claim, which ended up going to Scherr.
Scherr had $37,000 in his account at Churchill Downs for the claim, which included some last-second moving around of money on a Saturday. That led to other owners getting involved to cover the cost of the claim and then Scherr wiring the rest of his share on Monday. He said he initially owned 75% of the horse, but each of his three brothers have since bought 5% of the ownership, taking his share down to 60%.
Necker Island’s other connections carry significance into the Kentucky Derby, as well. Kentucky businessman Raymond Daniels and Greg Harbut, a Kentucky thoroughbred broker, are also minority owners of the horse. They are the first African Americans to have ownership in a Derby racehorse in 13 years.
And in many ways, Scherr can thank the coronavirus pandemic for its role in helping him reach Louisville. If the Derby would have been held on May 2 as originally planned, the opportunity to acquire Necker Island never would have arrived. This year, because of the pandemic, the Belmont Stakes — which traditionally runs as the final leg of the Triple Crown — ran first on June 20, with Tiz The Law winning. Following the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes will close the Triple Crown on Oct. 3, stretching horse racing’s most famous three races over 15 weeks instead of the usually grueling six weeks.
The Kentucky Derby uses a points qualifying system and Necker Island made a late surge to get into contention for the race, finishing third at the Indiana Derby on July 8 and third at the Ellis Park Derby on Aug. 9 to get just outside the top-20 on points. But a few possible contenders have opted for undercard races on Derby Day, allowing Necker Island the chance to run in the big race.
“Everything just went right on that one Saturday, with the claim and getting the money there and getting in, which could have fell through and then both races the way both races turned out,” he said. “We really tried it for almost 10 years and it just doesn't seem like it's reachable. And then just like that, it happens within three months. … You know after enough goes wrong, something will go right. And it did.”
Necker Island pictured in the barns at Churchill Downs. (Coady Photography photo via Churchill Downs)
'We're going there to compete'
As for his horse, Scherr said he’s been most impressed by how Necker Island has improved in the short time he’s owned him, calling him an intelligent horse that gets better every time out.
“I mean, if he runs as good as he looks, he'll compete,” Scherr said. “It's just whether he has it or not on that day.”
Necker Island also has strong bloodlines. He was sired by Hard Spun, who finished in the money in two of the three Triple Crown races in 2007, including second at the Kentucky Derby and third at the Preakness Stakes.
Scherr and Hartman have discussed a race strategy, with a plan to get to the inside rail of the track as soon as possible. Mena — who last rode in the Kentucky Derby in 2010 — was on Necker Island in a half-mile workout on Friday morning at Churchill Downs, which is expected to be the horse's final training session prior to the Derby.
“We want to be on the rail and we run both turns, we want to have run the shortest race on any horse to get there,” Scherr said. “And when we hit the stretch, we're hoping that we have the most gas left in the tank to do something.”
Being a dreamer in the world of big-time horse racing isn’t always a compliment, and Scherr said he’s heard the notion that he doesn’t belong in the Derby. It’s likely that Necker Island will have some of the longest odds in the race, but Scherr said he’s not paying much attention to those critics.
“It’s not like, ‘OK, we got there, now we’re done,’” he said. “That’s not what we’re doing. We’re going there to compete and run a good race.”
If Necker Island doesn’t win, Scherr said he doesn’t expect to be done with the Kentucky Derby.
“I know I’m not done,” he said. “I know making the Kentucky Derby was one of the last things I wanted in life, but we’ll see how he runs. It might be to win the Derby, some day. We’re not going to quit.”
Rider Hillary Hartman and Necker Island take part in a 1 1/2-mile workout at Churchill Downs on Aug. 26. (Coady Photography photo via Churchill Downs)
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Rosewood Property Acquires 18-Facility Self-Storage Portfolio
TAGS: Investing and Real Estate News
Rosewood Property Co. (RPC), a Dallas-based real estate firm, has acquired an 18-property self-storage portfolio with assets in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The properties will be managed by Extra Space Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust that already manages RPC properties in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Denver.
Rosewood Property Co. (RPC), a Dallas-based real estate firm, has acquired an 18-property self-storage portfolio with assets in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The properties, which comprise more than 1 million rentable square feet of storage space, will be managed by Extra Space Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust that already manages RPC properties in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Denver.
Debt financing for the acquisition was arranged by Talonvest Capital Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based boutique real estate adviser. The non-recourse acquisition loan, structured with 10 years of interest-only payments, has a sub-4 percent fixed interest rate and release provisions for individual properties. It was funded by a United States money-center bank. Talonvest Principals Tom Sherlock and Jim Davies as well as Kim Leslie, relationship manager, negotiated the financing. Laura Bogart, who handles due diligence for Talvonest, orchestrated the closing.
The seller was represented by Greg Wells of Cushman & Wakefield Self Storage Industry Group, which provides investment sales, valuation, research and analysis, demand forecasting, and feasibility to the self-storage industry. RPC was represented through its in-house subsidiary, RPC Realty Inc.
RPC also recently announced a new $75 million program with its Dallas-based partner, Cornerstone, to develop multi-story and drive-up self-storage facilities in infill locations in core metro markets including Austin and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Denver, Houston and San Antonio. RPC’s existing self-storage holdings are Denver, Colorado Springs, Colo., Houston and Oklahoma City.
“We have aggressively built our portfolio and intend to continue to grow it through acquisition and development,” said Bill Flaherty, RPC president.
RPC is a subsidiary of The Rosewood Corp., a private-investment concern owned by the Caroline Hunt Trust Estate. The company is actively seeking acquisitions of industrial, multi-family, office and specialty assets in Colorado, Oregon, Texas, and Calgary, Albert, Canada.
Founded in 2010 and based in Orange County, Calif., Talonvest structures debt and equity for self-storage and commercial real estate investors and developers nationwide. The principals of the firm have more than 80 years of combined experience.
MarketWired: Talonvest Capital Negotiates Acquisition Loan for 18 Property Storage Portfolio
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U-Haul Acquires, Renovates Devon Self Storage Facility in Johnson City, NY
TAGS: Renovations/Upgrades Investing and Real Estate News
Phoenix-based U-Haul International Inc. has purchased and renovated a former Devon Self Storage facility in Johnson City, N.Y. The property at 621 Field St. has been rebranded as U-Haul Moving & Storage of Oakdale.
Situated on 3.45 acres, the facility includes seven buildings comprising 57,680 square feet of net rentable storage space in nearly 400 drive-up and interior units. It also offers moving and packing supplies, towing equipment, truck and trailer rentals, and U-Box portable-storage containers. Property upgrades include a freshly paved parking lot as well as new interior and exterior lighting.
“This has been a major undertaking because of all the improvements,” said Sandra Thibodaux, general manager. “What customers have noticed is U-Haul is here to stay and improve an area that has been deeply impacted by years of flooding. Customers and neighboring businesses have expressed their gratitude for U-Haul moving in and giving this store a needed facelift.”
The facility is near New York State Route 17, the Oakdale Mall and a Wegmans grocery store, according to a company press release. Binghamton University is less than two miles away.
“We didn't have a storage center near Binghamton University,” said Will Cintas, president of the U-Haul Co. of Eastern New York. “We are happy to be in the neighborhood and serve the local area as well as the college students.”
U-Haul recently purchased and renovated a Devon Self Storage facility in Binghamton, N.Y. Property renovations for U-Haul Moving & Storage of Front Street were completed last month.
The acquisition of the Johnson City facility was driven by U-Haul’s corporate sustainability initiatives, which support infill development to help local communities lower their carbon footprint, the release stated. U-Haul’s adaptive reuse of existing structures eliminates the amount of energy and resources required for new-construction materials and helps local cities diminish their unwanted inventory of unused buildings, U-Haul officials said.
Established in 1945, U-Haul has more than 44 million square feet of storage space at more than 1,200 owned facilities throughout North America.
Based in California, Devon Self Storage owns or manages 49 facilities nationwide. Its portfolio comprises 3.6 million square feet of storage space in 17 states.
PR Newswire: U-Haul Expands Reach in Johnson City with New Store
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